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: 20200294278
    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: October 2, 2018
    Publication date: September 17, 2020
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventor: Shinji Watanabe
  • Publication number: 20200276670
    Abstract: Provided is an epoch-making original sheet dividing method in which an original sheet is cut while being conveyed and which enables a continuous operation to be performed for a long period of time without occurrence of burrs at cut end faces, without scattering cutting dust, and without time and effort for component replacement. The original sheet dividing method is an original sheet dividing method for cutting an original sheet 1 having an active material layer applied to at least one surface of a long metal foil 4, with a laser beam L in a longitudinal direction. The original sheet 1 is continuously moved. While the original sheet 1 is moved, the laser beam L is applied to the original sheet 1 to melt the original sheet 1 at an irradiation point P.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 6, 2016
    Publication date: September 3, 2020
    Inventor: Shinji WATANABE
  • Patent number: 10738730
    Abstract: A head-side jacket through which coolant flows is formed in a cylinder head. A main circulation path and a sub circulation path through which coolant fed from a coolant pump respectively circulates are formed. The head-side jacket is separated into an exhaust-port side jacket formed around an exhaust port, and a combustion-chamber-side jacket closer to a combustion chamber than the exhaust-port-side jacket. A heat exchanger is not formed in the main circulation path including the combustion-chamber-side jacket, but is formed in the sub circulation path excluding the combustion-chamber-side jacket and including the exhaust-port-side jacket.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 1, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 11, 2020
    Assignee: Mazda Motor Corporation
    Inventors: Ryotaro Nishida, Tomohiro Koguchi, Mikimasa Kawaguchi, Yuichi Ayukawa, Tatsuya Takahata, Takayuki Tominaga, Shinji Watanabe, Keita Watanabe
  • Patent number: 10739573
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus, an image processing program, and an image processing method for achieving visibility of the entire image used for capturing a microscopic image while concurrently retaining accuracy of image processing are disclosed. The 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 light-receiving elements. 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: August 29, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 11, 2020
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Kunihiko Hayashi, Toru Mitome, Shinji Watanabe
  • Patent number: 10733741
    Abstract: According to some aspects, an information processing device is provided. The information processing device includes circuitry configured to set at least one region of an image of a biological sample and select a motion compensation parameter calculated based at least on a motion of the at least one region. The circuitry is further configured to control display of a result of performing a process on the at least one region using the selected motion compensation parameter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 4, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 4, 2020
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventor: Shinji Watanabe
  • Patent number: 10726856
    Abstract: Systems and methods for audio signal processing including an input interface to receive a noisy audio signal including a mixture of target audio signal and noise. An encoder to map each time-frequency bin of the noisy audio signal to one or more phase-related value from one or more phase quantization codebook of phase-related values indicative of the phase of the target signal. Calculate, for each time-frequency bin of the noisy audio signal, a magnitude ratio value indicative of a ratio of a magnitude of the target audio signal to a magnitude of the noisy audio signal. A filter to cancel the noise from the noisy audio signal based on the phase-related values and the magnitude ratio values to produce an enhanced audio signal. An output interface to output the enhanced audio signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 16, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 28, 2020
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories, Inc.
