Patents by Inventor Kenta WATANABE

Kenta 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).

  • Publication number: 20210165834
    Abstract: Embodiments are disclosed for a method for ordering search results. The method includes identifying a plurality of archived search results generated by a keyword search. The method also includes searching a plurality of indices of a plurality of corresponding tape libraries comprising a plurality of tapes storing the archived search results. The method additionally includes determining a plurality of estimated access times corresponding to the archived search results based on the indices. Further, the method includes sorting the archived search results based on the estimated access times to create a time-based order.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 3, 2019
    Publication date: June 3, 2021
    Inventors: Tohru Hasegawa, HIROAKI UETSUKI, SHUNSUKE ISHIKAWA, YASUYUKI TOMINAGA, KENTA WATANABE, Asako Ono
  • Publication number: 20210126278
    Abstract: A battery pack includes a plurality of secondary batteries, and a binding band made of fiber reinforced plastic. The binding band has a braid member formed into a braided state with use of a plurality of bundled bodies, and a reinforcing part made of resin impregnated in the braid member. Each of the bundled bodies includes a plurality of fiber materials that have been bundled together.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 18, 2020
    Publication date: April 29, 2021
    Applicant: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Toru Sugiyama, Fumio Nomizo, Yutaroh Gotoh, Kenta Watanabe
  • Publication number: 20210094493
    Abstract: There is provided a reinforcement member for a vehicle which includes a cylindrical body section having a continuously closed cross section intersecting with a longitudinal direction. The cylindrical body section has a first surface, a second surface, and a third surface. The third surface has a fourth surface extending away from the second surface, and a fifth surface connecting the fourth surface and the first surface to each other. In a sectional view when viewed in the longitudinal direction, in a case where a virtual line connecting a first intersection portion where the first surface and the third surface intersect with each other and a second intersection portion where the second surface and the third surface intersect with each other is set, a third intersection portion where the fourth surface and the fifth surface intersect with each other protrudes outward with respect to the virtual line.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 15, 2020
    Publication date: April 1, 2021
    Inventors: Kimihiro Nogiwa, Masayuki Ishizuka, Norieda Ueno, Kenta Watanabe
  • Patent number: 10963490
    Abstract: A system, computer program product, and method are provided to selectively index one or more subsets of documents or files. As data is extracted from a document or file, extracted text is organized into data portions and subject to evaluations. Meta characteristic data is leveraged to assess the extracted text. One or more subsets of the organized data portions are selectively identified and subject to enrichment processing, which creates and returns enriched and indexed subsets of the documents or files.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 30, 2021
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Tohru Hasegawa, Hiroaki Uetsuki, Shunsuke Ishikawa, Issei Yoshida, Asako Ono, Yasuyuki Tominaga, Kenta Watanabe, Hiroaki Kikuchi
  • Publication number: 20210058768
    Abstract: An image capturing apparatus is provided. Upon receiving a request for encrypted communication from an external apparatus that received an advertising signal in a state where the image capturing apparatus is not paired with the external apparatus and accepting a predetermined operation made on a release switch, the request is allowed. Upon receiving a request for encrypted communication from the external apparatus that received the advertising signal in a state where the image capturing apparatus is paired with the external apparatus, the request is allowed without accepting the predetermined operation made on the release switch. In response to an operation different from the predetermined operation being received in a state where the dial is in a state corresponding to the communication mode and the image capturing apparatus is paired with the external apparatus, the pairing is canceled.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 20, 2020
    Publication date: February 25, 2021
    Inventors: Eiko Hirose, Kenta Watanabe
  • Publication number: 20210049200
    Abstract: A method, computer program product and computer system are provided to promote device usage compliance. A processor retrieves a current position for a device. A processor determines at least one nearby location based on the current position of the device. A processor retrieves search data regarding the at least one nearby location. A processor determines compliance information regarding the at least one location based, at least in part, on the search data. A processor configures the device based on the compliance information regarding the at least one location.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 12, 2019
    Publication date: February 18, 2021
    Inventors: KENTA WATANABE, SHUNSUKE ISHIKAWA, ASAKO ONO, HIROAKI UETSUKI, YASUYUKI TOMINAGA, TOHRU HASEGAWA, ISSEI YOSHIDA
  • Publication number: 20210042393
    Abstract: Time dependent media (TDM) content is received, and text features and non-text features are extracted from the TDM content. The TDM content is split into two or more documents. A document, which includes non-text features from the extracted non-text features, is selected. Non-text features in the document are compared to context patterns. When a context pattern matches a non-text feature in the document, a context element linked to the context pattern is linked to the non-text feature as well. The TDM content is modified based on the context element.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 8, 2019
