Patents by Inventor Kazuo Yamamoto

Kazuo Yamamoto 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: 8705939
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes: a data processing unit which performs copy processing for recording recorded data of a first medium in a second medium, wherein the data processing unit receives three-dimensional image restriction information as copy restriction information of a three-dimensional image from a management server, and when a three-dimensional image is included in copy data from the first medium, performs processing for referencing the three-dimensional image restriction information, determining whether or not the copy processing is permitted, and copying recorded data of the first medium to the second medium under the condition it is determined that the copy processing is permitted.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 22, 2014
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Yoshiyuki Kobayashi, Tateo Oishi, Kenjiro Ueda, Kazuo Yamamoto, Motoki Kato, Shinobu Hattori
  • Patent number: 8678898
    Abstract: A terminal sets a search range that includes a player object and is smaller than a radar map range in an object space based on the position of the player object, and generates a radar map image that indicates the position of the player object and the position of an enemy object within the search range.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2014
    Assignee: Namco Bandai Games Inc.
    Inventors: Kazuo Yamamoto, Masayoshi Noda, Masaya Amano, Yoshitaka Inoue, Kazuya Watanabe
  • Publication number: 20140076331
    Abstract: The present invention is a device that is configured to secure a patient's head against the force of gravity during surgery (or other medical procedures) while the patient is in an upright, sideways (tilted to the side), or upside down position, or in any other non-horizontal position, for any duration of time. The device is designed to safely secure a patient's head or neck to prevent potential injury to the patient who is unconscious and unable to protect themselves through reflex reactions or otherwise. Without the device, a patient's head would drop forward or sideways by force of gravity, and if it remained in the dropped position, the patient's neck, shoulder, and/or spine regions could suffer temporary or permanent soreness, strain, and/or injury. This device is designed to reduce or eliminate such soreness or injury.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 6, 2013
    Publication date: March 20, 2014
    Inventors: David Colin Cho, Allen Gabriel, Wil Kazuo Yamamoto
  • Patent number: 8664620
    Abstract: The particle beam rotational irradiation apparatus is provided with an irradiation nozzle that irradiates a charged particle beam, a beam transport unit that transports the charged particle beam to the irradiation nozzle, and a rotating unit that can rotate around the isocenter; the particle beam rotational irradiation apparatus is characterized in that the beam transport unit has three or more bending electromagnets and in that the bending electromagnets are arranged in such a way that in the case where as a pair of bending planes, any two of the bending planes of the bending electromagnets are selected, the two bending planes of at least one pair of bending planes are not on the same plane, not parallel with each other, and not perpendicular to each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 8, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2014
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Nobuyuki Haruna, Kazuo Yamamoto, Takahisa Nagayama
  • Patent number: 8646704
    Abstract: An injector includes a housing, a fixed core, a movable core, a valve member, and a resilient member pressing the valve member toward a nozzle hole. An inner peripheral surface of the housing axially guides an outer peripheral surface of the movable core. The inner peripheral surface and the outer peripheral surface define an outer clearance therebetween. The valve member includes a shaft-shaped portion and a stopper portion, which contacts the movable core and has a stopper inclined surface. An outer peripheral surface of the shaft-shaped portion and an inner peripheral surface of an insertion hole of the movable core define an inner clearance therebetween. The stopper inclined surface inclines radially inward of the shaft-shaped portion axially toward the nozzle hole. An axial clearance is formed between the stopper inclined surface and the movable core radially outward of a contact portion between the stopper inclined surface and the movable core.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 2010
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2014
    Assignee: Denso Corporation
    Inventors: Kazuo Yamamoto, Jun Yamashita
  • Patent number: 8633966
    Abstract: There is provided an information processing device enabling a content of 3D image to be appropriately reproduced from a recording medium. A virtual extent read out from a recording medium recorded with interleaved data obtained by dividing each of a base stream and an enhanced stream into extents Ext1 and Ext2, and arranging the Ext1 and Ext2 in an interleaved manner so that the Ext1 and Ext2 are adjacent to each other, and a file entry of a 2D reproduction file in which the Ext1 is stored in a reproducing order, and a 3D type 1 reproduction file in which the virtual extent is stored in a reproducing order, with a set of Ext1 and Ext2, which are adjacent to each other in the interleaved data, as the virtual extent, is divided into the Ext1 and Ext2 using the file entry of the 2D reproduction file.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2010
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2014
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Motoki Kato, Kazuo Yamamoto, Masayoshi Mizuno, Shigeho Ogawa
  • Publication number: 20130328506
    Abstract: According to the drift tube linear accelerator of the invention, its acceleration cavity is configured with a center plate and a pair of half cylindrical tubes, wherein the center plate includes a ridge, stems connecting the ridge and drift tube electrodes, and the drift tube electrodes, and wherein the acceleration cavity is configured, as seen in cross section perpendicular to a beam-acceleration center axis, whose inner diameter in X-direction that is perpendicular to a central axis in planar direction in which the stem of the center plate extends and that is passing through the beam-acceleration center axis, is longer than whose inner diameter in Y-direction parallel to the central axis in planar direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 15, 2013
    Publication date: December 12, 2013
