Patents by Inventor Yuki Shoji

Yuki Shoji 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: 20240120868
    Abstract: A control apparatus includes a driver that outputs power based on a first control signal; a wireless power transmission system that is connected downstream of the driver, that receives first power, and that supplies second power to a motor through wireless power transmission; and a compensator that compensates a difference between a phase of the first control signal and a phase of current output from the wireless power transmission system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 26, 2023
    Publication date: April 11, 2024
    Inventors: YUKI SHOJI, YUTO AUCHI
  • Publication number: 20240097494
    Abstract: A power transmission apparatus includes a first switching element having a first and a second terminal, a first capacitor connected between the first terminal and the second terminal of the first switching element, and a power transmission inductor connected to the first switching element on a direct-current (DC) basis and configured to wirelessly transmit alternating-current (AC) power.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 15, 2023
    Publication date: March 21, 2024
    Inventor: Yuki Shoji
  • Patent number: 11901621
    Abstract: A communication apparatus includes a power transmission coil and a power transmission circuit that performs wireless power transmission to another communication apparatus at a predetermined power transmission frequency via the power transmission coil. The other communication apparatus includes a power reception coil coupled to the power transmission coil with at least either of an electric field or a magnetic field. In addition, the communication apparatus includes a receiving antenna and a receiving circuit that receives via the receiving antenna a signal transmitted from the other communication apparatus via a transmitting antenna of the other communication apparatus. Furthermore, the communication apparatus includes a filter circuit that suppresses a signal of the power transmission frequency, which is to be input from the receiving antenna to the receiving circuit due to the wireless power transmission by the power transmission circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 3, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Yuki Shoji
  • Patent number: 11843257
    Abstract: A power transmission apparatus includes a first switching element having a first and a second terminal, a first capacitor connected between the first terminal and the second terminal of the first switching element, and a power transmission inductor connected to the first switching element on a direct-current (DC) basis and configured to wirelessly transmit alternating-current (AC) power.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2023
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Yuki Shoji
  • Publication number: 20230370103
    Abstract: A reception apparatus includes a reception circuit configured to receive reception signals, and a control circuit configured to control the reception signals to be input to the reception circuit by executing a feedback control according to a current consumption of the reception circuit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 12, 2023
    Publication date: November 16, 2023
    Inventor: YUKI SHOJI
  • Patent number: 11791744
    Abstract: A rectifier circuit includes a switch circuit including at least one bidirectional switch and configured to rectify an alternating-current voltage of an alternating-current voltage line, and a surge suppression circuit connected to the alternating-current voltage line and configured to suppress a surge voltage of the switch circuit, where a dead time when the bidirectional switch is turned off is present.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2023
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Yuki Shoji
  • Publication number: 20230125898
    Abstract: A wireless communication system includes a first communication device and a second communication device. The first communication device includes a modulator configured to provide modulation and a first coupler configured to wirelessly transmit a signal. The second communication device includes a second coupler configured to wirelessly receive a signal by being coupled to the first coupler by at least one of electric-field coupling or magnetic-field coupling and a demodulator configured to provide demodulation. The first communication device or the second communication device includes an equalizer configured to provide equalization.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 25, 2022
    Publication date: April 27, 2023
    Inventor: Yuki Shoji
  • Patent number: 11489556
    Abstract: A communication apparatus that comprises a second coupler to be coupled to a first coupler of a different communication apparatus by electric field coupling and/or inductive coupling, a termination resistor connected to the second coupler and having a resistance value larger than a predetermined value is provided. The communication apparatus receives a signal comprising (i) an output signal that is output from the second coupler in response to input of a transmitted signal to the first coupler, (ii) a signal obtained by performing amplification processing on the output signal, or (iii) a signal obtained by shaping, via a comparator, a signal obtained by performing amplification processing on the output signal, and processes the received signal as a signal that is obtained by reproducing the transmitted signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2022
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Hitoshi Asai, Yuki Shoji
  • Publication number: 20220080826
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus that controls scenery display according to a current position of a mobile body is provided. The information processing apparatus includes a detection unit that detects a region where a predetermined object outside the mobile body appears within a window of the mobile body, a display unit that displays a transmissive region and a non-transmissive region within the window, and a control unit that controls the display unit on the basis of a detection result obtained by the detection unit. The detection unit detects an appearance place where the object appears in the window, on the basis of a current position of the mobile body, a moving speed and a traveling direction of the mobile body, and position information associated with the object. Thereafter, a transmissive region is displayed in the region where the object appears, or a non-transmissive region that masks a region where the object is absent is displayed in the window.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 15, 2020
    Publication date: March 17, 2022
    Inventors: YUKI SHOJI, TOSHIYUKI KIMURA, NAOTO SHIMIZU, KENTARO SHIBUKAWA, TETSU SUMII, TERUYOSHI MASUDA, OSAMU SAKURAI, SO MORIMOTO
  • Publication number: 20210391805
    Abstract: A rectifier circuit includes a switch circuit including at least one bidirectional switch and configured to rectify an alternating-current voltage of an alternating-current voltage line, and a surge suppression circuit connected to the alternating-current voltage line and configured to suppress a surge voltage of the switch circuit, where a dead time when the bidirectional switch is turned off is present.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 7, 2021
    Publication date: December 16, 2021
    Inventor: Yuki Shoji
  • Publication number: 20210281111
