4584 patents
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Image encoding device, image decoding device, image encoding method, image decoding method, and image prediction device
16 Jan 24
An image decoding device including an intra prediction unit for, when a coding mode for a coding block is an intra coding mode, carrying out an intra-frame prediction process on each of processing blocks to generate a prediction image, each of the processing blocks being the coding block or a sub-block obtained by dividing the coding block, wherein, when an intra prediction parameter indicates a vertical prediction process and a size of the processing block is less than a predetermined size, the intra prediction unit performs a specific processing and when the intra prediction parameter indicates the vertical prediction process and the size of the processing block is greater than or equal to the predetermined size, the intra prediction unit performs a specific processing.
Akira Minezawa, Kazuo Sugimoto, Shunichi Sekiguchi
Filed: 24 Feb 23
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Control device, image recording method, and recording medium
16 Jan 24
A control device is connected to a control-target machine and an imaging device (22).
Mitsudo Fukuda, Yusuke Takenaka
Filed: 17 Dec 20
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Work determination apparatus and work determination method
9 Jan 24
It is an object of the present invention to obtain a work determination apparatus capable of preventing or reducing a time lag between the occurrence and determination of an anomaly in work.
Satoru Matsuoka, Kiyoshi Maekawa, Hideki Asoh, Kensuke Harada
Filed: 19 Dec 19
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Internal-combustion-engine control apparatus
9 Jan 24
Kenji Nakajima, Takayuki Gamahara, Shinichiro Hidaka
Filed: 31 Aug 22
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Fog determination apparatus, fog determination method, and computer readable medium
9 Jan 24
A point data acquisition unit acquires point data indicating a reflection point obtained by an optical sensor that receives reflected light of an emitted light beam reflected at the reflection point.
Kimihiko Hiroi
Filed: 12 Mar 18
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Touch panel device, touch panel control method, and storage medium storing touch panel control program
9 Jan 24
A touch panel device includes a cover panel that has an operation surface and bends corresponding to a depressing force applied to the operation surface; a touch sensor unit including touch sensor electrodes that output touch sensor signals; an elastic member that has a dielectric constant changing corresponding to a temperature and deforms due to the bending of the cover panel, the elastic member including an adhesive agent provided between the cover panel and the touch sensor unit; a first sensor unit that detects a capacitance changing depending on the dielectric constant and a thickness of the elastic member; and processing circuitry to estimate the temperature based on the capacitance detected by the first sensor unit; to detect the depressing force based on the estimated temperature and the capacitance detected by the first sensor unit; and to execute processing of the touch sensor signals based on the detected depressing force.
Masaya Nidaira, Yuichi Sasaki, Takeshi Ono, Seiichiro Mori
Filed: 25 Feb 22
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Method of manufacturing semiconductor device
9 Jan 24
An object of the present invention is to improve the flatness of a surface electrode without increasing the number of steps in a semiconductor device having gate structures.
Tomohito Kudo
Filed: 18 Oct 21
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Method for manufacturing semiconductor device
9 Jan 24
Examples of a semiconductor device includes a transistor region formed in a semiconductor substrate having a first conductivity type drift layer, and a diode region formed to be adjacent to the transistor region in the semiconductor substrate, wherein the diode region has a second conductivity type anode layer formed on the drift layer and a first conductivity type cathode layer formed on the lower side of the drift layer, and the cathode layer has an adjacent region contacting the transistor region, the adjacent region having a depth, from a lower surface of the semiconductor substrate, which becomes shallower toward the transistor region and having first conductivity type impurity concentration which decreases toward the transistor region.
Ryu Kamibaba, Tetsuo Takahashi, Akihiko Furukawa
Filed: 3 May 22
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Semiconductor laser device and method for manufacturing the same
9 Jan 24
A mesa (34) includes a resonator and a second conductivity type contact layer (24).
Kazumasa Kishimoto, Naoki Nakamura
Filed: 28 Mar 18
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Semiconductor laser, semiconductor laser array and method of manufacturing semiconductor laser
9 Jan 24
A semiconductor laser in which a PD unit monitoring an optical output is integrated is provided.
Yohei Hokama, Yosuke Suzuki
Filed: 26 Sep 18
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Phase synchronization device
9 Jan 24
A third signal having a phase intermediate between a first signal based on a reference signal and a second signal with a phase shifted by an element of a previous stage is generated, a signal obtained by shifting the phase of the third signal by a first phase shill amount is output as a second signal to an element of a subsequent stage, a phase difference between the third signal and a fourth signal obtained by shifting the phase of a first signal output from the element of the subsequent stage by the first phase shift amount is detected, and the first phase shift amount is controlled on the basis of the detected phase difference.
