Patents by Inventor Tomohiro Tanaka
Tomohiro Tanaka 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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Publication number: 20250068246Abstract: A signal processing device includes: a fundamental frequency calculation unit for calculating a fundamental frequency from the touch location; a target waveform calculation unit for modulating a waveform of the fundamental frequency by an envelope waveform of a vibration according to the stimulation type to be presented at the touch location, to calculate a target waveform for the vibration to be presented at the touch location. The fundamental frequency calculation unit calculates the fundamental frequency based on a first distance so that the shorter the first distance is, the higher the fundamental frequency is, the first distance being a minimum distance among distances between touch locations and between a touch location and a support of a panel.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 22, 2021Publication date: February 27, 2025Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric CorporationInventors: Tomohiro NAGAME, Koji TANAKA, Mitsuru SAKAI, Yosuke YUI, Naoki NUMATA
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Patent number: 12233581Abstract: A manufacturing method of a coil component comprising the steps of: preparing a coil assembly body in which a coil is attached on a magnetic core and a mold body which is formed with a cavity portion in the inside thereof and which includes at least one opening portion, putting a viscous admixture including magnetic powders and thermosetting resin and the coil assembly body in the cavity portion, pushing the put-in viscous admixture in the mold body, and thermally-curing the pushed-in viscous admixture and forming a magnetic exterior body which covers the coil assembly body.Type: GrantFiled: March 21, 2022Date of Patent: February 25, 2025Assignee: SUMIDA CORPORATIONInventors: Motomi Takahashi, Tomohiro Kajiyama, Teruaki Tanaka, Shinichi Sakamoto, Juichi Oki, Mitsugu Kawarai, Tsutomu Otsuka
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Publication number: 20250042153Abstract: A liquid ejection head includes a liquid chamber having an element that generates thermal energy, a discharge port for liquid, a nozzle that communicates between the discharge port and the liquid chamber, and a liquid supply path and a liquid collection path in communication with the liquid chamber on opposite sides. The thermal energy forms a bubble in the liquid chamber, and the formed bubble enters the nozzle to eject liquid under pressure of the bubble. In a state where at least a portion of the bubble in the nozzle has a velocity component toward a surface of the liquid chamber that has the element and before liquid to be ejected comes in contact with the surface of the liquid chamber by being drawn into the liquid chamber by contraction of the bubble, the bubble communicates with an atmosphere and the liquid is ejected through the discharge port.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 31, 2024Publication date: February 6, 2025Inventors: KOICHI ISHIDA, SHUZO IWANAGA, KEIJI TOMIZAWA, TAKATSUGU MORIYA, SO AIZAWA, YOSHIHIRO HAMADA, FUMI TANAKA, TOMOHIRO SATO
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Patent number: 12218545Abstract: This uninterruptible power supply includes a switch that is turned off while an AC power supply is normal and turned on during power failure, a converter that converts AC power supplied from the AC power supply into DC power to supply resultant DC power to a DC link portion while the AC power supply is normal, and that supplies DC power supplied from a battery through the switch to the DC link portion during power failure, an inverter that converts DC power from the DC link portion into AC power to supply resultant AC power to a load, and a chopper circuit that allows DC power from the DC link portion to be stored in the battery while the AC power supply is normal.Type: GrantFiled: March 8, 2021Date of Patent: February 4, 2025Assignee: TMEIC CorporationInventors: Ryoji Tsuruta, Tomohiro Tanaka, Hiroshi Masunaga
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Patent number: 12200317Abstract: A terminal of a viewer who views a live-stream includes one or more processors, and memory storing one or more computer programs configured to be executed by the one or more processors. The one or more computer programs includes instructions for: causing transition from a live-stream screen to a post-stream screen when a distributor of the live-stream ends the live-stream, the live-stream screen showing a video image generated by a terminal of the distributor, the post-stream screen showing a predetermined image; and accepting an instruction to use a gift from the viewer on the post-stream screen.Type: GrantFiled: October 11, 2022Date of Patent: January 14, 2025Assignee: 17LIVE JAPAN INC.Inventor: Tomohiro Tanaka
