Patents by Inventor Yasuhiro Hori

Yasuhiro Hori 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: 20240420271
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to an information processing apparatus, an information processing method, and a program enabling recommendation of an appropriate rental vehicle to a user in using car sharing or car rental. An experience value including a travel distance is obtained for each feature item of a vehicle type of a vehicle of a user on the basis of a driving history, a matching degree of every selectable vehicle of the user is obtained on the basis of an experience value for each feature item, a recommended vehicle is selected in accordance with the matching degree, and recommendation information is generated together with a usage fee including an insurance premium in accordance with the matching degree. The present disclosure can be applied to a service of car sharing and car rental.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 25, 2022
    Publication date: December 19, 2024
    Inventors: YASUHIRO HORI, KIMINOBU NISHIMURA, ATSUSHI UCHIDA
  • Publication number: 20240338722
    Abstract: Provided is an information processing device including a sensing data acquisition unit (246) that acquires a plurality of pieces of sensing data from a device worn by a user or carried by the user, a calculation unit (248) that calculates the number of steps or a movement distance of the user based on inertial data included in the plurality of pieces of sensing data, a reliability calculation unit (252) that calculates reliability based on a feature of each of position data, biological data, and environment data about the user obtained from the plurality of pieces of sensing data, a determination unit (254) that determines whether to accept the number of steps or movement distance calculated, based on the reliability calculated, and an output unit (256) that outputs data of the number of steps or movement distance received.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 2, 2022
    Publication date: October 10, 2024
    Applicant: Sony Group Corporation
    Inventors: Kiminobu NISHIMURA, QiHong WANG, Yasuhiro HORI
  • Publication number: 20240202831
    Abstract: A terminal device 20 collects sensing information to be used for selection of an insurance product, and transmits the sensing information to a relay server 30. The relay server 30 anonymizes sensing information acquired from the terminal device 20, and provides the sensing information to an insurance business server 40. The insurance business server 40 generates insurance proposal information indicating an insurance product selected on the basis of the anonymized sensing information, and transmits the insurance proposal information to the relay server 30. The relay server 30 transfers the insurance proposal information transmitted from the insurance business server 40, to the terminal device 20 that is a providing source of the sensing information. A user can easily receive a proposal for an insurance product optimal for the user's activity or the like from one or plurality of insurance companies, without providing personal information or the like.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 4, 2022
    Publication date: June 20, 2024
    Applicant: Sony Group Corporation
    Inventors: Masashi MORI, Kazumasa MIYAZAKI, Yasuhiro HORI
  • Publication number: 20240042570
    Abstract: A chemical mechanical polishing apparatus has a heating system, a purge gas source, a purge liquid source, and a controller. The heating system includes a source of heated gas, an arm extending over a platen, and a manifold in the arm with an a plurality of openings positioned over the platen and separated from a polishing pad for delivering the heated gas onto the polishing pad. The controller is configured to cause the heated gas to flow from the source of heated gas through the manifold and the plurality of openings to heat the polishing pad during a polishing operation, and to cause the apparatus to perform a purging operation which alternates between flowing purge gas from the purge gas source and flowing purge liquid from the purge liquid source through the manifold and the plurality of openings.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 25, 2023
    Publication date: February 8, 2024
    Inventors: Haosheng Wu, Shou-Sung Chang, Jianshe Tang, Jonathan P. Domin, Shuchivrat Datar, Yasuhiro Hori, Sameer Deshpande, Chad Pollard, Sih-Ling Yeh, Priscilla Diep, Ningzhuo Cui, Brian J. Brown, Hui Chen
  • Publication number: 20240013670
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus (1) includes a generation unit (32) and an estimation unit (33). The generation unit (32) generates pieces of divided data by dividing pieces of time series data related to a predetermined analysis target for each predetermined period. The estimation unit (33) estimates relation between pieces of data included in the divided data generated by the generation unit (32).
