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).

  • Patent number: 12368835
    Abstract: A display control device includes a first acquisition unit that acquires first viewpoint position information, and a first control unit that performs a control of displaying a first viewpoint video selected from among a plurality of viewpoint videos generated based on images obtained by imaging an imaging region from a plurality of viewpoint positions on a first display unit, in which the first control unit performs a control of displaying first specific information for specifying a first viewpoint position in the first viewpoint video in a case in which the first viewpoint position indicated by the acquired first viewpoint position information is included in the first viewpoint video and performs a control of changing a display size of the first specific information depending on an angle of view of the first viewpoint video displayed on the first display unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2023
    Date of Patent: July 22, 2025
    Assignee: FUJIFILM CORPORATION
    Inventors: Fuminori Irie, Takashi Aoki, Kazunori Tamura, Masahiko Miyata
  • Publication number: 20250212529
    Abstract: Provided is an installation structure for a photovoltaic power generation sheet that suppresses vibration of the photovoltaic power generation sheet due to wind in a state where the photovoltaic power generation sheet is installed above an installation surface. An installation structure for a photovoltaic power generation sheet of the present disclosure includes an installation surface, the photovoltaic power generation sheet installed above the installation surface, and a sealing member (bonder) that closes a gap between an outer peripheral edge of the photovoltaic power generation sheet and the installation surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 23, 2023
    Publication date: June 26, 2025
    Applicant: SEKISUI CHEMICAL CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Akinobu HAYAKAWA, Ibuki YOKOTA, Takashi AOKI, Yuji FUJIMORI
  • Patent number: 12337906
    Abstract: A steering control device for a steering member and a turning wheel, includes: a steering angle control unit for controlling an actual steering angle of the steering member via a steering actuator; a turning angle control unit for controlling an actual turning angle of the turning wheel via a turning actuator; and a target generation unit for generating a target steering angle as a control target and a target turning angle as a control target. Before controlling the actual turning angle toward the target turning angle to follow a planned trajectory for the vehicle, the steering angle control unit controls the actual steering angle toward the target steering angle to follow the planned trajectory.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 23, 2023
    Date of Patent: June 24, 2025
    Assignee: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventor: Takashi Aoki
  • Publication number: 20250198080
    Abstract: Provided is a leather-like fabric including: a leather-like front surface layer; a rear surface layer adhered to a rear surface side of the front surface layer; and an adhesive layer to adhere the front surface layer and the rear surface layer together, wherein the front surface layer and the rear surface layer are embossed, and a material of the front surface layer, the rear surface layer, and the adhesive layer is polyester. Provided is a method of producing a leather-like fabric, including: bonding a front surface layer and a rear surface layer together by using an adhesive layer; and embossing the front surface layer in a state in which the front surface layer and the rear surface layer are bonded together, wherein the front surface layer is a leather-like layer, and a material of the front surface layer, the rear surface layer, and the adhesive layer is polyester.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 4, 2025
    Publication date: June 19, 2025
    Inventors: Tsunehide MORI, Takashi AOKI, Hirokazu HIGASHI, Hiroyuki NAKAMURA
  • Patent number: 12334410
    Abstract: A semiconductor device includes an aluminum layer, a passivation film, and a protective film arranged between the aluminum layer and the passivation film. A plurality of aluminum regions are formed in the aluminum layer. A width of a gap between the adjacent aluminum regions is equal to or less than twice a thickness of the protective film 140. The gap is filled with the protective film 140.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 17, 2025
    Assignee: RENESAS ELECTRONICS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takashi Aoki, Takehiro Ueda
  • Publication number: 20250168276
    Abstract: A handling assistance system according to an embodiment is a handling assistance system communicably connected to a first terminal used by a first user who is in charge of call handling of a customer and a second terminal used by a second user who assists with the call handling, and includes a speech recognition unit configured to perform speech recognition on voice data in the call handling, to generate a speech recognition text indicating a result of the speech recognition, a summary unit configured to generate a summary text, which is a summary of the speech recognition text, in response to receiving an assistance request regarding the call handling from the first terminal, and an notifying unit configured to cause an assistance requesting notification to be displayed on the second terminal together with a predetermined notification sound, the assistance requesting notification including the summary text.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 21, 2022
    Publication date: May 22, 2025
    Applicant: NTT TechnoCross Corporation
    Inventors: Takashi AOKI, Hosana KAMIYAMA, Kazuhira MATSUI
  • Patent number: 12301774
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus generates a virtual viewpoint video based on a virtual viewpoint by using a motion picture obtained by imaging an imaging region with a plurality of imaging devices. The information processing apparatus displays, on a display, a standard image corresponding to the imaging region, a plurality of virtual viewpoint paths disposed in the standard image and representing a trajectory of movement of the virtual viewpoint, an indicator indicating a reproduction position of the virtual viewpoint video, and a reference image based on a virtual viewpoint image viewed from the virtual viewpoint corresponding to the reproduction position of the virtual viewpoint path among a plurality of virtual viewpoint images configuring the virtual viewpoint video.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 13, 2025
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Fuminori Irie, Takashi Aoki, Masahiko Miyata, Kazunori Tamura, Yasunori Murakami
  • 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: 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: 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: 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