Patents by Inventor Junji Watanabe

Junji Watanabe 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: 20250134937
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a novel lactic acid bacterium-containing tablet. According to the present invention, there is provided a lactic acid bacterium-containing tablet comprising: (A) a lactic acid bacterium; (B) an excipient; and (C) a lubricant, wherein a content of the (C) in the tablet is less than 10 mass %, and a mass per tablet is 200 mg or more. The (B) preferably contains at least (B1) hydroxypropyl cellulose and/or (B2) crystalline cellulose or ?-cyclodextrin. The lactic acid bacterium is preferably a bacterium of the genus Lactococcus. According to the present invention, there is provided a lactic acid bacterium-containing tablet having high ingestion efficiency and excellent hardness.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 3, 2023
    Publication date: May 1, 2025
    Applicant: KIRIN HOLDINGS KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Sayuri TANAKA, Junji WATANABE, Masao KIMURA, Yoshiyuki FUJIMORI, Hirotatsu KANDA, Shinya NAGASHIMA
  • Publication number: 20240312365
    Abstract: To allow users to communicate with each other using the tactile sense, which is not limited to the direction and magnitude of force. A guide rope is constituted by a first gripping component, a first connection component, a second gripping component, and a second connection component that are annularly connected in sequence. An inner portion of the first gripping component, an inner portion of the first connection component, an inner portion of the second gripping component, and an inner portion of the second connection component are all hollow, and the inner portions of the components are connected to form one sealed space. The first gripping component and the second gripping component are formed in such a way as to be easily deformed by a change in pressure of air in the inner portion or a change in force from outside.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 7, 2021
    Publication date: September 19, 2024
    Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kakagu KOMAZAKI, Junji WATANABE
  • Patent number: 12080153
    Abstract: Provided is a vibration presentation system that improves the convenience of a user in sensing vibrations at various body sites, or of a plurality of users in sensing vibrations. A vibration presentation system for presenting vibration signals for perception by tactile sense for media content, the vibration presentation system including: a vibrating body configured to generate vibrations corresponding to the vibration signals of a plurality of channels respectively; and a presentation target batch selection user interface including a plurality of (M, where M is an integer of 2 or more) combinations each of which contains one selection button and designation of a predefined body site for a channel included in the plurality of channels, wherein the vibrating body generates vibrations corresponding to the vibration signals for a body site for a channel included in a combination corresponding to a selection button selected from among M selection buttons.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2024
    Assignee: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Junji Watanabe, Yutaka Kamamoto
  • Patent number: 12046130
    Abstract: The present invention provides a sport status presentation system with which a user can easily grasp, by touch, the status of a sport competition in which two teams compete and the players on the two teams capture a single ball from each other while moving within a single competition area and score points by placing the ball in a goal set for each team. The sport status presentation system includes two vibrating bodies, the vibrating bodies respectively apply vibration to sites on the left side and the right side of the body of the user and are allocated to the respective teams, and the vibrating body allocated to the team in possession of the ball, among the two vibrating bodies, vibrates by a larger amount as a distance between the ball and the goal or a goal line of the team in possession of the ball decreases.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 6, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2024
    Assignee: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Junji Watanabe, Akiko Hayashi
  • Publication number: 20240231495
    Abstract: A vibration measurement presentation plate (160) is a substantially transparent plate and is disposed on a use position side of a user. A display (130) is disposed outside of an imaging range of the camera on a side opposite to the use position side with respect to the plate such that the plate side serves as a display surface. A camera (120) is disposed on the opposite side with respect to the plate and is outside of the viewing range of the display surface of the display via the plate from the use position side so that the plate side is in the imaging range. A vibration measurement sensor (140) and a vibrator (150) are attached to the plate to be out of the imaging range of the camera and out of the viewing range of the display surface of the display via the plate from the use position side.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 3, 2021
    Publication date: July 11, 2024
    Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kakagu KOMAZAKI, Junji WATANABE
  • Publication number: 20240144912
    Abstract: An estimation apparatus includes an estimation unit that estimates a future incident occurrence quantitative value in a region on the basis of at least two or more inputted psychological-state/sensibility expressing words emitted in a predetermined region and the input order of the two or more psychological-state/sensibility expressing words, using an estimation model for estimating an incident occurrence quantitative value that is a quantitative value of an occurrence of a predetermined event in the region after a certain time, with an input being at least a time series of two or more psychological-state/sensibility expressing words emitted in the predetermined region before the certain time.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 10, 2021
    Publication date: May 2, 2024
    Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Junji WATANABE, Aiko MURATA
  • Publication number: 20240134457
