Patents by Inventor Akira Inoue
Akira Inoue 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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INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, TERMINAL DEVICE, AND DISPLAY METHOD
Publication number: 20240380722Abstract: An information processing apparatus according to the present disclosure includes: an acquisition unit that acquires group content information regarding a content of a conversation in at least one or more groups among a plurality of groups in which a plurality of users participating in a remote meeting are divided and can have a conversation in each group; and an output unit that outputs plural group list information that displays the group content information in association with a corresponding group together with the plurality of groups.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 24, 2022Publication date: November 14, 2024Inventors: YOSHINORI MAEDA, YASUHARU ASANO, KEIICHI YAMADA, AKIRA INOUE -
Patent number: 12138555Abstract: A distribution system distributes a viewing video to a user terminal of each of plural users who are viewers, the distribution system having a computer receiving a user operation inputted from each user terminal, the computer selecting one or more pieces of distribution data from a distribution data group including plural pieces of distribution data in response to the user operation, and the computer distributing the distribution data selected by the computer to the user terminal from which the user operation has been inputted.Type: GrantFiled: November 23, 2022Date of Patent: November 12, 2024Assignee: KONAMI DIGITAL ENTERTAINMENT CO., LTD.Inventors: Yoshihiko Narita, Shigeru Chiba, Akira Sakai, Kai Inoue, Tsuguo Shinpo, Toshiaki Kanahara, Junki Hirai
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Patent number: 12132139Abstract: A solar panel manufacturing apparatus includes a stage on which a substrate is placed, a pressing plate to press an adhesive applied on the substrate and thereby spread the adhesive via a solar cell arranged at a predetermined position on the adhesive, and to retain the position of the solar cell relative to the substrate, and a curing unit to cure only a part of the adhesive spread between the substrate and the solar cell, while the pressing plate is pressing the adhesive and retaining the position of the solar cell relative to the substrate.Type: GrantFiled: October 5, 2020Date of Patent: October 29, 2024Assignee: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATIONInventors: Tomohiro Tsutsui, Akira Inoue, Chinatsu Sanda, Katsumi Ono
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Patent number: 12120927Abstract: A TFT layer and an organic EL element layer are provided in this order on a resin substrate layer, the TFT layer includes source wiring lines, high-level power source wiring lines, conductive portions including connection wiring lines between TFTs, and a flattening film covering the conductive portions provided on the interlayer insulating film, a frame region is provided with a bending portion including a portion where a slit is formed in an inorganic insulating film including the interlayer insulating film, and a flattening auxiliary film is provided between each adjacent ones of the conductive portions, formed of a material identical to a material of the frame flattening film that fills the slit of the bending portion, in a layer identical to a layer of the frame flattering film, and covered with the flattening film together with the conductive portions.Type: GrantFiled: September 28, 2018Date of Patent: October 15, 2024Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Ryosuke Gunji, Tohru Okabe, Shinsuke Saida, Hiroki Taniyama, Shinji Ichikawa, Akira Inoue, Yoshihiro Nakada, Hiroharu Jinmura, Koji Tanimura, Yoshihiro Kohara
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Patent number: 12089463Abstract: A display device according to an aspect of the disclosure includes a first metal protrusion being in contact with a first power-source trunk wire, and a second metal protrusion being in contact with a second power-source trunk wire. A first bank defining the end of an organic sealing film includes the first metal protrusion, the second metal protrusion, and a first resin protrusion. The first resin protrusion overlaps the first and second metal protrusions. The first resin protrusion has a frame shape.Type: GrantFiled: September 19, 2019Date of Patent: September 10, 2024Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Tohru Okabe, Shinsuke Saida, Shinji Ichikawa, Ryosuke Gunji, Akira Inoue, Yoshihiro Nakada, Hiroharu Jinmura
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Patent number: 12083434Abstract: A non-transitory computer-readable recording medium having instructions stored therein causes at least one processor of a game apparatus to: communicate with a distribution system configured to distribute videos to a plurality of terminal apparatuses; progress a computer game; generate, based on a progress of the computer game, video information that is used to play a video of the computer game indicating a state of a virtual space of the computer game; supply the video information to the distribution system; acquire spectator apparatus information from the distribution system, the spectator apparatus information relating to at least one spectator apparatus that is a part of the plurality of terminal apparatus, and receives a video based on the video information from the distribution system; and control display of an advertisement in the virtual space, based on the spectator apparatus information.Type: GrantFiled: April 1, 2022Date of Patent: September 10, 2024Assignee: Konami Digital Entertainment Co., Ltd.Inventors: Toshiaki Kanahara, Shigeru Chiba, Kai Inoue, Junki Hirai, Tsuguo Shinpo, Akira Sakai
