Patents by Inventor Yu OKANO

Yu OKANO 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: 20250239050
    Abstract: A classification of a defect is analyzed based on an image obtained by imaging the defect. A defect analyzer includes a model storage storing a feature extraction model that is trained based on learned data in which information indicating a classification of each defect is added to an image of the defect, the image of the defect being obtained by imaging the defect that occurs on a surface of an object, and the feature extraction model being configured to extract, from an input image, the image feature that decreases a distance between similar images; a representative-point determination unit configured to determine a representative point for each classification, based on one or more image features that are extracted from respective images of defects by using the feature extraction model; and a relation visualization unit configured to output information indicating a relation between classifications, based on one or more distances that are each between representative points.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 12, 2023
    Publication date: July 24, 2025
    Inventors: Yu OKANO, Shintaro TAKADA, Takumi AKATSUKA, Tetsuya YOKOYAMA, Shimpei TAKEMOTO, Yoshishige OKUNO
  • Publication number: 20250014685
    Abstract: A prediction apparatus includes a trained model trained by using training data in which a material composition of a material to be learned is associated with a phase fraction of the material to be learned at each temperature within a predetermined temperature range, the trained model being configured to predict a phase fraction at an i+1-th temperature by using a phase fraction predicted by the trained model for one or more temperatures up to an i-th temperature within the predetermined temperature range (where i is an integer of 1 or more). The prediction apparatus is configured to input a material composition of a material to be predicted into the trained model, thereby predicting a phase fraction of the material to be predicted at each temperature within the predetermined temperature range.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 15, 2022
    Publication date: January 9, 2025
    Inventors: Yu OKANO, Takeshi KANESHITA, Shimpei TAKEMOTO, Katsuki OKUNO, Yoshishige OKUNO
  • Publication number: 20240320824
    Abstract: An evaluation apparatus, an evaluation method, and an evaluation program applicable to a quality evaluation of sintered bodies are provided. The evaluation apparatus includes: an acquisition unit configured to acquire a cross-sectional image obtained by photographing a cross-section of a sintered body group stained with a staining solution; a generation unit configured to extract a saturation component for each of sintered bodies from the cross-sectional image, thereby to generate a saturation component image; and a visualization unit configured to visualize the saturation component image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 24, 2022
    Publication date: September 26, 2024
    Inventors: Yu OKANO, Junya SAKAGUCHI, Takumi NAKAJIMA, Shinya HIRASAWA, Shimpei TAKEMOTO, Yoshishige OKUNO
  • Publication number: 20240319706
    Abstract: A material design support apparatus for supporting optimization of a design condition for a material, the material design support apparatus including: a design condition setting unit configured to set a range of a design condition for a material; a required characteristic setting unit configured to set a range of a required characteristic of the material; an exhaustive prediction point generation unit configured to generate a plurality of exhaustive prediction points within the range of the design condition; a prediction unit configured to input the exhaustive prediction points into a trained model in which a correspondence between a design condition for the material and a characteristic value of the material is learned, thereby to predict a characteristic value of the material; and a design condition adjustment unit configured to adjust a range of the design condition for the material in which a plurality of exhaustive prediction points are subsequently generated.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 15, 2022
    Publication date: September 26, 2024
    Inventors: Shimpei TAKEMOTO, Takeshi KANESHITA, Yu OKANO, Yoshishige OKUNO
  • Patent number: 12093292
    Abstract: To improve accuracy in a document search for a document that includes a typographical error. A document retrieval device according to one embodiment of the present invention includes a misidentification table storing a correctly identified character string and a misidentified character string. The document retrieval device includes a document searcher. The document searcher obtains a search character string, and retrieves the search character string from both a document and a character string that is obtained by changing the misidentified character string included in the document to the correctly identified character string.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 7, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2024
    Assignee: Resonac Corporation
    Inventors: Yu Kawahara, Takuya Minami, Yu Okano, Hiroko Takashi, Yoshishige Okuno
  • Patent number: 11893167
    Abstract: An information processing device controls a display for displaying a guide that instructs a user to perform each of a plurality of patterns of motions including translational motions or rotational motions of an inertial sensor that correspond to a first axis and a second axis, which are perpendicular to each other. Based on inertial information and position and orientation information acquired by causing the inertial sensor to perform the plurality of patterns of motions, the information processing device acquires parameters including a degree of correlation between actual inertial values of the inertial sensor corresponding to the first axis and the inertial information corresponding to the second axis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 15, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Yu Okano
