Patents by Inventor Noriaki Kawai
Noriaki Kawai 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: 20160171308Abstract: According to one embodiment, an electronic device including, object determination module extracts and records feature pattern of object in video displayed on the display unit in response to input of instruction, position specification module specifies position of object in each video frame based on recorded feature pattern, area determination module determines area including object, position determination module determines position at which enlarged image of area is displayed outside area determined by area determination module based on position specified by position specification module, and enlargement module generates and outputs signal of enlarged image.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 13, 2015Publication date: June 16, 2016Inventor: Noriaki Kawai
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Patent number: 8582055Abstract: A backlight device according to an embodiment includes: first and second light emitting units configured to emit light; and a semi-transmissive reflector placed between the first light emitting unit and the second light emitting unit. The semi-transmissive reflector has a higher reflectance with respect to light incident on a first face facing the first light emitting unit than a reflectance with respect to light incident on a second face facing the second light emitting unit, the semi-transmissive reflector has a higher transmittance with respect to the light incident on the second face than a transmittance with respect to the light incident on the first face.Type: GrantFiled: April 8, 2011Date of Patent: November 12, 2013Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha ToshibaInventors: Noriaki Kawai, Takahisa Kaihotsu
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Publication number: 20130077341Abstract: According to one embodiment, a display apparatus includes a light source, a light guide module, a display panel, and a reflector between the light guide module and the display panel. Light irradiated by the light source enters the light guide module. The reflector is configured to transmit a part of the light exiting from the light guide module and to reflect a part thereof.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 13, 2012Publication date: March 28, 2013Inventors: Noriaki Kawai, Takahisa Kaihotsu
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Patent number: 8358904Abstract: According to one embodiment of the present invention is applied to an apparatus which performs automatic recording based on a timer recording list. A transmitting/receiving module is connected to a network. Preference information retrieved from another recording apparatus via the transmitting/receiving module is once set directly in a first storage module. A second storage module saves a timer recording list in which the preference information in the first storage module is reflected. As a result, the preference information retrieved from the other recording apparatus is once set directly in the first storage module, and the preference information in the first storage module is reflected in the timer recording list.Type: GrantFiled: July 2, 2009Date of Patent: January 22, 2013Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha ToshibaInventors: Noriaki Kawai, Takahisa Kaihotsu
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Publication number: 20120105765Abstract: A backlight device according to an embodiment includes: first and second light emitting units configured to emit light; and a semi-transmissive reflector placed between the first light emitting unit and the second light emitting unit. The semi-transmissive reflector has a higher reflectance with respect to light incident on a first face facing the first light emitting unit than a reflectance with respect to light incident on a second face facing the second light emitting unit, the semi-transmissive reflector has a higher transmittance with respect to the light incident on the second face than a transmittance with respect to the light incident on the first face.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 8, 2011Publication date: May 3, 2012Inventors: Noriaki Kawai, Takahisa Kaihotsu
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Publication number: 20110298983Abstract: According to one embodiment, a content processing apparatus is provided. The content processing apparatus includes: an output module which outputs a content in a viewable format; a real-time term explanation receiving processor which receives an explanation of a term included in the content being output; and a video and term explanation combining module which combines a video of the content with the term explanation. The term explanation for the video is displayed in real-time on the output module.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 25, 2011Publication date: December 8, 2011Inventors: Yoko Masuo, Noriaki Kawai, Rika Kumagai
