Patents by Inventor Michio Yamamoto
Michio Yamamoto 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: 20170010501Abstract: A buffer member (13) which abuts on a front surface side of a panel periphery of a display panel is made of a material having a light shielding property and has a portion, which extends over substantially the whole length of a side, along at least one of the respective sides of a rectangular display region. A buffer member (14) which abuts on a back surface side thereof has a portion, which extends over a range of a side except both the end portions thereof, along at least one of the respective sides of the rectangular shape. Accordingly, deformation of the display panel is reduced and it is possible to prevent light leakage in a peripheral portion of the display screen.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 5, 2015Publication date: January 12, 2017Inventors: Takeshi KAMIYAMA, Tetsuya MARUNO, Takashi OGINO, Yusuke MASUDA, Michio YAMAMOTO
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Publication number: 20160306492Abstract: According to an aspect, a display device includes: a display unit that displays an image; a touch detection unit that detects an instruction input provided by a pointing device to a display surface of the display unit; an acquisition unit that acquires information indicating a display color at an instruction input position, the display color being detected by a color sensor included in the pointing device; and a determination unit that performs determination processing to determine the instruction input position based on a color of the image and the color indicated by the information acquired by the acquisition unit.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 14, 2016Publication date: October 20, 2016Inventors: Masahiro TOGASHI, Michio YAMAMOTO
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Patent number: 9448661Abstract: According to one embodiment, an electronic device includes a display device having a plurality of first electrodes arranged in a matrix form, second electrodes including a plurality of electrode patterns extending in a first direction and aligned in a second direction to cross the first direction, and third electrodes including a plurality of electrode patterns extending in the second direction and aligned in the first direction, a display driver configured to apply a sensor drive signal to the second electrodes, a detection circuit configured to transmit a detection data group including physical quantity data detected in one detection period from the plurality of electrode patterns of the third electrodes at each time when the sensor drive signal is applied to the second electrodes, and an application processor configured to process the detection data group received from the detection circuit.Type: GrantFiled: February 21, 2014Date of Patent: September 20, 2016Assignee: Japan Display Inc.Inventors: Kohei Azumi, Jouji Yamada, Hirofumi Nakagawa, Michio Yamamoto, Makoto Hayashi, Hiroshi Mizuhashi, Kozo Ikeno, Yoshitoshi Kida
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Publication number: 20160236901Abstract: A stacking wheel mechanism (30) includes a stacking wheel (32) that is arranged near a stacking unit (26) and having a plurality of elastic blades (32a) on an outer circumferential surface thereof, and a blade guiding member (38) that is arranged near the stacking wheel (32) to guide the blades (32a) of the stacking wheel (32). The blade guiding member (38) guides the blades (32a) of the stacking wheel (32) such that the blades (32a) of the stacking wheel (32) enter into a transport path (for example, an internal transport path (36)) when the stacking wheel (32) rotates in a feeding-in direction of a paper sheet toward the stacking unit (26) and the blades (32a) of the stacking wheel (32) retreat from the transport path when the stacking wheel (32) rotates in a feeding-out direction of the paper sheet from the stacking unit (26).Type: ApplicationFiled: August 11, 2014Publication date: August 18, 2016Applicant: GLORY LTD.Inventors: Sotaro MORIWAKI, Tsuguo MIZORO, Michio YAMAMOTO, Yoichi TAKEMURA
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Publication number: 20160170891Abstract: According to one embodiment, there is provided a disk apparatus including a disk medium, a nonvolatile memory, and a controller. In the nonvolatile memory, data to be recorded to the disk medium is written. The controller is configured to perform, according to amount of free space of the nonvolatile memory, write process of the data in the nonvolatile memory collectively, or in multiple times with dividing the write process.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 4, 2015Publication date: June 16, 2016Inventors: Michio Yamamoto, Isao Fujita, Takumi Kakuya, Masami Tashiro, Yuka Kuwano, Takato Kuji, Katsushi Ohta, Seiji Toda
