Patents by Inventor Yuichi Higuchi
Yuichi Higuchi 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).
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Patent number: 11948282Abstract: An image processing apparatus generates a normal image, when lighting correction of an image is performed using three-dimensional shape data. Three-dimensional shape data of a predetermined object is adjusted with a subject in position, based on a feature pattern detected in image data, and lighting processing for correcting a pixel value of the image data is performed based on the adjusted three-dimensional shape data, distance information of the subject, and a position of a virtual light source. When the three-dimensional shape data is adjusted with the image data in position, a region having a large irregularity in the three-dimensional shape data is preferentially adjusted in position.Type: GrantFiled: August 4, 2021Date of Patent: April 2, 2024Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Yuichi Nakada, Shugo Higuchi
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Patent number: 11811216Abstract: An electronic device includes: a housing; an actuator installed inside the housing and configured to generate vibration in response to an application of a driving voltage; a temperature sensor configured to detect an operating temperature caused by the actuator; and a control circuit configured to apply the driving voltage to the actuator to drive the actuator, thereby generating a traction illusion, where the control circuit restricts an operation of the actuator, based on the operating temperature detected by the temperature sensor.Type: GrantFiled: May 24, 2019Date of Patent: November 7, 2023Assignee: Nippon Telegraph and Telephone CorporationInventors: Yuichi Higuchi, Toshiki Wada, Toshihiko Kondo
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Patent number: 11797092Abstract: Inside a housing of electronic equipment, a first actuator for generating vibration along a first axis is mounted. The first actuator is mounted in a direction in which the first axis is non-parallel and non-perpendicular to at least one of the six surfaces.Type: GrantFiled: March 11, 2020Date of Patent: October 24, 2023Assignee: Nippon Telegraph and Telephone CorporationInventors: Yuichi Higuchi, Koichi Hadama, Toshiki Wada, Toshihiko Kondo
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Publication number: 20230309889Abstract: A garment with electrodes includes a different electrode disposed in the vicinity of a left shoulder of a garment on a lining of a back body of the garment so as to be in contact with an inclined surface of a raised portion of a left shoulder blade of a back of a subject to be measured; an indifferent electrode disposed in the vicinity of a right shoulder of the garment so as to be in contact with an inclined surface of a raised portion of a right shoulder blade of the back of the subject to be measured; a wiring part connected to each of the different electrode and the indifferent electrode; and a controller connected to the wiring part.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 20, 2020Publication date: October 5, 2023Inventors: Takako Ishihara, Nobuaki Matsuura, Kei Kuwabara, Hiroto Matsuoka, Yuichi Higuchi, Hiroyoshi Togo
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Publication number: 20230240548Abstract: According to the present disclosure, a heart rate detection method includes measuring an ECG waveform, calculating a heart rate from the ECG waveform, calculating a difference value of a potential of the ECG waveform between sampling time points, calculating an integrated value obtained by integrating the difference value between a measurement time point and any time point before measurement, and determining whether the heart rate at the measurement time point is to be displayed, by comparing the integrated value to a reference value.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 23, 2020Publication date: August 3, 2023Inventors: Nobuaki Matsuura, Kei Kuwabara, Yuichi Higuchi, Takako Ishihara
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Publication number: 20230233130Abstract: According to the present disclosure, a heart rate detection method includes measuring an ECG waveform, calculating an R-R interval from the ECG waveform, calculating an instantaneous heart rate from the R-R interval, calculating an index based on the instantaneous heart rate, and determining whether the heart rate obtained from the R-R interval is to be displayed, by comparing the index to a reference value.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 23, 2020Publication date: July 27, 2023Inventors: Nobuaki Matsuura, Kei Kuwabara, Yuichi Higuchi, Takako Ishihara
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Patent number: 11698630Abstract: An abnormality analysis device including: an overall information obtainer that obtains overall information indicating an overall feature amount of a manufacturing system; an overall abnormal degree calculator that calculates an overall abnormal degree that is an abnormal degree of a whole of the manufacturing system by statistically processing the overall information; an individual information obtainer that obtains individual information indicating a feature amount of each of the plurality of constituent elements; an individual abnormal degree calculator that calculates an individual abnormal degree that is an abnormal degree of each of the plurality of constituent elements by statistically processing the individual information; and a determiner that determines whether or not the overall abnormal degree exceeds a threshold value, wherein the individual abnormal degree calculator calculates the individual abnormal degree when the determiner determines that the overall abnormal degree exceeds the threshold valuType: GrantFiled: June 7, 2019Date of Patent: July 11, 2023Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.Inventors: Hiroshi Amano, Narumi Atsuta, Noriaki Hamada, Yosuke Tajika, Nobutaka Kawaguchi, Yuichi Higuchi, Taichi Shimizu
