Patents by Inventor Koichi Asano
Koichi Asano 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).
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Publication number: 20250062256Abstract: A signal transmission device having a capacitor coupler includes: a semiconductor substrate; a first insulating film disposed above the semiconductor substrate; a lower electrode disposed above the semiconductor substrate across a portion of the first insulating film; an upper electrode disposed opposite the lower electrode across the first insulating film, forming a capacitor together with the lower electrode, and configured to be applied with a voltage higher than a voltage applied to the lower electrode; a second insulating film disposed above the first insulating film and covering at least a portion in an outer peripheral portion of the upper electrode that is in contact with the first insulating film; and a third insulating film disposed above the second insulating film and made of an insulating organic material. The second insulating film is made of a material having a higher insulation breakdown voltage than the third insulating film.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 6, 2024Publication date: February 20, 2025Inventors: Shuji ASANO, Koichi YAKO
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Patent number: 11507181Abstract: An input apparatus is provided that includes a determiner that determines a reference plane, which has a plurality of virtual keys, based on fingertip positions of at least three fingers from among fingertip positions of a plurality of fingers in an initial state; a virtual key setter that sets on the reference plane, a plurality of detection ranges that respectively correspond to the plurality of virtual keys and that each detect a pressing of a corresponding virtual key based on a fingertip position of a specific finger from among the fingertip positions; and a pressed key specifier that specifies a virtual key that is pressed, from among the plurality of virtual keys, according to a positional relationship between the fingertip positions of the plurality of fingers in an input operation, and the plurality of detection ranges set on the reference plane for each of the plurality of virtual keys.Type: GrantFiled: June 11, 2019Date of Patent: November 22, 2022Assignee: NTT DOCOMO, INC.Inventors: Shigeru Akamatsu, Koichi Asano
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Patent number: 11449135Abstract: A terminal apparatus includes: an image capture device that captures an image of a direction that a user faces; a display controller configured to synthesize an image of a pointer captured by the image capture device with an image of a virtual or real space, to display the synthesized image on a display device; a first determiner that determines whether the pointer in the space displayed on the display device at a first time point satisfies an initial condition; an operation controller that stores reference size information relating to a size of the pointer in association with a reference distance in a storage device, with the size of the pointer being as in a case in which it is determined that the initial condition is satisfied; and a second determiner that compares a size of the pointer in the space at a second time point after the initial condition is satisfied with the size indicated by the reference size information, to determine whether the pointer is at a position that is closer than a point at the reType: GrantFiled: June 10, 2019Date of Patent: September 20, 2022Assignee: NTT DOCOMO, INC.Inventors: Shigeru Akamatsu, Koichi Asano
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Publication number: 20220113791Abstract: A terminal apparatus has a first determiner that determines whether a specific object with a two-dimensional manipulation plane has appeared inside a viewing frame of a virtual space provided to a user; a second determiner that, in a case in which it is determined that the specific object has appeared inside the viewing frame, determines whether the specific object overlaps a specific point inside the viewing frame; and a display controller that: in a case in which it is determined that the specific object overlaps the specific point, control the display device to display in the viewing frame a two-dimensional pointer movable relative to the two-dimensional manipulation plane, and in a case in which it is determined that the specific object does not appear inside the viewing frame, control the display device to display in the viewing frame a three-dimensional pointer that moves within the virtual space three dimensionally.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 10, 2019Publication date: April 14, 2022Applicant: NTT DOCOMO, INC.Inventors: Shigeru AKAMATSU, Koichi ASANO
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Publication number: 20210303061Abstract: A terminal apparatus includes: an image capture device that captures an image of a direction that a user faces; a display controller configured to synthesize an image of a pointer captured by the image capture device with an image of a virtual or real space, to display the synthesized image on a display device; a first determiner that determines whether the pointer in the space displayed on the display device at a first time point satisfies an initial condition; an operation controller that stores reference size information relating to a size of the pointer in association with a reference distance in a storage device, with the size of the pointer being as in a case in which it is determined that the initial condition is satisfied; and a second determiner that compares a size of the pointer in the space at a second time point after the initial condition is satisfied with the size indicated by the reference size information, to determine whether the pointer is at a position that is closer than a point at the reType: ApplicationFiled: June 10, 2019Publication date: September 30, 2021Applicant: NTT DOCOMO, INC.Inventors: Shigeru AKAMATSU, Koichi ASANO
