Patents by Inventor Kazuma Kobayashi
Kazuma Kobayashi 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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Patent number: 11992766Abstract: At least one memory device of the game system that stores a plurality of instructions, which when executed by the at least one processor, cause the at least one processor to: control a motion of a user object based on first performance information, control a motion of an opponent object based on second performance information, modify performance change information associated with a target area in the virtual space based on a change command from the user or the opponent, change the first performance information in a case where the user object is located in the target area based on the performance change information associated with the target area, and change the second performance information in a case where the opponent object is located in the target area based on the performance change information associated with the target area.Type: GrantFiled: August 30, 2021Date of Patent: May 28, 2024Assignee: KONAMI DIGITAL ENTERTAINMENT CO., LTD.Inventors: Yoshimasa Saito, Tomohiro Nakada, Toru Ono, Yasunori Kobayashi, Kazuma Tsurumoto, Syogo Yamazaki, Yuyaandrew Yamashita
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Publication number: 20240132050Abstract: A vehicle is a series hybrid vehicle that drives drive wheels using a travel motor by utilizing power of a power generation motor, which generates power by being driven by motive power of an internal combustion engine provided with a turbo charger. A method for controlling the vehicle includes executing a fuel cut of the internal combustion engine when excess power is greater than at least power that can be inputted in the system and the internal combustion engine is being supercharged.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 19, 2021Publication date: April 25, 2024Inventors: Kazuma Iwasaki, Azusa Kobayashi, Hidekatsu Akiyama, Hirofumi Miyauchi, Ryo Onogawa
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Publication number: 20240111804Abstract: A processor receives an input of finding information indicating at least one finding, which is desired to be searched for, on a query base image, which includes a part desired to be searched for and is a source of a query image, to derive the query image to which the finding has been added, derives at least one added finding feature amount indicating an image feature for the added finding, and derives a query normal feature amount indicating an image feature for a normal region included in the part in the query base image. The processor derives similarities between the query image and a plurality of reference images including findings on the basis of comparisons between the added finding feature amount and the query normal feature amount and the like with reference to an image database in which the plurality of reference images have been registered and extracts the reference image that is similar to the query image as a similar image from the image database on the basis of the similarities.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 14, 2023Publication date: April 4, 2024Applicants: NATIONAL CANCER CENTER, FUJIFILM CorporationInventors: Kazuma KOBAYASHI, Mototaka MIYAKE, Ryuji HAMAMOTO
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Patent number: 11949837Abstract: A management apparatus that realizes transmission of scanned data, which is generated by each of a plurality of image readers including a first image reader and a second image reader, in accordance with address information associated with the image reader, the management apparatus including a storage that stores a plurality of pieces of address information including first address information associated with the first image reader and second address information associated with the second image reader, a receiver configured to receive a duplication instruction that duplicates the first address information as the second address information, and a setting section that causes the storage to store the first address information stored in the storage as the second address information in accordance with the duplication instruction.Type: GrantFiled: September 27, 2022Date of Patent: April 2, 2024Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATIONInventors: Daiki Kobayashi, Kazuma Seki
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Publication number: 20230311520Abstract: A liquid discharging apparatus, having a housing, a liquid discharging head, and a waste liquid tank for storing waste liquid, is provided. The waste liquid tank is demountably mounted in the housing through an opening formed on a sideward face on one side in a widthwise direction, which is parallel to a nozzle surface of the liquid discharging head and intersects orthogonally with a conveying direction to convey a sheet. The opening is formed between a first position and a second position apart from the first position in the conveying direction. The waste liquid tank is mounted in the housing in an arrangement such that a length in the widthwise direction is shorter than a length in the conveying direction. The waste liquid tank is mountable in and demountable from the housing along the widthwise direction of the waste liquid tank.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 29, 2023Publication date: October 5, 2023Applicant: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Haruhisa SHIRAI, Kazuma KOBAYASHI, Kazushige SAIGUSA, Fumiya NAKAMURA, Shohei ICHIKAWA, Asami HASHIMOTO, Masako KAWAGOE
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Publication number: 20230311514Abstract: A liquid discharging apparatus, having a sheet conveyer path, a liquid discharging head including nozzles for discharging liquid, a maintenance unit configured to remove the liquid from discharging head, a waste liquid tank demountably mounted in a housing of the liquid discharging apparatus and configured to store the liquid received from the maintenance unit, and a waste liquid flow path for transporting the liquid from the maintenance unit to the waste liquid tank, is provided. The waste liquid tank is located opposite to the maintenance unit across the sheet conveyer path in a horizontal direction, which is parallel to a nozzle surface of the liquid discharging head.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 30, 2023Publication date: October 5, 2023Applicant: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Fumiya NAKAMURA, Shohei ICHIKAWA, Kazushige SAIGUSA, Kazuma KOBAYASHI, Asami HASHIMOTO, Masako KAWAGOE, Haruhisa SHIRAI
