Patents by Inventor Tetsuo Umeda
Tetsuo Umeda 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).
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Patent number: 11934562Abstract: Provided is a data processing device including: a noise removal unit that removes noise from data to which noise has been added, the data having been received from a terminal device; a measurement unit that measures the data for each data type constituting a data set and indicating a classification of the data; and a data set updating unit that updates the data set on the basis of a measurement result of the measurement unit.Type: GrantFiled: December 26, 2019Date of Patent: March 19, 2024Assignee: SONY GROUP CORPORATIONInventor: Tetsuo Umeda
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Publication number: 20230377050Abstract: Provided is an information processing system that determines an insurance premium of an online insurance service. The information processing system includes: an information terminal with which a subscriber performs an insurance subscription procedure; and an information processing apparatus that calculates an insurance premium of insurance of the subscriber. The information terminal acquires first information when the subscriber subscribes to the insurance, acquires second information within a coverage period of the insurance, and transmits the second information to the information processing apparatus. The information processing apparatus calculates a first insurance premium on the basis of the first information, calculates a second insurance premium on the basis of the second information, and determines the insurance premium of the subscriber on the basis of the first insurance premium and the second insurance premium.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 11, 2021Publication date: November 23, 2023Inventors: TETSUO UMEDA, HAJIME FUKUI
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Publication number: 20230130153Abstract: [Object] To enhance a shared model in a case of predicting a wireless environment by machine learning securely and efficiently in terms of personal information protection. [Solving Means] This information processing system includes: one or more information processing apparatuses including a first arithmetic processing unit that learns a model for predicting a wireless environment, uploads a result of the learning to a server, and predicts a wireless environment by using a shared model obtained by integrating one or more learning results in the server; and a server including a second arithmetic processing unit that integrates one or more learning results in the one or more information processing apparatuses and generates a shared model, and distributes the shared model to the one or more information processing apparatuses.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 31, 2021Publication date: April 27, 2023Inventors: KOKI HORITA, TAKESHI ITAGAKI, TETSUO UMEDA
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Publication number: 20230101532Abstract: A data processing device includes: a noise distribution prediction unit configured to predict distribution of noise in noise-added data generated by adding the noise to original data in an external noise-adding device; and an augmentation processing unit configured to perform augmentation processing on the noise-added data on the basis of a prediction result of the noise distribution.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 17, 2021Publication date: March 30, 2023Applicant: SONY GROUP CORPORATIONInventors: Tetsuo UMEDA, Shinya MARUYAMA
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Publication number: 20230082679Abstract: Provided is a data processing device including a hash processing unit that generates hash data from a plurality of pieces of original data included in a first data set and generates a hash data set to be transmitted to a data extraction device, and a noise addition unit configured to perform a first noise addition process for adding noise to the hash data.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 16, 2021Publication date: March 16, 2023Applicant: SONY GROUP CORPORATIONInventor: Tetsuo UMEDA
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Publication number: 20230079285Abstract: The present technology relates to a display control device, a display control method, and a program enabling images to be checked in real time. A display control device includes: a receiving unit that receives small volume data that is information on current imaging by an artificial satellite; and a control unit that displays a live view image based on the small volume data on a display unit, wherein the receiving unit receives a satellite image corresponding to the live view image as large volume data at a timing different from that of the small volume data. The present technology can be applied to, for example, a satellite image processing system that processes satellite images captured by artificial satellites.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 6, 2021Publication date: March 16, 2023Applicant: SONY GROUP CORPORATIONInventors: Tetsuo UMEDA, Itaru SHIMIZU, Naomichi KIKUCHI
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Publication number: 20230015980Abstract: There is provided an image generation device, an image generation method, and a program capable of observing any point on the ground from a free viewpoint in the sky at any time. The image generation device includes an image generation unit that generates a free viewpoint image of a predetermined point on the ground viewed from a predetermined virtual viewpoint in the sky using a 3D model of a stationary subject generated using a satellite image captured by an artificial satellite and dynamic subject identification information that identifies a dynamic subject. The present technology can be applied to, for example, an image generation device and the like that generate a free viewpoint image from a satellite image captured by an artificial satellite.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 6, 2021Publication date: January 19, 2023Applicant: SONY GROUP CORPORATIONInventors: Itaru SHIMIZU, Tetsuo UMEDA, Naomichi KIKUCHI
