Patents by Inventor Takayuki Sasaki

Takayuki Sasaki 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: 20250028284
    Abstract: A timepiece member according to an aspect of the present disclosure includes: a base material having translucency, in which the base material includes a pattern portion including a plurality of display regions having different front surface states and exhibiting different appearances or textures, and the pattern portion exhibiting a predetermined pattern by a set of the plurality of display regions, and a color imparting layer is provided on a front surface of the base material so as to extend over the plurality of display regions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 2, 2024
    Publication date: January 23, 2025
    Applicant: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shouta NAGASAWA, Masao AMANO, Takayuki SHIMOKAWA, Yousuke SASAKI
  • Patent number: 12206311
    Abstract: An outer diameter side magnet field pole piece assembly for a magnetic gear which is disposed on an outer circumferential side of a plurality of magnetic pole pieces disposed on an outer circumferential side of the outer diameter side magnet field pole piece assembly along a circumferential direction, includes: a plurality of magnetic pole pairs disposed on the outer circumferential side of the plurality of magnetic pole pieces along the circumferential direction; and a support member for supporting the plurality of magnetic pole pairs from the outer circumferential side. A space along an axial direction is formed in at least a part between an outer circumferential surface of each of the plurality of magnetic pole pairs and an opposite surface of an inner circumferential surface of the support member opposite to the outer circumferential surface of each of the plurality of magnetic pole pairs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 20, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2025
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Masayuki Sakai, Yasutaka Aoki, Takayuki Shimizu, Ryoji Okabe, Akihiko Umeda, Takatoshi Matsushita, Mikito Sasaki
  • Publication number: 20240427020
    Abstract: The present technology relates to a distance measuring device, a method for controlling the same, and a distance measuring system that allow for generation of a high-resolution depth image with high accuracy from sparse depth information. The distance measuring device includes: a light receiving unit that has a plurality of pixels that receive reflected light obtained from irradiation light reflected by an object; a high-resolution processing unit that generates a high-resolution depth image from a sparse depth image acquired by the light receiving unit; and a position determination unit that determines an active pixel in which a light receiving operation is performed in the light receiving unit on the basis of edge information of the high-resolution depth image. The present technology can be applied to, for example, a distance measuring system or the like that detects a distance to a subject in a depth direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 27, 2021
    Publication date: December 26, 2024
    Inventors: TAKAYUKI SASAKI, KENICHIRO NAKAMURA, YUSUKE MORIUCHI, MOTONOBU FUJIOKA
  • Patent number: 12164648
    Abstract: The present disclosure aims to provide a backdoor inspection device, a user device, a system, a method, and a non-transitory computer-readable medium that enable a third party to easily verify whether software contains a backdoor. A backdoor inspection device according to the present disclosure includes: a backdoor presuming means for analyzing a function and a structure of the software, performing backdoor inspection on the software, and identifying a presumed code that is presumed to be the backdoor from the software; and a certificate issuance means for issuing a certificate that includes information about the backdoor inspection and information that associates the information about the backdoor inspection with the software.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 6, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2024
    Assignee: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takayuki Sasaki, Yusuke Shimada
  • Patent number: 12141279
    Abstract: In a backdoor inspection apparatus, a static analysis unit executes static analysis processing for a backdoor on each code block included in target software to be inspected to thereby specify a first code block and a condition, the first code possibly being the backdoor and the first code block being executed under the condition. Next, the static analysis unit outputs the target software to which first information indicating the specified first code block is added and second information indicating the specified condition to a dynamic analysis unit. The dynamic analysis unit controls dynamic analysis processing for the backdoor performed on the target software to which the first information is added based on the first information and the second information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2024
    Assignee: NEC Corporation
    Inventors: Takayuki Sasaki, Yusuke Shimada
  • Publication number: 20240362822
    Abstract: There is provided a signal processing device and a signal processing method capable of accurately acquiring distance information in a case where a transparent subject is present. The signal processing device includes an acquisition unit that acquires histogram data of a flight time of irradiation light to a subject, a transparent subject determination unit that determines whether or not the subject is a transparent subject on the basis of peak information indicated by the histogram data and three-dimensional coordinates of the subject calculated on the basis of the histogram data, and an output unit that outputs the three-dimensional coordinates of the subject in which color information or three-dimensional coordinates of the subject is corrected on the basis of a transparent subject determination result of the transparent subject determination unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 22, 2022
    Publication date: October 31, 2024
    Applicant: Sony Group Corporation
    Inventors: Motonobu FUJIOKA, Yusuke MORIUCHI, Kenichiro NAKAMURA, Takayuki SASAKI, Hajime MIHARA
  • Publication number: 20240329254
    Abstract: There is provided a signal processing apparatus and a signal processing method enabling correction of a deviation of position information of a dToF sensor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 1, 2022
    Publication date: October 3, 2024
    Applicant: Sony Group Corporation
    Inventors: Motonobu FUJIOKA, Yusuke MORIUCHI, Kenichiro NAKAMURA, Takayuki SASAKI, Hajime MIHARA
  • Publication number: 20240251217
    Abstract: An audio content providing apparatus (2000) acquires user position information (80) that indicates a user position (30). The audio content providing apparatus (2000) sets a sound image localization position (50) on the basis of the user position (30) and a reference position (40), in a case where a user (20) is present in a target region (70). Here, a distance between the user position (30) and the sound image localization position (50) is shorter than a distance between the user position (30) and the reference position (40). The audio content providing apparatus (2000) outputs audio content (10) such that a sound image is localized at the sound image localization position (50).