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Publication number: 20160026300Abstract: A sensor-integrated display panel including an operation surface for performing an input operation and an image display surface which are formed integrally with a sensor as one piece. A data transfer device supplies the sensor-integrated display panel with a drive signal for driving the sensor and outputs sensing data corresponding to a potential of a sensor signal output from the sensor. A contact electrode is provided in a frame formed around the sensor-integrated display panel to vary the potential of the sensor signal when a conductor touches or does not touch to the frame. An application executing device receives and analyzes the sensing data and generates a signal to select an operating function in accordance with an analysis result.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 8, 2015Publication date: January 28, 2016Applicant: Japan Display Inc.Inventors: Makoto HAYASHI, Jouji Yamada, Hirofumi Nakagawa, Michio Yamamoto, Kohei Azumi, Hiroshi Mizuhashi, Kozo Ikeno, Yoshitoshi Kida
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Patent number: 9239683Abstract: According to one embodiment, there is provided a magnetic disk device including a magnetic disk, a storage unit, and a control unit. The magnetic disk includes a recording region. The storage unit is configured to store a value according to number of accesses to each of a plurality of regions obtained by dividing of the recording region of the magnetic disk in association with each of the plurality of regions. The control unit is configured to count a value according to the number of accesses to each of a plurality of regions in a count step unit that is a value determined according to an elapsed time from occurrence of a specific situation and is a value counted per unit access, and to update the value stored in the storage unit.Type: GrantFiled: March 12, 2014Date of Patent: January 19, 2016Assignee: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBAInventors: Michio Yamamoto, Tetsuo Kuribayashi, Masami Tashiro, Kenji Inoue, Takumi Kakuya, Hironori Kanno, Keiichi Yorimitsu
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Patent number: 9195334Abstract: A sensor-integrated display panel including an operation surface for performing an input operation and an image display surface which are formed integrally with a sensor as one piece. A data transfer device supplies the sensor-integrated display panel with a drive signal for driving the sensor and outputs sensing data corresponding to a potential of a sensor signal output from the sensor. A contact electrode is provided in a frame formed around the sensor-integrated display panel to vary the potential of the sensor signal when a conductor touches or does not touch to the frame. An application executing device receives and analyzes the sensing data and generates a signal to select an operating function in accordance with an analysis result.Type: GrantFiled: February 19, 2014Date of Patent: November 24, 2015Assignee: Japan Display Inc.Inventors: Makoto Hayashi, Jouji Yamada, Hirofumi Nakagawa, Michio Yamamoto, Kohei Azumi, Hiroshi Mizuhashi, Kozo Ikeno, Yoshitoshi Kida
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Patent number: 9129658Abstract: According to one embodiment, a controller in a magnetic disk drive manages the influence, on a first track on a disk, of data writes to tracks within outer and inner adjacent track ranges, using first and second counters associated with the first track. The first and second counters are indicative of the numbers of data writes to tracks within the outer and inner adjacent track ranges, respectively. Based on the values of the first and second counters, the controller reads data from the first track, and rewrites the read data to the first track.Type: GrantFiled: July 21, 2014Date of Patent: September 8, 2015Assignee: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBAInventor: Michio Yamamoto
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Patent number: 9063526Abstract: A radio control device for one or more target objects to be controlled includes an manipulation unit, configured to control the target objects; a storage unit which stores model data corresponding to the target objects, the model data being used to control the target objects; a controller which uses the model data stored in the storage unit to control the target objects through manipulation of the manipulation unit; and a camera module which acquires specific data for specifying the target objects. The controller stores the specific data of the target objects acquired by the camera module and the model data of the target objects related to the specific data in the storage unit in association therebetween such that the specific data and the model data are callable from the storage unit.Type: GrantFiled: May 7, 2012Date of Patent: June 23, 2015Assignee: FUTABA CORPORATIONInventors: Michio Yamamoto, Takahiro Isono, Kota Toyotomi, Masahiro Tanaka
