Patents by Inventor Yasuhiro Kitamura
Yasuhiro Kitamura 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: 20250098063Abstract: According to one embodiment, a display device includes a substrate provided with a display area including a plurality of pixels, and an end portion region including a connection portion, a flexible wiring substrate including wiring lines and a flexible base, and a drive IC chip provided on the flexible wiring substrate, and a protective member extending from an end portion of the substrate and overlapping the wiring lines of the flexible wiring substrate, wherein the flexible wiring substrate is bent in a bend region, the drive IC chip opposes the display area, an elastic modulus of the protective member is 10 MPa or more and 20 MPa or less.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 13, 2024Publication date: March 20, 2025Applicant: Japan Display Inc.Inventors: Tatsuya IDE, Takeshi KASHIRO, Yasuhito ARUGA, Yasuhiro KITAMURA, Hiroyuki ONODERA, Kazuto TSURUOKA
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Patent number: 12154009Abstract: A server device performs machine learning on the relationship between the content of piloting of an aerial vehicle and the behavior of the aerial vehicle in response to the content of the piloting, and generates a learning model for automatically piloting the aerial vehicle. However, the aerial vehicle is piloted in various environments and conditions, and there are environments and conditions that are unsuited for achieving highly accurate and stable automatic piloting. Therefore, the server device performs the machine learning only in an environment or a condition suited for realizing the automatic piloting.Type: GrantFiled: October 28, 2019Date of Patent: November 26, 2024Assignee: NTT DOCOMO, INC.Inventors: Tadao Takami, Koji Ishii, Jooin Woo, Hiroshi Kawakami, Kaori Niihata, Yuichiro Segawa, Yasuhiro Kitamura
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Patent number: 12154326Abstract: Outward leg instructing unit provides a first instruction for causing drone to acquire examination data of a facility while flying in the vicinity of the facility. Position information acquiring unit acquires position information of a place of focus specified based on the examination data acquired in accordance with the first instruction. Return leg instructing unit provides, as a second instruction, an instruction for causing drone to acquire a greater amount of examination data than that acquired in accordance with the first instruction with regard to the place of focus indicated by the acquired position information, while flying so as to return on a path flown due to the first instruction. Return leg instructing unit provides as the second instruction an instruction to acquire examination data including image data of a greater number of shots, as compared with shooting performed in accordance with the first instruction.Type: GrantFiled: March 12, 2020Date of Patent: November 26, 2024Assignee: NTT DOCOMO, INC.Inventors: Syuusuke Watanabe, Tadashige Nagae, Mitsuteru Fukuyama, Masakazu Hamano, Takefumi Yamada, Takashi Hara, Yuichiro Segawa, Yasuhiro Kitamura
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Patent number: 12148308Abstract: Server apparatus, by controlling flight vehicle, causes flight vehicle to fly to a close range of a power-transmission line, and causes flight vehicle to capture images of the power-transmission line. Flight vehicle includes a positioning apparatus of GPS, and the flight of flight vehicle is controlled based on this measured position. On the other hand, each base station in communication network is provided with a positioning apparatus of GPS. The measured position of base station measured by the positioning apparatus is used to specify the error in position of flight vehicle determined by the positioning apparatus. Server apparatus restricts the flight of flight vehicle if the error in position of flight vehicle, which is determined by the positioning apparatus, that captures images of the power-transmission line is a threshold value or more.Type: GrantFiled: June 25, 2020Date of Patent: November 19, 2024Assignee: NTT DOCOMO, INC.Inventors: Tomoe Ushiro, Naoki Kameyama, Yuichiro Segawa, Yasuhiro Kitamura
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Patent number: 12118761Abstract: Server apparatus, by controlling aerial vehicle, causes aerial vehicle to fly within a close range of an animal group, and causes aerial vehicle to capture images of the animal group. Aerial vehicle transmits captured image data to server apparatus via communication network, and server apparatus checks a health state of animals of the animal group using the captured image data with a method such as image analysis. Server apparatus performs machine learning using position information history of wireless terminals attached to animals (that is, a movement history of the animal group), specifies an area for checking the state of the animal group, and causes aerial vehicle to fly to the specified area and to capture images of the animal group.Type: GrantFiled: June 25, 2020Date of Patent: October 15, 2024Assignee: NTT DOCOMO, INC.Inventors: Tomoe Ushiro, Naoki Kameyama, Yuichiro Segawa, Yasuhiro Kitamura
