Patents by Inventor Kenji Sakamoto

Kenji Sakamoto 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: 20130306842
    Abstract: A table installing device includes a fixing member fixed to a projector; a first holding member that holds the projector by holding the fixing member, and is installed so as to stand up with respect to a top plate upper surface of the table; a second holding member that is joined to the first holding member and is installed on the top plate upper surface; and a clamp portion that is joined to the second holding member, and interposes the top plate between the second holding member and the clamp portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 14, 2013
    Publication date: November 21, 2013
    Applicant: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventor: Kenji SAKAMOTO
  • Publication number: 20130299342
    Abstract: An ion-exchange membrane method electrolytic cell comprising a coil cushion arranged between a conductive plate and a cathode in a cathode chamber, and further an ion-exchange membrane arranged in contact with the cathode. The conductive plate is not perforated, and the coil cushion is arranged so that its axial direction is in agreement with the vertical direction of electrolytic cell. Preferably the coil cushion is made of a metal coil and has an impact resilience of 7-17 kPa. The cathode preferably has supported electrode catalyst and is made of an expanded metal with strands of 0.1-1.0 mm width and 0.1-1.0 mm thickness, and having SW of 0.5-5.0 mm and LW of 1.0-10 mm, and 48-60% open area. The electrolytic cell is energy-saving, and damage thereof can be avoided over a long period, and elevation of voltage and reduction of current efficiency with time can be minimized.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 27, 2011
    Publication date: November 14, 2013
    Applicants: CHLORINE ENGINEERS CORP., LTD., TOSOH CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hiroki Suemoto, Fumio Sadahiro, Tsuyoshi Nomura, Kenji Sakamoto, Yoshiyuki Kodama
  • Publication number: 20130122319
    Abstract: An allergen reducing agent is provided that contains a terpenoid polymer or copolymer as an active component, and that functions to reduce allergens such as mites and pollen, and is capable of suppressing coloring.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 22, 2011
    Publication date: May 16, 2013
    Applicant: PANASONIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kenji Sakamoto, Shigeharu Fukuzawa, Hiroyuki Omura, Shoichi Nakamoto, Kazumasa Rokushima
  • Publication number: 20120174859
    Abstract: After removing deposit on a susceptor in an epitaxial growth furnace by a cleaning recipe (step S101), a first epitaxial wafer is produced by growing an epitaxial layer on a first wafer based on a process recipe A (step S102). Subsequently, a step of producing an epitaxial wafer by growing an epitaxial layer on a wafer based on a process recipe B including second control parameters set such that the epitaxial wafer has approximately the same film thickness profile as the first wafer (step S103) is repeated a plurality of times to successively produce a plurality of epitaxial wafers (step S104). The cleaning recipe, the process recipe A, and the process recipe B repeated a plurality of times are carried out repeatedly (step S105).
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 10, 2010
    Publication date: July 12, 2012
    Inventors: Kenji Sakamoto, Masayuki Tsuji
  • Patent number: 8200517
    Abstract: A noun and a verb is mapped as the information about an article to which an article identifier such as a radio tag, etc. is attached and a user activity, thereby estimating a user activity from the article to which the article identifier is attached and providing a user with appropriate information. An article identifier for identification of an article is associated with article information and stored (step S202), and the relationship between a noun relating to the article information and a verb relating to the article are associated with a conditional probability and held in the probability information holding unit (step S207). Upon detection of the article identifier, the probability of the verb to the noun is calculated based on the contents held in the probability information holding unit, thereby estimating a user activity (step S212). Thus, based on the detection result of the article identifier attached to the article, the activity of the user on the article can be estimated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 2, 2006
    Date of Patent: June 12, 2012
    Assignee: NTT DoCoMo, Inc.
