Patents by Inventor Takafumi Fujita

Takafumi Fujita 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).

  • Patent number: 11947249
    Abstract: A light emitting apparatus according to the present disclosure includes a first layer made of a semiconductor monocrystal, a second layer provided at the first layer and having a crystal orientation not continuous with the crystal orientation of the first layer, and a columnar crystal structure including a light emitting layer and extending from the second layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takafumi Noda, Hideki Hahiro, Tetsuji Fujita, Atsushi Ito, Koichiro Akasaka, Yasutaka Imai, Michifumi Nagawa
  • Patent number: 11809320
    Abstract: A memory system is configured to be connected to a host. The memory system includes a non-volatile first memory, a second memory, and a controller configured to manage cache data stored in the second memory in units of a segment such that each segment includes a plurality of pieces of the cache data. Each of the plurality of pieces of the cache data includes mapping information which correlates a logical address value indicating a location in a logical address space provided by the memory system to the host with a location in the first memory. At least two pieces of the cache data are arranged in one segment without a space therebetween.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2023
    Assignee: Kioxia Corporation
    Inventors: Fuyuki Ichiba, Takafumi Fujita
  • Patent number: 11766690
    Abstract: A device for coating a cylinder includes a coating head capable of being inserted into the cylinder, a plurality of coating guns which are provided on the coating head and are configured to discharge a coating material in a direction intersecting a longitudinal direction of the coating head, and a rotating cover which, when the coating material is discharged from one of a first coating gun and a second coating gun among the plurality of coating guns, is configured to cover the other of the first coating gun and the second coating gun, in which the plurality of coating guns are connected to coating material supply devices of different systems, respectively.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 26, 2023
    Assignee: IHI Corporation
    Inventors: Michiko Enda, Takafumi Fujita, Yuuichi Miura, Miki Shinagawa
  • Patent number: 11765640
    Abstract: A wireless communication system includes three or more wireless communication apparatuses and a control apparatus, wherein the control apparatus includes a setting unit configured to determine, for each of a plurality of paths from a first one of the wireless communication apparatuses to a second one of the wireless communication apparatuses, a total product value being a result of computing a total product of arrival probabilities of radio frames of respective radio sections constituting the path and a search unit configured to select a path, among the plurality of paths, with the number of transmission times of the radio frame for each of the paths being a predetermined number of times or smaller and the total product value being a predetermined threshold or more.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2023
    Assignee: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yohei Katayama, Takafumi Fujita, Hideya So, Kento Yoshizawa
  • Patent number: 11582766
    Abstract: A transmitter includes a first measurement unit configured to measure a radio wave environment between the transmitter and a receiver for an individual wireless resource, a transmission control unit configured to determine the wireless resource and a parameter on a basis of the measurement result of the radio wave environment, an encoder unit configured to perform distributed coding of the bit sequence on a basis of the parameter, and a transmission unit configured to transmit information representing the determined wireless resource and the distributed coded bit sequence, by using the determined wireless resource.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2023
    Assignee: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hideya So, Yohei Katayama, Kento Yoshizawa, Takafumi Fujita
  • Publication number: 20230043727
    Abstract: A memory system is configured to be connected to a host. The memory system includes a non-volatile first memory, a second memory, and a controller configured to manage cache data stored in the second memory in units of a segment such that each segment includes a plurality of pieces of the cache data. Each of the plurality of pieces of the cache data includes mapping information which correlates a logical address value indicating a location in a logical address space provided by the memory system to the host with a location in the first memory. At least two pieces of the cache data are arranged in one segment without a space therebetween.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 24, 2022
    Publication date: February 9, 2023
    Inventors: Fuyuki ICHIBA, Takafumi FUJITA
  • Patent number: 11528726
    Abstract: A wireless communication system includes a plurality of wireless communication apparatuses that transmit a wireless frame to a terminal, and a control apparatus, and the wireless communication apparatus transmits information representing the number of retransmissions of the wireless frame to the control apparatus, and the control apparatus acquires the information representing the number of retransmissions of the wireless frame, selects the wireless communication apparatus in accordance with the number of retransmissions, and causes the selected wireless communication apparatus to start transmitting the wireless frame.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2022
    Assignee: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yohei Katayama, Takafumi Fujita, Kento Yoshizawa, Hideya So
  • Patent number: 11498154
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a linear friction joining device which includes: a pressing device for pressing a second member onto a first member in a pressing direction; a vibrator for relatively vibrating the first member and the second member; a controller which is configured to bring the second member into contact with the first member by a position control, which depends on a measurement result of position sensors, to change the position control to a load control, which depends on a measurement result of load sensors, and to increase a pressing load toward a joining load; and a joining load reaching time adjuster which is configured to adjust a length of a joining load reaching time which is between the time when the position control is changed to the load control and the time when the pressing load reaches the joining load.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 15, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2022
    Assignee: IHI Corporation
    Inventors: Takafumi Fujita, Yasushi Dodo, Kazunori Tokue
  • Publication number: 20220357155
