Patents by Inventor Toshio Sato
Toshio Sato 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: 20180082581Abstract: According to one embodiment, a travel speed calculation device includes an acquisition unit, an inter-vehicle distance calculator, a relative speed calculator, a travel speed calculator, and a determination unit. The travel speed calculator calculates a travel speed of another vehicle based on a travel speed of a probe vehicle and a relative speed of another vehicle relative to the probe vehicle. The determination unit determines change of another vehicle based on a frame at a former time and a frame at a latter time, and inhibits the travel speed calculator from calculating a travel speed of another vehicle based on a relative speed in the case where another vehicle is changed.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 7, 2017Publication date: March 22, 2018Applicants: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba, Toshiba Infrastructure Systems & Solutions CorporationInventors: Yoshihiko SUZUKI, Toshio SATO, Hideki UENO, Yusuke TAKAHASHI, Yoshikazu OOBA, Yasuhiro AOKI, Hiroshi SAKAI
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Publication number: 20180060986Abstract: According to an embodiment, an information processing device includes an input, a first storage, an acquirer, and a second storage. The input receives image data from an imager that captures, from a vehicle, an image of surroundings of the vehicle. The first storage stores, in correlation with each other, identification information for identifying a road structure contained in the image data for guiding the vehicle, and category information indicating a category of the road structure. The acquirer acquires location information representing a spot at which the vehicle is traveling. The second storage stores, in correlation with one another, the image data from which the road structure is detected based on the identification information stored in the first storage, the category information, and the location information indicating a spot at which the vehicle is traveling at the time of capturing the image data containing the road structure.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 29, 2015Publication date: March 1, 2018Inventors: Yoshihiko SUZUKI, Toshio SATO, Hideki UENO, Yusuke TAKAHASHI, Kentaro YOKOI, Kenji KIMIYAMA, Yasuhiro AOKI
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Patent number: 9904095Abstract: A liquid crystal display device includes a first substrate, a partition layer provided on the first substrate and defining plural pixel regions, colored layers of plural colors constituting color filters in the plural pixel regions, a second substrate opposite to the first substrate, and a liquid crystal material arranged between the first and second substrates. The partition layer includes a longitudinal light-shielding part made of a light-shielding resin and extending in a longitudinal direction, a lateral light-shielding part made of the light-shielding resin and extending in a lateral direction, and a light reducing part in which the colored layers including two or more of the colors overlap each other. At least one of the longitudinal light-shielding part and the lateral light-shielding part has a space to avoid contact with the other. The light reducing part fills the space between the longitudinal light-shielding part and the lateral light-shielding part.Type: GrantFiled: November 3, 2016Date of Patent: February 27, 2018Assignee: Japan Display Inc.Inventors: Toshio Sato, Shinji Aotsuka
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Patent number: 9875413Abstract: An embodiment of a vehicle monitoring apparatus has a determiner and a reader. The determiner determines whether or not a specific site of a vehicle exists at least in an area of an image, the image imaged by an imager, the area being one of multiple areas into which the image is divided by dividing line that are substantially orthogonal to a direction of travel of the vehicle. The reader reads information on a license plate mounted to the vehicle from the area in case that the determiner determines the specific site of the vehicle is determined to exist in the area.Type: GrantFiled: January 20, 2016Date of Patent: January 23, 2018Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha ToshibaInventors: Yasuhiro Aoki, Toshio Sato, Kentaro Yokoi, Yoshihiko Suzuki, Kenji Kimiyama, Junichi Nakamura, Masahiro Yamamoto
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Patent number: 9746006Abstract: An open end of a cylinder main body is blocked by a cap, which includes a main body portion, and an outer edge portion that bends from the main body portion toward the open end of the cylinder main body, a distal end of the outer edge portion being locked with an inner circumferential wall. When a piston comes into abutment against the main body portion, a space is formed by the outer edge portion, the inner circumferential wall, and the end surface of the piston. A first port is disposed so as to communicate with the space, whereby the space serves as a space into which the pressure fluid is introduced.Type: GrantFiled: May 23, 2013Date of Patent: August 29, 2017Assignee: SMC KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Koichiro Ishibashi, Koji Hara, Toshio Sato