    Abstract: A wireless device includes a power transmission coil configured to transmit power wirelessly, a power reception coil configured to receive the power wirelessly, a switch circuit configured to apply a voltage to the power transmission coil based on a first switching signal, and a rectification circuit configured to rectify a voltage output from the power reception coil based on a second switching signal and apply the rectified voltage to a load, wherein the switch circuit and the rectification circuit each include a plurality of bidirectional switches.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 3, 2021
    Publication date: September 9, 2021
    Inventor: Yuki Shoji
  • Publication number: 20210111592
    Abstract: A power transmission apparatus includes a first switching element having a first and a second terminal, a first capacitor connected between the first terminal and the second terminal of the first switching element, and a power transmission inductor connected to the first switching element on a direct-current (DC) basis and configured to wirelessly transmit alternating-current (AC) power.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 30, 2020
    Publication date: April 15, 2021
    Inventor: Yuki Shoji
  • Patent number: 10976912
    Abstract: There is provided an information processing device to utilize a limited display area more effectively, and present display information in a more suitable mode, the information processing device including: a processing unit configured to determine an action of a predetermined object; and an output control unit configured to control an information amount of display information to be displayed on a predetermined output unit in accordance with a determination result of the action.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 9, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 13, 2021
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventor: Yuki Shoji
  • Publication number: 20210067204
    Abstract: A communication apparatus that comprises a second coupler to be coupled to a first coupler of a different communication apparatus by electric field coupling and/or inductive coupling, a termination resistor connected to the second coupler and having a resistance value larger than a predetermined value is provided. The communication apparatus receives a signal comprising (i) an output signal that is output from the second coupler in response to input of a transmitted signal to the first coupler, (ii) a signal obtained by performing amplification processing on the output signal, or (iii) a signal obtained by shaping, via a comparator, a signal obtained by performing amplification processing on the output signal, and processes the received signal as a signal that is obtained by reproducing the transmitted signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 13, 2020
    Publication date: March 4, 2021
    Inventors: Hitoshi Asai, Yuki Shoji
  • Publication number: 20200203823
    Abstract: A communication apparatus includes a power transmission coil and a power transmission circuit that performs wireless power transmission to another communication apparatus at a predetermined power transmission frequency via the power transmission coil. The other communication apparatus includes a power reception coil coupled to the power transmission coil with at least either of an electric field or a magnetic field. In addition, the communication apparatus includes a receiving antenna and a receiving circuit that receives via the receiving antenna a signal transmitted from the other communication apparatus via a transmitting antenna of the other communication apparatus. Furthermore, the communication apparatus includes a filter circuit that suppresses a signal of the power transmission frequency, which is to be input from the receiving antenna to the receiving circuit due to the wireless power transmission by the power transmission circuit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 3, 2020
    Publication date: June 25, 2020
    Inventor: Yuki Shoji
  • Publication number: 20190250787
    Abstract: There is provided an information processing device to utilize a limited display area more effectively, and present display information in a more suitable mode, the information processing device including: a processing unit configured to determine an action of a predetermined object; and an output control unit configured to control an information amount of display information to be displayed on a predetermined output unit in accordance with a determination result of the action.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 9, 2017
    Publication date: August 15, 2019
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventor: Yuki SHOJI
  • Patent number: 10382099
    Abstract: A wireless communication system includes a first antenna, a second antenna with an orientation relative to the first antenna that is changeable around a predetermined axis, and a communication control unit that controls wireless communication based on electric field coupling between the first antenna and the second antenna. The first antenna includes a first electrode including a bored portion, where the predetermined axis passes through an inside of the bored portion. The first antenna also includes a second electrode located inside the bored portion The second antenna includes a third electrode that transmits an electric signal between the first electrode and the third electrode and a fourth electrode that transmits an electric signal between the second electrode and the fourth electrode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2019
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Yuki Shoji
  • Patent number: 10299003
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus that can communicate with plural content viewing apparatuses includes a group registering unit that registers users of the content viewing apparatuses in groups, a sharing-level setting unit that sets sharing level information representing an information sharing level among users belonging to an identical group, a viewing-information receiving unit that receives viewing information of the users, a user-viewing-content managing unit that manages a user viewing content database, a discriminating unit that discriminates, when a viewing information request of another user is received, the other users belonging to a group identical with a group to which the user of the content viewing apparatus at the request source belongs, an information extracting unit that extracts viewing information of the discriminated other users from the user viewing content database, and a viewing-information transmitting unit that transmits the viewing information to the content viewing apparatus at t
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2019
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yusuke Sakai, Kazuto Mugura, Tomohiro Tsunoda, Tomohiro Ishii, Yuki Shoji
  • Publication number: 20190109620
    Abstract: A wireless communication system includes a first antenna, a second antenna with an orientation relative to the first antenna that is changeable around a predetermined axis, and a communication control unit that controls wireless communication based on electric field coupling between the first antenna and the second antenna. The first antenna includes a first electrode including a bored portion, where the predetermined axis passes through an inside of the bored portion. The first antenna also includes a second electrode located inside the bored portion The second antenna includes a third electrode that transmits an electric signal between the first electrode and the third electrode and a fourth electrode that transmits an electric signal between the second electrode and the fourth electrode.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 10, 2018
    Publication date: April 11, 2019
    Inventor: Yuki Shoji
  • Patent number: D921695
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 8, 2021
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Mitsuo Okumura, Katsuji Miyazawa, Tomohiro Ishii, Shingo Kurokawa, Yuki Shoji, Osamu Sakurai, Makoto Niijima, Taku Sugawara, Sanae Hirai