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Publication number: 20110161891Abstract: According to one embodiment, the relationship between respective fingers of a user and corresponding screens is registered, a screen and command are determined according to the motion (motion trajectory) of a finger that touches a touch input device and the type of the finger, and a multi-screen is operated.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 21, 2010Publication date: June 30, 2011Inventors: Tomoyuki Shimaya, Noriaki Kawai, Shingo Kikukawa, Taichiro Yamanaka, Tetsuya Akiyama, Takahisa Kaihotsu
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Publication number: 20100034511Abstract: According to one embodiment of the present invention is applied to an apparatus which performs automatic recording based on a timer recording list. A transmitting/receiving module is connected to a network. Preference information retrieved from another recording apparatus via the transmitting/receiving module is once set directly in a first storage module. A second storage module saves a timer recording list in which the preference information in the first storage module is reflected. As a result, the preference information retrieved from the other recording apparatus is once set directly in the first storage module, and the preference information in the first storage module is reflected in the timer recording list.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 2, 2009Publication date: February 11, 2010Applicant: Kabushiki Kaisha ToshibaInventors: Noriaki Kawai, Takahisa Kaihotsu
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Patent number: 7392780Abstract: A pulsating oil pressure reducing device 40 for an internal combustion engine has an oil chamber 41 for reducing pulsating oil pressure in a discharge passage 30 for carrying oil discharged from an oil pump 20. The oil chamber 41 communicates with the discharge passage 30 by way of a connecting port 41a1 and makes the oil stagnate therein. The oil chamber 41 is connected to the discharge passage 30 by an air vent passage 45 through which air is discharged from the oil chamber 41 into the discharge passage 30. The air vent passage 45 has an inlet port 45a opening into a top part 41a of the oil chamber 41 and a discharge port 45b opening into the oil passage 30 at a level above the inlet port 45a. Since the pulsating oil pressure reducing device 40 having the air vent passage separately from the connecting port, air can be efficiently discharged from the oil chamber and the degree of freedom of placement of the oil passage and the oil chamber is increased.Type: GrantFiled: March 13, 2007Date of Patent: July 1, 2008Assignee: Honda Motor Co., Ltd.Inventors: Tatsunori Tsuruta, Noriaki Kawai, Chihiro Nishikawa, Nobuharu Takahashi
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Patent number: 7377252Abstract: An internal combustion engine is provided with an oil filter 10 through which lubricant oil having pulsating pressure passes. The oil filter 10 has an oil filter body 11 attached to a filter base 20, and a cover 30 formed integrally with the filter base 20 and circumferentially surrounding the oil filter body 11. The cover 30 is provided with a window part 36 through which a space 35 formed between the oil filter body 11 and the cover 30 opens outward. The cover 30 has a circumferentially endless annular end wall 33 provided between the window part 36 and an end wall 33a. The cover 30 has a reinforcing member 41 provided with an opening part 46 and attached to the outside surface of the cover 30 so that the opening part 46 coincides with the window part 36 of the cover 30. The oil filter 10 can be properly cooled and sounds radiated by the oil filter 10 and the cover 30 can be reduced.Type: GrantFiled: March 29, 2007Date of Patent: May 27, 2008Assignee: Honda Motor Co., Ltd.Inventors: Tatsunori Tsuruta, Noriaki Kawai, Chihiro Nishikawa, Akihiro Konishi
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Publication number: 20070227476Abstract: A pulsating oil pressure reducing device 40 for an internal combustion engine has an oil chamber 41 for reducing pulsating oil pressure in a discharge passage 30 for carrying oil discharged from an oil pump 20. The oil chamber 41 communicates with the discharge passage 30 by way of a connecting port 41a1 and makes the oil stagnate therein. The oil chamber 41 is connected to the discharge passage 30 by an air vent passage 45 through which air is discharged from the oil chamber 41 into the discharge passage 30. The air vent passage 45 has an inlet port 45a opening into a top part 41a of the oil chamber 41 and a discharge port 45b opening into the oil passage 30 at a level above the inlet port 45a. Since the pulsating oil pressure reducing device 40 having the air vent passage separately from the connecting port, air can be efficiently discharged from the oil chamber and the degree of freedom of placement of the oil passage and the oil chamber is increased.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 13, 2007Publication date: October 4, 2007Inventors: Tatsunori Tsuruta, Noriaki Kawai, Chihiro Nishikawa, Nobuharu Takahashi
