Patents by Inventor Ken Watanabe
Ken 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).
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Patent number: 11971339Abstract: A particle size distribution measurement device includes a cell holding body 31 that holds a measurement cell 2 containing a measurement sample and a dispersion medium and a reference cell 6 containing a reference sample and is rotated by a motor 322, and a cell discrimination mechanism 7 that discriminates the cells 2, 6 passing through a predetermined rotation position by using a magnetic force or electrostatic capacitance.Type: GrantFiled: October 29, 2019Date of Patent: April 30, 2024Assignees: Horiba, Ltd., Eppendorf Himac Technologies Co., Ltd.Inventors: Tetsuji Yamaguchi, Hitoshi Watanabe, Hidetaka Osawa, Ken Asakura, Kenichi Nemoto
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Patent number: 11964569Abstract: In a case of a normal operation, a battery controller (22) assumes a normal operation mode and permits charging and discharging of a battery module (21). Upon receiving a discharge command from a vehicle body controller (17) for completely discharging the battery module (21), the battery controller (22) assumes a discharge mode to discharge the battery module (21) to reach a safe voltage level and store discharge information. Upon reading out the discharge information, the battery controller (22) assumes a discharge prohibition mode to prohibit charging and discharging of the battery module (21).Type: GrantFiled: July 4, 2019Date of Patent: April 23, 2024Assignee: Hitachi Construction Machinery Co., Ltd.Inventors: Toshihiko Watanabe, Seiji Ishida, Ken Takeuchi
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Patent number: 11954780Abstract: A first video generator generates first information for displaying, as a first video, a character object of a first user and a first object. A second video generator displays the first object and a third object different from the second object. An association portion associates the character object of the first user with a fourth object associated with the third object when the character object of the first user and the third object have a predetermined relationship. The second video generator displays the fourth object in association with the character object of the first user when the fourth object is associated with the character object of the first user by the association portion.Type: GrantFiled: August 23, 2022Date of Patent: April 9, 2024Assignee: GREE, INC.Inventors: Ryo Yabe, Shuhei Asada, Ken Watanabe
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Publication number: 20240102627Abstract: A road surface rendering device for rendering a road surface by illuminating an illumination region extending along a direction away from the road surface rendering device with light. The illumination region is divided into three regions of a left region, a central region, and a right region in a direction intersecting a longitudinal direction, an illuminance of the central region is largest.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 12, 2022Publication date: March 28, 2024Applicant: KOITO MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.Inventors: Yukiko Kitazawa, Masaru Sasaki, Koichi Tanabe, Ken Watanabe, Masanori Kito
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Publication number: 20240076868Abstract: The present invention intends to provide a technique by which, in an interior building material which is represented by a gypsum board and to which a magnet does not attach, the surface of such an interior building material can be modified so that a magnet can attach to the surface by simple means that can be put into practical use, a wall face and the like for which a stopper with a magnet, which is a substitute for a thumbtack, and a magnet sheet are usable can thereby be formed, and an interior building material which has realized favorable construction efficiency such that the interior building material can be easily cut with a cutter knife or the like can be made, and this object is realized by providing an interior building material having a plurality of sheet-like magnetic materials fixed to at least a portion of a surface or back surface of a plate-like base material to which a magnet does not attach, wherein adjacent magnetic materials are disposed in such a way as to have a portion where the adjacenType: ApplicationFiled: September 1, 2023Publication date: March 7, 2024Inventors: Itaru YOKOYAMA, Ken WATANABE
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Patent number: 11850471Abstract: An athletic activity performance estimation device estimates an athletic activity performance index relating to an athletic activity in which a subject performs a short-time action after a predetermined waiting time using information correlated with the state of tension of the subject as tension state information, an index indicating the subject's tension level as a tension state index, and an index indicating the quality of performance of an athletic activity of the subject as the athletic activity performance index. The athletic activity performance estimation device includes a tension state information acquirer that acquires the tension state information of the subject before starting the athletic activity, a tension state index calculator that calculates the tension state index of the subject from the tension state information, and an athletic activity performance index estimator.Type: GrantFiled: April 3, 2019Date of Patent: December 26, 2023Assignee: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATIONInventors: Seiji Matsumura, Ken Watanabe, Toshitaka Kimura, Makio Kashino
