Patents by Inventor Yuta Kawai
Yuta Kawai 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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Publication number: 20250102310Abstract: A route computation apparatus (10) according to the present invention includes: an acquisition unit (11) that acquires people distribution information indicating a distribution state of persons in a passageway through which a user travels; a computation unit (12) that computes, based on the people distribution information, a preferable route, on the passageway, satisfying a condition defined based on a distance to another person, the preferable route being a route on the passageway indicating a travel location in a width direction of the passageway; and an output unit (13) that outputs preferable route information indicating the computed preferable route.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 10, 2022Publication date: March 27, 2025Applicant: NEC CorporationInventors: Tingting Dong, Jianquan Liu, Ryo Kawai, Satoshi Yamazaki, Noboru Yoshida, Karen Stephen, Naoki Shindou, Yuta Namiki, Youhei Sasaki
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Publication number: 20250095375Abstract: An image processing apparatus (10) according to the present invention includes an acquisition unit (11) that acquires a moving image capturing a target area, an analysis unit (12) that generates, based on the moving image, external appearance information indicating at least one of a type of clothing, a type of a personal item, a pose, and a movement of a target person being included in the moving image, and appearance extent information indicating an extent to which the target person appears in the moving image, and an inference unit (13) that infers a purpose for which the target person is present in the target area, based on the external appearance information and the appearance extent information.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 16, 2022Publication date: March 20, 2025Applicant: NEC CorporationInventors: Tingting DONG, Jianquan LIU, Karen STEPHEN, Noboru YOSHIDA, Ryo KAWAI, Satoshi YAMAZAKI, Naoki SHINDOU, Yuta NAMIKI, Youhei SASAKI
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Publication number: 20250095189Abstract: An information processing apparatus (10) according to the present invention includes: an extraction unit (11) that extracts, using an image analysis technique, a scene of interest from a portion of a first moving image acquired by capturing a player, the portion being determined based on a specified time point; and an output unit (12) that outputs information indicating a position of the scene of interest within the first moving image.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 7, 2022Publication date: March 20, 2025Applicant: NEC CorporationInventors: Ryo KAWAI, Noboru YOSHIDA, Satoshi YAMAZAKI, Tingting DONG, Jianquan LIU, Karen STEPHEN, Naoki SHINDOU, Yuta NAMIKI, Youhei SASAKI
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Patent number: 12255213Abstract: A highly functional photoelectric conversion element is provided. The photoelectric conversion element includes: a first photoelectric converter that detects light in a first wavelength range and photoelectrically converts the light; a second photoelectric converter that detects light in a second wavelength range and photoelectrically converts the light to obtain distance information of a subject; and an optical filter that is disposed between the first photoelectric converter and the second photoelectric converter, and allows the light in the second wavelength range to pass therethrough more easily than the light in the first wavelength range. The first photoelectric converter includes a stacked structure and an electric charge accumulation electrode.Type: GrantFiled: September 19, 2023Date of Patent: March 18, 2025Assignee: Sony Semiconductor Solutions CorporationInventors: Hideaki Togashi, Tetsuji Yamaguchi, Nobuhiro Kawai, Koji Sekiguchi, Masahiro Joei, Kenichi Murata, Shintarou Hirata, Yuta Hasegawa, Yoshito Nagashima
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Publication number: 20250072558Abstract: Footwear includes a footbed including a cushioning portion configured of a three-dimensional mesh structure body with multiple unit structures repeatedly arranged to be adjacent to one another. In one aspect, the occupied volume ratio of the cushioning portion is larger in a medial forefoot area than a lateral forefoot area, is larger in a medial midfoot area than a lateral midfoot area, is larger in a medial rearfoot area than a lateral rearfoot area, is smaller in the medial forefoot area than the medial midfoot area, is smaller in the lateral forefoot area than the lateral midfoot area, is equal in the medial midfoot area and the medial rearfoot area or is smaller in the medial midfoot area than the medial rearfoot area.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 30, 2024Publication date: March 6, 2025Applicant: ASICS CORPORATIONInventors: Genki HATANO, Shingo TAKASHIMA, Yuta KAWAI