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Publication number: 20210173473Abstract: An input apparatus 10 has: a determiner 33 configured to determine a reference plane, on which a plurality of virtual keys are arranged, based on fingertip positions of at least three fingers from among fingertip positions of a plurality of fingers in an initial state; a virtual key setter 34 configured to set, on the reference plane, a plurality of detection ranges that correspond to respective ones of the plurality of virtual keys and that each detect a pressing of a corresponding virtual key based on a fingertip position of a specific finger from among the fingertip positions of the at least three fingers in the initial state; and a pressed key specifier 35 configured to specify a virtual key that is pressed, from among the plurality of virtual keys, according to a positional relationship between the fingertip positions of the plurality of fingers in an input operation, and the plurality of detection ranges set on the reference plane for each of the plurality of virtual keys.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 11, 2019Publication date: June 10, 2021Applicant: NTT DOCOMO, INC.Inventors: Shigeru AKAMATSU, Koichi ASANO
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Publication number: 20200293434Abstract: An OS difference information acquisition unit 11 acquires difference information indicating information of a changed program in programs of an OS. A difference correspondence part identification unit 16 identifies a part corresponding to the difference information in an application program. A test selection unit 18 acquires test item information including a part which is executed in the application program in each test and selects a test in which the part of the application program included in the acquired test item information corresponds to the part identified by the difference correspondence part identification unit 16.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 24, 2017Publication date: September 17, 2020Applicant: NTT DOCOMO, INC.Inventors: Shinya MASUDA, Takashi YOSHIKAWA, Koichi ASANO
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Patent number: 10455545Abstract: An information communication terminal includes; a reception unit configured to receive setting values of notification setting for plural connected peripheral devices; a peripheral device setting storage unit configured to store the received setting values of notification setting for the plural peripheral devices; a service application setting storage unit configured to store setting values of notification setting from a service application to the plural connected peripheral devices by using the setting values stored in the peripheral device setting storage unit as initial values; a control unit configured to assign a setting value of notification setting to transmission data on the basis of a setting value stored in the service application setting storage unit when the transmission data are received from the service application; and a transmission unit configured to transmit the transmission data to which the setting value of notification setting is assigned to at least one peripheral device.Type: GrantFiled: November 5, 2015Date of Patent: October 22, 2019Assignee: NTT DOCOMO, INC.Inventors: Ryuji Nishi, Sadaatsu Kato, Yoshinori Matsushima, Koichi Asano, Hironori Ishikawa
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Patent number: 10073762Abstract: A debug device to more accurately compute current consumption or a current consumption quantity from a computer program to be executed in a mobile terminal when a computer program is debugged. The mobile terminal includes a terminal log information acquisition unit configured to acquire terminal log information indicating an operating state of hardware constituting the mobile terminal during debug execution and a current consumption computation unit configured to compute the current consumption or the current consumption quantity of the mobile terminal during debug execution on the basis of the terminal log information and computation information for computing the unique current consumption or the unique current consumption quantity from the operating state of the hardware which is pre-stored.Type: GrantFiled: August 15, 2014Date of Patent: September 11, 2018Assignee: NTT DOCOMO, INC.Inventors: Tomohiro Ota, Sadaatsu Kato, Takeshi Kamiyama, Takayuki Nakanishi, Koichi Asano
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Publication number: 20170339666Abstract: An information communication terminal includes; a reception unit configured to receive setting values of notification setting for plural connected peripheral devices; a peripheral device setting storage unit configured to store the received setting values of notification setting for the plural peripheral devices; a service application setting storage unit configured to store setting values of notification setting from a service application to the plural connected peripheral devices by using the setting values stored in the peripheral device setting storage unit as initial values; a control unit configured to assign a setting value of notification setting to transmission data on the basis of a setting value stored in the service application setting storage unit when the transmission data are received from the service application; and a transmission unit configured to transmit the transmission data to which the setting value of notification setting is assigned to at least one peripheral device.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 5, 2015Publication date: November 23, 2017Applicant: NTT DOCOMO, INC.Inventors: Ryuji NISHI, Sadaatsu KATO, Yoshinori MATSUSHIMA, Koichi ASANO, Hironori ISHIKAWA
