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: 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
  • Publication number: 20200026799
    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: Application
    Filed: July 18, 2018
    Publication date: January 23, 2020
    Applicant: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Susumu Fukuda, Kenta Watanabe, Shunsuke Ishikawa, Takashi Fukuda
  • Publication number: 20190322182
    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: Application
    Filed: April 19, 2019
    Publication date: October 24, 2019
    Applicant: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Seiji ISOTANI, Yuichiro UENO, Kenta WATANABE, Hironobu YAMANO, Naoki SHIBATA
  • Patent number: 10414121
    Abstract: One embodiment of the present invention relates to a hard coat film including a first layer in which a polymer of a polymerizable composition containing at least one polyfunctional polymerizable compound having two or more polymerizable groups in one molecule is detected as a main component and an organic solvent-soluble resin is not detected by composition analysis using a RAMAN spectroscopy; and a second layer adjacent to the first layer, in which an organic solvent-soluble resin and a polymer of a polymerizable composition containing at least one polyfunctional polymerizable compound having two or more polymerizable groups in one molecule are detected by the composition analysis, and a thickness is greater than 15 ?m. Further, the present invention relates to a polarizing plate, an image display device, and a method for producing the hard coat film.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 2, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2019
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Nobutaka Iwahashi, Ryuji Saneto, Yuuichi Fukushige, Kenta Watanabe
  • Publication number: 20190252666
    Abstract: An electric power storage device includes at least one electric power storage cell having a first end provided with a first electrode, and a second end provided with a second electrode; a first electrode bus bar that is disposed on a side of the first end and is connected to the first electrode; and a second electrode bus bar that is disposed on a side of the second end and is connected to the second electrode. The first electrode bus bar is provided with a connection line connected to the first electrode. The first electrode bus bar and the second electrode bus bar are joined to each other by ultrasonic joining. A joint portion between the first electrode bus bar and the second electrode bus bar is disposed at a position that is closer to the second end than to the first end.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 6, 2019
    Publication date: August 15, 2019
    Applicant: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Kenta Watanabe, Nobuyoshi Fujiwara, Koichi Umeda
  • Publication number: 20190237736
    Abstract: A power storage device includes: an electrode cell including a first electrode and a second electrode; a first electrode bus bar connected to the first electrode; a second electrode bus bar connected to the second electrode; and a connection member connected to the first electrode bus bar and joined to the second electrode bus bar. The connection member includes a body portion connected to the first electrode bus bar and joined to the second electrode bus bar, and an extension piece provided so as to extend from the body portion. The extension piece is folded from the body portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 25, 2019
    Publication date: August 1, 2019
    Applicant: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Kenta Watanabe, Nobuyoshi Fujiwara, Koichi Umeda
  • Publication number: 20190187543
    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: Application
    Filed: December 14, 2018
    Publication date: June 20, 2019
    Applicant: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Kenta WATANABE
  • Publication number: 20190146317
    Abstract: A wavelength conversion device is provided that includes: light-transmissive substrate that includes an incidence surface and an emission surface opposite the incidence surface, and emits, from the emission surface, laser light that enters the incidence surface; a phosphor layer that emits fluorescent light when excited by the laser light emitted from the emission surface; and a light diffuser layer between the emission surface and the phosphor layer. The light diffuser layer is, when viewed in a direction perpendicular to the emission surface, disposed only in a portion of a region in which the phosphor layer is disposed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 7, 2018
    Publication date: May 16, 2019
    Applicant: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kenta WATANABE, Toshio MORI, Hiroshi ASANO, Yosuke HONDA, Ran ZHENG, Sachiko AZUMA
  • Publication number: 20190007596
    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: Application
    Filed: June 25, 2018
    Publication date: January 3, 2019
    Inventors: Kenta Watanabe, Kaori Ikeda
  • Publication number: 20180302599
    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: Application
    Filed: April 6, 2018
    Publication date: October 18, 2018
    Applicant: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Kenta WATANABE
  • Publication number: 20180230254
    Abstract: An ethylene-?-olefin-based copolymer rubber which contains an ethylene unit and an ?-olefin unit having from 3 to 20 carbon atoms, and satisfies the following requirements (a) and (b) is provided. Requirement (a): a content of the ?-olefin unit is 50% by mass or more and 70% by mass or less when a sum of a content of the ethylene unit and the content of the ?-olefin unit is taken as 100% by mass. Requirement (b): a product of monomer reactivity ratios which is a product of a reactivity ratio of ethylene and a reactivity ratio of an ?-olefin is 0.70 or less and the product of monomer reactivity ratios is a value determined from a 13C-NMR spectrum.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 8, 2016
    Publication date: August 16, 2018
    Applicant: Sumitomo Chemical Company, Limited
    Inventors: Kenta WATANABE, Sadayuki NAKANO
  • Publication number: 20180112128
    Abstract: A wavelength conversion device includes: a substrate; and a phosphor layer on the substrate. The phosphor layer includes: a base material; phosphor particles which emit fluorescent light when excited by excitation light; and light transmissive particles each having a grain size that is within ±30% of a grain size of each of the phosphor particles, and a refractive index that is within ±7% of a refractive index of the base material.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 18, 2017
    Publication date: April 26, 2018
    Applicant: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LT D.
