Patents by Inventor Kei Ichikawa

Kei Ichikawa 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: 11640502
    Abstract: A character string selection detector may detect selection of a character string appearing on a screen of a display in accordance with an application program. The selection may be performed with an operation with an input device. A registration screen controller may cause a word registration screen for registering, to a dictionary, the character string selected and detected by the character string selection detector to appear on the display in response to a registration operation detector detecting a registration operation. A word registration unit may register, to the dictionary, a word in accordance with data appearing on the word registration screen in response to an enter operation detector detecting an enter operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 12, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 2, 2023
    Assignee: OMRON CORPORATION
    Inventor: Kei Ichikawa
  • Patent number: 11634180
    Abstract: The disclosure provides a vehicle body rear part structure. The vehicle body rear part structure includes a load support part on a quarter pillar. The load support part includes a side sill stiffener, a quarter pillar stiffener and a damper stiffener. The side sill stiffener reinforces a side sill and forms a part of the quarter pillar. The quarter pillar stiffener is provided continuously with the side sill stiffener and reinforces the quarter pillar. The damper stiffener is provided above a rear wheel house and joined to the quarter pillar stiffener and a roof side rail.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 13, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2023
    Assignee: Honda Motor Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Masahiro Kawazu, Hiroyuki Yasuda, Kei Ichikawa, Hitomi Ezura
  • Publication number: 20220292257
    Abstract: An extraction unit extracts candidates including predictive candidates, as candidates corresponding to an input character string. A control vocabulary storage unit stores a control vocabulary to be learned with teaching material. A determination unit determines whether a usage mode is a first mode or a second mode. An output control unit outputs the candidates in an arrangement order according to priority. When the usage mode is the first mode, the output control unit excludes, from the candidates to be output, any words in the control vocabulary extracted as predictive candidates. Also, when the usage mode is the second mode, the output control unit increases the priority of any words in the control vocabulary extracted by the extraction unit as predictive candidates, among the candidates to be output.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 23, 2022
    Publication date: September 15, 2022
    Applicant: OMRON Corporation
    Inventors: Kei ICHIKAWA, Yosuke HIGUCHI, Mieko YAMAUCHI, Tetsuya NAKAMURA
  • Publication number: 20220111907
    Abstract: The disclosure provides a vehicle body rear part structure. The vehicle body rear part structure includes a load support part on a quarter pillar. The load support part includes a side sill stiffener, a quarter pillar stiffener and a damper stiffener. The side sill stiffener reinforces a side sill and forms a part of the quarter pillar. The quarter pillar stiffener is provided continuously with the side sill stiffener and reinforces the quarter pillar. The damper stiffener is provided above a rear wheel house and joined to the quarter pillar stiffener and a roof side rail.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 13, 2021
    Publication date: April 14, 2022
    Applicant: Honda Motor Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Masahiro KAWAZU, Hiroyuki YASUDA, Kei ICHIKAWA, Hitomi EZURA
  • Patent number: 11237644
    Abstract: A character input device according to one or more embodiments may include a controller including a suggestion controller and a display controller, and a database. The database stores a normal predictive conversion suggestion, a group including a plurality of group conversion suggestions each having a common element, and a symbol representing an attribute that classifies the plurality of group conversion suggestions by a characteristic different from the common element in the group. The suggestion controller may detect a reading of an input character and detects, in response to the reading of the input character at least partially matching a name of the group, the symbol representing the attribute of the group. The display controller may display the normal predictive conversion suggestion and the symbol.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 11, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 1, 2022
    Assignee: OMRON Corporation
    Inventors: Kei Ichikawa, Mieko Yamauchi
  • Publication number: 20210286442
    Abstract: A character input device according to one or more embodiments may include a controller including a suggestion controller and a display controller, and a database. The database stores a normal predictive conversion suggestion, a group including a plurality of group conversion suggestions each having a common element, and a symbol representing an attribute that classifies the plurality of group conversion suggestions by a characteristic different from the common element in the group. The suggestion controller may detect a reading of an input character and detects, in response to the reading of the input character at least partially matching a name of the group, the symbol representing the attribute of the group. The display controller may display the normal predictive conversion suggestion and the symbol.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 11, 2021
    Publication date: September 16, 2021
    Applicant: OMRON Corporation
    Inventors: Kei ICHIKAWA, Mieko YAMAUCHI
  • Publication number: 20210279415
    Abstract: A character string selection detector may detect selection of a character string appearing on a screen of a display in accordance with an application program. The selection may be performed with an operation with an input device. A registration screen controller may cause a word registration screen for registering, to a dictionary, the character string selected and detected by the character string selection detector to appear on the display in response to a registration operation detector detecting a registration operation. A word registration unit may register, to the dictionary, a word in accordance with data appearing on the word registration screen in response to an enter operation detector detecting an enter operation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 12, 2021
    Publication date: September 9, 2021
    Applicant: OMRON Corporation
    Inventor: Kei ICHIKAWA
  • Publication number: 20210186324
    Abstract: Provided are a method, a device, or a storage medium having a program stored therein for easily determining a crystalline lens nucleus state. A gray scale anterior segment image taken by optical coherence tomography is obtained, and posterization of the anterior segment image is performed to obtain tone-changed images having 3 tones, 4 tones, and 5 tones. One, of a plurality of predetermined grades, corresponding to the crystalline lens nucleus state is determined based on a combination of states of observed images of the crystalline lens nucleus in the tone-changed images. The grades are set for classification according to whether or not an image of a crystalline lens nucleus is observed, whether the observed image is spot-shaped or band-shaped, or whether or not the entire image of the crystalline lens nucleus is observed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 12, 2020
    Publication date: June 24, 2021
    Applicant: CHUKYO MEDICAL CO., INC.
