Patents by Inventor Hirokazu Kobayashi

Hirokazu Kobayashi 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: 8983525
    Abstract: A mobile communication system includes: a plurality of mobile communication terminals; and a first base station device configured to wirelessly communicate with the plurality of mobile communication terminals. The first base station device is configured to report to the plurality of mobile communication terminals that a second base station device allowing only a particular mobile communication terminal access is set to allow all the plurality of mobile communication terminals access, by transmitting using cell broadcast service, identification information of the second station device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 7, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 17, 2015
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Shigeto Suzuki, Shinichi Sawada, Hirokazu Kobayashi, Koki Suzuki, Akio Yoshihara
  • Patent number: 8970757
    Abstract: A solid-state image pickup element comprises a plurality of first signal storage units connected to each vertical output line to store a signal transferred from a selected unit cell to each vertical output line, and a plurality of second signal storage units connected to each vertical output line to store the signals transferred from a first number of first signal storage units, wherein the plurality of first signal storage units and the plurality of second signal storage units are selectively driven such that in a period of time for selectively driving the first signal storage unit to store the signal transferred to the vertical output line by driving a signal read-out unit of the selected unit cell, another first signal storage unit connected to the vertical output line and the second signal storage unit to store the signal transferred from the another first signal storage unit are selectively driven.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 6, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 3, 2015
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Hirokazu Kobayashi
  • Patent number: 8962669
    Abstract: An object is to provide a medicament preparation which is excellent in the solubilization stability in relation to a compound represented by the general formula (1) during the storage in a low temperature region and a high temperature region. The present invention resides in a pharmaceutical composition comprising 1) the compound represented by the general formula (1) and/or a salt thereof and 2) a polyhydric alcohol derivative. General formula (1) (In the formula, R1, R2 independently represent hydrogen atom or halogen atom respectively, and at least one of R1, R2 is halogen atom.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 2011
    Date of Patent: February 24, 2015
    Assignees: Pola Pharma Inc., Nihon Nohyaku Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Nobuo Kubota, Hirokazu Kobayashi, Takaaki Masuda
  • Patent number: 8952044
    Abstract: A pharmaceutical composition which comprises 1) a compound represented by the following general formula (1) and/or a salt thereof; and 2) a ketone such as methyl ethyl ketone. Preferably, the compound represented by the following general formula (1) is luliconazole, where R1?R2=a chlorine atom: where R1 and R2 each independently represents a hydrogen atom or a halogen atom, and at least one of R1 and R2 represents a halogen atom. The present invention provides a preparation excellent in solubilization stability for a compound represented by the general formula (1) and/or a salt thereof in low-temperature or high-temperature storage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 2010
    Date of Patent: February 10, 2015
    Assignees: Pola Pharma Inc., Nihon Nohyaku Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hirokazu Kobayashi, Nobuo Kubota
  • Patent number: 8909273
    Abstract: A wireless communication system includes at least one terminal apparatus and one communication apparatus which perform communication in a plurality of frequency bands. The terminal apparatus includes: a function information storing unit which pre-stores frequency band information indicating available frequency bands among the plurality of frequency bands and the number of simultaneously available frequency bands; and a terminal control unit which reads the frequency band information stored in the function information storing unit and transmits the read frequency band information to the communication apparatus via a first wireless communication unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 19, 2010
    Date of Patent: December 9, 2014
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Shusaku Fukumoto, Katsutoshi Ishikura, Shinichi Sawada, Hirokazu Kobayashi
  • Patent number: 8878523
    Abstract: An inductive detection encoder according to the present invention includes: first and second members which are oppositely disposed so as to relatively move in a measurement direction; a transmitting coil formed in the first member; a magnetic flux coupled body which is formed in the second member and coupled with a magnetic field generated by the transmitting coil; and a receiving coil formed in the first member and having receiving loops. At least one of the transmitting coil and the receiving coil has a specific pattern that impairs the uniformity and periodicity of a pattern; and a dummy pattern formed in a position corresponding to a specific phase relationship of a cycle generated by the track with respect to the specific pattern.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 4, 2014
    Assignee: Mitutoyo Corporation
    Inventors: Hirokazu Kobayashi, Osamu Kawatoko, Shozaburo Tsuji, Kenichi Nakayama
  • Patent number: 8831871
    Abstract: A position measuring unit measures a position. An area determining unit determines a means of movement. A position measurement result transmission determining unit determines, based on the means of movement determined by the area determining unit, whether or not to transmit the position measurement result of the position measuring unit to the information-providing apparatus. A transmitting unit transmits, in the case in which the position measurement result transmission determining unit determines to transmit the position measurement result to the information-providing apparatus, the position measurement result to the information-providing apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 14, 2010