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Patent number: 12103679Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a control unit that controls a first flying vehicle and a second flying vehicle. The first flying vehicle captures an image of a surface of a road. The second flying vehicle emits light onto the surface, such that a spot where a level difference is estimated, in advance, to occur on the surface, an image capturing direction in which the first flying vehicle captures an image of the spot, and a light emitting direction in which the second flying vehicle emits the light onto the spot have a relationship that causes, when the level difference exists, a shadow to occur at the spot and the shadow to be captured.Type: GrantFiled: June 16, 2020Date of Patent: October 1, 2024Assignee: NTT DOCOMO, INC.Inventors: Tomoe Ushiro, Naoki Kameyama, Yuichiro Segawa, Yasuhiro Kitamura
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Patent number: 12099413Abstract: A memory controller includes a request pipeline and a retry control circuit. The request pipeline receives an input of a request to a memory output from a processor core, stores the request, and causes the memory to process the request in order of storage. The retry control circuit stops a new request input to the request pipeline when an error occurs in the memory, and re-inputs, to the request pipeline, requests to be retried that includes the request in which the error has occurred and a subsequent request stored in the request pipeline.Type: GrantFiled: January 26, 2023Date of Patent: September 24, 2024Assignee: Fujitsu LimitedInventor: Yasuhiro Kitamura
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Patent number: 11978349Abstract: A setting unit sets the operating mode of an aerial vehicle to a first operating mode that transmits, data generated by a host aerial vehicle and data received from another aerial vehicle to a processing device, or a second operating mode that transmits data generated by a host aerial vehicle to another aerial vehicle. At this time, setting unit sets the operating modes of each of a plurality of aerial vehicles using a setting method corresponding to the attributes of an airspace in which aerial vehicle flies, from among a plurality of setting methods that set the operating mode of aerial vehicle. The attributes of an airspace include attributes determined in accordance with a degree of importance pertaining to the process of transmitting data from aerial vehicle to a server device and/or attributes determined in accordance with the extent to which processes are distributed among a plurality of aerial vehicles.Type: GrantFiled: January 24, 2020Date of Patent: May 7, 2024Assignee: NTT DOCOMO, INC.Inventors: Kaori Niihata, Tadao Takami, Koji Ishii, Hiroshi Kawakami, Yuichiro Segawa, Yasuhiro Kitamura
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Publication number: 20240142952Abstract: An access authority is set for each data referred to by a program. A control system includes a control unit that controls a control target, a storage unit that stores a program executed by the control unit and each access authority for each of data referred to by the program, and an input unit that receives an access request for any one of the data. Each access authority includes information about an operation that can be executed by a user having each authority. The control unit refers to each access authority based on acquisition of the access request for any one of the data from the input unit, and determines whether the user who transmits the access request has the access authority for the data for which the access is requested based on each access authority.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 20, 2021Publication date: May 2, 2024Applicant: OMRON CORPORATIONInventors: Yasuhiro KITAMURA, Hisanori IGARASHI, Kotaro OKAMURA
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Publication number: 20240143803Abstract: Reliability of an instrument connected to a control device is verified. A control system includes a control unit and a communication unit. The control unit and the communication unit are configured to be detachable. The control unit authenticates the communication unit connected to the control unit using a common key, and allows the communication unit to access data in the control unit based on a result of the authentication checking that the communication unit has the common key.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 21, 2021Publication date: May 2, 2024Applicant: OMRON CorporationInventors: Yasuhiro KITAMURA, Hisanori IGARASHI, Kotaro OKAMURA