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Publication number: 20240294966Abstract: Provided is a method by which a nucleic acid sample can be collected from a subject minimally invasively. A method for preparing a nucleic acid derived from a skin cell of a subject, comprising isolating the nucleic acid from skin surface lipids collected from the subject.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 18, 2024Publication date: September 5, 2024Applicant: KAO CorporationInventors: Takayoshi INOUE, Akira HACHIYA
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Patent number: 12080152Abstract: A projection processing device comprises a processor control unit that acquires, in response to acceptance of input information, projection position information associated with the input information, and instructs a projector to emit light or project an image enabling a user to identify a position based on the acquired projection position information.Type: GrantFiled: September 19, 2022Date of Patent: September 3, 2024Assignee: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.Inventors: Masaki Kobayashi, Kiyoshi Oda, Hiroshi Saito, Akira Inoue
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Patent number: 12082449Abstract: A separation wall is provided in a frame shape along a circumferential edge of a through-hole in a non-display region, in which the through-hole is formed, defined in an island shape inside a display region. The separation wall includes a wall base portion provided in a frame shape by a part of a second interlayer insulating film and a resin layer provided in an eave shape on the wall base portion to extend to a through-hole side and a display region side. Opening portions opening upward are provided on peripheries of the wall base portion on the through-hole side and the display region side in the second interlayer insulating film.Type: GrantFiled: March 29, 2019Date of Patent: September 3, 2024Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Shinsuke Saida, Shinji Ichikawa, Ryosuke Gunji, Tohru Okabe, Akira Inoue, Yoshihiro Nakada, Hiroharu Jinmura
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Publication number: 20240288260Abstract: An alignment direction detection device includes an excitation coil to apply an AC magnetic field to a test object; one or more magnetic field sensors, each of which detects an inductive magnetic field caused by the AC magnetic field; a conveyance device; and processing circuitry. The processing circuitry performs band limitation on a distribution of the voltage outputted from each magnetic field sensor included in the one or more magnetic field sensors based on a radial direction space frequency corresponding to a size of the magnetic field sensor and a distance between the magnetic field sensor and the test object, transforms the band-limited voltage distribution into an output intensity waveform with respect to a space angle at the radial direction space frequency, and calculates a peak angle that is a peak position of the waveform as an alignment angle representing the alignment direction.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 24, 2021Publication date: August 29, 2024Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric CorporationInventors: Jin INOUE, Yoshimasa WATANABE, Yasuyuki OKADA, Akira HOTTA
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Publication number: 20240264045Abstract: In example implementations described herein, there are systems and methods for performing predictive maintenance which can include collecting vibration data related to an operation of a first machine during a first time period, computing sound data related to the operation of the first machine during the first time period based on the collected vibration data, and predicting, based on the computed sound data, at least one value associated with a maintenance of the first machine. In some aspects, the systems and methods may further include measuring an acoustic transfer function relating the vibration data related to the operation of the first machine to one or more of the sound pressure data or the particle velocity data.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 3, 2023Publication date: August 8, 2024Inventor: Akira INOUE
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Patent number: 12038216Abstract: This ice making machine includes an ice making unit that includes an ice making surface and a cryogen flow channel through which a cryogen for cooling the ice making surface flows; a pump that pressurizes and discharges the cryogen cooled by a heat exchanger; and a control unit that controls a discharge amount of the pump. The cryogen is carbon dioxide, and the control unit controls the pump such that the cryogen is in a gas-liquid mixed state at an outlet of the cryogen flow channel.Type: GrantFiled: May 15, 2020Date of Patent: July 16, 2024Assignees: MAYEKAWA MFG. CO., LTD., ICEMAN CORPORATIONInventors: Masanori Kando, Akira Kishimoto, Toshio Kutsuna, Takumi Shirato, Masaki Katami, Tomoaki Akiyama, Reina Akiyama, Bo Hu, Keito Akiyama, Tetsuji Inoue
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Publication number: 20240179477Abstract: A sound processing apparatus includes: a main body in which one side surface comes into contact with an ear when worn; and a holder which is detachable from the main body, wherein, the main body is provided with a stepped portion on an outer peripheral edge of an other side surface different from the one side surface in contact with the ear, and the holder includes a fitting portion fitted in the stepped portion and an attaching portion attached to the ear.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 22, 2023Publication date: May 30, 2024Inventors: Masaru JINDE, Akira INOUE, Chihiro SUZUKI, Shinobu SUGIOKA
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Patent number: 11997889Abstract: Frame wiring lines are provided in a frame region, a flattening film in which a frame-shaped slit is formed in the frame region is provided in the display region and the frame region, a plurality of first electrodes constituting light-emitting elements are provided on the flattening film, and conductive layer made of the same material and formed in the same layer as those of each of the plurality of first electrodes are provided covering at least end faces of the frame wiring lines exposed from the slit.Type: GrantFiled: March 30, 2018Date of Patent: May 28, 2024Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Hiroki Taniyama, Ryosuke Gunji, Shinsuke Saida, Shinji Ichikawa, Tohru Okabe, Kohji Ariga, Akira Inoue, Yoshihiro Kohara, Koji Tanimura, Yoshihiro Nakada, Hiroharu Jinmura
