Patents by Inventor Shinya Sato
Shinya Sato 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).
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Patent number: 12228103Abstract: An internal combustion engine control device includes: a rotation speed calculating unit that calculates crank rotation speeds of an engine; an extreme timing calculating unit that calculates an extreme timing of the crank rotation speeds; and an average rotation speed calculating unit that calculates an average rotation speed of the crank rotation speeds; and a combustion state estimating unit that estimates a combustion state in the engine based on the extreme timing and the average rotation speed.Type: GrantFiled: February 15, 2022Date of Patent: February 18, 2025Assignee: Hitachi Astemo, Ltd.Inventors: Hayato Takei, Shinya Sato, Akihiro Komori
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Patent number: 12199114Abstract: The present technology relates to a solid-state imaging device and an electronic apparatus capable of improving the accuracy of phase difference detection while suppressing degradation of a picked-up image. There is provided a solid-state imaging device including: a pixel array unit, a plurality of pixels being two-dimensionally arranged in the pixel array unit, a plurality of photoelectric conversion devices being formed with respect to one on-chip lens in each of the plurality of pixels, a part of at least one of an inter-pixel separation unit formed between the plurality of pixels and an inter-pixel light blocking unit formed between the plurality of pixels protruding toward a center of the corresponding pixel in a projecting shape to form a projection portion. The present technology is applicable to, for example, a CMOS image sensor including a pixel for detecting the phase difference.Type: GrantFiled: October 10, 2023Date of Patent: January 14, 2025Assignee: Sony Semiconductor Solutions CorporationInventors: Shouichirou Shiraishi, Takuya Maruyama, Shinichiro Yagi, Shohei Shimada, Shinya Sato
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Publication number: 20250001295Abstract: An information processing system, method and device. The method includes: moving a display medium in a three-dimensional virtual space with a height direction; allowing a virtual camera to follow up the display medium when the display medium is moved; acquiring user input; setting the height of the virtual camera, in accordance with first user input; and drawing the display medium in the virtual space in an expression seen from the virtual camera, in which the camera processing changes a follow-up mode of the virtual camera with respect to the movement of the display medium when a setting value is changed.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 22, 2023Publication date: January 2, 2025Applicant: GREE, Inc.Inventor: Shinya SATO
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Publication number: 20240325892Abstract: A system for providing improvements in conventional encounter determination, which may include one or more processors. When a first character operated by a first user is present in an encounterable zone set in association with a second character in a virtual field, the one or more processors determine that the first character is in a first encounterable state in which there is a possibility of encounter between the first character and the second character. In addition, when the first character is in the first encounterable state, the one or more processors determine whether to generate a first encounter event in which the first character and the second character participate.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 21, 2023Publication date: October 3, 2024Applicant: GREE, Inc.Inventors: Shinya SATO, Taku WATANABE
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Publication number: 20240321972Abstract: According to one embodiment, a semiconductor device includes a first electrode, a first semiconductor region of a first conductivity type, a first region, a second semiconductor region of a second conductivity type, and a second electrode. The first semiconductor region is located on the first electrode. The first region is located in the first semiconductor region. A concentration of carbon in the first region is greater than a concentration of carbon in the first semiconductor region. A concentration of a first element in the first region is greater than a concentration of the first element in the first semiconductor region. The first element is at least one selected from the group consisting of platinum, gold, iron, copper, and nickel. The second semiconductor region is located on the first semiconductor region. The second electrode is located on the second semiconductor region.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 15, 2023Publication date: September 26, 2024Inventor: Shinya SATO
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Patent number: 12055570Abstract: Provided is a measurement apparatus including a signal source configured to output a binary digital signal configuring a multi-tone waveform, a waveform acquisition unit configured to acquire an analog signal waveform generated in response to application of the digital signal to a device under test, and a computation unit configured to calculate a frequency characteristic of the device under test from the waveform acquired by the waveform acquisition unit, in which the signal source is configured to repeatedly output a signal upconverted by multiplying a pseudo-random binary sequence (PRBS) signal by a repeating rectangular wave with a reference frequency and a reference duty ratio.Type: GrantFiled: May 24, 2022Date of Patent: August 6, 2024Assignee: ADVANTEST CORPORATIONInventors: Masayuki Kawabata, Mitsuo Matsumoto, Shinya Sato, Masakatsu Suda
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Publication number: 20240240602Abstract: An internal combustion engine control device includes: a rotation speed calculating unit that calculates crank rotation speeds of an engine; an extreme timing calculating unit that calculates an extreme timing of the crank rotation speeds; and an average rotation speed calculating unit that calculates an average rotation speed of the crank rotation speeds; and a combustion state estimating unit that estimates a combustion state in the engine based on the extreme timing and the average rotation speed.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 15, 2022Publication date: July 18, 2024Inventors: Hayato TAKEI, Shinya SATO, Akihiro KOMORI
