Patents by Inventor Shunsuke Sato

Shunsuke 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).

  • Publication number: 20240361726
    Abstract: An image forming device is provided with a housing formed with an opening, a cover configured to move between a closing position and an opening position, and a plurality of process cartridges including a first process cartridge and a second process cartridge. The first and second process cartridges respectively include first and second photosensitive drums configured to rotate about first and second drum axes both extending in a first direction. The first and second developing devices are configured to supply toner to the first and second photosensitive drums, respectively. The first and second supplying devices are formed with first and second supply ports through which the toner to be supplied to the first and second developing devices are provided, respectively. Both the first and second supplying ports are opened to outside the housing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 8, 2024
    Publication date: October 31, 2024
    Inventors: Shougo SATO, Kazuna TAGUCHI, Shunsuke ISHII
  • Publication number: 20240362907
    Abstract: An image identification system includes a first camera that includes a mask and an image sensor, the mask having a changeable mask pattern having a plurality of pinholes, and captures a computational image that is an image with blurring, an image identification unit that identifies the computational image using an identification model that uses the computational image captured by the first camera as input data and an identification result as output data, a mask identification unit that, after the mask pattern is changed, identifies the mask pattern that has been changed, and an identification model change unit that changes the identification model in accordance with the mask pattern identified by the mask identification unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 21, 2024
    Publication date: October 31, 2024
    Inventors: Satoshi SATO, Kunio NOBORI, Shunsuke YASUGI
  • Patent number: 12120446
    Abstract: An imaging device that has an image processing function and is capable of operating at high speed is provided. The imaging device has an additional function such as image processing, image data obtained by an imaging operation is binarized in a pixel unit, and a product-sum operation is performed using the binarized data. A memory circuit is provided in the pixel unit and retains a weight coefficient used for the product-sum operation. Thus, an arithmetic operation can be performed without the weight coefficient read from the outside every time, whereby power consumption can be reduced. Furthermore, a pixel circuit, a memory circuit, and the like and a product-sum operation circuit and the like are stacked, so that the lengths of wirings between the circuits can be reduced, and high-speed operation with low power consumption can be performed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2024
    Assignee: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Shunsuke Sato, Seiichi Yoneda, Yusuke Negoro, Takeya Hirose, Shunpei Yamazaki
  • Publication number: 20240337966
    Abstract: A toner container includes a toner storage unit, a container base portion including a discharge port provided on an outer surface of the container base portion, the outer surface extending in a first direction, the discharge port communicating with the toner storage unit, and a container shutter configured to be rotatable about a rotation axis extending in a direction along the first direction between a shielding position and an open position. The container base portion includes an engaging portion configured to be engaged with an engaged portion of the image forming apparatus so that rotation of the container base portion with respect to the image forming apparatus about the rotation axis is restricted. At least a part of the engaging portion of the container base portion is exposed from the container shutter in a case where the container shutter is in the shielding position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 21, 2024
    Publication date: October 10, 2024
    Inventors: Masaaki Sato, Hiroyuki Munetsugu, Isao Koishi, Hiroshi Takarada, Shohei Katsuya, Shunsuke Hijikata, Goshi Ozaki, Mitsuhiro Sato
  • Patent number: 12111168
    Abstract: A system for generating guidance information for a driver includes a processor and a storage device. The storage device stores guidance history of the driver. The processor generates a feature value based on match/mismatch of guidance types abstracted from the guidance history. The processor determines a guidance type for the driver on the basis of the feature value. The processor generates information for issuing guidance of the determined guidance type to the driver according to driver monitoring information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2024
    Assignee: LOGISTEED, LTD.