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Publication number: 20250074570Abstract: Provided is a steering assistance system including a determination unit determining whether or not a positional relationship between an object around a waterborne moving body and the waterborne moving body satisfies a predetermined condition on the basis of a result of processing an image captured by an imager capturing an image around the waterborne moving body, and a display control unit causing a display to display an image in which one or more virtual lines are superimposed on the image if the predetermined condition is determined to be satisfied, in which each of the one or more virtual lines is associated with one of at least four or more regions set to the front, rear, left, and right of the waterborne moving body, the determination unit determines whether or not the predetermined condition is satisfied for each of the regions, and the display control unit causes the display not to display the virtual line corresponding to a specific region if the predetermined condition is satisfied in the specific reType: ApplicationFiled: August 30, 2023Publication date: March 6, 2025Inventors: Satoshi Fujii, Yoshiyuki Misumi, Yuta Toma, Toru Kawai
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Publication number: 20250073885Abstract: A power tool includes a motor, an output part, a housing, a control circuit board, and a panel. The motor includes a rotor rotatable about a motor rotation axis extending in a front-rear direction. The output part is disposed forward of the motor and is rotated by a rotational force of the rotor. The housing includes: a motor housing part that houses the motor; a grip part that extends downward from the motor housing part; and a battery holding part that is connected to a lower end of the grip part. The control circuit board is housed in the grip part and is configured to control the motor. The panel is disposed at a rear portion of the battery holding part and is manipulated to change a control method of the motor.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 29, 2024Publication date: March 6, 2025Applicant: MAKITA CORPORATIONInventors: Miyuki ASAHI, Yasuhito KAWAI, Tomoya HATTORI, Yuta SUZUKI, Haruki TEJIMA, Tokuo HIRABAYASHI, Tomoyuki KONDO
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Publication number: 20250069402Abstract: An information processing apparatus (10) according to the present invention includes: an acquisition unit (11) that acquires an image captured at a site where a trouble happens; an information generation unit (12) that detects a person from the image, and also generates information relevant to the detected person, based on the image; and an output unit (13) that outputs the information relevant to the detected person.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 13, 2022Publication date: February 27, 2025Applicant: NEC CorporationInventors: Ryo KAWAI, Noboru YOSHIDA, Tingting DONG, Satoshi YAMAZAKI, Jianquan LIU, Naoki SHINDOU, Karen STEPHEN, Yuta NAMIKI, Youhei SASAKI
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Publication number: 20240008587Abstract: A sockliner includes: a base layer portion formed of a three-dimensional mesh structure body; and an upper layer portion formed of a sheet-like structure body that covers an upper surface of the base layer portion. The upper layer portion includes a through-hole group including a plurality of holes, and each of the holes is located inward from a peripheral edge of the upper layer portion without reaching the peripheral edge. In a case where a surrounding region is defined as a region between the peripheral edge and a position offset by 4.0 mm inward from the peripheral edge, the through-hole group includes an outermost hole group including a plurality of holes located closest to the peripheral edge so as to overlap with the surrounding region and to align along the peripheral edge.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 3, 2023Publication date: January 11, 2024Applicant: ASICS CORPORATIONInventors: Genki HATANO, Toshiaki OKAMOTO, Hiroyuki KUSUMI, Ryota SAKIYAMA, Shingo TAKASHIMA, Yuta KAWAI, Satoru ABE, Norihiko TANIGUCHI
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Patent number: 11852092Abstract: An electric current detection apparatus, the electric current detection apparatus is configured to detect an electric current flowing in a solenoid configured to be electrified by a PWM control, the apparatus includes a switch, an electric current value detection portion configured to detect a first electric current value at a first timing corresponding to a timing when the switch transitions from a closed state to an open state, the electric current value detection portion being configured to detect a third electric current value at a third timing, and a second electric current value calculation portion configured to calculate a second electric current value on the basis of the first electric current value and the third electric current value, the second electric current value being an electric current value of the electric current at the second timing.Type: GrantFiled: July 26, 2021Date of Patent: December 26, 2023Assignee: AISIN CORPORATIONInventors: Kouki Ojima, Satoshi Sakai, Toshihisa Habiro, Yuta Kawai