  • Publication number: 20230409126
    Abstract: An information processing device controls a display for displaying a guide that instructs a user to perform each of a plurality of patterns of motions including translational motions or rotational motions of an inertial sensor that correspond to a first axis and a second axis, which are perpendicular to each other. Based on inertial information and position and orientation information acquired by causing the inertial sensor to perform the plurality of patterns of motions, the information processing device acquires parameters including a degree of correlation between actual inertial values of the inertial sensor corresponding to the first axis and the inertial information corresponding to the second axis.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 15, 2023
    Publication date: December 21, 2023
    Inventor: Yu OKANO
  • Publication number: 20230390713
    Abstract: A fine bubble generating nozzle may include a nozzle unit and a baffle. The nozzle unit may include: an inlet; a pressure decreasing portion configured to decrease a pressure of a gas-dissolved pressurized water introduced from the inlet; a first collision chamber disposed downstream of the pressure decreasing portion and including a first collision wall with which the gas-dissolved pressurized water introduced from the pressure decreasing portion collides so that a flow direction of the gas-dissolved pressurized water changes; a second collision chamber disposed downstream of the first collision chamber and including a second collision wall with which the gas-dissolved pressurized water having flowed through the first collision chamber collides so that the flow direction of the gas-dissolved pressurized water changes; and an outlet. The baffle may be disposed outside of the nozzle unit and is disposed at a position facing the outlet.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 23, 2023
    Publication date: December 7, 2023
    Applicant: RINNAI CORPORATION
    Inventor: Yu OKANO
  • Publication number: 20230359653
    Abstract: To improve accuracy in a document search for a document that includes a typographical error. A document retrieval device according to one embodiment of the present invention includes a misidentification table storing a correctly identified character string and a misidentified character string. The document retrieval device includes a document searcher. The document searcher obtains a search character string, and retrieves the search character string from both a document and a character string that is obtained by changing the misidentified character string included in the document to the correctly identified character string.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 7, 2021
    Publication date: November 9, 2023
    Inventors: Yu KAWAHARA, Takuya MINAMI, Yu OKANO, Hiroko TAKASHI, Yoshishige OKUNO
  • Patent number: 11486894
    Abstract: A calibration apparatus of an inertial sensor, obtains an angular velocity value from the inertial sensor, derives a distribution of a difference between temporally adjacent angular velocity values concerning a plurality of angular velocity values obtained during a given period, and determines, based on the distribution, whether the inertial sensor is in a motionless state during the given period. Then, if it is determined that the inertial sensor is in the motionless state, the calibration apparatus decides a bias value of the inertial sensor based on the plurality of angular velocity values and corrects the obtained angular velocity value based on the bias value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 5, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2022
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yu Okano, Kazuki Takemoto
  • Patent number: 11423622
    Abstract: Based on an image captured by an image capturing unit, a three-dimensional position in a real space corresponding to each of one or more features included in the image is estimated, a candidate region that is a region on a plane of an object existing in the real space is determined as a candidate for a region to which features are to be added based on the estimated three-dimensional position, and a recommended region to which the features are to be added is determined in the candidate region based on the number of features included in a partial region set in the determined candidate region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 4, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2022
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Yu Okano, Kazuki Takemoto
  • Publication number: 20210247420
    Abstract: A calibration apparatus of an inertial sensor, obtains an angular velocity value from the inertial sensor, derives a distribution of a difference between temporally adjacent angular velocity values concerning a plurality of angular velocity values obtained during a given period, and determines, based on the distribution, whether the inertial sensor is in a motionless state during the given period. Then, if it is determined that the inertial sensor is in the motionless state, the calibration apparatus decides a bias value of the inertial sensor based on the plurality of angular velocity values and corrects the obtained angular velocity value based on the bias value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 5, 2021
    Publication date: August 12, 2021
    Inventors: Yu Okano, Kazuki Takemoto
