Patents by Inventor Shinji Yamamoto
Shinji Yamamoto 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: 12260718Abstract: An image processing apparatus that outputs information about a specified product includes a detection unit configured to detect person information including a behavior history of a person detected from a video, and an output unit configured to output information about a product that meets a predetermined condition, based on the detected behavior history in the person information relating to a person to be retrieved.Type: GrantFiled: June 21, 2021Date of Patent: March 25, 2025Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Sho Saito, Atsushi Kawano, Shinji Yamamoto, Akifumi Tanaka, Ichiko Mayuzumi
-
Patent number: 12249973Abstract: An acoustic wave device includes a piezoelectric layer, a pair of comb-shaped electrodes disposed on a first surface of the piezoelectric layer, each of the pair of comb-shaped electrodes including electrode fingers that excite an acoustic wave, a support substrate disposed at a second surface side of the piezoelectric layer, and having protruding portions and/or recessed portions on a first surface, which is closer to the piezoelectric layer, of the support substrate, each of the protruding portions and/or the recessed portions having a shape in which each of left and right side surfaces has linear slopes inclined at different angles with respect to the first surface of the piezoelectric layer in a cross-sectional view, and a second insulating layer located between the piezoelectric layer and the support substrate and disposed on the third surface, on which the protruding portions and/or the recessed portions are formed, of the support substrate.Type: GrantFiled: April 19, 2022Date of Patent: March 11, 2025Assignee: TAIYO YUDEN CO., LTD.Inventors: Koichi Sato, Shinji Yamamoto, Toshio Nishizawa, Ryohei Komiyama
-
Patent number: 12217528Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes a first detection unit configured to detect, from an image in which an object including a plurality of parts is captured, first feature points corresponding to the parts of the object, an acquisition unit configured to acquire a reliability indicating a likelihood that a position indicated by a feature point is a part corresponding to the feature point for each of the first feature points detected by the first detection unit, a second detection unit configured to detect a second feature point based on some of the first feature points for a part corresponding to a first feature point with the low reliability, and a determination unit configured to determine an area including the object based on some of the first feature points and the second feature point.Type: GrantFiled: March 15, 2022Date of Patent: February 4, 2025Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Hiroyuki Uchiyama, Hiroshi Tojo, Shinji Yamamoto
-
Patent number: 12198618Abstract: A display apparatus includes: a display; a display driver that drives the display such that the display displays in accordance with display data; and a host controller that transfers update display data of one screen to the display driver. The display driver includes a light-emission controller that causes a self-luminous elements to emit light, and a memory that stores the update display data of the one screen. The display driver reads the update display data on the memory after an elapse of a predetermined period of time from a drive end time at which the display controller finishes driving in accordance with the update display data and drives the screen by using the read update display data. The display driver drives the self-luminous elements once or more at a timing when the update display data from the host controller to the display driver is not updated.Type: GrantFiled: December 15, 2023Date of Patent: January 14, 2025Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Yuichi Sato, Kenji Maeda, Shinji Yamamoto, Takuya Okamoto, Fumitaka Seki, Masafumi Ito, Yohichi Takazane
-
Publication number: 20250005782Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes one or more memories storing instructions, and one or more processors that, upon execution of the stored instructions, are configured to specify a position of an organ of a person in an image, acquire posture estimation information about a posture of the person based on the specified position of the organ, estimate an action of the person based on the acquired posture estimation information, determine a state of the person based on the acquired posture estimation information, and change information indicating the estimated action of the person in a case where the estimated action of the person is a predetermined action and it is determined that the person is in a predetermined state.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 24, 2024Publication date: January 2, 2025Inventor: SHINJI YAMAMOTO
-