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Patent number: 11682128Abstract: A face image processing device, includes: an image coordinate system coordinate value derivation unit detecting an x-coordinate value and a y-coordinate value in an image coordinate system at a feature point of an organ of a face of a person in an image, and estimating a z-coordinate value, so as to derive three-dimensional coordinate values in the image coordinate system; a camera coordinate system coordinate value derivation unit deriving three-dimensional coordinate values in a camera coordinate system from the three-dimensional coordinate values in the image coordinate system derived by the image coordinate system coordinate value derivation unit; and a parameter derivation unit applying the three-dimensional coordinate values in the camera coordinate system derived by the camera coordinate system coordinate value derivation unit to a predetermined three-dimensional face shape model to derive a model parameter of the three-dimensional face shape model in the camera coordinate system.Type: GrantFiled: March 15, 2021Date of Patent: June 20, 2023Assignee: AISIN SEIKI KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Shin-ichi Kojima, Yuya Yamada, Shin Osuga, Koki Ueda, Yuta Kawai, Takashi Kato, Yoshiyuki Yamada
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Patent number: 11653802Abstract: A cleaner reduces noise. The cleaner includes a motor, a fan including a number Z of blades and rotatable at a rotational speed N, indicating revolutions per minute, about a rotation axis by the motor, a cover having an inlet located frontward from the fan, and a number V of ribs located in the inlet. The ribs extend in a radial direction from the rotation axis and are arranged in a circumferential direction about the rotation axis. The fan is rotatable to produce noise having a frequency fNZ of 20,000 Hz or higher, and fNZ=(m?k×V)×N/60 and m=n×Z+k×V, where n is an order, m is an integer, and k is an integer.Type: GrantFiled: August 23, 2021Date of Patent: May 23, 2023Assignee: MAKITA CORPORATIONInventors: Junichi Iwakami, Yuta Kawai
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Publication number: 20220367964Abstract: An energy storage apparatus includes a plurality of energy storage devices each of which includes a case and an outer case that accommodates the plurality of energy storage devices. The outer case has a ventilation chamber and an opening. An exhaust port that guides gas discharged from the case of at least one energy storage device in the plurality of energy storage devices to an inside of the ventilation chamber and a valve member that closes the exhaust port are disposed in the ventilation chamber. The opening guides the gas discharged from the exhaust port from the inside of the ventilation chamber to an outside of the outer case. The opening is formed lower than the exhaust port in the vertical direction.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 15, 2020Publication date: November 17, 2022Inventor: Yuta KAWAI
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Publication number: 20220160195Abstract: A cleaner reduces noise. The cleaner includes a motor, a fan including a number Z of blades and rotatable at a rotational speed N, indicating revolutions per minute, about a rotation axis by the motor, a cover having an inlet located frontward from the fan, and a number V of ribs located in the inlet. The ribs extend in a radial direction from the rotation axis and are arranged in a circumferential direction about the rotation axis. The fan is rotatable to produce noise having a frequency fNZ of 20,000 Hz or higher, and fNZ=(m?k×V)×N/60 and m=n×Z+k×V, where n is an order, m is an integer, and k is an integer.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 23, 2021Publication date: May 26, 2022Applicant: MAKITA CORPORATIONInventors: Junichi IWAKAMI, Yuta KAWAI
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Publication number: 20220056863Abstract: An electric current detection apparatus, the electric current detection apparatus is configured to detect an electric current flowing in a solenoid configured to be electrified by a PWM control, the apparatus includes a switch, an electric current value detection portion configured to detect a first electric current value at a first timing corresponding to a timing when the switch transitions from a closed state to an open state, the electric current value detection portion being configured to detect a third electric current value at a third timing, and a second electric current value calculation portion configured to calculate a second electric current value on the basis of the first electric current value and the third electric current value, the second electric current value being an electric current value of the electric current at the second timing.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 26, 2021Publication date: February 24, 2022Applicant: AISIN CORPORATIONInventors: Kouki OJIMA, Satoshi SAKAI, Toshihisa HABIRO, Yuta KAWAI