  • Publication number: 20200388078
    Abstract: Based on an image captured by an image capturing unit, a three-dimensional position in a real space corresponding to each of one or more features included in the image is estimated, a candidate region that is a region on a plane of an object existing in the real space is determined as a candidate for a region to which features are to be added based on the estimated three-dimensional position, and a recommended region to which the features are to be added is determined in the candidate region based on the number of features included in a partial region set in the determined candidate region.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 4, 2020
    Publication date: December 10, 2020
    Inventors: Yu Okano, Kazuki Takemoto
  • Patent number: 10187271
    Abstract: A network-diagram rendering system for rendering a network diagram including nodes and links as elements of a network configuration is provided with: an index calculation unit (81) which calculates, for each node, an index indicating a degree that the node is a primary node in the network configuration, using network configuration information as information to be obtained from the network configuration; and a primary node coefficient setting unit (82) which sets a primary node coefficient for the node to be higher as the index increases, the primary node coefficient being a value indicating a degree of not changing a rendering position of a network diagram associated with a change in the network configuration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 22, 2019
    Assignee: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yu Okano, Yohei Iizawa, Masaharu Morimoto
  • Publication number: 20180041699
    Abstract: The image display system includes a first image producer producing a first left-eye display image using a left-eye original image that is a left-eye captured image or a left-eye processed image produced therefrom, and producing a first right-eye display image using a right-eye original image that is a right-eye captured image or a right-eye processed image produced therefrom. A first image display unit allows left and right eyes of a viewer to view the first left-eye and right-eye display images. The first image producer produces the first left-eye and right-eye display images each corresponding to an image of a partial area of the original image. A second image producer produces, using at least one of the left-eye and right-eye original images, a second display image corresponding to an image of an area including the above partial area and being wider than that partial area.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 31, 2017
    Publication date: February 8, 2018
    Inventors: Masakazu Tohara, Kazutaka Inoguchi, Takeyoshi Saiga, Nobuyuki Saito, Kohki Abiko, Yu Okano, Toshiki Ishino
  • Patent number: 9664298
    Abstract: A flow control valve includes a resin housing body, a valve member, a retainer plate, a drive unit, and a protective wall. The resin housing body is substantially cylindrical. The valve member axially moves back and forth in the housing body to regulate a flow rate of a liquid. The retainer plate is fastened to the housing body at a position axially outward from the bearing to retain the bearing in the housing body. The drive unit drives the valve stem at a position outward from the bearing to move the valve member back and forth. The protective wall surrounds an outer circumferential surface of the housing body at a position radially outward from a portion of the housing body that receives the bearing to form an air layer portion between the protective wall and the outer circumferential surface of the housing body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 1, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2017
    Assignee: Rinnai Corporation
    Inventor: Yu Okano
  • Publication number: 20160294637
    Abstract: A network-diagram rendering system for rendering a network diagram including nodes and links as elements of a network configuration is provided with: an index calculation unit (81) which calculates, for each node, an index indicating a degree that the node is a primary node in the network configuration, using network configuration information as information to be obtained from the network configuration; and a primary node coefficient setting unit (82) which sets a primary node coefficient for the node to be higher as the index increases, the primary node coefficient being a value indicating a degree of not changing a rendering position of a network diagram associated with a change in the network configuration.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 18, 2014
    Publication date: October 6, 2016
    Applicant: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yu Okano, Yohei Iizawa, Masaharu Morimoto
  • Publication number: 20160061343
    Abstract: A flow control valve includes a resin housing body, a valve member, a retainer plate, a drive unit, and a protective wall. The resin housing body is substantially cylindrical. The valve member axially moves back and forth in the housing body to regulate a flow rate of a liquid. The retainer plate is fastened to the housing body at a position axially outward from the bearing to retain the bearing in the housing body. The drive unit drives the valve stem at a position outward from the bearing to move the valve member back and forth. The protective wall surrounds an outer circumferential surface of the housing body at a position radially outward from a portion of the housing body that receives the bearing to form an air layer portion between the protective wall and the outer circumferential surface of the housing body.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 1, 2015
    Publication date: March 3, 2016
    Inventor: Yu OKANO