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Publication number: 20170146038Abstract: A cylinder guide mechanism includes a floating bush, a holding part that holds the floating bush, and a linear guide. When a working fluid is supplied in a tube and a piston rod moves back and forth, the floating bush and a guide member of the linear guide move back and forth in the same direction. At this time, a slider of the linear guide is displaced relative to the guide member by retaining the same position. The slider is connected to the tube via an L-bracket.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 23, 2015Publication date: May 25, 2017Applicant: SMC CORPORATIONInventors: Koichiro ISHIBASHI, Motohiro SATO, Nariaki SUZUKI, Hidefumi IKEDA, Toshio SATO
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Publication number: 20170075167Abstract: A liquid crystal display device includes a first substrate, a partition layer provided on the first substrate and defining plural pixel regions, colored layers of plural colors constituting color filters in the plural pixel regions, a second substrate opposite to the first substrate, and a liquid crystal material arranged between the first and second substrates. The partition layer includes a longitudinal light-shielding part made of a light-shielding resin and extending in a longitudinal direction, a lateral light-shielding part made of the light-shielding resin and extending in a lateral direction, and a light reducing part in which the colored layers including two or more of the colors overlap each other. At least one of the longitudinal light-shielding part and the lateral light-shielding part has a space to avoid contact with the other. The light reducing part fills the space between the longitudinal light-shielding part and the lateral light-shielding part.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 3, 2016Publication date: March 16, 2017Inventors: Toshio SATO, Shinji AOTSUKA
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Publication number: 20170068845Abstract: According to an embodiment, a people search system includes a receiver, a detector, a search unit, and a display. The search unit obtains features of a first face image and a second face image of a predetermined person and searches for the predetermined person based on a similarity between the features of the first and the second face images when an inhibiting factor is not detected, and generates a third face image that is a composite image of the second face image and the inhibiting factor, obtains features of the first and the third face images, and searches for the predetermined person based on a similarity between the features of the first and the third face images when the inhibiting factor is detected The display displays the search result of the predetermined person obtained by the search unit.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 6, 2016Publication date: March 9, 2017Applicant: Kabushiki Kaisha ToshibaInventors: Hiroo SAITO, Toshio SATO
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Publication number: 20170058950Abstract: A guide mechanism (10) is provided with: a guide member (72) having a first groove (81); a slide member (74) having a second groove (82); and rolling bodies (76) arranged in a guide groove (98) comprising the first groove (81) and the second groove (82). A stopper (100) for preventing the rolling bodies (76) from moving out of the guide groove (98) is affixed to the second groove (82) by welding. A method for manufacturing the guide mechanism (10) includes a welding step in which the second groove (82) and the stopper (100) are welded by resistance welding while the stopper (100) is pressed against the second groove (82).Type: ApplicationFiled: April 9, 2015Publication date: March 2, 2017Applicant: SMC CORPORATIONInventors: Yasunori YOSHIDA, Rikiya ISHIKAWA, Youichi KAWAMURA, Yoshihiro TOSHIMORI, Motohiro SATO, Nariaki SUZUKI, Toshio SATO
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Publication number: 20170028046Abstract: The present invention provides an agent for controlling colibacillosis including a fusion protein comprising a subunit of Shiga toxin and a subunit of Escherichia coli heat-labile toxin.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 25, 2014Publication date: February 2, 2017Applicants: IDEMITSU KOSAN CO., LTD., NATIONAL CENTER FOR GLOBAL HEALTH AND MEDICINEInventors: Kazutoshi SAWADA, Takeshi MATSUI, Eiji TAKITA, Takashi HAMABATA, Toshio SATO
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Publication number: 20170002843Abstract: A liner actuator. A guide block for constituting a guide mechanism includes a pair of ball circulation grooves formed in the lower surface of the guide block, the lower surface facing a cylinder body, and balls are mounted in the ball circulation groove. A pair of cover blocks are respectively mounted to the opposite end surfaces of the guide block, and the base section of a cover plate of a plate material is mounted to the lower part of the guide block to thereby retain the balls within the ball circulation groove. Hook sections provided to ends of the base section are engaged with the cover blocks to thereby integrally connect the cover blocks and the guide block.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 3, 2014Publication date: January 5, 2017Applicant: SMC CORPORATIONInventors: Hidefumi IKEDA, Toshio SATO