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Patent number: 12037954Abstract: To accurately estimate a combustion state even in a case where the combustion state in a combustion chamber greatly changes.Type: GrantFiled: January 22, 2021Date of Patent: July 16, 2024Assignee: Hitachi Astemo, Ltd.Inventors: Yoshihiro Sukegawa, Shinya Sato, Masayuki Saruwatari, Atsushi Shimada
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Publication number: 20240229206Abstract: The present invention has as its object the provision of an Fe-based amorphous alloy and Fe-based amorphous alloy ribbon excellent in soft magnetic properties having a low iron loss and a high saturation magnetic flux density. The Fe-based amorphous alloy excellent in soft magnetic properties of the present invention comprises, by atom %, B: 8.0% or more and 18.0% or less, Si: 2.0% or more and 9.0% or less, C: 0.10% or more and 5.00% or less, Al: 0.005% or more and 1.50% or less, P: 0% or more and less than 1.00%, Mn: 0% or more and 0.30% or less, Fe: 78.00% or more and 86.00% or less, and balance: impurities and has an amorphous structure.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 18, 2022Publication date: July 11, 2024Applicant: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATIONInventors: Shinya SATO, Shigekatsu OZAKI, Shinichi TERASHIMA, Takayuki KOBAYASHI, Yuichi SATO
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Publication number: 20240221904Abstract: An information processing device of one aspect of the present disclosure includes an exercise information acquiring unit configured to acquire first exercise information related to an exercise performed by a subject person, a diagnosis information acquiring unit configured to acquire first diagnosis information of the subject person, a goal setting unit configured to set a first weight loss goal based on the first diagnosis information, a storage unit configured to store in advance a first trained model, the first trained model being configured to output, as a content of first guidance, a first advice candidate expected to be valid to achieve the first weight loss goal among a plurality of first advice candidates when the first exercise information and the first weight loss goal are input, and a report generation unit configured to generate a first guidance report including the content of the first guidance.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 27, 2023Publication date: July 4, 2024Applicant: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATIONInventors: Shinya SATO, Yuya OZAWA
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Patent number: 12025065Abstract: Provided is an internal combustion engine control unit that controls an engine by detecting combustion characteristics with a simple configuration robust to disturbance such as noise. Therefore, the internal combustion engine control unit (ECU 12) of the present embodiment includes a rotational speed calculation unit 122a that calculates a crank rotational speed of an internal combustion engine (engine 1); an extreme value timing calculation unit 122b that calculates an extreme value timing of the crank rotational speed calculated by the rotational speed calculation unit 122a; and a combustion state estimation unit (combustion phase calculation unit 122c) that estimates a combustion state based on the extreme value timing of the crank speed calculated by the extreme value timing calculation unit 122b.Type: GrantFiled: March 27, 2020Date of Patent: July 2, 2024Assignee: Hitachi Astemo, Ltd.Inventors: Yoshihiro Sukegawa, Masayuki Saruwatari, Shinya Sato, Yoshiaki Nagasawa
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Patent number: 12027540Abstract: The present technology relates to a solid-state imaging device and an electronic apparatus capable of improving the accuracy of phase difference detection while suppressing degradation of a picked-up image. There is provided a solid-state imaging device including: a pixel array unit, a plurality of pixels being two-dimensionally arranged in the pixel array unit, a plurality of photoelectric conversion devices being formed with respect to one on-chip lens in each of the plurality of pixels, a part of at least one of an inter-pixel separation unit formed between the plurality of pixels and an inter-pixel light blocking unit formed between the plurality of pixels protruding toward a center of the corresponding pixel in a projecting shape to form a projection portion. The present technology is applicable to, for example, a CMOS image sensor including a pixel for detecting the phase difference.Type: GrantFiled: March 31, 2023Date of Patent: July 2, 2024Assignee: Sony Semiconductor Solutions CorporationInventors: Shouichirou Shiraishi, Takuya Maruyama, Shinichiro Yagi, Shohei Shimada, Shinya Sato
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Patent number: 12000539Abstract: A high-pressure tank liner manufacturing device includes: a heater to heat and melt end surfaces of liner halves; a heater transportation mechanism configured to slidably move the heater between a waiting position for the heater and a heating position for the heater; an elevation mechanism (drive mechanism) configured to drive a pair of the liner halves so as to cause the pair of liner halves to be relatively moved closer to each other or away from each other; and a parallelism adjustment mechanism configured to adjust parallelism of the end surfaces of the liner halves in accordance with the heater being slidably moved.Type: GrantFiled: June 23, 2023Date of Patent: June 4, 2024Assignees: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD., YACHIYO INDUSTRY CO., LTD.Inventors: Takaharu Sato, Yuka Kishi, Mikio Ishiyama, Shinya Sato, Junya Yoshioka
