Patents by Inventor Toru Sano

Toru Sano 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).

  • Patent number: 9715461
    Abstract: According to an embodiment, a cache memory control circuit includes: a hit determination section; a refill processing section; a search section configured to determine a refill candidate way by searching for the way candidate for a refill process from a plurality of ways based on an LRU algorithm when the hit determination section detects a cache miss; a binary tree information section configured to store binary tree information for the LRU algorithm; a conflict detection section; and a control section. The control section updates the binary tree information in the binary tree information section by using way information of the way where the refill process is being executed when the conflict detection section determines that the way where the refill process is being executed and the refill candidate way match each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 4, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 25, 2017
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventor: Toru Sano
  • Publication number: 20170076460
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, an image processing apparatus is provided with a first arithmetic unit, a second arithmetic unit, a third arithmetic unit, and a search unit. The first arithmetic unit calculates a first cost function. The first cost function represents a relation between a disparity value and a cost in a search range of a second image. The second arithmetic unit calculates a second cost function. The second cost function is a sum of first cost functions regarding a plurality of paths. The third arithmetic unit calculates a representative value of intermediate data. The intermediate data is an addition result of first cost functions regarding a first path group among the plurality of paths.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 24, 2016
    Publication date: March 16, 2017
    Inventors: Yutaka Yamada, Toru Sano
  • Publication number: 20170069072
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes: a first cost calculating section configured to calculate similarity degrees between a first pixel in a first image and plural second pixels located in a horizontal-direction first range in a second image, and extract a second pixel with a highest similarity degree; a second cost calculating section configured to calculate a similarity degree between plural third pixels in a vertical-direction second range including the extracted second pixel and the first pixel and extract a third pixel with a highest similarity degree; an amount-of-difference buffer recording difference between a vertical-position of the extracted third pixel and the first pixel as an amount of difference; and a second position setting section configured to determine positions of the second pixels for which a similarity degree to the first pixel for which a disparity is calculated next is calculated.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 29, 2016
    Publication date: March 9, 2017
    Inventor: Toru Sano
  • Publication number: 20170057328
    Abstract: A wind direction adjuster enabling an operation of a louver with a stable operation load and providing an excellent operation feeling is provided. An axial support body is axially supported to a cylindrical case body turnably so as to have an axis along a direction crossing an axial direction of the case body. A louver is axially supported to the axial support body turnably so as to have an axis along a direction crossing the axis of the axial support body. A ball unit is set in any one of the case body and the louver as a load setting unit that sets a turning load of the louver. A receiving unit that slidably receives the ball unit is set in the other one of the case body and the louver. A coil spring urges one of the ball unit and the receiving unit to be pressed against the other.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 17, 2016
    Publication date: March 2, 2017
    Inventor: Toru SANO
  • Publication number: 20160247022
    Abstract: An image recognition apparatus in an embodiment includes a feature-value calculating section configured to calculate a feature value in a region of interest segmented from an image, a likelihood calculating section configured to calculate likelihood of an object present in the region of interest referencing the feature value including a plurality of feature value elements and dictionary data including a plurality of dictionary elements, and a dictionary control section configured to acquire the dictionary element corresponding to the feature value element exceeding a set value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 12, 2015
    Publication date: August 25, 2016
    Inventor: Toru SANO
  • Patent number: 9387526
    Abstract: A roller leveler includes: a leveling roll unit having a plurality of leveling rolls configured to rotate so as to pass a plate while sandwiching and pressing the plate; a pushing cylinder provided at each of an entrance side and a discharge side of the leveling roll unit, at which the plate enters and is discharged, respectively, and configured to press the plate via the leveling rolls; and a driving mechanism configured to rotate the leveling rolls to pass the plate. At least one of the plurality of leveling rolls has a stepped structure, including a lateral center portion with a large diameter, corresponding to a center portion of the plate with respect to a plate width direction, and lateral end portions with a small diameter, corresponding to edge portions of the plate with respect to the plate width direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 8, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2016
    Assignee: JP STEEL PLANTECH CO.
