Patents by Inventor Yuki Watanabe

Yuki 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).

  • Patent number: 11077659
    Abstract: A liquid ejecting apparatus includes a liquid discharging head having a first nozzle and a first piezoelectric element, a first driving signal generating circuit, a substrate on which the first driving signal generating circuit is provided, a first wire, and a first coil, in which the first driving signal generating circuit generates a first driving signal, the first piezoelectric element is driven based on the first driving signal to discharge liquid from the first nozzle, and the first wire is electrically coupled to the first driving signal generating circuit and propagates the first driving signal to the first piezoelectric element through the first coil.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 3, 2021
    Inventors: Tom Kashimura, Yuki Watanabe
  • Publication number: 20210170544
    Abstract: A substrate polishing method capable of reducing an influence of variation in spectrum of reflected light from a substrate, such as a wafer, and determining an accurate film thickness is disclosed. The method includes: polishing a surface of a substrate by pressing the substrate against a polishing pad on a rotating polishing table; producing a spectrum of reflected light from the surface of the substrate each time the polishing table makes one rotation; creating a three-dimensional data containing a plurality of spectra arranged along polishing time; and determining a film thickness of the substrate based on the three-dimensional data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 3, 2020
    Publication date: June 10, 2021
    Inventors: Keita Yagi, Yoichi Shiokawa, Toshimitsu Sasaki, Yuki Watanabe, Nachiketa Chauhan
  • Publication number: 20210122156
    Abstract: A liquid ejecting apparatus includes a first ejector; a common driving signal generator configured to generate a common driving signal having a pressure generation pulse including a first element maintained at a first potential, a second element succeeding the first element and maintained at a second potential different from the first potential, and a third element succeeding the second element and maintained at a third potential different from the second potential; a selection control signal generator configured to generate a selection control signal including a first pulse and a second pulse succeeding the first pulse in a time period corresponding to the second element; and a driving waveform selector configured to supply the second potential of the second element to the pressure generating element of the first ejector at the time of the generation of a pulse selected from the first and second pulses of the selection control signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 26, 2020
    Publication date: April 29, 2021
    Inventors: Yuki WATANABE, Hirofumi TERAMAE
  • Patent number: 10977515
    Abstract: An image retrieving apparatus includes a pose estimating unit which recognizes pose information of a retrieval target including a plurality of feature points from an input image, a features extracting unit which extracts features from the pose information and the input image, an image database which accumulates the features in association with the input image, a query generating unit which generates a retrieval query from pose information specified by a user, and an image retrieving unit which retrieves images including similar poses according to the retrieval query from the image database.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 13, 2021
    Assignee: HITACHI, LTD.
    Inventors: Yuki Watanabe, Kenichi Morita, Tomokazu Murakami, Atsushi Hiroike, Quan Kong
  • Patent number: 10963736
    Abstract: Provided is technique of object recognition that can accurately recognize an object. An object recognition apparatus (i) generates property data that highlights a specific property based on target data, (ii) extracts a discrimination-use feature amount used for discrimination of each piece of the property data, (iii) calculates discrimination information used for discrimination of the property data, (iv) extracts a reliability feature amount used for estimation of reliability of the discrimination information calculated for each piece of the property data, (v) estimates the reliability of the discrimination information, (vi) generates synthesized information acquired by synthesizing the discrimination information calculated for each piece of the property data and the reliability calculated for each piece of the property data, and (vii) performs processing related to the object recognition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 30, 2021
    Assignee: HITACHI, LTD.
