Patents by Inventor Tomoki Watanabe

Tomoki Watanabe 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: 20260147997
    Abstract: According to an embodiment, a computer program product causes a computer to perform: acquiring a generation request for generation of an execution procedure for a process, the generation request being described in natural language; using the generation request and a first verification item for verifying reference information for reference in generating the execution procedure, generating a second verification item other than the first verification item; identifying missing information indicating the reference information not obtained from the generation request, in the reference information to be verified based on the first verification item and the second verification item; acquiring the identified missing information, from an information source other than the generation request; and generating the execution procedure based on an element selected from an element determined in advance for the execution procedure, using the generation request, the reference information obtained from the generation request, and
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 1, 2025
    Publication date: May 28, 2026
    Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA
    Inventors: Atsushi KAWASAKI, Hisayoshi NAGAE, Tsuyoshi KUSHIMA, Qingxiuxiong DONG, Tomoki WATANABE
  • Patent number: 12583505
    Abstract: Proposed is a rack guide which achieves a stable feed of a lubricant from a rack bar to a lubricant retaining groove when the rack bar slides against the rack guide. A lubricant retaining groove is arranged in the supporting surface, the lubricant retaining groove being configured to extend in a rack guide transverse direction perpendicular to a rack guide longitudinal direction and retain a lubricant located between a rack bar and a supporting surface. The lubricant retaining groove has a ship-bow-shaped lubricant introducing area into which the lubricant is introduced and a lubricant retaining area connected to the lubricant introducing area and configured to retain the lubricant introduced from the lubricant introducing area. The lubricant retaining area of the lubricant retaining groove is provided in a contact area of the supporting surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 24, 2026
    Assignee: Oiles Corporation
    Inventors: Tomoki Watanabe, Ryouji Yoshikawa
  • Publication number: 20260065707
    Abstract: According to an embodiment, a computer program product includes a non-transitory computer-readable medium including programmed instructions. The instructions cause a computer to execute: acquiring determination logic that determines whether a state represented by a processing target complies with an input rule represented by input rule information; performing, on the processing target, determination processing according to the determination logic; and outputting, to an output device, output information including a determination result by the determination processing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 25, 2025
    Publication date: March 5, 2026
    Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA
    Inventors: Hirotaka TOKUYAMA, Nao MISHIMA, Satoshi ITO, Tomoki WATANABE
  • Patent number: 12530804
    Abstract: A measurement device of an embodiment includes an imaging unit, an acquisition unit, an output control unit, and an input unit. The imaging unit captures a first image. The acquisition unit acquires auxiliary information candidates for assisting in estimating the captured location of the first image based on the first image. The output control unit outputs the auxiliary information candidates to an output unit. The input unit receives input to select auxiliary information from the auxiliary information candidates.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 20, 2026
    Assignee: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA
    Inventors: Tomoki Watanabe, Akihito Seki
  • Publication number: 20250368253
    Abstract: Proposed is a rack guide which achieves both a stable feed of a lubricant from a rack bar to a lubricant retaining groove and a stable supply of the lubricant from the lubricant retaining groove to the rack bar when the rack bar slides against the rack guide. At least one pair of lubricant retaining grooves configured to retain a lubricant interposed between a rack bar and a supporting surface and face each other in a rack guide longitudinal direction extend in a rack guide transverse direction perpendicular to the rack guide longitudinal direction and are arranged on the supporting surface in such a shape as to bulge away from each other in the rack guide longitudinal direction. An apex of each of the lubricant retaining grooves in the rack guide longitudinal direction is located in a contact area.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 15, 2023
    Publication date: December 4, 2025
    Inventors: Ryouji YOSHIKAWA, Tomoki WATANABE
  • Patent number: 12485953
    Abstract: Proposed is a rack guide which achieves both a stable feed of a lubricant from a rack bar to a lubricant retaining groove and a stable supply of the lubricant from the lubricant retaining groove to the rack bar when the rack bar slides against the rack guide. At least one pair of lubricant retaining grooves configured to retain a lubricant interposed between a rack bar and a supporting surface and face each other in a rack guide longitudinal direction extend in a rack guide transverse direction perpendicular to the rack guide longitudinal direction and are arranged on the supporting surface in such a shape as to bulge away from each other in the rack guide longitudinal direction. An apex of each of the lubricant retaining grooves in the rack guide longitudinal direction is located in a contact area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 2023
    Date of Patent: December 2, 2025
    Assignee: Oiles Corporation
    Inventors: Ryouji Yoshikawa, Tomoki Watanabe
  • Publication number: 20250356520
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes one or more hardware processors configured to function as an acquisition unit, a detection unit, an estimation unit, and a generation unit. The acquisition unit acquires a first image and a second image. The detection unit detects an object captured in the first image by using at least the first image. The estimation unit estimates a relative position of the object based on an imaging position of a target image by using the target image that is at least one of the first image and the second image. The generation unit generates specifying information in which object identification information for identifying the object, facility information based on the relative position, and image identification information for identifying the target image are associated with each other.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 4, 2025
