Patents Assigned to MAXELL, LTD.
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Patent number: 12339568Abstract: A lens unit including a lens group formed by aligning a plurality of lenses along an optical axis; and a lens barrel having a cylindrical shape and including an inner accommodation space for accommodating and holding the lens group, the lens group including a first lens located to be closest to an object side and a second lens adjacent to the first lens on an image side, the lens unit including an annular body that integrates the first lens and the second lens and that is fit to outer circumferences of the first lens and the second lens to cover a joint portion between the first lens and the second lens from an outside, and the annular body is fit to an inner circumferential surface of the lens barrel, and includes a seal portion for tightly sealing an inside of an inter-lens space.Type: GrantFiled: June 9, 2021Date of Patent: June 24, 2025Assignee: MAXELL, LTD.Inventor: Toru Watanabe
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Patent number: 12341205Abstract: Provided is a highly reliable button-shaped alkaline battery having excellent load characteristics. A button-shaped alkaline battery includes: a positive electrode having a positive electrode mixture layer containing a silver oxide and a conductive assistant; a negative electrode containing zinc particles; an alkaline electrolyte solution; and a battery container for accommodating the positive electrode, the negative electrode, and the alkaline electrolyte solution, the battery container including an outer can, a sealing plate, and a resin gasket. The positive electrode mixture layer contains carbon black and graphite particles as the conductive assistant, and an amount of water in the battery container is 0.63 to 1 g per 1 g of the zinc particles of the negative electrode.Type: GrantFiled: July 9, 2021Date of Patent: June 24, 2025Assignee: MAXELL, LTD.Inventor: Yusuke Inoue
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Publication number: 20250201802Abstract: The electrode for a non-aqueous electrolyte secondary battery of the present invention has a molded body of an electrode composition containing at least particles of an electrode active material, a solid electrolyte, and particles of a conductive assistant. The volume-based particle size distribution of the particles of the electrode active material has two distributions: that is, a distribution of small particles with a diameter D1 at the maximum frequency, and another distribution of large particles with a diameter D2 at the maximum frequency. The volume fraction of the large particles is larger than the volume fraction of the small particles. The mode diameters D3 of the particles of the conductive assistant obtained from the cross section and D2 are D3?D2. The average distance of the gravity centers between adjacent particles of the conductive assistant has a relationship of L?D2.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 3, 2023Publication date: June 19, 2025Applicant: MAXELL, LTD.Inventors: Kentaro Tomita, Hideaki Katayama, Haruki Kamizori
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Patent number: 12332435Abstract: The information display apparatus has a housing with an opening and a transparent cover formed on the opening, the housing includes image-light generating means configured to generate image light that displays the image information and an optical system configured to allow a driver of the vehicle to recognize image information based on the image light from the image-light generating means as a virtual image in front of the windshield. When S-polarized light on the windshield is assumed to be a first polarized wave while polarized light that orthogonally crosses the S-polarized light in a polarizing direction is assumed to be a second polarized wave, the image-light generating means is configured to generate the image light made of the first polarized wave, and a transmittance/reflectance control means blocks a part of the first polarized wave and the second polarized wave of incident external light entering the housing from the opening.Type: GrantFiled: February 2, 2024Date of Patent: June 17, 2025Assignee: MAXELL, LTD.Inventors: Tomoki Yamamoto, Toshinori Sugiyama, Koji Hirata, Masahiko Yatsu
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Patent number: 12329534Abstract: Provided is a biological examination apparatus and a biological information analysis method capable of quickly grasping a two-dimensional motions of the up-down and front-back directions of the thyroid cartilage and the lingual bone accompanied by a swallowing sound as swallowing dynamics by a non-invasive examination.Type: GrantFiled: April 23, 2021Date of Patent: June 17, 2025Assignee: MAXELL, LTD.Inventors: Yasuaki Nakamura, Akihiko Kandori, Tomohiko Mizuguchi
