Patents by Inventor Yoshihito Shigihara

Yoshihito Shigihara 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: 20140180145
    Abstract: A human fatigue assessment device capable of performing highly accurate fatigue assessment is provided. The human fatigue assessment device includes: a physiological signal measuring unit configured to measure a heartbeat or pulse wave of a user as a physiological signal; a feature value extracting unit configured to extract feature values each indicating amount of parasympathetic nerve activity and each obtained from the measured physiological signal measured; a storage unit in which the extracted feature values are stored; and a fatigue type determining unit configured to determine a type of fatigue of the user as to whether the fatigue of the user is due to a first work or due to a second work more monotonous than the first work, using the extracted feature values.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 7, 2014
    Publication date: June 26, 2014
    Applicant: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Etsuko KANAI, Masami FUNAKURA, Yasuyoshi WATANABE, Masaaki TANAKA, Yoshihito SHIGIHARA, Kei MIZUNO
  • Patent number: 8706206
    Abstract: A human fatigue assessment device capable of performing highly accurate fatigue assessment is provided. The human fatigue assessment device includes: a physiological signal measuring unit which measures a pulse wave signal of a user; a feature value extracting unit which extracts first feature values each of which is obtained from a systolic posterior component of the pulse wave signal measured by the physiological signal measuring unit; a storage unit in which the first feature values extracted by the feature value extracting unit are stored; and a fatigue determining unit which determines whether or not the user is fatigued, using the first feature values extracted by the feature value extracting unit, in which the fatigue determining unit compares a first feature value among the first feature values extracted by the feature value extracting unit and at least one of the first feature values stored in the storage unit, to determine whether or not the user is fatigued.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2010
    Date of Patent: April 22, 2014
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Etsuko Kanai, Masami Funakura, Yasuyoshi Watanabe, Masaaki Tanaka, Yoshihito Shigihara, Kei Mizuno
  • Publication number: 20110288424
    Abstract: A human fatigue assessment device capable of performing highly accurate fatigue assessment is provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 26, 2010
    Publication date: November 24, 2011
    Inventors: Etsuko Kanai, Masami Funakura, Yasuyoshi Watanabe, Masaaki Tanaka, Yoshihito Shigihara, Kei Mizuno