Patents by Inventor Tetsuya Nomura
Tetsuya Nomura 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: 20130261941Abstract: A vehicle controller is installed in a vehicle and controls one or more operations of the vehicle. The vehicle controller includes a control unit that: (i) outputs a first code for authentication to a judging apparatus which judges whether to permit starting of a driving apparatus of the vehicle when a request for starting the driving apparatus is obtained from an information processor which is located outside the vehicle, (ii) controls locking and unlocking of doors of the vehicle when a request for door lock control is obtained from the information processor, and (iii) obtains from the judging apparatus an authentication result of whether the first code and a second code for authentication which the judging apparatus uses are identical. When obtaining the request for door lock control, the control unit controls the locking and unlocking of the doors based on the authentication result.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 14, 2013Publication date: October 3, 2013Applicant: FUJITSU TEN LIMITEDInventors: Ryuji NISHIMURA, Akira TAKEE, Shingo TAGUCHI, Takeshi SAKAMOTO, Tetsuya NOMURA, Satoshi HARUMOTO
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Patent number: 8317579Abstract: A video game is provided in which a player can switch a player character in a battle to an enemy character by a switching operation. With such a switching operation, the player performs the battle with the enemy character. If a predetermined time elapses, the enemy character is switched back to the player character. At this time, an HP of the enemy character reflects on an HP of the player character. If a special ability of the enemy character is used, the special ability is inherited by the player character and can be used in battles thereafter.Type: GrantFiled: June 2, 2009Date of Patent: November 27, 2012Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Square EnixInventor: Tetsuya Nomura
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Publication number: 20120270223Abstract: The present invention provides a method for identifying animal species, said method comprises a step of amplifying a DNA fragment by PCR using a DNA in a sample as a template and animal-specific DNA sequences as a primer pair, wherein the animal-specific DNA sequences are derived from a ATP synthase subunit 8 gene or a region proximal thereto of a mitochondrial genome; and a step of detecting the amplified DNA fragment.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 12, 2012Publication date: October 25, 2012Applicants: INCORPORATED ADMINISTRATIVE AGENCY FERTILIZER AND FEED INSPECTION SERVICES, NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF AGROBIOLOGICAL SCIENCESInventors: Toyoko Kusama, Koichi Kadowaki, Tetsuya Nomura
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Patent number: 8158772Abstract: Methods for identifying animal species involving amplifying a DNA fragment by PCR using a DNA in a sample as a template and animal-specific DNA sequences as a primer pair, the animal-specific DNA sequences derived from a ATP synthase subunit 8 gene or a region proximal thereto of a mitochondrial genome; and detecting the amplified DNA fragment.Type: GrantFiled: April 16, 2004Date of Patent: April 17, 2012Assignees: National Institute of Agrobiological Sciences, Incorporated Administrative Agency Fertilizer and Feed Inspection ServicesInventors: Toyoko Kusama, Koichi Kadowaki, Tetsuya Nomura
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Video game processing apparatus, a method and a computer program product for processing a video game
Patent number: 7841943Abstract: An added value is set to a battle tool for customizing the battle tool stored as battle tool information in a battle tool information managing table in response to customization request by operations of a player. A plurality of battle tools are stored in the battle tool information managing table. A player character can be equipped with any of the battle tools among the plurality of battle tools. When the battle tool information Is read out from the battle tool information managing table in response to display request of a battle tool, a display apparatus is caused to display one or more battle tool in a battle screen. The battle tool information thus read out indicates the one or more battle tool. The player character is equipped with a battle tool with which the player character can be equipped among the one or more battle tool thus displayed.Type: GrantFiled: April 27, 2007Date of Patent: November 30, 2010Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Square EnixInventor: Tetsuya Nomura -
Patent number: 7844377Abstract: Current position of a vehicle and current time are acquired. A user recognizing unit recognizes a user. A pattern recognizing unit detects location of a portable device and movement thereof. Operation state of an engine is acquired from an engine control mechanism. Based on the information, processes are performed such as switching communication stand-by mode of the portable device to active stand-by mode, notifying the portable device of a transition of an on-board terminal to automatic locking mode, preventing needless unlocking and locking of doors, and setting warning mode of the portable device.Type: GrantFiled: June 14, 2006Date of Patent: November 30, 2010Assignee: Fujitsu Ten LimitedInventors: Mitsuru Oota, Tetsuya Nomura, Satoshi Harumoto, Yuusaku Matsuda, Yasushi Seike
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Publication number: 20100184078Abstract: The present invention provides a method for identifying animal species, said method comprises a step of amplifying a DNA fragment by PCR using a DNA in a sample as a template and animal-specific DNA sequences as a primer pair, wherein the animal-specific DNA sequences are derived from a ATP synthase subunit 8 gene or a region proximal thereto of a mitochondrial genome; and a step of detecting the amplified DNA fragment.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 18, 2010Publication date: July 22, 2010Applicants: NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF AGROBIOLOGICAL SCIENCES, INCORPORATED ADMINISTRATIVE AGENCY FOOD AND AGRICULTURAL MATERIALS INSPECTION CENTERInventors: Toyoko Kusama, Koichi Kadowaki, Tetsuya Nomura