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Publication number: 20070227490Abstract: An internal combustion engine is provided with an oil filter 10 through which lubricant oil having pulsating pressure passes. The oil filter 10 has an oil filter body 11 attached to a filter base 20, and a cover 30 formed integrally with the filter base 20 and circumferentially surrounding the oil filter body 11. The cover 30 is provided with a window part 36 through which a space 35 formed between the oil filter body 11 and the cover 30 opens outward. The cover 30 has a circumferentially endless annular end wall 33 provided between the window part 36 and an end wall 33a. The cover 30 has a reinforcing member 41 provided with an opening part 46 and attached to the outside surface of the cover 30 so that the opening part 46 coincides with the window part 36 of the cover 30. The oil filter 10 can be properly cooled and sounds radiated by the oil filter 10 and the cover 30 can be reduced.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 29, 2007Publication date: October 4, 2007Inventors: Tatsunori Tsuruta, Noriaki Kawai, Chihiro Nishikawa, Akihiro Konishi
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Publication number: 20060095776Abstract: A switching control circuit monitors the results of decision by illegality decision circuit for the presence of an illegally copied content or contents. In the absence of an illegally copied content, the switching control circuit turns on switches to allow the transmission of contents on all of transmission lines to a multiplexing circuit. When an illegally copied content is detected by at least one of the illegality decision circuits, all the switches are turned off, interrupting the transmission of contents on all the lines to the multiplexing circuit. Thus, an illegally copied content is detected and interrupted prior to multiplexing, preventing a multiplexed signal from containing any illegally copied content.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 19, 2005Publication date: May 4, 2006Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBAInventors: Takanobu Mukaide, Noriaki Kawai
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Patent number: 6763794Abstract: A through-bore is provided in an outer wall of a passage defining structure defining a liquid passage faced by at least a portion of a vibration generating section, and opens at its inner end into the liquid passage. A vibration absorbing device includes an occluding member mounted to the outer wall to occlude the through-bore, an elastic membrane with its one end facing the liquid passage and other end facing a space defined between the elastic membrane and the occluding member, and a retaining member mounted to the occluding member for retaining the elastic membrane between the retaining member and the occluding member. Thus, a variation in pressure of a liquid in the liquid passage which is induced by the vibration generated in the vibration generating section is absorbed by flexing of the elastic membrane, whereby an exciting force applied from the liquid to the passage defining structure is effectively reduced, and a vibration sound radiated from the passage defining structure is reduced.Type: GrantFiled: November 13, 1998Date of Patent: July 20, 2004Assignee: Honda Giken Kogyo Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Terukazu Torikai, Kojiro Kamata, Shinichi Watanabe, Motoyuki Sunaoka, Masao Sakashita, Noriaki Kawai
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Patent number: 6345569Abstract: An object of the present invention is to effectively achieve the reduction in piston slap sound in both of an expansion stroke and a compression stroke in consideration of a difference between the behaviors of a piston in the expansion stroke and the compression stroke. For this purpose, in a piston P having a skirt 12 formed into an intermediately bulged barrel type, the axis L2 of a piston pin is offset with respect to the cylinder axis L1, and the decrement in radius of a lower skirt portion 20 is set to be large on a thrust side and small in an anti-thrust side. In the expansion stroke, the piston is positively swung, while the skirt 12 is put into abutment against a wall surface of a cylinder bore, thereby reducing the piston slap sound.Type: GrantFiled: January 24, 2000Date of Patent: February 12, 2002Assignee: Honda Giken Kogyo Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Kazuhide Take, Reiko Hiraide, Noriaki Kawai
