Patents by Inventor Yoshiyuki Kobayashi

Yoshiyuki Kobayashi 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: 20240147001
    Abstract: An information processing device that processes video or audio outputs from a television receiver using artificial intelligence is to be provided. The information processing device includes: an acquisition unit that acquires reproduction content; a detection unit that acquires information regarding a viewing status; a control unit that estimates reproduction content to be output, on the basis of information regarding a user who views the reproduction content and information regarding the creator who has created the reproduction content; and an output unit that outputs the estimated reproduction content. The control unit estimates signal processing for reducing the recognition gap between the user and the creator with respect to content.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 10, 2020
    Publication date: May 2, 2024
    Inventors: TAKESHI HIRAMATSU, YOSHIYUKI KOBAYASHI, HIROSHI ADACHI
  • Patent number: 11973380
    Abstract: An aspect of an electric pump of the present invention is an electric pump attached to a predetermined object. The electric pump includes a motor having a rotor rotatable about a center axis extending in an axial direction, a pump mechanism coupled to the rotor, a circuit board located radially outside the motor and having a plate face directed in a radial direction, an electrolytic capacitor attached to the plate face of the circuit board, and a housing that houses the motor, the pump mechanism, the circuit board, and the electrolytic capacitor therein. The housing has a mounting face attached to a predetermined object. The mounting face is a face directed radially outward. The plate face of the circuit board is disposed along a direction intersecting the mounting face. The electrolytic capacitor is disposed at a position closer to the mounting face than the center axis in the direction orthogonal to the mounting face.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 17, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: NIDEC TOSOK CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yoshiyuki Kobayashi, Tomohiro Sakata, Yuzo Nagai, Hideo Nagai
  • Patent number: 11973403
    Abstract: The variable-speed accelerator includes an electric device, a transmission device, and a power supply portion that supplies electric power of a constant rated frequency supplied from a power supply to the electric device when the electric device is started. The electric device includes a constant-speed electric motor that rotates a constant-speed input shaft of the transmission device, and a variable-speed electric motor that functions as a generator in a generator mode and also functions as an electric motor in an electric motor mode. When starting the electric device, the power supply portion supplies the electric power generated by the variable-speed electric motor in the generator mode to the constant-speed electric motor after supplying starting power to the constant-speed electric motor and the variable-speed electric motor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 19, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES COMPRESSOR CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yoshiyuki Okamoto, Masahiro Kobayashi, Hiroyuki Miyata
  • Patent number: 11961917
    Abstract: Provided is a semiconductor device in which deterioration of electric characteristics which becomes more noticeable as the semiconductor device is miniaturized can be suppressed. The semiconductor device includes a first oxide film, an oxide semiconductor film over the first oxide film, a source electrode and a drain electrode in contact with the oxide semiconductor film, a second oxide film over the oxide semiconductor film, the source electrode, and the drain electrode, a gate insulating film over the second oxide film, and a gate electrode in contact with the gate insulating film. A top end portion of the oxide semiconductor film is curved when seen in a channel width direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: SEMICONDUCTOR ENERGY LABORATORY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kazuya Hanaoka, Daisuke Matsubayashi, Yoshiyuki Kobayashi, Shunpei Yamazaki, Shinpei Matsuda
  • Publication number: 20240100610
    Abstract: In this cutting insert, two cutting edges respectively including arc-shaped cutting edge parts extending in an arc shape in a plan view and linear cutting edge parts are provided in an intersection ridge line part between a rake face and a flank face. The cutting edges include a convex curved part moving away from a seating face and then moving close to the seating face as at least the arc-shaped cutting edge part moves away from the linear cutting edge parts. In a side view, the arc-shaped cutting edge parts include curvature change points between most protruding points farthest from the seating face and cutting edge tips of the arc-shaped cutting edge parts.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 19, 2022
    Publication date: March 28, 2024
    Applicant: MOLDINO TOOL ENGINEERING, LTD.