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Publication number: 20230311519Abstract: A liquid discharging apparatus, having a housing, a liquid discharging device configured to discharge liquid, a first waste liquid collecting device and a second waste liquid collecting device for collecting the liquid discharged from the liquid discharging device, an intermediate tank having a first waste liquid reservoir and a drainer, and a waste liquid tank having a second waste liquid reservoir, is provided. The first waste liquid reservoir stores the liquid received from the first liquid collecting device and the second waste liquid collecting device. The drainer drains the liquid stored in the first waste liquid reservoir outward from the intermediate tank. The second waste liquid reservoir stores the liquid drained from the drainer. The waste liquid tank is demountably mounted in the housing.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 28, 2023Publication date: October 5, 2023Applicant: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Kazuma KOBAYASHI, Masako KAWAGOE, Haruhisa SHIRAI, Shohei ICHIKAWA, Fumiya NAKAMURA, Kazushige SAIGUSA, Asami HASHIMOTO
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Publication number: 20230311515Abstract: A liquid discharging apparatus, having a sheet conveyer path, a liquid discharging head including nozzles for discharging liquid, a cap configured to cover the liquid discharging head, a liquid receiver located at a position different from the cap and configured to receive the liquid discharged from the liquid discharging head, and a waste liquid tank demountably mountable in a housing of the liquid discharging apparatus and configured to store the liquid received by the liquid receiver, is provided.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 30, 2023Publication date: October 5, 2023Applicant: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Kazushige SAIGUSA, Shohei ICHIKAWA, Fumiya NAKAMURA, Kazuma KOBAYASHI, Masako KAWAGOE, Haruhisa SHIRAI, Asami HASHIMOTO
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Publication number: 20230206447Abstract: A processor encodes a target image to derive at least one first feature amount indicating an image feature for an abnormality of a region of interest included in the target image. In addition, the processor encodes the target image to derive at least one second feature amount indicating an image feature for an image in a case in which the region of interest included in the target image is a normal region.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 2, 2023Publication date: June 29, 2023Applicants: NATIONAL CANCER CENTER, FUJIFILM CorporationInventors: Kazuma KOBAYASHI, Mototaka MIYAKE, Ryuji HAMAMOTO, Jun MASUMOTO
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Publication number: 20230167533Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a titanium or titanium alloy member and to a surface hardening method for the titanium or titanium alloy member. The titanium or titanium alloy member includes a base material of titanium or titanium alloy, and at a surface of the base material, a hardened layer formed by diffusion of oxygen into the surface.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 17, 2023Publication date: June 1, 2023Applicant: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.Inventors: Junichi SATO, Kazuma KOBAYASHI, Shouta NAGASAWA, Kenichi INOUE, Chinfu LIU, Wuchien LIU, Tienchai LIN, Weipin KAO
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Patent number: 11578399Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a titanium or titanium alloy member and to a surface hardening method for the titanium or titanium alloy member. The titanium or titanium alloy member includes a base material of titanium or titanium alloy, and at a surface of the base material, a hardened layer formed by diffusion of oxygen into the surface. The method includes: a heating step of heating the titanium or titanium alloy base material of the member to a predetermined temperature under an inert gas atmosphere; a hardening step of introducing (i) a mixed gas including an inert gas, and (ii) oxygen gas as a hardening treatment gas, to perform hardening treatment of the surface of the base material; and a cooling step of cooling the base material down to room temperature under the inert gas atmosphere.Type: GrantFiled: June 29, 2019Date of Patent: February 14, 2023Assignee: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.Inventors: Junichi Sato, Kazuma Kobayashi, Shouta Nagasawa, Kenichi Inoue, Chinfu Liu, Wuchien Liu, Tienchai Lin, Weipin Kao
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Publication number: 20220397866Abstract: A timepiece includes: a casing; a light transmission part; a function part; and a glue adhering the light transmission part to the casing. The casing includes: a projection projecting from an inner circumferential surface and extending along a circumferential direction; and a protrusion protruding from the inner circumferential surface and determining a position of the light transmission part. A lateral surface of the light transmission part is adhered to the inner circumferential surface. A peripheral part of a bottom surface of the light transmission part is adhered to a top surface of the projection. An outer circumferential surface of the function part extends along an inner surface of the projection. A space is present in a facing region where the projection faces the function part along the light transmission part. The space is wider in a specific section including the protrusion than in a section different from the specific section.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 7, 2022Publication date: December 15, 2022Applicant: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.Inventors: Chieko TAJIMA, Hajime IGUCHI, Kazuma KOBAYASHI