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Publication number: 20230316617Abstract: When first motion data generated using a first tracking method is received from a first terminal device based on motion of a first distributor, a video is generated that includes an animation of a first avatar of the first distributor. When second motion data generated using a second tracking method that differs from the first tracking method is received from a second terminal device based on motion of a second distributor, a video is generated that includes an animation of a second avatar of the second distributor. When both the first motion data and the second motion data are received, a video is generated that includes the animation of the first avatar that is based on the first motion data and the animation of the second avatar that is based on the second motion data.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 30, 2022Publication date: October 5, 2023Applicant: GREE, INC.Inventor: Ken WATANABE
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Publication number: 20230315246Abstract: First motion data, generated based on motion of a user using at least one tracking device attached to the user, is acquired. A first video is displayed that moves based on the first motion data and represents a virtual space as viewed from a viewpoint of the user. A second video is displayed that moves based on the first motion data and represents the virtual space including an avatar of the user as viewed from a separated viewpoint at a distance from the avatar of the user. An object is attached to the avatar of the user or is removed from the avatar of the user according to operation data generated based on an operation of the user.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 30, 2022Publication date: October 5, 2023Applicant: GREE, INC.Inventor: Ken WATANABE
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Publication number: 20230316618Abstract: A first video is displayed that is generated based on motion of a user and is represented as viewed from a viewpoint of the user, the user being a user of the terminal device. In combination with the first video, an input object is displayed that functions as a user interface enabling input by the user. The input object that is displayed is caused to change according to the type of the first video that is displayed.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 30, 2022Publication date: October 5, 2023Applicant: GREE, INC.Inventor: Ken WATANABE
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Publication number: 20230252706Abstract: This disclosure includes a transmitter that transmits information about a video, a receiver that receives a display request for a first object, a first video generator that generates first information for displaying a character object of a first user and the first object in a first region of a virtual space as a first video, and a second video generator that generates second information for displaying a second object in a second region of the virtual space as a second video, and displays the character object of the first user so as to be movable in the first region and the second region. The second video generator displays the first object based on arrangement position information associated with the first object.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 19, 2022Publication date: August 10, 2023Applicant: GREE, INC.Inventors: Ryo YABE, Shuhei ASADA, Ken WATANABE
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Publication number: 20230150420Abstract: A drawing apparatus for a vehicle is mounted to a vehicle and draws at least one of plural drawing patterns on a road surface in an advancing direction of the vehicle using light. The drawing apparatus for a vehicle has: a storage unit that stores the plural drawing patterns; a communication unit that receives update information on at least one of the plural drawing patterns; and a processor that updates a storage content of the storage unit by using the received update information.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 14, 2022Publication date: May 18, 2023Inventors: Fumihiko MOURI, Ken WATANABE
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Publication number: 20230138046Abstract: A first video generator generates first information for displaying, as a first video, a character object of a first user and a first object. A second video generator displays the first object and a third object different from the second object. An association portion associates the character object of the first user with a fourth object associated with the third object when the character object of the first user and the third object have a predetermined relationship. The second video generator displays the fourth object in association with the character object of the first user when the fourth object is associated with the character object of the first user by the association portion.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 23, 2022Publication date: May 4, 2023Applicant: GREE, INC.Inventors: Ryo YABE, Shuhei ASADA, Ken WATANABE
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Publication number: 20220390411Abstract: A carbon dioxide sensor includes: a solid electrolyte layer that is anion conductive; a reference electrode disposed on one surface of the solid electrolyte layer; and a detection electrode disposed on the other surface of the solid electrolyte layer. The detection electrode is made of a mixture containing: (a) one or more metals selected from the group consisting of Au, Ag, Pt, Pd, Rh, Ru, Os, and Ir; (b) a cation conductive carbonate; and (c) an oxide containing Li and at least one of Ce and Sm. The solid electrolyte layer is preferably oxide ion conductive, and the cation conductive carbonate is preferably lithium ion conductive.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 17, 2020Publication date: December 8, 2022Inventors: Kohei KATO, Shingo IDE, Kengo SHIMANOE, Ken WATANABE, Koichi SUEMATSU, Nan MA