    Inventors: Kenji Sakamoto, Naoharu Yamada, Goro Kunito, Satoshi Tanaka, Kenichi Yamazaki
  • Patent number: 8131280
    Abstract: A wireless AV system includes a central wireless unit, serving as a base device, and a TV main unit. The TV main unit includes an SS transmitter/receiver (T/R) unit, a TV section, a TV microcomputer, and a second SS-CPU. The SS T/R unit receives an MPEG-2 stream and command transmission data both of which are transmitted from an SS T/R unit of the central wireless unit, and decodes the MPEG-2 stream and the command transmission data so received. The TV section displays a video signal and outputs an audio signal. The TV microcomputer controls the TV main unit entirely. The second SS-CPU detects a communication condition between the central wireless unit and the TV main unit according to a received radio wave field intensity and a retransmission request made based on an error rate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 15, 2004
    Date of Patent: March 6, 2012
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Kenji Sakamoto
  • Patent number: 8045966
    Abstract: The present invention is a method for establishing and identifying a communication pair in a wireless AV system and provides a system in which notification is provided to a user in a case where a wrong pair that the user does not intend to establish among plural AV devices is established. A wireless AV system is a wireless system comprising one or more transmission-side devices and one or more reception-side devices, each of the one or more transmission-side devices comprises means for issuing its own ID with respect to the one or more reception-side devices, the one or more reception-side devices comprising means for storing the ID received from a transmission-side device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 2004
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2011
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Kenji Sakamoto
  • Patent number: 7952465
    Abstract: A wireless tag determination system includes a detection information storage configured to store information detected from a wireless tag by a tag reader, as detection information. A determination requesting unit is configured to request a determination for reliability of existence of the wireless tag within a detection range of the tag reader. A reliability determination unit is configured to determine the reliability by use of the detection information, in response to the request.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 21, 2007
    Date of Patent: May 31, 2011
    Assignee: NTT DoCoMo, Inc.
    Inventors: Kenji Sakamoto, Goro Kunito, Yoshinori Isoda, Satoshi Tanaka, Kenichi Yamazaki
  • Publication number: 20100325648
    Abstract: A conventional contents-watching device, etc. calculate users' tastes of contents only on the basis of watching frequencies, so that variety programs that the users are less interested in but that are broadcasted every week are apt to get a higher degree of users' tastes than a soccer game of the Japanese national team that the users are highly interested in but that is broadcasted only several times per year. In order to solve the problem set forth above, the present invention proposes a contents-watching device that calculates a taste value by normalizing a watching index indicative of the number of contents-watching times or the like for every contents-attribute with an emergent index indicative of the number of contents-watching chances, acquires an contents-attribute connected with contents to be a subject for watching recommendation, and has a function to calculate watching recommendation information by using the taste value of the contents-attribute.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 18, 2008
    Publication date: December 23, 2010
    Applicant: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Satoshi Matsuyama, Hiroyuki Nakamura, Kenji Sakamoto, Jun Sasaki, Ryusuke Watanabe, Akio Uemichi
  • Patent number: 7853977
    Abstract: A display device including a communication function for performing wireless communication of data with each of a plurality of devices, and a display function for displaying and outputting information. First, reception quality of each device is obtained (S 100). Next, based on the reception quality of each device, average reception quality of each room in which each device is placed is obtained (S 101). Next, based on the average reception quality of each room, the size of an image indicating each room is obtained (S 102), and based on the obtained size, the image indicating each room is illustrated on a display screen (S 103). Next, based on the reception quality of each device, the size of an image indicating each device with respect to each room is obtained (S 104), and based on the obtained size, the image indicating each device is illustrated on the display screen (S103).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 14, 2004
    Date of Patent: December 14, 2010
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Kenji Sakamoto
  • Publication number: 20100302283
    Abstract: When a user carries out a specific operation at high speed in a conventional display device and the like, information stored in advance at a memory is not sufficient to display but it is necessary to acquire the information required for displaying from a server on a network, an external electronic apparatus, such as an HD, or an internal long term memory device of a display device every time it happens. Because of this, a user is kept waiting until desired information is displayed, so that it is hard to smoothly reflect a high speed operation on a graphic display. In order to solve the problem, the present invention proposes a display device characterized in caching graphic information that has the possibility to be used for display in the future in response to a user's operation history of graphics.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 18, 2008
    Publication date: December 2, 2010
    Applicant: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Jun Sasaki, Hiroyuki Nakamura, Kenji Sakamoto, Satoshi Matsuyama, Ryusuke Watanabe, Akio Uemichi
  • Publication number: 20100299403
    Abstract: In related art, it takes time on a client to receive or draw a graphic element that is not important as data constituting graphics. Optimum graphic data is not transmitted to the client. To solve the above-described problems, the present invention proposes a graphic instruction transmitter having functions of selecting respective instructions constituting entire graphics according to information, such as client instruction execution capability information and information about graphic importance, and transmitting an instruction group generated on the basis of the selected instructions to the client.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 18, 2008
    Publication date: November 25, 2010
    Applicant: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Ryusuke Watanabe, Hiroyuki Nakamura, Kenji Sakamoto, Jun Sasaki, Satoshi Matsuyama, Akio Uemichi
  • Patent number: 7835756
    Abstract: A mobile communications system of the present invention obtains in advance information on communications environments in a mobile communications system and provides users with the information on communications environments. The mobile communications system also predicts the movement of users and provides seamless services based on the predictions. A mobile communications system of the present invention includes an information acquisition unit for obtaining information regarding resources of a given object, an information memory for storing the obtained information on resources of a given object, and an information provision unit for searching the information memory in response to a request for provision of the information on resources of a given object transmitted from a mobile communications terminal, and providing the information on resources of a given object found in the search to the mobile communications terminal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 18, 2007
    Date of Patent: November 16, 2010
    Assignee: NTT DoCoMo, Inc.
