Patents by Inventor Koji Sakamoto
Koji Sakamoto 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: 20240097806Abstract: According to one embodiment, an electronic apparatus includes a processing circuitry configured to estimate a position at which electromagnetic noise occurs based on propagation data in communication between a first wireless device located at a first position and second wireless devices located at second positions, and position information indicating the first position and the second positions.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 6, 2023Publication date: March 21, 2024Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBAInventors: Takafumi SAKAMOTO, Koji AKITA, Yuki YONEZAWA
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Publication number: 20240095850Abstract: A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing therein an information management program for causing a computer to execute a process comprises: receiving property information indicating a reliability of a post uploaded on the Internet and a digital signature generated from the property information; and storing the property information, to which identification information of the post and the digital signature are added, in a storage.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 12, 2023Publication date: March 21, 2024Applicants: Fujitsu Limited, KEIO UNIVERSITYInventors: Takuya SAKAMOTO, Kazuaki NIMURA, Ryuichi MATSUKURA, Koji NAKAMICHI, Masayuki FUKUI, Shigeya SUZUKI, Osamu NAKAMURA, Ryosuke ABE
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Publication number: 20240072793Abstract: An electronic apparatus includes processing circuitry configured to generate first control information about timing with which a first switching control device performs switching control and second control information about timing with which a second switching control device performs switching control based on location information on the first switching control device and location information on the second switching control device.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 10, 2023Publication date: February 29, 2024Applicants: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA, TOSHIBA ENERGY SYSTEMS & SOLUTIONS CORPORATIONInventors: Hidenori OKUNI, Takafumi SAKAMOTO, Masaki NISHIKAWA, Koji AKITA
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Publication number: 20240072797Abstract: An electronic apparatus includes a noise measurement circuitry that measures electromagnetic noise in a surrounding environment, and a controller that controls timing of turning on or off a switching circuit based on the electromagnetic noise measured by the noise measurement circuitry.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 10, 2023Publication date: February 29, 2024Applicants: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA, TOSHIBA ENERGY SYSTEMS & SOLUTIONS CORPORATIONInventors: Hidenori OKUNI, Takafumi SAKAMOTO, Masaki NISHIKAWA, Koji AKITA
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Patent number: 11849329Abstract: A vehicle authentication apparatus includes first and second communication devices, first and second area determination devices, and a control execution device. The first communication device specifies a first area as a communication area. The second communication device specifies a second area as the communication area. The first area determination device determines whether the mobile devices are present at the first area based on a communication status of the first communication device with the mobile devices. The second area determination device determines whether at least one of mobile devices is present at the second area based on a communication status of the second communication device with the mobile devices. The control execution device executes predetermined vehicle control in response to determining no mobile devices being present at the first area; and determining at least one of the mobile devices being present at the second area.Type: GrantFiled: November 16, 2020Date of Patent: December 19, 2023Assignees: DENSO CORPORATION, TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Koji Sakamoto, Shigeki Nishiyama, Tomoyuki Funayama
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Publication number: 20230140996Abstract: A resin sheet includes a porous structure. The porous structure is configured to adjust transmission of a millimeter wave. The porous structure has a relative permittivity varying in stages in a thickness direction of the resin sheet from a plane on which the millimeter wave is incident, the relative permittivity varying such that a difference between average relative permittivities in two adjacent layer portions is a predetermined value or less, the layer portions each having a particular thickness smaller than a wavelength of the millimeter wave. The porous structure has, as pores, only pores each having a pore diameter equal to or less than 10% of the wavelength of the millimeter wave.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 25, 2021Publication date: May 11, 2023Inventors: Koji SAKAMOTO, Takahiko ITO, Naoki NAGAOKA, Shu SASAKI, Daiki KATO
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Publication number: 20230129032Abstract: A resin sheet includes the porous structure. The porous structure is configured to adjust transmission of a millimeter wave. The porous structure has a relative permittivity varying in a thickness direction of the resin sheet such that a difference between average relative permittivities in two adjacent layer portions is a predetermined value or less, the layer portions each having a particular thickness smaller than a wavelength of the millimeter wave. The porous structure includes a boundary portion being one of the layer portions, the boundary portion having a maximum average relative permittivity. The relative permittivity increases in stages from end portions of the porous structure toward the boundary portion, the end portions being defined in the thickness direction of the resin sheet.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 2, 2021Publication date: April 27, 2023Inventors: Koji SAKAMOTO, Takahiko ITO, Naoto OE
