Patents by Inventor Toshishige Shimamura
Toshishige Shimamura 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: 20230210459Abstract: A wearable biological signal measuring element is attached to a garment and detachably connected to a controller, the wearable biological signal measuring element including: an electrode in contact with skin; an electric line connected to the electrode; an electric connector connected to the electric line, penetrating the garment, and detachably connected to the controller outside the garment; and a water supply mechanism including a water guiding mechanism and a first water tank connected to an opening of the water guiding mechanism inside the garment and including a through hole in a contact surface with the electrode.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 29, 2020Publication date: July 6, 2023Inventors: Yoshiyuki Doi, Toshishige Shimamura, Yuzo Ishii, Satoshi Tsunashima
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Publication number: 20220265191Abstract: A nametag transmitter is a nametag transmitter that is to be attached to smartwear including an electrode for detecting biological information, the nametag transmitter including: a reception unit for receiving the biological information from the electrode; a wireless communication unit for transmitting the biological information to a data collection apparatus; a display unit for displaying identification information for specifying a user of the smartwear; and a connection portion to be attached to the smartwear. The nametag transmitter is attached to the smartwear in a state in which pairing between the wireless communication unit and the data collection apparatus has been carried out.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 10, 2019Publication date: August 25, 2022Inventors: Yuzo Ishii, Toshishige Shimamura, Rena Nakatsuji, Hitoshi Okikawa, Yoshiyuki Doi, Nobutomo Yoshihashi
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Publication number: 20220265995Abstract: An embodiment electrical stimulation device includes a designation circuit configured to designate an electrode at which myoelectric potential is measured from the plurality of electrodes for measuring myoelectric potential in the state in which the plurality of electrodes are fitted on the surface of the body of a target person. The electrical stimulation device also includes an application circuit configured to apply an electrical stimulus to the electrode designated by the designation circuit. The designation circuit designates, for example, an electrode at which a myoelectric potential higher than a preset reference value is measured, from the plurality of electrodes. The electrical stimulation device may also include a storage circuit configured to store identification information for identifying an electrode targeted for application.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 23, 2019Publication date: August 25, 2022Inventors: Toshishige Shimamura, Rena Nakatsuji, Hitoshi Okikawa, Yuzo Ishii, Yoshiyuki Doi, Nobutomo Yoshihashi
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Publication number: 20220257924Abstract: A measurement circuit measures electric potentials generated at a plurality of electrodes used to measure myoelectric potential and fitted on the surface of the body of a target person. The plurality of electrodes are fixed to a cloth. A designation circuit designates an electrode at which a myoelectric potential is measured. A display device displays myoelectric potential information including the myoelectric potential measured at the designated electrode and identification information of the designated electrode.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 23, 2019Publication date: August 18, 2022Inventors: Toshishige Shimamura, Rena Nakatsuji, Hitoshi Okikawa, Yuzo Ishii, Yoshiyuki Doi, Nobutomo Yoshihashi
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Publication number: 20220255812Abstract: A cable connection management system of the present disclosure includes: an network orchestrator configured to obtain port ID information from an network device, the network device including a port to which a connector-attached cable is connected, the port ID information being on a port of the port to which the connector-attached cable is connected; an apparatus configured to obtain connector ID information on the connector-attached cable connected to the network device to transmit the connector ID information to a cable connection management server when the connector-attached cable is connected to the network device; and the cable connection management server configured to associate and store the connector ID information on the connector-attached cable and the port ID information.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 31, 2019Publication date: August 11, 2022Inventors: Yuichi Okabe, Toshishige Shimamura, Yoshiyuki Doi, Yuzo Ishii
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Publication number: 20220249838Abstract: Included are a plurality of electrodes for measuring myoelectric potential and a cloth for holding the plurality of electrodes fixed to the cloth on the surface of the body of a target person. The electrical stimulation application device includes a designation circuit configured to designate from the plurality of electrodes an electrode at which myoelectric potential is measured and an application circuit configured to apply an electrical stimulus to the electrode designated by the designation circuit. The designation circuit designates, for example, an electrode at which a myoelectric potential higher than a preset reference value is measured, from the plurality of electrodes.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 23, 2019Publication date: August 11, 2022Applicants: Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation, Nippon Telegraph and Telephone CorporationInventors: Toshishige Shimamura, Rena Nakatsuji, Hitoshi Okikawa, Yuzo Ishii, Yoshiyuki Doi, Nobutomo Yoshihashi
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Publication number: 20220237995Abstract: A tactile sensation presentation device includes a light source that emits a laser beam toward a test site that is a region of a skin surface of a biological object and a control device that generates a control signal that controls the light source and causes the light source to emit the laser beam in a modulated manner. The laser beam emitted from the light source in a manner modulated in accordance with the control signal from the control device whereby the test site is irradiated is absorbed at the test site and generates a pressure wave that is a thermoelastic wave by the photoacoustic phenomenon.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 17, 2019Publication date: July 28, 2022Inventors: Yuichi Okabe, Toshishige Shimamura, Yoshiyuki Doi, Yuzo Ishii
