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: 20150370456Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: February 12, 2014Publication date: December 24, 2015Applicant: Sony Computer 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: 9205005Abstract: An absorbent article has a liquid-permeable top sheet of a white non-woven fabric, a liquid-impermeable back sheet opposing the top sheet, and an absorbent between the top sheet and the back sheet. A colored element is provided on the side of the top sheet that does not contact the skin, is visible through the top sheet, and is colored to a color other than white. The top sheet has protrusions and indentations in the thickness direction. The basic weight of the protrusions is greater than the basic weight of the indentations. The color difference between the Lab value of the color of the colored element visible through the protrusions of the top sheet and the Lab value of the color of the colored element visible through the indentations of the top sheet is 2.8 or more.Type: GrantFiled: September 26, 2011Date of Patent: December 8, 2015Assignee: UNICHARM CORPORATIONInventors: Kyo Kikuchi, Kei Wakasugi, Junko Ueda, Naoto Ohashi, Yasuhiro Yamanaka
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Publication number: 20150343918Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: May 27, 2015Publication date: December 3, 2015Applicant: MITSUBISHI JIDOSHA KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Yu WATANABE, Noriyoshi AIBA, Takashi NONAKA, Kenji KONDO, Yasuhiro YAMANAKA
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Publication number: 20150297426Abstract: In so far as a disposable diaper is concerned, fastening tapes each are composed of a plurality of nonwoven cloth sheets; embossment is provided at a backsheet which is provided at a most non-skin contact surface side of a respective one of nonwoven cloth sheets which correspond to a joint region in which the fastening tapes are joined at both side edges of the disposable diaper; and embossment having a same shape as or a similar shape to a shape of the embossment that is provided at the backsheet is provided at the nonwoven cloth sheet that is provided at the most non-skin contact surface side of the respective one of nonwoven cloth sheets that constitute the fastening tapes.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 27, 2013Publication date: October 22, 2015Applicant: UNICHARM CORPORTIONInventors: Satoru SAKAGUCHI, Yasuhiro YAMANAKA, Kana SAWA
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Publication number: 20150271556Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: October 30, 2013Publication date: September 24, 2015Inventors: George Arriola, Anahi Bagu Casas, Shinji Kimura, Shigeru Enomoto, Yasuhiro Yamanaka, Motoki Kobayashi, Shuji Hiramatsu, Yumiko Tanaka, Taku Sugawara
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Publication number: 20150271555Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: October 30, 2013Publication date: September 24, 2015Applicant: Sony Computer Entertainment Inc.Inventors: George Arriola, Anahi Bagu Casas, Shinji Kimura, Shiqeru Enomoto, Yasuhiro Yamanaka, Motoki Kobayashi, Shuji Hiramatsu, Yumiko Tanaka, Taku Sugawara
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Publication number: 20150248204Abstract: A home screen display unit displays a home screen indicating a plurality of menus. If an execution menu of a game application is selected in the home screen, a game screen display unit displays in full screen a game screen indicating an execution result of the game application. If an execution menu of an application other than a game is selected in the home screen, a browser screen display unit displays in full screen a browser screen indicating an execution result of the application other than a game. A screen transition control unit allows a direct transition from the game screen to the browser screen if a predetermined operation is performed while the game screen is displayed, and allows a direct transition from the browser screen to the game screen if the predetermined operation is performed while the browser screen is displayed.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 28, 2013Publication date: September 3, 2015Inventors: Toru Morita, You Asakura, Shigeru Enomoto, Motoki Kobayashi, Shuji Hiramatsu, Yasuhiro Yamanaka
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Publication number: 20150238367Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: September 27, 2013Publication date: August 27, 2015Inventors: Satoru Sakaguchi, Yasuhiro Yamanaka, Kana Sawa
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Publication number: 20150119841Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: April 25, 2013Publication date: April 30, 2015Inventors: Satoru Sakaguchi, Yasuhiro Yamanaka
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Publication number: 20150073374Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: April 25, 2013Publication date: March 12, 2015Applicant: UNICHARM CORPORATIONInventors: Satoru Sakaguchi, Yasuhiro Yamanaka, Tetsuo Okubo
