Patents by Inventor Yoshikazu Watanabe

Yoshikazu Watanabe 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: 20240385561
    Abstract: An image forming system conveys a recording medium to form an image. The image forming system includes: a driver to drive an operation mechanism to convey a recording medium or an operation mechanism to form an image on the recording medium; a detector that detects a driving state of the driver; a diagnostic section diagnosing an abnormality of the operation mechanism based on a load obtained by converting a detection result by the detector based on a predetermined conversion condition; and an updater that, when at least one of components of the driver is replaced, updates the conversion condition in accordance with the replaced component.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 30, 2024
    Publication date: November 21, 2024
    Applicant: Konica Minolta, Inc.
    Inventors: Takashi Watanabe, Yoshikazu Watanabe, Yasuhiro Ishihara, Yukinobu Iguchi, Shougo Kamiya, Tatsuya Eguchi
  • Publication number: 20240378855
    Abstract: An information processing device according to the present includes a memory configured to store instructions; and one or more processors configured to execute the instructions to: apply inference target data including first target object to a first trained model to infer, as a primary inference, the first target object; classify, into any one of groups based on an attribute of the first target object inferred in the primary inference, and generate packed data having a smaller amount than an amount of the inference target data, and a correspondence between a position of the first target object in the inference target data and a position of the first target object in the packed data; apply the packed data to a plurality of second trained models to infer, as secondary inference, the first target object; and infer the first target object using results of the secondary inference and the correspondence.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 4, 2021
    Publication date: November 14, 2024
    Applicant: NEC Corporation
    Inventor: Yoshikazu Watanabe
  • Publication number: 20240309016
    Abstract: The present invention provides a heterocyclic compound having an orexin type 2 receptor agonist activity. A compound represented by the formula (I): wherein each symbol is as described in the specification, or a salt thereof has an orexin type 2 receptor agonist activity, and is useful as an agent for the prophylaxis or treatment of narcolepsy.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 15, 2024
    Publication date: September 19, 2024
    Inventors: Mitsunori KONO, Yusuke SASAKI, Yuya OGURO, Zenichi IKEDA, Osamu KUBO, Masaki SETO, Toru YAMASHITA, Makoto KAMATA, Kenjiro SATO, Matthew Thomas REYNOLDS, Kazuaki TAKAMI, Asato KINA, Takafumi YUKAWA, Minoru NAKAMURA, Taku KAMEI, Hiroyuki KAKEI, Fumie YAMAGUCHI, Tomohiro OHASHI, Keiko KAKEGAWA, Takuto KOJIMA, Florian PÜNNER, Masataka MURAKAMI, Takahiko TANIGUCHI, Tatsuki KOIKE, Yuichi KAJITA, Yuhei MIYANOHANA, Kohei TAKEUCHI, Yoshiteru ITO, Norihito TOKUNAGA, Yasushi HATTORI, Eiji KIMURA, Martin Alexander PAWLICZEK, Marilena PIRA, Shuhei IKEDA, Noriyuki TEZUKA, Yoshikazu WATANABE, Kevin CURRAN, Nicolle DOERING, Maria HOPKINS, Ben JOHNSON, Andre KIRYANOV, Jon LAM, Sean MURPHY, Natasha O'ROURKE, Holly REICHARD, Paul TANIS, Yunlong ZHANG
  • Publication number: 20240231946
    Abstract: A process allocation control device achieves efficient control of satisfactorily utilizing an accelerator included in an information processing device by including: a reception unit that receives a request to execute a process, which can be executed by a plurality of processors having different configurations and has different characteristics of performance exhibited through execution by the different processors; a detection unit that detects the states of the plurality of processors; and an allocation unit that allocates execution of the process to at least one of the plurality of processors on the basis of the states of the plurality of processors and the characteristics of the process.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 8, 2021
