Patents by Inventor Toru Yamada

Toru Yamada 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: 20200196963
    Abstract: A measuring instrument attachment assist device which includes: a coordinate detector which detects coordinates of predetermined feature points from an image obtained by capturing an image of a subject; a conversion parameter calculator which calculates a projection conversion parameter for converting the coordinates of the feature points in a model image into the coordinates obtained by the detection; a designating unit which designates a position of a measuring instrument attached to the subject in the model image; a coordinate converter which converts a coordinate of the position designated by using the designating unit, by using the projection conversion parameter; and a display which displays the coordinate obtained by the conversion by the coordinate converter , on the image obtained by the capturing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 2, 2018
    Publication date: June 25, 2020
    Inventors: Hiroshi KAWAGUCHI, Toru YAMADA
  • Publication number: 20200176746
    Abstract: A plurality of battery cells of a battery pack may include at least one first battery cell arranged in a first row, at least one second battery cell arranged in a second row adjacent to the first row, at least one third battery cell arranged in a third row adjacent to the second row, and at least one fourth battery cell arranged in a fourth row adjacent to the third row. The at least one first battery cell and the at least one second battery cell are connected in series. Each of the at least one first battery cell is connected in parallel with a corresponding one of the at least one third battery cell. Each of the at least one second battery cell is connected in parallel with a corresponding one of the at least one fourth battery cell.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 6, 2019
    Publication date: June 4, 2020
    Applicant: MAKITA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Toru YAMADA, Hideyuki TAGA
  • Patent number: 10638360
    Abstract: A system of this invention is directed to a communication processing system that copes with a failure while avoiding network congestion or overload by reducing signaling even if a device cannot receive a group message. This communication processing system forms VPLMN (Visited Public Land Mobile Network), and includes a group messaging request acquirer that acquires, from an application, a group messaging request to be distributed to a plurality of devices, a group messaging request distributer that distributes the group messaging request to the plurality of devices, and a redistribution instructor that instructs, when receiving no response to the group messaging request from any one device in the plurality of devices within a predetermined time, the group messaging request distributer to redistribute the group messaging request to a service area including the any one device based on error information of the service area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 28, 2020
    Assignee: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Toru Yamada, Kyoji Hirata, Akira Kamei, Hotaka Sugano, Masahiro Serizawa, Satoshi Hasegawa, Masashi Shimoma, Yumiko Okuyama
  • Patent number: 10623919
    Abstract: An IoT device for properly performing charging even when data from an IoT device is relayed and transmitted to a base station includes a first transmitter that directly transmits acquired data to the base station, a second transmitter that transmits the data to a neighboring device by near-field communication to relay the data by the neighboring device and transmit the data to the base station, and a third transmitter that transmits, to the base station, communication cost bearer information representing that the user of the IoT device bears the communication cost of the data relayed by the neighboring device and transmitted.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 14, 2020
    Assignee: NEC Corporation
    Inventors: Toru Yamada, Akira Kamei, Masahiro Serizawa, Kyoji Hirata, Yumiko Okuyama, Satoshi Hasegawa, Masashi Shimoma
  • Publication number: 20200112902
    Abstract: The present disclosure aims to provide a base station, a radio relay station, a communication method, and a program capable of preventing communication from being unavailable when the base station is brought into a high load condition. A base station (10) configured to communicate with a communication terminal (30) through a radio relay station (20), the base station (10) including: a control unit (11) configured to detect whether the own apparatus is in an overload condition exceeding a predetermined load; and a communication unit (12) configured to transmit, in order to cause the radio relay station (20) to connect to another base station that is not in an overload condition, information about the other base station to the radio relay station (20) when the control unit (11) detects that the own apparatus is in an overload condition.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 23, 2018
    Publication date: April 9, 2020
    Applicant: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Akira KAMEI, Toru YAMADA, Masahiro SERIZAWA, Kyoji HIRATA, Yumiko OKUYAMA, Masashi SHIMOMA, Satoshi HASEGAWA
  • Patent number: 10585824
    Abstract: According to the present invention, congestion in a network band is suppressed. This information processing apparatus is provided with: a command reception unit that receives commands from at least one application given to at least two device groups; a device specification unit that specifies devices belonging to the at least two device groups when the commands from the at least one application given to the at least two device groups are of a similar type; and a command transmission control unit that executes control transmission so as to prevent overlap of transmission of the commands to the specified devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 20, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 10, 2020
    Assignee: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Norio Uchida, Toru Yamada
  • Patent number: 10588082
