Patents by Inventor Akira Kinno

Akira Kinno 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).

  • Patent number: 7656373
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display includes an array substrate which includes scanning lines, signal lines, pixel circuits each including a pixel switch and a pixel electrode, a first circuit switching a state of the scanning lines between a first state that they are electrically connected to one another and a second state that they are electrically disconnected from one another, and a second circuit switching a state of the signal lines between a third state that they are electrically connected to one another and a fourth state that they are electrically disconnected from one another, a counter substrate which includes a counter electrode, and a liquid crystal layer which is interposed between the array and counter substrates and contains a high-molecular weight material and a low-molecular weight liquid crystal material, the low-molecular weight liquid crystal material forming a bend configuration before energizing the display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 2006
    Date of Patent: February 2, 2010
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Rei Hasegawa, Yuko Kizu, Akira Kinno
  • Publication number: 20090221266
    Abstract: A mobile terminal (200) comprises an application execution unit (240) configured to execute an application program; an access control rule management unit (270) configured to retain an access control rule defining whether the application program has an access authorization to a confidential resource in the mobile terminal and a determining unit; an access control rule query unit (220) configured to acquire, from an external device, the access control rule by designating at least one of an identifier of a user identity module installed in the mobile terminal and an identifier of the mobile terminal, and to retain the acquired access control rule in the access control management unit; a query requirement determination unit (260) configured to determine whether to update the access control rule when the application program makes an access to the confidential resource, and to update the access control rule; an authorization management unit (230) configured to determine whether the application program has the acce
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 13, 2006
    Publication date: September 3, 2009
    Applicant: NTT DoComo, Inc.
    Inventors: Ken Ohta, Takashi Yoshikawa, Akira Kinno, Hiroshi Inamura
  • Patent number: 7567236
    Abstract: A communications terminal apparatus, a reception apparatus, and a method can enhance the effect of reducing the amount of information to be transmitted when text data is generated and transmitted. The communications terminal apparatus 100 stores key identifier definition information in a key identifier definition-storage area 1071. The communications terminal apparatus 100 obtains a key identifier corresponding to an operated key from the key identifier definition-storage area 1071 when the key is operated, and adds and stores it as a key identifier string in the input key identifier storage area 1073. The communications terminal apparatus 100 transmits the key identifier string stored in the input key identifier storage area 1073 by the transmission function 1031 when a transmit instruction is detected.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 2004
    Date of Patent: July 28, 2009
    Assignee: NTT DoCoMo, Inc.
    Inventors: Takehiro Nakayama, Takashi Suzuki, Hideki Yukitomo, Akira Kinno, Hiroshi Fujimoto
  • Publication number: 20090187396
    Abstract: A software operation modeling device (100) includes: a stack information recording unit (120), an end information recording unit (150), a stack difference information generation unit (130) for generating information for generating stack difference information by concatenating a call stack upper node of stack information with information until the end information is detected by using the end information recorded by the end information recording unit (150), and a model generation unit (140) for generating a software operation model from the stack difference information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 12, 2007
    Publication date: July 23, 2009
    Applicants: NTT DoCoMo, Inc., The University of Tsukuba
    Inventors: Akira Kinno, Takehiro Nakayama, Atsushi Takeshita, Kazuhiko Kato, Hirotake Abe, Katsuhiro Suzuki
  • Patent number: 7530017
    Abstract: A document transformation system comprises: template storing means for storing structure information having a specific pattern, as a template; template match detecting means for importing the structure information forming the structured document, and transformation location information indicating a transformation location of the structure information, and for detecting a match portion between the structure information and the template, excepting the transformation location indicated by the transformation location information, from objects of detection, in the structure information; template replacing means for importing the structure information forming the structured document, and match information indicating the match portion, for replacing the match portion indicated by the match information, in the structure information with the template, and for outputting replaced structure information; and transforming means for importing the character string information forming the structured document, the replaced st
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 2004
    Date of Patent: May 5, 2009
    Assignee: NTT DoCoMo, Inc.
    Inventors: Akira Kinno, Hideki Yukitomo, Takehiro Nakayama, Atsushi Takeshita
  • Publication number: 20090106137
    Abstract: To realize charging while in non-contact processing operation for the purpose other than charging. An approach of a portable electronic device 2 with a rapid bulk electricity storing module 20, which is a chargeable power source, is detected at the side of a power transmitting device 1, and power transmission for charging the rapid bulk electricity storing module 20 is executed in response to the detection of the approach. A power source can be charged in operation for non-contact authentication which is executed when a device approaches an authentication device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 16, 2008
    Publication date: April 23, 2009
    Applicant: NTT DoCoMo, Inc.
