Patents by Inventor Takayoshi Hirai

Takayoshi Hirai 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: 20240136073
    Abstract: The present technology relates to an information processing system, an information processing method, and a program that enable to hold an event in consideration of infection suppression of infectious diseases. Included are: an acquisition unit configured to acquire ticket information including an attribute of a ticket in an event, user information related to an infectious disease of a user, and event information set by a manager of the event; a determination unit configured to make a determination on the basis of the user information and the setting information; and a setting unit configured to set an attribute of the ticket on the basis of a determination result. The present technology can be applied to, for example, a management server that manages events.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 24, 2022
    Publication date: April 25, 2024
    Inventors: TAKAYOSHI HIRAI, NAOYUKI HIROTA, SOICHI FUKASAWA
  • Publication number: 20230386177
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a medical image processing system, a medical image processing method, and a program that facilitate understanding of the criterion or the reason of a determination made by a machine learning model. An estimation unit estimates classification of a medical image with use of a machine learning model. A first calculation unit calculates first ground information indicative of estimation ground of the classification by a first explanation technique, and a second calculation unit estimates second ground information indicative of estimation ground of the classification by a second explanation technique different from the first explanation technique. An output controlling unit controls output of a first explanation image based on the first ground information and a second explanation image based on the second ground information. The present disclosure can be applied to a medical image processing system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 8, 2021
    Publication date: November 30, 2023
    Applicant: Sony Group Corporation
    Inventor: Takayoshi Hirai
  • Publication number: 20230346264
    Abstract: An information processing device (10) is an information processing device attached to a patient, and includes an acceleration sensor (13) (corresponding to an example of a “sensor”) that detects movement of the patient which movement is associated with respiratory movement, an acquisition unit (163a) that acquires sensor data of the acceleration sensor (13), an estimation unit (163b) that estimates a respiratory condition of the patient from the sensor data, and a determination unit (163c) that determines whether to transmit information related to the respiratory condition to an external device on the basis of the estimated respiratory condition.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 2, 2021
    Publication date: November 2, 2023
    Applicant: Sony Group Corporation
    Inventors: Takayoshi HIRAI, Shin TAKANASHI
  • Publication number: 20230217803
    Abstract: An electronic device material includes: carbon nanotubes having a purity of Semiconductor Carbon Nanotubes of 80% by mass or more; and a n-type semiconductor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 10, 2021
    Publication date: July 6, 2023
    Applicant: Toray Industries, Inc.
    Inventors: Yoshitake Masuda, Takafumi Akamatsu, Akihiro Tsuruta, Takayoshi Hirai, Kojiro Naito, Seiichiro Murase
  • Publication number: 20230129028
    Abstract: The present technique relates to a telemedicine system, a telemedicine method, an information processing device, and a program that allow a medical practitioner to more accurately obtain visual information on a patient in telemedicine. The telemedicine system includes a first imaging unit that images a patient in a first space, an image processing unit that corrects an image of the patient based on imaging conditions in a first space and display conditions in a second space for displaying the image of the patient imaged in the first space, and a display unit that displays the corrected image of the patient in the second space. The present technique can be applied to, for example, a telemedicine system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 26, 2021
    Publication date: April 27, 2023
    Inventors: TAKAYOSHI HIRAI, YOHEI EBIHARA, NAOTO NAKAMURA, HIRONORI SUZUKI
  • Publication number: 20230125734
    Abstract: A medical insurance method according to the present disclosure includes a step of acquiring, as a first patient condition, a type of a condition of a patient estimated through input of first patient data of the patient to a predetermined machine learning model, a step of acquiring, as a second patient condition, a type of a condition of the patient estimated by a method different from the predetermined machine learning model on the basis of data including the first patient data, a step of acquiring a third patient condition estimated on the basis of second patient data measured after measurement time of the first patient data, and a step of determining whether or not insurance coverage is available on the basis of the first patient condition, the second patient condition, and the third patient condition.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 12, 2021
    Publication date: April 27, 2023
    Inventors: TAKAYOSHI HIRAI, YOHEI EBIHARA, NAOTO NAKAMURA, HIRONORI SUZUKI
  • Publication number: 20220322921
    Abstract: The present technology relates to a medical system, a communication method, an imaging device, an information processing device, and an endoscope system capable of stably transmitting sensor signals output from a sensor that obtains data in a living body by wireless communication. A medical system includes a sensor that is provided in or connected to an insertion part to be inserted into a living body via an insertion aid and obtains data in the living body, and a sensor communication unit that serves as a communication unit that transmits, by wireless communication, a first sensor signal output from the sensor to an aid communication unit that serves as a communication unit provided in the insertion aid. The present technology can be applied to, for example, an endoscope system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 3, 2020
    Publication date: October 13, 2022
    Inventors: TAKAYOSHI HIRAI, TAKUYA NAKAMURA, SHINJI KATSUKI, MOTOAKI KOBAYASHI
