Patents by Inventor Makoto Inoue
Makoto Inoue 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: 9596581Abstract: A communication method includes the steps of transmitting, by means of a first communication apparatus, personal information to a second communication apparatus; receiving, by means of the second communication apparatus, the personal information and searching, by means of the second communication apparatus, whether or not personal information having the same content as the received personal information exists in the second communication apparatus; and notifying, by means of the second communication apparatus, the first communication apparatus of a search result.Type: GrantFiled: April 8, 2016Date of Patent: March 14, 2017Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Yoichiro Sako, Mitsuru Takehara, Toshiro Terauchi, Makoto Inoue, Motoyuki Takai, Masamichi Asukai, Katsuya Shirai, Takatoshi Nakamura, Toru Sasaki, Yuichi Sakai, Masafumi Matsuda
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Publication number: 20170034679Abstract: A communication method includes the steps of transmitting, by means of a first communication apparatus, personal information to a second communication apparatus; receiving, by means of the second communication apparatus, the personal information and searching, by means of the second communication apparatus, whether or not personal information having the same content as the received personal information exists in the second communication apparatus; and notifying, by means of the second communication apparatus, the first communication apparatus of a search result.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 14, 2016Publication date: February 2, 2017Applicant: Sony CorporationInventors: Yoichiro Sako, Mitsuru Takehara, Toshiro Terauchi, Makoto Inoue, Motoyuki Takai, Masamichi Asukai, Katsuya Shirai, Takatoshi Nakamura, Toru Sasaki, Yuichi Sakai, Masafumi Matsuda
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Publication number: 20160281109Abstract: The present inventors successfully introduced genes into stem cells of airway epithelial tissues using simian immunodeficiency virus vectors pseudotyped with F and HN, which are envelope glycoproteins of Sendai virus. Gene transfer into airway epithelial tissue stem cells using a vector of the present invention is useful for gene therapy of genetic respiratory diseases such as cystic fibrosis. Furthermore, it is possible to select respiratory organs such as the lungs as production tissues for providing proteins that are deficient due to genetic diseases.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 10, 2016Publication date: September 29, 2016Inventors: Katsuyuki Mitomo, Makoto Inoue, Hitoshi Iwasaki, Mamoru Hasegawa, Eric W. Alton, Uta Griesenbach
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Publication number: 20160227389Abstract: A communication method includes the steps of transmitting, by means of a first communication apparatus, personal information to a second communication apparatus; receiving, by means of the second communication apparatus, the personal information and searching, by means of the second communication apparatus, whether or not personal information having the same content as the received personal information exists in the second communication apparatus; and notifying, by means of the second communication apparatus, the first communication apparatus of a search result.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 8, 2016Publication date: August 4, 2016Applicant: Sony CorporationInventors: Yoichiro Sako, Mitsuru Takehara, Toshiro Terauchi, Makoto Inoue, Motoyuki Takai, Masamichi Asukai, Katsuya Shirai, Takatoshi Nakamura, Toru Sasaki, Yuichi Sakai, Masafumi Matsuda
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Publication number: 20160202801Abstract: Thickness and weight are lowered while reducing warping and guaranteeing visibility of the screen. Included are a transparent panel substrate including a transparent resin base and a transparent resin layer formed on one surface of the transparent resin base; a decorative printing layer formed at an outer edge of a back surface of the transparent panel substrate; a warping prevention layer, formed to be flat and to cover the back surface of the transparent panel substrate inside the decorative printing layer and a back surface of the decorative printing layer; a transparent electrode layer formed on a back surface of the warping prevention layer; a jumper wiring layer formed on the transparent electrode layer and provided with an insulating layer; and a transparent protective layer formed on and entirely covering the jumper wiring layer except for a thermocompression bonding region of a substrate for external connection.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 4, 2014Publication date: July 14, 2016Applicant: Dexerials CorporationInventors: Hirokazu ODAGIRI, Yukio MURAKAMI, Yoshiaki IMAMURA, Yukihiro ONODERA, Masato ISHIGAKI, Makoto INOUE
