Patents by Inventor Kaoru Matsunaga
Kaoru Matsunaga 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: 20210203478Abstract: Provided is an information processing device including a block generation unit (113) configured to generate a block to be connected to a blockchain, the block including first related data associated with first data that is at least part of data included in an immediately preceding block and second related data associated with data included in the immediately preceding block and including at least second data different from the first data.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 22, 2019Publication date: July 1, 2021Inventors: Kaoru Matsunaga, Takeshi Katayama, Yasuyuki Kato, Daisuke Sasaki
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Publication number: 20210165872Abstract: An information processing device, method, program, and system that receives an item in a delivery locker on behalf of a user and delivers it safely to a user are disclosed. The information processing device generates different passwords for one item, the different passwords being passwords for receiving the item from a delivery locker. A delivery locker manager sets, on a delivery locker, different passwords for one item, the different passwords being passwords for receiving the item. A communication unit transmits a second password that is different from a first password for a user for receiving an item in a delivery locker to a proxy transporter that performs proxy transportation including receiving the item in the delivery locker and delivering the item to the user. The disclosed technology can be applied to, for example, a system that provides a proxy transportation service.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 10, 2019Publication date: June 3, 2021Inventors: Yasuyuki Kato, Kaoru Matsunaga, Daisuke Sasaki
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Publication number: 20180301129Abstract: An electronic piano including a plurality of keys and a sound source device (sound emission section) that emits a sound by pressing down the key, is provided with a resonance circuit that stereo-inputs a sound source from the sound source device corresponding to the each key, a plurality of resonance circuit groups that execute a stereo mix process with the plurality of resonance circuits being made one group, and delay circuits that provide a time difference to each stereo output from the each resonance circuit group, and outputs of the respective delay circuits are synthesized to obtain a stereo output.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 10, 2018Publication date: October 18, 2018Inventor: Kaoru Matsunaga
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Patent number: 10102837Abstract: An electronic piano including a plurality of keys and a sound source device (sound emission section) that emits a sound by pressing down the key, is provided with a resonance circuit that stereo-inputs a sound source from the sound source device corresponding to the each key, a plurality of resonance circuit groups that execute a stereo mix process with the plurality of resonance circuits being made one group, and delay circuits that provide a time difference to each stereo output from the each resonance circuit group, and outputs of the respective delay circuits are synthesized to obtain a stereo output.Type: GrantFiled: April 10, 2018Date of Patent: October 16, 2018Assignee: KAWAI MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.Inventor: Kaoru Matsunaga
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Patent number: 10049651Abstract: In an electronic piano including plural keys and a sound source device (sound emission section) that emits a sound by pressing of the key, an intermediary resonance state of a resonance sound can be reproduced by including a resonance circuit that inputs a sound source from the sound source device corresponding to the each key and outputs a resonance sound, a position detection sensor (multi-stage switch section) in which plural switches close sequentially according to a key pressing state of the key, and a resonance sound control device that controls the resonance sound by an open/close state of plural switches by the position detection sensor.Type: GrantFiled: April 10, 2018Date of Patent: August 14, 2018Assignee: KAWAI MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.Inventor: Kaoru Matsunaga
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Patent number: 10028073Abstract: An effect giving device that can solve a problem that sound is localized inside a head when using a headphone and a problem that timbre changes depending on kind of the headphone is provided. A DSP 10 performs a speaker adjusting equalizer process that processes an entire bandwidth with seven bands. When output selecting means select a headphone 320, the DSP 10 performs a headphone adjusting equalizer process of the entire bandwidth with three bands of the equalizer process, and processes a process of other bands by replacing it to a lateralization sense alleviating process for the headphone 320. Since the headphone 320 and a speaker 318 are exclusively used, using an identical program storage area efficiently ensures an alleviation of a lateralization sense when using the headphone 320 and an adjustment of the timbre.Type: GrantFiled: October 5, 2015Date of Patent: July 17, 2018Assignee: Kawai Musical Instruments Manufacturing Co., Ltd.Inventors: Kaoru Matsunaga, Ikuya Kato
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Publication number: 20170048642Abstract: An effect giving device that can solve a problem that sound is localized inside a head when using a headphone and a problem that timbre changes depending on kind of the headphone is provided. A DSP 10 performs a speaker adjusting equalizer process that processes an entire bandwidth with seven bands. When output selecting means select a headphone 320, the DSP 10 performs a headphone adjusting equalizer process of the entire bandwidth with three bands of the equalizer process, and processes a process of other bands by replacing it to a lateralization sense alleviating process for the headphone 320. Since the headphone 320 and a speaker 318 are exclusively used, using an identical program storage area efficiently ensures an alleviation of a lateralization sense when using the headphone 320 and an adjustment of the timbre.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 5, 2015Publication date: February 16, 2017Applicant: Kawai Musical Instruments Manufacturing Co., Ltd.Inventors: Kaoru MATSUNAGA, Ikuya KATO
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Patent number: 9330648Abstract: An electronic keyboard musical instrument includes a storage device, a musical tone generation unit, a resonating sound generation unit, and an adding unit. The musical tone generation unit reads out corresponding musical tone waveform data from the storage device according to key depression information to generate a musical tone waveform signal and a first register resonating sound waveform signal. The resonating sound generation unit receives the musical tone waveform signal to cause the resonating sound generation circuit to generate a second register resonating sound waveform signal according to damper pedal operator manipulation information and the key depression information, and outputs the second register resonating sound waveform signal. The adding unit is configured to add the musical tone waveform signal and the resonating sound waveform signal from the musical tone generation unit and the resonating sound generation unit respectively, and outputting a resulting signal.Type: GrantFiled: January 30, 2015Date of Patent: May 3, 2016Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Kawai Gakki SeisakushoInventor: Kaoru Matsunaga
