Patents by Inventor Kotaro Terada
Kotaro Terada 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: 11966662Abstract: An acoustic processing system for audio signal processing includes a first apparatus including a first memory that stores a first parameter for the audio signal processing and a user interface that receives an operation for changing the first parameter, a second apparatus including a second memory that stores a second parameter synchronized with the first parameter and a first CPU that performs system control, and a third apparatus including a second CPU that performs the audio signal processing. The first CPU sends, to the third apparatus, control information for controlling the audio signal processing based on the second parameter, and the second CPU receives the control information, and performs the audio signal processing based on the control information.Type: GrantFiled: July 7, 2022Date of Patent: April 23, 2024Assignee: YAMAHA CORPORATIONInventors: Kotaro Terada, Shintaro Noguchi
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Patent number: 11949113Abstract: An electrode catalyst for a fuel cell, the electrode catalyst having high initial activity and being capable of long-term retention of said activity; and a fuel cell using the electrode catalyst for a fuel cell. The electrode catalyst for a fuel cell includes catalyst metal particles that include platinum or a platinum alloy, and carrier particles that carry said catalyst metal particles, wherein the carrier particles are a carbonaceous material having a cumulative pore volume of 0.10 cc/g or less in the diameter range of 2 nm or less, and a BET specific surface area of greater than 900 m2/g; and a fuel cell comprising the electrode catalyst for a fuel cell.Type: GrantFiled: March 13, 2019Date of Patent: April 2, 2024Assignees: CATALER CORPORATION, TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Mikihiro Kataoka, Kotaro Horiai, Tomoaki Terada, Yusuke Itoh, Mikihiro Hori
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Publication number: 20240007815Abstract: An audio signal processing method for a mixing apparatus including a plurality of channels, the audio signal processing method includes selecting at least a first channel among the plurality of channels, inputting an audio signal of the selected first channel, specifying setting data to be set to the mixing apparatus, based on time-series sound volume data for the first channel, or data on a second channel different from the first channel, among the plurality of channels, and outputting the specified setting data.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 23, 2023Publication date: January 4, 2024Inventors: Keiichiro SOMA, Arata IMAI, Takeshi NONAKA, Masaaki OKABAYASHI, Yu TAKAHASHI, Kotaro TERADA, Kenji ISHIZUKA
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Patent number: 11689859Abstract: Sound device receives a first sound signal from a first sound processor, generates a second sound signal based on the first sound signal, and transmits the second sound signal to a second sound processor. The second sound processor performs signal processing to the second sound signal to generate a third sound signal. The sound device receives the third sound signal from the second sound processor, checks a state of the second sound processor based on a signal received from the second sound processor, transmits a fourth sound signal based on the third sound signal to the first sound processor when determining that the state of the second sound processor is normal, and generates a fifth sound signal based on the first sound signal or the second sound signal to transmit it to the first sound processor when determining that the state of the second sound processor is abnormal.Type: GrantFiled: February 28, 2022Date of Patent: June 27, 2023Assignee: YAMAHA CORPORATIONInventors: Yoshinori Kawase, Masaya Kano, Tatsutoshi Abe, Kotaro Terada, Shunichi Kamiya
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Publication number: 20230023299Abstract: An acoustic processing system for audio signal processing includes a first apparatus including a first memory that stores a first parameter for the audio signal processing and a user interface that receives an operation for changing the first parameter, a second apparatus including a second memory that stores a second parameter synchronized with the first parameter and a first CPU that performs system control, and a third apparatus including a second CPU that performs the audio signal processing. The first CPU sends, to the third apparatus, control information for controlling the audio signal processing based on the second parameter, and the second CPU receives the control information, and performs the audio signal processing based on the control information.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 7, 2022Publication date: January 26, 2023Inventors: Kotaro TERADA, Shintaro NOGUCHI
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Publication number: 20230018026Abstract: A signal processing simulation method includes obtaining a designation of an audio signal processing apparatus that performs first signal processing on a first audio signal input, obtaining a designation of a signal processing component, obtaining settings of the designated signal processing component, and constructing a virtual signal processing device having the designated signal processing component, the constructed virtual processing device corresponding to the designated audio signal processing apparatus. The virtual signal processing device inputs a second audio signal to the designated signal processing component. The designated signal processing component performs second signal processing, according to the obtained settings, on the second audio signal, and outputs the second audio signal on which the second signal processing has performed.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 12, 2022Publication date: January 19, 2023Inventors: Ayumi FUKATA, Kotaro TERADA
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Publication number: 20220279301Abstract: A controlling method including controlling signal processing of the channel assigned to each of the plurality of first physical controllers, based on a parameter indicated by each of the plurality of first physical controllers, enabling a parameter change operation by the plurality of first physical controllers when a channel group set to be enabled by the third physical controller is designated, and disabling the parameter change operation by the plurality of first physical controllers when a channel group set to be disabled by the third physical controller is designated.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 1, 2022Publication date: September 1, 2022Inventors: Takeshi Nonaka, Kotaro Terada, Arata Imai