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Patent number: 9338644Abstract: A communication method includes the steps of transmitting, by means of a first communication apparatus, personal information to a second communication apparatus; receiving, by means of the second communication apparatus, the personal information and searching, by means of the second communication apparatus, whether or not personal information having the same content as the received personal information exists in the second communication apparatus; and notifying, by means of the second communication apparatus, the first communication apparatus of a search result.Type: GrantFiled: September 29, 2006Date of Patent: May 10, 2016Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Yoichiro Sako, Mitsuru Takehara, Toshiro Terauchi, Makoto Inoue, Motoyuki Takai, Masamichi Asukai, Katsuya Shirai, Takatoshi Nakamura, Toru Sasaki, Yuichi Sakai, Masafumi Matsuda
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Patent number: 9326130Abstract: A communication method includes the steps of transmitting, by means of a first communication apparatus, personal information to a second communication apparatus; receiving, by means of the second communication apparatus, the personal information and searching, by means of the second communication apparatus, whether or not personal information having the same content as the received personal information exists in the second communication apparatus; and notifying, by means of the second communication apparatus, the first communication apparatus of a search result.Type: GrantFiled: December 16, 2014Date of Patent: April 26, 2016Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Yoichiro Sako, Mitsuru Takehara, Toshiro Terauchi, Makoto Inoue, Motoyuki Takai, Masamichi Asukai, Katsuya Shirai, Takatoshi Nakamura, Toru Sasaki, Yuichi Sakai, Masafumi Matsuda
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Publication number: 20160028256Abstract: It is preferable to measure a voltage difference between two electric storage cells with a higher precision while suppressing costs of a balance correction circuit. A balance correction apparatus comprises a first balance correction section which equalizes voltages of two electric storage cells among a plurality of electric storage cells connected in series, a second balance correction section which equalizes voltages of two electric storage cells among the plurality of electric storage cells and a control section which controls operations of the first balance correction section and the second balance correction section. The control section generates a first control signal which controls operations of the first balance correction section and a second control signal which controls operations of the second balance correction section based on a measurement result of each voltage of the plurality of electric storage cells.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 6, 2015Publication date: January 28, 2016Inventors: Haruhiko KUBOTA, Fumiaki NAKAO, Makoto INOUE
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Patent number: 9242973Abstract: The present invention provides a hydrate of N-[(4S)-2-amino-2?,2?-dimethyldispiro[1,3-oxazole-4,4?-chromene-3?,3?-oxetan]-6?-yl]-5-chloropyridine-2-carboxamide which is useful as an active ingredient of a pharmaceutical composition, in particular, a pharmaceutical composition for preventing or treating diseases or conditions associated with and/or mediated by ?-secretase activity, hydrolysis of a ?-secretase site of a ?-amyloid precursor protein, and/or ?-amyloid protein accumulation, including a pharmaceutical composition for preventing or treating diseases including, but not limited to, Glaucoma, MCI (Mild cognitive impairment) or Alzheimer's disease, especially, Alzheimer's disease.Type: GrantFiled: January 22, 2015Date of Patent: January 26, 2016Assignee: COMENTIS, INC.Inventors: Ryosuke Munakata, Makoto Inoue, Hiroaki Tominaga, Shingo Yamasaki, Yasuhiro Shiina, Kiyohiro Samizu, Hisao Hamaguchi, Lin Hong
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Publication number: 20150379767Abstract: An image processing apparatus comprises an acquiring section that acquires DEM data indicating digital elevation of each lattice-shaped area in a predetermined map region, a selecting section that selects at least one of a plurality of line filters that filters data which is continuous in one direction in the map region and a plurality of matrix filters that filters data constituting a two-dimensional region in the map region, a filter processing section that conducts filter processing of the DEM data acquired by the acquiring section by a filter selected by the selecting section, and an outputting section that outputs the DEM data after being filtered in the filter processing.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 3, 2015Publication date: December 31, 2015Inventors: Makoto INOUE, Taro Yajima