    Publication date: July 11, 2024
    Applicant: NEC Corporation
    Inventors: Yumiko Urasawa, Takahiro Kawazu, Yoshikazu Watanabe
  • Publication number: 20240134710
    Abstract: A process allocation control device achieves efficient control of satisfactorily utilizing an accelerator included in an information processing device by including: a reception unit that receives a request to execute a process, which can be executed by a plurality of processors having different configurations and has different characteristics of performance exhibited through execution by the different processors; a detection unit that detects the states of the plurality of processors; and an allocation unit that allocates execution of the process to at least one of the plurality of processors on the basis of the states of the plurality of processors and the characteristics of the process.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 8, 2021
    Publication date: April 25, 2024
    Applicant: NEC Corporation
    Inventors: Yumiko Urasawa, Takahiro Kawazu, Yoshikazu Watanabe
  • Publication number: 20240087296
    Abstract: An information processing device according to the present invention includes: a memory; and at least one processor coupled to the memory. The processor performs operations. The operations include: generating, based on inference target data include a detection target object, aggregate data smaller than the inference target data; and applying the aggregate data to a trained model to infer a first region that is a region of the detection target object in the aggregate data, generating packed data that is data packed with the first region or a region of the inference target data, applying the packed data to a trained model to infer a second region that is a region of the detection target object that is included, and inferring the detection target object in the inference target data based on the second region.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 14, 2021
    Publication date: March 14, 2024
    Applicant: NEC Corporation
    Inventor: Yoshikazu Watanabe
  • Publication number: 20230281967
    Abstract: An information processing device according to the present invention performs operations including: selecting a base image from a base dataset including a target region including an object to be subjected to machine learning and a background region not including an object to be subjected to machine learning, and generating a processing target image; selecting the target region included in another image included in the base dataset; combining an image of the selected target region and information on an object to be subjected to machine learning included in the image of the target region with the processing target image; generating a dataset of the processing target images obtained by combining a predetermined number of the target regions; calculating a feature of an image included in the dataset; generating a learned model using first machine learning using the feature and the dataset; and outputting the generated learned model generated.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 27, 2020
    Publication date: September 7, 2023
    Applicant: NEC Corporation
    Inventor: Yoshikazu Watanabe
  • Patent number: 11693261
    Abstract: A focus adjusting tool used to perform an initial setting for a pair of autofocus eyeglasses includes an adjusting lens that refracts reflected light from a visual object, a housing including an inner space that allows a parallel movement of the adjusting lens, an adjusting unit that adjusts a position of the adjusting lens inside the housing, and a first end and a second end in a moving direction of the adjusting lens. The first end is provided with a hole for visually observing a visual object through a power variable lens of the pair of autofocus eyeglasses. The adjusting lens adjusts, in response to the position thereof inside the housing, an incident angle of the reflected light from the visual object into the power variable lens, the visual object being located on the side of the second end.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2023
    Assignee: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.