    Publication date: February 11, 2021
    Inventors: Shunsuke Ishikawa, Yasuyuki Tominaga, Hiroaki Uetsuki, Asako Ono, Tohru Hasegawa, Issei Yoshida, Kenta Watanabe
  • Publication number: 20210026183
    Abstract: The present invention provides a light control element which has a light weight and high reliability and can easily be bonded to a glass surface or the like. The light control element of the present invention includes a glass film, a light control layer, a resin film, and a pressure-sensitive adhesive layer in the stated order, wherein the light control element has a bending radius of from 20 mm to 100 mm, and wherein the glass film has a thickness of from 50 ?m to 200 ?m.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 22, 2019
    Publication date: January 28, 2021
    Applicant: NITTO DENKO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Akiko Sugino, Kenta Watanabe
  • Publication number: 20210002443
    Abstract: There is disclosed a rubber sponge having a foamed part comprising a vulcanized synthetic rubber, wherein a average cell diameter in the foamed part is 10 to 350 ?m, and a standard deviation of the cell diameters in the foamed part is 10 to 150 ?m. The content of the synthetic rubber may be 20 to 80% by mass based on a mass of the rubber sponge.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 18, 2019
    Publication date: January 7, 2021
    Applicant: SUMITOMO CHEMICAL COMPANY, LIMITED
    Inventor: Kenta WATANABE
  • Publication number: 20200401010
    Abstract: A gaschromic light-modulation element according to the present invention includes a light-modulation substrate having a light-modulation portion on one principal surface of a first transparent substrate; and a second transparent substrate which is arranged so as to face the light-modulation part of the light-modulation substrate. The light-modulation portion includes a light-modulation layer, the light transmittance of which is reversibly changed by hydrogenation and dehydrogenation. At least one of the first transparent substrate and the second transparent substrate is flexible. A plurality of dot-shaped spacers are arranged between the light-modulation part and the second transparent substrate. It is preferable that the number density of the spacers is 70 to 15000 pieces/m2.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 12, 2019
    Publication date: December 24, 2020
    Applicant: NITTO DENKO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kenta Watanabe, Hiroyuki Takemoto, Akiko Sugino
  • Patent number: 10787083
    Abstract: A vehicle includes an electric motor, a storage battery which supplies power to the electric motor, and a power line which configures a power transmission path between the electric motor and the storage battery. The power line is arranged to extend in a front-rear direction of the vehicle along a bottom surface of the vehicle. A part of the power line is covered by a protection member from below with a gap between the power line and the bottom surface. A fixing point of the protection member to the bottom surface is positioned on a front side of the protection member and on an outer side of the protection member in a vehicle width direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 29, 2020
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Seiji Isotani, Yuichiro Ueno, Kenta Watanabe, Hironobu Yamano, Naoki Shibata
  • Publication number: 20200301225
    Abstract: An electrochromic light adjusting member sequentially includes a transparent substrate, a light transmitting electrically conductive layer, and an electrochromic light adjusting layer. The light transmitting electrically conductive layer sequentially includes a first indium-based electrically conductive oxide layer, a metal layer, and a second indium-based electrically conductive oxide layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 29, 2017
    Publication date: September 24, 2020
    Applicant: NITTO DENKO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hideyuki Yonezawa, Nozomi Fujino, Kenta Watanabe, Tomotake Nashiki
  • Publication number: 20200292903
    Abstract: Provided are an electrochromic light adjusting member excellent in terms of low resistance and flexibility, a light transmitting electrically conductive glass film to be used for the electrochromic light adjusting member, and an electrochromic light adjusting element including the electrochromic light adjusting member. The electrochromic light adjusting member includes in this order: a glass film; a light transmitting electrically conductive layer; and an electrochromic light adjusting layer, wherein the light transmitting electrically conductive layer includes a first indium-based electrically conductive oxide layer, a metal layer, and a second indium-based electrically conductive oxide layer in the stated order from a glass film side.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 31, 2018
    Publication date: September 17, 2020
    Inventors: Akiko SUGINO, Nozomi FUJINO, Kenta WATANABE, Takeshi MURASHIGE
  • Publication number: 20200293566
    Abstract: Embodiments are directed to a system, computer program product, and method for text mining, and dynamic facet and facet value management and application to a document collection. Two or more words from a first document collection are extracted, with the extracted words being associated with an applied annotation. At least one word is selected from the extracted words, designated as a facet, and a value is selectively added to the facet. An analysis of the added value is dynamically performed, and a dictionary with the annotation, facet, and values is constructed and the dictionary is applied to the document collection. A targeted list of documents is returned from the dictionary application to the document collection.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 28, 2020
    Publication date: September 17, 2020