    Date of Patent: September 9, 2014
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Hirokazu Kobayashi, Shinichi Sawada, Shusaku Fukumoto, Katsutoshi Ishikura
  • Publication number: 20140241228
    Abstract: A wireless access point terminal capable of reducing power consumption even if housed terminals are present. This device is a wireless access point terminal (200) individually connecting a plurality of housed terminals to a network, using a wireless communications unit capable of individual wireless communications with the plurality of housed terminals; and has: a housed terminal management unit (203) that determines whether or not to continue connection, for each connected housed terminal; and a connection control unit (208) that controls the wireless communications unit such that wireless communication is disconnected for a housed terminal for which a determination has been made to not continue the connection.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 16, 2012
    Publication date: August 28, 2014
    Applicant: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Hirokazu Kobayashi, Masaaki Harada, Kazushige Yamada
  • Patent number: 8812184
    Abstract: A control device configured with a vibration reduction necessity determination section that determines whether or not a required drive operation point falls within a reduction necessary range, which is prescribed in advance as a range in which it is necessary to reduce torque vibration transferred from the internal combustion engine to the rotary electric machine. A cancellation control execution determination section that determines whether or not torque vibration cancellation control can be executed in the case where it is determined that the required drive operation point falls within the reduction necessary range. An execution control decision section that decides to execute the torque vibration cancellation control in the case where it is determined that the torque vibration cancellation control can be executed and that decides to execute operation point change control in the case where it is determined that the torque vibration cancellation control cannot be executed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2011
    Date of Patent: August 19, 2014
    Assignee: Aisin Aw Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yomei Hakumura, Yoichi Tajima, Hirokazu Kobayashi, Arinori Shimada
  • Publication number: 20140198771
    Abstract: Provided is an HeNB which can cause a mobile station within a coverage of the HeNB to be handed over to another communicable base station. An HeNB communicates with an MME through a relay process by a gateway. The HeNB detects a state of the gateway. The HeNB stops communication with a mobile phone in accordance with the state of the gateway.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 29, 2012
    Publication date: July 17, 2014
    Applicant: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Shigeto Suzuki, Shinichi Sawada, Hirokazu Kobayashi, Akio Yoshihara, Shumpei Fuse
  • Publication number: 20140186253
    Abstract: Provided is a composite, including a metal nanoparticle inside a porous coordination polymer (PCP), in which the PCP is formed of a metal ion and an organic ligand.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 3, 2012
    Publication date: July 3, 2014
    Applicant: Kyoto University
    Inventors: Hiroshi Kitagawa, Hirokazu Kobayashi
  • Patent number: 8767612
    Abstract: Provided area wireless communication apparatus and wireless communication control method, which are capable of preventing concentration of the data delivery requests from the wireless communication terminal apparatuses and thus reducing power consumption occurring when the wireless communication terminal waits for data delivery. AID managing section (201) divides the wireless LAN terminals associated with the access point into a plurality of groups and manages the grouped wireless LAN terminals using the group AID, and extension TIM generating section (207) generates extension TIM indicating that data addressed to the wireless LAN terminal is stored for each group. Extension TIM generating section (207) transmits the extension TIM to the subordinate wireless LAN terminal at timing shifted for each group.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2011
    Date of Patent: July 1, 2014
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventor: Hirokazu Kobayashi
  • Publication number: 20140168484
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus for processing a picked-up image which is output from an image pickup element in which a microlens array for obtaining the picked-up image including ray directional information of an object image formed by a photographing optical system has been arranged has: a refocus processing unit for executing a refocus processing of the obtained picked-up image on the basis of the ray directional information and generating a reconstruction image; and a defect pixel detection unit for detecting a defect pixel from the obtained picked-up image. When the picked-up image is obtained, the detection of the defect pixel of the obtained picked-up image is performed. When a refocus processing is instructed, the refocus processing is executed to the picked-up image in which the detection of the defect pixel is performed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 6, 2013
    Publication date: June 19, 2014
    Inventors: Satoshi Suzuki, Hirokazu Kobayashi
  • Publication number: 20140173470
    Abstract: This information processing device enables a user to easily move objects between applications simultaneously displayed on touch panels. The information processing device (100) is provided with touch panels (10, 20) on which applications (6, 7) are simultaneously displayed. A touch panel coordinate management unit (50) detects that an application (7) object (4) has existed for a prescribed time in a defined area (5) of the touch panel (20) when the object (4) is being dragged. An application control unit (60) and a display control unit (70) move the display of the application (6) to a position that allows the object (4) to be dropped as a trigger for detecting the existence of the object (4) in the defined area (5).