    Inventors: Daisuke OCHI, Akira Kinno, Hiroaki Hagino, Naoki Hashida, Takashi Yoshikawa
  • Patent number: 7506249
    Abstract: Acquisition portion acquires distribution rule information, user situation information, and a distribution information structured document output from contents distribution server, and evaluation object extraction portion extracts evaluation objects related with the user side situation from evaluation objects of each condition description portion contained in the distribution rule information, and user situation extraction portion extracts the situation of user terminal corresponding to evaluation objects concerned from the user situation information, and condition evaluation portion evaluates each condition description portion on the basis of the situation of the user terminal, and conversion rule information generation portion generates a conversion rule information on the basis of the result of the evaluation, and conversion portion converts a distribution information structured document on the basis of the conversion rule information, and output portion outputs the distribution information structured docu
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 24, 2003
    Date of Patent: March 17, 2009
    Assignees: NTT DoCoMo, Inc., Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Akira Kinno, Minoru Etoh, Yoshifumi Yonemoto, Masashi Morioka, Wataru Fujikawa, Koichi Emura
  • Publication number: 20080217623
    Abstract: An optical sensor element includes: an n-type semiconductor region formed on a substrate; an i-type semiconductor region which is formed on the substrate between the p-type semiconductor region and the n-type semiconductor region and which is lower in impurity concentration than the p-type semiconductor region and the n-type semiconductor region; an anode electrode formed on the insulation film and connected to the p-type semiconductor region; and a cathode electrode formed on the insulation film and connected to the n-type semiconductor region. A reverse bias voltage Vb is applied when detecting the photocurrent, the reverse bias voltage Vb satisfying a following relation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 5, 2007
    Publication date: September 11, 2008
    Applicant: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Yujiro Hara, Akira Kinno, Tsuyoshi Hioki, Isao Amemiya, Shuichi Uchikoga
  • Publication number: 20080155022
    Abstract: An object of the invention is to allow a program execution domain to be specified and then a start target program to be started by the specified program execution domain. Disclosed is a remote start system including a communication terminal capable of switching multiple program execution domains from one to another, and a remote start server instructing, via a network, the communication terminal to start a start target program. In the remote server, generated is a switching program start message for requesting the communication terminal to start a switching program that switches a program execution domain to a specific program execution domain for executing the start target program. The switching program start message includes a switching program ID, a parameter for starting the switching program, and a parameter for starting the start target program. The parameter for starting the switching program includes the start target program ID and domain ID.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 14, 2007
    Publication date: June 26, 2008
    Applicant: NTT DoCoMo, Inc.
    Inventors: Takashi SUZUKI, Akira Kinno, Hiroshi Fujimoto
  • Patent number: 7292731
    Abstract: The image coding apparatus is constituted comprising an atom extraction section 109 for acquiring position data indicating the positions of atoms of prediction residual data in macroblocks, for each of the macroblocks; and a variable length encoding section 113 for determining the frequency of occurrence distribution of the position data in the macroblocks to be encoded, in accordance with the number of atoms of prediction residual data present in the macroblocks, and for performing arithmetic coding of the position data on the basis of the frequency of occurrence distribution thus determined. An improvement in the efficiency of the entropy coding of the atom parameters of Matching Pursuits coding is therefore feasible.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2002
    Date of Patent: November 6, 2007
    Assignee: NTT DoCoMo, Inc.
    Inventors: Shunichi Sekiguchi, Akira Kinno, Kazuo Sugimoto, Minoru Etoh
  • Patent number: 7269601
    Abstract: The information delivery system is configured with a media database 1009 which stores media data, a sequence information database 1008 which stores sequence information for specifying the address of media data to deliver, a scene searcher 1005 which verifies the sequence information according to a request of the controlling media received from client terminal 1000 and retrieves appropriate media data from the media database 1009 starting from a prescribed point based on a result of the verification, and an output unit 1006 which delivers the retrieved media data to the client terminal 1000.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 7, 2003
    Date of Patent: September 11, 2007
    Assignee: NTT DoCoMo, Inc.
    Inventors: Akira Kinno, Minoru Etoh, Yoshifumi Yonemoto, Shunichi Sekiguchi
  • Publication number: 20070204257
    Abstract: The software operation modeling device includes a function call order obtaining unit and a model generator. The function call order obtaining unit obtains or estimates an issuing order of function calls executed in each of specific events in the course of executing software. The model generator statistically grasps a co-occurrence relationship between the specific event and the issuing order of the function calls obtained or estimated by the function call order obtaining unit, and to record the grasped co-occurrence relationship as an operation model of the software.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 27, 2006
    Publication date: August 30, 2007
    Applicant: NTT DoCoMo, Inc.
    Inventors: Akira Kinno, Takehiro Nakayama
  • Patent number: 7200585
    Abstract: An identifier generating method according to the present invention has a canonicalization process step of subjecting document data to a canonicalization process to correct fluctuation of expression; and an identifier generating step of, based on all or part of document data having been subjected to the canonicalization process in the canonicalization process step, generating an identifier uniquely specifying the document data or part thereof. When the fluctuation of expression is corrected by the canonicalization process, prior to the generation of the identifier in this way, the XML documents or RDF documents with the same meaning are transformed into documents in the same expression, and the identical identifier can be generated for them by a function of generating an identifier from a sequence of characters, as typified by a one-way function.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 11, 2003
    Date of Patent: April 3, 2007
    Assignee: NTT DoCoMo, Inc.
