Patents by Inventor Koichi Akasaka

Koichi Akasaka 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).

  • Patent number: 11936044
    Abstract: A carbon material for a non-aqueous secondary battery containing a graphite capable of occluding and releasing lithium ions, and having a cumulative pore volume at pore diameters in a range of 0.01 ?m to 1 ?m of 0.08 mL/g or more, a roundness, as determined by flow-type particle image analysis, of 0.88 or greater, and a pore diameter to particle diameter ratio (PD/d50 (%)) of 1.8 or less, the ratio being given by equation (1A): PD/d50 (%)=mode pore diameter (PD) in a pore diameter range of 0.01 ?m to 1 ?m in a pore distribution determined by mercury intrusion/volume-based average particle diameter (d50)×100 is provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 5, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI CHEMICAL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shunsuke Yamada, Nobuyuki Ishiwatari, Satoshi Akasaka, Daigo Nagayama, Shingo Morokuma, Koichi Nishio, Iwao Soga, Hideaki Tanaka, Takashi Kameda, Tooru Fuse, Hiromitsu Ikeda
  • Patent number: 9524095
    Abstract: The present technique relates to a display control device, a display control method, and a program that are capable of making inputtable gesture motions easy to notice. A display control unit causes a display unit to display a gesture motion guide in a first state. When a detecting unit for detecting gesture motions detects a predetermined gesture motion, the display control unit changes the guide corresponding to the detected gesture motion to a second state and then causes the display unit to display the guide. The technique according to this disclosure can be applied to an information processing terminal that includes a display unit, for example.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 20, 2016
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Koichi Akasaka, Daisuke Kawamura, Hiromitsu Oka
  • Publication number: 20140040831
    Abstract: The present technique relates to a display control device, a display control method, and a program that are capable of making inputtable gesture motions easy to notice. A display control unit causes a display unit to display a gesture motion guide in a first state. When a detecting unit for detecting gesture motions detects a predetermined gesture motion, the display control unit changes the guide corresponding to the detected gesture motion to a second state and then causes the display unit to display the guide. The technique according to this disclosure can be applied to an information processing terminal that includes a display unit, for example.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 12, 2012
    Publication date: February 6, 2014
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Koichi Akasaka, Daisuke Kawamura, Hiromitsu Oka
  • Patent number: 8270297
    Abstract: A communication device includes a communication unit having plural function operation units performing communication with an external device at plural prescribed communication speeds, and a control unit allowing the communication unit to receive a given kind of content data from the external device, estimating an optimum prescribed communication speed in which the power consumption amount becomes smallest from the plural prescribed communication speeds based on a bit rate of the content data, selecting a given function operation unit from the plural function operation units based on the estimated optimum communication speed, allowing the selected function operation unit to receive the given kind of content data at the estimated prescribed communication speed and controlling power consumption to the function operation units other than the function operation unit selected from the plural function operation units to be less than a fixed value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2007
    Date of Patent: September 18, 2012
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Koichi Akasaka, Shinji Katsuki
  • Patent number: 7933617
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is a portable type content reproducing device for reproducing content data, said portable type content reproducing device including, a radio communication unit, a nonvolatile storage unit, a reproduction processing unit, a connection controlling unit, and a reception controlling unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2008
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2011
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Koichi Akasaka, Shinji Katsuki
  • Publication number: 20090011709
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is a portable type content reproducing device for reproducing content data, said portable type content reproducing device including, a radio communication unit, a nonvolatile storage unit, a reproduction processing unit, a connection controlling unit, and a reception controlling unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 26, 2008
    Publication date: January 8, 2009
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Koichi Akasaka, Shinji Katsuki
  • Publication number: 20080084823
    Abstract: A communication device includes a communication unit having plural function operation units performing communication with an external device at plural prescribed communication speeds, and a control unit allowing the communication unit to receive a given kind of content data from the external device, estimating an optimum prescribed communication speed in which the power consumption amount becomes smallest from the plural prescribed communication speeds based on a bit rate of the content data, selecting a given function operation unit from the plural function operation units based on the estimated optimum communication speed, allowing the selected function operation unit to receive the given kind of content data at the estimated prescribed communication speed and controlling power consumption to the function operation units other than the function operation unit selected from the plural function operation units to be less than a fixed value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 20, 2007
    Publication date: April 10, 2008
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Koichi AKASAKA, Shinji Katsuki