Patents by Inventor Suguru Suzuki

Suguru Suzuki 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: 20240089577
    Abstract: An imaging device includes: an imaging section that has a pixel region where a plurality of pixels is arrayed, a readout unit control section that controls readout units each set as a part of the pixel region, a readout control section that controls readout of pixel signals from the pixels included in the pixel region for each of the readout units set by the readout unit control section, a recognition section that has a machine learning model trained on the basis of leaning data, and a determination basis calculation section that calculates a determination basis of a recognition process performed by the recognition section. The recognition section performs the recognition process for each of the readout units. The determination basis calculation section calculates a determination basis for each of the readout units.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 6, 2021
    Publication date: March 14, 2024
    Applicant: Sony Group Corporation
    Inventors: Kenji SUZUKI, Suguru AOKI, Ryuta SATOH
  • Publication number: 20240078803
    Abstract: Information processing is implemented which analyzes the cause of the result of recognition using a machine learning model. An information processing apparatus includes: a recognition processing section configured to perform object recognition processing on sensor information from a sensor section by use of a trained machine learning model; a causal analysis section configured to analyze the cause of a result of recognition by the recognition processing section on the basis of the sensor information from the sensor section and the result of recognition by the reception processing section; and a control section configured to control an output of the sensor section. The sensor section is an image sensor. The causal analysis section determines the cause of a drop in characteristic of recognition by the recognition processing section on the basis of low-resolution high-bit-length image data for causal analysis.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 3, 2021
    Publication date: March 7, 2024
    Inventors: SUGURU AOKI, RYUTA SATOH, KENJI SUZUKI
  • Patent number: 11918337
    Abstract: The present invention is to perform appropriate noise reduction processing on an image having different signal levels or noise levels depending on an imaging condition or a reconstruction condition. A magnetic resonance imaging apparatus according to the invention includes: a measurement unit that receives a nuclear magnetic resonance signal generated in a subject by a receiving coil; an image reconstruction unit that processes the nuclear magnetic resonance signal received by the receiving coil and reconstructs an image of the subject; an SNR spatial distribution calculation unit that calculates spatial distribution of a signal-to-noise ratio of the image using spatial distribution of a noise level and spatial distribution of the signal of the image; and a noise reduction unit that reduces noise from the image based on the spatial distribution of the signal-to-noise ratio.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Healthcare Corporation
    Inventors: Toru Shirai, Suguru Yokosawa, Yukio Kaneko, Atsuro Suzuki, Tomoki Amemiya
  • Publication number: 20240069314
    Abstract: A concentrating lens includes an incident surface, an emitting surface, and a reflective surface. The incident surface includes a central portion and an outer portion. The incident surface is formed by an inner surface of a depression portion. The reflective surface surrounds the emitting surface. The reflective surface extends so as to go toward a first side as going toward an outside. A first light incident on the outer portion of the incident surface transmits through the outer portion, is reflected by the reflective surface, reflected by the incident surface, and incident on the emitting surface. A second light incident on the central portion of the incident surface transmits through the central portion and is incident on the emitting surface. The central portion of the incident surface reflects the first light reflected by the reflective surface, toward the emitting surface and transmits the second light.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 21, 2023
    Publication date: February 29, 2024
    Applicants: HAMAMATSU PHOTONICS K.K., Vrije Universiteit Brussel
    Inventors: Tomohiko SUZUKI, Suguru MATSUMOTO, Hirokazu MURAMATSU, Yunfeng NIE, Heidi OTTEVAERE, Hugo THIENPONT
  • Patent number: 10636071
    Abstract: A managing device (10) includes an editor (11) that causes a store to edit a product page for the store to sell a product, and to allocate a category name to the product page, a presenter (12) that searches a result page matching a query entered by a customer through the edited product page, and presents the result page to the customer, a register (13) that registers, when the product is purchased by the customer through the presented result page, a character string contained in the query with a page history in association with the result page, and a calculator (14) that calculates, based on a registration frequency with the page history for the category name allocated to the result page in association with the page history, a parameter indicating whether or not the allocation of the category name to the result page is suitable.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 28, 2020
    Assignee: Rakuten, Inc.
