Patents by Inventor Shinya Shimizu
Shinya Shimizu 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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Publication number: 20250168317Abstract: A field-of-view expansion device includes processing circuitry configured to acquire an image around a user captured by a camera installed in a vicinity of the user, convert an image outside a center visual field of the user of the image acquired to naturally connect to a vision of the center visual field of the user, and display the image converted on a display disposed in right and left peripheral visual fields of the user across the center visual field of the user.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 15, 2022Publication date: May 22, 2025Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATIONInventors: Takeru ISAKA, Shinya SHIMIZU, Shiro OZAWA
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Publication number: 20250126721Abstract: An electro-conductive film is formed using an ink-jet method on an inner peripheral surface (inner wall) of a hole that penetrates an insulating substrate from a front surface to a back surface without a defect. When an electro-conductive underlayer is formed on at least an inner wall of a hole that penetrates an insulating substrate from a front surface to a back surface, a filling step of filling an ink in the hole by ejecting electro-conductive ink droplets into the hole using an ink-jet method in a state where the hole is blocked by a closing member from a lower side of the substrate, a discharge step of discharging the ink filled in the hole to an outside, and a drying step of drying at least an inner wall ink layer that remains in the inner wall of the hole after the discharge step are executed.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 29, 2022Publication date: April 17, 2025Inventors: Shinya SHIMIZU, Shori NOBORIGUCHI
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Patent number: 12198383Abstract: A camera parameter estimating device includes an obtaining unit which obtains time series frames including a plurality of subject images existing in a common field of vision shared by multiple cameras for each of the cameras, a point estimating unit which estimates the coordinates of a joint point determined in the subject image in the time-series frame for each of the subject images, a motion trajectory estimating unit which estimates the trajectory of the joint point between the time-series frames for each of the cameras, an inter-camera correspondence estimating unit which estimates a group of the trajectories between the frames obtained respectively from a pair of the cameras, and a parameter estimating unit which estimates a camera parameter for each of the cameras according to the group of trajectories.Type: GrantFiled: November 8, 2019Date of Patent: January 14, 2025Assignee: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATIONInventors: Shinya Shimizu, Hideaki Kimata
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Publication number: 20240383701Abstract: A drive transmission device transmits a driving force of a drive source to conveyance rollers to convey a sheet, the conveyance rollers including: a relay conveyance roller upstream from a registration roller in a sheet conveyance direction to convey at least a sheet fed from a sheet feeding cassette toward the registration roller; and a bypass relay conveyance roller in a bypass relay path to convey a sheet fed from a bypass tray to a joining point where the sheet fed from the bypass tray joins into a conveyance path on which the sheet fed from the sheet feeding cassette is conveyed. The drive transmission device includes a drive transmission interrupter in a drive transmission path from the drive source to the relay conveyance roller to interrupt drive transmission. The driving force of the drive source is transmitted via the drive transmission interrupter to the bypass relay conveyance roller.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 15, 2024Publication date: November 21, 2024Applicant: Ricoh Company, Ltd.Inventor: Shinya SHIMIZU
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Patent number: 12052503Abstract: A camera parameter derivation apparatus for deriving camera parameters of a plurality of cameras for which conditions that the cameras be arranged at ideal positions that are set on a straight line at equal intervals and that directions of all arranged cameras be parallel to each other have been set includes an internal parameter derivation unit that derives internal parameter matrices of the cameras based on estimated internal parameter matrices for all cameras that are arranged at estimated positions while being oriented in estimated directions, a camera position derivation unit that derives ideal positions of the cameras that minimize the maximum of the distances between the estimated positions and the ideal positions, and a rotation matrix derivation unit that derives rotation matrices for correcting external parameters such that errors from parallel directions are equal to or less than a threshold value.Type: GrantFiled: November 25, 2019Date of Patent: July 30, 2024Assignee: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATIONInventors: Takasuke Nagai, Munekazu Date, Shinya Shimizu, Hideaki Kimata