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Publication number: 20160217059Abstract: A debug device to more accurately compute current consumption or a current consumption quantity from a computer program to be executed in a mobile terminal when a computer program is debugged. The mobile terminal includes a terminal log information acquisition unit configured to acquire terminal log information indicating an operating state of hardware constituting the mobile terminal during debug execution and a current consumption computation unit configured to compute the current consumption or the current consumption quantity of the mobile terminal during debug execution on the basis of the terminal log information and computation information for computing the unique current consumption or the unique current consumption quantity from the operating state of the hardware which is pre-stored.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 15, 2014Publication date: July 28, 2016Applicant: NTT DOCOMO, INC.Inventors: Tomohiro OTA, Sadaatsu KATO, Takeshi KAMIYAMA, Takayuki NAKANISHI, Koichi ASANO
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Patent number: 9298594Abstract: A testing apparatus for evaluating operations by software installed in a mobile terminal includes a scenario setting unit for setting a scenario including operation information for executing functions that are performed by the mobile terminal, an operation determining unit for determining whether an operation indicated by the operation information included in the scenario is influenced by a device installed in the mobile terminal, an operation target converting unit for converting the operation determined to be influenced by the device installed in the mobile terminal according to the device installed in the mobile terminal, a scenario executing unit for executing the scenario set by the scenario setting unit according to the operation converted by the operation target converting unit, and a scenario execution result determining unit for determining whether an execution result of the scenario executed by the scenario execution unit is the same as a result assumed in advance.Type: GrantFiled: November 19, 2012Date of Patent: March 29, 2016Assignee: NTT DOCOMO, INC.Inventors: Hidetoshi Yazaki, Koichi Asano, Takehisa Takahashi, Tami Wakabayashi
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Patent number: 9280451Abstract: A testing device for evaluating operations of software installed in a mobile terminal includes a scenario selecting unit configured to select a scenario that includes information for causing the mobile terminal to execute a function that should be operated by the mobile terminal, a scenario execution determining unit configured to determine whether the scenario selected by the scenario selecting unit is executable, a scenario execution unit configured to execute the scenario determined to be executable by the scenario execution determining unit, and a scenario execution result determining unit configured to determine whether an execution result of the scenario executed by the scenario execution unit is the same as a result expected beforehand. The scenario execution determining unit determines whether the scenario selected by the scenario selecting unit is executable based on the execution result of the scenario executed by the scenario execution unit in the past.Type: GrantFiled: January 23, 2012Date of Patent: March 8, 2016Assignee: NTT DOCOMO, INC.Inventors: Koichi Asano, Hiroyuki Tsuji
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Publication number: 20140325281Abstract: A testing apparatus for evaluating operations by software installed in a mobile terminal includes a scenario setting unit for setting a scenario including operation information for executing functions that are performed by the mobile terminal, an operation determining unit for determining whether an operation indicated by the operation information included in the scenario is influenced by a device installed in the mobile terminal, an operation target converting unit for converting the operation determined to be influenced by the device installed in the mobile terminal according to the device installed in the mobile terminal, a scenario executing unit for executing the scenario set by the scenario setting unit according to the operation converted by the operation target converting unit, and a scenario execution result determining unit for determining whether an execution result of the scenario executed by the scenario execution unit is the same as a result assumed in advance.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 19, 2012Publication date: October 30, 2014Applicant: NTT DOCOMO, INC.Inventors: Hidetoshi Yazaki, Koichi Asano, Takehisa Takahashi, Tami Wakabayashi
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Patent number: 8607344Abstract: A system, method, and computer program product are provided for initiating a security action at an intermediate layer coupled between a library and an application. In use, a library of data is stored. Additionally, system calls intended for operating on the data are produced, utilizing an application. Furthermore, the system calls are intercepted and a security action is initiated on the data in response to the interception, utilizing an intermediate layer between the library and the application.Type: GrantFiled: July 24, 2008Date of Patent: December 10, 2013Assignees: McAfee, Inc., NTT DoCoMo, Inc.Inventors: Davide Libenzi, Katsuaki Yoshizawa, Akira Ogata, Victor Kouznetsov, Michael C. Pak, Koichi Asano, Kensaku Mori