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Patent number: 11948469Abstract: A flight information acquisition unit repeatedly acquires the respective flight status of a plurality of drones in flight. A flight irregularity determination unit determines whether or not the drones are flying in a manner deviated from a flight plan. When a flight status of a drone indicating flight deviated from the flight plan has been acquired, a first collision specification unit specifies the drone at risk of collision with a drone having that flight status. When a flight status indicating that there is a possibility of crash for a drone has been acquired, a flight status processing unit (such as a flight irregularity determination unit) sets a higher priority for processing based on the flight status acquired from that drone than for processing based on the flight status acquired from another drone.Type: GrantFiled: January 14, 2020Date of Patent: April 2, 2024Assignee: NTT DOCOMO, INC.Inventors: Takefumi Yamada, Yuichiro Segawa, Yasuhiro Kitamura
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Patent number: 11823580Abstract: Time slot specifying unit reads out facility information of a facility to be inspected (specifically, a base station ID of a base station whose previous inspection day is included in a past predetermined period) from facility information storage unit. Daytime information acquiring unit acquires daytime information at positions at which base stations to be inspected are installed. Time slot specifying unit specifies non-backlight time slots based on the read-out facility information and the acquired daytime information. Operation plan generating unit generates an operation plan of drone in which facilities are shot in the specified non-backlight time slots. Operation plan outputting unit outputs the generated operation plan.Type: GrantFiled: March 16, 2020Date of Patent: November 21, 2023Assignee: NTT DOCOMO, INC.Inventors: Syuusuke Watanabe, Tadashige Nagae, Mitsuteru Fukuyama, Masakazu Hamano, Takefumi Yamada, Takashi Hara, Yuichiro Segawa, Yasuhiro Kitamura
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Patent number: 11810462Abstract: A specifying unit 51 of a flying body operation management device 50 specifies an airspace in which a propagation delay equal to or greater than a threshold value occurs in the uplink of a time-division duplex between a wireless communication terminal 30 and a wireless base station 41 to which wireless communication terminal 30 is wirelessly connected. Next, an assigning unit 52 of flying body operation management device 50 performs a process of assigning, with respect to each airspace, a flying body 10 having a wireless communication terminal 20. At this time, with respect to an airspace specified by specifying unit 51, assigning unit 52 limits the assigning of flying body 10 on which wireless communication terminal 20 is mounted.Type: GrantFiled: May 21, 2019Date of Patent: November 7, 2023Assignee: NTT DOCOMO, INC.Inventors: Takefumi Yamada, Youhei Oono, Yuichiro Segawa, Shinya Hanano, Takashi Yoshimoto, Yasuhiro Kitamura
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Patent number: 11794900Abstract: Baggage is connected to an aerial vehicle in a state in which the baggage is suspended by a connector such as rope. A learning unit of a server device performs machine learning on the relationship between the piloting of an aerial vehicle and the behavior of baggage on the basis of an aerial vehicle behavior history and a piloting history acquired by a first acquisition unit and a baggage behavior history acquired by a second acquisition unit. With this arrangement, the automatic piloting of the aerial vehicle at the time of lowering baggage is achieved.Type: GrantFiled: October 28, 2019Date of Patent: October 24, 2023Assignee: NTT DOCOMO, INC.Inventors: Tadao Takami, Koji Ishii, Jooin Woo, Hiroshi Kawakami, Kaori Niihata, Yuichiro Segawa, Yasuhiro Kitamura
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Publication number: 20230315573Abstract: A memory controller includes a request pipeline and a retry control circuit. The request pipeline receives an input of a request to a memory output from a processor core, stores the request, and causes the memory to process the request in order of storage. The retry control circuit stops a new request input to the request pipeline when an error occurs in the memory, and re-inputs, to the request pipeline, requests to be retried that includes the request in which the error has occurred and a subsequent request stored in the request pipeline.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 26, 2023Publication date: October 5, 2023Applicant: Fujitsu LimitedInventor: Yasuhiro Kitamura
