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).
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Publication number: 20240420271Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: October 25, 2022Publication date: December 19, 2024Inventors: YASUHIRO HORI, KIMINOBU NISHIMURA, ATSUSHI UCHIDA
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Publication number: 20240338722Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: March 2, 2022Publication date: October 10, 2024Applicant: Sony Group CorporationInventors: Kiminobu NISHIMURA, QiHong WANG, Yasuhiro HORI
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TERMINAL DEVICE, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, PROGRAM, RELAY SERVER, AND INSURANCE BUSINESS SERVER
Publication number: 20240202831Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: January 4, 2022Publication date: June 20, 2024Applicant: Sony Group CorporationInventors: Masashi MORI, Kazumasa MIYAZAKI, Yasuhiro HORI -
Publication number: 20240042570Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: July 25, 2023Publication date: February 8, 2024Inventors: 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
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Publication number: 20240013670Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: November 22, 2021Publication date: January 11, 2024Applicant: Sony Group CorporationInventors: Yasuhiro HORI, Ko KOBAYASHI, Takashi ISOZAKI, Seigo TANIGUCHI, Hiroaki IMAGAWA
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Patent number: 8531604Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: March 3, 2011Date of Patent: September 10, 2013Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha ToshibaInventors: Yasuhiro Hori, Koichi Sato, Shin Arai
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Patent number: 8469759Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: March 29, 2012Date of Patent: June 25, 2013Assignee: NGK Spark Plug Co., LtdInventors: Yasuhiro Hori, Ryuji Emoto
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Patent number: 8405774Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: August 18, 2010Date of Patent: March 26, 2013Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha ToshibaInventors: Yasuhiro Hori, Koichi Sato
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Patent number: 8294820Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: August 14, 2009Date of Patent: October 23, 2012Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha ToshibaInventors: Yasuhiro Hori, Koichi Sato, Takeshi Inagaki
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Publication number: 20120252298Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: March 29, 2012Publication date: October 4, 2012Applicant: NGK Spark Plug Co., LtdInventors: Yasuhiro HORI, Ryuji Emoto
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Patent number: 8164689Abstract: 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 synchronType: GrantFiled: April 30, 2009Date of Patent: April 24, 2012Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha ToshibaInventors: Yasuhiro Hori, Koichi Sato
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Patent number: 8156779Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: November 22, 2007Date of Patent: April 17, 2012Assignee: NGK Spark Plug Co., Ltd.Inventors: Hiroshi Ohashi, Kiyoshi Inoue, Masato Nagasaki, Yasuhiro Hori
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Patent number: 8107773Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: September 26, 2007Date of Patent: January 31, 2012Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha ToshibaInventors: Yasuhiro Hori, Shin Arai, Koichi Sato
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Publication number: 20110234903Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: March 3, 2011Publication date: September 29, 2011Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBAInventors: Yasuhiro HORI, Koichi SATO, Shin ARAI
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Publication number: 20110007215Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: August 18, 2010Publication date: January 13, 2011Applicant: Kabushiki Kaisha ToshibaInventors: Yasuhiro Hori, Koichi Sato
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Publication number: 20100045865Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: August 14, 2009Publication date: February 25, 2010Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBAInventors: Yasuhiro Hori, Koichi Sato, Takeshi Inagaki
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Publication number: 20090284654Abstract: 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 synchronType: ApplicationFiled: April 30, 2009Publication date: November 19, 2009Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBAInventors: Yasuhiro Hori, Koichi Sato
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Patent number: 7532774Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: July 21, 2005Date of Patent: May 12, 2009Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha ToshibaInventors: Yasuhiro Hori, Koichi Sato
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Publication number: 20090007618Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: November 22, 2007Publication date: January 8, 2009Inventors: Hiroshi Ohashi, Kiyoshi Inoue, Masato Nagasaki, Yasuhiro Hori
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Publication number: 20080080790Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: September 26, 2007Publication date: April 3, 2008Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBAInventors: Yasuhiro Hori, Shin Arai, Koichi Sato