Patents by Inventor Takashi Aoki

Takashi Aoki 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: 20250097394
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes an acquisition unit that acquires a free viewpoint video based on at least one image among a plurality of images obtained by imaging an imaging region by a plurality of imaging apparatuses, and a reference video, the free viewpoint video indicating the imaging region in a case in which the imaging region is observed from a specific viewpoint position and a specific visual line direction, and an execution unit that executes a specific process in a case in which a difference degree between the free viewpoint video acquired by the acquisition unit and the reference video acquired by the acquisition unit is equal to or more than a first threshold value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 2, 2024
    Publication date: March 20, 2025
    Inventors: Kazunori TAMURA, Fuminori IRIE, Takashi AOKI, Masahiko MIYATA
  • Patent number: 12254267
    Abstract: The present invention is an apparatus for creating an index for conducting a search on a database based on a resource including a text sentence.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 18, 2025
    Assignee: Xcoo, Inc.
    Inventors: Kunihiro Nishimura, Takashi Aoki, Toshiki Takeuchi, Koichi Akabe
  • Patent number: 12227239
    Abstract: A steering control device is configured to control steering of a vehicle by a steering actuator. The steering control includes a trajectory following control unit and an angle following control unit. The trajectory following control unit is configured to adjust a target angle of a steering angle given to a tire of the vehicle by a trajectory following control that causes a state quantity containing a position of the vehicle to follow a target trajectory. The angle following control unit is configured to adjust an instruction value that is given to the steering actuator and corresponds to an actual angle of the steering angle by an angle following control that causes the actual angle to follow the target angle. The trajectory following control unit is configured to forcibly set the target angle to be a fixed angle in a stop control period.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2025
    Assignee: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventor: Takashi Aoki
  • Publication number: 20250046109
    Abstract: The present invention provides a document display assistance system which estimates and highlights significant words in a document of a specific field. The system comprises: a database in which selection-target words and non-selection-target words are registered; a learned word-selection model having been applied with machine learning for estimating whether a word is a selection-target word; a text pre-processing unit which segments words from an accepted display-target document; a word classification unit which classifies, based on the database, the word into any of a selection-target word, a non-selection-target word, and an indeterminate word; a text post-processing unit which generates output data by imparting a predetermined attribute to a predetermined word in the display-target document; and an output unit which outputs the output data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 21, 2024
    Publication date: February 6, 2025
    Applicant: Xcoo, Inc.
    Inventors: Koichi AKABE, Toshiki TAKEUCHI, Takashi AOKI, Kunihiro NISHIMURA
  • Patent number: 12200181
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes an acquisition unit that acquires a free viewpoint video based on at least one image among a plurality of images obtained by imaging an imaging region by a plurality of imaging apparatuses, and a reference video, the free viewpoint video indicating the imaging region in a case in which the imaging region is observed from a specific viewpoint position and a specific visual line direction, and an execution unit that executes a specific process in a case in which a difference degree between the free viewpoint video acquired by the acquisition unit and the reference video acquired by the acquisition unit is equal to or more than a first threshold value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 17, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2025
    Assignee: FUJIFILM CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kazunori Tamura, Fuminori Irie, Takashi Aoki, Masahiko Miyata
  • Publication number: 20250001291
    Abstract: A portal server system manages a plurality of cyberspaces in which users can participate. Each cyberspace is associated with a participation disallowance condition including at least a condition that participation exceeding a given allowable number of participants is not allowed. The portal server system includes a participation possibility determination section that determines whether a user can participate in a cyberspace based on the participation disallowance condition associated with the cyberspace, and a participation allowed state setting section that, when a given specific user participating in a first cyberspace among the cyberspaces leaves the first cyberspace, sets the specific user to a participation allowed state in which the participation possibility determination section allows the specific user to participate in the first cyberspace.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 16, 2024
    Publication date: January 2, 2025
    Applicant: BANDAI NAMCO ENTERTAINMENT INC.
    Inventors: Takayoshi Oi, Koji Asuna, Kiyoshi Minami, Kenichi Ogura, Akio Onda, Takashi Aoki, Shintaro Murai
  • Publication number: 20250005876
    Abstract: A virtual space control system sets a virtual space in a first virtual space, and expresses an embodiment space embodying a second virtual space in the virtual space. Virtual objects embodying embodiment target objects in the second virtual space are disposed in the virtual space. A disposition configuration of the virtual objects in the first virtual space is aligned with a disposition configuration of the embodiment target objects in the second virtual space, which are associated with the virtual objects. captured images serving as sources of embodiment images that undergo texture mapping onto the virtual objects are generated in a sub-server system. The embodiment images are created by causing the captured images to undergo calculation amount reduction processing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 16, 2024
    Publication date: January 2, 2025
    Applicant: BANDAI NAMCO ENTERTAINMENT INC.
