Patents by Inventor Koji Arai

Koji Arai 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: 8629847
    Abstract: There is provided an information processing device that includes: a display portion that displays a plurality of function buttons that respectively correspond to a plurality of functions included in the information processing device; a position detection portion that detects a position where an operating body touches or approaches a display screen of the display portion; a button selection portion that selects, from among the plurality of function buttons, at least one function button that corresponds to an operation state of the information processing device; and a display control portion that causes the function button selected by the button selection portion to move on the display screen such that the function button approaches the position on the display screen detected by the position detection portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 6, 2010
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2014
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Koji Arai, Akiko Terayama, Ryo Takaoka, QiHong Wang, Satoshi Akagawa
  • Patent number: 8437796
    Abstract: A transmission level control method in a wireless local loop system capable of suppressing occurrence of an unnecessarily high transmission level, comprises a step of generating a required reception level corresponding to a classification of data, a step of detecting the reception level of data at a receiver side transceiver apparatus, a step of finding a level difference between the detected reception level and the required reception level corresponding to the classification of the related received data, and a step of controlling a change of the transmission level at a transmitter side transceiver apparatus according to this level difference.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 25, 2011
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2013
    Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
    Inventors: Shoichi Sato, Koji Arai
  • Patent number: 8421962
    Abstract: There is provided a color filter which can be manufactured by a simplified process and which will not short-circuit an electrode of a TFT substrate. The color filter includes a substrate, and a red layer, a green layer and a blue layer, formed on the substrate. When forming the green layer and the blue layer, these layers are not only formed on the substrate, but also laminated on the red layer to form a spacer comprised of the green layer and the blue layer, laminated on the red layer. The color filter further includes a transparent electrode layer which covers the substrate, the red layer, the green layer, the blue layer and the spacer, and an insulating black matrix layer formed on predetermined areas of the transparent electrode layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 2008
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2013
    Assignee: Dai Nippon Printing Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Tatsuro Ishitobi, Hideaki Yamagata, Koji Arai, Masatoshi Oba, Masahiro Takahashi, Masayuki Uchida
  • Patent number: 8341347
    Abstract: A storage controller of the present invention enables a larger number of storage devices to be mounted while keeping the installation size small. A plurality of sub-storage units are disposed inside a high density-type storage unit. The respective sub-storage units comprise a plurality of hard disk drives, controller, memory, power supply device, and display part. The respective sub-storage units operate independently of one another. A controller creates a management table based on management data acquired from the respective sub-storage units. The user is notified when there is an error in the table contents. A display part lights up in accordance with an indication from a storage unit specification part, notifying the user of the location of the sub-storage unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 18, 2009
    Date of Patent: December 25, 2012
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Kenji Onabe, Koji Arai, Tetsuya Shirogane
  • Patent number: 8311571
    Abstract: A transmission level control method in a wireless local loop system capable of suppressing occurrence of an unnecessarily high transmission level, comprises a step of generating a required reception level corresponding to a classification of data, a step of detecting the reception level of data at a receiver side transceiver apparatus, a step of finding a level difference between the detected reception level and the required reception level corresponding to the classification of the related received data, and a step of controlling a change of the transmission level at a transmitter side transceiver apparatus according to this level difference.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 25, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 13, 2012
    Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
    Inventors: Shoichi Sato, Koji Arai
  • Publication number: 20120229411
    Abstract: An information processing device is provided that includes a display portion, a user recognition portion, a button selection portion, and a display control portion. The display portion displays at least one function button that is related to a function that the information processing device is capable of performing. The user recognition portion recognizes a user who is operating the information processing device. The button selection portion selects, from among the at least one function button that is displayed on the display portion, at least one function button that corresponds to the user who has been recognized by the user recognition portion. The display control portion moves the function button that has been selected by the button selection portion from an initial position on a display screen of the display portion such that the function button is close to a specified position on the display screen.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 29, 2010
    Publication date: September 13, 2012
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventor: Koji Arai
  • Patent number: 8217351
