Patents by Inventor Takahiro Asai

Takahiro Asai 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: 10789671
    Abstract: An apparatus, system, and method for controlling display, each of which: obtains a first image and a second image, the second image being superimposed on the first image; controls a display to display an image of a predetermined area of the first image, such that the predetermined area of the first image matches a display area of the display; and in response to an instruction to start displaying the first image superimposed with the second image, controls the display to display the image of the predetermined area of the first image, such that the second image being superimposed on the first image is displayed within the predetermined area of the first image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 29, 2020
    Assignee: RICOH COMPANY, LTD.
    Inventors: Kazuhiro Yoshida, Keiichi Kawaguchi, Hiroshi Suitoh, Takahiro Asai
  • Publication number: 20200280669
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes: an image acquisition unit to obtain a plurality of images that have been captured under different exposure conditions; an acceptance unit to receive designation of an area in a first image, the first image being one of the plurality of images; a brightness characteristics acquisition unit to obtain a brightness characteristic value of the designated area in the first image; and a combining unit to: determine a combining condition used for combining the first image and a second image according to the brightness characteristic value, the second image being any one of the plurality of images other than the first image, and combine the first image and the second image based on the combining condition to correct brightness of the designated area for display.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 24, 2018
    Publication date: September 3, 2020
    Inventors: Keiichi KAWAGUCHI, Takahiro ASAI, Kazuhiro YOSHIDA
  • Patent number: 10739964
    Abstract: A communication terminal includes a display control unit configured to display, on a display unit, a function selecting screen that contains a first icon for receiving a selection of a first communication function and a second icon for receiving a selection of a second communication function. The first communication function is to provide communication using a signaling protocol for connecting to or disconnecting from a destination of communication and an encoding protocol for encapsulating communication data in IP packets. The second communication function is to provide communication using the same signaling protocol and a different encoding protocol. The communication terminal also includes a receiving unit configured to receive a selection of the first icon or the second icon; and a starting unit configured to start the first communication function and the second communication function in response to the selection of the first icon and the second icon, respectively.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 2, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 11, 2020
    Assignee: RICOH COMPANY, LIMITED
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Kanda, Takahiro Asai
  • Patent number: 10735477
    Abstract: A transmission system having a first transmission terminal and a second transmission terminal includes a first communications connector to connect first data communications between the first transmission terminal specified by first identification information and the second transmission terminal specified by second identification information, an identification information creating part to create fourth identification information of the second transmission terminal when receiving a request for connecting second data communications between the first transmission terminal and the second transmission terminal, and a second communications connector to acquire third identification information in association with the first identification information by referring to registration information registering the third identification information in association with the first identification information of the first transmission terminal, and connect the second data communications between the first transmission terminal specif
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 5, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 4, 2020
    Assignee: RICOH COMPANY, LTD.
    Inventors: Takashi Hasegawa, Takahiro Asai
  • Publication number: 20200238662
    Abstract: A laminated glass according to the present invention includes an outer glass sheet, an inner glass sheet that is arranged opposite to the outer glass sheet and has a smaller thickness than that of the outer glass sheet, and an interlayer sandwiched between the outer glass sheet and the inner glass sheet. A transmittance with respect to light having a wavelength of 850 to 950 nm is 30 to 80%. The outer glass sheet has a thickness of 1.8 to 2.3 mm. The inner glass sheet has a thickness of 0.6 to 2.0 mm. The interlayer includes a plurality of layers including at least a core layer. The core layer has a Young's modulus of 1 to 20 MPa at a frequency of 100 Hz and a temperature of 20° C., the Young's modulus being lower than the Young's modulus of the other layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 26, 2020
    Publication date: July 30, 2020
    Applicant: NIPPON SHEET GLASS COMPANY, LIMITED
    Inventors: Satoshi KANKI, Takahiro ASAI, Hisashi OGAWA, Hisashi ASAOKA
  • Publication number: 20200236277
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes: an obtainer to obtain a first image in a first projection, and a second image in a second projection, the second projection being different from the first projection; and a location information generator to generate location information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 18, 2018
    Publication date: July 23, 2020
    Inventors: Makoto ODAMAKI, Takahiro ASAI, Keiichi KAWAGUCHI, Hiroshi SUITOH, Kazuhiro YOSHIDA
  • Patent number: 10721099
    Abstract: There is provided a radio communication system provided with a first base station, a second base station that communicates with the first base station, and user equipment that communicates with the first base station, the radio communication system including a determiner that determines, based on a predetermined reference value, sharing between signal processing that is to be performed by the first base station and signal processing that is to be performed by the second base station; a first signal processor for the first base station to perform the signal processing in accordance with the sharing determined by the determiner; and a second signal processor for the second base station to perform the signal processing in accordance with the sharing determined by the determiner.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 21, 2020
    Assignee: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Takahiro Kubo, Takahiro Asai
  • Patent number: 10681271
    Abstract: An apparatus, system, and method are provided, each of which: obtains a first image in a first projection, and a second image in a second projection; obtains area specification information specifying an area in the second image; and associates location information to be used for superimposing the second image on the first image with the area specification information, or generates location information based on the area specification information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 9, 2020
    Assignee: RICOH COMPANY, LTD.
