Patents by Inventor Kenji Tanaka

Kenji Tanaka 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: 20210216097
    Abstract: A clock generation circuit includes a mode-locked laser that generates an optical pulse, a photodiode that photoelectrically converts the optical pulse generated by the mode-locked laser, and a filter that attenuates at least one of a DC component and a harmonic component of the mode-locked laser included in an electric signal output from the photodiode.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 17, 2019
    Publication date: July 15, 2021
    Inventors: Kenji Tanaka, Naoki Miura, Shinsuke Nakano, Hideyuki Nosaka
  • Patent number: 11056142
    Abstract: The magnetic recording medium includes a non-magnetic substrate, a non-magnetic layer, and a magnetic layer, wherein the magnetic layer contains a hexagonal strontium ferrite magnetic powder, Mr and t satisfy 0.0020 ?T·m?Mr·t?0.0150 ?T·m, where Mr is the residual magnetic flux density of the magnetic layer, and t is the average thickness of the magnetic layer, L1 satisfies 2 nm?L1?6 nm, where L1 is the average thickness of a first mixed layer that is formed on the surface of the magnetic layer opposite to the non-magnetic layer, L2 satisfies 0.1?L2/t?0.45, where L2 is the average thickness of a second mixed layer that is formed on the surface of the magnetic layer facing the non-magnetic layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 6, 2021
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Shinji Kawakami, Sadamu Kuse, Kenji Tanaka, Shinji Tsujimoto
  • Publication number: 20210192471
    Abstract: The present application provides a method and a user device for monitoring a use condition. The method includes determining a baseline level of performance for each of one or more elements of the device including a determined replacement threshold level. The method further includes running a diagnostic determining the current performance of at least some of the one or more elements for which a baseline level of performance has been determined, wherein the running of the diagnostic includes a diagnostic determination triggered by a detected non-standard use condition. The current performance of the at least some of the one or more elements is compared to the determined baseline level performance for the respective ones of the one or more elements of the user device. When the determined current performance of at least one of the one or more elements falls below the determined replacement threshold level, the user is notified of a need for service of the user device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 19, 2019
    Publication date: June 24, 2021
    Inventors: Danila Vieira, Andre Luiz Silva Bazante, Edgar Kenji Tanaka, Rodrigo Barbosa Dias, Andre Luis Graziani, Jéssica Caroline Dias Nascimento, Guilherme Furlan, Rosane Alencar do Santos, Luiz Augusto Lago de Oliveira Filho, Andre Scalet Marangone, Lucas Henrique Grizante
  • Publication number: 20210160456
    Abstract: A transmission terminal transmits video data and display data of a screen shared with another transmission terminal to the other transmission terminal via a predetermined relay apparatus. The transmission terminal includes a storage unit that stores relay apparatus information of the relay apparatus to which the transmission terminal transmits the video data; a receive unit that receives the display data from an external input apparatus connected to the transmission terminal; and a transmitting unit that transmits the display data received by the receive unit to the relay apparatus indicated by the relay apparatus information stored in the storage unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 5, 2021
    Publication date: May 27, 2021
    Inventors: Kenji TANAKA, Alain Volmat, Masaki Nakagawa, Takahiro Asai
  • Publication number: 20210125388
    Abstract: The present technology relates to an image processing apparatus and method, and a program that are capable of more facilitating editing. The image processing apparatus includes: an operation detection unit configured to detect an operation input by an operation unit; and a display control unit configured to output, to an immersive presentation device, part or entirety of a spherical image on which an image of the operation unit is superimposed, as a presentation image, to cause the immersive presentation device to display the presentation image, the display control unit being configured to control, in a case where the operation input has been detected, the display of the presentation image such that the operation input is reflected. The present technology is applicable to an editing system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 9, 2018
    Publication date: April 29, 2021
    Inventors: KENJI TANAKA, SATOSHI IHARA, CODY POULTNEY
  • Patent number: 10941241
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides: an epoxy resin molding material including; an epoxy resin having a mesogen structure, a phenolic curing agent, an inorganic filler, and a curing accelerator having a quaternary phosphonium cation represented by the following Formula (I); a molded product and a molded cured product using the epoxy resin molding material; and a method for producing a molded cured product. In Formula (I), each of Ra to Rd independently represents an alkyl group having from 1 to 6 carbon atoms, or an aryl group, and the alkyl group and the aryl group may have a substituent.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 25, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 9, 2021
    Assignee: SHOWA DENKO MATERIALS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kenji Tanaka, Yuka Yoshida, Shinichi Kosugi, Shingo Tanaka, Hideyuki Katagi, Haruaki Sue, Yoshitaka Takezawa
  • Patent number: 10934387
    Abstract: An epoxy resin obtained by a reaction of an epoxy resin monomer having a mesogen backbone and having two glycidyl groups in one molecule with a divalent phenol compound having, as substituents, two hydroxyl groups on one benzene ring, in which a number average molecular weight in gel permeation chromatographic measurement is from 600 to 2,500.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 25, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 2, 2021