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 22, 2021
    Publication date: January 11, 2024
    Applicant: Sony Group Corporation
    Inventors: Yasuhiro HORI, Ko KOBAYASHI, Takashi ISOZAKI, Seigo TANIGUCHI, Hiroaki IMAGAWA
  • Patent number: 8531604
    Abstract: According to embodiments, a synchronization signal generating device includes: a cycle measuring unit configured to measure the vertical synchronization interval of the input video signal; a phase difference detecting unit configured to detect a phase difference between an input vertical synchronization signal based on the input video signal and the display vertical synchronization signal; and a vertical cycle determining unit configured to determine a cycle of the display vertical synchronization signal based on a measurement result of the cycle measuring unit and a detection result of the phase difference detecting unit so that the phase difference is decreased within the range of the compensation interval, and to determine 1/n of the cycle of the display vertical synchronization signal as a cycle of an n-times speed vertical synchronization signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 3, 2011
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2013
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Yasuhiro Hori, Koichi Sato, Shin Arai
  • Patent number: 8469759
    Abstract: In joining a composite tip to an electrode, a method is used for properly adjusting the height of radiation of a laser beam to the height of the boundary between two tips used to form the composite tip. Further, a process for joining a first tip and a second tip together by use of a laser beam includes the steps of; (a) disposing the second tip on a support; (b) obtaining, after pressing downward at least the second tip by the use of a pressing jig, a correction value for correcting the height of radiation of a laser beam; (c) correcting the height of radiation of the laser beam on the basis of the correction value; and (d) joining the first and second tips together by use of the laser beam.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2012
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2013
    Assignee: NGK Spark Plug Co., Ltd
    Inventors: Yasuhiro Hori, Ryuji Emoto
  • Patent number: 8405774
    Abstract: A synchronization signal control circuit according to embodiments includes a phase difference detecting section and a vertical synchronization correction control section. When a vertical synchronization period of an input video signal is within a compensation period range between a minimum vertical synchronization period and a maximum vertical synchronization period, the synchronization signal control circuit outputs a display vertical synchronization signal used for displaying the input video signal to a display section capable of providing a display based on the input video signal. The phase difference detecting section detects a phase difference between an input vertical synchronization signal based on the input video signal and the display vertical synchronization signal. The vertical synchronization correction control section corrects the cycle period of the display vertical synchronization signal within the compensation period range so as to reduce the phase difference.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 18, 2010
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2013
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Yasuhiro Hori, Koichi Sato
  • Patent number: 8294820
    Abstract: A video signal synchronization signal generating apparatus for making a display reference synchronization signal Vb that serves as a reference of video display and has a first frequency and an input synchronization signal Vi that constitutes images and has a second frequency synchronized with each other, the apparatus including: a frequency ratio generating section configured to divide a frequency that is double the first frequency by the second frequency to calculate a frequency ratio n; a Vx generation comparator circuit section configured to generate coincidence signal Vx? having pulses that are inserted by equally dividing one period of the input synchronization signal Vi by the frequency ratio n; and a Vx generation circuit section configured to remove the alternate pulses of the coincidence signal Vx? to generate synchronization signal Vx of a same phase as the phase of the input synchronization signal Vi.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 14, 2009
    Date of Patent: October 23, 2012
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Yasuhiro Hori, Koichi Sato, Takeshi Inagaki
  • Publication number: 20120252298
    Abstract: In joining a composite tip to an electrode, a method is used for properly adjusting the height of radiation of a laser beam to the height of the boundary between two tips used to form the composite tip. Further, a process for joining a first tip and a second tip together by use of a laser beam includes the steps of; (a) disposing the second tip on a support; (b) obtaining, after pressing downward at least the second tip by the use of a pressing jig, a correction value for correcting the height of radiation of a laser beam; (c) correcting the height of radiation of the laser beam on the basis of the correction value; and (d) joining the first and second tips together by use of the laser beam.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 29, 2012
    Publication date: October 4, 2012
    Applicant: NGK Spark Plug Co., Ltd
    Inventors: Yasuhiro HORI, Ryuji Emoto
  • Patent number: 8164689