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Patent number: 12335098Abstract: In a smartphone or a personal computer, when there is an application which performs communication which a user is unconscious of, a communication volume increases unintentionally, and there arise problems in that a maximum communication volume is exceed, a network bandwidth of a base station is compressed, or communication being intentionally performed is disturbed. In order to solve the above problems, provided is a communication control method used in a communication control device capable of performing communication using an application via a communication line, and includes an application control step of switching a plurality of applications between a foreground state and a background state and a communication control step of changing an allocation amount of a network bandwidth of an application in accordance with whether the switched application is in the foreground state or the background state.Type: GrantFiled: July 20, 2023Date of Patent: June 17, 2025Assignee: MAXELL, LTD.Inventor: Akira Sasaki
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Patent number: 12325302Abstract: In an information display system that allows an observer to visually recognize image information displayed on an image display apparatus by superimposing the image on an external scenery through a window glass and a combiner, the system includes a light source apparatus that supplies light having a specific polarization direction at a narrow divergence angle to the image display apparatus, a reflection position of the image is changed by arranging a position and an angle of the image display apparatus with respect to the window glass so that the position and the angle change while a monitoring angle of the image visually recognized by the observer is constant, and a virtual image display distance of the image visually recognized by the observer and a size of the image of the virtual image can be changed by the arrangement state in the vehicle.Type: GrantFiled: October 7, 2020Date of Patent: June 10, 2025Assignee: MAXELL, LTD.Inventors: Koji Hirata, Toshinori Sugiyama, Koji Fujita, Kouichi Kajiwara, Eiji Takagi
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Patent number: 12326627Abstract: A display device includes a backlight, a display element, a plate for holding at least a portion of an emission surface, from which an image light is emitted, provided on the display element, and a heat dissipation portion that dissipates heat generated from the display element. The display element is connected to the heat dissipation portion via the plate.Type: GrantFiled: November 17, 2023Date of Patent: June 10, 2025Assignee: MAXELL, LTD.Inventors: Eiji Kawawa, Toshinori Sugiyama, Tomoki Yamamoto, Tatsuya Nakazawa, Keisuke Sawada, Akio Misawa, Nozomu Shimoda
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Patent number: 12324676Abstract: A system for displaying the results of TMT test can acquire time-dependent changes in the position of a contact part on a coordinate plane as time-series coordinate data on the basis of an electric detection signal from a sensor, acquire an elapsed time associated with movement of the contact part as time data from a timer on the basis of the detection signal from the sensor, calculate a test value relating to the movement of the contact part on the basis of the data, and generate and output a characteristic image indicating a time-dependent change in the test value.Type: GrantFiled: July 15, 2020Date of Patent: June 10, 2025Assignee: MAXELL, LTD.Inventor: Tomohiko Mizuguchi
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Patent number: 12328524Abstract: There is provided an imaging device including: an image processing unit; a face recognition processing unit; a storage unit; and a composition processing unit for generating composite data by a composition process so that persons photographed in each of a plurality of image data are included in one image data. The face recognition processing unit recognizes a first person by performing a face recognition process on first image data. When second image data obtained by photographing a second person at the different photographing timing of the first image data, with the same background as the first image data, is recorded in the storage unit, the composition processing unit generates composite data in which the first person and the second person are superimposed on the same background.Type: GrantFiled: December 4, 2023Date of Patent: June 10, 2025Assignee: MAXELL, LTD.Inventors: Masayuki Hirabayashi, Yasunobu Hashimoto, Hiroshi Shimizu
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Patent number: 12321528Abstract: A head-mounted display (HMD) 1, which is operated by a gesture operation performed by a user 3, is provided with a distance image acquisition unit 106 that detects a gesture operation, a position information acquisition unit 103 that acquires position information of the HMD 1, and a communication unit 2 that performs communication with another HMD 1?. A control unit 205 sets and displays an operating space 600 where a gesture operation performed by the user 3 is valid, exchanges position information and operating space information of the host HMD 1 and the other HMD 1 therebetween by the communication unit 2, and adjusts the operating space of the host HMD so that the operating space 600 and an operating space 600? of the other HMD 1 do not overlap each other.Type: GrantFiled: February 15, 2024Date of Patent: June 3, 2025Assignee: MAXELL, LTD.Inventors: Yo Nonomura, Naoyuki Kanda
