Patents by Inventor Tomohiro Sasaki

Tomohiro 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: 20240380902
    Abstract: A WP prediction and a GBI prediction are adaptively used in combination. A video decoding apparatus (31) includes: a weighted prediction unit (3094) configured to generate a prediction image by using at least one of a weight coefficient or an offset configured for a first unit region and a weight coefficient configured for a second unit region different from the first unit region, the weight coefficient and the offset each being applied to a pixel value included in one or a plurality of reference images.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 24, 2024
    Publication date: November 14, 2024
    Inventors: Tomonori HASHIMOTO, Tomohiro IKAI, Takeshi CHUJOH, Eiichi SASAKI
  • Patent number: 12143599
    Abstract: A video decoding apparatus includes matrix reference pixel derivation circuitry that derives reference samples by using top neighboring samples and left neighboring samples of a current block, weight matrix derivation circuitry that derives a weight matrix, matrix prediction image derivation circuitry that derives a prediction image, and matrix prediction image interpolation circuitry that derives a predicted image by using the prediction image. A size index is derived according to a value of a target block width and a value of a target block height. A prediction size is derived using the size index. In a case that a first condition, that both the value of the transform block width and the value of the transform block height are equal to 4, is true, the size index is set equal to 0 and the prediction size is set equal to 4.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2023
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2024
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yukinobu Yasugi, Eiichi Sasaki, Tomohiro Ikai, Tomoko Aono
  • Patent number: 12132887
    Abstract: A video decoding apparatus is a video decoding apparatus for deriving a prediction image by using a reference picture included in a reference picture list.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2024
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Takeshi Chujoh, Tomohiro Ikai, Tomoko Aono, Eiichi Sasaki, Tomonori Hashimoto, Tianyang Zhou, Yukinobu Yasugi
  • Publication number: 20240348819
    Abstract: An image decoding apparatus and an image coding apparatus that reduce complexity of high image quality processing are implemented. The image decoding apparatus includes an inter prediction parameter decoding processing unit that includes processing of, regarding two motion vectors, modifying the two motion vectors from an error of two prediction images. In a case that neither of the two prediction images is a case of weighted prediction, the processing of modifying the two motion vectors is performed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 26, 2024
    Publication date: October 17, 2024
    Inventors: Takeshi CHUJOH, Tomoko AONO, Tomohiro IKAI, Eiichi SASAKI, Yukinobu YASUGI
  • Publication number: 20240342798
    Abstract: One object of the present invention is to provide a multilayer structure manufacturing device and a multilayer structure manufacturing method, which enable control to accelerate the cooling rate in any layer region and facilitates the development of a desired metal structure by controlling the cooling rate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 14, 2022
    Publication date: October 17, 2024
    Inventors: Hiroki AMANO, Tomohiro OYAMA, Tomoaki SASAKI
  • Publication number: 20240329525
    Abstract: A photosensitive resin composition containing a resin and a compound each having a structure specified by the present specification provides a cured film having excellent adhesiveness to copper wiring.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 13, 2024
    Publication date: October 3, 2024
    Applicant: ASAHI KASEI KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Tomohiro YORISUE, Taihei INOUE, Yoshito IDO, Mitsutaka NAKAMURA, Tomoshige YUNOKUCHI, Daisuke SASANO, Takahiro SASAKI
  • Publication number: 20240333916
    Abstract: In a case that two reference picture lists are selected with one index value, the reference picture lists may not be determinable depending on the number of two reference picture list structures. Provided is a prediction unit that decodes a reference picture list structure including multiple reference picture lists and selects two reference picture lists from the reference picture list structure for each picture or for each slice. The prediction unit selects two reference picture lists with one index value depending on the number of two reference picture list structures.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 12, 2024
    Publication date: October 3, 2024
    Inventors: Takeshi CHUJOH, Tomohiro IKAI, Tomoko AONO, Eiichi SASAKI, Tomonori HASHIMOTO, Tianyang ZHOU, Yukinobu YASUGI
  • Patent number: 12108057
    Abstract: A prediction image generation is provided. First and second luminance values corresponding, respectively, to first and second positions on a luminance image are derived. First and second chrominance values corresponding, respectively, to first and second positions on a chrominance image are derived. First and second difference values indicate, respectively, a first difference between the first and second luminance values and a second difference between the first and second chrominance values. A shift value is derived for a shift operation and a first parameter is derived by using the first and second difference values, and a second parameter is derived by using the second luminance value, the second chrominance value, the first parameter, and the shift value according to a formula. The shift value is set to a first threshold if a value derived by using the first and second difference values is less than the first threshold.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2024
    Assignees: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA, FG Innovation Company Limited