    Inventors: Hiroshi Suitoh, Takahiro Asai, Keiichi Kawaguchi, Kazuhiro Yoshida
  • Patent number: 10681735
    Abstract: Provided is a wireless environment evaluation method including a step 1 acquiring a transmission and reception history of wireless signals transmitted and received between the plurality of wireless stations and acquiring or estimating a number of wireless stations in transmission standby, based on the transmission and reception history; a step 2 calculating a normal reception rate S in a congesting situation in reception according to the number of wireless stations in transmission standby; a step 3 acquiring a normal reception rate S? of the wireless signals per a fixed channel use time from the transmission and reception history in the prescribed wireless station; and a step 4 determining a degree of the exposed situation in reception according to a ratio of the normal reception rate S? to the normal reception rate S.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 23, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 9, 2020
    Assignee: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Akiyoshi Inoki, Hirantha Abeysekera, Munehiro Matsui, Takeo Ichikawa, Masato Mizoguchi, Akira Kishida, Daisuke Koizumi, Akira Yamada, Yoshifumi Morihiro, Takahiro Asai
  • Patent number: 10638492
    Abstract: A radio communication system includes a first base station, a second base station, a third base station, and a user equipment, wherein the radio communication system includes a determination unit that determines allocation of signal processing that is commonly performed by the first base station and the second base station and signal processing that is performed by the third base station, based on a predetermined reference value; a first signal processor that performs the signal processing allocated to the first base station in accordance with the allocation determined by the determination unit; a second signal processor that performs the signal processing allocated to the second base station in accordance with the allocation determined by the determination unit; and a third signal processor that performs the signal processing allocated to the third base station in accordance with the allocation determined by the determination unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 28, 2020
    Assignee: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Takahiro Kubo, Takahiro Asai
  • Patent number: 10637124
    Abstract: The present invention provides a window glass near which an electronic device is disposed, the window glass including a glass plate, an antenna disposed on the glass plate, an electronic device that is disposed near the glass plate, and at least one linear canceller that is disposed on the glass plate and is configured to inhibit noise produced from the electronic device from being received by the antenna.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 28, 2020
    Assignee: NIPPON SHEET GLASS COMPANY, LIMITED
    Inventors: Hideshi Nagata, Takahiro Asai, Ryuichi Tashiro, Hiromasa Morishita
  • Patent number: 10638039
    Abstract: An apparatus for controlling image capturing, includes circuitry to control image capturing operation of each one of a first image capturing device and a second image capturing device, so as to cause the first image capturing device and the second image capturing device to cooperate with each other to perform linked image capturing, the first image capturing device capable of capturing an image with an angle of view wider than that of the second image capturing device. The circuitry controls one of the first image capturing device and the second image capturing device to start image capturing in response to starting of image capturing by other one of the first image capturing device and the second image capturing device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 28, 2020
    Assignee: RICOH COMPANY, LTD.
    Inventors: Kazuhiro Yoshida, Takahiro Asai, Keiichi Kawaguchi, Hiroshi Suitoh, Eichi Koizumi, Tomohiro Ikeda, Yoshiyuki Toda
  • Patent number: 10630736
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus that interconnects a plurality of transmission terminals supporting a plurality of communication platforms is provided. The information processing apparatus includes a state detection unit configured to detect a communication state relating to at least one of a communication between the transmission terminals and a communication between at least one of the transmission terminals and the information processing apparatus; a read unit configured to read from a storage unit communication platform determination information associating the plurality of communication platforms with the communication state; and a determination unit configured to determine that a communication platform of the plurality of communication platforms that is registered in the communication platform determination information in association with the communication state that has been detected by the state detection unit is to be used in the communication between the transmission terminals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 12, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 21, 2020
    Assignee: RICOH COMPANY, LTD.