    Inventors: Quan Kong, Yuki Watanabe, Naoto Akira, Daisuke Matsubara
  • Publication number: 20210078526
    Abstract: An anchor device including: a first member that is coupled to one out of a vehicle body side or a webbing side; a second member that is coupled to the other out of the vehicle body side or the webbing side, and that is retained by the first member by being passed through the first member and being moved with respect to the first member; and an abutting portion that is provided to the first member and is configured to ride up onto the second member with a position where the second member abuts the abutting portion displaced in a movement-width direction of the second member and in the opposite direction to a movement direction of the second member when the second member is moved with respect to the first member.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 8, 2020
    Publication date: March 18, 2021
    Inventors: Yuki WATANABE, Masakazu KUMAZAWA
  • Publication number: 20210063484
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a semiconductor integrated circuit includes: a first core that includes a first logic circuit that has a plurality of first scan chains, and a first generator that generates a first test pattern; a second core that includes a second logic circuit that has a plurality of second scan chains, and a second generator that generates a second test pattern; a controller that controls a test operation of the first and second cores. The controller is configured to: obtain a seed for a test pattern from the first generator; supply the obtained seed to the second generator; perform a test on the first and second cores for a same number of cycles; obtain first and second test results respectively from the first and second cores; and compare the first and second test results.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 25, 2020
    Publication date: March 4, 2021
    Inventors: Yuki Watanabe, Masato Nakazato, Shohei Morishima
  • Publication number: 20210063489
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a semiconductor device includes: a first scan chain and a second scan chain each including a plurality of cascaded flip-flops; a plurality of power supply lines that supply a power supply voltage to the first and second scan chains, extend in a first direction, and are arranged in a second direction intersecting with the first direction; and a clock control circuit that supplies a first clock to the first scan chain and a second clock to the second scan chain, the second clock having timing different to that of the first clock. The plurality of flip-flops are arranged along the second direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 21, 2020
    Publication date: March 4, 2021
    Inventors: Yuki Watanabe, Toshiaki Dozaka
  • Patent number: 10919295
    Abstract: A liquid ejecting apparatus includes a liquid discharging head having a nozzle and a piezoelectric element, a driving signal generating circuit, a reference voltage signal generating circuit, a substrate on which the driving signal generating circuit and the reference voltage signal generating circuit are provided, a first wire, a second wire, and a coil, in which the driving signal generating circuit generates a driving signal, the reference voltage signal generating circuit generates a reference voltage signal, the piezoelectric element is driven based on the driving signal supplied to one end of the piezoelectric element and the reference voltage signal supplied to the other end of the piezoelectric element, the first wire propagates the driving signal to the one end, and the second wire propagates the reference voltage signal to the other end through the coil.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 16, 2021
    Inventors: Toru Kashimura, Yuki Watanabe
  • Publication number: 20210023844
    Abstract: A length of a path between the input section and the third energy generation element in the wiring section is shorter than a length of a path between the input section and the first energy generation element in the wiring section and shorter than a length of a path between the input section and the second energy generation element in the wiring section.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 21, 2020
    Publication date: January 28, 2021
    Inventors: Hiroaki OKUI, Eiju HIRAI, Toru KASHIMURA, Yuki WATANABE
  • Publication number: 20210019906
    Abstract: Example implementations described herein are directed to the projection of two dimensional (2D) image recognition results to three dimensional (3D) space by using 3D reconstructed data to realize accurate object counting, identification, scene re-organization, and so on in accordance with the desired implementation. Through the example implementations described herein, more accurate objection detection can be provided than regular 2D object detection.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 18, 2019
    Publication date: January 21, 2021
    Inventors: Yuki WATANABE, Ravigopal VENNELAKANTI, Manish GUPTA, Nam HUYN, Akira MAEKI, Chandrasekar VENKATRAMAN
  • Publication number: 20210013497
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, an electrode is provided. The electrode includes an active-material containing layer that includes active material particles and a binder containing a polymer that contains monomers containing nitrogen atoms. The particle size distribution chart of the electrode obtained by the laser diffraction scattering has peak A and peak B whose particle sizes corresponding to their peak tops are different from each other. The particle size DA corresponding to the peak top of the peak A is smaller than the particle size DB corresponding to the peak top of the peak B. The ratio PA/PB of the frequency PA of the peak top of the peak A and the frequency PB of the peak top of the peak B falls within the range of 0.2 or larger and 1.5 or smaller.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 18, 2020
    Publication date: January 14, 2021
    Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA
    Inventors: Tetsuro KANO, Yuki WATANABE, Kazuhiro NAMBA, Hidetoshi WATANABE, Keigo HOSHINA
  • Publication number: 20200406422
    Abstract: A method of automatically determining optimum recipe parameters constituting an operation recipe of an optical film-thickness measuring device within a short period of time is disclosed. The method includes storing in a memory a plurality of parameter sets each including a plurality of recipe parameters constituting an operation recipe; performing simulation of change in film thickness with polishing time with use of the plurality of parameter sets and data of reference spectra of reflected light from a polished substrate, the reference spectra being stored in a data server; inputting at least one index value for evaluating a manner of the change in film thickness into an evaluation calculation formula to calculate a plurality of comprehensive evaluation values for the plurality of parameter sets; and selecting an optimum one of the plurality of parameter sets based on the plurality of comprehensive evaluation values.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 23, 2020
    Publication date: December 31, 2020
    Inventor: Yuki Watanabe
  • Publication number: 20200410431
    Abstract: Example implementations described herein are directed to an asset management system configured to facilitate real-time inventory recognition with image analysis tagged with positional information. The example implementations described herein also provide the method and process to improve the accuracy of the pipe detection for counting with various approaches. Referring the expected number of the pipes, example implementations utilize use the pipe detection algorithm as well as the bounding box of the pipe stack, use the knowledge of the physical size of the pipe stack, and analyze a pipe stack from the images of two directions at the end.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 27, 2019
    Publication date: December 31, 2020
    Inventors: Akira MAEKI, Manish GUPTA, Yuki WATANABE, Chandrasekar VENKATRAMAN, Nam HUYN, Ravigopal VENNELAKANTI
  • Patent number: 10872114
    Abstract: An image processing device includes a processor, a storage unit coupled to the processor and storing an image database, and a display unit coupled to the processor. The processor obtains arrangement information of a first object on the display unit when the processor accepts an input of the first object via the display unit. The processor obtains first co-occurrence information using the first object and the arrangement information of the first object. The first co-occurrence information indicates a correlation relationship with the first object based on the image database. The processor outputs a candidate for a second object based on the first co-occurrence information to the display unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 22, 2020
    Assignee: HITACHI, LTD.
    Inventors: Yuki Watanabe, Kenichi Morita, Atsushi Hiroike
  • Patent number: 10862417
    Abstract: A rotary electric device control device controls driving of a rotary electric device including a plurality of winding sets. The rotary electric device control device includes: a plurality of drive circuits; and a plurality of control units. The control units include signal output units for outputting control signals to the drive circuits corresponding to the control units, respectively, and communicate with each other. The control units include: one master control unit; and at least one slave control unit. An electric power steering device includes: a rotary electric device control device; the rotary electric device that outputs an assist torque for assisting a steering operation of a steering wheel by a driver; and a power transmission unit that transmits a driving force of the rotary electric device to a drive target.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 7, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 8, 2020
    Assignee: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shuji Kuramitsu, Koichi Nakamura, Atsuko Oka, Masaya Taki, Hideki Kabune, Yuki Watanabe, Toshimitsu Sakai, Yosuke Ogi
  • Publication number: 20200377975
    Abstract: A particle-reinforced aluminum composite material includes: a base material formed of an aluminum alloy; and reinforcing particles dispersed in the base material. The reinforcing particles include a main component represented by MgAl2O4 and aluminum.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 27, 2020
    Publication date: December 3, 2020
    Applicant: AISIN SEIKI KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Hajime MINAKI, Yuki WATANABE, Akihito KAWAMURA
  • Patent number: 10852030
    Abstract: An indoor unit for an air-conditioning apparatus includes a casing forming an outer frame. The casing includes a lower right-side panel, a right bottom panel, a lower left-side panel, and a left bottom panel. The lower right-side panel, the right bottom panel, the lower left-side panel, and the left bottom panel each include a panel provided with a void through which pipes are drawn out and a panel without the void. The lower right-side panel, the right bottom panel, the lower left-side panel, and the left bottom panel with or without the void are selectively attached to the indoor unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 1, 2020
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Yuki Watanabe, Masato Ishikawa, Masahide Kinami, Yosuke Naito
  • Patent number: D908606
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 26, 2021
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Atsushi Fukui, Tomohisa Yoshie, Yuki Watanabe, Hirokazu Ichinose, Kei Ogiya, Daisuke Toyoshima
  • Patent number: D910539
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 16, 2021
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Masayuki Nakano, Satoshi Shimizu, Tomohisa Yoshie, Atsushi Fukui, Masato Sasaki, Yuki Watanabe, Daisuke Toyoshima