Patents by Inventor Yasuhiro Yamanaka
Yasuhiro Yamanaka 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: 20190308506Abstract: A vehicle activation system is configured so that when a switch is turned on, current is passed from a backup power supply circuit to a signal circuit and electric power is supplied from the backup power supply circuit to a power supply relay. The vehicle activation system includes an interruption circuit which is capable of interrupting the supply of electric power from the backup power supply circuit to the power supply relay.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 4, 2019Publication date: October 10, 2019Applicant: Mitsubishi Jidosha Kogyo Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Yasuhiro YAMANAKA
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Publication number: 20190179517Abstract: A screen generating unit generates a home screen for allowing a user to select a desired item of content from among multiple items of content, and the home screen includes a list in which multiple icons representing the multiple items of content are arranged. A display control unit displays the home screen on a television monitor. The screen generating unit further arranges, in the list on the home screen, a search icon used to search for an item of content.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 20, 2019Publication date: June 13, 2019Applicant: c/o Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.Inventors: Motoki KOBAYASHI, Yasuhiro YAMANAKA, Shuji HIRAMATSU, Shigeru ENOMOTO, Taku SUGAWARA, Shinji KIMURA, Yumiko TANAKA, George ARRIOLA, Carsten SCHWESIG
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Patent number: 10318124Abstract: A screen generating unit 287 generates a home screen for allowing a user to select a desired item of content from among multiple items of content, and the home screen includes a list in which multiple icons representing the multiple items of content are arranged. A display control unit displays the home screen on a television monitor 204. The screen generating unit 287 further arranges, in the list on the home screen, a search icon used to search for an item of content.Type: GrantFiled: February 12, 2014Date of Patent: June 11, 2019Assignee: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.Inventors: Motoki Kobayashi, Yasuhiro Yamanaka, Shuji Hiramatsu, Shigeru Enomoto, Taku Sugawara, Shinji Kimura, Yumiko Tanaka, George Arriola, Carsten Schwesig
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Publication number: 20190114042Abstract: Methods and apparatus provide for acquiring menu display instructions from a user, and generating and outputting the operating system menu screens for display.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 13, 2018Publication date: April 18, 2019Applicant: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.Inventors: Masaki Higuchi, Shigeru Enomoto, Yasuhiro Yamanaka, Shuji Hiramatsu
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Patent number: 10188562Abstract: A disposable diaper includes a skin-surface side sheet; a non-skin surface side sheet; an absorber; and a waistline retaining unit. Leg stretching units are arranged in the inner side in a longitudinal direction from diaper ends that configure the outer circumference of the disposable diaper or the inner side in a widthwise direction from the diaper ends. A part of the waistline retaining unit is arranged in at least one of a first region in an outer side in the longitudinal direction from the ends of the leg stretching units, and a second region in an outer side in the widthwise direction from the ends of the leg stretching units. A joint region where the skin-surface side and non-skin surface side sheets are joined is provided along the diaper ends in at least one of a first region and a second region.Type: GrantFiled: April 25, 2013Date of Patent: January 29, 2019Assignee: UNICHARM CORPORATIONInventors: Satoru Sakaguchi, Yasuhiro Yamanaka
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Patent number: 10185470Abstract: Methods and apparatus provide for acquiring menu display instructions from a user, and generating and outputting the operating system menu screens for display.Type: GrantFiled: June 14, 2016Date of Patent: January 22, 2019Assignee: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.Inventors: Masaki Higuchi, Shigeru Enomoto, Yasuhiro Yamanaka, Shuji Hiramatsu
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Patent number: 10175849Abstract: An acquisition unit acquires list data concerning contents and records the acquired list data in a recording medium. A list display unit arranges a plurality of content images adjacent to each other and places them on a screen. As a receiving unit acquires an instruction to select one of the content images in a content list, the list display causes a display of the content list including a selected content image, in a first area of the screen and, at the same time, causes a display of detailed information associated with the selected content image, in a second area of the screen.Type: GrantFiled: July 11, 2012Date of Patent: January 8, 2019Assignee: SONY INTERACTIVE ENTERTAINMENT INC.Inventors: Yasuhiro Yamanaka, Kaoru Morishita
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Patent number: 10028007Abstract: A home screen display unit arranges and displays a plurality of content icons indicating a plurality of pieces of content in a first area in a content zone screen. If a specific content icon is focused on by the cursor and if a preset determination operation is performed, a content playback unit starts playback of the content indicated by the focused icon. If a specific content icon is focused on by the cursor, a related information acquiring unit acquires related information relating to the content that is indicated by the focused icon that is registered in an external device from the external device without starting playback of the content. A home screen display unit displays the acquired related information in a second area of the content zone screen and displays, if related information is updated, the updated related information in the second area so as to replace the related information displayed until that moment.Type: GrantFiled: October 30, 2013Date of Patent: July 17, 2018Assignee: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.Inventors: George Arriola, Anahi Bagu Casas, Shinji Kimura, Shigeru Enomoto, Yasuhiro Yamanaka, Motoki Kobayashi, Shuji Hiramatsu, Yumiko Tanaka, Taku Sugawara