    Inventors: Yusuke Yamakawa, Yasushi Kontani, Suguru Suzuki
  • Patent number: 9473189
    Abstract: An electronic device includes a housing, frame, and a lock attachment mechanism. The housing includes a front cabinet, and back cabinet which has opening and is attached to the front cabinet. The frame is disposed in the inside of the housing. The lock attachment mechanism includes lock attachment portion and hook portion. The lock attachment portion includes a pull-out portion with a hole disposed therein, and a leg portion protruding from the pull-out portion. The hook portion includes fixing portions attached to frame, and grappling portions that hook the leg portion with the pull-out portion being pulled out, and that form a gap through which the pull-out portion can be pulled out. The device further includes back cabinet having a holder. The holder restricts a movable range of lock attachment portion and holds the leg portion such that lock attachment portion is disposed at a location which allows the pull-out portion to be pulled out through opening.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2016
    Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Masaki Shikanai, Kazunori Kouno, Junichi Hasegawa, Ryou Wakasa, Suguru Suzuki
  • Publication number: 20160225058
    Abstract: A managing device (10) includes an editor (11) that causes a store to edit a product page for the store to sell a product, and to allocate a category name to the product page, a presenter (12) that searches a result page matching a query entered by a customer through the edited product page, and presents the result page to the customer, a register (13) that registers, when the product is purchased by the customer through the presented result page, a character string contained in the query with a page history in association with the result page, and a calculator (14) that calculates, based on a registration frequency with the page history for the category name allocated to the result page in association with the page history, a parameter indicating whether or not the allocation of the category name to the result page is suitable.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 14, 2014
    Publication date: August 4, 2016
    Applicant: Rakuten, Inc.
    Inventors: Yusuke YAMAKAWA, Yasushi KONTANI, Suguru SUZUKI
  • Patent number: 9240024
    Abstract: To provide a comment submission support system capable of supporting submission of such a comment as to enable a person who has viewed the comment to grasp a purchase status of a product or service. A purchase status information acquisition unit (61) acquires purchase status information relating to a purchase status of a product or service that is sold by a sales method in which a unit price of the product or service purchased by a plurality of purchasers within a target period is determined based on a total number of purchases of the product or service purchased by the plurality of purchasers within the target period. A transmission unit (63) transmits link information for access to a communication service device and information based on the purchase status information to a terminal of a user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 18, 2011
    Date of Patent: January 19, 2016
    Assignee: Rakuten, Inc.
    Inventor: Suguru Suzuki
  • Publication number: 20150288403
    Abstract: An electronic device includes a housing, frame, and a lock attachment mechanism. The housing includes a front cabinet, and back cabinet which has opening and is attached to the front cabinet. The frame is disposed in the inside of the housing. The lock attachment mechanism includes lock attachment portion and hook portion. The lock attachment portion includes a pull-out portion with a hole disposed therein, and a leg portion protruding from the pull-out portion. The hook portion includes fixing portions attached to frame, and grappling portions that hook the leg portion with the pull-out portion being pulled out, and that form a gap through which the pull-out portion can be pulled out. The device further includes back cabinet having a holder. The holder restricts a movable range of lock attachment portion and holds the leg portion such that lock attachment portion is disposed at a location which allows the pull-out portion to be pulled out through opening.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 22, 2015
    Publication date: October 8, 2015
    Inventors: Masaki SHIKANAI, Kazunori KOUNO, Junichi HASEGAWA, Ryou WAKASA, Suguru SUZUKI
  • Patent number: 9130783
    Abstract: A first relay server transmits, to an access management apparatus that manages an access right to a second relay server, an access request with respect to the second relay server. The access management apparatus confirms that the access right to the second relay server is set in the first relay server, and then requests the second relay server to permit an access by the first relay server. In a case where the second relay server permits the access from the first relay server, the access management apparatus notifies the first relay server of such access permission. Based on the notice from the access management apparatus, the first relay server establishes a routing session with the second relay server. By using the routing session, the first relay server starts the communication with a general server that serves as a maintenance target.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 11, 2010
    Date of Patent: September 8, 2015
    Assignee: Murata Machinery, Ltd.
    Inventors: Yoshifumi Tanimoto, Kazuo Soumiya, Keisuke Nishimura, Suguru Suzuki
  • Publication number: 20130204680
    Abstract: To provide an advertisement system for enabling an efficient advertisement for an article or a service. An advertisement system (1) provides an advertisement for an article or a service during a sales period of the article or the service. A reference correspondence storage section (51) stores information on a reference correspondence between a time point in the sales period and a sales state of the article or the service. A sales state acquisition section (52) acquires information on the sales state of the article or the service at a certain time point in the sales period. A determination section (53) determines whether or not the certain time point and the sales state of the article or the service at the certain time point have the reference correspondence. An advertisement provision section (55) provides the advertisement based on a determination result by the determination section (53).