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 18, 2021
    Publication date: July 25, 2024
    Applicant: NEC Corporation
    Inventors: Yuki HASHIMOTO, Goh Shibata, Takayuki Sasaki, Dai Yokoi
  • Publication number: 20240215467
    Abstract: A memory device of embodiments includes a memory cell including: a first conductive layer; a second conductive layer; a third conductive layer provided between the first conductive layer and the second conductive layer; a variable resistance layer provided between the first conductive layer and the third conductive layer; and a switching layer provided between the third conductive layer and the second conductive layer. The switching layer contains antimony (Sb), a second element, adn an oxide of a first element. The first element is at least one element selected from a group consisting of zirconium (Zr), hafnium (Hf), yttrium (Y), tantalum (Ta), lanthanum (La), cerium (Ce), magnesium (Mg), and titanium (Ti). The second element is at least one element selected from a group consisting of aluminum (Al), zinc (Zn), and gallium (Ga).
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 28, 2023
    Publication date: June 27, 2024
    Applicant: Kioxia Corporation
    Inventors: Hiroki KAWAI, Takeshi IWASAKI, Katsuyoshi KOMATSU, Rina NOMOTO, Zhu QI, Takayuki SASAKI
  • Publication number: 20240168161
    Abstract: There is provided a ranging device, a signal processing method thereof, and a ranging system capable of more accurately outputting an acquisition coordinate position of distance information. The ranging device includes a pixel array in which pixels are arranged in a matrix, a record unit that records the number of detected photons for each division unit obtained by dividing a sample point including a plurality of pixels into predetermined division units, and a correction unit that corrects a representative position of spatial coordinates of distance information of the sample point on the basis of the number of detected photons for each of a plurality of division units. The present technology can be applied to, for example, a ranging system and the like that measures a distance to an object by a direct ToF method.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 25, 2022
    Publication date: May 23, 2024
    Applicant: Sony Group Corporation
    Inventors: Yusuke MORIUCHI, Motonobu FUJIOKA, Kenichiro NAKAMURA, Takayuki SASAKI
  • Publication number: 20240134015
    Abstract: The present technology relates to a distance measuring device, a control method thereof, and a distance measuring system capable of arranging sample points of a pixel array so as to obtain more distance information. A distance measuring device includes: a pixel array in which pixels that receive reflected light obtained by reflecting irradiation light from an object are arranged in a matrix; a determination unit that determines some of the pixels of the pixel array as a sample point for detecting distance information; and a storage unit that stores a sample point state table that stores distance information of the sample point and a sample point movement rule table that stores a movement rule of the sample point, in which the determination unit updates position information of the sample point on the basis of the sample point state table and the sample point movement rule table.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 13, 2022
    Publication date: April 25, 2024
    Inventors: KENICHIRO NAKAMURA, YUSUKE MORIUCHI, TAKAYUKI SASAKI, MOTONOBU FUJIOKA
  • Publication number: 20240116150
    Abstract: An electric tool system includes an electric tool device and a history storage unit. The electric tool device includes a holder, a drive unit, a measuring unit, and an image capturing unit. The holder holds a fastening member thereon. The drive unit performs fastening work of fastening the fastening member into a work target by transmitting driving force to the holder. The measuring unit measures, as a torque measured value, a fastening torque value of the fastening work. The image capturing unit generates a captured image by capturing an image of at least the holder. The history storage unit stores history information in which the torque measured value and the captured image are associated with each other.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 27, 2021
    Publication date: April 11, 2024
    Inventor: Takayuki SASAKI
  • Publication number: 20240066776
    Abstract: A material discharge device includes: a drive motor; a screw having a groove formation surface and configured to rotate; a barrel having a facing surface and formed with a communication hole through which a plasticized material flows; a heating unit configured to heat the material; a nozzle from which the material is injected to an outside; and a plurality of measurement units configured to measure a pressure or a temperature of the material. The measurement units are disposed at an outer periphery of a nozzle channel wall, and a thickness of the nozzle channel wall satisfies the following (1) or (2): (1) when the nozzle channel wall is made of a material containing iron as a main component, the thickness of the nozzle channel wall is 0.2 mm or more and 2.5 mm or less; and (2) when the nozzle channel wall is made of a material containing aluminum as a main component, the thickness of the nozzle channel wall is 0.2 mm or more and 4 mm or less.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 28, 2023
    Publication date: February 29, 2024
    Inventors: Masashi FUCHII, Takayuki SASAKI, Kenta ANEGAWA, Masayuki TAKAHASHI, Hidenobu MARUYAMA, Juri YAMAGUCHI
  • Publication number: 20240038062
    Abstract: An information provision apparatus includes: a data acquisition part that acquires data from a sensor(s) installed to grasp movement of a vehicle(s) traveling on a road; a database that accumulates primary data acquired by the sensor(s); a user-specific processing content storage part that stores a user-specific processing content(s) defining a processing content(s) on the primary data for each data user; a data processing part that reads out the user-specific processing content(s) stored in the user-specific processing content storage part and creates secondary data for the data user(s) from the primary data; and a data transmission part that transmits the secondary data to the data user(s).
