Patents by Inventor Akira Tanaka

Akira Tanaka 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: 10877567
    Abstract: An eyeglasses-type wearable device of an embodiment can handle various data inputs. The device includes right and left eye frames corresponding to positions of right and left eyes and nose pads corresponding to a position of a nose. Eye motion detection electrodes (sightline detection sensor electrodes) are provided with the nose pads to detect the eye motion of a user. Transmitter/receiver electrodes (capacitance sensor electrodes) of a gesture detector are provided with a part of the right and left eye frames to detect a gesture of the user. Various data inputs are achieved by a combination of input A corresponding to a gesture of the user detected by the gesture detector and input B corresponding to the eye motion of the user detected by the eye motion detector.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 5, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 29, 2020
    Assignee: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA
    Inventors: Hiroaki Komaki, Akira Tanaka, Kenichi Doniwa, Hiroki Kumagai, Takashi Sudo, Yasuhiro Kanishima, Nobuhide Okabayashi
  • Publication number: 20200402705
    Abstract: The wire wound inductor component includes a core including a columnar shaft portion extending in a first direction and first and second support portions at both end portions of the shaft portion, first and second terminal electrodes provided respectively on the first and second support portions, and a wire wound around the shaft portion. A distance between an upper surface of the shaft portion and a top surface of the first and second support portions in a second direction orthogonal to the first direction is defined as a top surface step, and a distance between a lower surface of the shaft portion and a bottom surface of the first and second support portions in the second direction is defined as a bottom surface step. The top and bottom surface steps are identical with each other, and the top and bottom surface steps are less than or equal to 50 ?m.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 3, 2020
    Publication date: December 24, 2020
    Applicant: Murata Manufacturing Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Akira TANAKA, Sunao NOYA, Tomotaka GOTOHDA
  • Publication number: 20200402703
    Abstract: A wire-wound inductor component includes a core having a columnar shaft portion, first and second support portions provided on first and second end portions of the shaft portion, first and second terminal electrodes provided on the respective support portions, a wire wound around the shaft portion, and a cover member covering an upper surface of the shaft portion. In a height direction of the core, a distance between an upper surface and a top surface of the support portions is a top surface step, and a distance between a lower surface of the shaft portion and a bottom surface of the support portions is a bottom surface step. The top surface step is smaller than the bottom surface step and larger than a wire diameter, and a distance between the upper surface and an uppermost surface of the wire is larger than half of the top surface step.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 3, 2020
    Publication date: December 24, 2020
    Applicant: Murata Manufacturing Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Akira TANAKA, Sunao NOYA, Tomotaka GOTOHDA
  • Patent number: 10867738
    Abstract: An inductor includes a core including a columnar shaft and a pair of supports on respective end portions of the shaft, a terminal electrode disposed on each support, and a wire wound around the shaft and having two end portions connected to the terminal electrodes, corresponding to the two end portions, on the supports. In the inductor, an impedance is approximately 500? or higher with respect to an input signal having a frequency of approximately 3.6 GHz.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2020
    Assignee: Murata Manufacturing Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Sunao Noya, Akira Tanaka
  • Publication number: 20200342733
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a method executed by an electronic apparatus including storage configured to store device information including first position information indicating a position of a device installed in a particular range and risk information associated with use of the device is provided. The method includes receiving second position information indicating a position of a user wearing an eyeglasses-type wearable terminal and working within the particular range, from the eyeglasses-type wearable terminal and estimating a status of the user, based at least in part on the first position information and the risk information included in the device information, and the second position information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 15, 2020
    Publication date: October 29, 2020
    Inventors: Takashi Sudo, Akira Tanaka, Kenichi Doniwa, Hiroaki Komaki, Hiroki Kumagai, Yasuhiro Kanishima, Nobuhide Okabayashi
  • Patent number: 10815911
    Abstract: There is provided an engine stopping device including a stopping solenoid, where an operating shaft, interlocked to a control rack of a fuel injection pump, is rotatably supported by an engine case in a pass-through manner. The control rack is forcibly movable to a stopping position by an action of the stopping solenoid on an operation arm provided for a projecting portion of the operating shaft in an integrally rotatable manner. An extending-retracting rod of the stopping solenoid and the operation arm are interlocked by fitting engagement between a pin provided for the extending-retracting rod and a cut-out portion of the operation arm. The cut-out portion is configured in a shape elongated along a direction perpendicular to a movement trajectory of the extending-retracting rod.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 27, 2020
    Assignee: KUBOTA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Akira Tanaka, Hiroki Oso, Yoshinori Tanaka, Hideyuki Koyama, Takahiro Yamazaki, Nobuyoshi Okada
  • Patent number: 10818122