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Patent number: 11762561Abstract: An information processing device include: a memory; and a processor coupled to the memory and configured to: receive an access request directed to an access target and sets the access request in any one of a plurality of pending entries each of which includes latency information; issue a command that corresponds to the access request; control issuance of the command on a basis of the latency information of the any one of the pending entries; set a value that indicates latency for the access request in the latency information of the any one of the pending entries; and subtract a predetermined value from the latency information of the any one of the pending entries for each unit of time.Type: GrantFiled: January 24, 2022Date of Patent: September 19, 2023Assignee: FUJITSU LIMITEDInventor: Yasuhiro Kitamura
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Patent number: 11756436Abstract: Setting unit performs the setting of each of the operating modes of a plurality of aerial vehicles on the basis of communication quality information of the planned route of the plurality of aerial vehicles that fly in a group. Specifically, setting unit firstly specifies the planned positions and periods in which each aerial vehicle is to fly from the flight plan information of the plurality of aerial vehicles that fly in a group. Next, setting unit specifies a communication quality of first wireless communication unit of each aerial vehicle in each position and each period from the communication quality information that represents the communication quality in the specified positions and periods. Then, setting unit specifies an operating mode setting schedule of main unit mode and auxiliary unit mode, which sets an aerial vehicle having a specified communication quality, and sets the remaining aerial vehicles as auxiliary units.Type: GrantFiled: January 24, 2020Date of Patent: September 12, 2023Assignee: NTT DOCOMO, INC.Inventors: Kaori Niihata, Tadao Takami, Koji Ishii, Hiroshi Kawakami, Yuichiro Segawa, Yasuhiro Kitamura
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Patent number: 11675338Abstract: A control device includes a program execution module, a communication unit, and a collection module connected to the communication unit. The program execution module generates control instructions for a control target in accordance with a user program that is freely created. The communication unit transmits and/or receives communication data to and/or from an external device through a network. The collection module collects data satisfying a filtering condition from among the communication data that is transferred on the network. The collection module changes the filtering condition in accordance with an instruction included in the user program.Type: GrantFiled: February 6, 2019Date of Patent: June 13, 2023Assignee: OMRON CorporationInventors: Yoichi Kurokawa, Yasuhiro Kitamura
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Patent number: 11528674Abstract: If a propagation delay equal to or greater than a threshold value is detected in the uplink of a time-division duplex between a first wireless communication terminal and a first wireless base station, a suppression unit 52 performs control pertaining to resources in the time-division duplex of a first wireless communication terminal. Thereby, communication errors that occur in a second wireless communication terminal wirelessly connected to the second wireless base station that is different from the first wireless base station, to which the first wireless communication terminal is wirelessly connected, is suppressed by uplink communication performed by the first wireless communication terminal in accordance with the propagation delay. For example, this suppression process is a process pertaining to the assignment of resources a time-division duplex with respect to the first wireless communication terminal.Type: GrantFiled: May 21, 2019Date of Patent: December 13, 2022Assignee: NTT DOCOMO, INC.Inventors: Takefumi Yamada, Youhei Oono, Yuichiro Segawa, Shinya Hanano, Takashi Yoshimoto, Yasuhiro Kitamura
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Patent number: 11528096Abstract: The present invention is designed to improve the efficiency of the use of radio resources in retransmission control in future radio communication systems. A user terminal according to one aspect of the present invention has a receiving section that receives a downlink (DL) signal, and a control section that, when a transport block of the DL signal is divided into a plurality of code blocks, controls transmission of retransmission control information representing an acknowledgment (ACK) or a negative acknowledgment (NACK) for each code block, or representing an ACK or a NACK for each code block group, which groups fewer code blocks than the plurality of code blocks.Type: GrantFiled: June 19, 2017Date of Patent: December 13, 2022Assignee: NTT DOCOMO, INC.Inventors: Yasuhiro Kitamura, Hiroki Harada, Ryosuke Osawa