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Kazuo YAMAMOTO, Nobuyuki Haruna, Takahisa Nagayama, Hiromitsu Inoue, Takayuki Kashima
  • Publication number: 20130289330
    Abstract: The particle beam rotational irradiation apparatus is provided with an irradiation nozzle that irradiates a charged particle beam, a beam transport unit that transports the charged particle beam to the irradiation nozzle, and a rotating unit that can rotate around the isocenter; the particle beam rotational irradiation apparatus is characterized in that the beam transport unit has three or more bending electromagnets and in that the bending electromagnets are arranged in such a way that in the case where as a pair of bending planes, any two of the bending planes of the bending electromagnets are selected, the two bending planes of at least one pair of bending planes are not on the same plane, not parallel with each other, and not perpendicular to each other.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 8, 2013
    Publication date: October 31, 2013
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Nobuyuki HARUNA, Kazuo YAMAMOTO, Takahisa NAGAYAMA
  • Patent number: 8549323
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes: a data processing unit that generates data for copy of data recorded on an information recording medium, wherein the information recording medium has a configuration in which data encrypted by applying an individual unit key in unit of a unit, which is segment data corresponding to an individual title, is recorded, and the data processing unit acquires title information recorded in copy processing information acquired from the information recording medium or a management server, acquires a unit key corresponding to the acquired title information, and executes decryption processing in unit of the unit by the acquired unit key to generate the data for copy.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2010
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2013
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Kenjiro Ueda, Kazuo Yamamoto
  • Patent number: 8525448
    Abstract: The circular accelerator comprises: a bending electromagnet that generates a bending magnetic field; a radio-frequency power source that generates a radio-frequency electric field in accordance with an orbital frequency of charged particles; a radio-frequency electromagnetic field coupling part connected to the radio-frequency power source; an acceleration electrode connected to the radio-frequency electromagnetic field coupling part; and an acceleration-electrode-opposing ground plate provided to form an acceleration gap between the plate itself and the acceleration electrode, for generating the radio-frequency electromagnetic field in an orbiting direction of the charged particles; wherein the bending electromagnet generates the bending magnetic field varying in such a way that the orbital frequency of the charged particles varies in a variation range of 0.7% to 24.7% with respect to an orbital frequency at the charged-particles' extraction portion, during a time of injection to extraction of the particles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2013
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Hirofumi Tanaka, Kazuo Yamamoto, Nobuyuki Haruna, Yuehu Pu, Kanji Shinkawa, Takayuki Kashima
  • Patent number: 8421379
    Abstract: An H-mode drift tube linac according to the present invention includes: an accelerator cavity which functions as a vacuum chamber and a resonator; drift tube electrodes for generating accelerating voltages in a charged particle transporting direction in the accelerator cavity; tuners for adjusting a distribution of electric fields generated at gaps between respective pairs of the drift tube electrodes; and antennas for measuring a variation of the distribution of the electric fields, the antennas being provided along the charged particle transporting direction in the accelerator cavity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 2010
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2013
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Kazuo Yamamoto, Hirofumi Tanaka, Yoichi Kuroda
  • Patent number: 8391118
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a data processing unit which executes a copy process for recording data recorded on a first medium onto a second medium, and the data processing unit executes a questionable data discrimination process for discriminating questionable data which is highly likely to be not normally reproduced in a reproduction process in which a reproduction program different from a dedicated reproduction program to the data recorded on the first medium is applied, and executes at least any of processes, which include a questionable data deletion process for deleting the questionable data from a copy target or a warning notification process for notifying a user of a possibility that copied data will not be normally reproduced, according to the discrimination result in the questionable data discrimination process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2013
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Shinobu Hattori, Kenjiro Ueda, Yoshiyuki Kobayashi, Motoki Kato, Kazuo Yamamoto
  • Publication number: 20130043351
    Abstract: There is provided a cap capable of achieving enhanced safety by inhibiting the occurrence of sparks thereinside even if a lightning current has flowed through a fastener, a fastening structure using the same, and an aircraft including the fastening structure. A cap (27) according to the present invention is attached so as to cover a portion of a fastener (15) that couples an upper skin (3) of an aircraft and a stringer (11) located inside the upper skin (3), the portion projecting through the stringer (11), wherein an outer surface (33) of the cap that comes into contact with an interior space of the upper skin (3) is a curved surface, and the cap is made of a conductive material.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 22, 2011
    Publication date: February 21, 2013
    Inventors: Nobuyuki Kamihara, Koichi Murakami, Kazuo Yamamoto
  • Publication number: 20130038248
    Abstract: A drift-tube linear accelerator that passes an injected particle beam through inside a plurality of cylindrical drift-tube electrodes arranged in a cylindrical cavity in a particle beam traveling direction and accelerates the particle beam by a radio-frequency electric field generated between the plurality of cylindrical drift-tube electrodes, wherein at least part of a focusing device for focusing the particle beam is disposed inside an end drift-tube electrode that is arranged nearest the injection side of the cylindrical cavity among the plurality of cylindrical drift-tube electrodes, with the focusing device being positionally adjustable independently of the end drift-tube electrode.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 14, 2011