    Abstract: A synchronizing signal control circuit includes: a phase detecting section configured to detect a phase difference between a display synchronizing signal and an input synchronizing signal; an adding section configured to add a set value for setting a synchronization compensation period and the detected phase difference; a synchronization phase correcting section configured to correct the phase of the input synchronizing signal on the basis of the output signal of the adding section; a gate signal generating section configured to generate a gate signal representing the synchronization compensation period based on the display synchronizing signal; a synchronization determining section configured to determine whether the synchronization can be effected, by detecting whether the input synchronizing signal exists within the synchronization compensation period; and a selecting section configured to perform switching to the corrected input synchronizing signal on the basis of the determination result of the synchron
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2009
    Date of Patent: April 24, 2012
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Yasuhiro Hori, Koichi Sato
  • Patent number: 8156779
    Abstract: In an apparatus for producing a spark plug, approach driving conditions are calculated on the basis of a specified thrust feeding amount so that, while a temporal overlap occurs between a time period of feed-driving toward a rolling position P2 of a workpiece supporting portion (11) and an approach driving time period, in a circumferential direction of a workpiece W, a positional relationship between the starting position of the threaded portion which is rolling-formed, and the joining position of the ground electrode to the tip end face of the workpiece W is constant. The operation of an approach driving portion is controlled on the basis of the calculated approach driving conditions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 22, 2007
    Date of Patent: April 17, 2012
    Assignee: NGK Spark Plug Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hiroshi Ohashi, Kiyoshi Inoue, Masato Nagasaki, Yasuhiro Hori
  • Patent number: 8107773
    Abstract: A video-signal processor includes: a first correlation detector obtaining a correlation value of every symmetric pair of pixels positioned in point-symmetry around an interpolation pixel on an interpolation line interpolated between two real lines; a second correlation detector obtaining a correlation value of every pair of pixels for the symmetric pair of pixels and parallel pair(s) of pixels positioned in a direction parallel to a direction of the symmetric pair of pixels; a correlation-direction deciding unit deciding one of a correlation direction based on the correlation value from the first correlation detector and that based on the correlation value from the second correlation detector as a correlation direction which is a direction of the pair of pixels used for generating the interpolation pixel; and an interpolation pixel generator generating a pixel signal of the interpolation pixel using a pair of pixels based on decision result of the correlation-direction deciding unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2007
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2012
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Yasuhiro Hori, Shin Arai, Koichi Sato
  • Publication number: 20110234903
    Abstract: According to embodiments, a synchronization signal generating device includes: a cycle measuring unit configured to measure the vertical synchronization interval of the input video signal; a phase difference detecting unit configured to detect a phase difference between an input vertical synchronization signal based on the input video signal and the display vertical synchronization signal; and a vertical cycle determining unit configured to determine a cycle of the display vertical synchronization signal based on a measurement result of the cycle measuring unit and a detection result of the phase difference detecting unit so that the phase difference is decreased within the range of the compensation interval, and to determine 1/n of the cycle of the display vertical synchronization signal as a cycle of an n-times speed vertical synchronization signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 3, 2011
    Publication date: September 29, 2011
    Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA
    Inventors: Yasuhiro HORI, Koichi SATO, Shin ARAI
  • Publication number: 20110007215
    Abstract: A synchronization signal control circuit according to embodiments includes a phase difference detecting section and a vertical synchronization correction control section. When a vertical synchronization period of an input video signal is within a compensation period range between a minimum vertical synchronization period and a maximum vertical synchronization period, the synchronization signal control circuit outputs a display vertical synchronization signal used for displaying the input video signal to a display section capable of providing a display based on the input video signal. The phase difference detecting section detects a phase difference between an input vertical synchronization signal based on the input video signal and the display vertical synchronization signal. The vertical synchronization correction control section corrects the cycle period of the display vertical synchronization signal within the compensation period range so as to reduce the phase difference.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 18, 2010
    Publication date: January 13, 2011
    Applicant: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Yasuhiro Hori, Koichi Sato
  • Publication number: 20100045865