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Patent number: 12176752Abstract: A plurality of UPSs are connected in parallel between an AC power supply and a load. The UPSs each include a first switch connected between the AC power supply and an AC node. During the first power feeding mode, a control device turns on the first switch, and controls a power conversion device so as to receive AC power from the AC node and generate AC power. During a second power feeding mode, the control device turns off the first switch, and controls the power conversion device so as to receive DC power from a power storage device and generate AC power. When the AC power supply recovers during the second power feeding mode, the control device successively switches the plurality of UPSs to the first power feeding mode by successively turning on a plurality of the first switches each of which corresponds to each of the plurality of UPSs.Type: GrantFiled: July 3, 2020Date of Patent: December 24, 2024Assignee: TMEIC CorporationInventors: Yuki Yamashita, Tomohiro Tanaka
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Patent number: 12148418Abstract: A voice recognition device 10 includes: a phonological awareness feature amount extraction unit 11 that transforms an acoustic feature amount sequence of input voice into a phonological awareness feature amount sequence for the language 1 using a first model parameter group; a phonological awareness feature amount extraction unit 12 that transforms the acoustic feature amount sequence of the input voice into a phonological awareness feature amount sequence for the language 2 using a second model parameter group; a phonological recognition unit 13 that generates a posterior probability sequence from the acoustic feature amount sequence of the input voice, the phonological awareness feature amount sequence for the language 1, and the phonological awareness feature amount sequence for the language 2 using a third model parameter group; and a voice text transformation unit 14 that performs voice recognition based on the posterior probability sequence to output text of a voice recognition result.Type: GrantFiled: June 21, 2019Date of Patent: November 19, 2024Assignee: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATIONInventors: Ryo Masumura, Tomohiro Tanaka
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Patent number: 12142258Abstract: Without dividing speech into a unit such as a word or a character, text corresponding to the speech is labeled. A speech distributed representation sequence converting unit 11 converts an acoustic feature sequence into a speech distributed representation. A symbol distributed representation converting unit 12 converts each symbol included in the symbol sequence corresponding to the acoustic feature sequence into a symbol distributed representation. A label estimation unit 13 estimates a label corresponding to the symbol from the fixed-length vector of the symbol generated using the speech distributed representation, the symbol distributed representation, and fixed-length vectors of previous and next symbols.Type: GrantFiled: January 10, 2020Date of Patent: November 12, 2024Assignee: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATIONInventors: Tomohiro Tanaka, Ryo Masumura, Takanobu Oba
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Patent number: 12131729Abstract: A language model score calculation apparatus calculates a prediction probability of a word wi as a language model score of a language model based on a recurrent neural network. The language model score calculation apparatus includes a memory; and a processor configured to execute converting a word wi-1 that is observed immediately before the word wi into a word vector ?(wi-1); converting a speaker label ri-1 corresponding to the word wi-1 and a speaker label ri corresponding to the word wi into a speaker vector ?(ri-1) and a speaker vector ?(ri), respectively; calculating a word history vector si by using the word vector ?(wi-1), the speaker vector ?(ri-1), and a word history vector si-1 that is obtained when a prediction probability of the word wi-1 is calculated; and calculating a prediction probability of the word wi by using the word history vector si-1 and the speaker vector ?(ri).Type: GrantFiled: June 21, 2019Date of Patent: October 29, 2024Assignee: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATIONInventors: Ryo Masumura, Tomohiro Tanaka
