Patents by Inventor Akio Aoki

Akio Aoki 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).

  • Publication number: 20250005876
    Abstract: A virtual space control system sets a virtual space in a first virtual space, and expresses an embodiment space embodying a second virtual space in the virtual space. Virtual objects embodying embodiment target objects in the second virtual space are disposed in the virtual space. A disposition configuration of the virtual objects in the first virtual space is aligned with a disposition configuration of the embodiment target objects in the second virtual space, which are associated with the virtual objects. captured images serving as sources of embodiment images that undergo texture mapping onto the virtual objects are generated in a sub-server system. The embodiment images are created by causing the captured images to undergo calculation amount reduction processing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 16, 2024
    Publication date: January 2, 2025
    Applicant: BANDAI NAMCO ENTERTAINMENT INC.
    Inventors: Takayoshi OI, Koji ASUNA, Kiyoshi MINAMI, Kenichi OGURA, Akio ONDA, Takashi AOKI, Shintaro MURAI
  • Publication number: 20250001291
    Abstract: A portal server system manages a plurality of cyberspaces in which users can participate. Each cyberspace is associated with a participation disallowance condition including at least a condition that participation exceeding a given allowable number of participants is not allowed. The portal server system includes a participation possibility determination section that determines whether a user can participate in a cyberspace based on the participation disallowance condition associated with the cyberspace, and a participation allowed state setting section that, when a given specific user participating in a first cyberspace among the cyberspaces leaves the first cyberspace, sets the specific user to a participation allowed state in which the participation possibility determination section allows the specific user to participate in the first cyberspace.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 16, 2024
    Publication date: January 2, 2025
    Applicant: BANDAI NAMCO ENTERTAINMENT INC.
    Inventors: Takayoshi Oi, Koji Asuna, Kiyoshi Minami, Kenichi Ogura, Akio Onda, Takashi Aoki, Shintaro Murai
  • Publication number: 20250001293
    Abstract: A computer system controls in parallel multiple virtual spaces that are set so as to have a common world view and that enables users to change their participation virtual spaces, manages occurrence incidents, which are incidents that occur or probably occur in each virtual space, and manages a target user's participation record for the first virtual space. Moreover, the computer system manages a restriction on target user's participation in a virtual space other than the first virtual space, based on (a) the difference between the first occurrence incident, which is an occurrence incident in the first virtual space, and an occurrence incident in the virtual space other than the first virtual space, and (b) the target user's participation record for the first virtual space.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 16, 2024
    Publication date: January 2, 2025
    Applicant: BANDAI NAMCO ENTERTAINMENT INC.
    Inventors: Takayoshi OI, Koji ASUNA, Kiyoshi MINAMI, Kenichi OGURA, Akio ONDA, Takashi AOKI, Shintaro MURAI
  • Patent number: 12164188
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, an electronic device includes a liquid crystal panel and a camera. The liquid crystal panel includes a display area, an incident light control area, and an emitted light control area. The camera includes a light-entering surface and a light source. The liquid crystal panel is configured to selectively transmit visible light emitted from the light source in the emitted light control area and to selectively transmit visible light from outside in order to cause visible light to enter the camera from the outside in the incident light control area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2024
    Assignee: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventors: Yoshiro Aoki, Akio Takimoto, Nobuyuki Suzuki, Yoshiomi Yoshii, Hirondo Nakatogawa
  • Patent number: 11531266
    Abstract: An imprinting method in which a pattern of an imprint material can be formed on a substrate while damage of a concave and convex pattern of a mold due to foreign particle is more reliably prevented is provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 20, 2022
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Akio Aoki, Tadashi Hattori
  • Publication number: 20210055649
    Abstract: An imprinting method in which a pattern of an imprint material can be formed on a substrate while damage of a concave and convex pattern of a mold due to foreign particle is more reliably prevented is provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 23, 2020
    Publication date: February 25, 2021
    Inventors: Akio Aoki, Tadashi Hattori
  • Patent number: 9352211
    Abstract: The present invention provides a glove comprises a main body adapted to receive a wearer's hand and a wrist cuff suspended over the main body. The main body further comprises a plurality of finger parts and a back hand part. The back hand part comprises a first protective panel hingedly connected at one end to the main body so that the first protective panel is suspend over the main body and slidably overlapped with a second protective panel. As the first protective panel slides over the second protective panel following the bending action of the fingers, a coordinated movement of the hand can be achieved. The second protective panel is also hingedly connected to the main body suspended over the main body and the wrist cuff, which allows for more coordinated rotating movement of the hand and the wrist following the bending action of the fingers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 30, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 31, 2016
    Assignee: Warrior Sports, Inc.