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Publication number: 20240221120Abstract: Implementation of video enhancement processing is facilitated. A video input unit (11) extracts a color signal from a target video signal. A signal converter (12) extracts a target color signal corresponding to a desired color change from the color signal. A filter processor (13) generates an enhanced minute color signal which enhances a desired color change included in the target color signal by applying a weighted enhancement time-frequency band-pass filter to the target color signal to a target color signal. An addition unit (14) generates an enhanced target color signal by adding the enhanced minute color signal to the target color signal. A video synthesizing unit (15) adds the enhancement target color signal and the color signals other than the target color signal to synthesize an enhanced video in which a desired color change included in the target video signal is enhanced.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 13, 2021Publication date: July 4, 2024Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATIONInventors: Shoichiro TAKEDA, Kenta NIWA, Shinya SHIMIZU, Susumu YAMAMOTO
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Publication number: 20240198928Abstract: Provided are an emblem for a vehicle with a built-in heater and a method for manufacturing the same in which it is possible to prevent breakage of a heater element and to reduce deterioration even in a configuration in which a heater layer is shaped (deformed) together with a decorative layer having a three-dimensional shape. The emblem, having electromagnetic wave permeability, for a vehicle with a built-in heater comprises: a decorative film; a circuit film on which a heater element is disposed; a first cushion layer disposed between the back surface of the decorative film and the front surface of the circuit film; a second cushion layer disposed on the back surface of the circuit film; a transparent front base material disposed on the front surface of the decorative film; and a rear base material disposed on the back surface of the circuit film.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 30, 2022Publication date: June 20, 2024Applicants: Nanbu Plastics Co.,Ltd., Elephantech Inc.Inventors: Sigekazu Moriya, Shoki Sano, Junichi Ueyama, Shinya Shimizu, Takashi Nakashima
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Publication number: 20240202933Abstract: Learning model data of a learning model that inputs original video data in which a background and a motion of a competitor are recorded, competitor mask video data in which an area surrounding the competitor is masked in each of a plurality of image frames included in the original video data, and background mask video data in which an area other than the area surrounding the competitor is masked in each of a plurality of image frames included in the original video data, in a case where the original video data is input, outputs a true value competition score that is an evaluation value for a competition of the competitor, in a case where the competitor mask video data is input, outputs an arbitrarily determined true value background score, and in a case where the background mask video data is input, outputs an arbitrarily determined true value competitor score is generated.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 19, 2021Publication date: June 20, 2024Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATIONInventors: Takasuke NAGAI, Shoichiro TAKEDA, Masaaki MATSUMURA, Shinya SHIMIZU, Susumu YAMAMOTO
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Publication number: 20240178212Abstract: According to one embodiment, a semiconductor device includes: a substrate; a controller disposed on the substrate; a nonvolatile memory disposed on the substrate to be separated from the controller; a first heat sink disposed in contact with an upper surface of the controller; a second heat sink disposed in contact with an upper surface of the nonvolatile memory; and a first resin sealing body sealing the controller, the nonvolatile memory, the first heat sink, and the second heat sink. The first heat sink and the second heat sink are exposed on at least one surface selected from the group consisting of an upper surface and a side surface of the first resin sealing body.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 7, 2024Publication date: May 30, 2024Applicant: Kioxia CorporationInventors: Ken MURAMATSU, Shinya SHIMIZU
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Publication number: 20240127479Abstract: A camera parameter estimating device includes an obtaining unit which obtains time series frames including a plurality of subject images existing in a common field of vision shared by multiple cameras for each of the cameras, a point estimating unit which estimates the coordinates of a joint point determined in the subject image in the time-series frame for each of the subject images, a motion trajectory estimating unit which estimates the trajectory of the joint point between the time-series frames for each of the cameras, an inter-camera correspondence estimating unit which estimates a group of the trajectories between the frames obtained respectively from a pair of the cameras, and a parameter estimating unit which estimates a camera parameter for each of the cameras according to the group of trajectories.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 8, 2019Publication date: April 18, 2024Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATIONInventors: Shinya SHIMIZU, Hideaki KIMATA