Patent number: 12173378Abstract: The method for manufacturing a grain-oriented electrical steel sheet is a method for manufacturing a grain-oriented electrical steel sheet including a strain region forming process of irradiating the grain-oriented electrical steel sheet having a base steel sheet (1), an intermediate layer (4) disposed to be in contact with the base steel sheet (1), and an insulation coating (3) disposed to be in contact with the intermediate layer (4) with an electron beam and forming a strain region (D) which extends in a direction intersecting a rolling direction of the base steel sheet (1) on a surface of the base steel sheet (1), wherein, in the strain region forming process, a temperature of a central portion of the strain region (D) in the rolling direction of the base steel sheet (1) and an extension direction of the strain region (D) is heated to 800° C. or higher and 2000° C. or lower.Type: GrantFiled: January 16, 2020Date of Patent: December 24, 2024Assignee: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATIONInventors: Satoshi Arai, Yoshiyuki Ushigami, Hideyuki Hamamura, Shinji Yamamoto, Shunsuke Okumura
-
Patent number: 12149228Abstract: An acoustic wave device includes a support substrate, a piezoelectric layer provided on the support substrate, at least a pair of comb-shaped electrodes provided on the piezoelectric layer, each of the comb-shaped electrodes including a plurality of electrode fingers, and an insulating layer provided between the support substrate and the piezoelectric layer, the insulating layer having, in at least a part thereof, a plurality of void regions of which extending directions are different from each other when viewed from a thickness direction of the support substrate, a width in the corresponding extending direction of each of the void regions being longer than a width in a direction orthogonal to the corresponding extending direction when viewed from the thickness direction of the support substrate.Type: GrantFiled: November 21, 2022Date of Patent: November 19, 2024Assignee: TAIYO YUDEN CO., LTD.Inventors: Shinji Yamamoto, Koichi Sato, Toshiharu Nakazato
-
Publication number: 20240362819Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes at least one processor, and a memory coupled to the at least one processor, the memory storing instructions that, when executed by the at least one processor, cause the at least one processor to detect a region of a human body from an image, generate, from the image, a first clipped image including the region of the human body and a second clipped image different from the first clipped image and including the region of the human body, detect joint points of the human body from the first clipped image to generate joint point information on the human body, convert the joint point information so as to have spatial information coincident with spatial information on the second clipped image, and estimate a posture of the human body based on the converted joint point information and the second clipped image.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 23, 2024Publication date: October 31, 2024Inventor: SHINJI YAMAMOTO
-
Publication number: 20240283426Abstract: An acoustic wave device includes a support substrate, a piezoelectric layer provided on the support substrate, at least one pair of comb-shaped electrodes provided on the piezoelectric layer, the at least one pair of comb-shaped electrodes including a plurality of electrode fingers, a first intermediate layer provided between the support substrate and the piezoelectric layer, a second intermediate layer provided between the support substrate and the first intermediate layer, the second intermediate layer having a porosity higher than a porosity of the first intermediate layer, and a third intermediate layer provided between the support substrate and the second intermediate layer, the third intermediate layer having a porosity lower than the porosity of the second intermediate layer.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 7, 2024Publication date: August 22, 2024Applicant: TAIYO YUDEN CO., LTD.Inventors: Koichi SATO, Shinji YAMAMOTO
-
Patent number: 12065712Abstract: This grain-oriented electrical steel sheet has a base steel sheet in which a final-annealed film is substantially not present on a surface, an intermediate layer that is disposed on a surface of the base steel sheet and mainly contains silicon oxide, and an insulation coating disposed on a surface of the intermediate layer. In the intermediate layer, a value obtained by dividing a standard deviation ? of a thickness of the intermediate layer by an average value T of the thickness of the intermediate layer is 0.500 or less.Type: GrantFiled: January 16, 2020Date of Patent: August 20, 2024Assignee: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATIONInventors: Shinji Yamamoto, Yoshiyuki Ushigami, Shinsuke Takatani
-