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Publication number: 20220027516Abstract: Provided is a data processing device including: a noise removal unit that removes noise from data to which noise has been added, the data having been received from a terminal device; a measurement unit that measures the data for each data type constituting a data set and indicating a classification of the data; and a data set updating unit that updates the data set on the basis of a measurement result of the measurement unit.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 26, 2019Publication date: January 27, 2022Applicant: SONY GROUP CORPORATIONInventor: Tetsuo UMEDA
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Publication number: 20210293556Abstract: There is provided a system for more efficiently transporting transport objects using a moving object. An information processing apparatus (100) that generates a movement instruction for a moving object that carries a transport object includes a first acquisition unit (141) configured to acquire information about the transport object for each space, a second acquisition unit (135) configured to acquire information representing a tendency of whether the moving object moves in accordance with the movement instruction, and a generation unit (143) configured to generate the movement instruction for the moving object on the basis of the information about the transport object and the information representing the tendency.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 17, 2019Publication date: September 23, 2021Inventors: KENTO SUZUKI, TETSUO UMEDA
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Publication number: 20210192410Abstract: A structure capable of optimizing setting of a prediction target space is proposed. An information processing device includes an acquisition unit (122) configured to acquire demand data for each prediction target space of a moving body that conveys a conveyance object loaded onto the moving body; a learning unit (123) configured to learn a prediction model for predicting the demand data for each prediction target space; and a determination unit (126) configured to determine whether to combine or divide the prediction target space based on prediction accuracy of the prediction model.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 22, 2019Publication date: June 24, 2021Applicant: SONY CORPORATIONInventor: Tetsuo UMEDA
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Patent number: 8130212Abstract: A contact-sensing device includes a capacitance contact-sensing unit including contact-sensing areas configured to at least detect contact with an external object; a calibration-value setting unit configured to set a calibration value to be used to calibrate capacitances of the contact-sensing areas based on capacitances of the contact-sensing areas excluding the contact-sensing area detected by the contact-sensing unit; a calibration determining unit configured to determine whether calibration of the capacitances of the contact-sensing areas is to be carried out based on capacitances of the contact-sensing areas excluding the contact-sensing area detected by the contact-sensing unit; and a capacitance calibrating unit configured to calibrate capacitances of all of the contact-sensing areas using the calibration value set by the calibration-value setting unit when the calibration determining unit determines that calibration is to be carried out.Type: GrantFiled: March 19, 2009Date of Patent: March 6, 2012Assignee: Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications ABInventor: Tetsuo Umeda
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Patent number: 8086268Abstract: A mobile communication terminal includes: a signal transmission section having a predetermined default value for a transmission characteristic; an antenna to be used at least by the signal transmission section; a separate circuit section sharing ground with the signal transmission section and the antenna, and being different from the signal transmission section; a monitoring section monitoring a change in a use state of the terminal related to the separate circuit section; and when the signal transmission section transmits a signal using the antenna, if the monitoring section detects a change in the use state of the terminal, a transmission-characteristic adjusting section adjusting a transmission characteristic of the signal transmission section from the default value to a characteristic optimized for the use state.Type: GrantFiled: March 27, 2009Date of Patent: December 27, 2011Assignee: Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications Japan, Inc.Inventors: Yusuke Naganuma, Kazuki Nagashima, Go Sakamoto, Hiroyuki Matsumoto, Akihiro Bungo, Tatsuhiro Kodama, Tetsuo Umeda, Takahiro Sato, Yoshitaka Onuma
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Publication number: 20090267922Abstract: A contact-sensing device includes a capacitance contact-sensing unit including contact-sensing areas configured to at least detect contact with an external object; a calibration-value setting unit configured to set a calibration value to be used to calibrate capacitances of the contact-sensing areas on the basis of capacitances of the contact-sensing areas excluding the contact-sensing area detected by the contact-sensing unit to be in contact with the external object; a calibration determining unit configured to determine whether or not calibration of the capacitances of the contact-sensing areas is to be carried out on the basis of capacitances of the contact-sensing areas excluding the contact-sensing area detected by the contact-sensing unit to be in contact with the external object; and a capacitance calibrating unit configured to calibrate capacitances of all of the contact-sensing areas using the calibration value set by the calibration-value setting unit when the calibration determining unit determineType: ApplicationFiled: March 19, 2009Publication date: October 29, 2009Applicant: SONY ERICSSON MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS JAPAN, INC.Inventor: Tetsuo Umeda