    Inventors: Kenji Nagafuchi, Yoshiyuki Kobayashi
  • Patent number: 11936962
    Abstract: Provided is an information processing device includes a receiving unit that receives a segment file having a plurality of segments and a setting file in which a group to which the segment file belongs is set, and an extraction unit that extracts one or more MP4 samples included in a segment of the segment file and adds attribute information including a reproduction start time of the MP4 sample to the MP4 sample. The information processing device further includes a determination unit that determines a switching position at which the segment file belonging to the group after switching is output in units of the MP4 samples on the basis of an accepted switching operation of the group and the attribute information, and an output unit that outputs an output signal generated from the segment file belonging to the group after the switching from the switching position to an output device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: SONY GROUP CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yoshiyuki Kobayashi, Toshiya Hamada
  • Patent number: 11919983
    Abstract: Provided is a vinylidene fluoride copolymer particle which is capable of efficiently exhibiting high adhesion between an electrode and a separator. The vinylidene fluoride copolymer particle of the present invention comprises vinylidene fluoride; and a compound having an oxygen atom-containing functional group; wherein a ratio of oxygen atom in a surface of the vinylidene fluoride copolymer particle is higher than a ratio of oxygen atom in the vinylidene fluoride copolymer particle other than the surface thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 18, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: KUREHA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kayoko Okada, Yoshiyuki Nagasawa, Aya Oikawa, Yumeno Suzuki, Shota Kobayashi
  • Patent number: 11904852
    Abstract: [Object] To provide an information processing apparatus, an information processing method, and a program capable of providing more useful information to a driver. [Solution] An information processing apparatus including: a prediction section configured to predict accident probability of a vehicle driven by a user; and an output control section configured to cause information to be output to the user, the information corresponding to a factor that increases the accident probability predicted by the prediction section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 3, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: SONY GROUP CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shingo Takamatsu, Kenta Kawamoto, Naoki Ide, Yoshiyuki Kobayashi
  • Publication number: 20230360437
    Abstract: Provided is a training system that performs training of a machine learning model that generates an impressing content or estimates a camera operation for capturing an impressing content. The training system includes: a data collection device that collects data; and a training device that performs training of a machine learning model by using the data collected by the data collection device, in which the training device performs re-training of the machine learning model by using learning data that affects the training of the machine learning model to a predetermined degree or more, insufficient learning data, or data similar thereto, collected on the basis of a result of analyzing learning data that affects the training of the machine learning model.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 24, 2021
    Publication date: November 9, 2023
    Inventors: ANDREW SHIN, YOSHIYUKI KOBAYASHI, KENJI SUZUKI
  • Patent number: 11705852
    Abstract: A motor driving device for driving a motor is provided. The motor driving device includes: a driver outputting a drive signal for driving the motor to the motor; and a controller controlling a duty ratio of the drive signal based on three control parameters which are an initial duty ratio, a duty ratio increasing speed, and a target duty ratio. The controller has a normal control mode in which each of the three control parameters is a predetermined value, and a cryogenic control mode in which at least one of the three control parameters is a smaller value than in the normal control mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 11, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2023
    Assignee: NIDEC TOSOK CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yoshiyuki Kobayashi, Yasuhiro Shirai, Tadayuki Hatsuda
  • Publication number: 20230195192
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides novel and improved information processing apparatus, information processing method, and program with which it is easy for a user to predict a future remaining battery amount. According to the present disclosure, there is provided an information processing apparatus including a control unit that performs control to calculate a future prediction value of remaining battery amount on the basis of a use history of an information processing apparatus by a user and to present prediction value related information related to the prediction value to the user. According to the present disclosure, the user can easily predict the future remaining battery amount. Note that the effects described above are not necessarily limitative. With or in the place of the above effects, there may be achieved any one of the effects described in this specification or other effects that may be grasped from this specification.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 17, 2023
    Publication date: June 22, 2023
    Applicants: Sony Mobile Communications Inc., Sony Group Corporation
    Inventors: Tomoo MIZUKAMI, Noriaki SAKAMOTO, Tomonobu TSUJIKAWA, Shota KAWARAZAKI, Ryo NAKAGAWA, Yoshiyuki KOBAYASHI
  • Publication number: 20230178656
    Abstract: To provide a semiconductor device in which a large current can flow. To provide a semiconductor device which can be driven stably at a high driving voltage. The semiconductor device includes a semiconductor layer, a first electrode and a second electrode electrically connected to the semiconductor layer and apart from each other in a region overlapping with the semiconductor layer, a first gate electrode and a second gate electrode with the semiconductor layer therebetween, a first gate insulating layer between the semiconductor layer and the first gate electrode, and a second gate insulating layer between the semiconductor layer and the second gate electrode. The first gate electrode overlaps with part of the first electrode, the semiconductor layer, and part of the second electrode. The second gate electrode overlaps with the semiconductor layer and part of the first electrode, and does not overlap with the second electrode.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 30, 2023
    Publication date: June 8, 2023
    Applicant: SEMICONDUCTOR ENERGY LABORATORY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shunpei Yamazaki, Yoshiyuki Kobayashi, Daisuke Matsubayashi, Akihisa Shimomura, Daigo Ito
  • Publication number: 20230099184
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a solid electrolyte which exhibits good ionic conductivity in a room temperature state and is excellent in moldability, productivity, and quality stability, an electrode, a battery and a capacitor using the solid electrolyte, and a method of producing the solid electrolyte. The present invention is a solid electrolyte containing an alkali metal salt and a polymer, wherein the polymer has, for example, a monomer unit of a chemical formula (1).
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 23, 2020
    Publication date: March 30, 2023
    Applicant: Toray Industries, Inc.