Publication number: 20240162881Abstract: An acoustic wave device includes a piezoelectric layer, and at least one pair of comb-shaped electrodes provided on the piezoelectric layer, each of the comb-shaped electrodes including electrode fingers each having a first layer and a second layer provided on the first layer, the first layer being a titanium nitride layer with a thickness greater than 50 nm, the second layer being a metal layer.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 13, 2023Publication date: May 16, 2024Applicant: TAIYO YUDEN CO., LTD.Inventors: Satoshi IMASU, Ryohei KOMIYAMA, Shinji YAMAMOTO
-
Patent number: 11981107Abstract: The method is for manufacturing a clad material (30), which includes: clad rolling for rolling and bonding a first metal plate (131) made of stainless steel, a second metal plate (132) made of Cu or a Cu alloy, and a third metal plate (133) made of stainless steel in a state in which the first metal plate, the second metal plate, and the third metal plate are stacked in this order. The clad rolling is performed with a pressure-bonding load of 4.4×103 N/mm or more. The second layer is made of Cu or a Cu alloy. The third layer is made of stainless steel. The clad material has an overall thickness of 1 mm or less.Type: GrantFiled: February 28, 2022Date of Patent: May 14, 2024Assignee: PROTERIAL, LTD.Inventor: Shinji Yamamoto
-
Patent number: 11970751Abstract: The grain-oriented electrical steel sheet according to the present embodiment is a grain-oriented electrical steel sheet having a base steel sheet (1), an intermediate layer (4) disposed to be in contact with the base steel sheet (1), and an insulation coating (3) disposed to be in contact with the intermediate layer (4). The grain-oriented electrical steel sheet according to the present embodiment includes a surface of the base steel sheet (1) having a strain region (D) which extends in a direction intersecting a rolling direction of the base steel sheet (1), and a crystalline phosphorus oxide M2P4O13 present in the insulation coating (3) on the strain region (D) in a cross-sectional view of a surface parallel to the rolling direction and a sheet thickness direction of the base steel sheet (1). (M means at least one or both of Fe and Cr.Type: GrantFiled: January 16, 2020Date of Patent: April 30, 2024Assignee: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATIONInventors: Yoshiyuki Ushigami, Shinji Yamamoto, Hideyuki Hamamura, Takashi Kataoka, Shunsuke Okumura
-
Patent number: 11967914Abstract: A vibration actuator control device includes a control unit and a driving unit. The control unit outputs a first control signal for controlling driving of a first vibration actuator including a first vibrating body and a first contact body, and outputs a second control signal for controlling driving of a second vibration actuator and including a second vibrating body. The driving unit (i) outputs a first alternating-current voltage in a first plurality of phases set based on the first control signal, and (ii) outputs a second alternating-current voltage in a second plurality of phases set based on the second control signal. The control unit individually sets a phase difference of the first alternating-current voltage based on the first control signal and sets a phase difference of the second alternating-current voltage based on the second control signal, and commonly sets a first alternating-current voltage frequency and a second alternating-current voltage frequency.Type: GrantFiled: September 24, 2021Date of Patent: April 23, 2024Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Hiromitsu Morita, Shinji Yamamoto
-
Patent number: 11962282Abstract: An acoustic wave device including a support substrate, a piezoelectric layer provided over the support substrate, at least one pair of comb-shaped electrodes disposed on the piezoelectric layer, each of the at least one pair of comb-shaped electrodes including electrode fingers, a temperature compensation film interposed between the support substrate and the piezoelectric layer, the temperature compensation film having a temperature coefficient of elastic constant opposite in sign to a temperature coefficient of elastic constant of the piezoelectric layer; and an insulating layer interposed between the support substrate and the temperature compensation film, a first surface of the insulating layer having first protruding portions and/or first recessed portions, a second surface of the insulating layer having second protruding portions and/or second recessed portions, the first surface being closer to the support substrate, the second surface being closer to the temperature compensation film.Type: GrantFiled: May 18, 2021Date of Patent: April 16, 2024Assignee: TAIYO YUDEN CO., LTD.Inventors: Shinji Yamamoto, Toshio Nishizawa, Naoki Kakita
-