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Publication number: 20220346414Abstract: To provide a processed grain product enabling manufacturing of a softened processed grain product for individuals who are elderly or who have difficulty in chewing or swallowing that maintains a post-threshing or post-polishing shape. The processed grain product according to the present invention is a processed grain product wherein the post-threshing or post-polishing shape is maintained, wherein a portion of the starch that is included in the processed grain product gelatinized, and that includes an externally derived degrading enzyme in a state that has enzymatic activity, and wherein the water content is less than 15%.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 14, 2022Publication date: November 3, 2022Inventors: Koji SAKAMOTO, Fumihiko TOYOTA
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Patent number: 11108872Abstract: The present invention provides a system in which, via a web page provided using a web browser by a management server, a management screen provided by a network device can be accessed while the management server does not need to have a private IP address of the network device.Type: GrantFiled: July 30, 2020Date of Patent: August 31, 2021Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Koji Sakamoto
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Patent number: 10974620Abstract: An occupant detection system includes a transmitter provided adjacent to a first side face of a vehicle before a predetermined seat and successively transmitting a radio wave over a range covering a seat door located on a second side face of the vehicle and in a same row as the predetermined seat, a receiver provided adjacent to the second side face behind the predetermined seat and receiving the radio wave transmitted from the transmitter, and an occupant detection device including a reception intensity acquirer, an occupant detector, an opening and closing detector. The reception intensity acquirer successively acquires a reception intensity of a radio wave successively received by the receiver. The occupant detector detects an occupant in the vehicle according to the reception intensity of the radio wave received by the receiver while the opening and closing detector detects that the seat door is open.Type: GrantFiled: December 26, 2018Date of Patent: April 13, 2021Assignee: DENSO CORPORATIONInventors: Takashi Saitou, Koji Sakamoto, Takahisa Matsumoto
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Publication number: 20210076203Abstract: A vehicle authentication apparatus includes first and second communication devices, first and second area determination devices, and a control execution device. The first communication device specifies a first area as a communication area. The second communication device specifies a second area as the communication area. The first area determination device determines whether the mobile devices are present at the first area based on a communication status of the first communication device with the mobile devices. The second area determination device determines whether at least one of mobile devices is present at the second area based on a communication status of the second communication device with the mobile devices. The control execution device executes predetermined vehicle control in response to determining no mobile devices being present at the first area; and determining at least one of the mobile devices being present at the second area.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 16, 2020Publication date: March 11, 2021Inventors: Koji SAKAMOTO, Shigeki NISHIYAMA, Tomoyuki FUNAYAMA
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Patent number: 10877141Abstract: A detection apparatus includes: a transmitter transmitting an electric wave toward an inside of a vehicle; a receiver receiving the transmitted electric wave each time the transmitter transmits the electric wave, and performing output in accordance with reception strength of the received electric wave; and a determination portion, based on the reception strength of the electric wave received by the receiver, comparing a change mode of the electric wave received by the receiver changing over time to a predetermined reference mode and determining whether a person is present between the receiver and the transmitter.Type: GrantFiled: September 5, 2016Date of Patent: December 29, 2020Assignee: DENSO CORPORATIONInventors: Takashi Saitou, Koji Sakamoto, Takahisa Matsumoto, Masashi Mori
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Patent number: 10857976Abstract: A mobile device position estimation system includes: a vehicular system having a vehicle side transmitter transmitting an impulse signal, a vehicle side receiver receiving a response signal, and a vehicle side control unit outputting a transmission command signal of the impulse signal and receiving a notification signal of the response signal; and a mobile device having a mobile device side receiver receiving the impulse signal and a mobile device side transmitter transmitting the response signal. The vehicle side control unit includes: a reception detection unit detecting the response signal; a round-trip timer measuring a round-trip time; and a position estimation unit estimating a position of the mobile device. The position estimation unit: calculates a round-trip distance; and determines whether the mobile device is within a detection area.Type: GrantFiled: May 15, 2019Date of Patent: December 8, 2020Assignee: DENSO CORPORATIONInventors: Tetsuya Kusumoto, Koji Sakamoto