    Abstract: The present technology relates to a distance measuring device, a distance measuring method, a program, an electronic apparatus, a learning model generating method, a manufacturing method, and a depth map generating method that are designed to enable distance measurement with higher precision. The distance measuring device includes: a first determination unit that determines whether or not the difference in depth value between a first pixel in a depth map and a second pixel adjacent to the first pixel is larger than a first threshold; and a second determination unit that determines whether or not the difference in confidence between the first pixel and the second pixel is larger than a second threshold, in a case where the first determination unit determines that the difference in distance between the first pixel and the second pixel is larger than the first threshold.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 25, 2020
    Publication date: November 10, 2022
    Inventors: Takafumi Fujita, Hiroaki Ono, Hironaga Sano, Tomoharu Mukasa
  • Patent number: 11494123
    Abstract: A memory system includes a non-volatile memory, and a controller configured to issue a first command requesting a first operation to the non-volatile memory and a second command to the non-volatile memory. The second command may be for requesting a duration time of the first operation or for requesting an execution stage of the first operation. In accordance with the information returned by the non-volatile memory in response to the second command, the controller issues a third command requesting a completion status of the first operation to the non-volatile memory. The first operation may be a data read operation, a data write operation, or a data erase operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2022
    Assignee: KIOXIA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Katsuya Kanamori, Takafumi Fujita
  • Publication number: 20220260690
    Abstract: Distance measuring is disclosed. In one example, a distance measuring device includes a ToF (time of flight) sensor, a distance calculation unit, a mode switching unit, and an estimation unit. The ToF sensor has a sensor clock that controls a photographing timing. The sensor clock is a device-specific clock different from a light source clock that controls a modulation frequency of a light emission pulse of a light source. The ToF sensor performs photographing by reflecting, on a surface of an object, emission light of the light source that emits pulse light. The distance calculation unit calculates a distance to the object based on image data captured by the ToF sensor. The estimation unit estimates the modulation frequency of the light source generated from the light source clock based on pieces of image data captured in an operation mode switched by the mode switching unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 12, 2020
    Publication date: August 18, 2022
    Inventors: Ying Yang, Kensei Jo, Takafumi Fujita, Nana Matsumoto
  • Publication number: 20220189303
    Abstract: By causing a vehicle to travel while defining the interval between a point A and a point B as a first driver-operated travel zone, the interval between the point B and a point C as an autonomous driving travel zone, and the interval between the point C and a point D as a second driver-operated travel zone, this transport management device manages the manner of transporting cargo, or the like, from the point A to the point D. The transport management device: predicts a traffic situation of the autonomous driving travel zone; creates a travel plan of the vehicle; and on the basis of the travel plan of the vehicle, creates a driving plan of a first driver who drives in the first driver-operated travel zone and a driving plan of a second driver who drives in the second driver-operated travel zone.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 24, 2020
    Publication date: June 16, 2022
    Inventors: Takafumi FUJITA, Masaki UCHIDA, Ryo KURANISHI, Takatoshi HIDA
  • Publication number: 20220189304
    Abstract: A transport management device and a transport management method generate a travel plan and a driving plan. The transport management device manages a transport system in which goods and the like are transported by causing, on the basis of the travel plan, a vehicle to travel autonomously and without crew in a crewless autonomous travel section leading to a boarding point for a driver, and then having the driver drive the vehicle from the boarding point on the basis of the driving plan. The transport management device predicts a state of traffic in the crewless autonomous travel section, creates the travel plan and the driving plan, and changes the travel plan and the driving plan of the vehicle traveling in the crewless autonomous travel section in accordance with a traffic event occurring in the crewless autonomous travel section.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 26, 2020
    Publication date: June 16, 2022
    Inventors: Takafumi FUJITA, Masaki UCHIDA, Ryo KURANISHI, Takatoshi HIDA
  • Publication number: 20220187081
    Abstract: Provided are a transport management device and transport management method serving to change a travel plan of a vehicle in accordance with a malfunction occurring with the vehicle. This transport management device manages a transport system for carrying out transport of cargo, or the like, by causing a vehicle to travel by autonomous driving to a destination on the basis of a travel plan. The transport management device determines whether to change the destination of the vehicle in accordance with an event occurring with the vehicle during travel by autonomous driving, and changes the destination if it is determined that the destination should be changed or does not change the destination if it is determined that the destination should not be changed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 24, 2020
    Publication date: June 16, 2022
    Inventors: Takafumi FUJITA, Masaki UCHIDA, Ryo KURANISHI, Takatoshi HIDA
  • Patent number: 11327371
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a relay substrate provided between a liquid crystal panel and a controller includes first connectors. The controller includes a microcomputer and second connectors. The relay substrate and the controller include a line pattern to form a test circuit which feeds a test signal back to an input pin of the microcomputer from an output pin of the microcomputer, and which transfers the test signal between the controller and the relay substrate in each pair of the first connectors and the second connectors. The microcomputer outputs the test signal from the output pin, and determines a connecting state of the cables that connect the relay substrate and the controller based on a state of feedback of the test signal to the input pin.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2022
    Assignee: JAPAN DISPLAY INC.