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Patent number: 10016316Abstract: A disposable diaper (10) in this invention is comprising designs (300a, 300b) that are visually recognizable from a non-skin contact surface side S of the disposable diaper (10) is provided in a region spanning a crotch region (25) and extending to a front waistline region (20) and a rear waistline region (30). A method of arranging the design (300b) provided in a region closer to a side of the front waistline region (20) than the crotch stretching unit (200a) is configured to be different from a method of arranging the design (300a) provided in a region closer to a side of the rear waistline region (30) than the crotch stretching unit (200a).Type: GrantFiled: September 27, 2013Date of Patent: July 10, 2018Assignee: UNICHARM CORPORATIONInventors: Satoru Sakaguchi, Yasuhiro Yamanaka, Kana Sawa
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Patent number: 9762948Abstract: A home screen display unit displays a global navigation screen 12 that is located on an upper layer with respect to a screen transition and that is used for selecting a category of content to be processed. The home screen display unit displays a content zone screen 18 that is located on a lower layer with respect to a screen transition and that is used for selecting a piece of content to be processed from among a plurality of pieces of content corresponding to the category selected in the global navigation screen 12. If a specific piece of content is selected in the content zone screen 18, a game screen display unit displays a screen of the selected content. The home screen display unit displays, in the global navigation screen 12, an image of at least a portion of the content zone screen 18 with image quality lower than that in the case where the image is displayed in the content zone screen 18.Type: GrantFiled: October 30, 2013Date of Patent: September 12, 2017Assignees: Sony Corporation, Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.Inventors: George Arriola, Anahi Bagu Casas, Shinji Kimura, Shigeru Enomoto, Yasuhiro Yamanaka, Motoki Kobayashi, Shuji Hiramatsu, Yumiko Tanaka, Taku Sugawara
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Patent number: 9713555Abstract: A disposable diaper 10 has sheet-like leg hole stretch units 100 that extend in a product lengthwise direction L in an area where leg hole concave units 35 are formed and are at least partially stretchable along a product lengthwise direction L. End edges in a product widthwise direction W of the leg hole stretch units 100 meander in the product lengthwise direction L. Distances between the end edges in the product widthwise direction W of the leg hole stretch units 100 and a center line CL change from a front waistline unit 20 toward a rear waistline unit 30. Provided are a plurality of inflection points where an amount of change in the distance starts decreasing instead of increasing and a plurality of inflection points where an amount of change in the distance starts increasing instead of decreasing, respectively.Type: GrantFiled: March 28, 2013Date of Patent: July 25, 2017Assignee: UNICHARM CORPORATIONInventors: Satoru Sakaguchi, Kana Sawa, Yasuhiro Yamanaka
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Patent number: 9662989Abstract: A fault diagnostic device of a vehicle includes a starting circuit which causes a charger mounted on the vehicle to output a charging start signal and thereby activate a control unit for controlling charging of a battery mounted on the vehicle when a charging gun is connected to the charger. The control unit causes the charger to output the charging start signal when the charger is activated in response to turning on of an ignition switch, and has a fault determination function whereby, if the control unit is not input with the charging start signal, it is judged that a disconnection or power-supply short circuit has occurred in a charging start signal circuit of the starting circuit.Type: GrantFiled: May 27, 2015Date of Patent: May 30, 2017Assignee: MITSUBISHI JIDOSHA KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Yu Watanabe, Noriyoshi Aiba, Takashi Nonaka, Kenji Kondo, Yasuhiro Yamanaka
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Publication number: 20160299644Abstract: Methods and apparatus provide for acquiring menu display instructions from a user, and generating and outputting the operating system menu screens for display.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 14, 2016Publication date: October 13, 2016Applicant: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.Inventors: Masaki Higuchi, Shigeru Enomoto, Yasuhiro Yamanaka, Shuji Hiramatsu
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Patent number: 9439818Abstract: A fastening tape 100 of a disposable diaper 10 has a base sheet 120 configured by a nonwoven fabric, and a hook sheet 110 in which a plurality of engagement hooks are provided. The KES flexural rigidity value of the entire fastening tape existent region SALL in which the fastening tape 100 is provided, in a longitudinal direction DL of the absorbent main body, is 11.755 gf.cm2 or less.Type: GrantFiled: August 24, 2012Date of Patent: September 13, 2016Assignee: UNICHARM CORPORATIONInventors: Satoru Sakaguchi, Yasuhiro Yamanaka