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Patent number: 12131730Abstract: A keyword is extracted robustly despite a voice recognition result including an error. A model storage unit 10 stores a keyword extraction model that accepts word vector representations of a plurality of words as an input and extracts and outputs a word vector representation of a word to be extracted as a keyword. A speech detection unit 11 detects a speech part from a voice signal. A voice recognition unit 12 executes voice recognition on the speech part of the voice signal and outputs a confusion network which is a voice recognition result. A word vector representation generating unit 13 generates a word vector representation including reliability of voice recognition with regard to each candidate word for each confusion set. A keyword extraction unit 14 inputs the word vector representation of the candidate word to the keyword extraction model in descending order of the reliability and obtains the word vector representation of the keyword.Type: GrantFiled: November 19, 2019Date of Patent: October 29, 2024Assignee: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATIONInventors: Takashi Nakamura, Tomohiro Tanaka
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Patent number: 12090746Abstract: A radio wave absorbing material including a fluoropolymer. The fluoropolymer contains a vinylidene fluoride unit, and the radio wave absorbing material absorbs a radio wave having a frequency in a range of 1 MHz to 100 MHz.Type: GrantFiled: March 26, 2019Date of Patent: September 17, 2024Assignee: DAIKIN INDUSTRIES, LTD.Inventors: Takeshi Hazama, Nobuyuki Komatsu, Kouji Yokotani, Mayuko Tatemichi, Akio Higaki, Tomohiro Tanaka
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Publication number: 20240290344Abstract: A tag estimation device capable of estimating, for an utterance made among several persons, a tag representing a result of analyzing the utterance is provided. The tag estimation device includes an utterance sequence information vector generation unit that adds a t-th utterance word feature vector and a t-th speaker vector to a (t?1)-th utterance sequence information vector ut?1 that includes an utterance word feature vector that precedes the t-th utterance word feature vector and a speaker vector that precedes the t-th speaker vector to generate a t-th utterance sequence information vector ut, where t is a natural number, and a tagging unit that determines a tag lt that represents a result of analyzing a t-th utterance from a model parameter set in advance and the t-th utterance sequence information vector ut.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 7, 2024Publication date: August 29, 2024Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATIONInventors: Ryo MASUMURA, Tomohiro TANAKA
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Patent number: 12057105Abstract: Provided is a speech recognition device capable of implementing end-to-end speech recognition considering a context.Type: GrantFiled: January 27, 2020Date of Patent: August 6, 2024Assignee: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATIONInventors: Ryo Masumura, Tomohiro Tanaka, Takanobu Oba
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Patent number: 12002486Abstract: A tag estimation device capable of estimating, for an utterance made among several persons, a tag representing a result of analyzing the utterance is provided. The tag estimation device includes an utterance sequence information vector generation unit that adds a t-th utterance word feature vector and a t-th speaker vector to a (t?1)-th utterance sequence information vector ut-1 that includes an utterance word feature vector that precedes the t-th utterance word feature vector and a speaker vector that precedes the t-th speaker vector to generate a t-th utterance sequence information vector ut, where t is a natural number, and a tagging unit that determines a tag lt that represents a result of analyzing a t-th utterance from a model parameter set in advance and the t-th utterance sequence information vector ut.Type: GrantFiled: September 13, 2019Date of Patent: June 4, 2024Assignee: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATIONInventors: Ryo Masumura, Tomohiro Tanaka
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Patent number: 12003103Abstract: A DC power feeding device includes a power feed line connected to a DC load, a first DC/DC converter provided between a solar battery and the power feed line, and a second DC/DC converter provided between a battery and the power feed line. A first controller controls the first DC/DC converter such that maximum power tracking control of the solar battery is performed in a normal state of a commercial AC power source. The first controller controls the first DC/DC converter such that the solar battery outputs a power smaller than a load power in a power failure. A second controller controls the second DC/DC converter such that the battery is charged in the normal state of the commercial AC power source. The second controller controls the second DC/DC converter such that DC voltage on the power feed line attains a reference voltage in the power failure.Type: GrantFiled: March 22, 2022Date of Patent: June 4, 2024Assignee: TMEIC CorporationInventor: Tomohiro Tanaka