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 21, 2013
    Publication date: June 19, 2014
    Inventors: Yasuo Kohashi, Kazushige Yamada, Hirokazu Kobayashi, Kohei Yamaguchi, Ryo Yokoyama
  • Publication number: 20140151539
    Abstract: In a photoelectric absolute encoder including a scale having a plurality of tracks with different pitch patterns, and a detector having a light source and light receiving elements including a plurality of light receiving element arrays corresponding to the plurality of tracks, a light receiving element array is additionally arranged at a position in the detector corresponding to a boundary between the track having a pattern with a wide pitch and the track having a pattern with a narrow pitch adjacent to each other in the scale, and displacement of the detector relative to the scale in a lateral direction is detected from a signal amplitude of the added light receiving element array. In this manner, displacement of the detector relative to the scale in the lateral direction can be detected.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 2, 2013
    Publication date: June 5, 2014
    Applicant: MITUTOYO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Osamu Kawatoko, Hirokazu Kobayashi
  • Patent number: 8731554
    Abstract: The mobile station device has: a first step of selecting a plurality of base station devices meeting a predetermined handover condition, based on reception levels of a plurality of signals transmitted from the plurality of base station devices; and a second step of reselecting, if the plurality of base station devices selected in the first step include a plurality of base station devices for specific subscribers, a base station device to be accessed from among the plurality of base station devices for specific subscribers, by using a predetermined correlation between frequencies and priorities. Accordingly, the number of frequencies can be reduced, and the ping-pong phenomenon can be suppressed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 7, 2010
    Date of Patent: May 20, 2014
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Akio Yoshihara, Shinichi Sawada, Shigeto Suzuki, Hirokazu Kobayashi, Kohki Suzuki
  • Patent number: 8731606
    Abstract: A priority storing unit (b117) stores, for each of frequency bands predetermined, a priority for accessing a base station device using associated one of the frequency bands. A service type determining unit (b114) chooses, based on identification information received from the at least one first base station device, which of the first and second services to receive from each of the at least one first base station device. A priority determining unit (b116) determines, based on a type of a connection service chosen by the service type determining unit (b114), a priority for each of the frequency bands which is used by the at least one first base station device, and to update the priority stored by the priority storing unit (b117) based on the priority determined.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 2010
    Date of Patent: May 20, 2014
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Akio Yoshihara, Hirokazu Kobayashi, Shinichi Sawada, Shigeto Suzuki, Kohki Suzuki
  • Publication number: 20140120917
    Abstract: A communication system includes a mobile terminal; a management device that manage a position of the mobile terminal; a first base station that creates a first cell area and retains management information for managing a mobile terminal in the first cell area; a gateway, arranged between the first base station and the management device, that retains management information for managing a mobile terminal in the first cell area; and a second base station that creates a second cell area. In a case where the management entity of the mobile terminal is changed from the first base station to the second base station, the first base station updates management information, included in its retaining management information, associated with the relevant mobile terminal, and transmits to the gateway a command to update management information associated with the relevant mobile terminal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 19, 2012
    Publication date: May 1, 2014
    Applicant: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Akio Yoshihara, Shinichi Sawada, Hirokazu Kobayashi, Shigeto Suzuki, Shunpei Fuse
  • Publication number: 20140100701
    Abstract: A control device configured with a torque/current computation section, an actual current computation section, a current feedback control section, and a voltage control section. A two-axis rotating coordinate system has a first axis defined in a direction of field magnetic flux of a magnet provided in the rotor, and a second axis defined in a direction that is shifted by an electrical angle of 90 degrees with respect to the first axis. In the case where a torque command includes periodic torque vibration, the torque/current computation section executes first-axis command fixation control in which a first-axis current command, which is a first-axis component of the two-phase current command, is fixed at a predetermined value and a second-axis current command, which is a second-axis component of the two-phase current command, is vibrated in accordance with the torque vibration.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 7, 2012
    Publication date: April 10, 2014
    Applicant: AISIN AW CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yomei Hakumura, Hirokazu Kobayashi
  • Publication number: 20140082529
    Abstract: An information processor (100) for information processing in a terminal having a plurality of image screens and has a transient state decision unit (130) that determines whether or not a terminal has shifted to a transient state between a first state and a second state from the first state in which a plurality of image screens is set in a first arrangement, or the second state in which a plurality of image screens is set in a second arrangement, and a display application decision unit (140); that causes the terminal to shift to an application decision operating mode that operates to determine one or a plurality of applications for successively showing a plurality of image screens from the normal operating mode that operates one or a plurality of applications for displaying a plurality of image screens under the condition that the terminal has shifted to the transient state.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 25, 2013
    Publication date: March 20, 2014
    Applicant: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Kazushige Yamada, Masaaki Harada, Hirokazu Kobayashi