Patents Assigned to MAXELL, LTD.
  • Patent number: 12249725
    Abstract: The all-solid-state battery 1 includes: an exterior can 2 with a bottom 21; a seal can 3 having a flat portion 31 and facing the exterior can 2; and a power generation element 4 contained between the exterior can 2 and seal can 3, where at least one of the inner surface of the bottom 21 of the exterior can 2 and the inner surface of the flat portion 31 of the seal can 3 includes a recess-protrusion structure. The battery includes a conductive sheet 5 located between that one of the inner surfaces which includes the recess-protrusion structure and the power generation element 4, the conductive sheet having an ability to recover against a pressing force. The rate of recovery of the conductive sheet 5 against a pressing force is not lower than 7%.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 11, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 11, 2025
    Assignee: MAXELL, LTD.
    Inventors: Katsuhiro Fujikawa, Takuma Morishita, Takumi Otsuka
  • Patent number: 12250338
    Abstract: The information processing terminal that performs automatic response, comprises: a database configured to store personal information of a user of the information processing terminal; a receiver configured to receive an access and a message from an access partner; an automatic response unit configured to, after receiving the access, perform a request to the access partner to transmit the message when an operation in response to the access is not input in the information processing terminal, and create a response to the message which has been received in response to the request; and a transmitter configured to transmit the response to the access partner, wherein the automatic response unit includes: an intention recognition unit configured to recognize an intension of the message; and a response creation unit configured to create a response to the message by referring to the intension of the message and the personal information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 19, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 11, 2025
    Assignee: MAXELL, LTD.
    Inventors: Hirokazu Ishii, Tomonori Nomura, Akira Ishiyama
  • Patent number: 12238308
    Abstract: More suitable image encoding technique and image decoding technique are provided. An image encoding method for encoding an image includes: a predicted image generation step of generating a predicted image of a synthesis prediction by performing synthesis processing of synthesizing a predicted image of an inter prediction and a predicted image of an intra prediction to an encoding-target block; and an encoding step of encoding a difference between the predicted image generated in the predicted image generation step and a pixel value of an image of the encoding-target block, the synthesizing processing includes weighting processing performed to the predicted image of the inter prediction and the predicted image of the intra prediction, and a weighting parameter of the weighting processing is determined in accordance with a type of the intra prediction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2025
    Assignee: MAXELL, LTD.
    Inventor: Takuya Shimizu
  • Patent number: 12238377
    Abstract: In a broadcast receiving apparatus including: a broadcast receiving unit configured to receive control information regarding contents of digital broadcasting and content protection for the contents; an accumulation unit configured to accumulate the contents received by the broadcast receiving unit; a video output unit configured to output video of the contents received by the broadcast receiving unit or video of the contents accumulated by the accumulation unit to external equipment; an interface; and a control unit, switching of content protecting processes are executed in accordance with the number of pixels of video of contents in a first video outputting process state to output contents to external equipment without accumulation, a second video outputting process state to output contents to external equipment after an accumulating process, a copying process state, and a moving process state, and control is executed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 6, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2025
    Assignee: MAXELL, LTD.
    Inventors: Takuya Shimizu, Kazuhiko Yoshizawa, Yasunobu Hashimoto, Nobuo Masuoka
  • Patent number: 12235444
    Abstract: In a linked display system in which wireless communication connection between a first information device and a second information device has been established, when the first information device transmits text data to the second information device in a state of displaying content containing the text data and image data, the second information device displays the text data while the first information device stops displaying the text data and enlarges and displays the image data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2025
    Assignee: MAXELL, LTD.