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Publication number: 20150343891Abstract: An exhaust structure includes a first exhaust path and a second exhaust path. The first exhaust path includes a box outlet and at least an exhaust duct that includes a duct inlet arranged below a rear seat and configured to open toward a battery. The second exhaust path is communicated with the box outlet. A deck board is disposed in a luggage room. The second exhaust path includes space defined by a front end portion of the deck board closer to a front of a vehicle and at least a portion of the backrest of the rear seat and a gap defined by a front surface of the front end portion of the deck board and a portion of a back surface of the backrest opposite the front surface. Gas used for cooling down the battery is released from the gap to the luggage room via a duct exhaust conduit, a box exhaust conduit, a first interspace exhaust conduit, and a second interspace exhaust conduit.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 13, 2013Publication date: December 3, 2015Applicants: TOYOTA BOSHOKU KABUSHIKI KAISHA, KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOYOTA JIDOSHOKKI, TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Satoshi HONDA, Takashi SUZUKI, Hiromi TAKASE, Makoto INOUE, Fumiaki MATSUURA
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Publication number: 20150288610Abstract: In order to make it possible to perform a data relay process without using a buffer even when a destination is in a congested state, a relay apparatus for communication includes a packet input process unit for identifying a destination of an input packet and determining whether or not the input packet is a packet related to a communication whose delay time is restricted, a congestion monitor unit for monitoring a congestion situation of the destination, and a delay unit for delaying output timing of a packet input by a given amount of time and then re-inputting the packet to the packet input process unit. The packet input process unit detour-transfers the input packet to the delay unit when the input packet is a packet related to a communication whose delay time is not restricted and the destination is in a congested state.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 8, 2013Publication date: October 8, 2015Applicant: NEC CorporationInventor: Makoto Inoue
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Patent number: 9148017Abstract: A power demand management apparatus comprising a power demand acquiring section acquiring a predicted power demand; a consumer house information holding section that, for each of a plurality of request methods or request conditions, and for each of a plurality of consumer houses, holds a sensitivity indicating a probability that the consumer house will comply with a request; a consumer house selecting section that, when the predicted power demand exceeds a target value, selects a first consumer house whose sensitivity for a first request method or request condition is no less than a first reference value and selects a second consumer house whose sensitivity for a second request method or request condition is no less than a second reference value; and a restriction requesting section that issues requests for power demand restriction to the first and second consumer houses respectively using the first and second request methods or request conditions.Type: GrantFiled: November 30, 2012Date of Patent: September 29, 2015Assignees: ENERES Co., Ltd., The Japan Research Institute, LimitedInventors: Motohide Ikeda, Ken Watanabe, Makoto Inoue
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Publication number: 20150263990Abstract: A network device (2000) handles plural physical ports (3000) as a single logical port (4000) by link aggregation. A reception unit (2020) receives a frame. An allocation information storage unit (2040) stores allocation information. A line determination unit (2060) obtains a physical port ID from the allocation information indicating the key information corresponding to the key information relating to the received frame, our of the allocation information stored in the allocation information storage unit (2040). A transmission unit (2080) transmits the frame using the physical port (3000) identified by the physical port ID obtained by the line determination unit (2060).Type: ApplicationFiled: July 12, 2013Publication date: September 17, 2015Applicant: NEC CORPORATIONInventors: Makoto Inoue, Hiroyuki Ohkubo
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Publication number: 20150225386Abstract: The present invention provides a hydrate of N-[(4S)-2-amino-2?,2?-dimethyldispiro[1,3-oxazole-4,4?-chromene-3?,3?-oxetan]-6?-yl]-5-chloropyridine-2-carboxamide which is useful as an active ingredient of a pharmaceutical composition, in particular, a pharmaceutical composition for preventing or treating diseases or conditions associated with and/or mediated by ?-secretase activity, hydrolysis of a ?-secretase site of a ?-amyloid precursor protein, and/or ?-amyloid protein accumulation, including a pharmaceutical composition for preventing or treating diseases including, but not limited to, Glaucoma, MCI (Mild cognitive impairment) or Alzheimer's disease, especially, Alzheimer's disease.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 22, 2015Publication date: August 13, 2015Inventors: Ryosuke MUNAKATA, Makoto INOUE, Hiroaki TOMINAGA, Shingo YAMASAKI, Yasuhiro SHIINA, Kiyohiro SAMIZU, Hisao HAMAGUCHI, Lin HONG