    Inventors: Akio Aoki, Jocelyn Ventocilla
  • Publication number: 20140259282
    Abstract: The present invention provides a glove comprises a main body adapted to receive a wearer's hand and a wrist cuff suspended over the main body. The main body further comprises a plurality of finger parts and a back hand part. The back hand part comprises a first protective panel hingedly connected at one end to the main body so that the first protective panel is suspend over the main body and slidably overlapped with a second protective panel. As the first protective panel slides over the second protective panel following the bending action of the fingers, a coordinated movement of the hand can be achieved. The second protective panel is also hingedly connected to the main body suspended over the main body and the wrist cuff, which allows for more coordinated rotating movement of the hand and the wrist following the bending action of the fingers.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 30, 2014
    Publication date: September 18, 2014
    Applicant: Warrior Sports, Inc.
    Inventors: Akio Aoki, Jocelyn Ventocilla
  • Patent number: 8769720
    Abstract: The present invention provides a glove comprises a main body adapted to receive a wearer's hand and a wrist cuff suspended over the main body. The main body further comprises a plurality of finger parts and a back hand part. The back hand part comprises a first protective panel hingedly connected at one end to the main body so that the first protective panel is suspend over the main body and slidably overlapped with a second protective panel. As the first protective panel slides over the second protective panel following the bending action of the fingers, a coordinated movement of the hand can be achieved. The second protective panel is also hingedly connected to the main body suspended over the main body and the wrist cuff, which allows for more coordinated rotating movement of the hand and the wrist following the bending action of the fingers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 23, 2011
    Date of Patent: July 8, 2014
    Assignee: Warrior Sports, Inc.
    Inventors: Akio Aoki, Jocelyn Ventocilla
  • Patent number: 8574479
    Abstract: In an imprinting method for transferring a pattern of a mold to a resin coated on a substrate by using an imprinting apparatus including a mold holding unit and a resin coating unit, the resin is coated in n shot areas arranged in a direction parallel to a direction in which the holding unit and the coating unit are arranged where n is an integer equal to or greater than 2, and the pattern is transferred to the shot areas on a one-by-one basis. A distance D between the coating unit and the mold and a width W of each shot area as seen in the direction parallel to the direction in which the holding unit and the coating unit are arranged are selected so as to satisfy a condition D>(3/2?1/n)W, and the coating and the transferring are performed repeatedly on the substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 3, 2010
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2013
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Akio Aoki, Hiroshi Inada
  • Publication number: 20120297514
    Abstract: The present invention provides a glove comprises a main body adapted to receive a wearer's hand and a wrist cuff suspended over the main body. The main body further comprises a plurality of finger parts and a back hand part. The back hand part comprises a first protective panel hingedly connected at one end to the main body so that the first protective panel is suspend over the main body and slidably overlapped with a second protective panel. As the first protective panel slides over the second protective panel following the bending action of the fingers, a coordinated movement of the hand can be achieved. The second protective panel is also hingedly connected to the main body suspended over the main body and the wrist cuff, which allows for more coordinated rotating movement of the hand and the wrist following the bending action of the fingers.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 23, 2011
    Publication date: November 29, 2012
    Applicant: Tri-Phil International, Inc.