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Patent number: 11511661Abstract: A vehicular apparatus includes: a housing that is configured to be attached to a vehicle; and a first light source and a second light source that are provided in the housing to emit light having main wavelengths in mutually different wavelength ranges. The first light source emits light having a main wavelength in 490 nm-498 nm while the vehicle is being automatically driven.Type: GrantFiled: April 12, 2021Date of Patent: November 29, 2022Assignee: KOITO MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.Inventors: Ken Watanabe, Susumu Kaneko
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Patent number: 11465609Abstract: A vehicle control apparatus includes a controller that switches a vehicle between an HEV traveling mode and an EV traveling mode. When the output current of a DC-to-DC converter becomes equal to or higher than a threshold, the controller decreases the output current by decreasing the output voltage of the DC-to-DC converter through output regulation control. The controller makes switching between a normal setting in which the threshold for the output regulation control is set to a reference threshold and a boost setting in which the threshold is set to a boost threshold higher than the reference threshold. The controller prohibits the boost setting when a power margin for boosting becomes equal to or lower than a first power margin value in the HEV traveling mode and when the power margin for the boosting becomes equal to or lower than a second power margin value in the EV traveling mode.Type: GrantFiled: April 6, 2020Date of Patent: October 11, 2022Assignee: SUBARU CORPORATIONInventors: Ken Watanabe, Fumiyuki Moriya
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Patent number: 11461136Abstract: In a substrate processing device, a technique that achieves OR transfer satisfying a specified condition is provided. The substrate processing device includes an identifying unit configured to refer to usage states of a plurality of process modules at process time slots to identify one or more process modules that can execute processes of substrates included in a control job to be processed among process modules that can be used at the process time slots, a calculating unit configured to assign the processes of the substrates to respective process time slots of the one or more process modules identified by the identifying unit to calculate a time duration from a start to an end of the processes of the substrates, and a determining unit configured to determine start timing of starting the processes of the substrates so that the time duration calculated by the calculating unit satisfies a specified condition.Type: GrantFiled: June 20, 2019Date of Patent: October 4, 2022Assignee: Tokyo Electron LimitedInventor: Ken Watanabe
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Patent number: 11366509Abstract: A method for controlling a display device having a first interface to which a first image signal is inputted and a second interface to which a second image signal is inputted from an image supply device having an auto sleep function is provided. The method includes: shifting to a sleep mode in response to a continuous stop of the first image signal for a first time, in a first mode in which a first image based on the first image signal is displayed on a screen; and shifting to the sleep mode in response to a continuous stop of the second image signal for a second time that is shorter than the first time, in a second mode in which a second image based on the second image signal is displayed on the screen.Type: GrantFiled: December 22, 2020Date of Patent: June 21, 2022Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATIONInventor: Ken Watanabe
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Patent number: 11302937Abstract: The electric power supply control apparatus for a vehicle executes a driving prioritizing mode in which a supply of driving electric power is prioritized over a supply of temperature controlling electric power, and a temperature control prioritizing mode in which the supply of the temperature controlling electric power is prioritized over the supply of the driving electric power. While the modes are switched over, the apparatus controls the driving electric power or the temperature controlling electric power so that a sum of the powers stays at an upper limit value or smaller.Type: GrantFiled: August 30, 2019Date of Patent: April 12, 2022Assignee: SUBARU CORPORATIONInventors: Ken Watanabe, Ryohei Hoshi, Fumiyuki Moriya, Hirofumi Yabe
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Patent number: 11247684Abstract: An electric power supply control apparatus for a vehicle decreases a first electric power prior to switching the modes, when a sum of a request value of a second electric power and the first electric power exceeds a total electric power upper limit value in the mode before the switching, and switches the modes after the sum of the decreased first electric power and the request value of the second electric power becomes equal to or smaller than the total electric power upper limit value.Type: GrantFiled: August 30, 2019Date of Patent: February 15, 2022Assignee: SUBARU CORPORATIONInventors: Ryohei Hoshi, Fumiyuki Moriya, Hirofumi Yabe, Ken Watanabe
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Publication number: 20210229595Abstract: A vehicular apparatus includes: a housing that is configured to be attached to a vehicle; and a first light source and a second light source that are provided in the housing to emit light having main wavelengths in mutually different wavelength ranges. The first light source emits light having a main wavelength in 490 nm-498 nm while the vehicle is being automatically driven.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 12, 2021Publication date: July 29, 2021Applicant: KOITO MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.Inventors: Ken WATANABE, Susumu KANEKO