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Patent number: 12323670Abstract: There is provided a portable terminal device 2 that notifies a television receiver 1 of a received phone call or mail. The portable terminal device 2 includes a communication unit 210 that receives a phone call or mail and communicates with the television receiver, a notification execution unit 203c that performs control in a case where information of the phone call or the mail received by the communication unit is notified to the television receiver, and a posture detection execution unit 203e that detects a posture of the portable terminal device. In a case where the communication unit receives a phone call or mail, the notification execution unit changes content of the information of the received phone call or mail according to a detection result of the posture detection execution unit and notifies the television receiver of the changed content.Type: GrantFiled: October 18, 2023Date of Patent: June 3, 2025Assignee: MAXELL, LTD.Inventors: Motoyuki Suzuki, Hiroshi Shimizu, Yasunobu Hashimoto, Kazuhiko Yoshizawa, Mitsunobu Watanabe, Tomonori Nomura
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Patent number: 12321524Abstract: A head-mounted display comprises: a camera that captures an image of the real space and acquires captured video; a distance-measuring camera that measures a distance from a real object in the real space; and a controller. The controller comprises: captured object processing for recognizing the real object from the captured video; AR object processing for obtaining the AR object and assigning a position, which includes a distance in the real space, to the AR object, and displayed video generation processing for generating displayed video in the MR space while reflecting the perspective of the real object and the AR object in the video. The controller is further provided with: processing for detecting an operation-screen display object from the captured video; and processing for displaying an MR-space operation screen on the operation-screen display object. Video on the operation screen includes the AR object in the MR space.Type: GrantFiled: May 22, 2019Date of Patent: June 3, 2025Assignee: MAXELL, LTD.Inventors: Mayumi Nakade, Yasunobu Hashimoto, Masuo Oku
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Patent number: 12317006Abstract: A projection video display apparatus includes a video input unit, a light source, a display element, a projection optical system, and a variable light adjusting function which changes the amount of light incident on the display element. Display modes using the variable light adjusting function are prepared, and one display mode of the display modes can be selected from a menu screen. Further, the display modes of the display video using the variable light adjusting function includes: a first display mode where the input video is displayed while changing a light adjusting amount in accordance with light adjusting control information, which is input from external equipment and is capable of controlling the variable light adjusting function in unit of frame of a projected video; and a second display mode where the input video is displayed while changing a light adjusting amount in accordance with the input video.Type: GrantFiled: April 19, 2024Date of Patent: May 27, 2025Assignee: MAXELL, LTD.Inventors: Takuya Shimizu, Shinji Onodera
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Patent number: 12302204Abstract: When storing captured image data in an information server, a mobile information terminal transmits related information (date and time information, location information, direction angle information, information of a distance to a subject, and user identification information) at the time of imaging to the information server. In addition, when making a request for the image data stored in the information server, current terminal information and image search conditions describing image data replay conditions are transmitted to the information server. The information server searches for corresponding image data based on the current terminal information and the image search conditions and transmits the corresponding image data to the mobile information terminal. The mobile information terminal displays the received image data on the display unit as a related image. Therefore, a user can effectively recall the memories, such as a situation or impression at the time of imaging.Type: GrantFiled: March 31, 2023Date of Patent: May 13, 2025Assignee: MAXELL, LTD.Inventors: Kazuhiko Yoshizawa, Nobuo Masuoka, Hideyuki Nagata