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 25, 2020
    Publication date: February 1, 2024
    Applicant: NEC Corporation
    Inventors: Tetsuro HASEGAWA, Takayuki SASAKI, Hiroaki AMINAKA, Kazuki OGATA, Kei YANAGISAWA, Kosei KOBAYASHI
  • Publication number: 20240037215
    Abstract: A program analysis device including: code block extraction means for extracting code blocks having specific qualities from code blocks included in binary data of a program; backdoor score calculation means for calculating, for each code block extracted by the code block extraction means, based on the contents of operations in each code block, a backdoor score, which is a score indicating the possibility of each code block being a backdoor code or a score indicating the degree of impact of each code block on a system when it is executed; and output means for outputting the code blocks extracted by the code block extraction means and the backdoor score calculated for each of the extracted code blocks by the backdoor score calculation means.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 19, 2020
    Publication date: February 1, 2024
    Applicant: NEC Corporation
    Inventors: Yusuke SHIMADA, Takayuki Sasaki
  • Publication number: 20240028001
    Abstract: A tool system includes a tool and an external system. The tool includes a first communications interface. The first communications interface transmits result information, including a work order number, to the external system with progress of work. The external system includes a second communications interface. The second communications interface receives the result information transmitted from the tool. The external system makes a storage device store the result information received by the second communications interface. At least one of the tool or the external system further includes a determiner. The determiner determines, based on progress information indicating the progress of the work being performed by the tool and the result information stored in the storage device, what part of the result information the second communications interface has failed to receive.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 5, 2023
    Publication date: January 25, 2024
    Inventors: Takayuki SASAKI, Koya JOJIMA, Yuta HARA
  • Patent number: 11877525
    Abstract: A storage device includes a resistance change memory element including a first electrode, a second electrode, a resistance change layer between the first and second electrodes, including at least two elements selected from a group consisting of germanium (Ge), antimony (Sb), and tellurium (Te), and having a crystal structure with a c-axis oriented in a first direction from the first electrode toward the second electrode, and a first layer between the first electrode and the resistance change layer and including nitrogen (N) and at least one of silicon (Si) or germanium (Ge).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2024
    Assignee: Kioxia Corporation
    Inventors: Takayuki Sasaki, Yukihiro Nomura
  • Patent number: 11868744
    Abstract: A feature estimating device includes a parser identifying means for identifying a parser, the parser being contained in software, for parsing user input and executing a relevant command, a dividing means for extracting commands form a character string in the parser and clustering control flows connecting with the extracted commands as starting points to divide a code of the software for each feature, and a feature estimating means for estimating, based on a characteristic part of each divided code, a feature for each divided code.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yusuke Shimada, Takayuki Sasaki
  • Patent number: 11868467
    Abstract: A semiconductor device (100) includes: a determination unit (110) configured to determine whether an avoidance condition of inspection of control flow integrity is satisfied (e.g., a degree of similarity with a previous input value is in a predetermined range) based on determination auxiliary information, which is at least an input value in a target code block to be executed among a plurality of code blocks in a predetermined program, and an inspection unit (120) configured to avoid inspection of control flow integrity in the target code block when it is determined that the avoidance condition is satisfied.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Astha Jada, Toshiki Kobayashi, Takayuki Sasaki, Daniele Enrico Asoni, Adrian Perrig
  • Patent number: 11860762
    Abstract: A semiconductor device (100) includes: first storage means (110) storing, in advance, a plurality of pieces of execution order inspection information (111˜11n) used for inspection of an execution order of a plurality of code blocks in a predetermined program, second storage means (120), which is a cache for the first storage means, and prediction means (130) for predicting a storage area of the execution order inspection information based on prediction auxiliary information in a first code block of the plurality of code blocks and a control flow graph of the program, the storage area being a prefetch target to be prefetched from the first storage means to the second storage means.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Astha Jada, Toshiki Kobayashi, Takayuki Sasaki, Daniele Enrico Asoni, Adrian Perrig