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Publication number: 20150269922Abstract: An electronic keyboard musical instrument includes a storage device, a musical tone generation unit, a resonating sound generation unit, and an adding unit. The musical tone generation unit reads out corresponding musical tone waveform data from the storage device according to key depression information to generate a musical tone waveform signal and a first register resonating sound waveform signal. The resonating sound generation unit receives the musical tone waveform signal to cause the resonating sound generation circuit to generate a second register resonating sound waveform signal according to damper pedal operator manipulation information and the key depression information, and outputs the second register resonating sound waveform signal. The adding unit is configured to add the musical tone waveform signal and the resonating sound waveform signal from the musical tone generation unit and the resonating sound generation unit respectively, and outputting a resulting signal.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 30, 2015Publication date: September 24, 2015Applicant: Kabushiki Kaisha Kawai Gakki SeisakushoInventor: Kaoru MATSUNAGA
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Patent number: 5693901Abstract: According to a first invention, provided is an electronic musical instrument, which decodes and reads waveforms that are compressed by the DPCM method or the ADPCM method, that stores a prediction filter coefficient that is consonant with each waveform and reproduces musical tones by using the prediction filter coefficient. In the first invention, a waveform that is stored in the electronic musical instrument is stored together with a prediction filter coefficient that is used when the waveform was prepared, and the optimal prediction filter coefficient is employed for each waveform to reproduce a waveform.According to a second invention, provided is an electronic musical instrument, which decodes waveforms that are compressed by the DPCM method or the ADPCM method and repeatedly reads the decoded data, that can repetitiously read waveform data at the loop top without requiring a device for setting a decoding device.Type: GrantFiled: April 4, 1996Date of Patent: December 2, 1997Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Kawai Gakki SeisakushoInventor: Kaoru Matsunaga
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Waveform processing apparatus and an electronic musical instrument using the output waveform thereof
Patent number: 5597970Abstract: In the waveform processing apparatus of the present invention, an original sound signal is divided into a plurality of bands, parameters such as amplitude and frequency are extracted for each band, and correction is made so that the amount of deviation of the parameters from the mean value thereof is gradually decreased to zero from a certain time to the time when the repetition period begins, whereby a musical tone signal is re-synthesized based on the corrected parameters. The electronic musical instrument which stores the waveforms processed by the apparatus of the present invention generates musical tones having more natural tone color change.Type: GrantFiled: October 21, 1994Date of Patent: January 28, 1997Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Kawai Gakki SeisakushoInventors: Hiroshi Sato, Kaoru Matsunaga -
Patent number: 5447829Abstract: A package of a rolled photosensitive material comprising a core, a rolled photosensitive material wound around the core, a light-shielding leader which shields the peripheral face of the rolled photosensitive material from light, a pair of side plate inner rings which shield both sides of the rolled photosensitive material, an adhesive layer which adheres each of the side plate inner rings to the core, a caulking part which is formed on the adhesive layer and which enters the core, and a light-shielding part which is formed on the side plate inner ring, which adheres to the caulking part, and of which the inner end is positioned on the inner part from the surface of the core. The package can ensure light-shielding at the side plate inner ring simply and inexpensively, and having a sufficient adhesive strength between the side plate inner ring and the core.Type: GrantFiled: January 18, 1994Date of Patent: September 5, 1995Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.Inventors: Kyoushi Tamai, Kazuo Ui, Kaoru Matsunaga, Yoshio Ishizuka
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Patent number: 5270481Abstract: An electronic musical instrument comprises a filter coefficient generator, including a control signal generator for receiving timbre information, tone range information and touch information and for generating the first and second parameters to control a filter characteristic; a trigonometric function generator for generating a trigonometric function value based on the first parameter generated by the control signal generator; and a filter coefficient computing circuit for computing the trigonometric function value generated by the trigonometric function generator and the second parameter generated by the control signal generator. The filter coefficient generator sequentially generates filter coefficients by computation and sends them to a digital filter to continuously change the filter characteristic of the digital filter, thereby producing musical tones.Type: GrantFiled: July 13, 1992Date of Patent: December 14, 1993Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Kawai Gakki SeisakushoInventors: Kaoru Matsunaga, Yutaka Washiyama
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Patent number: 4760016Abstract: A silver halide color photographic light sensitive material is disclosed, which is excellent in the resistance to the back contamination of the processing liquid. The color photographic material comprises a support having thereon photographic component layers containing at least one silver halide emulsion layer. The emulsion containing at least one emulsion layer of the photographic component layers is a surface latent image forming type silver chloride or silver chloro-brobromide emulsion. And at least one of the photographic component layers contains at least one compound selected from the compounds represented by the formula [I]:A-(TIME)n-Z [I]in which A is a coupler component capable of coupling with the oxidized product of a color developing agent, Z is a component capable of releasing from A upon the coupling reaction of A with the oxidized product of the color developing agent and inhibiting the development of the silver halide, and Z has at least one hydrophilic group.Type: GrantFiled: October 14, 1986Date of Patent: July 26, 1988Assignee: Konishiroku Photo Industry Co., Ltd.Inventors: Shigeto Hirabayashi, Kaoru Matsunaga