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Publication number: 20220238211Abstract: A wearable device includes: a biological information acquisition device that acquires biological information of a subject; a biological information storage device that stores biological information; an abnormality determination device that determines whether or not there is an abnormality and an abnormality level in the biological information of the subject; a notification destination determination device that, if an abnormality has occurred in the biological information of the subject, acquires notification destination information that corresponds to the abnormality level that was determined by the abnormality determination device; a notification destination database in which notification destination information for use when an abnormality has occurred in the biological information of the subject is stored for each abnormality level in advance; and a notification device that transmits information that includes the abnormality level and the determination result of the abnormality determination device to a notType: ApplicationFiled: May 28, 2020Publication date: July 28, 2022Inventors: Kei Kuwabara, Toshishige Shimamura, Ken Sakaguchi, Hitoshi Okikawa, Shingo Uchiyama, Kensuke Kurihashi
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Patent number: 11249601Abstract: A locus detection unit detects a locus traced by an input unit that is attached to a body. A pattern determination unit determines an input pattern based on the locus detected by the locus detection unit. A transmission unit transmits the input pattern determined by the pattern determination unit as input information to an external device. A reception unit receives output information transmitted from the external device. A tactile output unit provides, to the body, the output information received by the reception unit as a simulated tactile sense of the skin being traced.Type: GrantFiled: May 13, 2019Date of Patent: February 15, 2022Assignee: Nippon Telegraph and Telephone CorporationInventors: Tsuyoshi Yamamoto, Toshishige Shimamura, Yuichi Okabe, Yuzo Ishii
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Patent number: 11222525Abstract: Each first terminal mounted in advance on an item transmits first vibration data and a first terminal ID by radio wave in response to vibration detection, each beacon terminal disposed in advance at a place in a room intermittently transmits a beacon signal and a beacon ID by radio wave, a management device sequentially records each first terminal ID received together with the first vibration data and the beacon ID received together with the beacon signal to a detection list in a storage unit, acquires, from the storage unit, terminal information related to the first terminal ID recorded in the detection list and position information related to the beacon ID received concurrently with the first terminal ID, and displays the terminal information and the position information on a screen.Type: GrantFiled: May 23, 2019Date of Patent: January 11, 2022Assignee: Nippon Telepgraph and Telephone CorporationInventors: Toshishige Shimamura, Yuichi Okabe, Tsuyoshi Yamamoto, Yuzo Ishii
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Publication number: 20210355597Abstract: An image capturing unit captures an image of a surface of a member treated by a surface treatment unit. A comparison unit obtains a correlation coefficient between a reference image stored in a storage unit and the image captured by the image capturing unit. A cross-correlation coefficient between power spectra of the reference image and the image captured by the image capturing unit is obtained. A control unit stops a surface treatment performed by the surface treatment unit when the correlation coefficient obtained by the comparison unit reaches a set value.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 21, 2019Publication date: November 18, 2021Inventors: Yuichi Okabe, Toshishige Shimamura, Tsuyoshi Yamamoto, Yuzo Ishii
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Publication number: 20210217299Abstract: Each first terminal mounted in advance on an item transmits first vibration data and a first terminal ID by radio wave in response to vibration detection, each beacon terminal disposed in advance at a place in a room intermittently transmits a beacon signal and a beacon ID by radio wave, a management device sequentially records each first terminal ID received together with the first vibration data and the beacon ID received together with the beacon signal to a detection list in a storage unit, acquires, from the storage unit, terminal information related to the first terminal ID recorded in the detection list and position information related to the beacon ID received concurrently with the first terminal ID, and displays the terminal information and the position information on a screen.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 23, 2019Publication date: July 15, 2021Inventors: Toshishige Shimamura, Yuichi Okabe, Tsuyoshi Yamamoto, Yuzo Ishii
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Publication number: 20210216732Abstract: When vibration of the item is detected by an acceleration sensor, each terminal mounted in advance on an item as a management target wirelessly transmits a terminal ID for identifying the terminal and terminal-side vibration data representing the vibration detection, and in response to reception of the terminal-side vibration data wirelessly transmitted from each terminal, a management device sequentially records the terminal ID received together with the terminal-side vibration data to a detection list in a storage unit and displays the terminal IDs recorded in the detection list on a screen.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 24, 2019Publication date: July 15, 2021Inventors: Toshishige Shimamura, Yuichi Okabe, Tsuyoshi Yamamoto, Yuzo Ishii
