Patents by Inventor Wataru Endo

Wataru Endo 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: 20240109254
    Abstract: A management method for a three-dimensional shaping apparatus includes an output step for referring to a storage unit that stores time information representing time, operation information including information representing a shaping time for a model in the three-dimensional shaping apparatus, and user information corresponding to the operation information or the three-dimensional shaping apparatus and outputting the time information, the operation information, and the user information. The operation information is stored in the storage unit in association with the time information. The user information includes at least one of face information and name information of a user. In the output step, the time information is output in a designated scale or a designated time zone.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 28, 2023
    Publication date: April 4, 2024
    Inventor: Wataru ENDO
  • Publication number: 20240074968
    Abstract: Provided is an oral pharmaceutical composition characterized by containing a medicinal ingredient (A), a hydrophobic liquid (B), a water-soluble macromolecular substance (C), and an excipient (D), but not containing a surfactant, wherein: the medicinal ingredient (A) is included in the hydrophobic liquid (B); and the hydrophobic liquid (B) is dispersed in a composition including the water-soluble macromolecular substance (C) and the excipient (D). The oral pharmaceutical composition: allows easy dose-adjustment; has excellent dosability and safety; is biologically equivalent to a standard formulation having established profiles regarding efficacy, safety, etc.; and can be easily produced.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 11, 2023
    Publication date: March 7, 2024
    Inventors: Norimasa Endo, Wataru Hirasawa, Jun Mori, Takayuki Fukasawa
  • Patent number: 11798552
    Abstract: An agent device includes a microphone configured to collect a speech sound inside a vehicle cabin, a speaker configured to output a speech sound inside the vehicle cabin, and a plurality of agent function elements having different functions. Each of the plurality of agent function elements generates a speech sound of an agent that speaks to an occupant of a vehicle on the basis of a meaning of the speech sound collected by the microphone, causes the speaker to output the generated speech sound of the agent. The agent function element serving as a main agent that has a dialogue with the occupant is switched on the basis of content of the speech sound collected by the microphone.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 5, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2023
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hiroshi Sugihara, Atsushi Sekiguchi, Yuki Matsuura, Eisuke Soma, Wataru Endo, Ryosuke Tanaka, Toshikatsu Kuramochi
  • Patent number: 11784195
    Abstract: An apparatus includes a photodiode including an anode and a cathode, a switch connected to a node of one of the anode and the cathode and to a power supply line via which a driving voltage is supplied, and functioning to switch a resistance value between the node and the power supply line, and a generation unit configured to generate a pulse signal for controlling switching of the switch. The apparatus is operable in one of two modes including a first mode and a second mode, the second mode being usable in a lower luminance condition than a luminance condition in the first mode. In an exposure period for acquiring one frame of signals, the number of pulse signals in the second mode is smaller than in the first mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2023
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Kazuhiro Morimoto, Wataru Endo, Fumihiro Inui
  • Publication number: 20230099180
    Abstract: Provided is a method for manufacturing a three-dimensional shaped object that manufactures a three-dimensional shaped object by stacking layers using a three-dimensional shaping device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 27, 2022
    Publication date: March 30, 2023
    Inventor: Wataru ENDO
  • Publication number: 20230005400
    Abstract: A light emitting apparatus is provided. The light emitting apparatus in which a pixel, that comprises a current path including a light emitting element, a driving transistor configured to supply a current corresponding to a luminance signal to the light emitting element, and a light emission control transistor configured to control light emission or non-light emission of the light emitting element, is arranged. In the current path, the light emission control transistor is arranged between the light emitting element and the driving transistor, and a withstand voltage of the driving transistor is lower than a withstand voltage of the light emission control transistor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 30, 2022
    Publication date: January 5, 2023
    Inventors: Wataru Endo, Mizuki Nagasaki
  • Publication number: 20220324176
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a display control unit configured to cause, based on shaping data, a display unit to display a display screen including a first display region and a second display region. The shaping data is generated based on first shape data representing a shape of a three-dimensional shaped object and includes route information representing a movement route of a discharge unit that moves while discharging a shaping material and discharge amount information representing a discharge amount of the shaping material in the movement route. On the first display region, at least a part of second shape data representing the shape of the three-dimensional shaped object and including the route information is displayed, and on the second display region, at least a part of information included in the shaping data is displayed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 11, 2022
    Publication date: October 13, 2022
    Inventor: Wataru ENDO
  • Patent number: 11450316