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Publication number: 20090305758Abstract: The present invention provides a video game in which a player can feel an amusement by switching a player character to be an operation object in a battle with an enemy character even in a game performed after the battle is completed. The player can switch the operation object, which is usually the normal character, to a non-player character that can be the temporary character in the battle by switching operation. With such switching operation, the player performs the battle with the enemy character using the temporary character as the operation object. If a predetermined time elapses, the operation object is switched back to a normal character. At this time, an HP of the temporary character that is used as the operation object reflects on an HP of the normal character. If a special ability of the temporary character that is used as the operation object is used, the special ability is inherited by the normal character and can be used in battles thereafter.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 2, 2009Publication date: December 10, 2009Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA SQUARE ENIX (also trading as SQUARE ENIX CO., LTD.)Inventor: Tetsuya NOMURA
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Publication number: 20090156051Abstract: A circuit for detection of an HDMI source device to an HDMI sink device through an HDMI sink connector without regard for the activity state of the HDMI source device has a pull-up resistor having first and second terminals with the first terminal coupled to a DC power source. A switching device is coupled between the pull-up resistor's second terminal and ground at a circuit node. The switching device is switched on to couple the circuit node to ground when power is applied to a control terminal thereof from the HDMI sink connector power pin, and being switched off otherwise. The circuit node is coupled to a DDC/CEC GROUND pin of the HDMI sink connector. The circuit node is readable as a binary signal to indicate the presence of a source device to the HDMI sink connector, wherein the node exhibits a logic low signal when either the node is grounded by the DDC/CEC GROUND pin connection to a source device or when the switching device is switched on.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 17, 2007Publication date: June 18, 2009Inventors: Paul Doyle, Eiji Kono, Tetsuya Nomura, Peter Rae Shintani
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Publication number: 20090055046Abstract: A situation determining unit determines a situation a vehicle currently faces. A control processing unit controls a vehicle equipment based on a determination of the situation determining unit. An arbitration processing unit determines, when a conflict of control requests occurs, contents of the control by settling the conflict, and when different control requests are issued to an identical vehicle equipment, sets a priority in the control requests, adjusts a timing of performing the control, and adjusts an amount for the control. The control processing unit performs the control based on the contents of the control determined by the arbitration processing unit.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 26, 2005Publication date: February 26, 2009Applicant: Fujitsu Ten LimitedInventors: Satoshi Harumoto, Yuusaku Matsuda, Tetsuya Nomura, Mitsuru Oota, Hiroaki Yamao, Yasushi Seike
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Publication number: 20080254849Abstract: To reflect a player's degree of skill in a battle between a player character and an enemy character, and increase a strategic element. In the event that a player selects magic as an action of a player character in a battle between a player character and an enemy character, a puzzle battle is started. In the puzzle battle, a magic army (a block frame) is displayed on a display device in accordance with a kind of magic selected, the player moves or rotates a block falling from above the display device by operating an input device, stops it in a desired position, and fills the magic army. In the event that all squares of the magic army are filled with the blocks before a time elapsing from a start of the puzzle battle, displayed on an elapsed time gauge, reaches a prescribed time, the magic selected by the player is unleashed, and inflicts damage on the enemy character. An effectiveness of the magic depends on an overlapping, and a protrusion from the magic army, of the blocks.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 13, 2007Publication date: October 16, 2008Applicant: Kabushiki Kaisha Square Enix (also trading as Square Enix Co., Ltd.)Inventors: Tetsuya NOMURA, Hajime TABATA
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Publication number: 20080213231Abstract: Techniques are provided which can isolate pluripotent stem cells at high purity capable of differentiation into at least a myocardial cell to regenerate the cardiac muscle. The pluripotent stem cells at high purity capable of differentiation into at least a myocardial cell to regenerate the cardiac muscle can be isolated through the following steps: (i) collecting a skeletal muscle tissue from a mammal and enzymatically treating the obtained skeletal muscle tissue to prepare a skeletal muscle tissue-derived cell; (ii) culturing the obtained skeletal muscle tissue-derived cell in a culture medium containing an epidermal growth factor and a fibroblast growth factor; (iii) selecting and separating a colony that is floating in the culture medium.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 14, 2006Publication date: September 4, 2008Applicant: KYOTO UNIVERSITYInventors: Hidemasa Oh, Tetsuya Nomura, Hiroaki Matsubara
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VIDEO GAME PROCESSING APPARATUS, A METHOD AND A COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT FOR PROCESSING A VIDEO GAME
Publication number: 20070265047Abstract: An added value is set to a battle tool for customizing the battle tool stored as battle tool information in a battle tool information managing table in response to customization request by operations of a player. A plurality of battle tools are stored in the battle tool information managing table. A player character can be equipped with any of the battle tools among the plurality of battle tools. When the battle tool information Is read out from the battle tool information managing table in response to display request of a battle tool, a display apparatus is caused to display one or more battle tool in a battle screen. The battle tool information thus read out indicates the one or more battle tool. The player character is equipped with a battle tool with which the player character can be equipped among the one or more battle tool thus displayed.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 27, 2007Publication date: November 15, 2007Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA SQUARE ENIX(also trading as SQUARE ENIX, CO., LTD.)Inventor: Tetsuya Nomura -