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Patent number: 9519180Abstract: A liquid crystal display device includes a first substrate, a partition layer provided on the first substrate and defining plural pixel regions, colored layers of plural colors constituting color filters in the plural pixel regions, a second substrate opposite to the first substrate, and a liquid crystal material arranged between the first and second substrates. The partition layer includes a longitudinal light-shielding part made of a light-shielding resin and extending in a longitudinal direction, a lateral light-shielding part made of the light-shielding resin and extending in a lateral direction, and a light reducing part in which the colored layers including two or more of the colors overlap each other. At least one of the longitudinal light-shielding part and the lateral light-shielding part has a space to avoid contact with the other. The light reducing part fills the space between the longitudinal light-shielding part and the lateral light-shielding part.Type: GrantFiled: March 11, 2014Date of Patent: December 13, 2016Assignee: Japan Display Inc.Inventors: Toshio Sato, Shinji Aotsuka
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Patent number: 9500281Abstract: A piston is provided displaceably in the interior of a cylinder tube that constitutes a fluid pressure cylinder, and a piston cover made from an elastic material is disposed so as to cover one end surface of the piston. The piston cover comprises a main body portion confronting a head cover of the cylinder tube, a guide portion covering an outer circumferential surface of the piston and disposed in sliding contact with an inner circumferential surface of a cylinder hole, and a hook portion folded toward an inner circumferential side with respect to the guide portion. Upon displacement of the piston toward the head cover, shocks are absorbed by abutment of the main body portion against the head cover. When the piston is displaced along the cylinder tube, the guide portion serves to guide the piston in the axial direction by sliding contact with the cylinder hole.Type: GrantFiled: November 29, 2013Date of Patent: November 22, 2016Assignee: SMC CORPORATIONInventors: Junichi Saito, Koji Hara, Toshio Sato
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Publication number: 20160328858Abstract: An image processing system of an embodiment includes a first analyzer, an image processor, and a first scaler. The first analyzer is configured to analyze image data to generate an analysis result. The image processor is configured to perform image processing of the image data in accordance with the analysis result, to generate processed image data. The image processor includes a first image processor and a second image processor. The second image processor is configured to receive an output from the first image processor. The first scaler configured to determine whether the analysis result is usable with respect to the image data to be used by the second image processor after the first image processor performs the image processing, and to scale the analysis result to be used by the second image processor when the analysis result is not usable with respect to the image data to be used by the second image processor.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 21, 2016Publication date: November 10, 2016Inventors: Kenji Kimiyama, Toshio Sato, Kentaro Yokoi, Yoshihiko Suzuki
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Patent number: 9460489Abstract: An image processing apparatus is provided, which performs alignment of pixels on a reference frame and on a standard frame, executes an image reconfiguration based on an alignment result, and generates a high resolution image of a frame from low resolution images of the reference and the standard frames, the apparatus including a memory configured to store an input video and to output an image processed video; and a plurality of arithmetic processors configured to perform in parallel, at the time of the alignment, a first alignment processing in a first direction from the reference to the standard frame by a first arithmetic processor, and a second alignment processing in a second direction from the standard to the reference frame by a second arithmetic processor, the second direction being opposite to the first direction, processing results of the first and the second alignment processings being shared among the processors.Type: GrantFiled: March 3, 2015Date of Patent: October 4, 2016Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha ToshibaInventors: Kenji Kimiyama, Toshio Sato, Yoshihiko Suzuki