    Assignee: Showa Denko Materials Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hideyuki Katagi, Kenji Tanaka, Yoshitaka Takezawa, Haruaki Sue, Shinichi Kosugi
  • Patent number: 10931917
    Abstract: A transmission terminal transmits video data and display data of a screen shared with another transmission terminal to the other transmission terminal via a predetermined relay apparatus. The transmission terminal includes a storage unit that stores relay apparatus information of the relay apparatus to which the transmission terminal transmits the video data; a receive unit that receives the display data from an external input apparatus connected to the transmission terminal; and a transmitting unit that transmits the display data received by the receive unit to the relay apparatus indicated by the relay apparatus information stored in the storage unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 1, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 23, 2021
    Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Kenji Tanaka, Alain Volmat, Masaki Nakagawa, Takahiro Asai
  • Publication number: 20210040426
    Abstract: To provide a cell evaluation device capable of evaluating cells and a secretory substance emitted from the cells accurately and precisely. Provided is a cell evaluation device including a first capturing unit that captures a secretory substance secreted by cells, and an image acquisition unit that acquires an image obtained by imaging observation light of the cells and light emitted from a luminescent substance bonded to the secretory substance, in which the image acquisition unit and the first capturing unit are disposed in this order, and the image acquisition unit acquires position information for the cells and the secretory substance.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 17, 2019
    Publication date: February 11, 2021
    Inventors: SHIORI SASADA, KOJI FUTAMURA, KENJI TANAKA, TOMOYUKI UMETSU, MASAHIRO MATSUMOTO
  • Patent number: 10889728
    Abstract: A silicone mist inhibitor which has an excellent effect of inhibiting silicone mist and provides a composition and a cured product which have excellent storage stability is provided. A silicone mist inhibitor includes at least one selected from organic powder, inorganic powder and inorganic-organic composite powder, wherein the powder has a volume average particle size of 100 to 4000 nm. Further, a solventless silicone composition includes an organopolysiloxane having a viscosity at 25 degrees C. of 25 to 50,000 mPa·s, wherein the solventless silicone composition further includes the aforesaid silicone mist inhibitor in an amount of 0.1 to 10 parts by mass, relative to 100 parts by mass of the organopolysiloxane.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 21, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 12, 2021
    Assignee: SHIN-ETSU CHEMICAL CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kenji Tanaka, Shinji Irifune, Yoshinori Inokuchi
  • Publication number: 20200339757
    Abstract: Provided is a method for preparing a (meth)acryloyl group-containing organopolysiloxane having a step of transesterification between the components (a1) and (a2) in the presence of the components (a3) and (a4) to obtain the (meth)acryloyl group-containing organopolysiloxane, wherein component (a1) is an organopolysiloxane represented by the average composition formula (1) which has a hydroxy group-containing group, component (a2) is a (meth)acrylic acid ester represented by the general formula (2), component (a3) is a zirconium metal complex in an amount such that a molar ratio of component (a3) to the hydroxy group of component (a1) is 0.001 to 0.1, and component (a4) is a hydroxy group-containing amine represented by HON(R4)2 in an amount such that a molar ratio of component (a4) to component (a3) is 0.10 to 1.5, wherein R4 is, independently of each other, a linear or branched aliphatic hydrocarbon group having 1 to 6 carbon atoms.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 28, 2018
    Publication date: October 29, 2020
    Applicant: Shin-Etsu Chemical Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kenji TANAKA, Shunji AOKI
  • Publication number: 20200282795
    Abstract: An air conditioning case configuring a vehicular air conditioning device is configured from first through third case sections capable of being divided in a width direction, the third case section in a center in the width direction and the first case section being connected via a first dividing section, and the third case section and the second case section being connected via a second dividing section. Moreover, the first and second dividing sections are formed in such a manner that their lower section sides facing a lower passage divided in a space between an evaporator and a heating unit are positioned on outer sides in the width direction with respect to an upper section of the air conditioning case provided with a vent blast port blasting air into a vehicle interior.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 28, 2020
    Publication date: September 10, 2020
    Inventors: Hiroto Suzuki, Kenji Tanaka, Yasunori Takahashi
  • Patent number: 10757284
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a CPU and a camera. In the image forming apparatus, the camera takes a facial image of a user approaching the image forming apparatus, and on the basis of the facial image, face authentication is executed. Further, in a case where it has been determined as a result of the face authentication that the user approaching the image forming apparatus is a registered user, it is determined whether there is registered job data registered by the registered user. The image forming apparatus is switched from a power-saving mode to a normal mode in a case where it has been determined that there is registered job data of the user approaching the image forming apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 5, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 25, 2020
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Kenji Tanaka
  • Patent number: 10689349