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 27, 2011
    Publication date: August 8, 2013
    Applicant: Rakuten, Inc.
    Inventor: Suguru Suzuki
  • Publication number: 20130144766
    Abstract: To provide a comment submission support system capable of supporting submission of such a comment as to enable a person who has viewed the comment to grasp a purchase status of a product or service. A purchase status information acquisition unit (61) acquires purchase status information relating to a purchase status of a product or service that is sold by a sales method in which a unit price of the product or service purchased by a plurality of purchasers within a target period is determined based on a total number of purchases of the product or service purchased by the plurality of purchasers within the target period. A transmission unit (63) transmits link information for access to a communication service device and information based on the purchase status information to a terminal of a user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 18, 2011
    Publication date: June 6, 2013
    Applicant: RAKUTEN, INC.
    Inventor: Suguru Suzuki
  • Patent number: 8304141
    Abstract: The present invention releases a method of producing a metal separator for a solid polymer fuel cell by stainless steel, titanium, or titanium alloy during which securing lower cost and mass producibility by using a material having a high workability to form a complicated shape by a high productivity, then using an inexpensive blast process to drive a conductive substance into the surface of the metal separator member, that is, provides a stainless steel, titanium, or titanium alloy solid polymer fuel cell separator comprised of stainless steel, titanium, or titanium alloy in the surface of which a low ion release conductive substance is buried, having an arithmetic mean roughness (Ra) of the separator surface of 0.5 to 5.0 ?m, having a 10-point mean roughness (Rz) of 3 to 20 ?m, having an average spacing of surface relief shapes (Sm) of 300 ?m or less, having values of a warp rate and twist rate of a separator of 0.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 20, 2010
    Date of Patent: November 6, 2012
    Assignee: Sintokogio Ltd.
    Inventors: Hiroshi Kihira, Michio Kaneko, Mitsuharu Yamagata, Koki Tanaka, Yoichi Ikematsu, Yoichi Matsuzaki, Kazuto Kawakami, Wataru Hisada, Suguru Suzuki
  • Publication number: 20120151059
    Abstract: A first relay server transmits, to an access management apparatus that manages an access right to a second relay server, an access request with respect to the second relay server. The access management apparatus confirms that the access right to the second relay server is set in the first relay server, and then requests the second relay server to permit an access by the first relay server. In a case where the second relay server permits the access from the first relay server, the access management apparatus notifies the first relay server of such access permission. Based on the notice from the access management apparatus, the first relay server establishes a routing session with the second relay server. By using the routing session, the first relay server starts the communication with a general server that serves as a maintenance target.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 11, 2010
    Publication date: June 14, 2012
    Applicant: MURATA MACHINERY, LTD.
    Inventors: Yoshifumi Tanimoto, Kazuo Soumiya, Keisuke Nishimura, Suguru Suzuki
  • Publication number: 20120099286
    Abstract: To provide an electronic apparatus that can prevent electronic components from being separated from a circuit board. The electronic apparatus 10 includes a circuit board 25, an electronic component 28 mounted on the circuit board 25 via solder balls 26, a cover member 30 mounted on the circuit board 25 so as to surround and cover the electronic component 28 and a convex portion 34 provided at the top plate portion 32 of the cover member 30. The convex portion 34 is deformable to a second state protruding on the circuit board 25 side from a first state protruding in the direction opposite to the circuit board 25 side. When the convex portion 34 is deformed in the second state, the convex portion 34 thus deformed can be made in contact with the top portion 28a of the electronic component 28.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 4, 2011
    Publication date: April 26, 2012
    Applicant: PANASONIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Suguru Suzuki, Tsutomu Abe
  • Publication number: 20110032537
    Abstract: The present invention releases a method of producing a metal separator for a solid polymer fuel cell by stainless steel, titanium, or titanium alloy during which securing lower cost and mass producibility by using a material having a high workability to form a complicated shape by a high productivity, then using an inexpensive blast process to drive a conductive substance into the surface of the metal separator member, that is, provides a stainless steel, titanium, or titanium alloy solid polymer fuel cell separator comprised of stainless steel, titanium, or titanium alloy in the surface of which a low ion release conductive substance is buried, having an arithmetic mean roughness (Ra) of the separator surface of 0.5 to 5.0 ?m, having a 10-point mean roughness (Rz) of 3 to 20 ?m, having an average spacing of surface relief shapes (Sm) of 300 ?m or less, having values of a warp rate and twist rate of a separator of 0.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 20, 2010
    Publication date: February 10, 2011
    Applicants: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATION, SINTOBRATOR, LTD.