    Abstract: A pattern data examination method and system capable of accurately and speedily examining a circuit pattern without failing to extract pattern contour data are provided. While pattern comparison is ordinarily made by using a secondary electron image, a contour of a pattern element is extracted by using a backscattered electron image said to be suitable for observation and examination of a three dimensional configuration of a pattern element, and pattern inspection is executed by using the extracted contour of the pattern element. More specifically, pattern inspection is executed by comparing a contour of a pattern element with design data such as CAD data to measure a difference between the contour and the data, and by computing, for example, the size of the circuit pattern element from the contour of a pattern.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 17, 2010
    Date of Patent: July 10, 2012
    Assignee: Hitachi High-Technologies Corporation
    Inventors: Yasutaka Toyoda, Yasunari Souda, Yuji Takagi, Koji Arai
  • Publication number: 20120098418
    Abstract: Disclosed is an organic electroluminescent element including: a substrate; and a positive electrode, an organic light-emitting layer, and a laminated negative electrode of two or more layers including a lower negative electrode and an upper negative electrode having different specific resistances from each other, the positive electrode, organic light-emitting layer, and laminated negative electrode sequentially provided on the substrate from the substrate side, and in the organic electroluminescent element, the lower negative electrode and the upper negative electrode include any one of ITO, IZO, GZO, and AZO as the main constituent, and the lower negative electrode is provided closer to the organic light-emitting layer than the upper negative electrode, and the lower negative electrode has a specific resistance higher than the specific resistance of the upper negative electrode adjacent to the lower negative electrode.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 10, 2010
    Publication date: April 26, 2012
    Inventors: Yoichiro Yashiro, Koji Arai, Akira Mori, Yutaka Kuriya, Akira Okuda
  • Publication number: 20110287723
    Abstract: A transmission level control method in a wireless local loop system capable of suppressing occurrence of an unnecessarily high transmission level, comprises a step of generating a required reception level corresponding to a classification of data, a step of detecting the reception level of data at a receiver side transceiver apparatus, a step of finding a level difference between the detected reception level and the required reception level corresponding to the classification of the related received data, and a step of controlling a change of the transmission level at a transmitter side transceiver apparatus according to this level difference.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 25, 2011
    Publication date: November 24, 2011
    Applicant: FUJITSU LIMITED
    Inventors: Shoichi Sato, Koji Arai
  • Publication number: 20110281611
    Abstract: A transmission level control method in a wireless local loop system capable of suppressing occurrence of an unnecessarily high transmission level, comprises a step of generating a required reception level corresponding to a classification of data, a step of detecting the reception level of data at a receiver side transceiver apparatus, a step of finding a level difference between the detected reception level and the required reception level corresponding to the classification of the related received data, and a step of controlling a change of the transmission level at a transmitter side transceiver apparatus according to this level difference.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 25, 2011
    Publication date: November 17, 2011
    Applicant: FUJITSU LIMITED
    Inventors: Shoichi SATO, Koji Arai
  • Patent number: 7997810
    Abstract: A support plate and a printed wiring board are spaced from a shutter base plate. An adjusting shaft member includes first and second shaft portions and an attachment portion that is press-fitted to an attachment hole in the support plate. Each of first and second contact members is attached to the printed wiring board at one end and has a contact portion and a positioning portion at the other end. The positioning portions of the first and second contact members are respectively brought into contact with a cam-shaped peripheral surface of the first shaft portion and a circular peripheral surface of the second shaft portion. When the adjusting shaft member is rotated, the distance between the contact portions varies. Thus, the time at which the two contact portions come into contact with each other when a pushing portion of the second contact member is pressed can be adjusted.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 2010
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2011
    Assignee: Nidec Copal Corporation
    Inventor: Koji Arai
  • Patent number: 7986087
    Abstract: Disclosed is a color conversion member which is improved in the prevention of a deterioration in color conversion function, the prevention of reflection of external light, and color rendering properties. The color conversion member comprises a transparent substrate, two or more types of color conversion layers, and a color filter layer. The color conversion layers function to convert incident lights for respective pixels to outgoing lights of colors different from the incident lights. The two or more types of color conversion layers are arranged on said transparent substrate. The color filter layer is provided on the transparent substrate side of any one of the color conversion layers or between the above any one of the color conversion layers and the color conversion layers adjacent to the above any one the color conversion layers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 7, 2003
    Date of Patent: July 26, 2011
    Assignee: Dai Nippon Printing Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Masaaki Asano, Koji Arai
  • Patent number: 7986957