    Inventors: Kiyoyuki MAJIMA, Kazuo ICHIKAWA, Kei ICHIKAWA
  • Patent number: 10768713
    Abstract: A character input device is provided with an input key determination unit, an input character processing unit and a conversion candidate processing unit. The input key determination unit determines the type of a key that is input. The input character processing unit executes an operation on an input character and finalization of the input character that is based on the input key. The conversion candidate processing unit executes learning of a conversion candidate associated with the input character. When it is detected that there was input of a delete key before finalization of the input character, the conversion candidate processing unit, as learning of the conversion candidate, sets an input character existing prior to input of the delete key as a reading of the finalized input character.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 10, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 8, 2020
    Assignee: OMRON Corporation
    Inventor: Kei Ichikawa
  • Publication number: 20190272089
    Abstract: Efficient handwriting input is performed. A character input device includes: a handwritten character input unit that receives a handwritten character input operation; a controller that outputs a prediction candidate in which a replacement character is replaced, the prediction candidate corresponding to a series of handwritten characters, when the replacement character exists in the series of handwritten characters input to the handwritten character input unit; and a candidate display that displays the prediction candidate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 22, 2019
    Publication date: September 5, 2019
    Applicant: OMRON Corporation
    Inventors: Kei ICHIKAWA, Masaharu Ueda
  • Publication number: 20180267621
    Abstract: A character input device is provided with an input key determination unit, an input character processing unit and a conversion candidate processing unit. The input key determination unit determines the type of a key that is input. The input character processing unit executes an operation on an input character and finalization of the input character that is based on the input key. The conversion candidate processing unit executes learning of a conversion candidate associated with the input character. When it is detected that there was input of a delete key before finalization of the input character, the conversion candidate processing unit, as learning of the conversion candidate, sets an input character existing prior to input of the delete key as a reading of the finalized input character.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 10, 2018
    Publication date: September 20, 2018
    Applicant: OMRON Corporation
    Inventor: Kei ICHIKAWA
  • Patent number: 8189990
    Abstract: A digital broadcast receiving apparatus which enables simple programming for receiving a digital television broadcast and/or a radio broadcast. The digital broadcast receiving apparatus includes: a broadcast receiving unit receiving a digital broadcast; an extraction unit extracting a service description table from the received digital broadcast; an identification unit identifying, from the extracted service description table, transport stream identification information, network identification information, and service identification information, as stream identification information; and a transmission unit transmitting, to a recording apparatus, the identified stream identification information and a recording command.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 2006
    Date of Patent: May 29, 2012
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Masazumi Yamada, Junji Yoshida, Toshikazu Munezane, Kei Ichikawa
  • Patent number: 8077121
    Abstract: The present invention sufficiently reduces unwanted radiation in a plasma display panel (PDP) display device. The display device includes a PDP having a pair of electrodes, a first, a second, and a third conductive member, and a pair of driving circuits used to apply a voltage to their respective electrodes. Each conductive member has substantially the same width and height as the PDP, and the first, second, third conductive members are disposed on the rear surface of the PDP, in this order on the rear side of the PDP. The PDP and the conductive members are connected electrically to one another in the end portions of these elements, either directly or via the driving circuits, so that the direction of the current flowing in the PDP during driving and discharge coincides with the direction of the current flowing in the third conductive member, and is opposite from the direction of the current flowing in the first conductive member and the second conductive member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 2008
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2011
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Kei Ichikawa, Hirotsugu Fusayasu, Hiroshi Kunimoto, Seiji Hamada, Ryo Matsubara
  • Patent number: 8072778
    Abstract: A plasma display device capable of reducing an electromagnetic interference wave due to a driving current flowing in a plasma display panel is provided. The plasma display device includes a plasma display panel having electrodes that are parallel to each other, a driver circuit board for applying a voltage to the electrodes, a chassis conductor holding the plasma display panel and to which a ground of the driver circuit board is connected, and a first additional conductor plate provided to the chassis conductor via an insulating layer and to which grounds of at least one circuit board in circuit boards other than the driver circuit board are attached.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2009
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2011
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Hiroshi Kunimoto, Hirotsugu Fusayasu, Shouichi Mimura, Kei Ichikawa, Masafumi Kumoi, Ryo Matsubara, Masato Tobinaga, Toshiyuki Nakaie
  • Patent number: 8014169