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Publication number: 20210350908Abstract: An annotation support apparatus manages a medical image on the basis of an attribute of each medical image, using a hierarchical structure that has one medical image as a node and includes a medical image hierarchy to which a node of the medical image belongs and at least one of an upper hierarchy higher than the medical image hierarchy or a lower hierarchy lower than the medical image hierarchy. The annotation support apparatus includes: an image acquisition unit that acquires the medical image; a display unit; an annotation input receiving unit that receives designation of any one of the node of the medical image or a node associated with the node of the medical image in the hierarchical structure and an input of annotation information related to the designated node; and an annotation storage unit that stores the annotation information to be associated with the designated node.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 21, 2021Publication date: November 11, 2021Applicants: NATIONAL CANCER CENTER, FUJIFILM CorporationInventors: Kazuma KOBAYASHI, Mototaka MIYAKE, Ryuji HAMAMOTO
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Publication number: 20190323114Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a titanium or titanium alloy member and to a surface hardening method for the titanium or titanium alloy member. The titanium or titanium alloy member includes a base material of titanium or titanium alloy, and at a surface of the base material, a hardened layer formed by diffusion of oxygen into the surface. The method includes: a heating step of heating the titanium or titanium alloy base material of the member to a predetermined temperature under an inert gas atmosphere; a hardening step of introducing (i) a mixed gas including an inert gas, and (ii) oxygen gas as a hardening treatment gas, to perform hardening treatment of the surface of the base material; and a cooling step of cooling the base material down to room temperature under the inert gas atmosphere.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 29, 2019Publication date: October 24, 2019Applicant: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.Inventors: Junichi SATO, Kazuma KOBAYASHI, Shouta NAGASAWA, Kenichi INOUE, Chinfu LIU, Wuchien LIU, Tienchai LIN, Weipin KAO
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Patent number: 10409225Abstract: A dial including: a rotating body which is provided to be rotatable; and a dial main body which includes a covering section that covers a peripheral portion of the rotating body.Type: GrantFiled: December 9, 2016Date of Patent: September 10, 2019Assignee: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.Inventors: Junichiro Suzuki, Kazuma Kobayashi
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Patent number: 10409224Abstract: A method of manufacturing a decorative member, including: molding a base with a mold having a transferring surface, the transferring surface having a recessed area and the other area, the recessed area and the other area having different surface roughnesses in the base in a finished state; and treating a surface of the base molded by the transferring surface of the mold under a single condition.Type: GrantFiled: December 27, 2016Date of Patent: September 10, 2019Assignee: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.Inventors: Junichiro Suzuki, Kazuma Kobayashi
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Publication number: 20170255166Abstract: A method of manufacturing a decorative member, including: molding a base with a mold having a transferring surface, the transferring surface having a recessed area and the other area, the recessed area and the other area having different surface roughnesses in the base in a finished state; and treating a surface of the base molded by the transferring surface of the mold under a single condition.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 27, 2016Publication date: September 7, 2017Applicant: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.Inventors: Junichiro SUZUKI, Kazuma KOBAYASHI
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Publication number: 20170248920Abstract: A dial including: a rotating body which is provided to be rotatable; and a dial main body which includes a covering section that covers a peripheral portion of the rotating body.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 9, 2016Publication date: August 31, 2017Applicant: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.Inventors: Junichiro SUZUKI, Kazuma KOBAYASHI
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Patent number: 9523961Abstract: A watch case having a through-hole, an operating member including an operating shaft to be inserted to the through-hole of the watch case, an exterior member mounted on the operating member and configured to be displaced in a shaft direction of the operating shaft and be rotated together with the operating member, and a buffer member located between the operating member and the exterior member are provided. Therefore, when the exterior member receives impact from outside, the impact can be buffered by the buffer member. As a result, the operating member can be prevented from being damaged because the impact from the outside is not directly transmitted to the operating member, thereby improving impact resistance.Type: GrantFiled: February 18, 2015Date of Patent: December 20, 2016Assignee: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.Inventors: Kazuma Kobayashi, Junichi Sato, Yoshihiro Maruyama, Masao Amano
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Patent number: 9519272Abstract: A wristwatch including a case including a band attachment section having an attachment hole, a band including a coupling hole in one end portion located coaxially with the attachment hole of the band attachment section, a coupling member inserted into the coupling hole of the band and the attachment hole of the band attachment section and coupling the band with the band attachment section, and a fixing member fixing the coupling member to the attachment hole of the band attachment section or the coupling hole of the band.Type: GrantFiled: August 28, 2015Date of Patent: December 13, 2016Assignee: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.Inventors: Kazuma Kobayashi, Yoshihiro Maruyama, Junichi Sato