    Inventors: Keizo Abe, Toru Aoyama, Toru Sano
  • Publication number: 20160137034
    Abstract: A vehicle wind direction adjuster includes: a case having a cylindrical shape; a housing having a cylindrical shape and turnably coupled to the case through a universal joint; and a louver provided in the housing, wherein: the universal joint includes a shaft member having a first shaft and a second shaft orthogonal to the first shaft, a first turning supporter coupled to the case and configured to turnably support the first shaft, and a second turning supporter coupled to the housing and configured to turnably support the second shaft; an first elastic body is provided around the first shaft such that the first elastic body is interposed between the shaft member and the first turning supporter; and an second elastic body is provided around the second shaft such that the second elastic body is interposed between the shaft member and the second turning supporter.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 17, 2015
    Publication date: May 19, 2016
    Inventors: Toru SANO, Nobuaki UEHARA, Shohei UCHIKAWA
  • Patent number: 9256495
    Abstract: A processing unit of the embodiments includes an instruction memory that holds a plurality of instructions specified by addresses, and that cannot execute read and write operations concurrently, an error correction circuit that detects and corrects an error in the instruction, a program counter, an instruction buffer that holds the instruction corrected as a corrected instruction, a program counter buffer that holds an address of the instruction where an error has been detected, a selector that selects and outputs any of the output of the error correction circuit and the output of the instruction buffer, and a control unit that controls the read and write of the instruction specified by the address from and into the instruction memory. The control unit writes the corrected instruction in the instruction memory using an address held in the program counter buffer when a predetermined condition is satisfied after the occurrence of the error.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 6, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 9, 2016
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Toru Sano, Takashi Miyamori
  • Publication number: 20160004932
    Abstract: When making a diagnosis by synthetically taking into account the information obtained by preparing a plurality of samples using different staining methods or the like and sequentially observing the samples, a diagnostician must remember information about the plurality of samples. The present invention includes image storage means for storing a reference image obtained by photographing a predetermined stained sample of and a comparison image obtained by photographing another stained sample of substantially identical biological tissues, partial image creation means for detecting a structure of the biological tissue from the reference image, cutting out from the comparison image a partial image that contains the structure detected, and storing into partial image storage means the partial image in association with the structure and the comparison image, image output means for outputting a result image that includes the reference image and the partial image, and the partial image storage means.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 24, 2014
    Publication date: January 7, 2016
    Applicant: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Maki SANO, Yoshiko YOSHIHARA, Toru SANO
  • Publication number: 20150248354
    Abstract: According to an embodiment, a cache memory control circuit includes: a hit determination section; a refill processing section; a search section configured to determine a refill candidate way by searching for the way candidate for a refill process from a plurality of ways based on an LRU algorithm when the hit determination section detects a cache miss; a binary tree information section configured to store binary tree information for the LRU algorithm; a conflict detection section; and a control section. The control section updates the binary tree information in the binary tree information section by using way information of the way where the refill process is being executed when the conflict detection section determines that the way where the refill process is being executed and the refill candidate way match each other.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 4, 2014
    Publication date: September 3, 2015
    Inventor: Toru SANO
  • Publication number: 20150242187
    Abstract: In an embodiment, a division circuit has an overflow determination circuit configured to determine whether or not a division result overflows by comparing absolute values of a dividend and a divisor, a replacement circuit configured to replace the dividend with a first value and replace the divisor with a second value when the overflow determination circuit determines that the division result overflows, and a stepwise division circuit configured to perform stepwise division on the dividend and the divisor or the first value and the second value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 4, 2014
    Publication date: August 27, 2015
    Inventor: Toru SANO
  • Publication number: 20150128675
    Abstract: A roller leveler includes: a leveling roll unit having a plurality of leveling rolls configured to rotate so as to pass a plate while sandwiching and pressing the plate; a pushing cylinder provided at each of an entrance side and a discharge side of the leveling roll unit, at which the plate enters and is discharged, respectively, and configured to press the plate via the leveling rolls; and a driving mechanism configured to rotate the leveling rolls to pass the plate. At least one of the plurality of leveling rolls has a stepped structure, including a lateral center portion with a large diameter, corresponding to a center portion of the plate with respect to a plate width direction, and lateral end portions with a small diameter, corresponding to edge portions of the plate with respect to the plate width direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 8, 2013
    Publication date: May 14, 2015
    Applicant: JP STEEL PLANTECH CO.
