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).

  • Publication number: 20220052625
    Abstract: A power conversion device includes: an inverter that includes a switching element and converts DC power into AC power; a current detector that detects an output current of the inverter; and a controller that controls the inverter to allow the output current detected by the current detector to follow a current command value having a sinusoidal waveform. The controller compares a current deviation of the output current from the current command value with a hysteresis band to control switching of the switching element. The controller sets the hysteresis band so that a hysteresis band in a zero-crossing area of the current command value is smaller than a hysteresis band in a peak area of the current command value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 5, 2019
    Publication date: February 17, 2022
    Applicant: TOSHIBA MITSUBISHI-ELECTRIC INDUSTRIAL SYSTEMS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Nobuyuki MOMOCHI, Tomohiro TANAKA
  • Patent number: 11241463
    Abstract: A composition includes cells of Lactobacillus paracasei MCC1849 (NITE BP-01633). The composition is in the form of a pharmaceutical composition, a food, a drink, or a feed. The pharmaceutical composition can be used for treating an inflammatory disease, ulcer, food allergies, bronchial asthma, urticaria, pollinosis, anaphylactic shock or an opportunistic infection.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 8, 2022
    Assignee: Morinaga Milk Industry Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Tomohiro Tanaka, Noriyuki Iwabuchi, Yohei Sato, Kanetada Shimizu, Toshitaka Odamaki
  • Publication number: 20220036912
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: September 13, 2019
    Publication date: February 3, 2022
    Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ryo MASUMURA, Tomohiro TANAKA
  • Patent number: 11236997
    Abstract: A surveying instrument includes: a survey system; an image sensing system, including first and second image sensing units, the second having an angle of view wider than that of the first; horizontal and vertical angle drivers to rotate the survey and image sensing systems around a surveying instrument vertical and horizontal axes, respectively; a data storage part; an angle detecting part; and a control unit to cause an image, based on image data the first or second generates after imaging, a design data object for showing the design data portion locations included in the image, and coordinate measurement point objects for showing the coordinate measurement points locations, to be surveyed, corresponding to the design data portion included in the image, to appear on a representation device in response to the design data stored in the data storage part and the detected angle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 24, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 1, 2022
    Assignee: NIKON-TRIMBLE CO., LTD
    Inventors: Tomohiro Tanaka, Kazuhito Yamada, Koki Sugihara, Naoko Niimi
  • Publication number: 20220026867
    Abstract: An air condition control device includes a calculation unit to calculate a control influence degree, intended for controlling air condition changing devices, at each of control points in a room space on the basis of positional information that indicates a position where each of the air condition changing devices is located, on the basis of influence degree information that indicates an influence degree of an air condition exerted on each of locations by each of the air condition changing devices, and on the basis of running condition information that indicates a running condition of each of the air condition changing devices, the control influence degree being an influence degree of an air condition exerted by the air condition changing devices, and a control unit to control the air condition changing devices so as to increase the control influence degree at a control point, which is relatively low.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 1, 2019
    Publication date: January 27, 2022
    Inventor: Tomohiro TANAKA
  • Publication number: 20220013136
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: January 27, 2020
    Publication date: January 13, 2022
    Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ryo MASUMURA, Tomohiro TANAKA, Takanobu OBA
  • Publication number: 20220005466
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: November 19, 2019
    Publication date: January 6, 2022
    Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takashi NAKAMURA, Tomohiro TANAKA
  • Publication number: 20210319783
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: June 21, 2019
    Publication date: October 14, 2021
    Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ryo MASUMURA, Tomohiro TANAKA
  • Patent number: 11110859
    Abstract: The vehicle notification apparatus comprises: an operation element operated by a driver to activate a turn signal indicator; an information obtaining device that obtains information on an object around the vehicle; an auditory notification device configured to give an auditory notification; a visual notification device configured to give a visual notification; and a control unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 20, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 7, 2021
    Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Kohei Morotomi, Tomohiro Tanaka
  • Publication number: 20210229600
    Abstract: The vehicle notification apparatus comprises: an operation element operated by a driver to activate a turn signal indicator; an information obtaining device that obtains information on an object around the vehicle; an auditory notification device configured to give an auditory notification; a visual notification device configured to give a visual notification; and a control unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 20, 2021
    Publication date: July 29, 2021
    Inventors: Kohei MOROTOMI, Tomohiro TANAKA
  • Publication number: 20210183368
    Abstract: Learning data is generated automatically without manually applying rules. An acoustic model learning data generation device 20 includes a stochastic attribute label generation model 21 that generates attribute labels from a first model parameter group according to a first probability distribution; a stochastic phoneme sequence generation model 22 that generates a phoneme sequence from a second model parameter group and the attribute labels according to a second probability distribution; and a stochastic acoustic feature quantity sequence generation model 23 that generates an acoustic feature quantity sequence from a third model parameter group, the attribute labels, and the phoneme sequence according to a third probability distribution.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 21, 2019
