Patents by Inventor Keiichi Aoki
Keiichi Aoki 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).
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Patent number: 11954328Abstract: A processing load is reduced when a flash memory is used. A storage management device acquires an archive associated with an application, stores the acquired archive to one or more blocks among a plurality of blocks contained in the flash memory, and deletes one block among the plurality of blocks. In the archive storage, the acquired archive is stored in one of the blocks not storing an archive associated with an application different from that of the acquired archive, and in the deletion of one block, when an application is deleted, a block storing an archive associated with the application to be deleted is deleted.Type: GrantFiled: July 20, 2020Date of Patent: April 9, 2024Assignee: SONY INTERACTIVE ENTERTAINMENT INC.Inventors: Keiichi Aoki, Masaki Takahashi
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Publication number: 20240110186Abstract: A method produces a hairpin single-stranded RNA molecule capable of inhibiting expression of a target gene, including the step of reacting a first single-stranded oligo-RNA molecule represented by formula (I) with a second single-stranded oligo-RNA molecule represented by formula (II) in a mixed solvent including a buffer solution and a hydrophilic organic solvent in the presence of a dehydration condensation agent: 5?-Xc-Lx1 . . . (I) and Lx2-X—Y-Ly-Yc-3? . . . (II), wherein the dehydration condensation agent is selected from the group consisting of a triazine-based dehydration condensation agent, a uronium-based dehydration condensation agent including an N-hydroxy nitrogen-containing aromatic ring structure, a carbodiimide-based dehydration condensation agent, a 2-halopyridinium-based dehydration condensation agent, and a formamidinium-based dehydration condensation agent.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 1, 2023Publication date: April 4, 2024Inventors: Kyohei Koshimoto, Katsuhiko Iseki, Hideaki Inada, Tatsuya Fujita, Keiichi Okimura, Munetaka Kunishima, Tadaaki Ohgi, Eriko Aoki
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Patent number: 11943449Abstract: A video decoding device for decoding video using inter prediction includes entropy decoding means for decoding an inter-PU partition type syntax; and decoding control means for making the entropy decoding means decode the inter-PU (Prediction Unit) partition type syntax of a CU (Coding Unit) to be decoded, based on whether the prediction mode of the CU to be decoded is an inter prediction mode and whether a size of the CU to be decoded is equal to a predetermined minimum inter-PU size.Type: GrantFiled: January 19, 2023Date of Patent: March 26, 2024Assignee: NEC CORPORATIONInventors: Kenta Senzaki, Yuzo Senda, Keiichi Chono, Hirofumi Aoki
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Patent number: 11899930Abstract: An object of the present invention is to reduce deterioration in responsiveness to storage of content in a flash memory. A storage management apparatus according to the present invention includes a flash memory including a plurality of blocks each having a reserved area and a normal area, acquires a new dataset when a writable area included in a normal area of the plurality of blocks is larger than the new dataset and the new dataset is smaller in size than the writable area included in the normal area of the plurality of blocks in a case where unnecessary datasets included in the plurality of blocks are deleted, copies non-unnecessary datasets from the normal area of a specific block including the unnecessary datasets to the normal area of another block, deletes all datasets included in the normal area of the specific block, and stores the new dataset in the normal area of the specific block from which all the datasets are deleted.Type: GrantFiled: July 20, 2020Date of Patent: February 13, 2024Assignee: SONY INTERACTIVE ENTERTAINMENT INC.Inventors: Keiichi Aoki, Masaki Takahashi
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Publication number: 20230345665Abstract: Provided is an electronic apparatus that acquires an ambient temperature of the electronic apparatus and operates a cooling device to cool a component that generates heat during an operation. When the ambient temperature is lower than a predetermined reference temperature, the electronic apparatus exercises control to increase an output of the cooling device to a value higher than that obtained when the ambient temperature is equal to or higher than the reference temperature.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 1, 2021Publication date: October 26, 2023Applicant: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.Inventors: Shinya Tsuchida, Nils Sabelstrom, Mitsuharu Morishita, Masanori Hayashibara, Yasuhiro Ootori, Keiichi Aoki
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Patent number: 11785738Abstract: Proposed is an electronic apparatus with which it is possible to increase design freedom concerning a wall section formed with vent holes. A rear wall section (20D) includes a rectilinear wall section (21i) spaced rearward from a rear edge (41c) of a circuit board (41), and an inclined wall section (21j) located on the rear side relative to the rectilinear wall section (21i). An inner wall section (42e) is located between the inclined wall section (21j) and the rear edge (41c) of the circuit board (41), and is not located between the rectilinear wall section (21i) and the rear edge (41c) of the circuit board (41).Type: GrantFiled: March 15, 2019Date of Patent: October 10, 2023Assignee: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.Inventors: Ichiro Sasaki, Keiichi Aoki
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Publication number: 20230171915Abstract: Not only cooling performance for an integrated circuit such as a CPU but also cooling performance for a power supply unit is improved. An electronic apparatus (1) includes a first heat sink (71) and a power supply unit (60) including a power supply unit case (61) having an intake air wall (61a) in which a plurality of air intake holes (61b) are formed. The intake air wall (61b) is located in front of the first heat sink (71). The intake air wall (61b) has an external surface being inclined with respect to both a front-rear direction and a left-right direction and facing the first heat sink (71). A cooling fan (5) is disposed to feed air toward the intake air wall (61a).Type: ApplicationFiled: September 24, 2020Publication date: June 1, 2023Applicant: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.Inventors: Shinya TSUCHIDA, Keiichi AOKI, Yasuhiro OOTORI, Yuta TAMAKI, Mitsuharu MORISHITA