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Publication number: 20220279278Abstract: Sound device receives a first sound signal from a first sound processor, generates a second sound signal based on the first sound signal, and transmits the second sound signal to a second sound processor. The second sound processor performs signal processing to the second sound signal to generate a third sound signal. The sound device receives the third sound signal from the second sound processor, checks a state of the second sound processor based on a signal received from the second sound processor, transmits a fourth sound signal based on the third sound signal to the first sound processor when determining that the state of the second sound processor is normal, and generates a fifth sound signal based on the first sound signal or the second sound signal to transmit it to the first sound processor when determining that the state of the second sound processor is abnormal.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 28, 2022Publication date: September 1, 2022Inventors: Yoshinori KAWASE, Masaya KANO, Tatsutoshi ABE, Kotaro TERADA, Shunichi KAMIYA
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Publication number: 20220119035Abstract: A steering control device for a vehicle with an aerial work platform 1 in the embodiment a traveling body capable of traveling with a steering wheel, a work platform 30 provided thereon, a steering dial 42, which is biased to be located at a neutral position in a non-operation status, a steering angle detector 62, a steering cylinder 17, and a controller 50 for controlling an operation of the steering cylinder 17. The controller 50 controls the steering cylinder 17 so that a steering angle of the steering wheel becomes a target steering angle corresponding to a steering position of the steering operation tool. As far as a steering angle of the steering wheel detected by the steering angle detector is kept within a predetermined angle range including a neutral steering angle, the steering control unit make a steering control to stop the steering actuator and to maintain the present steering angle of the steering wheel when the steering operation tool returns to the neutral position.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 13, 2021Publication date: April 21, 2022Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA AICHI CORPORATIONInventors: Motoaki SUDA, Kotaro TERADA
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Publication number: 20200182873Abstract: The present invention pertains to a method for detecting HBsAg with which it is possible to detect HBsAg with high sensitivity even when blood (whole blood) is used as a sample. A sample is provided on a metal film on the surface of which there is immobilized a binding substance (e.g., an antibody) capable of specifically binding to hepatitis B surface antigens, and hepatitis B surface antigens included in the sample are bound by the binding substance. The hepatitis B surface antigens are also labeled by a fluorescent substance. Fluorescence, which is emitted from the fluorescent substance when the metal film is irradiated with excitation light so that surface plasmon resonance is produced in the metal film, is detected.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 12, 2018Publication date: June 11, 2020Inventor: Kotaro TERADA
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Patent number: 10599384Abstract: A library stores a plurality of presets, each of the preset being a parameter set including a plurality of parameters defining operation of a channel. When an operation to open the library is performed in a setting screen of a processing block of a selected channel, a library screen of the certain processing block is opened. A list of the plurality of presets and a block recall button are displayed on the library screen. When a user selects one preset from the list and operates the block recall button, only a parameter sub-set of the certain processing block is recalled from among the selected preset.Type: GrantFiled: March 24, 2016Date of Patent: March 24, 2020Assignee: YAMAHA CORPORATIONInventor: Kotaro Terada
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Patent number: 10558181Abstract: When controlling values of a plurality of parameters in a predetermined device according to an operation by a user, values of parameters to be controlled are displayed in an array along an item axis on a parameter editing screen, an operation by the user to the parameter editing screen is detected, and when an operation to trace the screen in a direction of the item axis from a certain position is detected, a sequential control is performed, sequentially according to progress of the operation, to temporarily change to a specific value a value of each parameter corresponding to a position in the item axis direction where the trace operation is being performed.Type: GrantFiled: September 18, 2015Date of Patent: February 11, 2020Assignee: YAMAHA CORPORATIONInventor: Kotaro Terada
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Patent number: 10355796Abstract: A first mode (one-knob off mode) and a second mode (one-knob on mode) are provided as modes for setting parameters. In the first mode, individual elements corresponding to respective parameters of a parameter set are displayed in an operable state, allowing setting of individual parameters. In the second mode, the individual elements are displayed in a non-operable state, and one-element is displayed in an operable state, and a plurality of parameters of the parameter set are controlled by operating the one-element. At the time of switching from the first mode to the second mode, the parameter set is initialized.Type: GrantFiled: March 24, 2016Date of Patent: July 16, 2019Assignee: YAMAHA CORPORATIONInventors: Tomohiro Yamamoto, Shunichi Kamiya, Kotaro Terada, Masato Suzuki