    Inventors: Yoshikazu Watanabe, Takaki Uemura, Sotaro Yokota
  • Publication number: 20230192261
    Abstract: A marine vessel includes a hull and a steering system. The steering system includes at least one nautical equipment, a steering mechanism to adjust a traveling direction of the hull, and an input terminal to receive an input from a user. The steering mechanism includes a steering wheel with an operation switch to operate the at least one nautical equipment. The input terminal is operable to allow the user to associate the at least one nautical equipment with the operation switch.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 30, 2022
    Publication date: June 22, 2023
    Inventor: Yoshikazu WATANABE
  • Publication number: 20230150642
    Abstract: A marine vessel including a steering mechanism that includes a steering wheel including shift switches to cause the marine vessel to shift to a course holding mode to hold a course of the marine vessel, and a traveling direction maintaining mode to maintain a traveling direction of the marine vessel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 31, 2022
    Publication date: May 18, 2023
    Inventors: Yoshikazu WATANABE, Takuya MURAYAMA
  • Publication number: 20230141198
    Abstract: The present invention provides a compound having a selective opioid ? receptor agonist effect. The present invention provides a pyrazolomorphinan derivative represented by general formula (1) (in the formula, (II) R1 represents a hydrogen atom, an alkyl group, a cycloalkylmethyl group, or the like, R2 represents a hydrogen atom or a hydroxy protecting group, R3 represents a hydroxy group, an alkyl group, a partially unsaturated heterocyclic group, an aryl group, a heteroaryl group, or the like; and R4 represents a hydrogen atom, an alkyl group, an aralkyl group, a cycloalkyl group, a cycloalkyl alkyl group, a saturated heterocyclic group, an aryl group, a heteroaryl group, or the like). The pyrazolomorphinan derivative can be used as an active ingredient in an analgesic, an antidepressant, an anxiolytic, or the like.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 20, 2020
    Publication date: May 11, 2023
    Applicants: THE KITASATO INSTITUTE, NIPPON CHEMIPHAR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hideaki FUJII, Shigeto HIRAYAMA, Yoshikazu WATANABE
  • Publication number: 20230087342
    Abstract: Provided are: an azepan derivative represented by general formula (I) and a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof (in the formula: R1 represents a hydrogen atom, a C1-6 alkyl group which may have a substituent, etc.; R2 and R3 are the same as or different from each other, and represent a hydrogen atom, a C1-6 alkyl group which may have a substituent, etc.; R4 and R5 are the same as or different from each other, and represent a hydrogen atom, a C1-6 alkyl group which may have a substituent, etc.; R6 represents a hydrogen atom, a C1-6 alkyl group which may have a substituent, etc.; R7 and R8 are the same as or different from each other, and represent a hydrogen atom, a C1-6 alkyl group which may have a substituent, etc.; R9 and R10 are the same as or different from each other, and represent a hydrogen atom, a C1-6 alkyl group which may have a substituent, etc.; R11 represents a hydrogen atom, a C1-6 alkyl group which may have a substituent, etc.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 29, 2020
    Publication date: March 23, 2023
    Inventors: Yoshikazu Watanabe, Daisuke Saito, Kohei Hayashida, Kohei Yamamoto, Mayu Namiki, Yuzo Mogi, Masahiro Yata
  • Publication number: 20230048594
    Abstract: An information processing device according to the present invention includes: a memory; and at least one processor coupled to the memory. The processor performs operations. The operations includes: selecting a base image from a base data set that is a set of images including a target region that includes an object that is a target of machine learning and a background region that does not include an object that is a target of the machine learning; generating a processing target image that is a duplicate of the selected base image; selecting the target region included in another image included in the base data set; synthesizing an image of the selected target region with the processing target image; and generating a data set that is a set of the processing target images in which a predetermined number of the target regions are synthesized.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 20, 2020
    Publication date: February 16, 2023
    Applicant: NEC Corporation
    Inventor: Yoshikazu WATANABE
  • Publication number: 20220300839
    Abstract: An information processing device includes: a memory and, at least one processor coupled to the memory. The processor performs operations. The operations includes: applying inference target data in which at least part of data includes a first target object to a first learned model to infer the first target object as primary inference; generating aggregated data that is data having a smaller quantity than the inference target data by using the first target object inferred in the primary inference; generating a correspondence relation between a position of the first target object in the inference target data and a position of the first target object in the aggregated data; applying the aggregated data to a second learned model to infer the first target object as secondary inference; and inferring the first target object by using the first target object in a result of the secondary inference and the correspondence relation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 8, 2022
    Publication date: September 22, 2022
    Applicant: NEC Corporation
    Inventor: Yoshikazu WATANABE