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Publication number: 20230114888Abstract: There is provided an electronic apparatus which improves an external appearance and which easily ensures the strength of an exterior member. In the electronic apparatus, an upper surface of an exterior panel (20A) has, on a peripheral portion of the upper surface, a first position (P1), a second position (P2) defined on an opposite side of a center (P0) of the upper surface from the first position (P1), a third position (P3), and a fourth position (P4) defined on an opposite side of the center (P0) of the upper surface from the third position (P3). A line (L1) that connects the first position (P1) and the second position (P2) to each other and is formed along the upper surface is a curve bulging to a lower side, and a line (L2) that connects the third position (P3) and the fourth position (P4) to each other and is formed along the upper surface is a curve bulging to an upper side.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 25, 2021Publication date: April 13, 2023Applicant: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.Inventors: Yujin MORISAWA, Yasuhiro OOTORI, Keiichi AOKI, Shinya TSUCHIDA
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Publication number: 20230102571Abstract: A heat radiating device includes a plurality of heat pipes including respective heat receiving portions that are located above an integrated circuit and that are thermally connected to the integrated circuit, and a heat sink connected to the plurality of heat pipes. A plurality of the heat receiving portions are aligned with each other in a left-right direction and are in contact with the heat receiving portions (73a) of adjacent ones of the heat pipes. The heat receiving portions each have a first width in an upward-downward direction and have a second width smaller than the width in the left-right direction. With this, cooling performance for the integrated circuit can be improved.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 25, 2021Publication date: March 30, 2023Applicant: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.Inventors: Nils SABELSTROM, Chiyoshi SASAKI, Shinya TSUCHIDA, Keiichi AOKI, Yasuhiro OOTORI
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Publication number: 20220365677Abstract: A processing load is reduced when a flash memory is used. A storage management device acquires an archive associated with an application, stores the acquired archive to one or more blocks among a plurality of blocks contained in the flash memory, and deletes one block among the plurality of blocks. In the archive storage, the acquired archive is stored in one of the blocks not storing an archive associated with an application different from that of the acquired archive, and in the deletion of one block, when an application is deleted, a block storing an archive associated with the application to be deleted is deleted.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 20, 2020Publication date: November 17, 2022Inventors: Keiichi AOKI, Masaki TAKAHASHI
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Publication number: 20220283705Abstract: A decrease in responsiveness when storing content in a flash memory is reduced. A storage management apparatus includes a flash memory including a plurality of blocks that include a plurality of usable blocks and one or more spare blocks. The apparatus is configured to acquire a new data set; change at least a part of the one or more spare blocks into a usable block and store the new data set in the thus changed usable block, in a case where a size of the new data set is larger than the writable area of the plurality of usable blocks and where the size of the new data set is larger than the writable area when an unnecessary data set contained in the plurality of usable blocks is deleted; and change the usable blocks all the data sets of which are deleted into spare blocks through garbage collection.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 18, 2020Publication date: September 8, 2022Inventors: Keiichi AOKI, Masaki TAKAHASHI
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Publication number: 20220261154Abstract: An object of the present invention is to reduce deterioration in responsiveness to storage of content in a flash memory. A storage management apparatus according to the present invention includes a flash memory including a plurality of blocks each having a reserved area and a normal area, acquires a new dataset when a writable area included in a normal area of the plurality of blocks is larger than the new dataset and the new dataset is smaller in size than the writable area included in the normal area of the plurality of blocks in a case where unnecessary datasets included in the plurality of blocks are deleted, copies non-unnecessary datasets from the normal area of a specific block including the unnecessary datasets to the normal area of another block, deletes all datasets included in the normal area of the specific block, and stores the new dataset in the normal area of the specific block from which all the datasets are deleted.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 20, 2020Publication date: August 18, 2022Inventors: Keiichi AOKI, Masaki TAKAHASHI
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Publication number: 20220253235Abstract: A reading-out section 108 is capable of reading out files recorded in a first auxiliary storage device 2a and a second auxiliary storage device 2b. A recording management section 106 moves a file of an application recorded in the second auxiliary storage device 2b to the first auxiliary storage device 2a. An application execution section 102 executes the application by using the file moved to the first auxiliary storage device 2a.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 29, 2020Publication date: August 11, 2022Inventors: Syunsuke BAMBA, Makoto SUNAYAMA, Masaki TAKAHASHI, Keiichi AOKI