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Patent number: 10158439Abstract: When a name of a group level control section is tapped, the group level control section is expanded and a group expansion screen is displayed on a display. In the group expansion screen, the group level control section is expanded and images of channel level control sections for respectively controlling output levels of channels belonging to a group corresponded to the group level control section are displayed by juxtaposing next to the group level control section. In this case, each channel level control section belongs to a lower layer than that of the group level control section. Although the channel level control sections and the group level control section belong to the different layers, they are aligned in the same line on the same screen on the display.Type: GrantFiled: March 16, 2016Date of Patent: December 18, 2018Assignee: YAMAHA CORPORATIONInventors: Kotaro Terada, Tomohiro Yamamoto
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Patent number: 9933992Abstract: A mixer includes a plurality of channel modules, and audio signals having processed in the individual channel modules are output from a main output. A temporary channel module is created and made usable in response to a preview start instruction for previewing a desired one of the channel modules as a preview-object channel module. The same audio signal as input to the preview-object channel module is input to the temporary channel module. The temporary channel module performs signal processing on the input audio signal independently of the preview-object channel module, and the audio signal having been subjected to the signal processing is output to a monitor output. Thus, a user is allowed to change a signal processing parameter value to be applied to an audio signal and preview the changed result, without influencing the main output.Type: GrantFiled: March 23, 2016Date of Patent: April 3, 2018Assignee: YAMAHA CORPORATIONInventor: Kotaro Terada
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Patent number: 9900719Abstract: A fader level set for a fader of a channel is displayed at a channel level display section in a channel screen by, for example, a length of a bar, and a channel level indicating level of output from the channel is overlay-displayed by an indicator on the channel level display section at a position corresponding to the level to be displayed. It is thereby possible to compare the fader level set for the fader of the channel and the channel level indicating level of output from the channel by checking the channel level display section in the channel screen.Type: GrantFiled: March 10, 2016Date of Patent: February 20, 2018Assignee: YAMAHA CORPORATIONInventor: Kotaro Terada
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Patent number: 9871604Abstract: A mixer includes a plurality of channel strips to which are variably allocated respective objects of operation, and a memory of the mixer stores layer data comprising information that, for each of the channel strips, designates a channel or a channel group as an object of operation of the channel strip, or designates the channel strip as a deploying channel strip for individually deploying thereto any one of the channels belonging to a given group. When objects of operation are to be allocated to the individual channel strips, no channel or group is allocated to each deploying channel strip, and a setting is made to the effect that the channel strip is to be used for a channel deploying purpose. In response to a deploying instruction of a given group, individual channels belonging to the given group are deployed to the deploying channel strips.Type: GrantFiled: March 23, 2016Date of Patent: January 16, 2018Assignee: YAMAHA CORPORATIONInventors: Kotaro Terada, Shunichi Kamiya
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Patent number: 9858035Abstract: In each category representing a signal type, a recommended minimum value and a recommended maximum value of a level of a signal are stored. The recommended minimum value and the recommended maximum value are determined based on a dynamic range of the signal of the type, for example. A function configured to set a gain used for adjusting a level of an input signal according to a user operation, and a function configured to set a category are provided. Further, a meter portion configured to display the level of the signal level-adjusted by the set gain is provided, and the recommended minimum value and the recommended maximum value of the set category are exhibited in a manner to correspond to the display by the meter portion.Type: GrantFiled: March 17, 2015Date of Patent: January 2, 2018Assignee: Yamaha CorporationInventors: Kotaro Terada, Shunichi Kamiya
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Patent number: 9712268Abstract: In a group level control section, a largest output level among those in channels belonging to a relevant group is selected automatically as a group level. By operating a control part of a channel level control section displayed on a basic screen, an output level of an input channel corresponding to the operated channel level control section can be controlled. Further, by operating a control part of a group level control section, output levels of the input channels belonging to the group can be collectively controlled with difference in levels among the input channels being maintained.Type: GrantFiled: March 16, 2016Date of Patent: July 18, 2017Assignee: YAMAHA CORPORATIONInventors: Kotaro Terada, Tomohiro Yamamoto
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Patent number: 9564981Abstract: Mixer includes first and second displays each capable of displaying a pop-up screen that simultaneously displays pieces of information of eight channels. Once a display instruction for displaying a pop-up screen is received, it is ascertained whether or not the pop-up screen currently instructed to be displayed can be displayed on both of the first and second displays. If the pop-up screen can be displayed on only one of the displays, the currently instructed pop-up screen and one-screen channel selection switch are displayed on the one display together with. If, on the other hand, the pop-up screen can be displayed on both of the displays, the instructed pop-up screen are displayed on in a two-screen format on individual ones of the displays, and a two-screen channel selection switch is displayed on each one of the pop-up screens.Type: GrantFiled: July 20, 2011Date of Patent: February 7, 2017Assignee: Yamaha CorporationInventors: Hiroaki Fujita, Kotaro Terada