  • Publication number: 20210364825
    Abstract: A focus adjusting tool used to perform an initial setting for a pair of autofocus eyeglasses includes an adjusting lens that refracts reflected light from a visual object, a housing including an inner space that allows a parallel movement of the adjusting lens, an adjusting unit that adjusts a position of the adjusting lens inside the housing, and a first end and a second end in a moving direction of the adjusting lens. The first end is provided with a hole for visually observing a visual object through a power variable lens of the pair of autofocus eyeglasses.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 30, 2021
    Publication date: November 25, 2021
    Inventors: Yoshikazu WATANABE, Takaki UEMURA, Sotaro YOKOTA
  • Patent number: 10756954
    Abstract: An information processing system according to the present invention includes: a relay device communicates with a server through a first communication line and a device through a second communication line, and relays data between the first communication line and the second communication line; an auxiliary relay device communicates with the server through a third communication line and the device through the second communication line, and relays data between the third communication line and the second communication line; and a management device detects a failure on the first communication line and controls the auxiliary relay device in such a way as to establish an alternative communication channel by using the third communication line and the auxiliary relay device when the failure is detected and to deliver the auxiliary relay device to a location where the auxiliary relay device is connected to the second communication line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 25, 2020
    Assignee: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventor: Yoshikazu Watanabe
  • Publication number: 20200257568
    Abstract: The purpose of the present invention is to more efficiently use computation processing resources in a plurality of regions by appropriately scheduling the use of the computation processing resources. A traffic forecasting unit (140D) forecasts traffic passing through a communication node. A scheduling unit (110D) determines the usage schedule of computation processing resources possessed by the communication node in order to process the forecast traffic. When the communication node possesses a vacant computation processing resource that is not scheduled to be used, a resource selling unit (120D) supplies the vacant computation processing resource.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 19, 2018
    Publication date: August 13, 2020
    Applicant: NEC Corporation
    Inventor: Yoshikazu WATANABE
  • Publication number: 20200253022
    Abstract: An optical writing device includes a lens, a plurality of light emitting elements that form one pixel on a photoreceptor through the lens, and a control circuit that controls a light emitting state of each of the plurality of light emitting elements. The control circuit controls the light emitting state of each of the plurality of light emitting elements in accordance with an ambient temperature of the plurality of light emitting elements.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 28, 2020
    Publication date: August 6, 2020
    Inventors: Masayuki IIJIMA, Takaki UEMURA, Yoshikazu WATANABE, Sotaro YOKOTA
  • Patent number: 10555217
    Abstract: To provide a terminal device capable of preventing user-unintended communication from being made. A communication control means 91 controls a packet transfer means for transmitting a packet. An instruction information giving means 92 gives instruction information indicating an instruction for the communication control means 91 to the communication control means 91. The communication control means 91 sends a flow detection notification that it detected a new flow to the instruction information giving means 92 when detecting the new flow. The instruction information giving means 92 determines whether to permit the flow to be communicated when receiving the flow detection notification. When determining to permit communication, the instruction information giving means 92 then gives instruction information for instructing to transmit a packet of the flow in a path as an access network designated by the instruction information giving means 92 to the communication control means 91.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 3, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2020
    Assignee: NEC Corporation
    Inventors: Shuichi Karino, Yoshinori Saida, Yoshikazu Watanabe, Gen Morita, Takahiro Iihoshi
  • Publication number: 20190384204
    Abstract: An optical recording device includes: a lens array in which a plurality of lenses is arranged at least in a main scanning direction; a light emitting element substrate that is arranged in proximity to the lens array, and includes a light emitting element group in which a plurality of light emitting elements forming one pixel is arranged for each lens position of the lens array; and a light emission controller that controls the light emitting elements, wherein, in the light emitting element substrate, at least a light emitting element arranged on an end side in the main scanning direction is a special light emitting element, and the light emission controller is able to adjust an irradiation position irradiated with light from the special light emitting element through the lens array by selectively allowing a plurality of light sources in the special light emitting element to emit light.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 16, 2019
    Publication date: December 19, 2019
    Inventors: Yoshikazu WATANABE, Sotaro YOKOTA