    Abstract: A transmission level control method in a wireless local loop system capable of suppressing occurrence of an unnecessarily high transmission level, comprises a step of generating a required reception level corresponding to a classification of data, a step of detecting the reception level of data at a receiver side transceiver apparatus, a step of finding a level difference between the detected reception level and the required reception level corresponding to the classification of the related received data, and a step of controlling a change of the transmission level at a transmitter side transceiver apparatus according to this level difference.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 2006
    Date of Patent: July 26, 2011
    Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
    Inventors: Shoichi Sato, Koji Arai
  • Patent number: 7921269
    Abstract: The first storage subsystem, when new data is written in a first memory device beyond a certain timing, writes pre-updated data prior to update by said new data into a pre-updated data memory region and, in addition, updates snapshot management information that expresses a snapshot of a data group within the first memory device to information that expresses the snapshot at the certain timing and, at a later timing than the certain timing, judges, on the basis of the snapshot management information, in which of either the pre-updated data memory region or the first memory device the data constituting the data group at a certain timing exists, acquires data from the one in which the data exists and writes it into the second memory device of the second storage subsystem, and generates the certain timing repeatedly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2010
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2011
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Koji Arai, Koji Nagata
  • Publication number: 20110063236
    Abstract: There is provided an information processing device that includes: a display portion that displays a plurality of function buttons that respectively correspond to a plurality of functions included in the information processing device; a position detection portion that detects a position where an operating body touches or approaches a display screen of the display portion; a button selection portion that selects, from among the plurality of function buttons, at least one function button that corresponds to an operation state of the information processing device; and a display control portion that causes the function button selected by the button selection portion to move on the display screen such that the function button approaches the position on the display screen detected by the position detection portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 6, 2010
    Publication date: March 17, 2011
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Koji Arai, Akiko Terayama, Ryo Takaoka, QiHong Wang, Satoshi Akagawa
  • Publication number: 20110026914
    Abstract: A support plate and a printed wiring board are spaced from a shutter base plate. An adjusting shaft member includes first and second shaft portions and an attachment portion that is press-fitted to an attachment hole in the support plate. Each of first and second contact members is attached to the printed wiring board at one end and has a contact portion and a positioning portion at the other end. The positioning portions of the first and second contact members are respectively brought into contact with a cam-shaped peripheral surface of the first shaft portion and a circular peripheral surface of the second shaft portion. When the adjusting shaft member is rotated, the distance between the contact portions varies. Thus, the time at which the two contact portions come into contact with each other when a pushing portion of the second contact member is pressed can be adjusted.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 30, 2010
    Publication date: February 3, 2011
    Inventor: Koji ARAI
  • Publication number: 20110025873
    Abstract: An image search device includes: a shooting unit configured to photographically shoot a subject; a display unit; a control unit configured to display a search key for image search on the display unit according to a shooting situation at the time of a shooting mode whereby the subject can photographically be shot by the shooting unit; a specifying unit which is used for specifying the search key displayed on the display unit; and a searching unit configured to search, in the event of the search key being specified via the specifying unit, an image based on the search key thus specified; with the control unit displaying, in the event of the image being searched by the searching unit, this search result on the display unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 21, 2010
    Publication date: February 3, 2011
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Qihong Wang, Akiko Terayama, Ryo Takaoka, Satoshi Akagawa, Koji Arai, Shunichi Kasahara
  • Publication number: 20110018827
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a position detecting section that detects a touch position of a pointing object on a display screen of a display section, a region detecting section that detects a region on the display screen which is hidden by the pointing object, and a control section that displays information associated with the touch position outside the region detected by the region detecting section, when the touch position is detected by the position detecting section.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 20, 2010
    Publication date: January 27, 2011
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Qihong Wang, Akiko Terayama, Ryo Takaoka, Satoshi Akagawa, Koji Arai, Shunichi Kasahara
  • Patent number: D661703
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2009
    Date of Patent: June 12, 2012
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Mitsuo Okumura, Goro Takaki, Satoshi Akagawa, Nobuki Furue, Satoshi Asai, Hidehiro Komatsu, Koji Arai, Makoto Niijima, Shigeya Yasui, Youko Masubuchi
  • Patent number: D682312
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 8, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2013
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Mitsuo Okumura, Goro Takaki, Satoshi Akagawa, Nobuki Furue, Satoshi Asai, Hidehiro Komatsu, Koji Arai, Makoto Niijima, Shigeya Yasui, Youko Masubuchi