    Inventors: Yoko Kikuta, Kenji Sakamoto, Tsutomu Yokoyama, Kenichi Yamazaki
  • Publication number: 20100281500
    Abstract: To solve the problems that it is necessary to perform an overlapped operation even if final viewing is to be decided while a plurality of contents included in a specified list of UI are compared (selected for a plurality of times) and that extra operation burden is given to a user in conventional technology. An AV device for giving priority to the list of a viewing source device to which the content outputted at present belongs and displaying it in UI at the time of receiving a list request of the content from the user is provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 28, 2008
    Publication date: November 4, 2010
    Applicant: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Akio Uemichi, Hiroyuki Nakamura, Kenji Sakamoto, Jun Sasaki, Satoshi Matsuyama, Ryusuke Watanabe
  • Patent number: 7789038
    Abstract: An ejection inspection device includes: an inspection stage on which an inspection sheet is sucked and mounted; a sheet feeding mechanism which feeds the inspection sheet wound in a roll form onto the inspection stage; a sheet taking-up mechanism which takes up the fed inspection sheet from the inspection stage; a suction air valve unit which controls the suction air of the inspection stage; a floating air valve unit which controls the floating air of the inspection stage; and a control unit which controls the suction air valve unit, the floating air valve unit, the sheet feeding mechanism, and the sheet taking-up mechanism. The control unit floats the inspection sheet for performing the feeding operation of the inspection sheet and the taking-up operation thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 19, 2007
    Date of Patent: September 7, 2010
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventor: Kenji Sakamoto
  • Patent number: 7702323
    Abstract: The wireless control system of the present invention constitutes a wireless AV system (101) which forms a wireless transmission network (1) in which a wireless center unit (102) and a TV main body unit (103) are connected with each other by a wireless LAN. The wireless center unit (102) transmits to the TV main body unit (103) control data having, in a control command, a discrimination code for discriminating between devices in the wireless AV system (101). The TV main body unit (103) reads out the discrimination code included in the received control data, discriminates a device to carry out the control command included in the control data, and transmits the control data to the discriminated device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 15, 2004
    Date of Patent: April 20, 2010
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Kenji Sakamoto
  • Patent number: 7673039
    Abstract: To overcome problems there is to be provided useful information to a user, by counting the number of detected RF tags. As a means for solving the problems an information-providing server 20 according to the present invention acquires IDs of RF tag readers disposed near by the Ferris wheel, when there has been presented to the information providing server 20, as a notifying condition, the condition that a user desires to receive an e-mail on the occasion of the number of persons waiting in line for a Ferris wheel having become seven or less. Then after having acquired the number of plural IDs of the RF tags detected by the RF tag readers having the acquired IDs, the information-providing server 20 acquires attribute information of the RF tags. The information providing server 20 counts the number of IDs of RF tags whose attribute is a person, referring to the attribute information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 1, 2004
    Date of Patent: March 2, 2010
    Assignee: NTT DoCoMo, Inc.
    Inventors: Kenji Sakamoto, Goro Kunito, Kenichi Yamazaki
  • Patent number: 7636132
    Abstract: A central wireless microcomputer of a central wireless unit (transmitter) constituting a wireless AV system identifies a content type of video and audio data to be transmitted, according to EPG, and sets a transmission rate of the video and audio data to be transmitted, according to a detected communication condition. According to the content type thus identified, the central wireless microcomputer executes transmission rate modification control by modifying the transmission rate thus set, with reference to an MPEG rate. Thus, even when the communication condition deteriorates, it is possible to minimize deterioration of the video and audio data and maintain data transmission as much as possible.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 15, 2004
    Date of Patent: December 22, 2009
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Kenji Sakamoto
  • Patent number: D676077
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 24, 2011
    Date of Patent: February 12, 2013
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Hiroto Miyauchi, Kenji Sakamoto
  • Patent number: D680573
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2013
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Kenji Sakamoto, Hiroto Miyauchi