Patents by Inventor Ken Kawasaki

Ken Kawasaki 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).

  • Publication number: 20240119502
    Abstract: An information notification device includes a longitudinal-data storage unit that accumulates, for a plurality of samples, longitudinal data indicating a temporal change in foot size of one sample, a user-data storage unit that stores user data containing a gender, an age, and a past foot size of a prediction target person, a foot-size prediction unit that predicts, based on a current foot size of the prediction target person and the longitudinal data, a change in foot size of the prediction target person in a period from a current point in time to a future point in time, and a notification processing unit that displays, on a display unit, the prediction of the change in foot size of the prediction target person in the period from the current point in time to the future point in time.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 16, 2022
    Publication date: April 11, 2024
    Applicant: ASICS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ken KUSANO, Ippei SHIINA, Masaru ICHIKAWA, Hiroyuki KUSUMI, Toshiaki KAWASAKI
  • Patent number: 11944907
    Abstract: A technique presents on a display a computer game character and a first scannable code (SC) scannable by a camera of at least a first user apparatus to cause a server to download to the first user apparatus a photo app operable to generate a photo of a first user and send the photo to the server, which alters the character in accordance with the photo. The character with the face altered is presented along with a second SC that can be scanned to cause the server to download to the first user apparatus a share app operable to select a second user apparatus to send an image of the character with the face altered in accordance with the photo such that the second user apparatus can display the character with the face altered in accordance with the photo. User options may be provided to alter the character or game.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 7, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.
    Inventors: Ken Yoshihiko Hirakawa, Keisuke Saito, Daniel Morales, Dilip Krishnamoorthi, Keith D. Brown, Takuya Kawasaki
  • Patent number: 11918914
    Abstract: A technique presents on a display a computer game character and a first scannable code (SC) scannable by a camera of at least a first user apparatus to cause a server to download to the first user apparatus a photo app operable to generate a photo of a first user and send the photo to the server, which alters the character in accordance with the photo. The character with the face altered is presented along with a second SC that can be scanned to cause the server to download to the first user apparatus a share app operable to select a second user apparatus to send an image of the character with the face altered in accordance with the photo such that the second user apparatus can display the character with the face altered in accordance with the photo.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 8, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.
    Inventors: Ken Yoshihiko Hirakawa, Keisuke Saito, Daniel Morales, Dilip Krishnamoorthi, Keith D. Brown, Takuya Kawasaki
  • Patent number: 10757923
    Abstract: Provided is an aquaculture system, including a water tank holding seawater and housing shellfish or fish to be cultivated, a water intake unit for introducing the seawater into the water tank, a draining unit for draining the seawater in the water tank, a first bubble generator that generates and supplies microbubbles with a diameter of not less than 10 ?m and not more than 100 ?m in the water tank, and a second bubble generator that generates and supplies nanobubbles with a diameter of not more than 10 ?m in the water tank, wherein the seawater in the water tank is exchanged by simultaneously carrying out introduction of the seawater using the water intake unit and drainage of the seawater in the water tank using the draining unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 21, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 1, 2020
    Assignees: NIKKISO CO., LTD., KENSUI CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Tetsumi Ochi, Ken Kawasaki
  • Publication number: 20190053471
    Abstract: Provided is an aquaculture system, including a water tank holding seawater and housing shellfish or fish to be cultivated, a water intake unit for introducing the seawater into the water tank, a draining unit for draining the seawater in the water tank, a first bubble generator that generates and supplies microbubbles with a diameter of not less than 10 ?m and not more than 100 ?m in the water tank, and a second bubble generator that generates and supplies nanobubbles with a diameter of not more than 10 ?m in the water tank, wherein the seawater in the water tank is exchanged by simultaneously carrying out introduction of the seawater using the water intake unit and drainage of the seawater in the water tank using the draining unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 21, 2018
    Publication date: February 21, 2019
    Applicants: NIKKISO CO., LTD., KENSUI CO.,LTD.
    Inventors: Tetsumi OCHI, Ken KAWASAKI
  • Patent number: 5293275
    Abstract: A floppy disk recording data regeneration system having a voltage-controlled delay circuit, voltage-controlled data phase shifting circuit and a loop filter made up of a first-stage low-pass filter with a first cut-off frequency, and a second-stage low-pass filter with a second cut-off frequency lower than the first cut-off frequency. The output voltage of the second-stage low-pass filter drives the voltage-controlled data phase shifting circuit, and the output voltage of the first-stage low-pass filter drives the voltage-controlled delay circuit. The amount of delay of the oscillation output pulse is adjusted by the voltage-controlled delay circuit to suppress the occurrence of read errors in the event of peak shifts. In the event of a wow and flutter fluctuation, the amount of shift in the phase of the read data signal pulse is finely adjusted to suppress the occurrence of read errors in subsequent stages.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 5, 1990
    Date of Patent: March 8, 1994
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventor: Ken Kawasaki