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Publication number: 20210181874Abstract: A locus detection unit detects a locus traced by an input unit that is attached to a body. A pattern determination unit determines an input pattern based on the locus detected by the locus detection unit. A transmission unit transmits the input pattern determined by the pattern determination unit as input information to an external device. A reception unit receives output information transmitted from the external device. A tactile output unit provides, to the body, the output information received by the reception unit as a simulated tactile sense of the skin being traced.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 13, 2019Publication date: June 17, 2021Inventors: Tsuyoshi Yamamoto, Toshishige Shimamura, Yuichi Okabe, Yuzo Ishii
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Publication number: 20210151813Abstract: A terminal mounted in advance on a battery of an instrument that is a management target wirelessly transmits a battery state obtained by detecting an electric property related to a remaining battery amount of the battery and a terminal ID for identifying the terminal, and a management device displays remaining amount information related to the battery remaining amount on a screen based on the terminal ID and the battery state received from the terminal. This allows a user to easily figure out the remaining amount of a battery being used in an existing instrument.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 21, 2019Publication date: May 20, 2021Inventors: Toshishige Shimamura, Yuichi Okabe, Tsuyoshi Yamamoto, Yuzo Ishii
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Patent number: 7548636Abstract: A response signal generating unit (3) applies a predetermined supply signal (2S) to a detection element (1) and outputs, as a response signal (3S), a signal which has changed in accordance with the impedance of an object (10) with which the unit is in contact through the detection element (1). A waveform information detection unit (4) detects waveform information corresponding to the impedance of the object (10) on the basis of the response signal (3S) from the response signal generating unit (3), and outputs a detection signal (4S) representing the waveform information. A biometric recognition unit (5) determines on the basis of the detection signal (4S) from the waveform information detection unit (4) whether or not the object (10) is a living body.Type: GrantFiled: August 12, 2004Date of Patent: June 16, 2009Assignee: Nippon Telegraph and Telephone CorporationInventors: Toshishige Shimamura, Hiroki Morimura, Satoshi Shigematsu, Norio Sato, Masami Urano, Katsuyuki Machida
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Patent number: 7508963Abstract: A detection element (1A) having a detection electrode (11A) connected to a surface shape detection unit (2) and a detection electrode (12A) connected to a common potential, and a detection element (1B) having a detection electrode (11B) connected to the surface shape detection unit (2) and a detection electrode (12B) connected to a biometric recognition unit (3) are arranged. The surface shape detection unit (2) outputs a signal representing the three-dimensional pattern of the surface shape corresponding to the contact portion to each detection element on the basis of individual capacitances obtained from the detection elements (1A, 1B). The biometric recognition unit (3) determines whether an object (9) is a living body, on the basis of a signal corresponding to the impedance of the object (9) connected between the detection electrode (12B) of the detection element (1B) and the detection electrode (12A) of the detection element (1A).Type: GrantFiled: March 28, 2008Date of Patent: March 24, 2009Assignee: Nippon Telegraph and Telephone CorporationInventors: Toshishige Shimamura, Hiroki Morimura, Satoshi Shigematsu, Norio Sato, Masami Urano, Katsuyuki Machida
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Patent number: 7482196Abstract: In a semiconductor device having a MEMS according to this invention, a plurality of units having movable portions for constituting a MEMS are monolithically mounted on a semiconductor substrate on which an integrated circuit including a driving circuit, sensor circuit, memory, and processor is formed. Each unit has a processor, memory, driving circuit, and sensor circuit.Type: GrantFiled: January 11, 2006Date of Patent: January 27, 2009Assignee: Nippon Telegraph and Telephone CorporationInventors: Masami Urano, Hiromu Ishii, Toshishige Shimamura, Yasuyuki Tanabe, Katsuyuki Machida, Tomomi Sakata
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Patent number: 7480785Abstract: A row decoding circuit (171) outputs a select signal to a row set in a row range setting unit (172) to select a select signal line (103), processing results from processing circuits (102) on this row are output to a data output line (104), and a row adder (106) adds processing results output to a data output line (104) of a column set in a column range selector (105).Type: GrantFiled: February 13, 2004Date of Patent: January 20, 2009Assignee: Nippon Telegraph and Telephone CorporationInventors: Toshishige Shimamura, Hiroki Morimura, Koji Fujii, Satoshi Shigematsu, Katsuyuki Machida
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Publication number: 20080187192Abstract: A detection element (1A) having a detection electrode (11A) connected to a surface shape detection unit (2) and a detection electrode (12A) connected to a common potential, and a detection element (1B) having a detection electrode (11B) connected to the surface shape detection unit (2) and a detection electrode (12B) connected to a biometric recognition unit (3) are arranged. The surface shape detection unit (2) outputs a signal representing the three-dimensional pattern of the surface shape corresponding to the contact portion to each detection element on the basis of individual capacitances obtained from the detection elements (1A, 1B). The biometric recognition unit (3) determines whether an object (9) is a living body, on the basis of a signal corresponding to the impedance of the object (9) connected between the detection electrode (12B) of the detection element (1B) and the detection electrode (12A) of the detection element (1A).Type: ApplicationFiled: March 28, 2008Publication date: August 7, 2008Inventors: Toshishige Shimamura, Hiroki Morimura, Satoshi Shigematsu, Norio Sato, Masami Urano, Katsuyuki Machida