    Abstract: A vibration measurement presentation plate (160) is a substantially transparent plate and is disposed on a use position side of a user. A display (130) is disposed outside of an imaging range of the camera on a side opposite to the use position side with respect to the plate such that the plate side serves as a display surface. A camera (120) is disposed on the opposite side with respect to the plate and is outside of the viewing range of the display surface of the display via the plate from the use position side so that the plate side is in the imaging range. A vibration measurement sensor (140) and a vibrator (150) are attached to the plate to be out of the imaging range of the camera and out of the viewing range of the display surface of the display via the plate from the use position side.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 3, 2021
    Publication date: April 25, 2024
    Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kakagu KOMAZAKI, Junji WATANABE
  • Patent number: 11920680
    Abstract: A vehicle includes a chain tensioner that serves as an oil damper using oil supplied from an oil pump. The vehicle includes a controller that controls a traveling mode of the vehicle in a BEV mode or a non-BEV mode. When shifting the traveling mode from the BEV mode to the non-BEV mode, the controller executes a high-pressure process for controlling the oil pump such that a supply pressure of oil supplied to the chain tensioner becomes higher when a duration of the BEV mode is greater than or equal to a specified time than when the BEV mode duration is less than the specified time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Kentaro Mushiga, Junji Watanabe
  • Publication number: 20230342549
    Abstract: An estimation apparatus includes an estimation unit configured to estimate a non-fixed ambient environment of future by using an estimation model, the estimation model being for receiving, as an input, at least a time series of two or more psychological state sensitivity expression words up to a certain time-point to estimate a non-fixed ambient environment after the certain time-point, the non-fixed ambient environmental information being information related to a non-fixed ambient environment that is an ambient environment not uniquely defined for a location, the estimation unit estimating the non-fixed ambient environment of the future, based at least on the input two or more psychological state sensitivity expression words and an input order of the psychological state sensitivity expression words.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 20, 2019
    Publication date: October 26, 2023
    Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Junji WATANABE, Aiko MURATA
  • Patent number: 11790740
    Abstract: Provided is a vibration presentation system that allows a user to perceive vibrations in bodily sensing the vibrations at various body sites without feeling unnatural. The vibration presentation system for presenting vibration signals for perception by a tactile sense for media content includes a vibrating body configured to generate vibrations corresponding to the vibration signals of a plurality of channels respectively, wherein each of the vibration signals of the plurality of channels is for any of specific body sites, and the vibrations generated by the vibrating body are provided with a time difference such that, for the vibrations for the specic body sites to be perceived at the same time, a vibration for a body site of the specific body sites that is farther from the brain is earlier generated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2023
    Assignee: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Junji Watanabe, Yutaka Kamamoto
  • Publication number: 20230060407
    Abstract: The present invention provides a sport status presentation system with which a user can easily grasp, by touch, the status of a sport competition in which two teams compete and the players on the two teams capture a single ball from each other while moving within a single competition area and score points by placing the ball in a goal set for each team. The sport status presentation system includes two vibrating bodies, the vibrating bodies respectively apply vibration to sites on the left side and the right side of the body of the user and are allocated to the respective teams, and the vibrating body allocated to the team in possession of the ball, among the two vibrating bodies, vibrates by a larger amount as a distance between the ball and the goal or a goal line of the team in possession of the ball decreases.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 6, 2020
    Publication date: March 2, 2023
    Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Junji WATANABE, Akiko HAYASHI
  • Publication number: 20220405866
    Abstract: An information processing method includes preparing first data containing information of a workpiece, information of a product, and information of a plurality of tools used for machining the workpiece to manufacture the product. The information processing method includes instructing a job to generate second data by using the first data. The second data contains information of respective paths for the plurality of tools. The information processing method includes displaying a status of information processing of the job on a display portion after the instructing of the job. The displaying includes displaying, on the display portion, a status of first information processing of calculating a machined shape formed by a first tool included in the plurality of tools and a status of second information processing of calculating a path for the first tool that is performed after the first information processing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 9, 2022
    Publication date: December 22, 2022
    Inventors: Junji Watanabe, Kazunari Kurokawa, Hideki Watanabe, Yuichi Matsumi, Kosuke Saito, Naoki Sakai
  • Publication number: 20220343741
    Abstract: Provided is a vibration presentation system that allows a user to perceive vibrations in bodily sensing the vibrations at various body sites without feeling unnatural. The vibration presentation system for presenting vibration signals for perception by a tactile sense for media content includes a vibrating body configured to generate vibrations corresponding to the vibration signals of a plurality of channels respectively, wherein each of the vibration signals of the plurality of channels is for any of specific body sites, and the vibrations generated by the vibrating body are provided with a time difference such that, for the vibrations for the specic body sites to be perceived at the same time, a vibration for a body site of the specific body sites that is farther from the brain is earlier generated.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 26, 2019
    Publication date: October 27, 2022
    Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Junji WATANABE, Yutaka KAMAMOTO