    Inventors: Frank Bossen, Eiichi Sasaki, Yukinobu Yasugi, Tomohiro Ikai
  • Publication number: 20240323419
    Abstract: An image decoding apparatus is implemented that can suppress a decrease in coding efficiency in a case that a high compression rate is achieved. The image decoding apparatus includes a parameter decoder, and the parameter decoder decodes a skip flag indicating whether a skip mode is applied, and in a case that the skip flag does not indicate the skip mode, decodes a merge flag indicating whether a merge mode is applied, and in a case that the merge flag does not indicate the merge mode, decodes an MMVD flag indicating whether an MMVD mode is applied.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 22, 2024
    Publication date: September 26, 2024
    Inventors: Takeshi CHUJOH, Eiichi SASAKI, Tomonori HASHIMOTO, Tomoko AONO, Tomohiro IKAI
  • Publication number: 20240314308
    Abstract: In a case that a model parameter suitable for an input video is selected from a set of prescribed model parameters and that resolution inverse conversion to be applied is performed, a video unsuitable for multiple model parameters may have lower quality. Included are an image decoding apparatus configured to decode coded data obtained by coding an image subjected to resolution conversion and filter information for deriving a first model parameter and a post-processing apparatus configured to perform conversion into the same resolution as an input image signal by using the image and the filter information decoded by the image decoding apparatus. Included are a composite information creating apparatus configured to create filter information for deriving the first model parameter and an image coding apparatus configured to code the image pre-processed in the resolution conversion or the like, and the filter information created by the composite information creating apparatus.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 4, 2022
    Publication date: September 19, 2024
    Inventors: Takuya SUZUKI, Eiichi SASAKI, Takeshi CHUJOH, Tomohiro IKAI, Norio ITOH, Hiroshi WATANABE
  • Publication number: 20240314347
    Abstract: In the related art, in some cases the weighted prediction processing is performed even in a case that normal prediction processing is to be performed. A video decoding apparatus includes a weighted prediction processing unit configured to decode a weight coefficient and an offset value from coded data and to generate a prediction image by multiplying an interpolation image by the weight coefficient and adding the offset value to the interpolation image, and a normal prediction processing unit configured to generate a prediction image from the interpolation image. In a case that in the weighted prediction processing unit, a bi-prediction is performed and information of the weight coefficient and the offset value is absent for both a reference list 0 and a reference list 1, the normal prediction processing unit generates a bi-prediction image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 30, 2024
    Publication date: September 19, 2024
    Inventors: Takeshi CHUJOH, Tomohiro IKAI, Tomoko AONO, Eiichi SASAKI, Tomonori HASHIMOTO
  • Publication number: 20240312709
    Abstract: A multilayer ceramic capacitor includes a multilayer body including first and second main surfaces, first and second side surfaces, and first and second end surfaces, first and second inner electrode layers on laminated dielectric layers and extending to the first and second end surfaces, first and second outer electrodes respectively on the first and second end surfaces, a third outer electrode on the first side surface, and a fourth outer electrode on the second side surface. The first inner electrode layers each have a first opposing portion facing the second inner electrode layers, a first extended portion extending from the first opposing portion to the first end surface, and a second extended portion extending from the first opposing portion to the second end surface. The second inner electrode layers each include first and second extension portions that are partially or entirely bent toward the second main surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 28, 2024
    Publication date: September 19, 2024
    Inventor: Tomohiro SASAKI
  • Publication number: 20240309016
    Abstract: The present invention provides a heterocyclic compound having an orexin type 2 receptor agonist activity. A compound represented by the formula (I): wherein each symbol is as described in the specification, or a salt thereof has an orexin type 2 receptor agonist activity, and is useful as an agent for the prophylaxis or treatment of narcolepsy.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 15, 2024
    Publication date: September 19, 2024
    Inventors: Mitsunori KONO, Yusuke SASAKI, Yuya OGURO, Zenichi IKEDA, Osamu KUBO, Masaki SETO, Toru YAMASHITA, Makoto KAMATA, Kenjiro SATO, Matthew Thomas REYNOLDS, Kazuaki TAKAMI, Asato KINA, Takafumi YUKAWA, Minoru NAKAMURA, Taku KAMEI, Hiroyuki KAKEI, Fumie YAMAGUCHI, Tomohiro OHASHI, Keiko KAKEGAWA, Takuto KOJIMA, Florian PÜNNER, Masataka MURAKAMI, Takahiko TANIGUCHI, Tatsuki KOIKE, Yuichi KAJITA, Yuhei MIYANOHANA, Kohei TAKEUCHI, Yoshiteru ITO, Norihito TOKUNAGA, Yasushi HATTORI, Eiji KIMURA, Martin Alexander PAWLICZEK, Marilena PIRA, Shuhei IKEDA, Noriyuki TEZUKA, Yoshikazu WATANABE, Kevin CURRAN, Nicolle DOERING, Maria HOPKINS, Ben JOHNSON, Andre KIRYANOV, Jon LAM, Sean MURPHY, Natasha O'ROURKE, Holly REICHARD, Paul TANIS, Yunlong ZHANG
  • Patent number: 12096008
    Abstract: A WP prediction and a GBI prediction are adaptively used in combination. A video decoding apparatus (31) includes: a weighted prediction unit (3094) configured to generate a prediction image by using at least one of a weight coefficient or an offset configured for a first unit region and a weight coefficient configured for a second unit region different from the first unit region, the weight coefficient and the offset each being applied to a pixel value included in one or a plurality of reference images.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 2, 2023