    Publication date: June 17, 2021
    Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ryo MASUMURA, Tomohiro TANAKA
  • Publication number: 20210174788
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: June 21, 2019
    Publication date: June 10, 2021
    Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ryo MASUMURA, Tomohiro TANAKA
  • Publication number: 20210090552
    Abstract: A learning apparatus comprises a learning part that learns an error correction model by a set of a speech recognition result candidate and a correct text of speech recognition for given audio data, wherein the speech recognition result candidate includes a speech recognition result candidate which is different from the correct text, and the error correction model is a model that receives a word sequence of the speech recognition result candidate as input and outputs an error correction score indicating likelihood of the word sequence of the speech recognition result candidate in consideration of a speech recognition error.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 18, 2019
    Publication date: March 25, 2021
    Applicant: NIPPPN TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tomohiro TANAKA, Ryo MASUMURA
  • Publication number: 20210023818
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: March 26, 2019
    Publication date: January 28, 2021
    Applicant: DAIKIN INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Takeshi HAZAMA, Nobuyuki KOMATSU, Kouji YOKOTANI, Mayuko TATEMICHI, Akio HIGAKI, Tomohiro TANAKA
  • Publication number: 20210012158
    Abstract: By using training data containing tuples of texts for M types of tasks in N types of languages and correct labels of the texts as input, an optimized parameter group that defines N inter-task shared transformation functions ?(n) corresponding to the N types of languages n and M inter-language shared transformation functions ?(m) corresponding to the M types of tasks in is obtained. At least one of N and M is an integer greater than or equal to 2, each ?(n) outputs a latent vector, which corresponds to the contents of an input text in a certain language n but does not depend on the language n, to ?(1), . . . ?(M), and each ?(m) uses, as input, the latent vector output from any one of ?(1), . . . ?(N) and outputs an output label corresponding to the latent vector for a certain task in.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 14, 2019
    Publication date: January 14, 2021
    Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ryo MASUMURA, Tomohiro TANAKA
  • Publication number: 20200373854
    Abstract: A power conversion device includes: a three-phase inverter including a plurality of switching elements; and a controller configured to PWM-control the three-phase inverter based on three phase voltage commands. The controller generates a zero-phase voltage command using a two-phase modulation scheme and a third harmonic component of the three phase voltage commands. The controller adds the generated zero-phase voltage command to each of the three phase voltage commands to thereby correct each of the three phase voltage commands. The controller compares each of the corrected three phase voltage commands with a carrier wave, to thereby generate a control signal for controlling switching of the plurality of switching elements.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 30, 2018
    Publication date: November 26, 2020
    Applicant: TOSHIBA MITSUBISHI-ELECTRIC INDUSTRIAL SYSTEMS CORPORATION
    Inventor: Tomohiro TANAKA
  • Publication number: 20200362127
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: October 29, 2018
    Publication date: November 19, 2020
    Applicant: DAIKIN INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Mayuko TATEMICHI, Takeshi HAZAMA, Nobuyuki KOMATSU, Tatsuya HIGUCHI, Kouji YOKOTANI, Akio HIGAKI, Tomohiro TANAKA
  • Publication number: 20200237837
    Abstract: A composition includes cells of Lactobacillus paracasei MCC1849 (NITE BP-01633). The composition is in the form of a pharmaceutical composition, a food, a drink, or a feed. The pharmaceutical composition can be used for treating an inflammatory disease, ulcer, food allergies, bronchial asthma, urticaria, pollinosis, anaphylactic shock or an opportunistic infection.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 14, 2020
    Publication date: July 30, 2020
    Inventors: Tomohiro TANAKA, Noriyuki IWABUCHI, Yohei SATO, Kanetada SHIMIZU, Toshitaka ODAMAKI
  • Patent number: 10706949
    Abstract: A storage device includes: a first disabling unit configured to output write enable signals without change when at least two write addresses of a plurality of write addresses for which write enable signals are enabled and held by a first holding unit do not match; a second holding unit configured to hold sets of the plurality of write addresses held by the first holding unit and the plurality of write enable signals output by the first disabling unit; a second disabling unit configured to output one write enable signal of the plurality of write enable signals held by the second holding unit without change in a test mode; and a third holding unit configured to write data in accordance with sets of the plurality of write addresses held by the second holding unit and the plurality of write addresses output by the second disabling unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 4, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 7, 2020
    Assignee: FUJITSU LIMITED
    Inventors: Soichiro Nakamura, Tomohiro Tanaka
  • Patent number: 10653730
    Abstract: A method for prophylaxis or treatment of a disease includes administering an an effective amount of an agent that contains cells of Lactobacillus paracasei MCC1849 (NITE BP-01633) to a subject in need of such prophylaxis or treatment. The disease can be one or more of an inflammatory disease, ulcer, food allergies, bronchial asthma, urticaria, pollinosis, anaphylactic shock or an opportunistic infection.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 19, 2020
    Assignee: MORINAGA MILK INDUSTRY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Tomohiro Tanaka, Noriyuki Iwabuchi, Yohei Sato, Kanetada Shimizu, Toshitaka Odamaki