Patents by Inventor Hirofumi Shimokawa

Hirofumi Shimokawa 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: 20240091563
    Abstract: The present invention provides a device for treating dementia, including: a plurality of ultrasound probes; an ultrasound transducer arranged in each of the ultrasound probes and configured to propagate unfocused ultrasound energy to a brain; and an ultrasound generator connected to each of the ultrasound probes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 28, 2023
    Publication date: March 21, 2024
    Inventors: Hiroaki SHIMOKAWA, Hiroshi KANAI, Hirofumi TAKI, Kumiko EGUCHI, Tomohiro SHINDO
  • Patent number: 11184475
    Abstract: Provided is an information processing system with which an unnecessary alert to an emergency contact, for example, can be prevented and an increase in the communication volume for notification can be suppressed. An in-vehicle apparatus AP which is connectable to a smartphone SP and which is mounted on a vehicle is provided with: an interface 1 which acquires acceleration data indicating that a predetermined threshold value or more of impact has been applied to the smartphone SP; a display control unit 2 which, when the acceleration data have been acquired, makes a notification for selecting cancellation of a corresponding external alert; an operation control unit 3 which accepts a cancellation operation with respect to the notification; and a state management/information processing module 4 which cancels the external alert when the cancellation operation has been accepted.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 23, 2021
    Assignee: PIONEER CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shunichiro Nagao, Masashi Takano, Hirofumi Shimokawa, Kazuya Hata
  • Publication number: 20210112153
    Abstract: Provided is an information processing system with which an unnecessary alert to an emergency contact, for example, can be prevented and an increase in the communication volume for notification can be suppressed. An in-vehicle apparatus AP which is connectable to a smartphone SP and which is mounted on a vehicle is provided with: an interface 1 which acquires acceleration data indicating that a predetermined threshold value or more of impact has been applied to the smartphone SP; a display control unit 2 which, when the acceleration data have been acquired, makes a notification for selecting cancellation of a corresponding external alert; an operation control unit 3 which accepts a cancellation operation with respect to the notification; and a state management/information processing module 4 which cancels the external alert when the cancellation operation has been accepted.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 2, 2018
    Publication date: April 15, 2021
    Inventors: Shunichiro NAGAO, Masashi TAKANO, Hirofumi SHIMOKAWA, Kazuya HATA
  • Publication number: 20190346937
    Abstract: A specification unit (810) specifies an operational state including an operational mode of a mobile terminal device (800), and sends the specified result to a display control unit (820). When an information processing device (700) and the mobile terminal device (800) are performing cooperative operation, if it is discovered by means of the specification result that the operational mode of the mobile terminal device (800) changes, the display control unit (820) generates, according to the change of operational mode, display designation including icons to be displayed in the first display areas 721 of the information processing device (700) and there shapes. And the display control unit (820) transmits the generated display designation to the information processing device (700). Due to this, it is possible to employ the input unit of a different information processing device in an appropriate manner when performing actuation input to the mobile terminal device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 19, 2017
    Publication date: November 14, 2019
    Inventors: Shunichiro NAGAO, Masashi TAKANO, Hirofumi SHIMOKAWA, Kazuya HATA
  • Patent number: 9993194
    Abstract: A sleepiness calculation device is provided. In a smartphone, I/F obtains heart rate of the subject measured by a heartbeat sensor and measurement time, determines active state of a subject in the state discriminant section, and send it to a server. Next, in the server, a correction section obtains sleepiness baseline heart rate from a sleepiness baseline heart rate table storing sleepiness baseline heart rate of the subject for each active state according to an active state sent from the smartphone. Next, the sleepiness baseline heart rate obtained by the correction section is corrected based on fatigue degree, sleep time, and state of meals. Thereafter, the corrected sleepiness baseline heart rate (correction sleepiness baseline heart rate) is sent to the smartphone. Sleepiness level calculation section of the smartphone calculates sleepiness level of the subject based on correction sleepiness baseline heart rate and heart rate obtained by I/F.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 12, 2018
    Assignee: PIONEER CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hirofumi Shimokawa, Chihiro Hirose, Mitsuo Yasushi
  • Publication number: 20180064387
    Abstract: A sleepiness calculation device is provided. In a smartphone, I/F obtains heart rate of the subject measured by a heartbeat sensor and measurement time, determines active state of a subject in the state discriminant section, and send it to a server. Next, in the server, a correction section obtains sleepiness baseline heart rate from a sleepiness baseline heart rate table storing sleepiness baseline heart rate of the subject for each active state according to an active state sent from the smartphone. Next, the sleepiness baseline heart rate obtained by the correction section is corrected based on fatigue degree, sleep time, and state of meals. Thereafter, the corrected sleepiness baseline heart rate (correction sleepiness baseline heart rate) is sent to the smartphone. Sleepiness level calculation section of the smartphone calculates sleepiness level of the subject based on correction sleepiness baseline heart rate and heart rate obtained by I/F.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 26, 2015
    Publication date: March 8, 2018
    Inventors: Hirofumi SHIMOKAWA, Chihiro HIROSE, Mitsuo YASUSHI
  • Publication number: 20160176201
    Abstract: An ink adsorption layer formation step for forming an ink adsorption layer by screen-printing a liquid or pasty binder composition for ink adsorption layer formation on a required portion of a textile fiber product directly or via another layer, and an inkjet step for forming an image by applying, using an inkjet process, an aqueous pigment ink to an ink adsorption layer formed through the ink adsorption layer formation step are present, and the binder composition for ink adsorption layer formation contains inorganic porous microparticles having a specific surface area of not less than 200 m2/g to adsorb the aqueous pigment ink applied using the inkjet process.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 2, 2015
    Publication date: June 23, 2016
    Inventors: Yosuke KITAGAWA, Masaki KARIYA, Hirofumi SHIMOKAWA, Daisuke INOUE
  • Publication number: 20110094397
    Abstract: Disclosed are heating-type multicolor printing methods (i), (ii), and (iii). The heating-type multicolor printing method (i) uses a rotary multicolor screen printer and is characterized in that (1) an aqueous printing binder containing a thickening inhibiting component is used and (2) continuous printing is performed while keeping the temperature of the table (pallet) of the printer at 60 to 100° C. The heating-type multicolor printing method (ii) is characterized in that, in the method (i), the aqueous printing binder contains 10 to 60% of a hydrophilic solvent having a boiling point above the boiling point of water as a thickening inhibiting component. The heating-type multicolor printing method (iii) is characterized in that, in the method (i) or (ii), the aqueous printing binder further contains 2 to 10% of urea as the thickening inhibiting component.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 13, 2009
    Publication date: April 28, 2011
    Applicant: MATSUI SHIKISO CHEMICAL CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yosuke Kitagawa, Osamu Sasaki, Hirofumi Shimokawa