    Inventors: Jonathan Le Roux, Shinji Watanabe, John Hershey, Gordon Wichern
  • Publication number: 20200232413
    Abstract: An engine cooling structure includes a cylinder block including a block inner peripheral wall that defines a water jacket and a block outer peripheral wall, a spacer housed in the water jacket, and a cooler provided outside the engine body. The spacer includes: a peripheral wall surrounding the block inner peripheral wall; and a dividing wall protruding from the peripheral wall to divide the water jacket into an upper passage and lower passages below the upper passage. A coolant introduced from a coolant inlet into the upper passage passes through an inter-bore part of the block inner peripheral wall. The coolant in the lower passages is introduced into the cooler through a coolant exit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 9, 2020
    Publication date: July 23, 2020
    Inventors: Shinji WATANABE, Tatsuya TAKAHATA, Yoshiaki HAYAMIZU, Keita WATANABE, Mikimasa KAWAGUCHI
  • Publication number: 20200232412
    Abstract: An engine cooling structure includes a cylinder block including a block inner peripheral wall and a block outer peripheral wall that define a water jacket, and a spacer housed in the water jacket. The block outer peripheral wall includes a coolant inlet for introducing a coolant into the water jacket at one end in a cylinder row direction. The spacer includes a peripheral wall surrounding the block inner peripheral wall, and a dividing wall and a distribution wall provided on the peripheral wall. The dividing wall is provided along a circumferential direction of the peripheral wall and protrudes outward from the peripheral wall between a lower end and an upper end of the coolant inlet. The distribution wall includes an upper distribution wall extending upward from the dividing wall and a lower distribution wall extending downward from the dividing wall.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 9, 2020
    Publication date: July 23, 2020
    Inventors: Shinji WATANABE, Tatsuya TAKAHATA, Yoshiaki HAYAMIZU, Keita WATANABE, Mikimasa KAWAGUCHI
  • Publication number: 20200208582
    Abstract: A compression ignition engine with a supercharger is provided, which includes one or more valves configured to switch a state between a first state where intake air is boosted by the supercharger and a second state where it is not boosted, a fluid temperature adjuster configured to adjust a temperature of engine coolant to be supplied to a radiator from an engine body, and a controller. When the engine operates in a high-load range, the controller controls the combustion mode to be in a compression ignition combustion mode, and causes the valve(s) to be in the first state, and in a low-load range, the controller causes the valve(s) to be in the second state. In the high-load range, the controller outputs a control signal to the fluid temperature adjuster so that a target temperature of the engine coolant is lowered than that in the low-load range.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 6, 2019
    Publication date: July 2, 2020
    Inventors: Shinichi Hikitani, Hajime Umehara, Naoki Nagano, Tomokuni Kusunoki, Tatsuya Takahata, Shinji Watanabe, Masanobu Koutoku, Toshinori Ueno, Katsuya Murakami, Nobuhiko Yokoyama
  • Patent number: 10672388
    Abstract: A speech recognition system includes an input device to receive voice sounds, one or more processors, and one or more storage devices storing parameters and program modules including instructions which cause the one or more processors to perform operations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 2, 2020
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories, Inc.
    Inventors: Takaaki Hori, Shinji Watanabe, John Hershey
  • Publication number: 20200161609
    Abstract: The electrical apparatus, in which a series connection state and a parallel connection state of an upper cell unit including five battery cells and a lower cell unit can be automatically switched by means of a difference in a terminal shape on the electrical apparatus body side, has a terminal holder and holds apparatus side terminals. The terminal holder, which establishes an electrically connected state with the connection terminals of the battery pack, is provided with two parallel protruding parts that extend in the forward-backward direction, and second rail grooves fitted to the protruding parts on the electrical apparatus side. Due to the fitting, relative movement of the terminal holder and the battery pack in the vertical direction can be suppressed, and wear on the apparatus side terminals can be greatly suppressed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 29, 2018
    Publication date: May 21, 2020
    Applicant: Koki Holdings Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Takuhiro Murakami, Tomomasa NISHIKAWA, Shinji Watanabe, Junpei SATO, Hikaru Tamura, Shota KANNO, Toshio Mizoguchi, Yasushi Nakano, Hiroyuki HANAWA, Kazuhiko FUNABASHI, Masayuki Ogura, Takuya Teranishi, Junichi Toukairin, Shota Takeuchi, Yusuke FUNABIKI
  • Publication number: 20200088986
    Abstract: Provided is an 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: Application
    Filed: November 21, 2019
    Publication date: March 19, 2020
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Shinji Watanabe, Nobuhiro Hayashi
  • Patent number: 10593321
    Abstract: A method for training a multi-language speech recognition network includes providing utterance datasets corresponding to predetermined languages, inserting language identification (ID) labels into the utterance datasets, wherein each of the utterance datasets is labelled by each of the language ID labels, concatenating the labeled utterance datasets, generating initial network parameters from the utterance datasets, selecting the initial network parameters according to a predetermined sequence, and training, iteratively, an end-to-end network with a series of the selected initial network parameters and the concatenated labeled utterance datasets until a training result reaches a threshold.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 17, 2020
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories, Inc.
