Patents by Inventor Shinji Watanabe

Shinji Watanabe 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).

  • Publication number: 20220363262
    Abstract: An in-vehicle device includes a vehicle detection unit that detects behavior of a user's own vehicle that is traveling, a neighboring vehicle detection unit that detects behavior of a neighboring vehicle preceding the user's vehicle, a neighboring vehicle following the user's vehicle, or both of neighboring vehicles, a road determination unit that determines the condition of a road on which the user's vehicle is traveling on the basis of behavior of the user's vehicle detected by the user's vehicle detection unit and behavior of a neighboring vehicle detected by the neighboring vehicle detection unit, and a transmission information creation unit and a transmission unit that transmit road information including a determination result by the road determination unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 11, 2022
    Publication date: November 17, 2022
    Applicant: Alps Alpine Co., LTD
    Inventor: Shinji Watanabe
  • Publication number: 20220355318
    Abstract: The invention refers to a foam dispenser. The foam dispenser is suitable for dispensing foam produced by mixing a foaming liquid and gas, in particular air. Further, the invention refers to foam dispenser assembly, a vessel for storing a foamable aqueous composition and a method for forming foam using the foam dispenser.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 8, 2019
    Publication date: November 10, 2022
    Applicant: Kao Corporation
    Inventor: Shinji WATANABE
  • Patent number: 11467387
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes an output value obtaining unit, a first interpolation unit, a second interpolation unit, an image generation unit, and a first edge detection unit. The output value obtaining unit obtains respective output values of a plurality of light-receiving elements from an image sensor including the plurality of light-receiving elements arranged two-dimensionally. The first interpolation unit uses a first interpolation algorithm to interpolate a pixel value. The second interpolation unit uses a second interpolation algorithm to interpolate a pixel value. The image generation unit generates an image based on a pixel value, which is interpolated by the first interpolation unit. The first edge detection unit detects an edge using a first edge detection algorithm based on a pixel value, which is interpolated by the second interpolation unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2022
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kunihiko Hayashi, Toru Mitome, Shinji Watanabe
  • Publication number: 20220320811
    Abstract: A hot wind is blown to a land and a lead from the underside of a printed board, to perform preheating. At the start of preheating or after start of preheating, a laser beam is applied to a soldering point, and meanwhile, wire solder is fed to a position contacting with the soldering point. The fed wire solder is melted by the laser beam. After soldering is finished, feeding of the wire solder is stopped. Application of the laser beam is stopped, to solidify the melted solder.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 26, 2019
    Publication date: October 6, 2022
    Inventor: Shinji WATANABE
  • Publication number: 20220270305
    Abstract: [Problem] To highly accurately color a target image based on information such as morphological features and shapes in the target image. [Solution] According to the present disclosure, an image coloring apparatus is provided. The image coloring apparatus includes: an acquisition unit configured to acquire a decolored image that is decolored; and a coloring unit configured to, based on morphological information obtained from the decolored image, with reference to learning result information obtained as a result of previously learning correspondence between the morphological information and color information, color the decolored image using a color that corresponds to the morphological information. This configuration enables a target image to be highly accurately colored based on information such as morphological features and shapes in the target image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 1, 2022
    Publication date: August 25, 2022
    Applicant: Sony Group Corporation
    Inventor: Shinji Watanabe
  • Patent number: 11422356
    Abstract: Provided is art information processing apparatus including a detection unit configured to detect a failure requiring reimaging relating to an image captured using a digital microscope by evaluating the image, and a generation unit configured to, if the failure was detected by the detection unit, generate setting information for setting an imaging condition for during reimaging.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2022
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Shinji Watanabe, Nobuhiro Hayashi
  • Publication number: 20220254352
    Abstract: An audio analysis platform may receive a portion of an audio input, wherein the audio input corresponds to audio associated with a plurality of speakers. The audio analysis platform may process, using a neural network, the portion of the audio input to determine voice activity of the plurality of speakers during the portion of the audio input, wherein the neural network is trained using reference audio data and reference diarization data corresponding to the reference audio data. The audio analysis platform may determine, based on the neural network being used to process the portion of the audio input, a diarization output associated with the portion of the audio input, wherein the diarization output indicates individual voice activity of the plurality of speakers. The audio analysis platform may provide the diarization output to indicate the individual voice activity of the plurality of speakers during the portion of the audio input.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 31, 2020