  • Publication number: 20220343740
    Abstract: Provided is a vibration presentation system that improves the convenience of a user in sensing vibrations at various body sites, or of a plurality of users in sensing vibrations. A vibration presentation system for presenting vibration signals for perception by tactile sense for media content, the vibration presentation system including: a vibrating body configured to generate vibrations corresponding to the vibration signals of a plurality of channels respectively; and a presentation target batch selection user interface including a plurality of (M, where M is an integer of 2 or more) combinations each of which contains one selection button and designation of a predefined body site for a channel included in the plurality of channels, wherein the vibrating body generates vibrations corresponding to the vibration signals for a body site for a channel included in a combination corresponding to a selection button selected from among M selection buttons.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 26, 2019
    Publication date: October 27, 2022
    Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Junji WATANABE, Yutaka KAMAMOTO
  • Publication number: 20220301580
    Abstract: A learning apparatus includes: a storage unit that stores at least a learning-purpose expression indicating a psychological state and an emotion, and learning-purpose feeling information indicating a feeling at the time of issuance of the learning-purpose expression indicating the psychological state and the emotion; and a learning unit that learns an estimation model, using a plurality of pieces of learning data, one piece of the learning data being a set including at least a chronological series of two or more expressions indicating psychological states and. emotions up to time (t) and learning-purpose feeling information indicating a feeling after the time (t), the estimation model estimating a feeling after a certain time by using at least a chronological series of two or more expressions indicating psychological states and emotions up to the certain time as an input.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 6, 2019
    Publication date: September 22, 2022
    Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Junji WATANABE, Aiko MURATA
  • Patent number: 11384664
    Abstract: An air introduction hole having an aperture area smaller than that of an oil inlet is formed above the oil inlet, and therefore, when the oil level of oil accumulated in an oil pan inclines during traveling, air is sucked in through the air introduction hole, thereby restraining a decrease in hydraulic pressure of the oil. Further, the air introduction hole is formed behind the oil inlet in the vehicle front-rear direction in a vehicle. Accordingly, during heavy load traveling such as hill-climbing traveling, the air introduction hole sinks in the oil, thereby restraining the air from being sucked in through the air introduction hole. Accordingly, no air is sucked into an oil strainer, thereby making it possible to obtain high hydraulic pressure during heavy load traveling.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2022
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Junji Watanabe
  • Publication number: 20220207799
    Abstract: A technology is provided in which a temporal change of a psychological state is visualized in an intuitively easy-to-understand manner without utilizing a biosensor. A psychological state visualization apparatus includes: an input unit configured to receive, as an input, a psychological state sensibility representation word representing a psychological state of a user at a time point and a psychological state index value corresponding to the psychological state sensibility representation word and indicating the psychological state of the user; and a presentation unit configured to visualize and present a character string of the psychological state sensibility representation word and the psychological state index value in a form in which a temporal variation is visible.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 25, 2019
    Publication date: June 30, 2022
    Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Junji WATANABE, Aiko MURATA, Reiko ARUGA
  • Publication number: 20220128130
    Abstract: A vehicle includes a chain tensioner that serves as an oil damper using oil supplied from an oil pump. The vehicle includes a controller that controls a traveling mode of the vehicle in a BEV mode or a non-BEV mode. When shifting the traveling mode from the BEV mode to the non-BEV mode, the controller executes a high-pressure process for calculating a supply pressure of oil supplied to the chain tensioner that is higher when a duration of the BEV mode is greater than or equal to a specified time than when the BEV mode duration is less than the specified time.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 15, 2021
    Publication date: April 28, 2022
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Kentaro MUSHIGA, Junji WATANABE
  • Patent number: 11231527
    Abstract: A diffuser plate includes a plurality of fine structures having two or more types of lens functions arranged on a main surface. Intensity of diffused light within a desired diffusion angle range is substantially uniform, and the diffuser plate satisfies a relation of P×P×Sk?400 [?m2], where P is an average pitch of the plurality of fine structures, Sk is a standard deviation of relative luminance of the plurality of fine structures in their front directions, P?200 [?m], and Sk?0.005. Thus, it is possible to provide a diffuser plate having a simple structure capable of achieving optical properties with little luminance and color unevenness and excellent appearance quality when an image is projected.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 25, 2022
    Assignee: KURARAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Atsushi Uchida, Masaru Karai, Junji Watanabe
  • Patent number: 10901122
    Abstract: The present disclosure pertains to the field of screen. It is an object of the present disclosure to provide a transmissive screen including a microlens array. The screen of the present disclosure further comprises an aperture array arranged on a surface opposite to the surface on which the microlens array is disposed. A light shielding portion of the aperture array is a metal film. The transmissive screen of the present disclosure can be used for a display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 26, 2021
    Assignee: KURARAY Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Junji Watanabe, Masaru Karai, Tomohiro Takahashi, Chikafumi Kurahashi