Patents by Inventor Shinichi Shiotsu

Shinichi Shiotsu has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 11972051
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus including a control unit that generates a vibration stimulation signal to be provided to a user based on a sound signal in a content, wherein the control unit is configured to: acquire data of a content including a sound signal; execute an analysis process on the sound signal; and generate a vibration stimulation signal to be provided to a user in a conversion process of the sound signal according to a result of the analysis process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: DENSO TEN Limited
    Inventors: Rei Hiromi, Shinichi Shiotsu, Yoshikuni Miki, Akio Arai, Yohei Kakee
  • Patent number: 11959766
    Abstract: An in-vehicle apparatus includes: a selection unit configured to select at least one candidate camera from plural cameras based on position information of each of the plural cameras; a reception unit configured to establish communication connection with the candidate camera selected by the selection unit and to start to receive video captured by the candidate camera; and a display control unit configured to display the video received by the reception unit in response to a predetermined display condition being satisfied.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 11, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: DENSO TEN Limited
    Inventors: Shinichi Shiotsu, Tomoe Ohtsuki, Toshiyuki Moribayashi, Motoki Kojima, Hiroshi Yanagi
  • Publication number: 20230355919
    Abstract: A problem to be solved is to restrict sickness of a user due to a digital content that includes virtual space experience. In order to solve the above-mentioned problem, an information processing device according to one aspect of embodiments includes an acquisition unit, an estimation unit, and a restraint processing unit. The acquisition unit acquires a state inside and outside related to a user of a digital content that includes virtual space experience. The estimation unit estimates a state of sickness of the user based on a state that is acquired by the acquisition unit. The restraint processing unit executes a restraining process of sickness related to a sound of the digital content in accordance with the state of sickness of the user that is estimated by the estimation unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 9, 2021
    Publication date: November 9, 2023
    Applicant: DENSO TEN Limited
    Inventors: Tomoe OHTSUKI, Hiroyuki WATABE, Shinichi SHIOTSU, Motoki KOJIMA, Minoru MAEHATA, Miki HITOTSUYA, Haruo HARADA
  • Publication number: 20230351285
    Abstract: A problem is to efficiently ease peripheral congestion of an event facility. An information processing device includes an acquisition unit and a setting unit. The acquisition unit acquires retention information indicating a retention situation of persons in an event facility. The setting unit dynamically sets a plurality of stands of moving bodies based on the retention information acquired by the acquisition unit. The acquisition unit acquires stand-by number information that indicates numbers of moving bodies standing by in the plurality of stands set by the setting unit. Based on the stand-by number information acquired by the acquisition unit, the setting unit sets the numbers of moving bodies to be dispatched to the stands such that the numbers of moving bodies standing by in the plurality of stands are equalized.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 24, 2021
    Publication date: November 2, 2023
    Applicant: DENSO TEN Limited
    Inventors: Shinichi TANAKA, Shinichi SHIOTSU, Haruki SHIRAISHI, Minoru MAEHATA, Miki HITOTSUYA, Tomohiro IKEDA
  • Publication number: 20230188939
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus according to embodiments includes a control circuitry configured to determine an environmental contribution level of a behavior performed by a user. The control circuitry is further configured to: acquire behavior information related to a behavior of a user analyze the behavior of the user based on the acquired behavior information; and determine an environmental contribution level of the behavior of the user based on relative evaluation of the analyzed behavior of the user with respect to a reference behavior.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 8, 2022
    Publication date: June 15, 2023
    Applicant: DENSO TEN Limited
    Inventors: Rei HIROMI, Shinichi TANAKA, Hideyuki KAMIDE, Toshiyuki MORIBAYASHI, Masaki URYU, Shinichi SHIOTSU, Minoru MAEHATA
  • Publication number: 20230160702
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus according to an aspect of an embodiment includes an acquisition unit, a selection unit, and a reward unit. The acquisition unit acquires congestion information including a congestion situation on a movement route from an event facility to a predetermined point, and user position information indicating a position of a user. The selection unit selects a target user from a plurality of the users, on the basis of the congestion information and user position information acquired by the acquisition unit. The reward unit provides the target user selected by the selection unit, with a reward according to the user position information of the target user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 29, 2021
    Publication date: May 25, 2023
    Applicant: DENSO TEN Limited
    Inventors: Shinichi TANAKA, Shinichi SHIOTSU, Haruki SHIRAISHI, Minoru MAEHATA, Miki HITOTSUYA, Tomohiro IKEDA, Toshiyuki MORIBAYASHI, Natsumi NISHIYAMA, Ryo MATSUI
  • Publication number: 20230125250
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus including a control unit that generates a vibration stimulation signal to be provided to a user based on a sound signal in a content, wherein the control unit is configured to: acquire data of a content including a sound signal; execute an analysis process on the sound signal; and generate a vibration stimulation signal to be provided to a user in a conversion process of the sound signal according to a result of the analysis process.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 8, 2022
    Publication date: April 27, 2023