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Patent number: 9411425Abstract: An input control unit includes: a keyboard display unit configured to display a keyboard that shows a set of a plurality of characters or symbols that can be input on a screen and receive a user's selection of a character or a symbol so as to enter the character or the symbol received from the user on a mobile terminal; an input receiving unit configured to receive the character or the symbol selected by the user from among the plurality of characters or symbols; and a screen control unit configured to change a priority of displaying the keyboard screen if an operation is received from a rear touch panel provided on the rear face of a mobile terminal.Type: GrantFiled: July 16, 2013Date of Patent: August 9, 2016Assignees: SONY CORPORATION, SONY INTERACTIVE ENTERTAINMENT INC.Inventors: Takeshi Matsuzawa, Takashi Amada, Ryota Uchino, Yasuhiro Yamanaka
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Patent number: 9389752Abstract: An instruction acquisition unit acquires a menu display instruction in a menu screen display device. When the menu display instruction is acquired while a game program is running, a menu-screen generating unit displays, by a function of a system, on a television set a second system menu screen in which an end icon for terminating the running game program is inserted in between a plurality of content icons that are arranged in a line in a first system menu screen and displayed. The instruction acquisition unit acquires the selection of the displayed end icon from a user. When the selection of the end icon is acquired, a menu screen constituting unit terminates the running game program and displays on the television set a first system menu screen by deleting the end icon from the second system menu screen.Type: GrantFiled: April 17, 2009Date of Patent: July 12, 2016Assignees: Sony Corporation, Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.Inventors: Masaki Higuchi, Shigeru Enomoto, Yasuhiro Yamanaka, Shuji Hiramatsu
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Patent number: 9381815Abstract: An abnormality diagnostic apparatus for a vehicle, which can accurately determine whether or not there is an abnormality in a voltage detection unit, while curtailing a cost increase, is provided. Output voltages Va, Vb, Vc outputted from voltage detection units are acquired, and differences |Va?Vb|, |Vb?Vc|, |Vc?Va| between the acquired output values are calculated. If any of the calculation results is greater than a determination threshold value, it is determined that there is an abnormality in any of the voltage detection units.Type: GrantFiled: January 7, 2014Date of Patent: July 5, 2016Assignee: MITSUBISHI JIDOSHA KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Yasuhiro Yamanaka, Takashi Nonaka
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Patent number: 9348424Abstract: An input control unit includes: a keyboard storage unit for storing keyboard screens each corresponding to a set of characters or symbols; a keyboard display unit for reading one of the keyboard screens and displaying the read keyboard screen on the screen; an input receiving unit for receiving a selection of the character or the symbol by the user; and a switching control unit for reading keyboard screens from the keyboard storage unit, displaying the read keyboard screens on the screen as selection candidates, and switching the selection candidate from among the plurality of keyboard screens. When the switching control unit receives a user control input to confirm the candidate being selected from the user, the keyboard display unit displays the keyboard screen selected on the screen, and receives a selection of the character or the symbol selected from the user.Type: GrantFiled: July 16, 2013Date of Patent: May 24, 2016Assignees: SONY CORPORATION, SONY COMPUTER ENTERTAINMENT INC.Inventors: Takeshi Matsuzawa, Takashi Amada, Ryota Uchino, Yasuhiro Yamanaka
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Patent number: 9333121Abstract: In a disposable diaper, ends at a front waistline region side of the disposable diaper within a stretchable range in leg stretch units are configured so as to be closer to an end at the front waistline region side as compared to an end at the front waistline region side within a stretchable range in the crotch stretch unit. Ends at a rear waistline region side within the stretchable range in the leg stretch units are configured so as to be closer to an end at the rear waistline region side as compared to an end at the rear waistline region side within the stretchable range in the crotch stretch unit. A tensile modulus of the crotch stretch unit is configured so as to be greater than a tensile modulus of the leg stretch units.Type: GrantFiled: April 25, 2013Date of Patent: May 10, 2016Assignee: UNICHARM CORPORATIONInventors: Satoru Sakaguchi, Yasuhiro Yamanaka, Tetsuo Okubo
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Patent number: 9233032Abstract: The present invention aims to provide a liquid-pervious sheet suitable to be used as a liquid-pervious topsheet of a bodily fluid-absorbent wearing article. One surface 58 of both surfaces 57, 58 of a liquid-pervious sheet 11 is formed with crests 61 and troughs 62 extending in parallel to one another in a longitudinal direction A and alternate in a transverse direction B. The one surface 58 is additionally formed at least in the respective crests 61 with a series of compressed debosses 70. In the respective compressed debosses 70, thermoplastic synthetic fibers forming the liquid-pervious sheet 11 more densely gather together than in zones surrounding the respective compressed debosses 70 and thereby maintain initial fiber formation of the individual thermoplastic synthetic fibers.Type: GrantFiled: November 30, 2011Date of Patent: January 12, 2016Assignee: Unicharm CorporationInventors: Yasuhiro Yamanaka, Naoto Ohashi