Patents by Inventor Yasushi Sato

Yasushi Sato 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: 20210302044
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus incudes a schedule determination unit configured to determine a schedule of an operating status for causing a temperature of an air-conditioned space of each of a plurality of load-side units to reach a specified set temperature at a specified set time, based on a learning model representing an input-output relationship between input data indicating an influencing factor of a thermal load of each of the load-side units and output data indicating the thermal load.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 2, 2018
    Publication date: September 30, 2021
    Inventor: Yasushi SATO
  • Publication number: 20210254851
    Abstract: An air conditioning control device includes: an acquisition unit that acquires air conditioning data acquired by an air conditioner, and a start time of the air conditioner predicted by inputting the air conditioning data into a machine learning model; an augmentation unit that generates augmented data by referring to the air conditioning data and the start time acquired by the acquisition unit; and an update unit that updates the machine learning model, by referring to the air conditioning data and the start time acquired by the acquisition unit as well as the augmented data generated by the augmentation unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 4, 2021
    Publication date: August 19, 2021
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Naoki TAGUCHI, Toshisada MARIYAMA, Takashi NAMMOTO, Yasushi SATO
  • Patent number: 11042380
    Abstract: A plurality of instructions to be executed in an order of being issued without an appointment of a waiting time or a starting moment are designed to be executed after a certain waiting time; instructions to be executed in an order of being issued without designation of starting moment or waiting time are provided with starting moment or waiting time information so that the instructions can be executed in an order designated by the time information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 2009
    Date of Patent: June 22, 2021
    Assignee: KAWAI MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS MFG. CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Yasushi Sato
  • Publication number: 20210101604
    Abstract: A driver state detection device that accurately detects a state of a driver, such as fatigue and nodding off. A driver state detection device includes an acceleration sensor installed in a vehicle, a center-of-gravity movement amount detection unit that is attached to a component constituting the vehicle and detects a center-of-gravity movement amount of a body of a driver on the vehicle, and a driver state determination unit that determines a state of the driver based on magnitude of an amount of deviation between an acceleration of the vehicle obtained by the acceleration sensor and the center-of-gravity movement amount of the body of the driver detected by the center-of-gravity movement amount detection unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 8, 2018
    Publication date: April 8, 2021
    Applicant: KYUSHU INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY
    Inventor: Yasushi SATO
  • Patent number: 10958847
    Abstract: Provided is an imaging device, an image processing method, and an image processing system which obtains a sensing image and a viewing image by one imaging element. The imaging device includes a control unit that controls irradiation with invisible light, an imaging element that includes a first pixel that is capable of detecting the invisible light, and a second pixel that is capable of detecting visible light. The imaging device further includes an image generation unit that generates a first image including the invisible light component and a second image including a visible light component on the basis of a first pixel signal transmitted from the first pixel and a second pixel signal transmitted from the second pixel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 5, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 23, 2021
    Assignee: SONY SEMICONDUCTOR SOLUTIONS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Junichi Sakamoto, Yasunori Kano, Yasushi Sato
  • Publication number: 20210006756
    Abstract: An imaging device includes: a pixel array part in which a plurality of pixel groups each including four pixels arranged in a matrix of 2×2 is arrayed. As a pixel group including four pixels, there are formed a first pixel group that includes three pixels that receive red light and one pixel that receives infrared light, a second pixel group that includes three pixels that receive blue light and one pixel that receives infrared light, a third pixel group that includes three pixels that receive green light and one pixel that receives infrared light, and a fourth pixel group that includes three pixels that receive green light and one pixel that receives infrared light. Four pixel groups including the first pixel group, the second pixel group, the third pixel group, and the fourth pixel group are arranged to form a set of 2×2 units in which the first pixel group and the second pixel group are diagonally positioned, and the third pixel group and the fourth pixel group are diagonally positioned.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 8, 2019
    Publication date: January 7, 2021
    Inventors: YASUSHI SATO, JUNICHI SAKAMOTO, MITSURU MISHIO, YUICHIRO BABA
  • Patent number: 10887530
    Abstract: To prevent deterioration in image quality in mixing a visible light signal and an infrared light signal to generate a color image signal. A signal processing device includes a mixture ratio creator and a mixer. The mixture ratio creator is configured to create a mixture ratio that is a ratio in mixing a low frequency visible light signal that is a low frequency component of a visible light signal and a low frequency invisible light signal that is a low frequency component of an invisible light signal together on a basis of the low frequency visible light signal and the low frequency invisible light signal. The mixer is configured to mix the low frequency visible light signal and the low frequency invisible light signal together on a basis of the mixture ratio to generate a mixed signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 23, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 5, 2021
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventor: Yasushi Sato
  • Patent number: 10874317
    Abstract: A biological information measurement device includes a photoplethysmographic sensor that detects a photoplethysmographic signal, an envelope detection processor that generates an envelope of the photoplethysmographic signal, and an amplitude normalization processor that normalizes amplitude of the photoplethysmographic signal to a desired amplitude value based on amplitude of the envelope. The device further includes an adaptive line spectrum enhancer that is capable of varying a filter coefficient, suppressing an aperiodic component contained in the normalized photoplethysmographic signal, and outputting a periodic component. A biological information obtainment unit is provided to obtain biological information such as a pulse rate based on an output signal from the adaptive line spectrum enhancer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 29, 2020
    Assignee: MURATA MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Takanori Hayashi, Yasushi Sato
  • Patent number: 10856814
    Abstract: A device and method for detecting biological information without being affected by sudden-onset signal even when sudden-onset large vibration is caused while driving a vehicle or the like. Peak input and output values of a variable delay device are detected, and the difference between the values is determined by a subtractor. The difference is compared to a predetermined threshold to obtain a positive or negative output as an up/down selection output for an up/down counter. The output of the up/down counter is sent to a variable delay device with a clock generated based on an inputted peak signal of biological information to obtain a variable delay amount corresponding to one cycle of the biological information. When the subtractor output exceeds the predetermined threshold, a predetermined output voltage is generated, and an amplifier connected to the variable delay device is controlled so that the gain of the amplifier becomes zero.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 8, 2020
    Assignees: KYUSHU INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY, AI TECHNOLOGY INC.