    Inventors: Takayoshi OI, Koji ASUNA, Kiyoshi MINAMI, Kenichi OGURA, Akio ONDA, Takashi AOKI, Shintaro MURAI
  • Publication number: 20250001293
    Abstract: A computer system controls in parallel multiple virtual spaces that are set so as to have a common world view and that enables users to change their participation virtual spaces, manages occurrence incidents, which are incidents that occur or probably occur in each virtual space, and manages a target user's participation record for the first virtual space. Moreover, the computer system manages a restriction on target user's participation in a virtual space other than the first virtual space, based on (a) the difference between the first occurrence incident, which is an occurrence incident in the first virtual space, and an occurrence incident in the virtual space other than the first virtual space, and (b) the target user's participation record for the first virtual space.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 16, 2024
    Publication date: January 2, 2025
    Applicant: BANDAI NAMCO ENTERTAINMENT INC.
    Inventors: Takayoshi OI, Koji ASUNA, Kiyoshi MINAMI, Kenichi OGURA, Akio ONDA, Takashi AOKI, Shintaro MURAI
  • Publication number: 20240428506
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a processor which acquires reference imaging device information corresponding to a position, an imaging direction, and an angle of view of a reference imaging device, and on a condition that an instruction to start generating a virtual viewpoint image based on a plurality of images obtained by imaging an imaging region with a plurality of imaging devices is given, generates the virtual viewpoint image by using the reference imaging device information as a reference, acquires image quality information indicating an image quality of a first reference image obtained by imaging the imaging region with the reference imaging device, and outputs a superimposed image in which the virtual viewpoint image is superimposed on a second reference image obtained by imaging the imaging region with the reference imaging device, on a condition that the instruction is given.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 5, 2024
    Publication date: December 26, 2024
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Kazunori TAMURA, Takashi AOKI, Fuminori IRIE, Masahiko MIYATA, Yasunori MURAKAMI
  • Patent number: 12154363
    Abstract: The present invention provides a document display assistance system which estimates and highlights significant words in a document of a specific field. The system comprises: a database in which selection-target words and non-selection-target words are registered; a learned word-selection model having been applied with machine learning for estimating whether a word is a selection-target word; a text pre-processing unit which segments words from an accepted display-target document; a word classification unit which classifies, based on the database, the word into any of a selection-target word, a non-selection-target word, and an indeterminate word; a text post-processing unit which generates output data by imparting a predetermined attribute to a predetermined word in the display-target document; and an output unit which outputs the output data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2024
    Assignee: Xcoo, Inc.
    Inventors: Koichi Akabe, Toshiki Takeuchi, Takashi Aoki, Kunihiro Nishimura
  • Patent number: 12145365
    Abstract: A liquid ejecting head includes a pressure chamber substrate in which wall surface portions of a pressure chamber are formed, an diaphragm that forms a top surface portion of the pressure chamber, a piezoelectric element that is provided on the diaphragm, and a communication plate, in which an upper surface of the communication plate is bonded to a lower surface of the pressure chamber substrate by an adhesive, the upper surface of the communication plate is provided with a supply opening and a discharge opening, the pressure chamber is longitudinal in an X direction, acute angle portions are formed by the wall surface portions that mutually form an acute angle at each end in the X direction of a bottom surface portion of the pressure chamber, and the acute angle portions do not overlap with the supply opening and the discharge opening in a laminating direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2024
    Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takashi Aoki, Shohei Mizuta
  • Patent number: 12143674
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a processor and a memory connected to or incorporated in the processor. The processor acquires viewpoint information regarding at least one virtual viewpoint, and presents quality information indicating a quality of a virtual viewpoint video that is creatable with the viewpoint information as a reference, on the basis of a plurality of motion picture data obtained by being captured by a plurality of imaging devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2024
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Fuminori Irie, Takashi Aoki, Kazunori Tamura, Masahiko Miyata, Yasunori Murakami
  • Publication number: 20240365078
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus acquires a plurality of pieces of sound information, sound collection device position information, and target subject position information. In addition, the information processing apparatus specifies a target sound of a region corresponding to a position of a target subject from the plurality of pieces of sound information based on the acquired sound collection device position information and the acquired target subject position information. Further, the information processing apparatus generates target subject emphasis sound information indicating a sound including a target subject emphasis sound in which the specified target sound is emphasized more than a sound emitted from a region different from the region corresponding to the position of the target subject indicated by the acquired target subject position information in a case in which a virtual viewpoint video is generated.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 4, 2024
    Publication date: October 31, 2024
    Inventors: Takashi AOKI, Fuminori IRIE, Kazunori TAMURA, Masahiko MIYATA, Yasunori MURAKAMI
  • Publication number: 20240338039