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Publication number: 20240038791Abstract: The present technology relates to a solid-state imaging device and an electronic apparatus capable of improving the accuracy of phase difference detection while suppressing degradation of a picked-up image. There is provided a solid-state imaging device including: a pixel array unit, a plurality of pixels being two-dimensionally arranged in the pixel array unit, a plurality of photoelectric conversion devices being formed with respect to one on-chip lens in each of the plurality of pixels, a part of at least one of an inter-pixel separation unit formed between the plurality of pixels and an inter-pixel light blocking unit formed between the plurality of pixels protruding toward a center of the corresponding pixel in a projecting shape to form a projection portion. The present technology is applicable to, for example, a CMOS image sensor including a pixel for detecting the phase difference.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 10, 2023Publication date: February 1, 2024Applicant: SONY SEMICONDUCTOR SOLUTIONS CORPORATIONInventors: Shouichirou SHIRAISHI, Takuya MARUYAMA, Shinichiro YAGI, Shohei SHIMADA, Shinya SATO
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Patent number: 11888001Abstract: The present technology relates to a solid-state imaging device and an electronic apparatus capable of improving the accuracy of phase difference detection while suppressing degradation of a picked-up image. There is provided a solid-state imaging device including: a pixel array unit, a plurality of pixels being two-dimensionally arranged in the pixel array unit, a plurality of photoelectric conversion devices being formed with respect to one on-chip lens in each of the plurality of pixels, a part of at least one of an inter-pixel separation unit formed between the plurality of pixels and an inter-pixel light blocking unit formed between the plurality of pixels protruding toward a center of the corresponding pixel in a projecting shape to form a projection portion. The present technology is applicable to, for example, a CMOS image sensor including a pixel for detecting the phase difference.Type: GrantFiled: March 31, 2023Date of Patent: January 30, 2024Assignee: Sony Semiconductor Solutions CorporationInventors: Shouichirou Shiraishi, Takuya Maruyama, Shinichiro Yagi, Shohei Shimada, Shinya Sato
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Patent number: 11869755Abstract: A method for cleaning a substrate processing apparatus includes mounting a substrate on a mounting portion of an electrostatic chuck of the substrate processing apparatus to process the substrate; mounting a protector including a small diameter portion that covers the mounting portion and a large diameter portion that is disposed apart from an edge ring disposed on an outer periphery of the mounting portion and has a diameter larger than that of the small diameter portion, on the mounting portion; and supplying a cleaning gas, thereby removing by-products deposited between the mounting portion and the edge ring.Type: GrantFiled: October 7, 2021Date of Patent: January 9, 2024Assignee: TOKYO ELECTRON LIMITEDInventors: Akira Nagayama, Shinya Sato
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Patent number: 11858505Abstract: A control apparatus of a vehicle included a parking determination unit configured to determine whether the vehicle is about to be parked in a parking space, and a collision avoidance unit configured to be able to execute an avoidance function for avoiding collision with an object that is moving in a direction intersecting a longer direction of the vehicle. While the vehicle is about to be parked in the parking space, in a case where an angle between the longer direction of the vehicle and a longer direction of the parking space is larger than a threshold value, the collision avoidance unit inactivates the avoidance function, and in a case where the angle between the longer direction of the vehicle and the longer direction of the parking space is smaller than the threshold value, the collision avoidance unit activates the avoidance function.Type: GrantFiled: February 17, 2021Date of Patent: January 2, 2024Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventors: Shinya Sato, Hiroyuki Koibuchi
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Publication number: 20230417369Abstract: A high-pressure tank liner manufacturing device includes: a heater to heat and melt end surfaces of liner halves; a heater transportation mechanism configured to slidably move the heater between a waiting position for the heater and a heating position for the heater; an elevation mechanism (drive mechanism) configured to drive a pair of the liner halves so as to cause the pair of liner halves to be relatively moved closer to each other or away from each other; and a parallelism adjustment mechanism configured to adjust parallelism of the end surfaces of the liner halves in accordance with the heater being slidably moved.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 23, 2023Publication date: December 28, 2023Inventors: Takaharu Sato, Yuka Kishi, Mikio Ishiyama, Shinya Sato, Junya Yoshioka
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Patent number: 11787399Abstract: A control apparatus of a vehicle executes an avoidance operation for avoiding collision with an object that is moving in a direction intersecting a longer direction of the vehicle. In a case where the vehicle is travelling on a first road, and makes a turn toward a first traffic lane of a second road intersecting the first road, the apparatus does not set a vehicle that is travelling on a second traffic lane of the second road that is farther from the vehicle than the first traffic lane, as a target for the avoidance operation, if a predetermined condition is not satisfied, or irrespective of whether or not the predetermined condition is satisfied, and sets a vehicle that is travelling on the first traffic lane, as the target, irrespective of whether or not the predetermined condition is satisfied.Type: GrantFiled: March 2, 2021Date of Patent: October 17, 2023Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventors: Shinya Sato, Hiroyuki Koibuchi
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Patent number: 11720313Abstract: A display system includes an HMD mounted on a head of a user, and a control device coupled to the HMD, the HMD includes an image display unit, with an outside scene being visible, for displaying a display image overlapping the outside scene, and a main control unit for causing an image display unit to display a display image, and the control device includes a touch panel, and a CO control unit for causing a related image related to a display content of the display image to be displayed on the touch panel.Type: GrantFiled: September 28, 2021Date of Patent: August 8, 2023Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATIONInventors: Yuichi Kakizaki, Hiroaki Baba, Shinya Sato