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Publication number: 20160253902Abstract: A parked vehicle detection device includes a vehicle detector, a host-vehicle position detector, a position calculator, a vehicle information storage, and a parked vehicle determiner. The vehicle detector detects another vehicle included in an image of at least a front of a host vehicle, the image captured by an imaging device mounted on the host vehicle. The host-vehicle position detector detects a position of the host vehicle. The position calculator calculates a position of the detected another vehicle based on the detected position of the host vehicle. The vehicle information storage stores therein information on the another vehicle. The information includes the calculated position. The parked vehicle determiner determines whether the another vehicle is a high possible parked vehicle based on the information on the another vehicle.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 8, 2014Publication date: September 1, 2016Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBAInventors: Kentaro YOKOI, Toshio SATO, Nobuyuki OZAKI, Tatsuro ABE, Yusuke TAKAHASHI, Hayato TODA
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Publication number: 20160187467Abstract: According to some embodiments of the present invention, an axis detection device includes a plurality of distance measurement devices; a tire candidate extractor; a matching processor; and an axle detector. Each of the plurality of distance measurement devices changes a measurement range to one dimension to measure a distance data set. The tire candidate extractor extracts data whose frequency is higher than a predetermined threshold as tire candidate data based on the distance data set measured by the distance measurement device. The matching processor matches a temporal correspondence for the tire candidate data which are extracted by the tire candidate extractor based on the respective distance data sets measured by the plurality of distance measurement devices. The axle detector detects one or a plurality of axles based on the matched result by the matching processor.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 24, 2014Publication date: June 30, 2016Inventors: Toshio SATO, Yasuhiro AOKI, Yusuke TAKAHASHI, Yasuhiro TAKEBAYASHI, Hiroyuki KUWAGAKI, Nobuyuki SUEKI
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Publication number: 20160171312Abstract: An embodiment of a vehicle monitoring apparatus has a determiner and a reader. The determiner determines whether or not a specific site of a vehicle exists at least in an area of an image, the image imaged by an imager, the area being one of multiple areas into which the image is divided by dividing line that are substantially orthogonal to a direction of travel of the vehicle. The reader reads information on a license plate mounted to the vehicle from the area in case that the determiner determines the specific site of the vehicle is determined to exist in the area.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 20, 2016Publication date: June 16, 2016Inventors: Yasuhiro AOKI, Toshio SATO, Kentaro YOKOI, Yoshihiko SUZUKI, Kenji KIMIYAMA, Junichi NAKAMURA, Masahiro YAMAMOTO
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Patent number: 9353861Abstract: A coupling structure for a piston used in a fluid-pressure cylinder. The piston in the fluid-pressure cylinder includes a piston hole that runs through a central part of the piston in an axial direction thereof. One end of a piston rod and a coupling body coupled to the one end are inserted into the piston hole. The coupling body includes: a main part that contacts the one end of the piston rod; and an angled part formed around the main part and inclined at a prescribed angle with respect thereto. When the coupling body is subjected to pressure inside the piston hole, the diameter of the coupling body increases and a pointed edge of the angled part engages with an inner surface of the piston hole such that the coupling body couples the piston and the piston rod.Type: GrantFiled: May 21, 2012Date of Patent: May 31, 2016Assignee: SMC KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Koichiro Ishibashi, Koji Hara, Toshio Sato
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Publication number: 20160055382Abstract: A vehicle discrimination apparatus specifies a vehicle area in which a vehicle is photographed from an image including the vehicle and discriminates a vehicle passing through a road based on an image which a photographing device such as a camera installed at a side of the road or above the road photographs. The vehicle discrimination apparatus includes an image acquisition section, a first search window setting section, a feature amount calculation section, a likelihood calculation section, a vehicle area determination section, a template creation section, a template storage section, a tracking area setting section, a second search window setting section, a candidate area determination section, a selection section, and a detection section.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 4, 2015Publication date: February 25, 2016Inventors: Masahiro HORIE, Toshio SATO, Yasuhiro AOKI, Yoshihiko SUZUKI, Kenji KIMIYAMA, Yusuke TAKAHASHI, Junichi NAKAMURA, Masahiro YAMAMOTO