    Publication date: August 11, 2022
    Applicants: The Johns Hopkins University, Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Yusuke FUJITA, Shinji WATANABE, Naoyuki KANDA, Shota HORIGUCHI
  • Publication number: 20220172840
    Abstract: An information processing device is provided that includes an identification data acquisition unit that acquires image data for identification in which a first biological region is captured and first site information of the first biological region, and an identification unit that selects an identifier corresponding to the first site information from identifiers associated respectively with a plurality of pieces of site information, and performs an identification process on the basis of the identifier and the image data for identification.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 18, 2020
    Publication date: June 2, 2022
    Inventors: KENJI YAMANE, SHINJI WATANABE, TAKESHI KUNIHIRO, KAZUKI AISAKA
  • Publication number: 20220148714
    Abstract: A diagnosis support program causes a computer to execute a derivation procedure of deriving, on the basis of a first pathological image corresponding to a first affected tissue, history information regarding a history of viewing the first pathological image, and diagnostic information for the first affected tissue corresponding to the first pathological image, diagnosis support information for supporting diagnosis of a second pathological image corresponding to a second affected tissue to be diagnosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 25, 2019
    Publication date: May 12, 2022
    Applicant: Sony Group Corporation
    Inventors: Kazuki Aisaka, Takeshi Kunihiro, Kenji Yamane, Shinji Watanabe
  • Publication number: 20220148323
    Abstract: There is provided an information processing device that includes a display control unit that controls display of image data in which a biological region is captured, an information acquisition unit that acquires first region information input with respect to the image data, and a processing unit that generates second region information on the basis of the image data, the first region information, and a fitting mode.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 25, 2019
    Publication date: May 12, 2022
    Applicant: SONY GROUP CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shinji Watanabe, Kazuki Aisaka, Yoshio Soma
  • Patent number: 11321881
    Abstract: [Problem] To highly accurately color a target image based on information such as morphological features and shapes in the target image. [Solution] According to the present disclosure, an image coloring apparatus is provided. The image coloring apparatus includes: an acquisition unit configured to acquire a decolored image that is decolored; and a coloring unit configured to, based on morphological information obtained from the decolored image, with reference to learning result information obtained as a result of previously learning correspondence between the morphological information and color information, color the decolored image using a color that corresponds to the morphological information. This configuration enables a target image to be highly accurately colored based on information such as morphological features and shapes in the target image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 2, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2022
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventor: Shinji Watanabe
  • Patent number: 11307399
    Abstract: Provided is an information processing device including an image analysis unit which divides an entire image in which an entire observation target region is imaged into a plurality of regions, and then judges whether an observation target is present in each region, and an imaging control unit which controls imaging of partial images with a magnification higher than a magnification of the entire image corresponding to the regions based on judgment results of the image analysis unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2022
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Masahiro Takahashi, Shinji Watanabe
  • Patent number: 11302437
    Abstract: An information processing device according to the present technology includes a determination unit that determines importance related to a cell-specific event of a cell, using image data obtained from a time-series imaging process targeting the cell The information processing device also includes a control unit that controls a process regarding a setting for a target of acquisition of image data in the time-series imaging, on the basis of a determination result of the importance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2022
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shinji Watanabe, Rei Murata
  • Publication number: 20220099289
    Abstract: A learning device, for constructing a learning model for generating a prior acceleration command value for controlling a control target in advance of the time a load on a boiler used for thermal power generation changes, includes: a learner configured to generate the learning model by mechanically learning, as learning data, a data set including a power generation command value for the thermal power generation and the prior acceleration command value which have been used in a previous operation of the boiler.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 7, 2020
    Publication date: March 31, 2022
    Applicant: IHI Corporation
    Inventors: Masato TAMURA, Shinji WATANABE, Shun INOUE, Isao UMOTO, Tomonori MATSUBARA, Shinobu NAKAMURA
  • Patent number: 11282201