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Publication number: 20130283100Abstract: A testing device for evaluating operations of software installed in a mobile terminal includes a scenario selecting unit configured to select a scenario that includes information for causing the mobile terminal to execute a function that should be operated by the mobile terminal, a scenario execution determining unit configured to determine whether the scenario selected by the scenario selecting unit is executable, a scenario execution unit configured to execute the scenario determined to be executable by the scenario execution determining unit, and a scenario execution result determining unit configured to determine whether an execution result of the scenario executed by the scenario execution unit is the same as a result expected beforehand. The scenario execution determining unit determines whether the scenario selected by the scenario selecting unit is executable based on the execution result of the scenario executed by the scenario execution unit in the past.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 23, 2012Publication date: October 24, 2013Applicant: NTT DOCOMO, INC.Inventors: Koichi Asano, Hiroyuki Tsuji
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Patent number: 7886189Abstract: To provide a mobile terminal apparatus with the lower communication cost in sending a log at the occurrence of a malfunction, abnormality or fault in the mobile terminal apparatus to a network. A diagnostic process for the malfunction is performed in accordance with a diagnostic policy acquired from the outside. An error code corresponding to the diagnostic result is generated. The generated error code is outputted. With an automatic fault diagnostic function of automatically analyzing the fault in the mobile terminal apparatus without directly sending the log collected in the mobile terminal apparatus to an analytic server, the communication cost can be reduced.Type: GrantFiled: April 17, 2008Date of Patent: February 8, 2011Assignee: NTT DoCoMo, Inc.Inventors: Kensaku Mori, Koichi Asano, Akihiro Ichinose, Yoshimasa Nishimura
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Patent number: 7881700Abstract: A cell phone 1 is characterized by having a problem determination storage 3 for storing problem finding information for determining whether there is a problem in received data received by a radio communicator 2, in correspondence to a fixed message, and for storing an arbitrary message available for arbitrary correspondence to the problem finding information; an arbitrary message determination processor 5 for determining whether an arbitrary message is stored in correspondence to the problem finding information in the problem determination storage 3, when it is determined that there is a problem in the received data; and an operation controller 6 for displaying the arbitrary message when the arbitrary message determination processor 5 determines that the arbitrary message is stored, and for displaying the fixed message stored in the problem determination storage 3, when it is determined that no arbitrary message is stored.Type: GrantFiled: September 26, 2006Date of Patent: February 1, 2011Assignee: NTT DoCoMo, Inc.Inventors: Yoshimasa Nishimura, Koichi Asano, Hyunsuk Seung, Akihiro Ichinose, Ai Nagai
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Publication number: 20100119666Abstract: To develop a frozen packaged sushi which can be spontaneously thawed and a method of thawing a frozen packaged sushi. [MEANS FOR SOLVING PROBLEMS] (1) A frozen packaged sushi having been packaged in a plastic film and sealed, characterized in that the sugar content of cooked rice constituting the sushi is from 7.0 to 12.0%, and use is made of cooked rice prepared preferably by heating rice from room temperature to 98° C. within 10±2 minutes and then maintaining at 98 to 100° C. for 20 to 40 minutes; and (2) a method of thawing a frozen packaged sushi characterized by comprising thawing the frozen packaged sushi as described in the above (1) by allowing to stand in an atmosphere at 5 to 30° C. for 2 to 10 hours.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 29, 2007Publication date: May 13, 2010Inventor: Koichi Asano
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Publication number: 20090280778Abstract: A cell phone 1 is characterized by having a problem determination storage 3 for storing problem finding information for determining whether there is a problem in received data received by a radio communicator 2, in correspondence to a fixed message, and for storing an arbitrary message available for arbitrary correspondence to the problem finding information; an arbitrary message determination processor 5 for determining whether an arbitrary message is stored in correspondence to the problem finding information in the problem determination storage 3, when it is determined that there is a problem in the received data; and an operation controller 6 for displaying the arbitrary message when the arbitrary message determination processor 5 determines that the arbitrary message is stored, and for displaying the fixed message stored in the problem determination storage 3, when it is determined that no arbitrary message is stored.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 26, 2006Publication date: November 12, 2009Inventors: Yoshimasa Nishimura, Koichi Asano, Hyunsuk Seung, Akihiro Ichinose, Ai Nagai