    Abstract: A wireless communication system that enables a wireless terminal to perform communication using a plurality of component carriers having different frequencies. The wireless communication system monitors a communication state of each of the component carriers allocated to the wireless terminal; distributes, to the component carriers, data to be transmitted, based on the communication state of each of the component carriers; starts a reception operation at a predetermined timing in a non-reception period of a second cycle during a discontinuous reception operation at the second cycle in some of the component carriers allocated to the wireless terminal, and performs the reception operation a predetermined number of times, the second cycle being longer than a first cycle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 10, 2020
    Assignee: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Toru Yamada, Akira Kamei, Masahiro Serizawa, Hotaka Sugano, Satoshi Hasegawa, Masashi Shimoma
  • Publication number: 20200048257
    Abstract: Provided are a novel compound having an antagonistic activity for the P2X7 receptor, and a pharmaceutical composition having an antagonistic activity for the P2X7 receptor. The compound represented by Formula (I): wherein the symbols are defined in the specification, or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 16, 2017
    Publication date: February 13, 2020
    Applicant: Shionogi & Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Koji MASUDA, Shuichi SUGIYAMA, Toru YAMADA, Eiichi KOJIMA, Tomoyuki OGAWA, Naotake KOBAYASHI, Hiroyuki KAI
  • Publication number: 20200037202
    Abstract: The present disclosure aims to provide a base station, a radio relay station, a communication method, and a program capable of preventing communication from being unavailable when the base station is brought into a high load condition. A base station (10) configured to communicate with a communication terminal (30) through a radio relay station (20), the base station (10) including: a control unit (11) configured to detect whether the own apparatus is in an overload condition exceeding a predetermined load; and a communication unit (12) configured to transmit, in order to cause the radio relay station (20) to connect to another base station that is not in an overload condition, information about the other base station to the radio relay station (20) when the control unit (11) detects that the own apparatus is in an overload condition.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 24, 2018
    Publication date: January 30, 2020
    Applicant: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Akira KAMEI, Toru YAMADA, Kyoji HIRATA, Masahiro SERIZAWA, Yumiko OKUYAMA, Masashi SHIMOMA, Satoshi HASEGAWA
  • Publication number: 20200029819
    Abstract: The present invention addresses the problem of providing a brain function measurement device and a brain function measurement method with which it is possible to eliminate or minimize the need for a calibration operation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 28, 2018
    Publication date: January 30, 2020
    Inventor: Toru YAMADA
  • Publication number: 20200029184
    Abstract: An IoT device for properly performing charging even when data from an IoT device is relayed and transmitted to a base station includes a first transmitter that directly transmits acquired data to the base station, a second transmitter that transmits the data to a neighboring device by near-field communication to relay the data by the neighboring device and transmit the data to the base station, and a third transmitter that transmits, to the base station, communication cost bearer information representing that the user of the IoT device bears the communication cost of the data relayed by the neighboring device and transmitted.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 21, 2017
    Publication date: January 23, 2020
    Applicant: NEC Corporation
    Inventors: Toru YAMADA, Akira KAMEI, Masahiro SERIZAWA, Kyoji HIRATA, Yumiko OKUYAMA, Satoshi HASEGAWA, Masashi SHIMOMA
  • Publication number: 20200022059
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus that suppresses a power consumption problem in a relay terminal includes a first controller that controls an IoT device to perform multihop routing via at least one relay on an upload of data from the IoT device to a base station, and a second controller that controls the base station to use, on a down-link from the base station to the IoT device, a route different from a route that uses at least one relay.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 21, 2017
    Publication date: January 16, 2020
    Applicant: NEC Corporation
    Inventors: Akira KAMEI, Toru YAMADA, Masahiro SERIZAWA, Kyoji HIRATA, Yumiko OKUYAMA, Satoshi HASEGAWA, Masashi SHIMOMA
  • Publication number: 20200022015
    Abstract: To avoid congestion and an overload at the time of data transmission from an IoT device to a wireless network, at least one gateway apparatus is controlled to execute a gateway function at a first timing at a first position, collect data from a plurality of devices present near the first position, and transmit aggregated data to a base station, and to execute the gateway function at a second timing different from the first timing at a second position different from the first position, collect data from a plurality of devices present near the second position, and transmit aggregated data to the base station.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 21, 2017
    Publication date: January 16, 2020
    Applicant: NEC Corporation
    Inventors: Akira KAMEI, Toru YAMADA, Masahiro SERIZAWA, Kyoji HIRATA, Yumiko OKUYAMA, Satoshi HASEGAWA, Masashi SHIMOMA
  • Publication number: 20200015168
    Abstract: This invention provides a communication processing system that reduces the power consumption of a remote UE associated with measurement of a strength of a received signal. The communication processing system includes a communication terminal, a base station, relay stations that relay communication between the communication terminal and the base station, a measurer that measures, in the communication terminal, a strength of a signal received from one of the relay stations, and a controller that controls to reselect another of the relay stations if the measured strength of the received signal is smaller than a first threshold, and reduce a count of measuring the strength of the received signal by the measurer if the measured strength of the received signal is larger than the second threshold which is larger than the first threshold.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 10, 2018