    Inventor: Kenta WATANABE
  • Patent number: 9826021
    Abstract: A method for controlling a communication apparatus includes transmitting, before establishing a communication with an external apparatus, an advertisement signal for providing notification of an existence of the communication apparatus, and establishing a communication between the communication apparatus and a partner apparatus which has responded to the advertisement signal. The advertisement signal includes control information indicating whether to transmit a content in response to an operation on the communication apparatus or to transmit the content in response to an operation on the partner apparatus. After establishment of the communication between the communication apparatus and the partner apparatus, based on the control information included in the advertisement signal, processing for transmitting the content to the partner apparatus is controlled.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 24, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2017
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Kenta Watanabe
  • Patent number: 9819866
    Abstract: In a case where an image capturing device is in a first state and, in a state where the image capturing device is attached to a communication apparatus, it is judged that a first operation is performed, wireless communication with the communication apparatus is maintained and an operation state of the image capturing device is caused to make a transition to a second state; in a case where, in the first state and in a state where the image capturing device is not attached to the communication apparatus, it is judged that the first operation is performed, the wireless communication with the communication apparatus is not maintained; and in the first state, image capturing by the image capturing device and communication of data by the wireless communication are possible, and in the second state, power consumption is less than that of the first state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 4, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2017
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Kenta Watanabe
  • Patent number: 9785039
    Abstract: A wavelength conversion member includes a substrate, a dichroic mirror layer, an SiO2 layer, a ZnO layer, and a phosphor layer, which are sequentially stacked from the substrate. The dichroic mirror layer reflects at least part of light incident from the above. The phosphor layer includes a plurality of phosphors and ZnO between the phosphors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 21, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2017
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Atsushi Motoya, Kenta Watanabe, Ran Zheng, Sachiko Azuma, Yoshihisa Nagasaki, Takahiro Hamada, Mitsuru Nitta, Takashi Maniwa, Toshio Mori, Kazuhiro Matsuo
  • Publication number: 20160368241
    Abstract: One embodiment of the present invention relates to a hard coat film including a first layer in which a polymer of a polymerizable composition containing at least one polyfunctional polymerizable compound having two or more polymerizable groups in one molecule is detected as a main component and an organic solvent-soluble resin is not detected by composition analysis using a RAMAN spectroscopy; and a second layer adjacent to the first layer, in which an organic solvent-soluble resin and a polymer of a polymerizable composition containing at least one polyfunctional polymerizable compound having two or more polymerizable groups in one molecule are detected by the composition analysis, and a thickness is greater than 15 ?m. Further, the present invention relates to a polarizing plate, an image display device, and a method for producing the hard coat film.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 2, 2016
    Publication date: December 22, 2016
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Nobutaka IWAHASHI, Ryuji SANETO, Yuuichi FUKUSHIGE, Kenta WATANABE
  • Publication number: 20160337586
    Abstract: In a case where an image capturing device is in a first state and, in a state where the image capturing device is attached to a communication apparatus, it is judged that a first operation is performed, wireless communication with the communication apparatus is maintained and an operation state of the image capturing device is caused to make a transition to a second state; in a case where, in the first state and in a state where the image capturing device is not attached to the communication apparatus, it is judged that the first operation is performed, the wireless communication with the communication apparatus is not maintained; and in the first state, image capturing by the image capturing device and communication of data by the wireless communication are possible, and in the second state, power consumption is less than that of the first state.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 4, 2016
    Publication date: November 17, 2016
    Inventor: Kenta Watanabe
  • Patent number: 9344020
    Abstract: A power conversion apparatus includes arms in each of which one or more unit converters each including a capacitor and capable of outputting an arbitrary voltage are connected in series, and a point P as a first node to which one end of the respective arms are Y-connected, and a point N as a second node to which a neutral terminal of the rotary electric machine is connected. The other end of the respective arms are connected to one ends of respective phase windings of a rotary electric machine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2016
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Shigenori Inoue, Shuji Katoh, Hironari Kawazoe, Osamu Tomobe, Toru Yoshihara, Kenta Watanabe
  • Publication number: 20160077415
    Abstract: A wavelength conversion member includes a substrate, a dichroic mirror layer, an SiO2 layer, a ZnO layer, and a phosphor layer, which are sequentially stacked from the substrate. The dichroic mirror layer reflects at least part of light incident from the above. The phosphor layer includes a plurality of phosphors and ZnO between the phosphors.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 21, 2015
    Publication date: March 17, 2016
    Applicant: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Atsushi MOTOYA, Kenta WATANABE, Ran ZHENG, Sachiko AZUMA, Yoshihisa NAGASAKI, Takahiro HAMADA, Mitsuru NITTA, Takashi MANIWA, Toshio MORI, Kazuhiro MATSUO