    Abstract: An agent device includes a microphone which collects audio in a vehicle cabin, a speaker which outputs audio to the vehicle cabin, an interpreter which interprets the meaning of the audio collected by the microphone, a display provided in the vehicle cabin, and an agent controller which displays an agent image in a form of speaking to an occupant in a region of the display and causes the speaker to output audio by which the agent image speaks to at least one occupant, and the agent controller changes the face direction of the agent image to an direction different from an direction of the occupant who is a conversation target in a case that an utterance with respect to the face direction is interpreted by the interpreter after the agent image is displayed on the display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 4, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2022
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Toshikatsu Kuramochi, Wataru Endo, Ryosuke Tanaka
  • Publication number: 20220216251
    Abstract: An apparatus includes a photodiode including an anode and a cathode, a switch connected to a node of one of the anode and the cathode and to a power supply line via which a driving voltage is supplied, and functioning to switch a resistance value between the node and the power supply line, and a generation unit configured to generate a pulse signal for controlling switching of the switch. The apparatus is operable in one of two modes including a first mode and a second mode, the second mode being usable in a lower luminance condition than a luminance condition in the first mode. In an exposure period for acquiring one frame of signals, the number of pulse signals in the second mode is smaller than in the first mode.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 22, 2021
    Publication date: July 7, 2022
    Inventors: Kazuhiro Morimoto, Wataru Endo, Fumihiro Inui
  • Publication number: 20220005470
    Abstract: An agent device includes a microphone configured to collect a speech sound inside a vehicle cabin, a speaker configured to output a speech sound inside the vehicle cabin, and a plurality of agent function elements having different functions. Each of the plurality of agent function elements generates a speech sound of an agent that speaks to an occupant of a vehicle on the basis of a meaning of the speech sound collected by the microphone, causes the speaker to output the generated speech sound of the agent. The agent function element serving as a main agent that has a dialogue with the occupant is switched on the basis of content of the speech sound collected by the microphone.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 5, 2018
    Publication date: January 6, 2022
    Inventors: Hiroshi Sugihara, Atsushi Sekiguchi, Yuki Matsuura, Eisuke Soma, Wataru Endo, Ryosuke Tanaka, Toshikatsu Kuramochi
  • Patent number: 11176948
    Abstract: An agent device includes a display unit, a microphone configured to collect a voice in an occupant compartment, a plurality of speakers configured to enable localization of a sound image through a combination of outputs, and an agent controller configured to cause the display unit to display an agent image and cause the speakers to output sounds, wherein the agent controller is configured to identify a speaking person who has spoken the voice collected by the microphone among occupants in a vehicle and to cause the agent image to be displayed in a mode of talking to the occupant in a partial area of the display unit near the speaking person while causing a sound image to be localized at a display position of the agent image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 16, 2021
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hiroshi Sugihara, Ryosuke Tanaka, Atsushi Sekiguchi, Yuki Matsuura, Wataru Endo, Eisuke Soma
  • Patent number: 11014508
    Abstract: Provided is a communication support system including: a microphone that is mounted in an interior of a vehicle; a sound output device that is mounted in the interior of vehicle; a recognizer configured to recognize spoken content included in sound data collected by the microphone; and a controller configured to generate a delivery message to be delivered from a passenger who has output the collected sound to another passenger on the basis of a result of the recognition performed by the recognizer, generates sound based on the generated delivery message, and causes the sound output device to output the generated sound toward the other passenger.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 1, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 25, 2021
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Wataru Endo, Atsushi Sekiguchi, Hiroshi Sugihara
  • Patent number: 10909783
    Abstract: There is provided a method of automatically generating a test group ID for generating and storing the test group ID of a vehicle having an electronic control unit including a storage. The method includes reading VIN stored in a storage, by the electronic control unit; generating a test group ID based on a model year included in the VIN; and storing the generating test group ID in the storage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 2, 2021
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hideyuki Tsuchikiri, Wataru Endo
  • Patent number: 10894403
    Abstract: An apparatus includes a substrate, a transistor provided on the substrate and connected to a first terminal supplied with a first voltage, an anti-fuse element provided on the substrate and connected between the transistor and a second terminal supplied with a second voltage, a first resistive element provided on the substrate and connected in parallel to the anti-fuse element and between the transistor and the second terminal, and an adjusting unit provided on the substrate and configured to function so as to reduce an influence of variation in resistance of the first resistive element in reading out of information from the anti-fuse element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 19, 2021
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Kazunari Fujii, Naoki Isoda, Toshio Negishi, Wataru Endo