    Publication date: January 9, 2020
    Applicant: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Akira KAMEI, Yumiko OKUYAMA, Toru YAMADA, Kyoji HIRATA, Masahiro SERIZAWA, Masashi SHIMOMA, Satoshi HASEGAWA
  • Publication number: 20190380634
    Abstract: Provided is a brain function measurement device capable of improving the reliability of brain function measurement using a simple configuration. The brain function measurement device includes light source probes LD2 and LD12 for irradiating the scalp of a test subject with light beams; linearly polarizing films P2 and P3 for polarizing the light beams emitted from the light source probes LD2 and LD12 in a first direction; a linearly polarizing film P1 for blocking components in the first direction of reflected light beams that are generated as the light beams emitted from the linearly polarizing film P2 and P3 are reflected by the hairs of the test subject; and a detection probe PD1 for detecting the intensity of a light beam that has passed through the linearly polarizing film P1.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 17, 2015
    Publication date: December 19, 2019
    Inventor: Toru Yamada
  • Publication number: 20190379450
    Abstract: This invention provides a communication processing system that stably efficiently uses a resource in a cell managed by a base station. The communication processing system includes a communication terminal, a base station, a plurality of relay stations that relay communication between the communication terminal and the base station, a measurer in the communication terminal that measures strengths of received signals from the plurality of relay stations, and a selector in the base station that selects a relay station that connects the base station and the communication terminal, based on a comparison result of at least one capability of capabilities had by each of the plurality of relay stations, when there exist a plurality of relay stations whose strengths of received signals are more than a threshold.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 10, 2018
    Publication date: December 12, 2019
    Applicant: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Akira KAMEI, Toru YAMADA, Kyoji HIRATA, Yumiko OKUYAMA, Masahiro SERIZAWA, Masashi SHIMOMA, Satoshi HASEGAWA
  • Publication number: 20190364437
    Abstract: This invention provides a communication processing system that appropriately manages total power consumption in a cell managed by a base station. The communication processing system includes a communication terminal, a base station, a plurality of relay stations that relay communication between the communication terminal and the base station, first measurers in the plurality of relay stations that measure strengths of first signals received from the base station, a second measurer in the communication terminal that measures strengths of second signals received from the plurality of relay stations, and selects a communication path with a smallest difference between strengths of a first signal a second signal in a plurality of communication paths on which the base station, the plurality of relay stations and the communication terminal are connected.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 11, 2017
    Publication date: November 28, 2019
    Applicant: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Akira KAMEI, Yumiko OKUYAMA, Toru YAMADA, Kyoji HI RATA, Masahiro SERIZAWA, Masashi SHIMOMA, Satoshi HASEGAWA
  • Publication number: 20190357006
    Abstract: Disclosed is an information processing apparatus for reducing the waste of power consumption in an IoT system, comprising a position information obtainer that periodically obtains position information of a data collection device, and position information of a relay device that relays communication between the data collection device and a base station, and a controller that controls measurement of a signal strength between the data collection device and the relay device, based on the position information of the data collection device and the position information of the relay device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 11, 2017
    Publication date: November 21, 2019
    Applicant: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kyoji HIRATA, Akira KAMEI, Yumiko OKUYAMA, Toru YAMADA, Masahiro SERIZAWA, Masashi SHIMODA, Satoshi HASEGAWA
  • Patent number: 10466305
    Abstract: One aspect of the present disclosure is an inspection apparatus of a battery pack for an on-site electric apparatus, which comprises a coupler, a discharger, a changer, a discharge performing device, a voltage value detector, and a calculator. The changer detects one of a nominal voltage value of the battery pack coupled to the coupler and a voltage value of a battery in the battery pack, and reduces a discharge time of the battery and/or a discharge current value of the battery as the detected value is larger.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2019
    Assignee: MAKITA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Toru Yamada, Koji Takahashi
  • Patent number: 10468332
    Abstract: Provided is a cooler including an upper plate configured to have a semiconductor chip to be arranged thereon, a plurality of plate-like fins arranged under the upper plate, and a coupling bar coupled to the plate-like fins. The coupling bar has a main-body portion and a plurality of comb-tooth portions protruding from the main-body portion into the flow channel, the cooler includes a plurality of openings in a plane orthogonal to an extending direction of the plate-like fins, and the openings are defined at least by the comb-tooth portions and the plate-like fins, and the openings include a first opening provided in a first flow channel that does not run below the semiconductor chip, and a second opening provided in a second flow channel that runs below the semiconductor chip, where the second opening is larger than the first opening.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2019
    Assignee: FUJI ELECTRIC CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Toru Yamada