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Patent number: 11259441Abstract: Foreign matter is prevented from entering the inside of an electronic apparatus. An electronic apparatus (100) includes plural exhaust holes (E1, E2) formed in an armor member (20), an air flow path (S3) formed inside the armor member (20) and connected to the plural exhaust holes (E1, E2), a power source circuit (41) disposed in the air flow path (S3), and a foreign matter preventing member (70) located between the power source circuit (41) and the plural exhaust holes (E1, E2). The foreign matter preventing member (70) is formed with plural openings (Es). Each of the openings (Es) is smaller in size than each of the exhaust holes (E1, E2).Type: GrantFiled: March 20, 2019Date of Patent: February 22, 2022Assignee: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.Inventors: Satoshi Mito, Yasuhiro Ootori, Keiichi Aoki
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Patent number: 11147185Abstract: A heat sink includes a plurality of fins arrayed in a first direction, and a heat pipe having a first extension extending in the first direction. A second direction extends perpendicularly to the first direction, a third direction extends perpendicularly to the first direction and the second direction, and when the heat pipe is viewed in the third direction, the heat pipe has a second extension spaced from the first extension in the second direction and extending in the first direction, and a joint which interconnects the first extension and the second extension and which is curved. The fins include a plurality of first fins arrayed along the first extension and the second extension and a second fin disposed around a position of the joint.Type: GrantFiled: July 26, 2017Date of Patent: October 12, 2021Assignee: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.Inventors: Nobuyuki Sugawara, Keiichi Aoki
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Publication number: 20210120700Abstract: Foreign matter is prevented from entering the inside of an electronic apparatus. An electronic apparatus (100) includes plural exhaust holes (E1, E2) formed in an armor member (20), an air flow path (S3) formed inside the armor member (20) and connected to the plural exhaust holes (E1, E2), a power source circuit (41) disposed in the air flow path (S3), and a foreign matter preventing member (70) located between the power source circuit (41) and the plural exhaust holes (E1, E2). The foreign matter preventing member (70) is formed with plural openings (Es). Each of the openings (Es) is smaller in size than each of the exhaust holes (E1, E2).Type: ApplicationFiled: March 20, 2019Publication date: April 22, 2021Applicant: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.Inventors: Satoshi MITO, Yasuhiro OOTORI, Keiichi AOKI
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Publication number: 20210007239Abstract: Proposed is an electronic apparatus with which it is possible to increase design freedom concerning a wall section formed with vent holes. A rear wall section (20D) includes a rectilinear wall section (21i) spaced rearward from a rear edge (41c) of a circuit board (41), and an inclined wall section (21j) located on the rear side relative to the rectilinear wall section (21i). An inner wall section (42e) is located between the inclined wall section (21j) and the rear edge (41c) of the circuit board (41), and is not located between the rectilinear wall section (21i) and the rear edge (41c) of the circuit board (41).Type: ApplicationFiled: March 15, 2019Publication date: January 7, 2021Applicant: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.Inventors: Ichiro Sasaki, Keiichi Aoki
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Patent number: 10321616Abstract: An electronic apparatus includes a support member, and a cable mounted on the support member. The support member includes a first clamp portion and a second clamp portion mounting the cable on the support member. The first clamp portion includes a first portion being located at upper side of the cable and restricting upward movement of the cable. The second clamp portion is located on the lower side of the cable. At least part of an upper surface of the second clamp portion is located at a level superior to a lower surface of the first portion of the first clamp portion.Type: GrantFiled: July 28, 2017Date of Patent: June 11, 2019Assignee: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.Inventors: Ichiro Sasaki, Keiichi Aoki
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Patent number: 10068618Abstract: Disclosed herein is an electronic apparatus including a main body, a compartment provided in the main body, a part that is accommodated in the compartment and that can be drawn out of the compartment, two attachment sections that are provided on the part and that are located away from each other, and a knob member attached to the two attachment sections. The knob member is a flexible member that is longer than a distance between the two attachment sections, includes a curved portion that is curved in such a manner as to swell in a direction away from the part, and is elastically deformable such that the swelling of the curved portion decreases.Type: GrantFiled: July 28, 2017Date of Patent: September 4, 2018Assignee: SONY INTERACTIVE ENTERTAINMENT INC.Inventors: Kazutaka Eto, Shinya Tsuchida, Keiichi Aoki
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Publication number: 20180042148Abstract: An electronic apparatus includes a support member, and a cable mounted on the support member. The support member includes a first clamp portion and a second clamp portion mounting the cable on the support member. The first clamp portion includes a first portion being located at upper side of the cable and restricting upward movement of the cable. The second clamp portion is located on the lower side of the cable. At least part of an upper surface of the second clamp portion is located at a level superior to a lower surface of the first portion of the first clamp portion.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 28, 2017Publication date: February 8, 2018Applicant: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.Inventors: Ichiro Sasaki, Keiichi Aoki