    Inventors: Takeshi Homma, Tatsuya Nagase, Yoichiro Matsuno, Takahiro Asai
  • Publication number: 20200052366
    Abstract: The present invention provides a window glass near which an electronic device is disposed, the window glass including a glass plate, an antenna disposed on the glass plate, an electronic device that is disposed near the glass plate, and at least one linear canceller that is disposed on the glass plate and is configured to inhibit noise produced from the electronic device from being received by the antenna.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 19, 2017
    Publication date: February 13, 2020
    Applicant: NIPPON SHEET GLASS COMPANY, LIMITED
    Inventors: Hideshi NAGATA, Takahiro ASAI, Ryuichi TASHIRO, Hiromasa MORISHITA
  • Publication number: 20200053774
    Abstract: An AP and UE, which perform access control using CSMA/CA, perform a step judging an exposed level in transmission of the AP based on a congesting level in transmission, which is caused by a wireless station in defer transmission that is in a neighborhood of the AP; a step judging an exposed level in reception of the UE based on a congesting level in reception, which is caused by a wireless station in defer transmission that is in a neighborhood of the UE; and a step performing control which changes a channel of the AP, when the exposed level in transmission cannot satisfy expected quality of the AP, and performing control which changes a connected AP of the UE, or control which changes to other network, when the exposed level in transmission or in reception cannot satisfy required quality of the UE or the expected quality of the AP.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 28, 2018
    Publication date: February 13, 2020
    Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Akiyoshi INOKI, Hirantha ABEYSEKERA, Munehiro MATSUI, Kenichi KAWAMURA, Yasushi TAKATORI, Takeo ICHIKAWA, Akira KISHIDA, Yoshifumi MORIHIRO, Takahiro ASAI
  • Publication number: 20200047470
    Abstract: A hood silencer includes a back skin layer, a thin film layer, a first shape-retaining layer, a sound-absorbing layer, a second shape-retaining layer, an aeration-suppressing layer, and a front skin layer. The aeration-suppressing layer suppresses oozing of a binder resin out of the surface of the front skin layer from the second shape-retaining layer during the heat forming of the second shape-retaining layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 6, 2018
    Publication date: February 13, 2020
    Applicant: HOWA TEXTILE INDUSTRY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Takahiro ASAI, Akihiro SHIRAI
  • Publication number: 20200045265
    Abstract: A transmission terminal transmits video data and display data of a screen shared with another transmission terminal to the other transmission terminal via a predetermined relay apparatus. The transmission terminal includes a storage unit that stores relay apparatus information of the relay apparatus to which the transmission terminal transmits the video data; a receive unit that receives the display data from an external input apparatus connected to the transmission terminal; and a transmitting unit that transmits the display data received by the receive unit to the relay apparatus indicated by the relay apparatus information stored in the storage unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 1, 2019
    Publication date: February 6, 2020
    Inventors: Kenji TANAKA, Alain Volmat, Masaki Nakagawa, Takahiro Asai
  • Publication number: 20190391778
    Abstract: An apparatus, system, and method for controlling a display, each of which: controls the display to display an image of a predetermined area of a first image, the first image being superimposed with a second image; determines whether the second image is viewed by a user; and switches a display of the second image between a first display in which the second image is displayed as a still image and a second display in which the second image is displayed as a moving image, based on a determination result indicating whether the second image is viewed by the user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 6, 2019
    Publication date: December 26, 2019
    Applicant: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Takahiro ASAI, Keiichi KAWAGUCHI, Makoto TORIKOSHI
  • Publication number: 20190387467
    Abstract: In user terminal 10 of the present invention, connection-cell-selection controlling section 110 measures reception quality of signals respectively transmitted from cells and received by antenna section 108, corrects the reception quality of each of the cells based on a positional relationship between each of the cells and user terminal 10 and based on a moving direction of user terminal 10, and determines a connection cell for user terminal 10 (base station in communication with user terminal 10) based on the corrected reception quality. This configuration lowers a cell switching frequency, while preventing degradation of throughput and the like in a future radio communication system (multilayer cellular radio network).
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 18, 2017
    Publication date: December 19, 2019
    Applicant: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Akira Kishida, Yoshifumi Morihiro, Takahiro Asai, Yukihiko Okumura
  • Patent number: 10484917
    Abstract: A communication apparatus in a wireless communication system in which a plurality of cells with different bands are overlaid and which includes the communication apparatus and a user equipment include: an acquisition unit configured to acquire communication quality of the user equipment in a first cell in which the user equipment resides; a determination unit configured to determine whether to perform the switch to a second cell overlaid with the first cell based on the communication quality of the user equipment; and an instruction unit configured to instruct the user equipment to perform the switch to the second cell when the switch to the second cell overlaid with the first cell is determined.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 15, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2019
    Assignee: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Yoshifumi Morihiro, Takahiro Asai