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2024
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Tomonori Hashimoto, Tomohiro Ikai, Takeshi Chujoh, Eiichi Sasaki
  • Patent number: 12084436
    Abstract: The present invention provides a heterocyclic compound having a HDAC inhibitory action, which is useful for the treatment of central nervous system diseases including neurodegenerative diseases, and the like, and a medicament comprising the compound. The present invention relates to a compound represented by the formula (I): wherein each symbol is as described in the description, or a salt thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2024
    Assignee: Takeda Pharmaceutical Company Limited
    Inventors: Masahiro Ito, Takeshi Yamamoto, Keiko Kakegawa, Hideyuki Sugiyama, Tohru Miyazaki, Yasuyoshi Arikawa, Tomohiro Okawa, Jinichi Yonemori, Osamu Kubo, Akinori Toita, Takuto Kojima, Fumiaki Kikuchi, Minoru Sasaki, Misaki Homma, Yasuhiro Imaeda, Hironobu Maezaki, Shiinobu Sasaki, Ayumu Sato, Hirotaka Kamitani, Yasutomi Asano, Hironori Kokubo, Masato Yoshikawa
  • Publication number: 20240298021
    Abstract: A non-transitory machine-readable medium of an electronic device that stores one or more computer-executable instructions is provided. The one or more computer-executable instructions, when executed by at least one processing unit of the electronic device, cause the electronic device to: decode a wavefront parallel processing (WPP) enabled flag that indicates whether a rectangular tile or a coding tree unit (CTU) row having a height of one CTU exists in a segment in an object tile group; and decode an end bit of the segment. When the WPP enabled flag is 1, after decoding a CTU at a right end of the CTU row, an end bit of a first segment having a first fixed value is decoded. When the WPP enabled flag is 0, after decoding a CTU at a bottom right of a tile, an end bit of a second segment having a second fixed value is decoded.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 14, 2024
    Publication date: September 5, 2024
    Inventors: SACHIN G. DESHPANDE, Eiichi Sasaki, Takeshi Chujoh, Yukinobu Yasugi, Tomohiro Ikai, Tomoko Aono
  • Patent number: 12069287
    Abstract: An image decoding apparatus and an image coding apparatus that reduce complexity of high image quality processing are implemented. The image decoding apparatus includes an inter prediction parameter decoding processing unit that includes processing of, regarding two motion vectors, modifying the two motion vectors from an error of two prediction images. In a case that neither of the two prediction images is a case of weighted prediction, the processing of modifying the two motion vectors is performed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 6, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2024
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Takeshi Chujoh, Tomoko Aono, Tomohiro Ikai, Eiichi Sasaki, Yukinobu Yasugi
  • Patent number: 12047843
    Abstract: An environment estimation device 1 includes: an information storage unit 11 configured to store base station information in which a serving timing at which a mobile terminal 2 is served in a radio communication range of a base station 3 and environment information indicating an environment of the base station 3 are correlated; an information acquiring unit 10 configured to acquire position information including position data of the mobile terminal 2 acquired by positioning and a positioning timing; and an estimation unit 13 configured to estimate, based on the positioning timing included in the position information of the mobile terminal 2 acquired by the information acquiring unit 10 and the base station information stored in the information storage unit 11, an environment of the mobile terminal 2 at a position indicated by the position data included in the position information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 1, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2024
    Assignee: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Kazuki Kinjou, Tomohiro Nakagawa, Kazuya Sasaki
  • Patent number: 12047560
    Abstract: In a case that two reference picture lists are selected with one index value, the reference picture lists may not be determinable depending on the number of two reference picture list structures. Provided is a prediction unit that decodes a reference picture list structure including multiple reference picture lists and selects two reference picture lists from the reference picture list structure for each picture or for each slice. The prediction unit selects two reference picture lists with one index value depending on the number of two reference picture list structures.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2024
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Takeshi Chujoh, Tomohiro Ikai, Tomoko Aono, Eiichi Sasaki, Tomonori Hashimoto, Tianyang Zhou, Yukinobu Yasugi
  • Publication number: 20240241601
    Abstract: A coordinate input apparatus includes an insulating substrate, sensor electrodes having detecting positions, a top panel including an operating surface that allows an operation with a pointer and covering the sensor electrodes, a measuring circuit that measures capacitances of the detecting positions, and a calculating circuit that calculates a position of the pointer in two-axis directions of the operating surface, wherein, at a detecting position at which a maximum measured value is obtained and detecting positions next to the detecting position, the calculating circuit applies a quadratic curve to the maximum value and the measured values measured at the adjacent detecting positions to calculate a position of a vertex of the quadratic curve, and wherein, when the detecting position at which the maximum value is obtained is at an extreme end in either of the two-axis directions, the calculating circuit corrects the position of the pointer toward the extreme end.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 21, 2023
    Publication date: July 18, 2024
    Inventors: Akira SATO, Satoshi NAKAJIMA, Tomohiro SASAKI