  • Patent number: 11470247
    Abstract: The present technology relates to an information processing device, an information processing method, a program, and an information processing system for enabling reduction in a load by enabling selective arithmetic processing in performing imaging without using an imaging lens. The information processing device includes an acquisition unit configured to acquire a detection image output from an imaging element that receives incident light incident without through an imaging lens, and restoration information including setting information set by a user and to be used to generate a restoration image from the detection image, a restoration processing unit configured to perform restoration processing of generating the restoration image using the detection image and the restoration information, and an output control unit configured to control an output of the restoration image. The present technology can be applied to, for example, a device or a system that restores a detection image captured by a lensless camera.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2022
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yoshitaka Miyatani, Mitsuaki Kita, Takayoshi Hirai, Yuto Ishizu
  • Publication number: 20220164827
    Abstract: Provided is an advertisement delivery system including an acquisition unit configured to acquire location information regarding a first user, a delivery unit configured to enable, on the basis of location information regarding an advertisement providing shop that has been registered and the location information regarding the first user, delivery of predetermined content with advertisement information from the advertisement providing shop, and a setting unit configured to set an experienceable period for the first user that indicates a period in which the first user is allowed to experience the predetermined content, in which the setting unit updates the experienceable period for the first user on the basis of the location information regarding the advertisement providing shop and the location information regarding the first user during the experienceable period for the first user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 13, 2020
    Publication date: May 26, 2022
    Inventors: TAKAYOSHI HIRAI, YUSUKE NAKAMURA, KAZUHIRO OOI
  • Publication number: 20220149286
    Abstract: A carbon nanotube composition capable of producing an FET having improved mobility is provided. The carbon nanotube composition of the present invention is a halogen-free carbon nanotube composition comprising a carbon nanotube having the following features (1) and (2). (1) A dispersion liquid obtained by dispersing the carbon nanotube in a solution containing a cholic acid derivative and water has, in the absorption spectrum in the wavelength range of 300 nm to 1100 nm measured by an ultraviolet/visible/near-infrared spectroscopy, the minimum absorbance in the range of 600 nm to 700 nm and the maximum absorbance in the range of 900 nm to 1050 nm; wherein the ratio of the minimum absorbance and the maximum absorbance is 2.5 or more and 4.5 or less; and (2) the dispersion liquid has the height ratio of the G-band and the D-band (value of (D/G)×100) of 3.33 or less, as measured by a Raman spectrophotometer, using light having a wavelength of 532 nm as excitation light.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 6, 2020
    Publication date: May 12, 2022
    Applicant: TORAY INDUSTRIES, INC.
    Inventors: Takayoshi HIRAI, Hidekazu NISHINO, Seiichiro MURASE
  • Publication number: 20210391077
    Abstract: To make it possible to more suitably suppress increasing medical expenses. There is provided a medical information processing system including: an acquisition section (110 and 122); and a calculation section (122). The acquisition section (110 and 122) acquires examination information and system information. The examination information pertains to an examination from which an examination deliverable regarding medical care is generated. The system information pertains to each of a plurality of estimation systems. The plurality of estimation systems each estimates a symptom of a subject on the basis of the examination deliverable. The calculation section (122) calculates a use priority of each of the plurality of estimation systems on the basis of the examination information and the system information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 18, 2019
    Publication date: December 16, 2021
    Applicant: Sony Group Corporation
    Inventors: Takayoshi HIRAI, Yukako FUJIMOTO, Kento NAKADA
  • Publication number: 20210313053
    Abstract: There is provided a medical information processing system that includes: an acquisition unit (110) that acquires an examination arrangement request that includes examination type information that indicates a type of medical-related examination, and user information regarding a user; a presentation unit (123) that presents, to the user, an examination resource capable of performing the examination, based on the examination arrangement request and the user information; a management unit (222) that manages a result of the examination performed on the user in association with the user information; and an output unit (224) that outputs the result based on input performed by the user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 14, 2019
    Publication date: October 7, 2021
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takayoshi HIRAI, Yukako FUJIMOTO, Kento NAKADA
  • Publication number: 20210183486
    Abstract: A biological information processing method according to an embodiment includes: acquiring biological information on a subject; based on the biological information, generating condition information representing a biological condition of the subject; and registering the condition information in a P2P database (223) is provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 19, 2019
    Publication date: June 17, 2021
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kazuhiro SAKURADA, Takayoshi HIRAI, Taro AZUMA, Ryosuke FURUKAWA
  • Publication number: 20210014412