Sho Ikeda, Akihito Hirai, Koji Tsutsumi, Masaomi Tsuru
Filed: 18 Oct 21
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Relay device and communication system
9 Jan 24
A relay device includes a plurality of input/output ports (111); an authentication information storage unit (114) to store authentication information used for performing authentication of a target relay device which is a relay device to be authenticated; an authentication processing unit (113) to acquire a target authentication packet which is an authentication packet used for authentication of the target relay device via a target input/output port (111) which is an input/output port connected to the target relay device in the plurality of input/output ports and to authenticate the target relay device by referring to the authentication information, and a relay processing unit (112) to cause a transfer input/output port which is an input/output port (111) to which a transfer destination of the transfer packet is connected, and to discard the transfer packet when the authentication of the target relay device is failed.
Saburo Kasahara
Filed: 18 May 18
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Communication system
9 Jan 24
Provided is a high-speed communication system with the high reliability and the low latency under New Radio (NR).
Tadahiro Shimoda, Mitsuru Mochizuki
Filed: 30 Nov 22
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Control device, control method for water heater, and program
2 Jan 24
In a control device, an instruction acquirer acquires an instruction to suppress in a specified period supplying of generated power generated by power generator installed in a power-consuming area to a commercial electrical power system.
Yuki Ogawa, Masaaki Yabe, Masayuki Komatsu, Satoshi Minezawa, Akihiro Toda, Takashi Arai
Filed: 20 Oct 22
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Air-conditioning system and program update method of air-conditioning system
2 Jan 24
An air-conditioning system includes equipment, the equipment including one or more pieces of equipment, a high level device connected to the equipment and configured to control the equipment, a first communication unit configured to obtain, from an update management device that previously stores an update program for updating a program of the equipment, the update program, a second communication unit configured to transmit the update program to the equipment and obtain a pre-update program from the equipment, a storage device configured to store the update program and the pre-update program, and an update execution unit configured to update the program of the equipment, in which the update execution unit transmits the update program to the equipment and updates the program of the equipment, and when one of the one or more pieces of the equipment in which the program is updated does not operate normally, the update execution unit transmits the pre-update program to the one of the one or more pieces of the equipment and restores the program of the one of the one or more pieces of the equipment to the pre-update program.
Tomohide Ota
Filed: 28 Aug 18
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Outdoor unit for air-conditioning apparatus
2 Jan 24
An outdoor unit for an air-conditioning apparatus includes a casing having an air inlet through which air enters the casing, an air-sending device disposed in the casing and configured to create a flow of air passing through the air inlet, a heat exchanger disposed between the casing and the air-sending device and exposed through the air inlet and including a plurality of fins spaced apart from each other, and a partition disposed in the casing and dividing a space in the casing into an air-sending device chamber containing the heat exchanger and the air-sending device and a machine chamber containing a compressor.
Kentaro Yonehara, Hiroyuki Jinnai, Takashi Ikeda, Shingo Hamada
Filed: 29 Jan 19
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Image processing device, thermal image generation system, and recording medium
2 Jan 24
A background image generator (21) stores, in a storage device (3), a skeleton image obtained by calculating a feature quantity for each of multiple first thermal images (Din1) obtained by imaging by a thermal image sensor (1) in the same field of view or multiple sorted images (Dc) generated from the first thermal images, generating an average image from the first thermal images or sorted images, sharpening the average image, and then extracting a skeleton component.
Kohei Kurihara, Koichi Yamashita, Daisuke Suzuki
Filed: 11 Mar 19
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Microwave heating device
2 Jan 24
A radiation element for radiating a microwave into the heating chamber at least one hollow dielectric member in which a gas is sealed, the hollow dielectric member having electrodes and a control unit having a plasma control unit for controlling the state of the hollow dielectric member and a current adjustment unit for adjusting a current to be applied to the electrodes of the hollow dielectric member under the control of the plasma control unit, the current adjustment unit being connected to the electrodes; and wherein the plasma control unit controls the state of the hollow dielectric member to put into one of states of: a plasma state in which the microwave is reflected by the gas; a plasma state in which the microwave is absorbed by the gas; and a gas state in which the microwave is allowed to be transmitted through the gas.
Hiroshi Suenobu, Shingo Yamaura, Tai Tanaka, Michio Takikawa
Filed: 2 Jul 18
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Semiconductor device
2 Jan 24
An object is to provide a semiconductor device capable of reducing inductance between a high potential terminal and a low potential terminal while achieving downsizing of the semiconductor device.
Hidetaka Matsuo, Ryo Goto, Yasutaka Shimizu
Filed: 15 Nov 21
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Semiconductor light-receiving element and method of manufacturing semiconductor light-receiving element
2 Jan 24
A semiconductor light-receiving element (50) is a semiconductor light-receiving element in which a multi-plication layer (2), an electric-field control layer (3), a light absorption layer (4) and a window layer (5) are sequentially formed on a semiconductor substrate (1), and a p-type region (6) is formed in the window layer (5).
Ryota Takemura, Matobu Kikuchi
Filed: 5 Apr 19