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Publication number: 20200358862Abstract: The present invention provides a system in which, via a web page provided using a web browser by a management server, a management screen provided by a network device can be accessed while the management server does not need to have a private IP address of the network device.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 30, 2020Publication date: November 12, 2020Inventor: Koji Sakamoto
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Patent number: 10771941Abstract: A vehicle system device is provided. The vehicle system device is used in a vehicle system that enables an in-vehicle device used in a vehicle and a mobile device carried by a user to transmit and receive a signal via a wireless communication. The vehicle system device may measure a time from a time point at which a reception intensity of the signal exceeds a threshold to a time point at which the reception intensity falls below the threshold.Type: GrantFiled: October 2, 2019Date of Patent: September 8, 2020Assignee: DENSO CORPORATIONInventors: Tetsuya Kusumoto, Takashi Saitou, Kenichiro Sanji, Koji Sakamoto
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Patent number: 10759386Abstract: Whether a radio wave received by a portable terminal is a radio wave directly received from an in-vehicle apparatus is determined, based on (i) the characteristic related to the direction of the magnetic field or electric field in the radio wave received by the portable terminal, (ii) the information representing the position of the portable terminal, and (iii) the information representing the orientation of the portable terminal.Type: GrantFiled: May 3, 2019Date of Patent: September 1, 2020Assignee: DENSO CORPORATIONInventors: Tetsuya Kusumoto, Takashi Saitou, Koji Sakamoto
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Publication number: 20200257388Abstract: An inspection apparatus is provided with a holder configured to set an inspection target thereon, the inspection target configured to detect a contact position on the inspection target touched by a human finger; pseudo finger(s) configured to be detected as the human finger upon contact with the inspection target; a positioner configured to move the pseudo finger(s) relative to the inspection target and to change the contact position of the pseudo finger(s) relative to the inspection target; a memory configured to store, respectively, a value of a pressing force in a range of pressing forces said range including a zero pressing force for each of the pseudo finger(s) on the inspection target; a controller configured to regulate the pressing force for pseudo finger(s) of the pseudo finger(s) based on the respective value; and a sensor configured to acquire an electric signal output from the inspection target.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 28, 2020Publication date: August 13, 2020Inventors: Koji SAKAMOTO, Toshihide MATSUKAWA, Koji IWAMI, Shigeki FUJITA, Osamu HIKITA
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Patent number: 10678385Abstract: An inspection apparatus is provided with a holder configured to set an inspection target thereon, the inspection target configured to detect a contact position on the inspection target touched by a human finger; pseudo finger(s) configured to be detected as the human finger upon contact with the inspection target; a positioner configured to move the pseudo finger(s) relative to the inspection target and to change the contact position of the pseudo finger(s) relative to the inspection target; a memory configured to store, respectively, a value of a pressing force in a range of pressing forces said range including a zero pressing force for each of the pseudo finger(s) on the inspection target; a controller configured to regulate the pressing force for pseudo finger(s) of the pseudo finger(s) based on the respective value; and a sensor configured to acquire an electric signal output from the inspection target.Type: GrantFiled: August 18, 2017Date of Patent: June 9, 2020Assignee: NIDEC-READ CORPORATIONInventors: Koji Sakamoto, Toshihide Matsukawa, Koji Iwami, Shigeki Fujita, Osamu Hikita
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Patent number: 10633479Abstract: The invention is directed to a polymer composition comprising 60 to 85 parts by weight of a thermoplastic polyurethane; and 15 to 40 parts by weight of a polyolefin, where the parts by weight of the thermoplastic polyurethane and parts by weight of the polyolefin add up to 100 parts by weight; and further comprising 1 to 15 parts by weight of a hydrogenated block copolymer derived from a vinyl aromatic monomer and a conjugated diene monomer, based on 100 parts by weight as a total amount of the thermoplastic polyurethane and polyolefin. The invention is further directed to a molded article based on the polymer composition.Type: GrantFiled: April 25, 2016Date of Patent: April 28, 2020Assignee: BASF SEInventor: Koji Sakamoto
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Patent number: 10623594Abstract: A management system that manages a plurality of network devices includes managing a delivery flag to manage delivery of each consumable for each of the plurality of network devices, receiving a first notification, from a network device, notifying that a remaining amount of a consumable has become small, where the notification includes remaining amount information about each consumable included in the network device, managing the remaining amount information for each consumable in the network device based on a content of the first notification, and determining the consumable to be delivered based on the first notification and the delivery flag.Type: GrantFiled: August 1, 2017Date of Patent: April 14, 2020Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Koji Sakamoto