    Inventor: Yasushi Sato
  • Patent number: 10815575
    Abstract: An electrochemical reduction device includes an electrode unit, a power control unit, an organic material storage tank, a concentration measurement unit, a water storage tank, a gas-water separation unit, and a control unit. The electrode unit includes an electrolyte membrane, a reduction electrode, and an oxygen evolving electrode. The control unit controls the power control unit so as to satisfy a relation of VHER?Vallow?VCA?VTRR when the potential at a reversible hydrogen electrode, the standard redox potential of the aromatic compound, and the potential of the reduction electrode are expressed as VHER, VTRR, and VCA, respectively. Vallow is adjusted according to the concentration of the aromatic compound measured by the concentration measurement unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 27, 2020
    Assignee: ENEOS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yasushi Sato, Kota Miyoshi, Kojiro Nakagawa, Yoshihiro Kobori
  • Patent number: 10803335
    Abstract: Provided is an. emotion. estimating apparatus capable of precisely estimating an emotion and mental state of a measurement subject by using a non-contact pulse detection technology. The emotion estimating apparatus forcibly performs re-sampling processing of digital biometric data generated by converting a heart rate signal to digital data after extracting data for one cycle at an RR interval, and obtains coefficients of harmonic components by a DCT conversion processing unit. From the coefficients of the harmonic components, AC components are removed by LPFs, whereby a coefficient data array is obtained.. The coefficient data array is compared to a dictionary data group, in which dictionary data is a characteristic quantity indicating an emotion or mental state, and a similarity therebetween is calculated, whereby an emotion or mental state of a subject is estimated on the basis of the heart rate signal of the subject.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 13, 2020
    Assignee: KYUSHU INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY
    Inventor: Yasushi Sato
  • Publication number: 20200284013
    Abstract: A flush toilet includes: a bowl; at least one water discharge port to discharge water into the bowl; a water supply path to supply the water from a water supply source to the water discharge port therethrough; and a backflow check structure provided for the water supply path. The backflow check structure checks a backflow of the water running through the water supply path. The backflow check structure has: a water inlet port exposed to the air and directly communicating with the water discharge port; and a water outlet port to channel the water supplied from the water supply source toward the water inlet port. The water inlet port is arranged on a trajectory of the water running out through the water outlet port. The water that has passed through the water inlet port is channeled directly toward the water discharge port.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 24, 2018
    Publication date: September 10, 2020
    Applicant: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yasushi SATO, Masato MIYAMOTO
  • Publication number: 20200250446
    Abstract: Provided is an. emotion. estimating apparatus capable of precisely estimating an emotion and mental state of a measurement subject by using a non-contact pulse detection technology. The emotion estimating apparatus forcibly performs re-sampling processing of digital biometric data generated by converting a heart rate signal to digital data after extracting data for one cycle at an RR interval, and obtains coefficients of harmonic components by a DCT conversion processing unit. From the coefficients of the harmonic components, AC components are removed by LPFs, whereby a coefficient data array is obtained.. The coefficient data array is compared to a dictionary data group, in which dictionary data is a characteristic quantity indicating an emotion or mental state, and a similarity therebetween is calculated, whereby an emotion or mental state of a subject is estimated on the basis of the heart rate signal of the subject.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 8, 2018
    Publication date: August 6, 2020
    Applicant: KYUSHU INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY
    Inventor: Yasushi SATO
  • Publication number: 20200112662
    Abstract: The present technology relates to an imaging device, an image processing method, and an image processing system which are configured to obtain a sensing image and a viewing image by one imaging element. The imaging device includes: a control unit that controls irradiation with invisible light; an imaging element that includes a first pixel that is capable of detecting the invisible light, and a second pixel that is capable of detecting visible light; and an image generation unit that generates a first image including the invisible light component and a second image including a visible light component on the basis of a first pixel signal transmitted from the first pixel and a second pixel signal transmitted from the second pixel. For example, the present technology is applicable to a monitoring camera.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 5, 2018
    Publication date: April 9, 2020
    Inventors: JUNICHI SAKAMOTO, YASUNORI KANO, YASUSHI SATO
  • Patent number: 10594996