    Abstract: In the method, a trione compound represented by the following formula (1) is (i) reduced by NaAlH2(OCH2CH2OCH3)2 and subsequently further reduced by a metal borohydride salt, or (ii) reduced by calcium borohydride, thereby producing an amide alcohol compound represented by the following formula (3) (wherein, R1 and R2 may be the same or different and each represents a hydrogen atom or a protecting group of an ureylene group; R4 represents an alkyl group, an aralkyl group, or an aryl group; and each of R5, R6, and R7 represents a hydrogen atom, an alkyl group, an alkoxy group, or a halogen atom).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 23, 2020
    Assignee: Tokuyama Corporation
    Inventors: Fumiaki Iwasaki, Hiromasa Yamamoto, Kenji Tanaka, Masahiko Seki, Yoshiki Seike
  • Patent number: 10665268
    Abstract: Implementations generally relate to audio-video analytics for simulation-based training. In some implementations, a method includes obtaining a video. The method further includes detecting one or more observed actions of a user in the video. The method further includes matching the one or more observed actions with one or more predetermined key actions. The method further includes annotating the video with annotations based on the matching of the one or more observed actions with the one or more predetermined key actions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 26, 2020
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventor: Kenji Tanaka
  • Patent number: 10662279
    Abstract: Provided is an epoxy resin composition including an epoxy resin and a curing agent, in which the epoxy resin contains a multimeric compound having at least one selected from the group consisting of a structural unit represented by the following Formula (IA) and a structural unit represented by the following Formula (IB), the multimeric compound contains a dimeric compound containing two structural units represented by the following Formula (II) in one molecule, and a ratio of the dimeric compound is from 15% by mass to 28% by mass with respect to the epoxy resin as a whole.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 25, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 26, 2020
    Assignee: HITACHI CHEMICAL COMPANY, LTD.
    Inventors: Yuka Yoshida, Kenji Tanaka, Hideyuki Katagi, Yoshihiro Amano, Shinichi Kosugi, Haruaki Sue, Yoshitaka Takezawa
  • Publication number: 20200162653
    Abstract: A signal processing system according to an embodiment of the present technology includes: an illumination section; an image capturing section; a parameter control section; and an acquisition section. The illumination section emits laser light to a target. The image capturing section captures an image of the target irradiated with the laser light. The parameter control section changes a parameter related to image capturing of at least one of the illumination section or the image capturing section within exposure time of the image capturing section. The acquisition section acquires movement information related to movement of the target on the basis of an image signal of the target whose image is captured by the image capturing section.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 20, 2018
    Publication date: May 21, 2020
    Inventors: Tetsuro KUWAYAMA, Kenji TANAKA
  • Patent number: 10627412
    Abstract: The present invention provides an inhibitor of an autoimmune response to a periodontal bacterial enzymatic degradation product of keratin in gingival epithelium in a mammal having a periodontal bacterium in the oral cavity, containing a substance having affinity to the keratin or a degradation product thereof and/or a substance having affinity to an autoantibody to the degradation product, an agent for the prophylaxis and/or treatment of a periodontal disease and/or a complication thereof; a RANKL expression inhibitor containing a substance having affinity to the keratin or a degradation product thereof; and a method of diagnosing a periodontal disease including detecting the keratin or a degradation product thereof and/or an autoantibody thereto.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 17, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 21, 2020
    Assignee: KAGOSHIMA UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Ikuro Maruyama, Teruto Hashiguchi, Salunya Tancharoen, Ko-ichi Kawahara, Kenji Tanaka, Lyang-ja Lee
  • Patent number: 10600447
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus including a plurality of feature amount extraction parts which extract, from content, a plurality of feature amounts that contain information concerning a camera motion in a frame of the content. A display control part displays frames of the content and a GUI on the displayed content frame. The GUI corresponds to an operation concerning the camera motion on the basis of the extracted camera motion information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 17, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 24, 2020
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kazumasa Tanaka, Kenji Tanaka, Yukihiro Nakamura, Yoshihiro Takahashi, Kentaro Fukazawa, Kyosuke Yoshida
  • Publication number: 20200077021
    Abstract: The present technology relates to an image processing apparatus and method, and a program that are capable of more facilitating editing. The image processing apparatus includes: an operation detection unit configured to detect an operation input by an operation unit; and a display control unit configured to output, to an immersive presentation device, part or entirety of a spherical image on which an image of the operation unit is superimposed, as a presentation image, to cause the immersive presentation device to display the presentation image, the display control unit being configured to control, in a case where the operation input has been detected, the display of the presentation image such that the operation input is reflected, in which the operation detection unit detects coordinates at a position pointed by a pointer of the operation unit, in the spherical image. The present technology is applicable to an editing system that edits spherical images.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 9, 2018
    Publication date: March 5, 2020
    Inventors: SATOSHI IHARA, KENJI TANAKA, CODY POULTNEY