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Patent number: 9053746Abstract: A disk device includes a recording medium having a plurality of recording surfaces, where each of the recording surfaces includes a system region for recording system data related to an operation of the disk device, and a controller configured to control recording of the system data in the system region. The controller is further configured to divide the system data to be recorded into a plurality of portions of divided data of the same size. The controller is further configured, after recording of a first portion of divided data in a first system region disposed on a first recording surface, to start recording a second portion of divided data in a second system region disposed on a second recording surface. The recording of the second portion of divided data is started after a switching time, during which switching from the first recording surface to the second recording surface transpires.Type: GrantFiled: February 26, 2014Date of Patent: June 9, 2015Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha ToshibaInventors: Kenji Ogawa, Hidekazu Masuyama, Michio Yamamoto, Katsushi Ohta, Yuji Karakawa
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Publication number: 20150138667Abstract: According to one embodiment, there is provided a magnetic disk device including a magnetic disk, a storage unit, and a control unit. The magnetic disk includes a recording region. The storage unit is configured to store a value according to number of accesses to each of a plurality of regions obtained by dividing of the recording region of the magnetic disk in association with each of the plurality of regions. The control unit is configured to count a value according to the number of accesses to each of a plurality of regions in a count step unit that is a value determined according to an elapsed time from occurrence of a specific situation and is a value counted per unit access, and to update the value stored in the storage unit.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 12, 2014Publication date: May 21, 2015Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBAInventors: Michio Yamamoto, Tetsuo Kuribayashi, Masami Tashiro, Kenji Inoue, Takumi Kakuya, Hironori Kanno, Keiichi Yorimitsu
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Publication number: 20150085394Abstract: A disk device includes a recording medium having a plurality of recording surfaces, where each of the recording surfaces includes a system region for recording system data related to an operation of the disk device, and a controller configured to control recording of the system data in the system region. The controller is further configured to divide the system data to be recorded into a plurality of portions of divided data of the same size. The controller is further configured, after recording of a first portion of divided data in a first system region disposed on a first recording surface, to start recording a second portion of divided data in a second system region disposed on a second recording surface. The recording of the second portion of divided data is started after a switching time, during which switching from the first recording surface to the second recording surface transpires.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 26, 2014Publication date: March 26, 2015Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBAInventors: Kenji OGAWA, Hidekazu MASUYAMA, Michio YAMAMOTO, Katsushi OHTA, Yuji KARAKAWA
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Patent number: 8988799Abstract: According to one embodiment, any of a first process to perform a write retry to a write target track, a second process to perform the write retry and perform reading for data verification to an adjacent track, and a third process to perform the write retry and write data of the adjacent track to another track is executed based on a result of comparison between an offtrack amount and a plurality of different slice values.Type: GrantFiled: June 18, 2014Date of Patent: March 24, 2015Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha ToshibaInventors: Michio Yamamoto, Takumi Kakuya, Tetsuo Kuribayashi, Kenji Inoue, Hironori Kanno
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Publication number: 20150026505Abstract: According to an embodiment, a storage device includes a storage medium and a controller. The controller manages a local clock, adjusts the local clock in accordance with an order for adjustment of the managed local clock, and executes background processing involving access to the storage medium on the basis of the adjusted local clock.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 25, 2013Publication date: January 22, 2015Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBAInventor: Michio Yamamoto
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Patent number: 8879181Abstract: According to one embodiment, a read/write apparatus includes a receiver and a refresh module. The receiver receives a write command requesting a write to a magnetic disk. The refresh module refreshes, when a first area of the magnetic disk includes a second area corresponding to the write command, data written in a third area, the third area being an area obtained by excluding the second area from the first area.Type: GrantFiled: January 7, 2013Date of Patent: November 4, 2014Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha ToshibaInventors: Seiji Toda, Michio Yamamoto, Masakazu Kitahara, Masataka Shitara, Takumi Kakuya, Kiyotaka Sasaki, Isao Fujita, Satoru Adachi, Kenji Inoue, Nobuhiro Sugawara, Hironori Kanno