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes a separation unit, a Bayer image signal supply unit, and a signal processing unit. The separation unit separates and removes, in input image signals in which pixel signals each including an invisible light component are arranged in an array different from a Bayer array, the invisible light components from the pixel signals. The Bayer image signal supply unit arranges the pixel signals from which the invisible light components have been removed in the Bayer array and supplies the pixel signals as Bayer image signals. The signal processing unit subjects the Bayer image signals to predetermined signal processing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 9, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 17, 2020
    Assignee: Sony Semiconductor Solutions Corporation
    Inventors: Yasushi Sato, Koji Kurata, Yuta Okano, Shin Yoshimura, Tamaki Eyama, Ryuhei Hata, Masatsugu Fukunaga, Masahiro Ito
  • Publication number: 20200080212
    Abstract: An organic hydride production apparatus includes: an electrolyte membrane having proton conductivity; a cathode, provided on one side of the electrolyte membrane, that contains a cathode catalyst used to hydrogenate a hydrogenation target substance using protons to produce an organic hydride; an anode, provided opposite to the one side of the electrolyte membrane, that contains an anode catalyst used to oxidize water to produce protons; and an anode support, provided opposite to the electrolyte membrane side of the anode, that supports the anode. The anode support is formed of an elastic porous body of which the Young's modulus is greater than 0.1 N/mm2 and less than 43 N/mm2.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 18, 2019
    Publication date: March 12, 2020
    Applicants: National University Corporation YOKOHAMA National University, DE NORA PERMELEC LTD
    Inventors: Shigenori MITSUSHIMA, Kensaku NAGASAWA, Yoshinori NISHIKI, Setsuro OGATA, Akihiro KATO, Awaludin ZAENAL, Koji MATSUOKA, Yasushi SATO
  • Patent number: 10574910
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to an imaging apparatus, an imaging method, and a program that allow control of an invisible light component of a captured image without a mechanism that inserts and removes a filter that shields the invisible light component. A luminance composition unit combines a luminance signal of a visible light component of a pixel signal of a captured image including an invisible light component and the visible light component with the pixel signal. A chroma gain amplifier attenuates a chrominance signal of the visible light component. The present disclosure can be applied to an imaging apparatus and the like that include, for example, an optical filter that transmits visible light and infrared light, have pixels in an RGBW array, and perform a Bayer conversion process on a captured image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 12, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2020
    Assignee: Sony Semiconductor Solutions Corporation
    Inventors: Koji Kurata, Yasushi Sato, Seiji Kayashima, Naoki Okamoto
  • Patent number: 10561322
    Abstract: An R-wave of a heartbeat signal accompanied by periodic fluctuation is detected to obtain the average value of an RR interval. Further, a waveform of a heart sound signal, which periodically fluctuates in synchronization with the heartbeat signal, is forcibly repositioned at an interval equivalent to the average value of the RR interval. After performing reposition, noise is removed by using orthogonal transformation and orthogonal inverse transformation, so that the position of obtained waveform is restored to its original position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 17, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2020
    Assignees: KYUSHU INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY, AI TECHNOLOGY INC.
    Inventor: Yasushi Sato
  • Patent number: 10560638
    Abstract: The present technology relates to an imaging apparatus, an imaging method, and a program capable of obtaining a color image even in a case where photographing is performed in a dark place.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 2, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2020
    Assignee: SONY SEMICONDUCTOR SOLUTIONS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hirosuke Nagano, Yasushi Sato
  • Patent number: 10560642
    Abstract: Provided is an image processing device for improving quality of an image generated using an image obtained when infrared light is radiated and an image obtained when infrared light is not radiated. A modulation coefficient setting unit sets a first modulation coefficient used for correction of infrared luminance information of an infrared image obtained when infrared light is radiated. The first modulation coefficient is set on the basis of a ratio between the infrared luminance information and visible luminance information of a visible image obtained when the infrared light is not radiated. A modulation coefficient correcting unit corrects the first modulation coefficient to a second modulation coefficient on the basis of a parameter indicating brightness of a subject of the visible image or brightness of a photographing environment. A luminance correcting unit corrects the infrared luminance information using the second modulation coefficient.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 25, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2020
    Assignee: SONY SEMICONDUCTOR SOLUTIONS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Toshinobu Sugiyama, Yasushi Sato