    Abstract: A video signal synchronization signal generating apparatus for making a display reference synchronization signal Vb that serves as a reference of video display and has a first frequency and an input synchronization signal Vi that constitutes images and has a second frequency synchronized with each other, the apparatus including: a frequency ratio generating section configured to divide a frequency that is double the first frequency by the second frequency to calculate a frequency ratio n; a Vx generation comparator circuit section configured to generate coincidence signal Vx? having pulses that are inserted by equally dividing one period of the input synchronization signal Vi by the frequency ratio n; and a Vx generation circuit section configured to remove the alternate pulses of the coincidence signal Vx? to generate synchronization signal Vx of a same phase as the phase of the input synchronization signal Vi.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 14, 2009
    Publication date: February 25, 2010
    Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA
    Inventors: Yasuhiro Hori, Koichi Sato, Takeshi Inagaki
  • Publication number: 20090284654
    Abstract: A synchronizing signal control circuit includes: a phase detecting section configured to detect a phase difference between a display synchronizing signal and an input synchronizing signal; an adding section configured to add a set value for setting a synchronization compensation period and the detected phase difference; a synchronization phase correcting section configured to correct the phase of the input synchronizing signal on the basis of the output signal of the adding section; a gate signal generating section configured to generate a gate signal representing the synchronization compensation period based on the display synchronizing signal; a synchronization determining section configured to determine whether the synchronization can be effected, by detecting whether the input synchronizing signal exists within the synchronization compensation period; and a selecting section configured to perform switching to the corrected input synchronizing signal on the basis of the determination result of the synchron
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 30, 2009
    Publication date: November 19, 2009
    Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA
    Inventors: Yasuhiro Hori, Koichi Sato
  • Patent number: 7532774
    Abstract: In an interpolation pixel generation circuit, M pairs and N pairs (N<M) of correlation judgment pixels are generated from pixels on at least two scanning lines which adjoin a pixel to be interpolated, using one pair of pixels being symmetric with respect to the pixel to be interpolated. A correlation value between pixel values of a correlation judgment pair is calculated in each M pairs and N pairs of correlation judgment pixels. Correlation judging pairs having high correlation are selected, and correlation direction is judged. Based on the both judged correlation direction of M pairs and the N pairs of correlation judgment pixels, an interpolation priority direction is determined from a slant priority direction, a vertical priority direction, and a vertical top priority direction. An interpolation pixel is generated, which pixel value is an average of pixel values of the selected correlation judgment pixels being in the determined direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 21, 2005
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2009
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Yasuhiro Hori, Koichi Sato
  • Publication number: 20090007618
    Abstract: In an apparatus for producing a spark plug, approach driving conditions are calculated on the basis of a specified thrust feeding amount so that, while a temporal overlap occurs between a time period of feed-driving toward a rolling position P2 of a workpiece supporting portion (11) and an approach driving time period, in a circumferential direction of a workpiece W, a positional relationship between the starting position of the threaded portion which is rolling-formed, and the joining position of the ground electrode to the tip end face of the workpiece W is constant. The operation of an approach driving portion is controlled on the basis of the calculated approach driving conditions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 22, 2007
    Publication date: January 8, 2009
    Inventors: Hiroshi Ohashi, Kiyoshi Inoue, Masato Nagasaki, Yasuhiro Hori
  • Publication number: 20080080790
    Abstract: A video-signal processor includes: a first correlation detector obtaining a correlation value of every symmetric pair of pixels positioned in point-symmetry around an interpolation pixel on an interpolation line interpolated between two real lines; a second correlation detector obtaining a correlation value of every pair of pixels for the symmetric pair of pixels and parallel pair(s) of pixels positioned in a direction parallel to a direction of the symmetric pair of pixels; a correlation-direction deciding unit deciding one of a correlation direction based on the correlation value from the first correlation detector and that based on the correlation value from the second correlation detector as a correlation direction which is a direction of the pair of pixels used for generating the interpolation pixel; and an interpolation pixel generator generating a pixel signal of the interpolation pixel using a pair of pixels based on decision result of the correlation-direction deciding unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 26, 2007
    Publication date: April 3, 2008
    Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA
    Inventors: Yasuhiro Hori, Shin Arai, Koichi Sato