Patents by Inventor Shoichi IIZUKA

Shoichi IIZUKA 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: 20180217248
    Abstract: A positioning sensor includes m receiving antennas connected to a feeder circuit and n variable loads, and a receiver that receives a first signal via the m receiving antennas. The positioning sensor further includes a memory that stores a first signal strength value of a first signal that the receiver receives when a variable load varies in value, and a processor that calculates a second signal strength value from a complex propagation channel, searches for a complex propagation channel candidate that has a minimum difference between a first signal strength and a second signal strength, determines the complex propagation channel candidate to be a complex propagation channel when the receiver receives the first signal, and estimates an incoming direction of the first signal from the determined complex propagation channel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 9, 2018
    Publication date: August 2, 2018
    Inventors: TAKESHI NAKAYAMA, SHOICHI IIZUKA, NAOKI HONMA
  • Publication number: 20180196131
    Abstract: A sensor includes at least one transmitting station including a transmission antenna; a plurality of receiving stations each including a reception array antenna; a first circuit that extracts, from signals observed by the reception array antenna of each of the plurality of receiving stations, living-body components, which are signal components transmitted from the transmission antenna and reflected by at least one living body; a second circuit that calculates, from the extracted living-body components, a plurality of position spectral functions, which are evaluation functions for evaluating a position of the at least one living body when viewed from the plurality of respective receiving stations; and a third circuit that integrates the plurality of calculated position spectral functions into one position spectral function, and calculates at least one maximum value of the position spectral function obtained as a result of integration to estimate the position of the at least one living body.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 22, 2017
    Publication date: July 12, 2018
    Inventors: SHOICHI IIZUKA, TAKESHI NAKAYAMA, NAOKI HONMA
  • Publication number: 20180192919
    Abstract: A sensor includes: a transmitting antenna with N transmitting antenna elements transmitting transmission signals; a receiving antenna with M receiving antenna elements, each receiving N received signals including a reflection signal generated by the living body reflecting part of the N transmission signals; a circuit; and a memory. The circuit extracts a second matrix corresponding to a specified frequency range from an N×M first matrix calculated from each received signal and indicating a propagation property between each transmitting antenna element and each receiving antenna element, estimates the position where the living body is present using the second matrix, calculates a radar cross-section (RCS) value of the living body based on the estimated position and the positions of the transmission and receiving antennas, and estimates the motion of the living body using the calculated RCS value and information indicating correspondence between RCS values and motions of the living body.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 22, 2017
    Publication date: July 12, 2018
    Inventors: TAKESHI NAKAYAMA, SHOICHI IIZUKA, NAOKI HONMA, DAI SASAKAWA
  • Publication number: 20180055437
    Abstract: A device that differentiates a living body includes at least one transmission antenna element that transmits a transmission signal to a predetermined range including the living body, N receivers that are arranged to surround a periphery of the predetermined range and each receive N reception signals using respective reception antenna elements of the receivers during a predetermined period, the N reception signals including a reflection signal resulting from the transmission signal reflected off the living body, memory that stores a teacher signal, a circuit that calculates a plurality of correlation coefficients according to the teacher signal and the N reception signals received by the N receivers and determines that the living body and the subject living body are identical to each other when a predetermined correlation coefficient included in the plurality of correlation coefficients is included in a predetermined value range.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 2, 2017
    Publication date: March 1, 2018
    Inventors: TAKESHI NAKAYAMA, SHOICHI IIZUKA, NAOKI HONMA
  • Publication number: 20180011169
    Abstract: A sensor includes a transmit antenna, a receive antenna, circuitry, and a memory. The transmit antenna includes N transmit antenna elements each transmitting a transmit signal. The receive antenna includes M receive antenna elements each receiving N receive signals including reflection signals reflected by an organism. The circuitry extracts a second matrix corresponding to a predetermined frequency range from an N×M first matrix representing propagation characteristics between each transmit antenna element and each receive antenna element calculated from the receive signals. The circuitry estimates the position of the organism by using the second matrix, and calculates a radar cross-section value with respect to the organism, based on the estimated position and the positions of the transmit antenna and the receive antenna.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 23, 2017
    Publication date: January 11, 2018
    Inventors: TAKESHI NAKAYAMA, SHOICHI IIZUKA, NAOKI HONMA, DAI SASAKAWA
  • Publication number: 20150248491
    Abstract: A data processing device according to the present application includes an acquisition unit and a generation unit. The acquisition unit acquires first user information that includes a behavior history of a user. The generation unit generates second user information acquired by decomposing the first user information acquired by the acquisition unit for each predetermined behavior type. For example, the data processing device generates the second user information that can efficiently utilize the first user information by decomposing the first user information for each behavior type.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 17, 2014
    Publication date: September 3, 2015
    Inventors: Takashi TASHIRO, Kouji YAMADA, Daisaku MATSUMOTO, Shoichi IIZUKA, Makoto KATAIGI, Tsuyoshi MURATA