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Publication number: 20090253459Abstract: A mobile communication terminal includes: a signal transmission section having a predetermined default value for a transmission characteristic; an antenna to be used at least by the signal transmission section; a separate circuit section sharing ground with the signal transmission section and the antenna, and being different from the signal transmission section; a monitoring section monitoring a change in a use state of the terminal related to the separate circuit section; and when the signal transmission section transmits a signal using the antenna, if the monitoring section detects a change in the use state of the terminal, a transmission-characteristic adjusting section adjusting a transmission characteristic of the signal transmission section from the default value to a characteristic optimized for the use state.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 27, 2009Publication date: October 8, 2009Applicant: SONY ERICKSSON MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS JAPAN INC.Inventors: Yusuke Naganuma, Kazuki Nagashima, Go Sakamoto, Hiroyuki Matsumoto, Akihiro Bungo, Tatsuhiro Kodama, Tetsuo Umeda, Takahiro Sato, Yoshitaka Onuma
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Publication number: 20090193139Abstract: A communication apparatus includes a physical layer to perform signal transmission/reception with another communication end, and a data transfer section (DTL) to connect an upper level user application and the physical layer. The DTL includes a profile ID addition section to add a profile ID indicating the type of a data file to a transmission data file based on an instruction from the user application and continuously transmits the data file with the profile ID through the physical layer.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 28, 2009Publication date: July 30, 2009Inventors: Hironaga SANO, Hiroyuki FUJINAGA, Tetsuo UMEDA
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Patent number: 4910787Abstract: A video image of a region including characters recorded on a document is converted into electric signals. From the electric signals unit signals corresponding to subregions obtained by dividing the region is picked up. Horizontal, vertical and slanted stroke components included in each of the subregions are detected from the unit signals. The detected numbers of the horizontal, vertical and slanted stroke components are counted. The ratio of the counted numbers of the slanted stroke component to the total of the horizontal, vertical and slanted stroke components is calculated. The characters on the document is judged as handwritten ones and machine-printed ones if the ratio is above and not above a predetermined threshold, respectively. The threshold is preferably set at 0.2.Type: GrantFiled: April 18, 1988Date of Patent: March 20, 1990Assignee: NEC CorporationInventors: Tetsuo Umeda, Shigenobu Kasuya
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Patent number: 4888646Abstract: An optimal image-quality selection apparatus calculates a ratio of the number of graphic blocks having a predetermined size to the number of all graphic blocks of an image having two or more depth levels of color and selects an image having a largest one of the ratios as an image of optimal quality.Type: GrantFiled: January 25, 1989Date of Patent: December 19, 1989Assignee: NEC CorporationInventors: Tetsuo Umeda, Fumihiko Sugiura
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Patent number: 4831658Abstract: An optical character reader distinguishes between black and white image signals by comparing a center reader with readings from surrounding areas. Variations on the surface of a paper bearing the image can add or subtract values so that the comparison may be in error. The invention overcomes the problem by using logic circuits to add, subtract and compare signals out of a mask in order to improve the accuracy of the comparison between the center reading and the readings from the surrounding areas.Type: GrantFiled: November 12, 1987Date of Patent: May 16, 1989Assignee: NEC CorporationInventors: Tetsuo Umeda, Kazumi Nakano, Shigenobu Kasuya
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Patent number: 4771385Abstract: A word recognization system compares an input word with words stored in a dictionary memory. The comparison is made on a basis of the number of letters in the input word in combination with the first few letters in the word. The first level of selection is made on a basis of the number of letters in the input word. The memory locations of words are chain linked on a basis of the letters at the head of the word so that a reading of one memory location automatically leads to the reading of another memory location responsive to a comparison of the first few letters.Type: GrantFiled: November 20, 1985Date of Patent: September 13, 1988Assignee: NEC CorporationInventors: Kazunari Egami, Yasuo Nishijima, Tetsuo Umeda
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Patent number: 4747149Abstract: The disclosure describes a character recognition apparatus comprising a scanner for optically scanning a prescribed area and outputting a scanned signal, a binary processing circuit for receiving the scanned signal and producing a plurality of binary signals, a counting mechanism for counting black meshes in the scanned area, a counting mechanism for counting insulated meshes, a mechanism for calculating the ratio of the number of black meshes and the number of insulated meshes, and a mechanism for selecting one optimum binary signal from the plurality of binary signals on the basis of a comparison of the ratios.Type: GrantFiled: March 17, 1987Date of Patent: May 24, 1988Assignee: NEC CorporationInventors: Tetsuo Umeda, Shigenobu Kasuya