    Inventors: Daichi Ojiro, Shunsuke Minusa, Takeshi Tanaka, Hiroyuki Kuriyama, Kiminori Sato
  • Publication number: 20240329590
    Abstract: An image forming system includes an image forming apparatus including an AC-DC converter and a main board, and a sub board having a sub connector connectable with a main connector of the main board. When the sub board is not connected with the main board, a main DC-DC converter on the main board converts a DC voltage from the AC-DC converter into a first DC voltage and output the first DC voltage to a circuit element for image formation. When the sub board is connected with the main board, the AC-DC converter outputs the DC voltage to a sub DC-DC converter on the sub board via the main connector and the sub connector, and the sub DC-DC converter converts the DC voltage from the AC-DC converter into a second DC voltage and output the second DC voltage to the circuit element via the sub connector and the main connector.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 28, 2024
    Publication date: October 3, 2024
    Applicant: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yoshiyuki TSUJIMOTO, Nobuyuki TANAKA, Toshinori ARAKI, Seiya SATO, Shunsuke AIBA, Yutaro KUGE
  • Patent number: 12105462
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a rotatable image bearing member about a rotational axis extending in the axial direction, a charging member, an accommodating portion accommodating toner charged to a predetermined polarity; a developing member, a transfer portion, a static eliminating portion, and a collecting member. In the axial direction, when A is a eliminating width with which the eliminating portion discharges the surface of the image bearing member, B is an effective charging width with which the charging member charges the surface, and C is a collection contacting width with which the collecting member contacts the surface, the formula A<B<C is satisfied. In the axial direction, a surface potential of the surface in an area outside the effective charging width, inside the collection contacting width and in contact with the collecting member is a first potential larger than 0V in the same polarity direction as the predetermined polarity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 11, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2024
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Shunsuke Matsushita, Taichi Sato, Nobuo Oshima
  • Publication number: 20240320495
    Abstract: A third model training part trains a second neural network model by backpropagation using an error difference between: an identification result which a third neural network model including a trained first neural network model and the second neural network connected to each other outputs after receiving second sensing data and a first operation parameter, and correct identification information corresponding to the second sensing data. A second operation parameter acquisition part acquires a second operation parameter by updating the first operation parameter via the first neural network model by the backpropagation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 4, 2024
    Publication date: September 26, 2024
    Inventors: Satoshi Sato, Kunio Nobori, Shunsuke Yasugi
  • Publication number: 20240311635
    Abstract: The training system determines a plurality of sensor parameter candidates to be used for an operation of a sensor, generates a plurality of sensor data sets corresponding to each of the plurality of sensor parameter candidates and including sensor data to be obtained by the operation of the sensor and a plurality of pieces of correct answer identification information corresponding to each of the sensor data, generates a plurality of trained neural network model candidates corresponding to the plurality of sensor parameter candidates, calculates identification performance of the plurality of trained neural network model candidates, selects a pair of the trained neural network model candidate with the highest identification performance and the sensor parameter candidate corresponding to the trained neural network model candidate with the highest identification performance, and outputs the selected pair of the sensor parameter candidate and the trained neural network model candidate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 28, 2024
    Publication date: September 19, 2024
    Inventors: Kunio NOBORI, Satoshi SATO, Shunsuke YASUGI, Yusuke KATO
  • Publication number: 20240302784
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes an image bearing member, a developing member, a transfer unit configured to transfer a toner image, and a brush member configured to come into contact with a surface of the image bearing member in a contact portion. In a case where a ratio of an area in which the brush member is in contact with the image bearing member per unit area in the contact portion is defined as a contact area ratio, and a range in a rotation axis direction of the image bearing member in which the developing member is configured to supply toner to the developing portion is defined as an image area, the brush member includes a portion which is outside the image area in the rotation axis direction and in which the contact area ratio is higher than the contact area ratio in the image area.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 5, 2024
    Publication date: September 12, 2024
    Inventors: NOBUO OSHIMA, SHUNSUKE MATSUSHITA, TAICHI SATO
  • Publication number: 20240286620
    Abstract: An operation management aid system can access a first group of associated data in which biological measurement data pertaining to a biology of a driver is associated with task state data pertaining to a task state of the driver, and a second group of danger determination results indicating a degree of danger of driving by the driver, and wherein a processor executes: acquiring, the associated data pertaining to a specific task state of the driver from the first group, and acquiring a specific danger determination result group in the specific task state of the driver from the second group; and using an associated data group pertaining to the specific task state and a specific danger determination result group for the specific task state, to generate, for each of the specific task states, an estimation model that estimates an accident risk of the driver during the specific task state.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 26, 2022
    Publication date: August 29, 2024
    Applicant: LOGISTEED, LTD.
    Inventors: Nao ITO, Takeshi TANAKA, Shunsuke MINUSA, Hiroyuki KURIYAMA, Kiminori SATO
  • Patent number: 12068956
    Abstract: A communication device includes a storage unit that stores a conversion table; a receiving unit that receives a packet addressed to a user terminal from a server, and an address conversion unit that converts a destination address of the packet into a multicast address in accordance with the conversion table, adds, to the packet, an identification ID for identifying a group to which the user terminal belongs, and transmits the packet to which the identification ID is added.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2024
    Assignee: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Mitsuo Amasaka, Tomohiro Okada, Shunsuke Homma, Takayuki Nakamura, Takuya Sato
  • Patent number: 12066769
    Abstract: A toner container includes a toner storage unit, a container base portion including a discharge port provided on an outer surface of the container base portion, the outer surface extending in a first direction, the discharge port communicating with the toner storage unit, and a container shutter configured to be rotatable about a rotation axis extending in a direction along the first direction between a shielding position and an open position. The container base portion includes an engaging portion configured to be engaged with an engaged portion of the image forming apparatus so that rotation of the container base portion with respect to the image forming apparatus about the rotation axis is restricted. At least a part of the engaging portion of the container base portion is exposed from the container shutter in a case where the container shutter is in the shielding position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2024