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Patent number: 8949732Abstract: The present invention provides screen displaying technology allowing improvement in operability and convenience for the user. A screen display apparatus receives a content, displays a plurality of tabs in a display screen, corresponds content information to any one of the plurality of tabs, and displays the content information corresponding to a displaying tab. In the case of corresponding content information to a non-displaying tab other than the displaying tab, it is determined whether or not a there is a non-corresponded, non-displaying tab to which other content information is not corresponded, and when the non-corresponded, non-displaying tab does not exist, the non-displaying tab selected based on a predetermined selection condition and the content information are corresponded.Type: GrantFiled: February 23, 2011Date of Patent: February 3, 2015Assignees: Sony Corporation, Sony Computer Entertainmant Inc.Inventors: Fumitake Yodo, Yasuhiro Yamanaka, Yasushi Okumura
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Publication number: 20150025490Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: March 28, 2013Publication date: January 22, 2015Applicant: UNICHARM cORPORATIONInventors: Satoru Sakaguchi, Kana Sawa, Yasuhiro Yamanaka
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Publication number: 20140316364Abstract: 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 SA L L 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: ApplicationFiled: August 24, 2012Publication date: October 23, 2014Applicant: UNICHARM CORPORATIONInventors: Satoru Sakaguchi, Yasuhiro Yamanaka
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Patent number: 8866776Abstract: A device with a display is provided with a first touch pad on the front face of the device and a second touch pad on the rear face. When an operation is performed only on the first touch pad, the process allocated to the point of contact or the pattern of movement thereof is identified and executed. When both the first and second touch pads are used for operation, the process defined to correspond to a combination of modes of movement of the points of contact is identified and executed. When an operation is performed only on the second touch pad, only the component of the movement of the point of contact in a limited direction is extracted to calculate the amount of scrolling, and a scroll process is performed accordingly.Type: GrantFiled: August 21, 2012Date of Patent: October 21, 2014Assignees: Sony Corporation, Sony Computer Entertainment Inc.Inventors: Yasuhiro Yamanaka, Takashi Hatakeda, Fumitake Yodo
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Patent number: 8850253Abstract: An information processing unit having an auto power-off function includes a mode setting means for setting one mode from a plurality of pre-prepared modes. The pre-prepared modes include a first power-saving mode and a second power-saving mode. Also included are a processing execution means for executing game application or contents replay as internal processing, and a power controlling means for controlling power of the information processing unit. The power controlling means continues power-on in the first power-saving mode and changes to power-off in the second power-saving mode when a non-operated state in which no input operation has been carried out by the user has continued for a predetermined time or longer during execution of the internal processing.Type: GrantFiled: January 25, 2013Date of Patent: September 30, 2014Assignee: Sony Computer Entertainment Inc.Inventors: Yasuhiro Yamanaka, Fumiaki Hisamatsu
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Publication number: 20140195097Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: January 7, 2014Publication date: July 10, 2014Applicant: Mitsubishi Jidosha Kogyo Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Yasuhiro YAMANAKA, Takashi NONAKA
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Publication number: 20130307784Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: July 16, 2013Publication date: November 21, 2013Inventors: Takeshi Matsuzawa, Takashi Amada, Ryota Uchino, Yasuhiro Yamanaka
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Publication number: 20130300669Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: July 16, 2013Publication date: November 14, 2013Inventors: Takeshi Matsuzawa, Takashi Amada, Ryota Uchino, Yasuhiro Yamanaka
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Publication number: 20130305178Abstract: An input control unit includes: a keyboard display unit for displaying characters that can be input on a screen; an input receiving unit for receiving a selection of a character from a user; an input character string acquiring unit for acquiring the selected character and adding the selected character to an input character string; a conversion candidate acquiring unit for acquiring conversion candidate character strings, which are conversions of a character string including the input character string; and a conversion candidate display unit for arranging and displaying the conversion candidate character strings in a row or column and receiving a user's selection. In a case where the conversion candidate character strings do not fit within the row or column, the conversion candidate display unit causes the conversion candidate character strings to scroll within the row or column upon receiving a flick operation.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 16, 2013Publication date: November 14, 2013Inventors: Takeshi Matsuzawa, Takashi Amada, Ryota Uchino, Yasuhiro Yamanaka
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Publication number: 20130236700Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: November 30, 2011Publication date: September 12, 2013Applicant: UNICHAM CORPORATIONInventors: Yasuhiro Yamanaka, Naoto Ohashi