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Publication number: 20210312648Abstract: A face image processing device, includes: an image coordinate system coordinate value derivation unit detecting an x-coordinate value and a y-coordinate value in an image coordinate system at a feature point of an organ of a face of a person in an image, and estimating a z-coordinate value, so as to derive three-dimensional coordinate values in the image coordinate system; a camera coordinate system coordinate value derivation unit deriving three-dimensional coordinate values in a camera coordinate system from the three-dimensional coordinate values in the image coordinate system derived by the image coordinate system coordinate value derivation unit; and a parameter derivation unit applying the three-dimensional coordinate values in the camera coordinate system derived by the camera coordinate system coordinate value derivation unit to a predetermined three-dimensional face shape model to derive a model parameter of the three-dimensional face shape model in the camera coordinate system.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 15, 2021Publication date: October 7, 2021Applicant: AISIN SEIKI KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Shin-ichi KOJIMA, Yuya YAMADA, Shin OSUGA, Koki UEDA, Yuta KAWAI, Takashi KATO, Yoshiyuki YAMADA
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Patent number: 11114718Abstract: An energy storage apparatus which includes an energy storage device, an outer case, and an adhesive material which is injected between at least one surface out of a first surface and a second surface which are two surfaces of the energy storage device disposed adjacently to each other and an inner surface of the outer case thus making the at least one surface and the inner surface of the outer case adhere to each other by surface adhesion.Type: GrantFiled: August 9, 2016Date of Patent: September 7, 2021Assignee: GS YUASA INTERNATIONAL LTD.Inventors: Ryutaro Nishikawa, Yuta Kawai, Masamitsu Tononishi, Shogo Tsuruta
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Patent number: 11048952Abstract: An occupant monitoring device includes: an acquisition unit that acquires a captured image obtained by imaging a region in which there is a probability that a face of an occupant is present in a vehicle; a determination unit that determines whether the captured image acquired by the acquisition unit corresponds to at least a first image not including a feature portion of the face of the occupant but including at least a part of a body of the occupant or a second image not including the body of the occupant; and a processing unit that monitors a state change of the face of the occupant based on the captured image, and switches whether or not an occupant parameter set for monitoring the state change of the face of the occupant is to be reset according to a determination result in the determination unit.Type: GrantFiled: September 24, 2019Date of Patent: June 29, 2021Assignee: AISIN SEIKI KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Shin Osuga, Takashi Kato, Yuya Yamada, Tetsuya Hattori, Yoshiyuki Yamada, Yuta Kawai
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Patent number: 10733438Abstract: An eyeball information detection device includes: an acquisition unit configured to acquire a captured image obtained by imaging a region in which there is a probability that a face of an occupant is present in a vehicle by an imaging device provided in proximity to an illumination device that emits light to the region; and a detection unit configured to output eyeball information that corresponds to the captured image by receiving the captured image acquired by the acquisition unit as an input based on a learned model generated by learning a learning image including information similar to the captured image acquired by the acquisition unit and a correct value of the eyeball information on an eyeball of the occupant appearing in the learning image, by machine learning.Type: GrantFiled: September 23, 2019Date of Patent: August 4, 2020Assignee: AISIN SEIKI KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Shin Osuga, Takashi Kato, Yuya Yamada, Yuta Kawai
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Patent number: 10665837Abstract: An energy storage apparatus includes an outer case, and an energy storage device housed in an inside of the outer case. The outer case includes a ventilation chamber which makes the inside and an outside of the outer case communicate with each other. The ventilation chamber includes a front wall in which a through hole communicating with the outside is formed, a back wall disposed at a position where the back wall opposedly faces the front wall, a first wall disposed between the through hole and the back wall, and a first side wall disposed in an extending manner along a first direction which intersects with the front wall with a gap formed between the first side wall and the first wall. The gap is formed over a distance from the front wall to the back wall along the first direction.Type: GrantFiled: February 6, 2017Date of Patent: May 26, 2020Assignee: GS YUASA INTERNATIONAL LTD.Inventors: Masamitsu Tononishi, Yuta Kawai