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Patent number: 5964195Abstract: A water-cooled type internal combustion engine includes a cylinder provided in a cylinder block of an engine body and having a piston slidably received therein, and a cooling water passageway defined in the engine body and including a cooling water portion surrounding the cylinder. In the water-cooled type internal combustion engine, a through-bore is provided at that portion of an outer wall of the engine body which faces the cooling water passageway, a vibration absorbing means is mounted to the outer wall surface of the engine body to close the through-bore. The vibration absorbing means includes a resilient membrane which is disposed so that its peripheral edge does not protrude from an inner surface of the outer wall into the cooling water passageway, and which has one surface facing the cooling water passageway and the other surface facing a space area.Type: GrantFiled: December 4, 1997Date of Patent: October 12, 1999Assignee: Honda Giken Kogyo Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Masao Sakashita, Noriaki Kawai, Yasuji Nozawa, Naoaki Takeda
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Patent number: 5033443Abstract: A pilot injection device for a fuel injection pump has an accumulate piston movable in response to a fuel pressure from a pressurizing chamber of the fuel injection pump to cause a pilot injection prior to a main injection by the pump. The device is provided with a back-pressure chamber filled with fuel and having a volume variable by the movement of the accumulate piston. Air trapped in the back-pressure chamber can be removed therefrom through a hole to improve the operation characteristic of the pilot injection device.Type: GrantFiled: June 26, 1989Date of Patent: July 23, 1991Assignee: Nippondenso CO., Ltd.Inventors: Akira Kato, Koji Nagata, Zenji Kuwabara, Terutada Kojima, Takashi Yamaguchi, Takaaki Ohashi, Masato Hattori, Noriyosi Toyoda, Noriaki Kawai, Teruo Sato, Toshio Fujimura, Tadashi Watanabe, Mitsumasa Yamada, Tadashi Fukuyama, Takeshi Sato
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Patent number: 4815431Abstract: Disclosed is an oil heating apparatus for an internal combustion engine, in which a heating unit for heating an oil is arranged adjacent to an oil pump on an oil path which extends from an oil pan to the oil pump of the internal combustion engine and allows the oil to pass therethrough, and energization of the heating unit is controlled by a heating control unit. When an oil having a high viscosity due to a low temperature is heated to increase the viscosity thereof, the load on the oil pump is reduced to allow an easy starting operation of the internal combustion engine at a low temperature.Type: GrantFiled: November 10, 1986Date of Patent: March 28, 1989Assignees: Nippon Soken, Inc., Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Hiroshi Yorita, Toshihiko Igashira, Takeshi Tanaka, Kouichi Sakakibara, Masao Wakayama, Takashi Sato, Noriaki Kawai
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Patent number: 4739670Abstract: A backlash reducer for a gear transmission system comprises a main gear and an auxiliary gear which form one of a driving gear and a driven gear in mesh therewith of the gear transmission system. The main gear is mounted on a rotary shaft for rotation therewith, and the auxiliary gear is mounted on the rotary shaft for rotation relative thereto. A backlash reducing mechanism is operable in response to a centrifugal force due to rotation of the rotary shaft for angularly moving the main and auxiliary gears relative to each other to reduce a backlash between the driving and driven gears. The backlash reducer may further comprise a mechanism for restraining the backlash reducing action of the backlash reducing mechanism. Alternatively, the backlash reducer may comprise a first mechanism operable in response to the centrifugal force to move the auxiliary gear axially thereof and a second mechanism for converting the axial movement of the auxiliary gear to circumferential movement thereof.Type: GrantFiled: June 9, 1986Date of Patent: April 26, 1988Assignee: Honda Giken Kogyo K.K.Inventors: Takao Tomita, Noriaki Kawai, Katsura Shinoda
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Patent number: 4693133Abstract: A system of lubricated gearing illustrated in the context of a motorcycle transmission. A lubricant vessel is provided to partially enclose the lower portion of the drive gear to deliver additional lubricant thereto. Walls extend radially outwardly adjacent to the drive gear to retain lubricant within the meshing area of the gears, reducing gear noise and impact shock between meshing gear teeth.Type: GrantFiled: June 1, 1983Date of Patent: September 15, 1987Assignee: Honda Giken Kogyo Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Takao Tomita, Noriaki Kawai