    Inventors: Keizo Abe, Toru Aoyama, Toru Sano
  • Patent number: 8848703
    Abstract: A table for changing destination has a destination address in a shared memory and an identifier of a router directly connected to a destination core, in association with each other, and is set by a source core. A search unit performs a first search for searching whether the table has an effective entry having the same address as the destination address in the shared memory, and stored in a header of a write request packet received by the source core. A route calculation unit performs a route calculation with a destination that is a router of an identifier of the entry, if the effective entry is found as a result of the first search. A header generator stores the router identifier obtained by the route calculation in a hop router field of the header of the write request packet, and sets a rerouted flag representing a change in destination.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 2011
    Date of Patent: September 30, 2014
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventor: Toru Sano
  • Publication number: 20140289556
    Abstract: A processing unit of the embodiments includes an instruction memory that holds a plurality of instructions specified by addresses, and that cannot execute read and write operations concurrently, an error correction circuit that detects and corrects an error in the instruction, a program counter, an instruction buffer that holds the instruction corrected as a corrected instruction, a program counter buffer that holds an address of the instruction where an error has been detected, a selector that selects and outputs any of the output of the error correction circuit and the output of the instruction buffer, and a control unit that controls the read and write of the instruction specified by the address from and into the instruction memory. The control unit writes the corrected instruction in the instruction memory using an address held in the program counter buffer when a predetermined condition is satisfied after the occurrence of the error.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 6, 2014
    Publication date: September 25, 2014
    Applicant: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Toru SANO, Takashi MIYAMORI
  • Publication number: 20140193052
    Abstract: Disclosed is an information processing apparatus that supports diagnosis based on a tissue sample image obtained from imaging a biological tissue, including: a tissue sample image cutting unit that individually cuts out the tissue sample image from a plurality of slides that includes the plurality of tissue sample images; and a display position setting unit that sets a display position on a display screen where a reduced image of each tissue sample image is displayed, on the basis of a characteristic amount of each tissue sample image cut by the tissue sample image cutting unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 22, 2012
    Publication date: July 10, 2014
    Inventors: Yoshiko Yoshihara, Tomoharu Kiyuan, Toru Sano, Kenichi Kamijo
  • Publication number: 20140176602
    Abstract: Provided is an information processing apparatus which supports diagnosis based on a tissue specimen image obtained by capturing body tissues, including an area generation unit that divides at least one feature value of the tissue specimen image into a plurality of levels based on a magnitude of the feature value, and generates an area on the tissue specimen image belonging to each level; and an overlay image generation unit that associates the area of each level which is generated by the area generation unit with an image which is processed to have the same shape and the same positional relation as the area and in which a magnitude relation of the feature value is identifiable and generates an overlay image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 17, 2012
    Publication date: June 26, 2014
    Applicant: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yoshiko Yoshihara, Tomoharu Kiyuna, Toru Sano, Kenichi Kamjo
  • Publication number: 20130250954
    Abstract: An on-chip router of the embodiments has plural input ports that receive packets, plural output ports that transmits the packets, plural buffers, each being provided so as to correspond to each of the input ports and accumulating at least a portion of the packets received through the input ports, a switching unit that switches the output destinations of the packets so that the packets are transmitted from any of the plural output ports, a header analyzer that has plural hop field extractors provided so as to correspond to each of the buffers, and a switching controller that controls the switching unit so that the packets are transmitted from an output port indicated by output port information of the hop field extracted by the hop field extractors.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 29, 2012
    Publication date: September 26, 2013
    Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA
    Inventor: Toru Sano
  • Publication number: 20120185633
    Abstract: A table for changing destination has a destination address in a shared memory and an identifier of a router directly connected to a destination core, in association with each other, and is set by a source core. A search unit performs a first search for searching whether the table has an effective entry having the same address as the destination address in the shared memory, and stored in a header of a write request packet received by the source core. A route calculation unit performs a route calculation with a destination that is a router of an identifier of the entry, if the effective entry is found as a result of the first search. A header generator stores the router identifier obtained by the route calculation in a hop router field of the header of the write request packet, and sets a rerouted flag representing a change in destination.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 26, 2011
    Publication date: July 19, 2012
    Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA
    Inventor: Toru Sano
  • Patent number: 7892394
    Abstract: Provided is a pressure-sensitive adhesive for an optically functional film which can carry out adhesion with a good durability in adhesion of an optically functional film such as adhesion of a polarizing plate, particularly a polarizing plate integrated with a viewing angle expanding film and the like with a liquid crystal cell, adhesion of a polarizing plate with a retardation film, adhesion of a retardation film with a retardation film and adhesion of a retardation film with a liquid crystal cell and which has the characteristics that a liquid crystal display obtained therefrom is less liable to cause light leakage even under the environment of high temperature and high humidity and that static electricity is less liable to be produced when peeling off a release film from a pressure-sensitive adhesive layer. The pressure-sensitive adhesive for applying an optically functional film comprises a pressure-sensitive adhesive resin and an antistatic agent, wherein a storage elastic modulus (G?) at 23° C. is 0.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 16, 2007
    Date of Patent: February 22, 2011
    Assignee: Lintec Corporation
    Inventors: Toru Sano, Koichi Nagamoto, Kentaro Kusama
  • Patent number: 7842514
    Abstract: A channel (1) formed in a substrate (41) branches into channels (2, 3) at a branch point (43). On this branch point, obstacles (8) having a columnar structure are aligned at certain intervals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 25, 2003
    Date of Patent: November 30, 2010
    Assignee: NEC Corporation
    Inventors: Wataru Hattori, Masakazu Baba, Toru Sano, Kazuhiro Iida, Hisao Kawaura, Noriyuki Iguchi, Hiroko Someya