    Abstract: An autonomous travelling robot switches between a straight running and turning according to a rotation speed difference between a pair of drive wheels driven by individual electric actuators supplied electric power from a battery, along a target trajectory. The autonomous travelling robot is controlled by monitoring a running restriction that includes an electric power restriction of the battery; and restricting a maximum turning speed, which is a maximum speed when turning with a minimum turning radius, to be smaller than a maximum straight-running speed, which is a maximum speed when straight-running, according to an establishment of a condition in the running restriction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 18, 2024
    Publication date: October 10, 2024
    Inventor: TAKASHI AOKI
  • Publication number: 20240335860
    Abstract: According to an embodiment, the sorting apparatus includes a camera, a recognition unit, and a control unit. The camera captures an article image. The control unit provides an instruction, according to an extraction process of extracting a non-sorting-target feature from the article image captured by the camera and a recognition process of recognizing sorting information on the article image, for sorting an article from which the non-sorting-target feature is extracted through the extraction process to a specific sorting location, and sorting an article from which the non-sorting-target feature is not extracted to a sorting location based on the sorting information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 13, 2024
    Publication date: October 10, 2024
    Applicants: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA, TOSHIBA INFRASTRUCTURE SYSTEMS & SOLUTIONS CORPORATION
    Inventors: lppei Takaishi, Takuma Akagi, Takashi Aoki, Yasuhiro Ohkawa
  • Patent number: 12112425
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a processor and a memory connected to or incorporated in the processor. The processor acquires reference imaging device information corresponding to a position, an imaging direction, and an angle of view of a reference imaging device, and generates the virtual viewpoint image by using the reference imaging device information as a reference, on a condition that an instruction to start generating a virtual viewpoint image based on a plurality of images obtained by imaging an imaging region with a plurality of imaging devices is given.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2024
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Kazunori Tamura, Takashi Aoki, Fuminori Irie, Masahiko Miyata, Yasunori Murakami
  • Publication number: 20240319606
    Abstract: The production method of a substrate with a patterned film according to the present disclosure includes: a cleaning step of performing UV/ozone cleaning or oxygen plasma cleaning on a substrate with a patterned film including a substrate and a patterned film on the substrate, to obtain a first substrate with a patterned film; and a heating step of heating the first substrate with a patterned film to obtain a second substrate with a patterned film, wherein the patterned film of the first substrate with a patterned film has a contact angle decreased in the cleaning step, and the patterned film of the second substrate with a patterned film has a contact angle recovered in the heating step.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 29, 2024
    Publication date: September 26, 2024
    Inventors: Yuzuru KANEKO, Takashi AOKI, Yusuke NOMURA, Keiko SASAKI, Asuka SANO
  • Publication number: 20240319607
    Abstract: The production method of a substrate with a patterned film according to the present disclosure includes: a cleaning step of performing UV/ozone cleaning or oxygen plasma cleaning on a substrate with a patterned film to obtain a first substrate with a patterned film, the substrate with a patterned film including a substrate and a patterned film on the substrate, the patterned film containing a fluorine-containing copolymer having a specific repeating unit; and a heating step of heating the first substrate with a patterned film to obtain a second substrate with a patterned film.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 4, 2024
    Publication date: September 26, 2024
    Inventors: Yuzuru KANEKO, Takashi AOKI, Yusuke NOMURA, Keiko SASAKI, Asuka SANO
  • Publication number: 20240300241
    Abstract: There is provided a liquid discharge head including: a piezoelectric element; a pressure chamber substrate provided with a pressure chamber that communicates with a nozzle; and a vibration plate configured to apply a pressure to a liquid in the pressure chamber by vibrating when the piezoelectric element is driven, in which the pressure chamber substrate, the vibration plate, and the piezoelectric element are laminated in this order in a lamination direction, the vibration plate includes an elastic film provided on the pressure chamber substrate and an insulating film provided between the elastic film and the piezoelectric element, and X>?0.48Z?904, where a compressive stress is represented by a negative value, a tensile stress is represented by a positive value, a film stress of the elastic film is X [MPa], and a film stress of the insulating film is Z [MPa].
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 7, 2024
    Publication date: September 12, 2024
    Inventors: Takashi AOKI, Harunobu KOIKE, Kei KIYOSE
  • Publication number: 20240300242
    Abstract: There is provided a liquid discharge head including: a piezoelectric element; a pressure chamber substrate provided with a pressure chamber; and a vibration plate configured to apply a pressure to a liquid in the pressure chamber, in which the vibration plate includes an elastic film and an insulating film, the elastic film is provided in each of an active region and an inactive region of the vibration plate, and the insulating film is provided in the active region of the vibration plate and is not provided in a part of the inactive region of the vibration plate, and Y<4.0X+4800, where a compressive stress is represented as a negative value, a tensile stress is represented as a positive value, a film stress of the insulating film is X [MPa], and a film stress of the elastic film is Y [MPa].
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 6, 2024
    Publication date: September 12, 2024
    Inventors: Kei KIYOSE, Harunobu KOIKE, Takashi AOKI