Publication number: 20240119894Abstract: A display apparatus includes: a display; a display driver that drives the display such that the display displays in accordance with display data; and a host controller that transfers update display data of one screen to the display driver. The display driver includes a light-emission controller that causes a self-luminous elements to emit light, and a memory that stores the update display data of the one screen. The display driver reads the update display data on the memory after an elapse of a predetermined period of time from a drive end time at which the display controller finishes driving in accordance with the update display data and drives the screen by using the read update display data. The display driver drives the self-luminous elements once or more at a timing when the update display data from the host controller to the display driver is not updated.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 15, 2023Publication date: April 11, 2024Inventors: YUICHI SATO, KENJI MAEDA, SHINJI YAMAMOTO, TAKUYA OKAMOTO, FUMITAKA SEKI, MASAFUMI ITO, YOHICHI TAKAZANE
-
Patent number: 11942627Abstract: A positive electrode for a lithium ion secondary battery, including a positive electrode current collector; and a positive electrode mixture layer that is provided on at least one side of the positive electrode current collector, the positive electrode mixture layer including a positive electrode active material layer, and an undercoat layer formed between the positive electrode current collector and the positive electrode active material layer, the undercoat layer containing a conductive auxiliary, a binder, and a thermally expandable microcapsule having a maximum volume expansion temperature of from 70° C. to 180° C.Type: GrantFiled: March 29, 2019Date of Patent: March 26, 2024Assignee: MITSUI CHEMICALS, INC.Inventors: Shinji Yamamoto, Yuri Endo
-
Patent number: 11916531Abstract: An acoustic wave device includes a support substrate, a piezoelectric layer provided over the support substrate, comb-shaped electrodes disposed on the piezoelectric layer, each of the comb-shaped electrodes including electrode fingers exciting an acoustic wave, a temperature compensation film interposed between the support substrate and the piezoelectric layer and having a temperature coefficient of an elastic constant opposite in sign to that of the piezoelectric layer, a boundary layer interposed between the support substrate and the temperature compensation film, an acoustic velocity of a bulk wave propagating through the boundary layer being higher than an acoustic velocity of a bulk wave propagating through the temperature compensation film and being lower than an acoustic velocity of a bulk wave propagating through the support substrate, and an intermediate layer interposed between the support substrate and the boundary layer and having a Q factor less than a Q factor of the boundary layer.Type: GrantFiled: June 30, 2021Date of Patent: February 27, 2024Assignee: TAIYO YUDEN CO., LTD.Inventors: Toshiharu Nakazato, Shinji Yamamoto, Ryouta Iwabuchi, Naoki Takahashi
-
Patent number: 11898215Abstract: The grain-oriented electrical steel sheet according to the present invention is a grain-oriented electrical steel sheet having a base steel sheet (1), an intermediate layer (4) disposed to be in contact with the base steel sheet (1), and an insulation coating (3) disposed to be in contact with the intermediate layer (4), and the grain-oriented electrical steel sheet includes a surface of the base steel sheet (1) having a groove (G) which extends in a direction intersecting a rolling direction of the base steel sheet (1), in which in a cross-sectional view of a plane parallel to the rolling direction and a sheet thickness direction of the base steel sheet (1), when a region between end portions of the groove (G) is defined as a groove part (RG), an average thickness of the intermediate layer (4) of the groove part (RG) is 0.5 times or more and 3.Type: GrantFiled: January 16, 2020Date of Patent: February 13, 2024Assignee: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATIONInventors: Yoshiyuki Ushigami, Shinji Yamamoto, Fumiaki Takahashi, Hideyuki Hamamura, Shinsuke Takatani, Masaru Takahashi
-
Patent number: 11881163Abstract: A display apparatus includes: a display; a display driver that drives the display such that the display displays in accordance with display data; and a host controller that transfers update display data of one screen to the display driver. The display driver includes a light-emission controller that causes a self-luminous elements to emit light, and a memory that stores the update display data of the one screen. The display driver reads the update display data on the memory after an elapse of a predetermined period of time from a drive end time at which the display controller finishes driving in accordance with the update display data and drives the screen by using the read update display data. The display driver drives the self-luminous elements once or more at a timing when the update display data from the host controller to the display driver is not updated.Type: GrantFiled: December 14, 2022Date of Patent: January 23, 2024Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Yuichi Sato, Kenji Maeda, Shinji Yamamoto, Takuya Okamoto, Fumitaka Seki, Masafumi Ito, Yohichi Takazane