    Abstract: Provided is an information processing device that includes a first information acquisition section that acquires first information on the basis of a still image in a frame corresponding to a predetermined time point, from among a plurality of images of a biological sample captured in a time-series manner, a second information acquisition section that acquires second information on the basis of an interframe change of the plurality of images in a predetermined period, and a determination section that determines an event regarding the biological sample, using the first information and the second information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 18, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2022
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Rei Murata, Shinji Watanabe
  • Patent number: 11269043
    Abstract: Apparatus and systems are disclosed and include a body having a plurality of slots. Each of the plurality of slots includes a first portion, a second portion, and a third portion. The first portion is located on a first surface of the body. The second portion is located on a second surface of the body and forms a helical shape. The third portion is located on a third surface of the body. The first surface and the second surface are non-parallel. The third surface and the second surface are non-parallel. The apparatus includes a plurality of antenna elements that are disposed in a respective one of the plurality of slots. The plurality of antenna elements is configured to receive radio frequency (RF) signals. The apparatus includes a ground plane that is coupled to a first end of each of the plurality of antenna elements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2022
    Assignees: DENSO International America, Inc., DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Warren Guthrie, Raymond Michael Stitt, Feliks Chikhalenko, Shinji Watanabe, Jagadeesh Krishnamurthy
  • Patent number: 11235426
    Abstract: Provided is an apparatus for forming a tab from a moving original sheet with a laser beam. This apparatus is a tab forming apparatus in a tabbed electrode sheet producing apparatus (100) for moving, in one direction, an original sheet (1) including an electrode portion (1a) obtained by applying an active material layer to a long metal foil (4) and an ear portion (1b).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 1, 2022
    Assignee: O.M.C. CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Shinji Watanabe
  • Publication number: 20220025339
    Abstract: The disclosure provides for an isolated recombinant influenza virus having at least one of: a PA gene segment encoding PA with a residue at position 443 that is not arginine, a PB1 gene segment encoding PB1 with a residue at position 737 that is not lysine, a PB2 gene segment encoding PB2 with a residue at position 25 that is not valine or a residue at position 712 that is not glutamic acid, a NS gene segment encoding a NS1 with a residue at position 167 that is not proline, a HA gene segment encoding a HA with a residue at position 380 that is not threonine, or any combination thereof, and methods of making and using the virus.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 21, 2021
    Publication date: January 27, 2022
    Inventors: Yoshihiro Kawaoka, Satoshi Fukuyama, Shinji Watanabe
  • Publication number: 20220005188
    Abstract: An information processing method including: learning, based on a first specimen image of a first specimen to which a first effect has been applied, an evaluator parameter of an evaluator that performs evaluation of the first specimen, the first specimen image having been captured by a first imaging device; storing, into a storage medium, evaluation setting information including the evaluator parameter and learning environment information indicating a learning environment for the evaluator parameter; acquiring the evaluation setting information stored in the storage medium; and reproducing, based on the evaluation setting information acquired, an environment equivalent to the learning environment, the environment serving as an evaluation environment for evaluation of a second specimen of which an image is captured by a second imaging device different from the first imaging device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 5, 2019
    Publication date: January 6, 2022
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Shinji Watanabe, Kenji Yamane
  • Patent number: 11205820
    Abstract: In an upper cell unit (2146) and a lower cell unit (2147) comprising five battery cells, positive electrode terminals (2162, 2172) are set apart and aligned vertically, and negative electrode terminals (2167, 2177) are set apart and aligned vertically. When an electrical device body is rated at 36V, device-side terminals are in contact only at the upper terminals (2162, 2167), and short circuiting of the lower terminals (2172, 2177) is effected using a short bar 2059. When the electrical device body is rated at 18V, the upper and lower terminals (2162 and 2172, 2167 and 2177) are simultaneously made to contact the device-side terminals, and the upper cell unit (2146) and the lower cell unit (2147) assume a parallel connected state. Thus, it is possible to automatically switch the output voltage when a battery pack is mounted according to the difference in terminal shape on the electrical device body side.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 21, 2021
    Assignee: Koki Holdings Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Hanawa, Tomomasa Nishikawa, Shota Kanno, Toshio Mizoguchi, Yasushi Nakano, Kazuhiko Funabashi, Takuya Teranishi, Naoto Wakatabe, Shinji Watanabe, Junpei Sato, Hikaru Tamura, Nobuhiro Takano, Osamu Kawanobe, Hayato Yamaguchi, Akira Matsushita, Masaru Hirano, Takuhiro Murakami, Masayuki Ogura, Yusuke Funabiki, Junichi Toukairin, Shota Takeuchi