    Inventors: Yugao Deng, Hirokado Nakamura, Yoshiyuki Kobayashi, Kentaro Mori
  • Patent number: 11609621
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides novel and improved information processing apparatus, information processing method, and program with which it is easy for a user to predict a future remaining battery amount. According to the present disclosure, there is provided an information processing apparatus including a control unit that performs control to calculate a future prediction value of remaining battery amount on the basis of a use history of an information processing apparatus by a user and to present prediction value related information related to the prediction value to the user. According to the present disclosure, the user can easily predict the future remaining battery amount. Note that the effects described above are not necessarily limitative. With or in the place of the above effects, there may be achieved any one of the effects described in this specification or other effects that may be grasped from this specification.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 21, 2023
    Assignees: SONY MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS INC., SONY GROUP CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tomoo Mizukami, Noriaki Sakamoto, Tomonobu Tsujikawa, Shota Kawarazaki, Ryo Nakagawa, Yoshiyuki Kobayashi
  • Patent number: 11605002
    Abstract: The present technology relates to a program, an information processing method, and an information processing apparatus that make it possible to easily design network. A program according to one aspect of the present technology is a program causing a computer to serve as: a generating unit that generates, in response to specification of a data set including data for learning, a network for inference execution and a network for learning corresponding to the data set; and a learning unit that inputs the data for learning to the network for learning and performs learning of the network for inference execution. The present technology is applicable to a program that supports network design by Deep Learning.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 2, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 14, 2023
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Naoki Ide, Yoshiyuki Kobayashi, Akira Nakamura, Yukio Oobuchi
  • Patent number: 11593635
    Abstract: There is provide an information processing device capable of reducing the time taken for selection of the learning setting, the information processing device including: a data acquisition unit configured to acquire a learning setting corresponding to information related to previous learning processing in which a degree of similarity with information related to learning processing specified by a user is higher than a predetermined degree of similarity as a learning setting to be recommended to the user; and a display control unit configured to control display corresponding to the learning setting to be recommended.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 10, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2023
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shingo Takamatsu, Akira Fukui, Naoki Ide, Yukio Oobuchi, Yoshiyuki Kobayashi
  • Patent number: 11581439
    Abstract: To provide a semiconductor device in which a large current can flow. To provide a semiconductor device which can be driven stably at a high driving voltage. The semiconductor device includes a semiconductor layer, a first electrode and a second electrode electrically connected to the semiconductor layer and apart from each other in a region overlapping with the semiconductor layer, a first gate electrode and a second gate electrode with the semiconductor layer therebetween, a first gate insulating layer between the semiconductor layer and the first gate electrode, and a second gate insulating layer between the semiconductor layer and the second gate electrode. The first gate electrode overlaps with part of the first electrode, the semiconductor layer, and part of the second electrode. The second gate electrode overlaps with the semiconductor layer and part of the first electrode, and does not overlap with the second electrode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2023
    Assignee: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Shunpei Yamazaki, Yoshiyuki Kobayashi, Daisuke Matsubayashi, Akihisa Shimomura, Daigo Ito
  • Publication number: 20230045416
    Abstract: An information processing device according to the present disclosure includes: an acquisition unit that acquires a model having a structure of a neural network and input information input to the model; and a generation unit that generates basis information indicating a basis for an output of the model after the input information is input to the model based on state information indicating a state of the model after the input of the input information to the model.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 5, 2020
    Publication date: February 9, 2023
    Applicant: Sony Group Corporation
    Inventors: Kenji SUZUKI, Yoshiyuki KOBAYASHI
  • Publication number: 20230033828
    Abstract: The present technology relates to an information processing device, an information processing method, and a program capable of outputting a behavior in consideration of benefits or moral codes of other systems. A first evaluation unit configured to evaluate a behavior from a self-viewpoint, a second evaluation unit configured to evaluate the behavior from another's viewpoint, and a determination unit configured to determine whether the behavior is performed from a first evaluation result in the first evaluation unit and a second evaluation result in the second evaluation unit are included. A third evaluation unit configured to evaluate the behavior from an objective viewpoint is further included. The determination unit performs the determination using a third evaluation result in the third evaluation. The present technology may be applied to an information processing device that determines a self-behavior in consideration of benefits or moral codes of other systems.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 25, 2020
    Publication date: February 2, 2023
    Inventors: KEITARO MACHIDA, TOMOMITSU HERAI, HIROKI MORIYA, MASARU SHIRASUNA, ITARU SHIMIZU, SUGURU AOKI, KAZUHITO IWASA, YOSHIYUKI KOBAYASHI, KENTA KAWAMOTO
  • Patent number: D1005341
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2023
    Assignee: NIDEC TOSOK CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yuzo Nagai, Shigehiro Kataoka, Yoshiyuki Kobayashi