    Applicant: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Susumu Fukuda, Kenta Watanabe, Shunsuke Ishikawa, Takashi Fukuda
  • Publication number: 20200272648
    Abstract: A system, computer program product, and method are provided to selectively index one or more subsets of documents or files. As data is extracted from a document or file, extracted text is organized into data portions and subject to evaluations. Meta characteristic data is leveraged to assess the extracted text. One or more subsets of the organized data portions are selectively identified and subject to enrichment processing, which creates and returns enriched and indexed subsets of the documents or files.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 27, 2019
    Publication date: August 27, 2020
    Applicant: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Tohru Hasegawa, Hiroaki Uetsuki, Shunsuke Ishikawa, Issei Yoshida, Asako Ono, Yasuyuki Tominaga, Kenta Watanabe, Hiroaki Kikuchi
  • Patent number: 10740381
    Abstract: Embodiments are directed to a system, computer program product, and method for dynamic facet dictionary management. As one or more annotations are applied to a document collection, electronic text and associated facets are identified. Additional facets and facet values are identified and selectively applied to a knowledge base. A dictionary comprised of facets and associated facet values is constructed from the selective application. Application of the dictionary to the knowledge base identifies and returns a targeted document collection. Accordingly, facet mining and dictionary construction are dynamically applied to the knowledge base.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 18, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 11, 2020
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Susumu Fukuda, Kenta Watanabe, Shunsuke Ishikawa, Takashi Fukuda
  • Patent number: 10735639
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus including a plurality of installed application programs activates, when a first application program is executed for using data, a second application program used to obtain the data from an external apparatus. A process of connection to the external apparatus is executed by executing the second application program, and a data format and attribute information stored in the external apparatus are obtained from the external apparatus by executing the second application program. The attribute information on data stored in the external apparatus is displayed on a screen of the second application program such that a result of a determination as to whether the data is usable by the first application program is recognizable based on a format stored in the memory and a format obtained from the external apparatus by executing the second application program.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 4, 2020
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Kenta Watanabe, Kaori Ikeda
  • Patent number: 10698307
    Abstract: A wavelength conversion device is provided. The wavelength conversion device includes a light-transmissive substrate that includes an incidence surface and an emission surface opposite the incidence surface. The light-transmissive substrate is configured to receive, by the incidence surface, excitation light and emit, from the emission surface, the excitation light. A phosphor layer is configured to emit fluorescent light when excited by the excitation light emitted from the emission surface. The phosphor layer includes a first phosphor layer and a second phosphor layer. The first phosphor layer includes first phosphor particles. The second phosphor layer includes second phosphor particles configured to emit fluorescent light including a peak wavelength longer than a peak wavelength of fluorescent light emitted by the first phosphor particles. The first phosphor layer includes a refractive index different from a refractive index of the second phosphor layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 30, 2020
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Kenta Watanabe
  • Publication number: 20200143422
    Abstract: A method, system and computer program product for presenting content (e.g., advertisements) to vehicle occupants. An image of the occupants of the vehicle is obtained. The vehicle occupants, such as the driver, are then identified from the image. After obtaining the driving history of the driver, which includes any information that indicates a risk posed to the driver in not paying attention to the road, a risk degree of the driver getting into an accident from viewing content on the electronic billboard is assessed. A “watch ability” of the vehicle occupants to watch content is calculated, based, at least in part, on the driver's risk degree. If the value of the watch ability exceeds a threshold value, then the content preferences of the vehicle occupants are obtained which are used to determine the contents to be presented on the electronic billboard which are targeted to the vehicle occupants.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 2, 2018
    Publication date: May 7, 2020
    Inventors: Takuya Goto, Kenichi Takasaki, Junta Watanabe, Kenta Watanabe
  • Patent number: 10574950
    Abstract: A wavelength conversion device includes: a substrate; and a phosphor layer on the substrate. The phosphor layer includes: a base material; and a first phosphor and a second phosphor each of which emits fluorescent light when excited by excitation light. Where chromaticity coordinates of the fluorescent light emitted by the first phosphor and chromaticity coordinates of the fluorescent light emitted by the second phosphor are (x1, y1) and (x2, y2), respectively, ?0.02?x1?x2?0.02 and ?0.02?y1?y2?0.02 are satisfied. A peak wavelength of an excitation spectrum of the first phosphor is different from a peak wavelength of an excitation spectrum of the second phosphor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 6, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2020
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Kenta Watanabe