    Inventors: Akio Aoki, Jocelyn Ventocilla
  • Publication number: 20110057354
    Abstract: In an imprinting method for transferring a pattern of a mold to a resin coated on a substrate by using an imprinting apparatus including a mold holding unit and a resin coating unit, the resin is coated in n shot areas arranged in a direction parallel to a direction in which the holding unit and the coating unit are arranged where n is an integer equal to or greater than 2, and the pattern is transferred to the shot areas on a one-by-one basis. A distance D between the coating unit and the mold and a width W of each shot area as seen in the direction parallel to the direction in which the holding unit and the coating unit are arranged are selected so as to satisfy a condition D>(3/2?1/n)W, and the coating and the transferring are performed repeatedly on the substrate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 3, 2010
    Publication date: March 10, 2011
    Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Akio Aoki, Hiroshi Inada
  • Patent number: 7841017
    Abstract: A glove comprising a palm-side outer skin, a back-side outer skin, and a back-side inner skin, wherein a finger inserting space part into which a finger can be inserted between an inner surface of the back-side inner skin and an inner surface of the palm-side outer skin is constituted by sewing the back-side inner skin on an inner surface of the palm-side outer skin.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 15, 2008
    Date of Patent: November 30, 2010
    Assignee: Trion Corporation
    Inventor: Akio Aoki
  • Publication number: 20100233377
    Abstract: An imprint apparatus which includes an imprint head configured to hold a mold, and performs an imprint process including dispensing of a resin to a shot region on a substrate and pressing of the mold and the dispensed resin with each other, comprises a controller configured to control an order of the imprint process for a plurality of selected shot regions on the substrate, and a first dispenser and a second dispenser configured to dispense the resin, wherein the first dispenser is arranged on a side of a first direction with respect to the imprint head, and the second dispenser is arranged on a side of a second direction opposite to the first direction with respect to the imprint head.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 11, 2010
    Publication date: September 16, 2010
    Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Akio Aoki, Hiroshi Inada, Tohru Kohda, Hideki Ina, Hiroshi Sato
  • Patent number: 7658460
    Abstract: High-density image printing can be achieved by using ink jet print heads capable of ejecting ink. A plurality of same color print heads capable of ejecting the same color ink are controlled according to the same print data. Drive timings for the same color print heads are so set that the dots printed by these same color print heads overlap each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 1, 2005
    Date of Patent: February 9, 2010
    Assignee: Canon Finetech Inc.
    Inventor: Akio Aoki
  • Publication number: 20090172856
    Abstract: A glove includes a glove main body in which a back-side inner skin and a palm-side inner skin are fixed to a back-side outer skin and a palm-side outer skin, respectively, and a band which is provided on the glove main body for receiving and supporting a back of a hand along a width direction of the hand. The band is located at a space from a wrist-side end of the back-side outer skin. The back-side inner skin includes a folded-back portion exposed from the space.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 3, 2008
    Publication date: July 9, 2009
    Inventor: Akio AOKI
  • Patent number: 7437773
    Abstract: A ball catching apparatus according to the present invention comprises a main body in which a back-of-hand-side inner skin and a palm-side inner skin are respectively securely fitted to a back-of-hand-side outer skin and a palm-side outer skin, wherein a hand can be inserted into between the back-of-hand-side inner skin and the palm-side inner skin, an intermediate layer secured to one or both of the palm-side outer skin and the palm-side inner skin is interposed between the palm-side outer skin and the palm-side inner skin, and an air layer is formed between the intermediate layer and the palm-side outer skin and between the intermediate layer and the palm-side inner skin.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2006
    Date of Patent: October 21, 2008
    Assignee: Trion Corporation
    Inventors: Akio Aoki, Scott Keene
  • Publication number: 20080250540
    Abstract: A glove comprising a palm-side outer skin, a back-side outer skin, and a back-side inner skin, wherein a finger inserting space part into which a finger can be inserted between an inner surface of the back-side inner skin and an inner surface of the palm-side outer skin is constituted by sewing the back-side inner skin on an inner surface of the palm-side outer skin.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 15, 2008
    Publication date: October 16, 2008
    Inventor: Akio AOKI
  • Patent number: D585161
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 3, 2006
    Date of Patent: January 20, 2009
    Assignee: Rawlings Sporting Goods Company, Inc.
    Inventors: Akio Aoki, Dennis Karl Whiteside, Scott Milano Keene
  • Patent number: D592810
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 2008
    Date of Patent: May 19, 2009
    Assignee: Trion Corporation
    Inventor: Akio Aoki