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Publication number: 20140292679Abstract: The electronic device comprises a sensor-integrated display panel, a data transfer device, and an application execution device. The sensor-integrated display panel includes an operation surface for giving an operation input to a sensor and a display surface of an image. The data transfer device inputs a display signal and a driving signal for a sensor to the sensor-integrated display panel and receives a sensor signal from the sensor. And the application execution device time-divides display data which becomes a source of the display signal, transmits the display data and timing information to the data transfer device, the timing information indicating a period for inputting the driving signal to the sensor-integrated display panel in a blanking period of the time-divided display data.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 19, 2014Publication date: October 2, 2014Applicant: Japan Display Inc.Inventors: Yoshitoshi KIDA, Jouji YAMADA, Hirofumi NAKAGAWA, Michio YAMAMOTO, Kohei AZUMI, Makoto HAYASHI, Hiroshi MIZUHASHI, Kozo IKENO
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Publication number: 20140292676Abstract: There is provided a sensor-integrated display device including a display surface from which display information is output and a sensor surface to which operation information is input, the display surface and the sensor surface being formed integrally with the sensor-integrated display device as one piece, a data transfer unit which generates and outputs three-dimensional information (RAW-D) in response to a signal sensed on the sensor surface, and an application executing device having a processing function of generating three-dimensional image data in a plurality of points sensed on the sensor surface, based on the three-dimensional information output from the data transfer unit and computing a touch coordinate, based on the generated image data.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 14, 2014Publication date: October 2, 2014Applicant: Japan Display Inc.Inventors: Makoto HAYASHI, Jouji Yamada, Hirofumi Nakagawa, Michio Yamamoto, Kohei Azumi, Hiroshi Mizuhashi, Kozo Ikeno, Yoshitoshi Kida
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Publication number: 20140292683Abstract: According to one embodiment, an electronic apparatus includes a sensor-equipped display device including a display device and a sensor which outputs information for detecting a contact position on the display device, a display driver which outputs a driving signal to the sensor based on one setting table, an application processor which outputs a table selection signal specifying a setting table and a sensor setting signal specifying a driving method of the sensor to the display driver, and a sensing circuit which outputs a dataset including three-dimensional information of a coordinate of a position on the display device and a physical quantity at the coordinate to the application processor, and outputs a table selection request signal generated based on the table selection signal, and a control signal which controls driving timing of the sensor to the display driver, the control signal having generated based on the sensor setting signal.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 24, 2014Publication date: October 2, 2014Applicant: Japan Display Inc.Inventors: Kohei AZUMI, Jouji YAMADA, Hirofumi NAKAGAWA, Michio YAMAMOTO, Makoto HAYASHI, Hiroshi MIZUHASHI, Kozo IKENO, Yoshitoshi KIDA
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Publication number: 20140292686Abstract: According to one embodiment, an electronic device includes a sensor-equipped display device including a pixel electrode, a common electrode opposed to the pixel electrode, and a detection electrode which is opposed to the common electrode, includes a plurality of segments, a display driver configured to supply a display signal to the pixel electrode and to supply a sensor driving signal or a common driving signal to the common electrode, a detection circuit configured to output to the display driver a data set including a sensor detection value from each of the segments of the detection electrode, based on the supplying of the sensor driving signal to the common electrode, and an application processor configured to receive the data set which has been output via the display driver from the detection circuit.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 26, 2014Publication date: October 2, 2014Applicant: Japan Display Inc.Inventors: Michio YAMAMOTO, Jouji YAMADA, Hirofumi NAKAGAWA, Kohei AZUMI, Makoto HAYASHI, Hiroshi MIZUHASHI, Kozo IKENO, Yoshitoshi KIDA