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Publication number: 20240171000Abstract: This uninterruptible power supply includes a switch that is turned off while an AC power supply is normal and turned on during power failure, a converter that converts AC power supplied from the AC power supply into DC power to supply resultant DC power to a DC link portion while the AC power supply is normal, and that supplies DC power supplied from a battery through the switch to the DC link portion during power failure, an inverter that converts DC power from the DC link portion into AC power to supply resultant AC power to a load, and a chopper circuit that allows DC power from the DC link portion to be stored in the battery while the AC power supply is normal.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 8, 2021Publication date: May 23, 2024Applicant: TOSHIBA MITSUBISHI-ELECTRIC INDUSTRIAL SYSTEMS CORPORATIONInventors: Ryoji TSURUTA, Tomohiro TANAKA, Hiroshi MASUNAGA
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Publication number: 20240083418Abstract: A collision avoidance support device that is applied to a vehicle equipped with clutch-type front and rear stabilizers controlled in coupled and uncoupled states and an automatic steering device, and comprises a control unit that is configured to, when it is determined that a collision with an obstacle in front of the vehicle needs to be avoided, calculate a target control amount for causing the vehicle to run along a target trajectory for avoiding the collision and control the automatic steering device based on the target control amount, and the control unit is further configured to, when it is determined that a collision needs to be avoided in a situation in which at least one of the stabilizers is in the uncoupled state, calculate a target control amount for causing the vehicle to run along the target trajectory based on a steer characteristic of the vehicle at that time.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 31, 2023Publication date: March 14, 2024Inventor: Tomohiro TANAKA
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Patent number: 11929689Abstract: A power conversion device includes: a dead time application unit which applies a dead time to only one of a pair of pulse signals; a current polarity detection unit which detects a polarity of an output current; and a gate signal selection unit which, if the polarity of the output current is positive, selects the one pulse signal, to which the dead time has been applied, as a gate signal for a positive arm and selects the other pulse signal as a gate signal for a negative arm, and, if the polarity of the output current is negative, selects the one pulse signal, to which the dead time has been applied, as the gate signal for the negative arm and selects the other pulse signal as the gate signal for the positive arm.Type: GrantFiled: September 13, 2019Date of Patent: March 12, 2024Assignee: TOSHIBA MITSUBISHI-ELECTRIC INDUSTRIAL SYSTEMS CORPORATIONInventors: Ryoji Tsuruta, Hiroshi Masunaga, Tomohiro Tanaka
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Patent number: 11887620Abstract: The present invention improves the accuracy of language prediction. A history speech meta-information understanding unit 11 obtains a history speech meta-information vector from a word string of a preceding speech using a meta-information understanding device. A history speech embedding unit 12 converts the word string of the preceding speech and a speaker label into a history speech embedding vector. A speech unit combination vector construction unit 13 obtains a speech unit combination vector by combining the history speech meta-information vector and the history speech embedding vector. A speech sequence embedding vector calculation unit 14 converts a plurality of speech unit combination vectors obtained for the past speech sequences to a speech sequence embedding vector. A language model score calculation unit 15 calculates a language model score of a current speech from a word string of the current speech, a speaker label, and a speech sequence embedding vector.Type: GrantFiled: January 27, 2020Date of Patent: January 30, 2024Assignee: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATIONInventors: Ryo Masumura, Tomohiro Tanaka, Takanobu Oba
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Patent number: 11845839Abstract: A film having a dielectric dissipation factor at a frequency of 1 kHz and 160° C. of 0.02% or lower and a dielectric breakdown strength at 160° C. of 400 V/?m or higher. Also disclosed is a film including at least one fluoropolymer selected from a tetrafluoroethylene/perfluoro(alkyl vinyl ether) copolymer and a tetrafluoroethylene/hexafluoropropylene copolymer, the fluoropolymer having a crystallinity of 65% or higher.Type: GrantFiled: October 29, 2018Date of Patent: December 19, 2023Assignee: DAIKIN INDUSTRIES, LTD.Inventors: Mayuko Tatemichi, Takeshi Hazama, Nobuyuki Komatsu, Tatsuya Higuchi, Kouji Yokotani, Akio Higaki, Tomohiro Tanaka