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Patent number: 11529087Abstract: A method includes a first acquisition step of acquiring exercise intensity of exercise done by a target person, a second acquisition step of acquiring an electrocardiographic waveform of the target person who does the exercise, a third acquisition step of acquiring a predetermined feature amount from the acquired electrocardiographic waveform, and an estimation step of estimating an AT of the target person based on a relationship between the predetermined feature amount and the acquired exercise intensity. The estimation step includes a step of estimating the AT of the target person based on exercise intensity corresponding to an inflection point in a change of the predetermined feature amount with respect to the acquired exercise intensity.Type: GrantFiled: April 10, 2019Date of Patent: December 20, 2022Assignee: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATIONInventors: Yuichi Higuchi, Hiroyoshi Togo, Nobuaki Matsuura
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Patent number: 11526158Abstract: A display device that displays productivity of a manufacturing facility that performs processes to manufacture products, wherein the manufacturing facility includes constituent element groups, each including constituent elements, constituent elements selected from the constituent element groups perform a corresponding one of the processes. The display device includes: an obtainer that obtains manufacturing log information from the manufacturing facility; a calculator that calculates an indicator showing productivity of each combination of a first constituent element and a second constituent element, based on the manufacturing log information; and a display that displays the indicator showing the productivity of each combination at a position of an intersection point corresponding to the combination on a productivity indicator map including a vertical axis along which first constituent elements are arranged and a horizontal axis along which second constituent elements are arranged.Type: GrantFiled: July 10, 2018Date of Patent: December 13, 2022Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.Inventors: Yuichi Higuchi, Hiroshi Amano, Yosuke Tajika, Taichi Shimizu
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Publication number: 20220382325Abstract: A wearable sensor device includes a temperature and humidity sensor that measures ambient environmental information around a living body. The temperature and humidity sensor is provided on an outer wall surface of a housing or provided to be separated from the outer wall surface. The outer wall surface of the housing faces a left or right side or diagonally downward when the wearable sensor device is attached to the living body and the living body is in a standing posture.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 6, 2019Publication date: December 1, 2022Inventors: Kei Kuwabara, Akio Tokura, Takako Ishihara, Toshiki Wada, Yuichi Higuchi, Yuki Hashimoto, Hiroyoshi Togo
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Publication number: 20220349758Abstract: A wearable environmental sensor device includes a temperature/humidity sensor disposed on a wall surface of a housing that is exposed to an environment and configured to measure ambient environmental information around a living body, and a protective structure formed around the temperature/humidity sensor. The temperature/humidity sensor is disposed, directly or via a support structure, on or over the wall surface of the housing, wherein the wall surface faces substantially downward from the living body when the wearable environmental sensor device is attached to the living body and the living body is in a standing posture. The protective structure has respective ventilation holes provided in two or more pairs of opposed surfaces thereof each facing in a direction other than a vertical direction of the living body when the wearable environmental sensor device is attached to the living body and the living body is in the standing posture.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 7, 2019Publication date: November 3, 2022Inventors: Akio Tokura, Kei Kuwabara, Hiroto Matsuura, Takako Ishihara, Toshiki Wada, Yuichi Higuchi, Yuki Hashimoto
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Patent number: 11431173Abstract: Power demand control is performed without a decrease in productivity. A device for performing electric power demand control includes: a processor; and a storage medium including an instruction for causing the processor to obtain a sum of energy consumption of a plurality of manufacturing devices, obtain a production capacity from production information on each manufacturing device, and perform electric power demand control on a manufacturing system based on the production capacity and the sum of energy consumption. To perform electric power control includes determining that electric power demand control is necessary if the sum of energy consumption reaches a predetermined threshold and excluding one of the manufacturing devices having a smallest production capacity from a target of electric power demand control.Type: GrantFiled: June 25, 2018Date of Patent: August 30, 2022Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.Inventors: Yuichi Higuchi, Hiroshi Amano, Yosuke Tajika, Taichi Shimizu
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Patent number: 11403438Abstract: An article-storage simulation device includes an acquisition unit that acquires a size of each of the plurality of articles and a size of the storage container. A simulator determines the number of storage containers to be used for storing the articles and a number of articles to be stored by calculation. The calculation uses the acquired size of the articles and the acquired size of the container. The simulator (i) places the article in the container, (ii) determines whether a next article can be placed in the container after the article is placed, and (iii) in a case where the simulator determines that the next article can be placed, places the next article in the container after the article is placed and in a case where the simulator determines that the next article cannot be placed, adds a next container to be used for storing the next article.Type: GrantFiled: October 26, 2017Date of Patent: August 2, 2022Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.Inventors: Yuichi Higuchi, Takeshi Ishikawa