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Publication number: 20240171418Abstract: An information processing device according to the present disclosure includes an estimation unit that, when a plurality of participants participating in a remote meeting are divided into a plurality of groups and can have conversation in the groups, estimates a topic of conversation in a group from speech of a participant belonging to the group and a notification unit that, when the topic of a second group that is a group other than a first group that is a group to which one participant belongs and preference of the one participant satisfy a condition concerning similarity, notifies the one participant of the second group.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 16, 2022Publication date: May 23, 2024Inventors: YASUHARU ASANO, KEIICHI YAMADA, YOSHINORI MAEDA, AKIRA INOUE
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Patent number: 11968861Abstract: An organic EL display (1) has a bend (B) where a slit (81) is bored in a base coat film (23), gate insulating film (27), first interlayer insulating film (31) and second interlayer insulating film (35). The bend is provided with a filler layer (83) filling the slit and covering both edges of the slit. The filler layer has a protrusion (85) overlapping each edge in the width direction of the slit. A routed wire (7) routed from the display region (D) and then routed over the filler layer to reach a terminal section (T) extends over the protrusion.Type: GrantFiled: April 4, 2019Date of Patent: April 23, 2024Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Shinji Ichikawa, Shinsuke Saida, Ryosuke Gunji, Hiroki Taniyama, Tohru Okabe, Akira Inoue, Hiroharu Jinmura, Yoshihiro Nakada, Koji Tanimura
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Patent number: 11957014Abstract: A display device includes: a plurality of control lines; a plurality of power supply lines; a plurality of data signal lines; an oxide semiconductor layer; a first metal layer; a gate insulation film; a first inorganic insulation film; a second metal layer; a second inorganic insulation film; and a third metal layer. The oxide semiconductor layer, in a plan view, contains therein semiconductor lines formed as isolated regions between a plurality of drivers and a display area. The semiconductor lines cross the plurality of control lines and the plurality of power supply lines, are in contact with the plurality of control lines via an opening in a gate insulation film, are in contact with the plurality of power supply lines via an opening in the first inorganic insulation film, and have a plurality of narrowed portions, such that thicker and thinner regions exist along the same line.Type: GrantFiled: July 30, 2018Date of Patent: April 9, 2024Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Tohru Okabe, Shinsuke Saida, Shinji Ichikawa, Hiroki Taniyama, Ryosuke Gunji, Kohji Ariga, Yoshihiro Nakada, Koji Tanimura, Yoshihiro Kohara, Hiroharu Jinmura, Akira Inoue
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Patent number: 11950462Abstract: A first conductive layer in the same layer as that of a first electrode is coupled to a third conductive layer and a second electrode in the same layer as that of a third metal layer through a slit formed in a flattening film of a non-display area. Second conductive layers in the same layer as that of a second metal layer are provided to overlap with the slit.Type: GrantFiled: March 30, 2018Date of Patent: April 2, 2024Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Tohru Okabe, Shinsuke Saida, Shinji Ichikawa, Hiroki Taniyama, Ryosuke Gunji, Kohji Ariga, Yoshihiro Nakada, Koji Tanimura, Yoshihiro Kohara, Akira Inoue, Hiroharu Jinmura, Takeshi Yaneda
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Patent number: 11939027Abstract: A bicycle pedal is provided with a pedal shaft, and a body part and an end cap. The pedal shaft has a center axis. The body part is rotatably supported by the pedal shaft around the center axis. The body part has a pedal shaft receiving bore with a first opening and a second opening. The first opening receives the pedal shaft along the center axis. The end cap is adjustably attached to the body part at the second opening to adjust a position of the pedal shaft within the pedal shaft receiving bore in an axial direction with respect to the center axis.Type: GrantFiled: December 22, 2020Date of Patent: March 26, 2024Assignee: Shimano Inc.Inventors: Akira Inoue, Tatsuya Watanabe, Atsuhiro Emura
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Patent number: 11934087Abstract: A projector includes a cooling fan, and a processor, and the processor executes, in a case in which the cooling fan is operating in a first revolution speed mode, a control of switching an operation mode of the cooling fan to a second revolution speed mode whose revolution speed is faster than that of the first revolution speed mode in a case in which an obtained temperature detection value reaches a first threshold, and executes, in a case in which the cooling fan is operating in the second revolution speed mode, a control of switching the operation mode of the cooling fan to a revolution speed mode whose revolution speed is slower than that of the second revolution speed mode in a case in which an obtained temperature detection value decreases below a second threshold which differs from the first threshold.Type: GrantFiled: December 1, 2021Date of Patent: March 19, 2024Assignee: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.Inventors: Tomoyuki Ueda, Tetsuro Narikawa, Toshifumi Kase, Akira Inoue