Patent number: 7254622Abstract: A video-on-demand system provides efficient commercial distribution for renting and/or selling movies, video programs, video games and electronic data. Data input stations upload original video data from videotapes, videocassettes, videodisks or film, or from electronic data format on transferable storage media or over a telecommunications line. A video data capture computer converts the original video data into a preferred video data storage format and stores the video data files in a first generation video data storage unit. The video data files are sorted by categories and classified in indexed master files stored on a second generation video data storage unit. NTSC, PAL and/or HDTV versions of the video data files are created and stored in separate data storage units for serving different markets. Customers access the system through computer servers connected to the Internet.Type: GrantFiled: December 15, 2000Date of Patent: August 7, 2007Inventors: Tetsuya Nomura, Tommy Sun
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Publication number: 20070038344Abstract: Current position of a vehicle and current time are acquired. A user recognizing unit recognizes a user. A pattern recognizing unit detects location of a portable device and movement thereof. Operation state of an engine is acquired from an engine control mechanism. Based on the information, processes are performed such as switching communication stand-by mode of the portable device to active stand-by mode, notifying the portable device of a transition of an on-board terminal to automatic locking mode, preventing needless unlocking and locking of doors, and setting warning mode of the portable device.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 14, 2006Publication date: February 15, 2007Applicant: Fujitsu Ten LimitedInventors: Mitsuru Oota, Tetsuya Nomura, Satoshi Harumoto, Yuusaku Matsuda, Yasushi Seike
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Publication number: 20050233334Abstract: The present invention provides a method for identifying animal species, said method comprises a step of amplifying a DNA fragment by PCR using a DNA in a sample as a template and animal-specific DNA sequences as a primer pair, wherein the animal-specific DNA sequences are derived from a ATP synthase subunit 8 gene or a region proximal thereto of a mitochondrial genome; and a step of detecting the amplified DNA fragment.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 16, 2004Publication date: October 20, 2005Inventors: Toyoko Kusama, Koichi Kadowaki, Tetsuya Nomura
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Patent number: 6515716Abstract: An image display device capable of reducing power consumption with improved effectiveness even when a sync signal sensor fails to sense both horizontal and vertical sync signals, wherein when a first sync signal sensor fails to sense both horizontal and vertical sync signals, a main power source, a heater power source device, and a first sync signal sensor power source device are turned off. Power is thus saved. When a second sync signal sensor senses at least one of the horizontal and vertical sync signals, the first sync signal sensor power source device that was turned off is turned on.Type: GrantFiled: May 15, 2000Date of Patent: February 4, 2003Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Satoru Suzuki, Tetsuya Nomura
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Publication number: 20020078176Abstract: A video-on-demand system provides efficient commercial distribution for renting and/or selling movies, video programs, video games and electronic data. Data input stations upload original video data from videotapes, videocassettes, videodisks or film, or from electronic data format on transferable storage media or over a telecommunications line. A video data capture computer converts the original video data into a preferred video data storage format and stores the video data files in a first generation video data storage unit. The video data files are sorted by categories and classified in indexed master files stored on a second generation video data storage ID unit. NTSC, PAL and/or HDTV versions of the video data files are created and stored in separate data storage units for serving different markets. Customers access the system through computer servers connected to the Internet.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 15, 2000Publication date: June 20, 2002Inventors: Tetsuya Nomura, Tommy Sun
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Flexible printed circuit board mounting structure and recording/reproducing apparatus using the same
Patent number: 6146189Abstract: Disclosed is an inexpensive structure for mounting a flexible printed circuit board to a hard circuit board without using a connector. The terminal section of the flexible printed circuit board is mounted to a holding member, which is secured to the hard circuit board to electrically connect the wiring pattern of the terminal section to the electric circuit of the hard circuit board, whereby it is possible to mount the flexible printed circuit board to the hard circuit board without using an expensive connector, thereby achieving an improvement in terms of cost and operability.Type: GrantFiled: June 12, 1997Date of Patent: November 14, 2000Assignee: Alps Electric Co., Ltd.Inventors: Tetsuya Nomura, Ryu Yunokuchi, Kouzou Onodera, Toru Sawada -
Patent number: 5654600Abstract: The invention relates to a motor, and more particularly to a motor having means for detecting an index position. A rotor yoke of the motor is provided with a recess having a width greater than the width of each pole of a rotating magnet. Substantially the whole of one pole of the rotating magnet and a part of another pole adjacent to the one pole on the downstream side in terms of rotation of a rotor are exposed to the recess. The magnetic flux from the magnet exposed to the recess is detected by a Hall element disposed in opposition to the outer circumference of the rotor, thereby specifying the index position.Type: GrantFiled: February 13, 1995Date of Patent: August 5, 1997Assignee: Alps Electric Co., Ltd.Inventors: Tetsuya Nomura, Hirokazu Nakagawa, Kazuhiro Muramatsu, Shigetoshi Kagomiya