    Applicant: DENSO TEN Limited
    Inventors: Rei HIROMI, Shinichi SHIOTSU, Yoshikuni MIKI, Akio ARAI, Yohei KAKEE
  • Publication number: 20230098809
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a control unit configured to execute a scene detection process, a parameter extraction process, and an output process. The scene detection process detects a scene from an input content. The parameter extraction process extracts a realistic sensation parameter for wave control that corresponds to a scene that is detected by the scene detection process. The output process outputs a wave signal for the content that is produced by processing sound data of the input content by a realistic sensation parameter that is extracted by the parameter extraction process.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 18, 2022
    Publication date: March 30, 2023
    Applicant: DENSO TEN Limited
    Inventors: Shinichi SHIOTSU, Yoshikuni MIKI, Rei HIROMI, Yohei KAKEE, Iku NAKAJO, Kazuma HASHIMOTO
  • Publication number: 20220227375
    Abstract: An information processing device that is mountable on a vehicle, includes: an acquiring unit configured to acquire at least one of internal condition or external condition of a user of a digital content including a virtual space experience; an estimating unit configured to estimate a sickness status of the user based on the at least one of internal condition or external condition acquired by the acquiring unit; and a guidance processing unit configured to perform a guidance processing such that a driving state of the vehicle is guided to suppress sickness, depending on the sickness status of the user estimated by the estimating unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 24, 2021
    Publication date: July 21, 2022
    Applicant: DENSO TEN Limited
    Inventors: Motoki KOJIMA, Hiroyuki WATABE, Shinichi SHIOTSU, Tomoe OHTSUKI, Kazuma HASHIMOTO, Haruo HARADA
  • Publication number: 20220020044
    Abstract: A taxi management device includes: an information acquisition unit that acquires first information including information specifying a use language of a first person and second information including information specifying an interpretable language of a second person; and a discount setting unit that performs discount setting of a fare of the second person at a time of ride-sharing of taxi by the first person and the second person based on the first information and the second information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 14, 2021
    Publication date: January 20, 2022
    Applicant: DENSO TEN Limited
    Inventors: Shinichi TANAKA, Shinichi SHIOTSU, Haruki SHIRAISHI, Minoru MAEHATA, Miki HITOTSUYA, Tomohiro IKEDA
  • Publication number: 20210102821
    Abstract: An in-vehicle apparatus includes: a selection unit configured to select at least one candidate camera from plural cameras based on position information of each of the plural cameras; a reception unit configured to establish communication connection with the candidate camera selected by the selection unit and to start to receive video captured by the candidate camera; and a display control unit configured to display the video received by the reception unit in response to a predetermined display condition being satisfied.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 11, 2020
    Publication date: April 8, 2021
    Applicant: DENSO TEN Limited
    Inventors: Shinichi SHIOTSU, Tomoe OHTSUKI, Toshiyuki MORIBAYASHI, Motoki KOJIMA, Hiroshi YANAGI
  • Publication number: 20200037106
    Abstract: A service activity support method includes, in response to receiving a request for support of a first service activity transmitted from a first terminal device positioned in a specific area determined virtually in a map, identifying a second terminal device positioned in the specific area, the second terminal device being different from the first terminal device, and transmitting information regarding the request to the identified second terminal device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 19, 2019
    Publication date: January 30, 2020
    Applicant: FUJITSU LIMITED
    Inventors: SHINICHI SHIOTSU, Akira FUJII, Akira Karasudani, Miho Murata, MINORU SEKIGUCHI
  • Patent number: 10306417
    Abstract: A wireless communication method executed by a processor included in an information processing apparatus, the wireless communication method includes determining, based on a moving speed of a moving object and an amount of downloading time for specific information that is provided to a terminal device within a given range relative to the moving object, a transmission area into which the specific information is to be transmitted; and transmitting the specific information to the terminal device present in the determined transmission area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2019
    Assignee: FUJITSU LIMITED
    Inventors: Akira Itasaki, Shinichi Shiotsu, Akira Fujii
  • Publication number: 20180139582
    Abstract: A wireless communication method executed by a processor included in an information processing apparatus, the wireless communication method includes determining, based on a moving speed of a moving object and an amount of downloading time for specific information that is provided to a terminal device within a given range relative to the moving object, a transmission area into which the specific information is to be transmitted; and transmitting the specific information to the terminal device present in the determined transmission area.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 6, 2017
    Publication date: May 17, 2018
    Applicant: FUJITSU LIMITED
    Inventors: Akira Itasaki, SHINICHI SHIOTSU, Akira FUJII
  • Patent number: 9767097