    Publication date: November 20, 2025
    Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA
    Inventors: Naoki NISHIZAWA, Tomoki WATANABE, Atsushi KAWASAKI
  • Publication number: 20250346285
    Abstract: Proposed is a rack guide which achieves a stable feed of a lubricant from a rack bar to a lubricant retaining groove when the rack bar slides against the rack guide. A lubricant retaining groove is arranged in the supporting surface, the lubricant retaining groove being configured to extend in a rack guide transverse direction perpendicular to a rack guide longitudinal direction and retain a lubricant located between a rack bar and a supporting surface. The lubricant retaining groove has a ship-bow-shaped lubricant introducing area into which the lubricant is introduced and a lubricant retaining area connected to the lubricant introducing area and configured to retain the lubricant introduced from the lubricant introducing area. The lubricant retaining area of the lubricant retaining groove is provided in a contact area of the supporting surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 15, 2023
    Publication date: November 13, 2025
    Inventors: Tomoki WATANABE, Ryouji YOSHIKAWA
  • Patent number: 12293876
    Abstract: A power supply device converts power supplied from a power source to power to be supplied to a load and supplies the converted power to the load from an output terminal. The power supply device includes a capacitor that includes a case, a first terminal exposed outside the case, and a second terminal exposed outside the case. The first terminal is fixed to a busbar. The busbar electrically connects the first terminal to the output terminal of the power supply device. The second terminal is fixed to an electrically conductive support that receives a reference potential.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 6, 2025
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Tomoki Watanabe, Mitsuhiro Takada
  • Publication number: 20250086816
    Abstract: According to an embodiment, an information processing apparatus includes one or more hardware processors. The one or more hardware processors update parameters of the first estimation model and the second estimation model so as to optimize a first loss function including a term indicating a difference between the correspondence information and correspondence training data that is training data concerning correspondence between the first pixel and the second pixel, a second loss function including a term concerning a depth, and a third loss function including a term indicating a difference in pixel value between the first pixel and the second pixel whose correspondence is indicated by the correspondence information, and generate the first estimation model and the second estimation model represented by the updated parameters.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 25, 2024
    Publication date: March 13, 2025
    Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA
    Inventors: Weijun MAI, Atsushi KAWASAKI, Nao MISHIMA, Tomoki WATANABE
  • Patent number: 12247898
    Abstract: An in-vehicle device includes a housing having an opening, an openable and closable cover disposed over the opening, a sealing member disposed around the opening such that the sealing member is held between the housing and the cover when the cover is closed, at least one first vibration sensor to measure mechanical vibration of the cover, and a degradation determiner to determine whether any degradation occurs in the sealing member. The degradation determiner determines whether any degradation occurs in the sealing member on the basis of the mechanical vibration measured by the at least one first vibration sensor while the cover is closed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 2, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 11, 2025
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Yuya Nakamura, Taichi Yoshida, Tomoki Watanabe
  • Publication number: 20240412400
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus according to an embodiment includes one or more hardware processors configured to function as a correspondence relationship acquisition unit, a selection unit, and a calculation unit. The correspondence relationship acquisition unit is configured to calculate a plurality of image features from a plurality of images captured by a camera and acquire a correspondence relationship between the image features. The selection unit is configured to select a plurality of correspondence relationships, based on effectiveness of the correspondence relationship and an influence on at least one of the images when the correspondence relationship with the effectiveness lower than an effectiveness threshold is eliminated. The calculation unit is configured to calculate at least one of a position and direction of the camera and three-dimensional information on the image features from the correspondence relationship selected from among the correspondence relationships.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 27, 2024
    Publication date: December 12, 2024
    Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA
    Inventors: Atsushi KAWASAKI, Tomoki WATANABE
  • Patent number: 12058458
    Abstract: An imaging device according to an embodiment of the present disclosure includes: a plurality of current sources including first group current sources and second group current sources; and a control unit that controls driving of the first group current sources to generate a first-phase ramp voltage and controls driving of the first group current sources and at least one current source of the second group current sources to generate a second-phase ramp voltage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 23, 2023
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2024
    Assignee: Sony Semiconductor Solutions Corporation
    Inventors: Tomoki Watanabe, Kyoichi Takenaka
  • Publication number: 20240257372