  • Patent number: 10834354
    Abstract: An imaging device includes: a plurality of pixels arranged to form rows and columns and each configured to output a signal in accordance with an incident light, a plurality of column signal processing units provided in association with the columns and each having an A/D conversion unit that performs A/D conversion on a signal output from the pixels arranged on a corresponding column, a plurality of memory units provided in association with the columns and each having a memory that holds digital data output from the column signal processing unit of a corresponding column, a transfer unit that sequentially outputs the digital data held in each of the plurality of memory units to a common output line, and a bit value inversion unit that inverts a value of a bit of one of first and second digital data sequentially output to the common output line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 10, 2020
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Daisuke Kobayashi, Yoshikazu Yamazaki, Kazuo Yamazaki, Wataru Endo
  • Patent number: 10817821
    Abstract: A workflow control device includes a workflow management processing portion, a clumsiness detection processing portion, and a display processing portion. The workflow management processing portion manages a workflow for combining processes corresponding to specific operations on an electronic apparatus, in a specific order and performing execution instructions for the processes. The clumsiness detection processing portion detects clumsiness in an operation which has been performed by a user on the electronic apparatus and delayed from a threshold. The display processing portion causes an order of processes based on a workflow through which execution instructions for processes corresponding to operations of the user can be performed in order, to be displayed on a screen based on detection of the clumsiness.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 27, 2020
    Assignee: KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc.
    Inventors: Akira Yuki, Wataru Endo, Yuri Moritani, Ryosuke Ogishi
  • Patent number: 10761470
    Abstract: A printing apparatus is provided. The apparatus comprises a light-emitting element, a light-receiving element including a first terminal and a second terminal, a reference current generator supplying a reference current, a comparator comparing a monitor current with the reference current, the light-receiving element supplying the monitor current to the second terminal in accordance with a light emission amount, a driver driving the light-emitting element based on an output of the comparator, and a reference voltage controller. The comparator includes a first input terminal connected to the second terminal and a second input terminal. The reference voltage controller supplies a reference voltage selected from at least two voltage values to the second input terminal, and to control the voltage of the second terminal to be a voltage according to the reference voltage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 4, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 1, 2020
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Wataru Endo, Masanobu Ohmura, Hirotaka Shiomichi
  • Patent number: 10714527
    Abstract: A photoelectric conversion apparatus is provided. The apparatus comprises a substrate including two light receiving regions in which light receiving devices are arranged; electrode pads arranged on the substrate; and a readout circuit arranged on the substrate and configured to read out signals from the light receiving regions. The electrode pads include an output pad for outputting a signal, and a power supply pad for supplying power to the light receiving regions or the readout circuit. Each of the light receiving regions has a shape in which a first direction is taken as a longitudinal direction, the light receiving regions are arranged along a second direction with an interval therebetween, the second direction intersecting the first direction, and one or more pads of the electrode pads is sandwiched by the light receiving regions in the second direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 14, 2020
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Hirotaka Shiomichi, Wataru Endo
  • Publication number: 20200152203
    Abstract: An agent device includes a display unit, a microphone configured to collect a voice in an occupant compartment, a plurality of speakers configured to enable localization of a sound image through a combination of outputs, and an agent controller configured to cause the display unit to display an agent image and cause the speakers to output sounds, wherein the agent controller is configured to identify a speaking person who has spoken the voice collected by the microphone among occupants in a vehicle and to cause the agent image to be displayed in a mode of talking to the occupant in a partial area of the display unit near the speaking person while causing a sound image to be localized at a display position of the agent image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 8, 2019
    Publication date: May 14, 2020
    Inventors: Hiroshi Sugihara, Ryosuke Tanaka, Atsushi Sekiguchi, Yuki Matsuura, Wataru Endo, Eisuke Soma
  • Publication number: 20200114834
    Abstract: Provided is a communication support system including: a microphone that is mounted in an interior of a vehicle; a sound output device that is mounted in the interior of vehicle; a recognizer configured to recognize spoken content included in sound data collected by the microphone; and a controller configured to generate a delivery message to be delivered from a passenger who has output the collected sound to another passenger on the basis of a result of the recognition performed by the recognizer, generates sound based on the generated delivery message, and causes the sound output device to output the generated sound toward the other passenger.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 1, 2019
    Publication date: April 16, 2020
    Inventors: Wataru Endo, Atsushi Sekiguchi, Hiroshi Sugihara