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Masaaki Sato, Hiroyuki Munetsugu, Isao Koishi, Hiroshi Takarada, Shohei Katsuya, Shunsuke Hijikata, Goshi Ozaki, Mitsuhiro Sato
  • Publication number: 20240275665
    Abstract: A network management apparatus including a failure influence calculation unit that calculates, in a case where a communication failure occurs in a plurality of buildings in which communication facilities are accommodated and which correspond to upper layers of a network, an influence of the communication failure, the influence being an influence on other buildings corresponding to lower layers of the network by the occurred failure. Further, there is a priority calculation unit that calculates a priority of a possibility of the buildings in which the occurred failure is to be actually recovered among the buildings in which the failure occurs and which correspond to the upper layers, based on a degree of the communication failure continuously occurring in any building of the network under a condition in which the occurred failure and the influence calculated by the failure influence calculation unit are applied.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 7, 2021
    Publication date: August 15, 2024
    Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hiroaki MATSUBAYASHI, Masataka SATO, Kenji MURASE, Shunsuke KANAI, Kazuaki AKASHI, Manami OGAWA
  • Patent number: 12060008
    Abstract: A moving body includes: a main body section provided with a moving mechanism; a peripheral information detection sensor configured to detect an obstacle peripheral to the main body section; and a control section configured to cause the main body section to autonomously travel by controlling the moving mechanism based on information regarding the peripheral obstacle detected by the peripheral information detection sensor, and configured to cause information relating to the peripheral obstacle, in a direction of progress of the main body section, to be displayed in a surrounding area of the main body section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 11, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2024
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Hidekazu Sasaki, Daisuke Sato, Kazumi Serizawa, Shunsuke Mogi
  • Patent number: 12061437
    Abstract: An image forming device is provided with a housing formed with an opening, a cover configured to move between a closing position and an opening position, and a plurality of process cartridges including a first process cartridge and a second process cartridge. The first and second process cartridges respectively include first and second photosensitive drums configured to rotate about first and second drum axes both extending in a first direction. The first and second developing devices are configured to supply toner to the first and second photosensitive drums, respectively. The first and second supplying devices are formed with first and second supply ports through which the toner to be supplied to the first and second developing devices are provided, respectively. Both the first and second supplying ports are opened to outside the housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 2023
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2024
    Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Shougo Sato, Kazuna Taguchi, Shunsuke Ishii
  • Publication number: 20240267283
    Abstract: A network management device includes a priority calculation unit to apply, to a situation in which, when a failure in communication occurs in a plurality of buildings that houses a communication facility. When a condition in which the failure that occurred is assumed to be restored regarding a plurality of combinations of some buildings among the buildings in which the failure has occurred by performing restoration on the communication facility housed in the building is applied, the failure in communication continuously occurs in a building that houses a communication facility used for providing a predetermined type of communication service among the plurality of buildings, a policy that defines weighting corresponding to the situation and calculate, for each of the plurality of combinations, priority of a possible combination of buildings in which the failure that occurred is to be actually restored among the buildings in which the failure has occurred.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 10, 2021
    Publication date: August 8, 2024
    Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hiroaki MATSUBAYASHI, Shunsuke KANAI, Kenji MURASE, Masataka SATO, Kazuaki AKASHI, Manami OGAWA
  • Publication number: 20240191266
    Abstract: Provided is a method of producing a polyhydroxyalkanoate copolymer mixture. The method includes the step of culturing a microorganism that produces the polyhydroxyalkanoate copolymer mixture. The mixture contains: a fraction (I) containing a polyhydroxyalkanoate copolymer having a 3-hydroxybutyrate structural unit and a 3-hydroxyhexanoate structural unit, the fraction (I) having an average 3-hydroxyhexanoate unit ratio of 20 mol % or more; and a fraction (II) containing a polyhydroxyalkanoate having a 3-hydroxybutyrate structural unit, the fraction (II) having an average 3-hydroxyhexanoate unit ratio of 0 to 15 mol %. The polyhydroxyalkanoate copolymer mixture has an average 3-hydroxyhexanoate unit ratio of 22 mol % or less.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 8, 2021
    Publication date: June 13, 2024
    Applicant: KANEKA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hisashi ARIKAWA, Shunsuke SATO, Sho FURUTATE
  • Publication number: 20240112496
    Abstract: There is provided with an image processing apparatus. A determination unit determines, based on at least one of first face information and first posture information of a first person detected from an image, and second posture information of a second person different from the first person, whether a face of the first person is occluded by part of the first person or part of the second person. An authentication unit performs face authentication of the first person, in a case where the determination unit determines that the face of the first person is not occluded by part of the first person or part of the second person.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 20, 2023
    Publication date: April 4, 2024
    Inventor: Shunsuke SATO
  • Patent number: 11928293
    Abstract: An input device is characterized in that in a first stroke region in which an operation panel is pushed during a touch operation, a first reaction force that occurs by pushing the operation panel is generated by the first elastic portion. In a second stroke region including a stroke longer than in the first stroke region and a stroke for performing a push operation, a second reaction force that occurs by pushing the operation panel is a resultant force generated by a first elastic portion and the push switch. In the vicinity of a boundary between the first stroke region and the second stroke region, the amount of change in the first reaction force with respect to a stroke length is less than the amount of change in the second reaction force with respect to a stroke length.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 11, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: Alps Alpine Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Takashi Sato, Shunsuke Sato, Shinya Urayama