    Abstract: An electronic voting system including a terminal, authentication servers, and voting servers is provided. Each authentication server includes an authentication processor that authenticates a voter using authentication data including a first identifier associated with the voter and authentication information regarding the voter, and a first synchronizer that synchronizes a first blockchain including first transaction data indicating that the voter has been authenticated. Each voting server includes a voting processor that receives, from the terminal, voting data including a second identifier associated with a vote cast by the voter, and voting information indicating the vote. Each voting server further includes a second synchronizer that synchronizes a second blockchain including second transaction data and dummy transaction data with at least one other voting server.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 27, 2020
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICA
    Inventors: Yuji Unagami, Akira Tanaka, Junichiro Soeda
  • Patent number: 10818121
    Abstract: An electronic voting system includes a terminal, authentication servers, and voting servers. Each authentication server includes an authentication processor that authenticates a voter using authentication data, and a first synchronizer that synchronizes a first blockchain including first transaction data with at least one other authentication server. The authentication data including a first identifier and authentication information. Each voting server includes a voting processor that receives voting data including a second identifier and voting information, and a second synchronizer that synchronizes a second blockchain including the voting information as second transaction data with at least one other voting server. Each voting server further includes a block generator that connects a block including the second transaction data to the second blockchain, and a determiner that determines the block to include the second transaction data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 22, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 27, 2020
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICA
    Inventors: Yuji Unagami, Junichiro Soeda, Akira Tanaka
  • Patent number: 10804621
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a printed wiring board includes a wiring board, a connector part, a connection pad provided between the wiring board and the connector part and connected with the connector part with a solder material and a guide groove provided in the wiring board to be continuous to the connection pad, to guide a portion of the solder material from the connection pad.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 13, 2020
    Assignee: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA
    Inventors: Akira Tanaka, Masaya Hirashima, Satoru Yasui, Shukuyo Yamada, Masashi Watanabe
  • Publication number: 20200309554
    Abstract: A display apparatus of the present disclosure determines whether or not a route section is a linear section on the basis of positional relationship among nodes within the route section including three or more nodes, and, for a route section which is determined to be a linear section, forms and displays a line connecting a start node with a terminal node of the route section as an AR route.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 25, 2020
    Publication date: October 1, 2020
    Applicant: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Akira TANAKA, Toshiya MORI
  • Publication number: 20200312146
    Abstract: A display system of the present disclosure forms an AR route by shifting node information included in road map data to a lane on which a subject vehicle is to travel on the basis of lane information. Thus, it is possible to display the AR route which matches a shape of a route on which the subject vehicle is to travel without providing a feeling of strangeness while resolving inconvenience that the AR route is largely displaced from the route on which the subject vehicle is to travel at positions such as an intersection and a branch point, where a plurality of roads intersect.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 25, 2020
    Publication date: October 1, 2020
    Applicant: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Akira TANAKA, Toshiya MORI
  • Publication number: 20200310787
    Abstract: To provide a user who reuses a flow edited by using visual programming with useful flow change related information, a code management system manages codes before and after editing of a flow edited by the user using visual programming, with a code management tool capable of version management, obtains a logic change degree that is an index indicating a degree of change in a logic related difference of differences before and after the code change and a layout change degree that is an index indicating a degree of change in a layout related difference of the differences before and after the code change, and outputs information based on the logic change degree and the layout change degree.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 11, 2019
    Publication date: October 1, 2020
    Applicant: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Akira Tanaka, Toshio Nishida, Keisuke Hatasaki
  • Publication number: 20200293780
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a system includes a wearable device configured to be attached to a display configured to display a display image. The wearable device features an optical component set featuring a lens, a first user operable member configured to set an adjustment value relating to a projection angle of the visual image, and a second user operable member configured to set an adjustment value relating to at least one of a color tone or a brightness of the visual image. A position of the visual image is changed by adjusting the projection angle of the visual image using the first user operable member so that the visual image is displayed at a position based on at least one of a shape or a size of the head of the user. The color tone or the brightness of the visual image is changed using the second user operable member.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 16, 2020
    Publication date: September 17, 2020
    Inventors: Akira Tanaka, Yasuhiro Kanishima, Kenichi Doniwa, Hiroaki Komaki, Hiroki Kumagai, Takashi Sudo, Nobuhide Okabayashi
  • Publication number: 20200272342