    Inventors: Takafumi Fujita, Seiji Furumoto
  • Publication number: 20220007482
    Abstract: By making power consumption required for light projection efficient regarding an optical distance measurement system, low power consumption is devised. A floodlight control apparatus according to the present technology includes: a light receiving part which is provided with a plurality of light receiving elements which receives reflected light of light projected by a light projecting part; an object detecting part which performs object detection targeted within a distance measurable range which is a range where the light receiving part is operable to receive the reflected light; and a control part which performs control of differentiating a light projection amount provided by the light projecting part in accordance with detection presence/absence of an object performed by the object detecting part and in a case where the object detecting part detects the object, differentiating a projection mode of the light projecting part between a detection region and a non-detection region of the object.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 8, 2019
    Publication date: January 6, 2022
    Inventors: YOHEI OGURA, KENSEI JO, KENICHIRO OI, TAKAFUMI FUJITA
  • Publication number: 20210282154
    Abstract: A transmitter includes a first measurement unit configured to measure a radio wave environment between the transmitter and a receiver for an individual wireless resource, a transmission control unit configured to determine the wireless resource and a parameter on a basis of the measurement result of the radio wave environment, an encoder unit configured to perform distributed coding of the bit sequence on a basis of the parameter, and a transmission unit configured to transmit information representing the determined wireless resource and the distributed coded bit sequence, by using the determined wireless resource.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 28, 2019
    Publication date: September 9, 2021
    Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hideya SO, Yohei KATAYAMA, Kento YOSHIZAWA, Takafumi FUJITA
  • Publication number: 20210274421
    Abstract: A wireless communication system includes three or more wireless communication apparatuses and a control apparatus, wherein the control apparatus includes a setting unit configured to determine, for each of a plurality of paths from a first one of the wireless communication apparatuses to a second one of the wireless communication apparatuses, a total product value being a result of computing a total product of arrival probabilities of radio frames of respective radio sections constituting the path and a search unit configured to select a path, among the plurality of paths, with the number of transmission times of the radio frame for each of the paths being a predetermined number of times or smaller and the total product value being a predetermined threshold or more.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 25, 2019
    Publication date: September 2, 2021
    Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yohei KATAYAMA, Takafumi FUJITA, Hideya SO, Kento YOSHIZAWA
  • Publication number: 20210235470
    Abstract: A wireless communication system includes a plurality of wireless communication apparatuses that transmit a wireless frame to a terminal, and a control apparatus, and the wireless communication apparatus transmits information representing the number of retransmissions of the wireless frame to the control apparatus, and the control apparatus acquires the information representing the number of retransmissions of the wireless frame, selects the wireless communication apparatus in accordance with the number of retransmissions, and causes the selected wireless communication apparatus to start transmitting the wireless frame.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 21, 2019
    Publication date: July 29, 2021
    Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yohei KATAYAMA, Takafumi FUJITA, Kento YOSHIZAWA, Hideya SO
  • Publication number: 20210216248
    Abstract: A memory system includes a non-volatile memory, and a controller configured to issue a first command requesting a first operation to the non-volatile memory and a second command to the non-volatile memory. The second command may be for requesting a duration time of the first operation or for requesting an execution stage of the first operation. In accordance with the information returned by the non-volatile memory in response to the second command, the controller issues a third command requesting a completion status of the first operation to the non-volatile memory. The first operation may be a data read operation, a data write operation, or a data erase operation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 15, 2021
    Publication date: July 15, 2021
    Inventors: Katsuya KANAMORI, Takafumi FUJITA