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Patent number: 12299771Abstract: A portable video display device includes a sensor that detects a position and a direction of a user, a trajectory information acquisition unit that acquires information of a migration trajectory of the user; a storage unit that stores trajectory information of the user and information of an avatar, and a display unit that displays the migration trajectory of the user with the avatar. A control unit generates an avatar, calculates a current visual field area of the user using the sensor, and displays the avatar on the display unit so as to be disposed in the migration trajectory of the user according to the current visual field area of the user based on the trajectory information of the user stored in the storage unit. When the avatar is moved along the migration trajectory of the user, the avatar is moved from new trajectory information to old trajectory information in time.Type: GrantFiled: February 26, 2019Date of Patent: May 13, 2025Assignee: MAXELL, LTD.Inventors: Mayumi Nakade, Tamotsu Ito, Yasunobu Hashimoto
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Patent number: 12299034Abstract: An automatic video production device that performs fitting or fusion processing of a predetermined child video object that is not included in a parent video into a predetermined video scene of the parent video content as a video fusion source, the automatic video production device including a video content interpreting unit that interprets the entirety or a part of the video content of the parent video content, or divides the parent video content into a predetermined parent video scene to generate processing data that is predetermined parent video interpretation data obtained by converting a content interpretation result of the parent video or a division result of the parent video scene into data in a predetermined description format.Type: GrantFiled: October 31, 2023Date of Patent: May 13, 2025Assignee: MAXELL, LTD.Inventors: Kunikazu Oonishi, Seiji Murata
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Patent number: 12294763Abstract: A digital broadcast receiving apparatus capable of executing a function with a higher added value is provided. A broadcast receiving apparatus configured to receive contents includes: a receiving unit configured to receive the contents; an interface through which the contents received by the receiving unit are outputted; and a control unit configured to control an output state of the contents from the interface. The control unit is configured to determine an output state of the contents from the interface in accordance with a combination of control information indicating a copy control state of the contents, control information for specifying whether protection is required or not when the contents are to be outputted, information indicating resolution of video of the contents, and information indicating transmission characteristics of the video of the contents, which are received by the receiving unit together with the contents.Type: GrantFiled: October 27, 2023Date of Patent: May 6, 2025Assignee: MAXELL, LTD.Inventors: Takuya Shimizu, Kazuhiko Yoshizawa, Yasunobu Hashimoto, Nobuo Masuoka, Nobuaki Kabuto
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Patent number: 12294814Abstract: A watching monitoring apparatus includes a monitoring camera and a home server, and monitors a watching space in which a watched person exists. The monitoring camera images the watching space. The home server includes a person detector that detects a person from a captured image, and classifies the detected person into a face part and a body part, a processing-drawing part that performs a processing-drawing process with respect to the body part except for the face part, an image synthesizer that creates a synthesized image of an image subjected to the processing-drawing process and the captured image, and a network part through which the synthesized image is transmitted to a display terminal of a watching person. When the detected person has not been registered in face information registration data in which face information of the watched person is registered, the processing-drawing process is not performed with respect to the person.Type: GrantFiled: June 10, 2020Date of Patent: May 6, 2025Assignee: MAXELL, Ltd.Inventors: Koji Kaniwa, Masuo Oku
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Patent number: 12287480Abstract: The information display apparatus configured to display video information of a virtual image on a reflecting surface of conveyance includes: a display configured to display the video information; and a virtual image optical system configured to display a virtual image at a front of the conveyance by reflecting light emitted from the display by means of the reflecting surface. The virtual image optical system includes a concave mirror and an optical element. The optical element is arranged between the display and the concave mirror, and is configured to correct distortion of the virtual image obtained so as to correspond to a viewpoint position of a driver on a basis of a shape of the concave mirror and a shape of the optical element. The information display apparatus further includes a virtual image double image conversion reducer configured to reduce double image conversion of the virtual image.Type: GrantFiled: February 14, 2024Date of Patent: April 29, 2025Assignees: MAXELL, LTD., HITACHI INDUSTRY & CONTROL SOLUTIONS, LTD.Inventors: Koji Hirata, Masahiko Yatsu, Toshinori Sugiyama, Kazuomi Kaneko