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Publication number: 20220239092Abstract: An electronic device includes: a housing; an actuator installed inside the housing and configured to generate vibration in response to an application of a driving voltage; a temperature sensor configured to detect an operating temperature caused by the actuator; and a control circuit configured to apply the driving voltage to the actuator to drive the actuator, thereby generating a traction illusion, where the control circuit restricts an operation of the actuator, based on the operating temperature detected by the temperature sensor.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 24, 2019Publication date: July 28, 2022Inventors: Yuichi Higuchi, Toshiki Wada, Toshihiko Kondo
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Patent number: 11363969Abstract: An exercise intensity estimation apparatus includes an RS wave calculation unit configured to calculate an RS amplitude from a peak value of an R wave to a peak value of an S wave in an ECG waveform of a target person, a T wave calculation unit configured to calculate an amplitude of a T wave of the ECG waveform, a heart rate calculation unit configured to calculate a heart rate from the ECG waveform, an index calculation unit configured to calculate, as a first index indicating exercise intensity of the target person, the amplitude of the T wave normalized by the RS amplitude, and an index calculation unit configured to calculate, as a second index indicating the exercise intensity of the target person, a value obtained by multiplying the first index by the heart rate.Type: GrantFiled: April 9, 2019Date of Patent: June 21, 2022Assignee: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATIONInventors: Nobuaki Matsuura, Yuichi Higuchi, Hiroyoshi Togo
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Publication number: 20220187170Abstract: A tester obtains a test result indicating a subjective evaluation result of a test subject with respect to a traction illusion generated by a sample. A quality checker checks the quality of the sample in accordance with the test result. A measurer performs measurement processing to obtain objective sample characteristic data representing the traction illusion generated by the sample. A feature computer computes a reference feature in accordance with a quality check result and the sample characteristic data. An inspector performs measurement processing to obtain objective inspection target characteristic data representing a traction illusion generated by an inspection target.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 13, 2020Publication date: June 16, 2022Inventors: Yuichi Higuchi, Koichi Hadama, Toshiki Wada, Toshihiko Kondo
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Publication number: 20220179490Abstract: Inside a housing of electronic equipment, a first actuator for generating vibration along a first axis is mounted. The first actuator is mounted in a direction in which the first axis is non-parallel and non-perpendicular to at least one of the six surfaces.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 11, 2020Publication date: June 9, 2022Inventors: Yuichi Higuchi, Koichi Hadama, Toshiki Wada, Toshihiko Kondo
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Patent number: 11307567Abstract: A management device for managing a component mounter that mounts components onto a substrate using some of constituent elements each selected from one of constituent element groups each including the constituent elements. One group is a nozzle group including nozzles. The device includes: a true displacement amount calculator that calculates, for each target component which is the component, a true amount of displacement which is a sum of (i) an amount of pickup displacement being an amount of displacement between the target component and a target nozzle being one of the nozzles and picks up the target component and (ii) an amount of correction being an amount of offset of a position of the target nozzle when picking up the target component; and a statistical processor that performs parameter estimation for a predetermined statistical model using the true amount to calculate a degree of malfunction of each constituent element.Type: GrantFiled: February 22, 2019Date of Patent: April 19, 2022Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.Inventors: Taichi Shimizu, Yosuke Tajika, Hiroshi Amano, Yuichi Higuchi
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Publication number: 20210264026Abstract: An unauthorized communication detection device that detects unauthorized communication in a manufacturing system that manufactures products includes: an obtainer that obtains operation information of the manufacturing system; a storage that stores element information indicating one or more target elements among a plurality of elements related to manufacturing of the products; a specifier that specifies, for each of a plurality of communications performed in the manufacturing system, an element corresponding to the communication, based on the operation information; a calculator that calculates an abnormal degree of each of one or more communications, which satisfy that the element specified by the specifier is included in the one or more target elements indicated by the element information, among the plurality of communications; and a determiner that determines that, when an abnormal degree calculated by the calculator is larger than a threshold value, a communication corresponding to the abnormal degree is thType: ApplicationFiled: June 7, 2019Publication date: August 26, 2021Inventors: Hiroshi AMANO, Narumi ATSUTA, Noriaki HAMADA, Yosuke TAJIKA, Nobutaka KAWAGUCHI, Yuichi HIGUCHI, Taichi SHIMIZU
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Patent number: 11090007Abstract: A residual anaerobic work capacity calculating method includes a step (S1) of obtaining a heart rate, and a step (S2, S3) of calculating a residual anaerobic work capacity based on the obtained heart rate and a relationship between the residual anaerobic work capacity and the heart rate. This method need only measure the heart rate when calculating the residual anaerobic work capacity, and obviates the need to measure power by using an expensive power meter.Type: GrantFiled: August 30, 2017Date of Patent: August 17, 2021Assignee: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATIONInventors: Yuichi Higuchi, Koji Fujii