    Abstract: A computer program product includes a computer-readable recording medium on which programmed instructions causing a computer to perform the following processing are recorded. The computer specifies a reference coordinate system of a three-dimensional position. The computer detects, from an image data, an area in which a designated target object is included. The computer extracts, from three-dimensional point cloud data, extraction point cloud data representing a three-dimensional position of an object in a target area. The computer generates target object information. A shape and an orientation of a first portion of the designated target object are defined. The orientation is defined for one of coordinate axes in the reference coordinate system. The computer generates the target object information by fitting the target object model to the extraction point cloud data under a condition that an orientation of the target object model matches an orientation defined for the first portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 25, 2023
    Publication date: August 1, 2024
    Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA
    Inventors: Atsushi KAWASAKI, Tomoki WATANABE
  • Patent number: 11980791
    Abstract: A living body guidance device includes: a measurement unit 1 that measures biometric information of a user; a stimulus unit 2 that is installed in contact with the user's body and presents a tactile stimulus to the user; a database unit 3 that has a relationship between the tactile stimulus presented by the stimulus unit and the biometric information according to the tactile stimulus recorded; an input unit 4 that sets target biometric information which is target biometric information that is desired of the user to realize; and a control unit 7 that, when there is a difference between current biometric information which is current biometric information of the user estimated based on the measurement result by the measurement unit and the target biometric information, controls the tactile stimulus presented by the stimulus unit so that the difference is reduced, so as to guide the user so that the current biometric information approaches the target biometric information, based on the relationship recorded in th
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2024
    Assignee: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Mana Sasagawa, Arinobu Niijima, Kana Eguchi, Ryosuke Aoki, Takashi Isezaki, Tomoki Watanabe, Toshitaka Kimura
  • Publication number: 20240111360
    Abstract: An operation control device includes processing circuitry configured to acquire, from a line-of-sight detection device, line-of-sight information indicating a line-of-sight of an operator on a touch display; detect a first touch state that indicates a physical touch by the operator on a display region of the touch display or a second touch state that indicates a physical touch by the operator on a knob for operation disposed in the display region; and decide an operation target by touch depending on the detected first or second touch state with reference to information, stored in advance, in which the first and second touch states and the operation target are associated with each other in a case where the first or second touch state is detected in a state in which the line-of-sight of the operator indicated in the acquired line-of-sight information is not directed toward the touch display.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 30, 2021
    Publication date: April 4, 2024
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventor: Tomoki WATANABE
  • Patent number: 11837105
    Abstract: The number n of times of chewing is counted by chewing number of times calculation means (13b2) based on a change in the distance l from a photoreflector (50), which is received together with time t by measurement value receiving means (13b1). To vary hardness h of a bag (30) to a stage that can be sensed, according to the number n of times of chewing, a required air pressure is set according to the current number n of times, based on a hardness/air pressure correspondence recording unit (13g) in which stages that have a significant difference therebetween and are stored in association with the number n of times of chewing are recorded. To realize the set air pressure inside the bag (30), the amount of sucking performed using a vacuum pump 20 is controlled by air pressure control means (13b4).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 21, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2023
    Assignee: Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation
    Inventors: Mana Sasagawa, Arinobu Niijima, Ryosuke Aoki, Tomoki Watanabe, Tomohiro Yamada
  • Publication number: 20230362510
    Abstract: An imaging device according to an embodiment of the present disclosure includes: a plurality of current sources including first group current sources and second group current sources; and a control unit that controls driving of the first group current sources to generate a first-phase ramp voltage and controls driving of the first group current sources and at least one current source of the second group current sources to generate a second-phase ramp voltage.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 23, 2023
    Publication date: November 9, 2023
    Inventors: Tomoki Watanabe, Kyoichi Takenaka
  • Publication number: 20230240572
    Abstract: A psychological oppression feeling that is given to a person by a robot is accurately calculated. There is provided a psychological oppression feeling calculating device including: a first acquisition unit (S02) that acquires a relative positional relationship between a person and a plurality of robots including the number of the plurality of robots with respect to the person, a moving speed of the robot, and a distance between the person and the robot; a second acquisition unit (S01) that acquires a density of the robots with respect to the person; and a calculation unit (S03 and S04) that calculates a psychological oppression feeling given to the person by the robots from results acquired by the first acquisition unit and the second acquisition unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 3, 2020
    Publication date: August 3, 2023
    Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Mana SASAGAWA, Daiki SATO, Takashi ISEZAKI, Tomoki WATANABE
  • Patent number: 11716553
    Abstract: An imaging device according to an embodiment of the present disclosure includes: a plurality of current sources including first group current sources and second group current sources; and a control unit that controls driving of the first group current sources to generate a first-phase ramp voltage and controls driving of the first group current sources and at least one current source of the second group current sources to generate a second-phase ramp voltage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2023
    Assignee: Sony Semiconductor Solution Corporation
    Inventors: Tomoki Watanabe, Kyoichi Takenaka