    Abstract: The present invention provides a shield structure for an electronic device allowing conductive members to be connected electrically to each other at low impedance while preventing the leakage of electromagnetic waves effectively. The first conductive member and the second conductive member for enclosing the electronic device respectively have laid portions that are laid one on the other and fastened to each other at plural positions by means of screw members. Through-holes into which the screw members are to be inserted are formed on both of the laid portions. Protruding portions, which protrude toward the laid portion of the second conductive member, each are formed between the adjacent through-holes on the laid portion of the first conductive member. The protruding portions each have a shape extending in the direction connecting the adjacent through-holes and bulging from both ends toward the center thereof in a smooth curve.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 2008
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2011
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Seiji Hamada, Masaaki Ofuji, Takatoshi Kubiura, Ichiro Hirose, Hirotsugu Fusayasu, Ryo Matsubara, Kei Ichikawa, Hiroshi Kunimoto
  • Patent number: 7940006
    Abstract: A plasma display device includes: a plasma display panel; a front glass; a conductive filter attached to a front surface or a back surface of the front glass; a back cover; and a plurality of glass pressing pieces each of which presses a corresponding one of four sides of the front glass and makes the conductive filter and the back cover be connected electrically. Among the plurality of glass pressing pieces, glass pressing pieces disposed on one pair of opposite sides of the front glass are electrically connected with the conductive filter at the front surface side thereof, and glass pressing pieces disposed on the other pair of opposite sides of the front glass are electrically connected with the conductive filter at the back surface side thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 21, 2009
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2011
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Kei Ichikawa, Masaaki Ofuji, Seiji Hamada
  • Publication number: 20100178040
    Abstract: The present invention provides a digital broadcast receiving apparatus which enables simple programming for receiving a digital television broadcast and/or a radio broadcast. The digital broadcast receiving apparatus according to the present invention is a digital broadcast receiving apparatus which receives a digital broadcast, and includes: a broadcast receiving unit that receives a digital broadcast; an extraction unit that extracts a service description table from the received digital broadcast; an identification unit that identifies, from the extracted service description table, transport stream identification information, network identification information, and service identification information, as stream identification information; and a transmission unit that transmits, to a recording apparatus, the identified stream identification information and a recording command.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 29, 2006
    Publication date: July 15, 2010
    Applicant: MATSUSHITA ELECTRIC INDUSTRIAL CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Masazumi Yamada, Junji Yoshida, Toshikazu Munezane, Kei Ichikawa
  • Patent number: 7657847
    Abstract: The copy control information deciding apparatus includes: a thumbnail obtaining unit 9 which obtains plural pieces of individual control information which are respective pieces of copy control information of plural scaled-down images which are displayed in a menu simultaneously; a copy control information deciding unit 11 which decides a piece of representative control information which is a piece of the copy control information of a menu display image in which the plural scaled-down images are displayed as a menu; and an output unit 14 which outputs the piece of representative control information decided by the copy control information deciding unit 11, in relation to the menu display image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 16, 2005
    Date of Patent: February 2, 2010
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Kei Ichikawa, Minoru Umesako
  • Publication number: 20090282350
    Abstract: There are provided a display device, an external connection device and a screen control method which enable hiding GUIs of the external connection device and displaying GUIs of the display device by operating a remote controller dedicated to the display device. When an operation code for restoring the GUI display is inputted from a remote controller 121 dedicated to a display device 100 to a user operation input unit 103 while a display unit 107 of the display device 100 displays a GUI of an external connection device 200 after displaying a GUI of the display device 100, a control unit 101 controls a data processing unit 106 to create a GUI in order to display a GUI of the display device 100 on the display unit 107.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 27, 2006
    Publication date: November 12, 2009
    Applicant: PANASONIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Akira Kawasaki, Tetsuyuki Nakayasu, Takahiro Nagai, Noriya Mashimo, Yousuke Suzuki, Kei Ichikawa, Hisami Ibaraki, Shiro Iwasaki
  • Publication number: 20090251390
    Abstract: A plasma display device including a plasma display panel having electrodes through which a driving current flows; a chassis conductor holding the plasma display panel and provided with a return circuit of the driving current; a conductive case enclosing the plasma display panel and the chassis conductor; and a binding portion for binding the chassis conductor and the conductive case to each other and having a connection state different depending upon a frequency of flowing current. The binding portion has a connection state in which an amount of flowing current is less than a half of that in a short-circuited state and a connection state in which the amount is not less than a half of that in a short-circuited state.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 16, 2009
    Publication date: October 8, 2009
    Applicant: PANASONIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masafumi Kumoi, Hirotsugu Fusayasu, Hiroshi Kunimoto, Kei Ichikawa, Shouichi Mimura, Ryo Matsubara, Masato Tobinaga, Toshiyuki Nakaie