    Inventors: Megumi Kurachi, Masuo Oku, Hirokazu Ishii, Osamu Kawamae, Yasunobu Hashimoto, Kazuhiko Yoshizawa
  • Patent number: 12236544
    Abstract: A display terminal having a display includes a color image camera and a distance image camera for acquiring a color image and a distance image of a predetermined photographing range, respectively, and a display control unit for displaying a virtual object on the display. The display control unit includes a space recognition unit for using the color image and the distance image to generate a three-dimensional map of a structural object, a display data generation unit for generating display data in which a rear region of the virtual object behind the structural object in a line-of-sight direction is specified, based on the three-dimensional map and real space placement position data of the virtual object, and the display correction unit for correcting the display data to display operation points of the rear region, which accept an operation instruction to the virtual object, and displaying it on the display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 2024
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2025
    Assignee: MAXELL, LTD.
    Inventors: Junji Shiokawa, Yasunobu Hashimoto, Mitsunobu Watanabe
  • Patent number: 12229334
    Abstract: A video display device comprising; a display; an exercise amount detection sensor configured to detect an exercise amount of a viewer while the viewer is viewing content displayed and output sensor information; a timer that measures a viewing time; and a processor. The processor: acquires the viewing time from the timer; calculates the exercise amount of the viewer based on the sensor information acquired within a predetermined period of viewing time; compares the exercise amount with an exercise facilitation threshold for determining whether to facilitate exercise for the viewer; displays a specific object within a display area of the display when the exercise amount falls below the exercise facilitation threshold; and moves the specific object from an inside of the display area to an outside thereof in accordance with an external coordinate system expressing a position in a real space associated with a two-dimensional coordinate system in the display area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2024
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2025
    Assignee: MAXELL, LTD.
    Inventors: Mayumi Nakade, Hitoshi Akiyama, Nobutaka Okuyama
  • Patent number: 12231825
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: October 10, 2024
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2025
    Assignee: MAXELL, LTD.
    Inventors: Takuya Shimizu, Shinji Onodera
  • Patent number: 12225153
    Abstract: A portable terminal apparatus includes a display unit displaying an image, an operation input unit inputting a user operation, and a wireless communication unit performing wireless communication by a wireless LAN, and at a time of startup from a sleep state, a remote control button is displayed on the display unit when a mutual communication with a predetermined access point can be performed in the wireless communication unit, and when the remote control button is selected, a remote control signal corresponding to the selected remote control button is transmitted.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 5, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2025
    Assignee: MAXELL, LTD.
    Inventors: Nobuo Masuoka, Yasunobu Hashimoto
  • Patent number: 12225281
    Abstract: A mobile terminal in which an imaging unit is provided on a front surface side and a display unit and a sensor are provided on a back surface side includes a signal processing unit which, from a signal output by the imaging unit, generates information to be displayed by the display unit, and a control unit into which a signal from the sensor is input and which controls the signal processing unit. A display state of the display unit based on the control performed by the control unit includes a first display state for display in a first display region if no detection signal is being input from the sensor, and a second display state for display in a second display region if a detection signal is being input from the sensor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 24, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2025
    Assignee: MAXELL, LTD.
    Inventor: Ryuji Nishimura
  • Patent number: 12216278
    Abstract: A light source device which is miniaturized, can be manufactured at low cost, and is suitable as an illumination light source of a display device of an electronic device such as an HUD and an aerial floating image display apparatus is provided. The light source device includes: a light source configured to generate white light by irradiating a phosphor with light emitted from a solid-state light source; a collimating optical system (15) configured to convert a divergent light flux of the white light emitted from the light source into parallel light; a light guide configured to cause the light emitted from the collimating optical system (15) to be incident as incident light and emit the incident light in a direction different from an incident direction; and a filter configured to reflect light in a blue region of the parallel light to irradiate the phosphor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 2024
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2025
    Assignee: MAXELL, LTD.
    Inventors: Koji Hirata, Toshinori Sugiyama, Yasuhiko Kunii
  • Patent number: 12219202
    Abstract: A digital content operating apparatus, including: a communication unit which communicates with an external device which has a display for displaying the digital content; a user operation interface which receives a user operation to control the digital content which is displayed on the external device; a display which displays either a linear content operation panel or an interactive content operation panel; and a controller which controls the user operation interface corresponding to information on the digital content which is displayed on the external device; wherein either the linear content operation panel or the interactive content operation panel is displayed alternatively as the user operation interface on the display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2024
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2025
    Assignee: MAXELL, LTD.