    Publication date: February 14, 2013
    Inventors: Kazuo Yamamoto, Hirofumi Tanaka, Hiromitsu Inoue, Sadahiro Kawasaki
  • Patent number: 8305860
    Abstract: An information processing device including a data processing section which executes control of a copying process where recording data on a first medium is recorded onto a second medium, and a data conversion section which executes data conversion in the copying process, where the data processing section acquires position information of a packet, which corresponds to an angle change point, based on conversion data generated by the data conversion section and executes an updating process on a reproduction control information file where angle change point position information of data before conversion which is recorded in the reproduction control information file included in copy target data is changed to angle change point position information of data after conversion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 6, 2012
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Shinobu Hattori, Kazuo Yamamoto, Motoki Kato, Yoshiyuki Kobayashi, Kenjiro Ueda
  • Publication number: 20120272070
    Abstract: An apparatus and method configured to identify the type of a content to be copied and perform a copying process in a sequence according to the result of identification is provided. In an information processing apparatus configured to perform the copying process for copying recorded data in an information recording medium to other media or the like, the type of the data recorded in the recording medium of a copy source is identified.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 11, 2010
    Publication date: October 25, 2012
    Inventors: Kenjiro Ueda, Kazuo Yamamoto
  • Publication number: 20120242898
    Abstract: Described herein is an information processing device, information processing method, program storage medium, program, data structure, and manufacturing method for storage medium wherein a user can determine subtitles with certainty. That is, an attribute buffer holds at least font style specifying information which specifies a font style to be applied for a character object for a subtitle held in a character object buffer, and width specifying information which can specify the width of the outline of the character object corresponding to the font style having an outline. In the case that the font style having an outline is specified in the font style specifying information, a font rasterizer obtains font style data of the font style having an outline, updates the font style data based on the width specifying information, and converts the character object into subtitle data, using at least the updated font style data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 6, 2012
    Publication date: September 27, 2012
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kouichi UCHIMURA, Kazuo YAMAMOTO, Yoshiyuki KOBAYASHI
  • Publication number: 20120217903
    Abstract: The circular accelerator comprises: a bending electromagnet that generates a bending magnetic field; a radio-frequency power source that generates a radio-frequency electric field in accordance with an orbital frequency of charged particles; a radio-frequency electromagnetic field coupling part connected to the radio-frequency power source; an acceleration electrode connected to the radio-frequency electromagnetic field coupling part; and an acceleration-electrode-opposing ground plate provided to form an acceleration gap between the plate itself and the acceleration electrode, for generating the radio-frequency electromagnetic field in an orbiting direction of the charged particles; wherein the bending electromagnet generates the bending magnetic field varying in such a way that the orbital frequency of the charged particles varies in a variation range of 0.7% to 24.7% with respect to an orbital frequency at the charged-particles' extraction portion, during a time of injection to extraction of the particles.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 8, 2012
    Publication date: August 30, 2012
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Hirofumi TANAKA, Kazuo YAMAMOTO, Nobuyuki HARUNA, Yuehu PU, Kanji SHINKAWA, Takayuki KASHIMA
  • Publication number: 20120210128
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes: a data processing unit generates contents to be provided to a client, extracts plural blocks as content configuration data from an original content, sets patterns including block rows of the extracted blocks, generates encrypted blocks applying block keys which are different according to respective patterns and respective blocks, selects encrypted blocks from the patterns at random in each content delivery, generates individually-encrypted portions by encrypting part of configuration data of the selected blocks by applying an individual key corresponding to a client as a content delivery destination, and generates encrypted content including encrypted blocks on which encryption processing by the block keys is performed and individually-encrypted portions on which encryption processing by the individual key is performed as the content to be provided to the client.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 1, 2012
    Publication date: August 16, 2012
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takamichi Hayashi, Hiroshi Kuno, Motoki Kato, Kenjiro Ueda, Yoshiyuki Kobayashi, Kazuo Yamamoto
  • Patent number: 8219818
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes: a reproducing unit that reads, from a disc, a content and a content code file storing a content code that includes at least any one of a program or conversion data applied to a content reproducing process, to execute the content reproducing process; and a signature verification unit that verifies a digital signature set for the content code file. The signature verification unit verifies the signature using different pieces of set signature target data between a signature verification process executed in reproducing the content recorded in a ROM disc and a signature verification process executed in reproducing the content recorded in a non-ROM disc other than the ROM disc. The reproducing unit, when signature verification is successfully executed by the signature verification unit, applies the content code stored in the content code file, for which signature verification is successful, to reproduce the content.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 6, 2009
    Date of Patent: July 10, 2012
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Kazuo Yamamoto, Kenjiro Ueda