    Abstract: A disclosure range determination method includes accepting a disclosure range of data and metadata of the data, extracting attribute information of a user that belongs to the disclosure range of the data accepted in the accepting based on association information associating a disclosure range of data with attribute information of a user that belongs to the disclosure range, converting the metadata accepted in the accepting into a keyword based on association information associating a conversion rule that converts the metadata into significant information with a keyword corresponding to the conversion rule, and determining, by a computer, whether or not a user that belongs to the disclosure range accepted in the accepting qualifies for the disclosure range accepted in the accepting, based on whether or not the keyword converted in the converting is included in the attribute information extracted in the extracting.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 17, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2017
    Assignee: FUJITSU LIMITED
    Inventors: Hiroyasu Sugano, Shinichi Shiotsu, Isamu Yamada, Akira Itasaki, Daisuke Yamashita, Hideki Tanaka, Koichi Yokota
  • Patent number: 9439027
    Abstract: A sensor value is obtained by a sensor included in a terminal from among a plurality of terminals each of which includes the sensor, the acquired sensor value is stored along with an identifier used to identify a terminal with which the acquired sensor value was acquired, identifiers are extracted with which a difference of corresponding stored sensor values is equal to or smaller than a threshold value by comparing stored sensor values corresponding to different identifiers, an instruction for acquiring the sensor value is transmitted to at least one of the terminals corresponding to the extracted identifiers, and an instruction for extending an interval of acquiring the sensor value is transmitted to the terminals which are other than the at least one of the terminals corresponding to the extracted identifiers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2016
    Assignee: FUJITSU LIMITED
    Inventors: Koichi Yokota, Shinichi Shiotsu, Hiroyasu Sugano, Hideki Tanaka, Akira Itasaki, Daisuke Yamashita
  • Patent number: 9405946
    Abstract: A judgment apparatus includes a storage configured to store first reference data representing data that a detector should output in a first area when a detection target passed the first area, and second reference data representing data that the detector should output in the first area when the detection target passed a second area being different from the first area; and a processor to perform processes of: obtaining data from the detector outputting, in a time-series manner, data according to a detection condition of the detection target passing the first area or the second area; judging a degree of similarity between data obtained by the obtaining and the first and second reference data stored in the storage; and judging whether or not the detection target passed the first area, based on the judgment result by the judging the degree of similarity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2016
    Assignee: FUJITSU LIMITED
    Inventors: Hiroyasu Sugano, Shinichi Shiotsu
  • Patent number: 9129165
    Abstract: An RFID tag reader is disclosed that includes a signal intensity obtaining part configured to obtain signal intensities of a first RFID tag and a second RFID tag that are read at plural read processes, a read-number obtaining part configured to obtain a number of RFID tags, among the first and the second RFID tags, that are read at the same read process, a processing part configured to weight the signal intensity of the first RFID tag obtained by the signal intensity obtaining part based on the number obtained at the corresponding read process, and a selecting part configured to select a read result of the first RFID tag based on the signal intensity of the first RFID tag weighted by the processing part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 8, 2015
    Assignee: FUJITSU LIMITED
    Inventors: Hiroyasu Sugano, Shinichi Shiotsu, Hideki Tanaka, Koichi Yokota, Akira Itasaki, Daisuke Yamashita
  • Patent number: 8933793
    Abstract: An active contactless information storage device includes: an operation controller that determines whether mode information of the active contactless information storage device indicates a mode in which the device communicates with a reader/writer device; a carrier-sense controller that determines whether a first frequency in a first period and determines whether a second frequency in a second period, when the mode information of the active contactless information storage device indicates the mode in which the device communicates with the reader/writer device; and a command processor that performs communication with the reader/writer device when the carrier sense controller determines that the first frequency is sensed; wherein, when the mode information of the active contactless information storage device does not indicate the mode in which the active contactless information storage device communicates with the reader/writer device, the carrier-sense controller waits for a predetermined amount of time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 23, 2011
    Date of Patent: January 13, 2015
    Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
    Inventors: Daisuke Yamashita, Shinichi Shiotsu, Hiroyasu Sugano, Hideki Tanaka
  • Patent number: 8924979
    Abstract: A method of controlling an information processing device includes selectively switching a first processor for executing a first operating system or a second processor for executing a second operating system to a user interface; storing a data table in which a first application program operating on the first operating system is associated with a second application program operating on the second operating system; sending information pertinent to activation of the first or second application program to a server device; receiving a result of a process from the server device, the process being performed by the server device for associating application programs based on the received information; updating the data table based on the received result; and activating the second application program, which is associated with the first application program being activated in the data table, in a state where the first processor has been switched to the user interface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 30, 2014
    Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
    Inventors: Hideki Tanaka, Shinichi Shiotsu, Koichi Yokota, Isamu Yamada, Hiroyasu Sugano, Akira Itasaki, Daisuke Yamashita