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Publication number: 20240024756Abstract: Learning model data indicating a relationship between mask video data obtained by arbitrarily masking a part of a region surrounding a player in each of a plurality of image frames included in video data in which actions of the player are recorded, and a mask score obtained by weighting a true value score which is an evaluation value for a game of the player recorded in the video data according to a ratio of the masked region is generated.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 3, 2020Publication date: January 25, 2024Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATIONInventors: Takasuke NAGAI, Shoichiro TAKEDA, Shinya SHIMIZU
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Patent number: 11734835Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes a change detection unit configured to detect a phase change having a predetermined amount of change from phase changes in a subregion of an edge image having a predetermined resolution, a change amount adjustment unit configured to adjust the amount of change of the detected phase change, an adjusted image generation unit configured to generate an edge image having the predetermined resolution in which the amount of change of a motion change is adjusted based on the phase change in which the amount of change of the phase change is adjusted, and a region decision unit configured to decide a new subregion of an edge image having a new predetermined resolution based on the edge image having the predetermined resolution in which the amount of change of the motion change is not adjusted and the edge image having the predetermined resolution in which the amount of change of the motion change is adjusted.Type: GrantFiled: May 31, 2019Date of Patent: August 22, 2023Assignee: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATIONInventors: Shoichiro Takeda, Megumi Isogai, Shinya Shimizu, Hideaki Kimata
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Publication number: 20230237943Abstract: An image display device (1) according to the present disclosure includes an image display unit (2) that has a pixel structure of subpixels having a plurality of colors, in which the subpixels having different colors are aligned in a first direction, and the subpixels having the same color are aligned in a second direction perpendicular to the first direction and causes an observer ob to observe an image through a plurality of opening portions (24) disposed for each pixel block BL including a plurality of pixels including the subpixels having the plurality of colors. A width of each of the plurality of opening portions (24) in the first direction is substantially equal to a width of a subpixel of the subpixels in the first direction, and the plurality of opening portions (24) are disposed to be shifted in the first direction.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 6, 2020Publication date: July 27, 2023Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATIONInventors: Munekazu DATE, Shinya SHIMIZU, Takasuke NAGAI, Dan MIKAMI, Yoshinori KUSACHI
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Publication number: 20230108075Abstract: A behavior classifier includes a coordinate estimation unit that receives a plurality of frames in chronological order as an input to estimate a keypoint coordinate group for each of the plurality of frames and to generate a chronological keypoint coordinate group for the plurality of input frames; a matrix generation unit that generates a trajectory matrix and generates a trajectory matrix group in which trajectory matrices are collected for all of keypoints defined for the object; and a behavior classification unit that classifies a behavior of the object based on the trajectory matrix group. Each of the plurality of frames captures an object as a moving image. The keypoint coordinate group is a set of two-dimensional coordinates of a keypoint defined for the object. The chronological keypoint coordinate group is a set of the keypoint coordinate groups arranged in chronological order.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 20, 2020Publication date: April 6, 2023Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATIONInventors: Masaaki MATSUMURA, Akio KAMEDA, Shinya SHIMIZU, Hajime NOTO, Yoshinori KUSACHI
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Publication number: 20230079569Abstract: A sound source separation device (10) acquires, from a mixed signal including sounds that came from a plurality of sound sources, a separated signal including an emphasized sound for every sound source. A signal conversion unit (1) converts the mixed signal into the frequency domain. A separated signal estimation unit (2) acquires the separated signals from the mixed signal using an optimized filter. A gradient calculation unit (3) calculates the gradient of a cost function using the mixed signal and the separated signals. A filter update unit (4) optimizes the filter to fulfill separating, for every sound source, a sound emitted from the sound source, and to fulfill having, for every sound source, strong directivity in a direction of the sound source compared with a direction not of the sound source. A signal inverse conversion unit (5) converts the separated signals into the time domain.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 13, 2020Publication date: March 16, 2023Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATIONInventors: Shoichiro TAKEDA, Kenta NIWA, Shinya SHIMIZU