    Inventors: Akira Kinno, Minoru Etoh, Yoshifumi Yonemoto
  • Publication number: 20070001962
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display includes an array substrate which includes scanning lines, signal lines, pixel circuits each including a pixel switch and a pixel electrode, a first circuit switching a state of the scanning lines between a first state that they are electrically connected to one another and a second state that they are electrically disconnected from one another, and a second circuit switching a state of the signal lines between a third state that they are electrically connected to one another and a fourth state that they are electrically disconnected from one another, a counter substrate which includes a counter electrode, and a liquid crystal layer which is interposed between the array and counter substrates and contains a high-molecular weight material and a low-molecular weight liquid crystal material, the low-molecular weight liquid crystal material forming a bend configuration before energizing the display.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 21, 2006
    Publication date: January 4, 2007
    Inventors: Rei Hasegawa, Yuko Kizu, Akira Kinno
  • Publication number: 20060287763
    Abstract: To realize charging while in non-contact processing operation for the purpose other than charging. An approach of a portable electronic device 2 with a rapid bulk electricity storing module 20, which is a chargeable power source, is detected at the side of a power transmitting device 1, and power transmission for charging the rapid bulk electricity storing module 20 is executed in response to the detection of the approach. A power source can be charged in operation for non-contact authentication which is executed when a device approaches an authentication device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 16, 2006
    Publication date: December 21, 2006
    Applicant: NTT DoCoMo, Inc.
    Inventors: Daisuke Ochi, Akira Kinno, Hiroaki Hagino, Naoki Hashida, Takashi Yoshikawa
  • Publication number: 20060274897
    Abstract: A communication terminal device includes a wireless communication unit, an integrity measurement request unit, a cryptographic processing unit, a pointing unit. The integrity measurement request unit generates a command to request another computer device to measure integrity. The cryptographic processing unit performs cryptographic processing concerning communication with the another computer device. The pointing unit acquires positional information when a result of the integrity measurement satisfies a predetermined condition.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 2, 2006
    Publication date: December 7, 2006
    Applicant: NTT DoCoMo, Inc.
    Inventors: Takehiro Nakayama, Akira Kinno, Atsushi Takeshita
  • Publication number: 20060237647
    Abstract: Signal output of an X-ray-electric conversion layer prevents instability of operation due to variation of a threshold voltage of TFT mounted to read a signal. Pixel electrodes 17 are arranged in an array on the X-ray-electric conversion layer. Variation of the threshold voltage (Vth) is suppressed by applying in compensatory manner a voltage pulse for switch-off having a polarity opposite to an average polarity of a voltage for switch-on at operating period to the gate electrode of a field effect type TFT for pixel switching connected to each pixel electrode to read a signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 1, 2006
    Publication date: October 26, 2006
    Applicant: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Mitsushi Ikeda, Akira Kinno, Toshiyuki Oka
  • Patent number: 7126128
    Abstract: A flat panel X-ray detector, including an X-ray-electric-charge converting film containing a metal halide and serving to convert an incident X-ray into an electric charge, a pair of electrodes formed on both surfaces of the X-ray-electric-charge converting film, and a blocking layer formed in contact with at least one surface of the X-ray-electric-charge converting film and containing a substance selected from the group consisting of a metal oxide, a metal nitride, a metal halide oxide, a first mixture of at least two of these materials, and a second mixture of a metal halide and any of these materials.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 9, 2005
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2006
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Mitsushi Ikeda, Masaki Atsuta, Toshiyuki Oka, Kenichi Mori, Akira Kinno
  • Patent number: 7115878
    Abstract: A flat panel X-ray detector which includes an X-ray-charge conversion film converting incident X-rays into electric charges, and a pair of electrodes disposed in contact with both surfaces of the X-ray-charge conversion film The X-ray-charge conversion film has a laminate structure including a plurality of metal halide films differing in band gap from one another and laminated along direction of c-axis of hexagonal crystal structure, and halogen atoms contained in the plurality of metal halide films are of the same kind among them.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 2003
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2006
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Mitsushi Ikeda, Toshiyuki Oka, Mutsuki Yamazaki, Masaki Atsuta, Akira Kinno
  • Publication number: 20060206899
    Abstract: An access controller controls access to control target resources by a program. The access controller includes a function access detection unit and a resource access control unit. The function access detection unit detects loading of a control target function from the program and generates identification information to specify an access request issued from the detected control target function. The resource access control unit obtains a request of accessing the control target resources from the program and determines permission of the access request based on the identification information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 10, 2006
    Publication date: September 14, 2006
    Applicant: NTT DoCoMo, Inc.
    Inventors: Takashi Suzuki, Akira Kinno, Hiroshi Fujimoto, Takehiro Nakayama