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Publication number: 20150207839Abstract: A player device uses playlists having names of contents. Users can update the playlists via network. The player device includes a storage device for storing digital data of the contents, a reception/reception circuit for downloading playlists, a display for displaying the titles of contents included in the playlists, a pointing device for specifying displayed titles, a circuit for retrieving digital data from the storage device in the event that digital data of a content specified by the pointing device is stored within the storage device, and an output circuit for outputting the retrieved digital data.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 26, 2015Publication date: July 23, 2015Applicant: Sony CorporationInventors: Kosei Yamashita, Yasushi Miyajima, Makoto Inoue, Takatoshi Nakamura, Masamichi Asukai, Masafumi Matsuda, Toru Sasaki, Mitsuru Takehara, Toshiro Terauchi, Yoichiro Sako
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Publication number: 20150174198Abstract: The present inventors successfully introduced genes into stem cells of airway epithelial tissues using simian immunodeficiency virus vectors pseudotyped with F and HN, which are envelope glycoproteins of Sendai virus. Gene transfer into airway epithelial tissue stem cells using a vector of the present invention is useful for gene therapy of genetic respiratory diseases such as cystic fibrosis. Furthermore, it is possible to select respiratory organs such as the lungs as production tissues for providing proteins that are deficient due to genetic diseases.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 17, 2014Publication date: June 25, 2015Inventors: Katsuyuki Mitomo, Makoto Inoue, Hitoshi Iwasaki, Mamoru Hasegawa, Eric W. Alton, Uta Griesenbach
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Patent number: 9043496Abstract: A bridge circuit of an embodiment includes: a command transfer portion which is configured by wired logic into which a host controller capable of sending a command that corresponds to each of a plurality of devices inputs the command, and which is configured to transfer the inputted command to the plurality of devices; a command analysis portion which is configured by wired logic, and which is configured to analyze the command from the host controller; and a response reply portion which is configured by wired logic, and which is capable of reading out a response based on an analysis result of the command analysis portion from a register that holds a response corresponding to the command and sending the response to the host controller.Type: GrantFiled: February 27, 2013Date of Patent: May 26, 2015Assignee: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBAInventors: Makoto Inoue, Keisuke Kudo, Takayuki Nakagawa, Akira Irube
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Patent number: 9031730Abstract: A power demand management apparatus comprises a schedule holding section that holds a power restriction schedule indicating a device on which a mobile robot is to perform power restriction, in association with a power restriction execution time; a movement instructing section that transmits movement instructions to the robot such that, prior to the power restriction execution time indicated in the power restriction schedule, the robot moves to an area in which is arranged the device on which the power restriction is to be performed at the execution time; and a restriction instructing section that transmits power restriction instructions to the robot, thereby causing the robot to perform the power restriction on the device at the execution time.Type: GrantFiled: November 30, 2012Date of Patent: May 12, 2015Assignee: The Japan Research Institute, LimitedInventors: Motohide Ikeda, Ken Watanabe, Makoto Inoue
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Publication number: 20150106450Abstract: A communication method includes the steps of transmitting, by means of a first communication apparatus, personal information to a second communication apparatus; receiving, by means of the second communication apparatus, the personal information and searching, by means of the second communication apparatus, whether or not personal information having the same content as the received personal information exists in the second communication apparatus; and notifying, by means of the second communication apparatus, the first communication apparatus of a search result.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 16, 2014Publication date: April 16, 2015Applicant: Sony CorporationInventors: Yoichiro Sako, Mitsuru Takehara, Toshiro Terauchi, Makoto Inoue, Motoyuki Takai, Masamichi Asukai, Katsuya Shirai, Takatoshi Nakamura, Toru Sasaki, Yuichi Sakai, Masafumi Matsuda