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Patent number: 11577641Abstract: A light projection method for a moving body which is performed by a processor of the moving body is provided. The method comprises: irradiating light from a light source of the moving body; scanning the light irradiated from the light source with an angle range that is formed by swing a mirror portion of an optical scanner of the moving body; acquiring change information of the angle range at which the mirror portion swings; changing the angle range at which the mirror portion swings based on the acquired change information; and changing an irradiation range of the light irradiated from the light source.Type: GrantFiled: May 11, 2022Date of Patent: February 14, 2023Assignee: FUNAI ELECTRIC CO., LTD.Inventors: Mika Hamaoka, Shinya Shimizu, Fuminori Tanaka
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Publication number: 20220394183Abstract: A camera parameter derivation apparatus for deriving camera parameters of a plurality of cameras for which conditions that the cameras be arranged at ideal positions that are set on a straight line at equal intervals and that directions of all arranged cameras be parallel to each other have been set includes an internal parameter derivation unit that derives internal parameter matrices of the cameras based on estimated internal parameter matrices for all cameras that are arranged at estimated positions while being oriented in estimated directions, a camera position derivation unit that derives ideal positions of the cameras that minimize the maximum of the distances between the estimated positions and the ideal positions, and a rotation matrix derivation unit that derives rotation matrices for correcting external parameters such that errors from parallel directions are equal to or less than a threshold value.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 25, 2019Publication date: December 8, 2022Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATIONInventors: Takasuke NAGAI, Munekazu DATE, Shinya SHIMIZU, Hideaki KIMATA
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Publication number: 20220266744Abstract: A light projection method for a moving body which is performed by a processor of the moving body is provided. The method comprises: irradiating light from a light source of the moving body; scanning the light irradiated from the light source with an angle range that is formed by swing a mirror portion of an optical scanner of the moving body; acquiring change information of the angle range at which the mirror portion swings; changing the angle range at which the mirror portion swings based on the acquired change information; and changing an irradiation range of the light irradiated from the light source.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 11, 2022Publication date: August 25, 2022Applicant: FUNAI ELECTRIC CO., LTD.Inventors: MIKA HAMAOKA, SHINYA SHIMIZU, FUMINORI TANAKA
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Patent number: 11358517Abstract: A light projection device for a moving body is provided on the moving body and includes: a light source for irradiating light; an optical scanner which has a mirror portion for reflecting the light irradiated from the light source and a drive source for swinging the mirror portion, and scans the light irradiated from the light source; and a control portion which controls to acquire change information of an angle range at which the mirror portion swings, change the angle range at which the mirror portion swings by controlling the drive source based on the acquired change information, and change an irradiation range of the light irradiated from the light source.Type: GrantFiled: April 25, 2021Date of Patent: June 14, 2022Assignee: FUNAI ELECTRIC CO., LTD.Inventors: Mika Hamaoka, Shinya Shimizu, Fuminori Tanaka
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Publication number: 20220138960Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes a change detection unit configured to detect a phase change having a predetermined amount of change from phase changes in a subregion of an edge image having a predetermined resolution, a change amount adjustment unit configured to adjust the amount of change of the detected phase change, an adjusted image generation unit configured to generate an edge image having the predetermined resolution in which the amount of change of a motion change is adjusted based on the phase change in which the amount of change of the phase change is adjusted, and a region decision unit configured to decide a new subregion of an edge image having a new predetermined resolution based on the edge image having the predetermined resolution in which the amount of change of the motion change is not adjusted and the edge image having the predetermined resolution in which the amount of change of the motion change is adjusted.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 31, 2019Publication date: May 5, 2022Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATIONInventors: Shoichiro TAKEDA, Megumi ISOGAI, Shinya SHIMIZU, Hideaki KIMATA