    Inventors: Yoshihiro Machida, Nobuhiro Tsutsumi, Kouji Kamogawa
  • Publication number: 20250033336
    Abstract: A co-extruded sheet contains a polycarbonate resin, and includes a core layer formed from a foam resin, a skin layer formed from a non-foaming resin and laminated to one major surface of the core layer, and a second skin layer laminated to another major surface of the core layer. A melt volume-flow rate of the polycarbonate resin contained in the core layer (MVRc) and a melt volume-flow rate of the polycarbonate resin contained in one of the skin layers (MVRs) satisfy the following expression, (1): 1.5 ? MVRs / MVRc ? 8. .
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 28, 2023
    Publication date: January 30, 2025
    Applicant: MAXELL, LTD.
    Inventors: Toshiharu GOTO, Satoshi YAMAMOTO, Kei MIZUTANI
  • Patent number: 12210680
    Abstract: Provided is a technique in which, in arranging a virtual object with respect to a real space, a user has less trouble, usability is good, and the object is suitably placeable. A head mounted display apparatus (HMD apparatus) according to one embodiment has a function of arranging and displaying the virtual object in a space based on an operation by a user. The HMD apparatus displays, on a display surface, a grid including a plurality of points for supporting an operation of the virtual object, and disposes and displays, according to an operation includes designation of a target virtual object and designation of a first point at an arrangement destination, the target virtual object at the position of the first point.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2025
    Assignee: MAXELL, LTD.
    Inventors: Yasunobu Hashimoto, Hitoshi Akiyama, Megumi Kurachi
  • Patent number: 12212897
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: October 10, 2024
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2025
    Assignee: MAXELL, LTD.
    Inventors: Takuya Shimizu, Shinji Onodera
  • Patent number: 12204104
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a head-up display apparatus further reduced in size, the head-up display apparatus having: an image display apparatus including a light source and a display element; and a virtual image optical system in which light emitted from the image display apparatus is reflected by a windshield or a combiner of the vehicle so that a virtual image is displayed in front of the vehicle, wherein the virtual image optical system has a concave mirror and a distortion correcting lens, and the distortion correcting lens is disposed between the image display apparatus and the concave mirror, the concave mirror is disposed in a housing including an outer case along a shape of an effective light path area of the image light from the image display apparatus, and the image display apparatus is attached to part of an outer periphery of the housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 7, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2025
    Assignee: MAXELL, LTD.
    Inventors: Akio Misawa, Nozomu Shimoda, Kazuomi Kaneko, Koji Hirata, Toshinori Sugiyama
  • Patent number: 12204101
    Abstract: A head-up display apparatus includes a display panel configured to display an image, and a reflecting mirror configured to reflect light from the display panel. An optical distance between the reflecting mirror and the display panel is changed to continuously change a display position of a virtual image from a distant place to an adjacent position such that a virtual image obtained by being reflected at an upper portion of a windshield is formed farther than a virtual image obtained by being reflected at a lower portion of the windshield when viewed from a viewpoint position of a driver.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 16, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2025
    Assignees: MAXELL, LTD., Hitachi Industry & Control Solutions, Ltd.
    Inventors: Koji Hirata, Masahiko Yatsu, Toshinori Sugiyama, Kazuomi Kaneko, Shigeki Hoshino
  • Patent number: D1061902
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 5, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2025
    Assignee: MAXELL, LTD.
    Inventor: Takeshi Saito
  • Patent number: D1061903
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 5, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2025
    Assignee: MAXELL, LTD.
    Inventor: Takeshi Saito
  • Patent number: D1061904
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 5, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2025
    Assignee: MAXELL, LTD.
    Inventor: Takeshi Saito