    Inventors: Hiroshi Kihira, Michio Kaneko, Mitsuharu Yamagata, Koki Tanaka, Yoichi Ikematsu, Yoichi Matsuzaki, Kazuto Kawakami, Wataru Hisada, Suguru Suzuki
  • Patent number: 7807281
    Abstract: The present invention releases a method of producing a metal separator for a solid polymer fuel cell by stainless steel, titanium, or titanium alloy during which securing lower cost and mass producibility by using a material having a high workability to form a complicated shape by a high productivity, then using an inexpensive blast process to drive a conductive substance into the surface of the metal separator member, that is, provides a stainless steel, titanium, or titanium alloy solid polymer fuel cell separator comprised of stainless steel, titanium, or titanium alloy in the surface of which a low ion release conductive substance is buried, having an arithmetic mean roughness (Ra) of the separator surface of 0.5 to 5.0 ?m, having a 10-point mean roughness (Rz) of 3 to 20 ?m, having an average spacing of surface relief shapes (Sm) of 300 ?m or less, having values of a warp rate and twist rate of a separator of 0.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2006
    Date of Patent: October 5, 2010
    Assignees: Nippon Steel Corporation, Sintokogio Ltd.
    Inventors: Hiroshi Kihira, Michio Kaneko, Mitsuharu Yamagata, Koki Tanaka, Yoichi Ikematsu, Yoichi Matsuzaki, Kazuto Kawakami, Wataru Hisada, Suguru Suzuki
  • Publication number: 20090226785
    Abstract: The present invention releases a method of producing a metal separator for a solid polymer fuel cell by stainless steel, titanium, or titanium alloy during which securing lower cost and mass producibility by using a material having a high workability to form a complicated shape by a high productivity, then using an inexpensive blast process to drive a conductive substance into the surface of the metal separator member, that is, provides a stainless steel, titanium, or titanium alloy solid polymer fuel cell separator comprised of stainless steel, titanium, or titanium alloy in the surface of which a low ion release conductive substance is buried, having an arithmetic mean roughness (Ra) of the separator surface of 0.5 to 5.0 ?m, having a 10-point mean roughness (Rz) of 3 to 20 ?m, having an average spacing of surface relief shapes (Sm) of 300 ?m or less, having values of a warp rate and twist rate of a separator of 0.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 22, 2006
    Publication date: September 10, 2009
    Applicants: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATION, SINTOBRATOR, LTD.
    Inventors: Hiroshi Kihira, Michio Kaneko, Mitsuharu Yamagata, Koki Tanaka, Yoichi Ikematsu, Yoichi Matsuzaki, Kazuoto Kawakami, Wataru Hisada, Suguru Suzuki
  • Patent number: 7283854
    Abstract: The foldable portable terminal apparatus with a camera includes display sections on the front side (side A) and backside (side B) of the housing. When the housing (1) is open, both the person who is taking a picture using a camera (10, 8) and the person who gets his/her picture taken can check the captured image simultaneously using the display (11, 7). When the housing (1) is closed, the image taken can be checked with the display section on the front. Images taken in the past are stored in association with telephone numbers. When a call arrives from one of the persons, ringing tone sounds and at the same time the image of the sender is displayed on the display section (11, 7).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2002
    Date of Patent: October 16, 2007
    Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Noriyoshi Sato, Suguru Suzuki
  • Patent number: 6721420
    Abstract: The invention supports an antenna (9) retractably from bottom to top via an antenna receiver section (8) on the side of the second case body (2) so that it is possible to fold/unfold the first case body (1) irrespective of the direction of the antenna (9) and whether the antenna (9) is stretched or housed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 2000
    Date of Patent: April 13, 2004
    Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Tetsuya Kubo, Masao Kobayashi, Hidehiro Yanagibashi, Teruo Nanmoku, Suguru Suzuki, Naokazu Nagasawa