    Abstract: Provided is a control method of controlling locking or unlocking of storage using a blockchain. The control method includes: determining, when first request information indicating a lock/unlock request, that is a lock request or an unlock request, is received from a terminal, whether a keyholder identified by reading keyholder information stored in the blockchain matches an owner of the terminal that has transmitted the first request information, the keyholder information indicating a person having the authority to lock or unlock the storage; performing lock/unlock processing when the keyholder is determined to match the owner, the lock/unlock processing being processing for causing the storage to lock or unlock in accordance with the first request information; and performing first storage processing after the lock/unlock processing is performed, the first storage processing being processing of storing, in the blockchain, transaction data indicating that the lock/unlock processing has been performed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 11, 2020
    Publication date: August 27, 2020
    Inventors: Akira TANAKA, Fumiaki KAGAYA, Eiichi ABE, Junichiro SOEDA
  • Patent number: 10754902
    Abstract: An information processing system includes a processing device communication with an information terminal. The system includes an input unit receiving user input, a display unit, a screen transition unit which decides a screen to be displayed and performs a screen transition based on the input of the input unit and the display unit, a screen transition score calculation unit which calculates a screen transition score for each screen transition, an item database which associates and stores an item name and attribute, an attribute score database which associates and stores the item attribute and an attribute score, an item search unit which searches the item database based on the user's input, and extracts the item attribute, and a score addition unit which adds the screen transition score calculated by the score calculation unit to the attribute score associated with the item attribute extracted by the item search unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 15, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 25, 2020
    Assignee: CLARION CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Masao Ishiguro, Akira Tanaka, Kazushige Hiroi
  • Patent number: 10755545
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a method executed by an electronic apparatus including storage configured to store device information including first position information indicating a position of a device installed in a particular range and risk information associated with use of the device is provided. The method includes receiving second position information indicating a position of a user wearing an eyeglasses-type wearable terminal and working within the particular range, from the eyeglasses-type wearable terminal and estimating a status of the user, based at least in part on the first position information and the risk information included in the device information, and the second position information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 1, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 25, 2020
    Assignee: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA
    Inventors: Takashi Sudo, Akira Tanaka, Kenichi Doniwa, Hiroaki Komaki, Hiroki Kumagai, Yasuhiro Kanishima, Nobuhide Okabayashi
  • Publication number: 20200258930
    Abstract: An imaging device comprises a sensor substrate including a pixel array that includes at least a first pixel. The first pixel includes an avalanche photodiode including a light receiving region, a cathode, and an anode. The first pixel includes a wiring layer electrically connected to the cathode and arranged in the sensor substrate such that the wiring layer is in a path of incident light that exits the light receiving region.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 1, 2020
    Publication date: August 13, 2020
    Applicant: SONY SEMICONDUCTOR SOLUTIONS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Akira TANAKA, Yusuke OTAKE, Toshifumi WAKANO
  • Publication number: 20200252669
    Abstract: A contents receiving system can include a content receiver and a portable terminal storing ID information. The content receiver can further include: a receiving unit capable of receiving content and subsidiary content from at least one of a broadcast wave and a network; an output unit capable of outputting, as audio video content, a video and/or audio of the content received by the receiving unit; a transmission unit capable of transmitting the subsidiary content to the portable terminal, the transmission unit enabling information on a payment transaction corresponding to an ID information of the portable terminal to be transmitted to the portable terminal individually, the portable terminal including: a second transmission unit capable of receiving the subsidiary content and the information on the payment transaction transmitted from the transmission unit of the content receiver; and a processing unit for performing a processing regarding the payment transaction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 22, 2020
    Publication date: August 6, 2020
    Inventors: Hideki Kamimaki, Akira Date, Akira Tanaka
  • Patent number: 10699486
    Abstract: A display system includes a projector that projects a virtual image onto a target space to allow a target person to visibly recognize the virtual image and a controller that controls display of the virtual image. When the projector projects a virtual image corresponding to a caution object, the controller selects at least one reference point from one or more candidate points existing around the caution object and associates the virtual image with the at least one reference point.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 30, 2020
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Akira Tanaka, Tadashi Shibata, Nobuyuki Nakano, Masanaga Tsuji, Shohei Hayashi
  • Publication number: 20200194166
    Abstract: A winding inductor component includes a core having a columnar shaft portion and a pair of support portions provided at both ends of the shaft portion. The wiring inductor component further includes terminal electrodes provided on the pair of support portions, respectively, and being non-magnetic bodies, and a wire wound around the shaft portion and having both end portions connected to the terminal electrodes of the pair of support portions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 2, 2019
    Publication date: June 18, 2020
    Applicant: Murata Manufacturing Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Akira TANAKA