    Abstract: The present technology relates to an information processing device, an information processing method, a program, and an information processing system for enabling reduction in a load by enabling selective arithmetic processing in performing imaging without using an imaging lens. The information processing device includes an acquisition unit configured to acquire a detection image output from an imaging element that receives incident light incident without through an imaging lens, and restoration information including setting information set by a user and to be used to generate a restoration image from the detection image, a restoration processing unit configured to perform restoration processing of generating the restoration image using the detection image and the restoration information, and an output control unit configured to control an output of the restoration image. The present technology can be applied to, for example, a device or a system that restores a detection image captured by a lensless camera.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 19, 2019
    Publication date: January 14, 2021
    Applicant: SONY CORPORAATION
    Inventors: Yoshitaka MIYATANI, Mitsuaki KITA, Takayoshi HIRAI, Yuto ISHIZU
  • Publication number: 20190119508
    Abstract: A carbon nanotube dispersion liquid includes a carbon nanotube-containing composition, a cellulose derivative including a constitutional unit represented by formula (1), and an organic solvent, wherein the organic solvent contains one or more solvents selected from aprotic polar solvents or terpenes, the concentration of the carbon nanotube-containing composition contained in the carbon nanotube dispersion is 1% by mass or less, and when the dispersion liquid is subjected to a centrifugal treatment at 10,000 G for 10 minutes to recover 90% by volume of the supernatant, the concentration of the carbon nanotube dispersion liquid of the supernatant portion accounts for 80% or more of the concentration of the carbon nanotube dispersion liquid before the centrifugal treatment: wherein R may be the same or different and each independently represent H, or a linear or branched alkyl group having 1 to 40 carbon atoms or an acyl group.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 24, 2017
    Publication date: April 25, 2019
    Inventors: Naoyo Okamoto, Naoki Imazu, Takayoshi Hirai, Hidekazu Nishino
  • Patent number: 10266411
    Abstract: A method of producing a carbon nanotube-containing composition is a method of producing a carbon nanotube-containing composition for synthesizing carbon nanotube aggregates by introducing a ferrocene derivative, a sulfur compound, a carbon source, and a carrier gas into a gas phase flowing in a heating furnace within a temperature range of higher than 1,200° C. to 1,800° C. The carbon source substantially consists of benzene or toluene. The carrier gas includes hydrogen at 10% by volume to 85% by volume. The carrier gas has a linear velocity of 500 cm/min to 2,200 cm/min.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2019
    Assignee: Toray Industries, Inc.
    Inventors: Takayoshi Hirai, Kenshi Miyaura, Hidekazu Nishino, Shiro Honda
  • Publication number: 20180170758
    Abstract: A method of producing a carbon nanotube-containing composition is a method of producing a carbon nanotube-containing composition for synthesizing carbon nanotube aggregates by introducing a ferrocene derivative, a sulfur compound, a carbon source, and a carrier gas into a gas phase flowing in a heating furnace within a temperature range of higher than 1,200° C. to 1,800° C. The carbon source substantially consists of benzene or toluene. The carrier gas includes hydrogen at 10% by volume to 85% by volume. The carrier gas has a linear velocity of 500 cm/min to 2,200 cm/min.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 13, 2016
    Publication date: June 21, 2018
    Inventors: Takayoshi Hirai, Kenshi Miyaura, Hidekazu Nishino, Shiro Honda
  • Patent number: 9960092
    Abstract: To provide an interlayer filler composition which, in 3D lamination of semiconductor device chips, forms a highly thermally conductive filling interlayer simultaneously with the bonding of solder bumps or the like and lands between semiconductor device chips, a coating fluid and a process for producing a three-dimensional integrated circuit. An interlayer filler composition for a three-dimensional integrated circuit, which comprises a resin (A) having a melt viscosity at 120° C. of at most 100 Pa·s and a flux (B), the content of the flux (B) being at least 0.1 part by weight and at most 10 parts by weight per 100 parts by weight of the resin (A).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 18, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 1, 2018
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Chemical Corporation
    Inventors: Makoto Ikemoto, Yasuhiro Kawase, Tomohide Murase, Makoto Takahashi, Takayoshi Hirai, Iho Kamimura
  • Patent number: 9139687
    Abstract: An imide skeleton resin represented by the following general formula (1) has a coefficient of linear expansion as low as that of polyimide resin and excellent processability like epoxy resin, and is useful as a resin composition for electrical laminates. Five percent by mole or more of the entirety of the A component is a linking group having an imide skeleton represented by the following general formula (4-1). B denotes a hydrogen atom or a group represented by the following structural formula (5). n denotes an integer in the range of 0 to 200. If both of the B's are hydrogen atoms, then n denotes an integer of 1 or more.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 2009
    Date of Patent: September 22, 2015
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Chemical Corporation
    Inventors: Takayoshi Hirai, Tetsurou Imura, Makoto Takahashi
  • Publication number: 20140030848
    Abstract: To provide an interlayer filler composition which, in 3D lamination of semiconductor device chips, forms a highly thermally conductive filling interlayer simultaneously with the bonding of solder bumps or the like and lands between semiconductor device chips, a coating fluid and a process for producing a three-dimensional integrated circuit. An interlayer filler composition for a three-dimensional integrated circuit, which comprises a resin (A) having a melt viscosity at 120° C. of at most 100 Pa·s and a flux (B), the content of the flux (B) being at least 0.1 part by weight and at most 10 parts by weight per 100 parts by weight of the resin (A).
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 18, 2013
    Publication date: January 30, 2014
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI CHEMICAL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Makoto IKEMOTO, Yasuhiro Kawase, Tomohide Murase, Makoto Takahashi, Takayoshi Hirai, Iho Kamimura