    Inventors: Shinji Watanabe, Takaaki Hori, Hiroshi Seki, Jonathan Le Roux, John Hershey
  • Publication number: 20200066395
    Abstract: [Object] To exactly and efficiently store image data of cells without overloading a user. [Solution] 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; and a control unit that controls a process regarding setting for a target of acquisition of image data in the time-series imaging process, on the basis of a determination result of the importance.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 8, 2017
    Publication date: February 27, 2020
    Inventors: SHINJI WATANABE, REI MURATA
  • Publication number: 20200058314
    Abstract: Systems and methods for audio signal processing including an input interface to receive a noisy audio signal including a mixture of target audio signal and noise. An encoder to map each time-frequency bin of the noisy audio signal to one or more phase-related value from one or more phase quantization codebook of phase-related values indicative of the phase of the target signal. Calculate, for each time-frequency bin of the noisy audio signal, a magnitude ratio value indicative of a ratio of a magnitude of the target audio signal to a magnitude of the noisy audio signal. A filter to cancel the noise from the noisy audio signal based on the phase-related values and the magnitude ratio values to produce an enhanced audio signal. An output interface to output the enhanced audio signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 16, 2018
    Publication date: February 20, 2020
    Inventors: Jonathan Le Roux, Shinji Watanabe, John Hershey, Gordon Wichem
  • Publication number: 20190393610
    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: Application
    Filed: June 19, 2019
    Publication date: December 26, 2019
    Inventors: Warren GUTHRIE, Raymond Michael STITT, Feliks CHIKHALENKO, Shinji WATANABE, Jagadeesh KRISHNAMURTHY
  • Patent number: 10509218
    Abstract: Provided is an 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: December 7, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2019
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Shinji Watanabe, Nobuhiro Hayashi
  • Patent number: 10502943
    Abstract: An imaging system, comprising a controller configured to control the imaging system to: capture a first image of a sample, the first image being one of a bright field image, a phase difference image, and a differential interference image; and capture, based at least in part on information obtained from the first image, a second image of the sample, the second image being a different type of image than the first image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2019
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shinji Watanabe, Kazuki Aisaka
  • Publication number: 20190314489
    Abstract: The present invention provides cells which have a high ability to propagate influenza virus, are suitable for use in production of an influenza virus for preparing a vaccine, and are able to be cultured in vitro, and a method for producing an influenza virus using the cells. That is, the present invention provides cells for producing an influenza virus in which expression of one or more genes that encode proteins involved in an effect of suppressing influenza virus production in a cell is suppressed and the gene is at least one selected from the group including ACTG1 gene and the like, and a method for producing an influenza virus that includes infecting the cells for producing an influenza virus with an influenza virus and then culturing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 26, 2019
    Publication date: October 17, 2019
    Applicant: Japan Science and Technology Agency
    Inventors: Yoshihiro KAWAOKA, Tokiko Watanabe, Eiryo Kawakami, Shinji Watanabe
  • Publication number: 20190318725
    Abstract: Systems and methods for a speech recognition system for recognizing speech including overlapping speech by multiple speakers. The system including a hardware processor. A computer storage memory to store data along with having computer-executable instructions stored thereon that, when executed by the processor is to implement a stored speech recognition network. An input interface to receive an acoustic signal, the received acoustic signal including a mixture of speech signals by multiple speakers, wherein the multiple speakers include target speakers. An encoder network and a decoder network of the stored speech recognition network are trained to transform the received acoustic signal into a text for each target speaker. Such that the encoder network outputs a set of recognition encodings, and the decoder network uses the set of recognition encodings to output the text for each target speaker. An output interface to transmit the text for each target speaker.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 13, 2018
    Publication date: October 17, 2019
    Inventors: Jonathan Le Roux, Takaaki Hori, Shane Settle, Hiroshi Seki, Shinji Watanabe, John Hershey