Patents by Inventor Kouji Watanabe
Kouji 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).
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Patent number: 9989930Abstract: A mobile electronic device according to one embodiment includes a sounding module that performs alarm sounding and a controller that determines whether the mobile electronic device is in a moving state. When it is determined that the mobile electronic device is in the moving state, the controller disables the alarm sounding by the sounding module.Type: GrantFiled: April 24, 2015Date of Patent: June 5, 2018Assignee: KYOCERA CORPORATIONInventor: Kouji Watanabe
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Patent number: 9871909Abstract: In one embodiment, a mobile electronic device includes at least one controller that enables a silent mode setting when a state of being in a vehicle is determined and that enables the silent mode setting when a set time is reached, and the at least one controller suspends the enabling of the silent mode setting based on the set time when the set time is reached after having determined the state of being in a vehicle. When in the state of being in a vehicle, the mobile electronic device does not enable the silent mode setting based on the set time but enables the silent mode setting based on the state of being in a vehicle even when the time of enabling the silent mode setting based on the set time is reached.Type: GrantFiled: April 23, 2015Date of Patent: January 16, 2018Assignee: KYOCERA CORPORATIONInventors: Kouji Watanabe, Shinya Mizuno
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Patent number: 9786987Abstract: An antenna apparatus is provided with a dielectric substrate, a feed point, a first radiation conductor, a second radiation conductor, and a through-hole conductor. The first radiation element is capacitively coupled to the second radiation element in a portion where the first and second radiation conductors overlaps with each other via the dielectric substrate. At least one of the first and second radiation elements has a meander portion formed in the portion where the first and second radiation elements are capacitively coupled to each other, and an LC resonator is formed of the meander portion, and the portion where the first and second radiation elements are capacitively coupled to each other.Type: GrantFiled: March 4, 2013Date of Patent: October 10, 2017Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.Inventors: Yasuharu Matsuoka, Kazuya Nakano, Kouji Watanabe
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Publication number: 20170262229Abstract: According to one embodiment, a storage device includes a first memory cell; a second memory cell; and a controller configured to, in response to receiving a first command set, execute a first erase operation which is included in an erase operation of data of the first memory cell, and suspend the first erase operation, and in response to receiving a second command set, execute a read operation or a write operation of the second memory cell and subsequently resume the suspended first erase operation.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 16, 2016Publication date: September 14, 2017Applicants: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA, TOSHIBA INFORMATION SYSTEMS (JAPAN) CORPORATIONInventors: Yusuke OCHI, Masanobu SHIRAKAWA, Yoshihisa KOJIMA, Kiyotaka IWASAKI, Katsuhiko UEKI, Kouji WATANABE
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Patent number: 9692105Abstract: There is provided an information processing apparatus in which an antenna operating in two or more communication bands is disposed in a space conserving manner. An information processing apparatus according to the present disclosure has: a network interface for processing signals used for communications in a plurality of frequency bands; a display panel having a main surface for displaying an image, a rear surface opposite to the main surface, and a side surface defining a thickness between the main surface and the rear surface; an antenna connected to the network interface and having a conductive antenna element; and a conductive rib conducted to the antenna element, and holding the antenna with a predetermined gap between the antenna and the side surface of the display panel. The network interface processes the signals by resonance of a part of the antenna element and a part of the rib.Type: GrantFiled: July 29, 2014Date of Patent: June 27, 2017Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.Inventors: Kouji Watanabe, Yasuharu Matsuoka
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Publication number: 20170048381Abstract: In one embodiment, a mobile electronic device includes at least one controller that enables a silent mode setting when a state of being in a vehicle is determined and that enables the silent mode setting when a set time is reached, and the at least one controller suspends the enabling of the silent mode setting based on the set time when the set time is reached after having determined the state of being in a vehicle. When in the state of being in a vehicle, the mobile electronic device does not enable the silent mode setting based on the set time but enables the silent mode setting based on the state of being in a vehicle even when the time of enabling the silent mode setting based on the set time is reached.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 23, 2015Publication date: February 16, 2017Inventors: Kouji WATANABE, Shinya MIZUNO
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Publication number: 20170048382Abstract: A mobile electronic device according to an embodiment includes an annunciator that performs notification about an event, and a controller that causes the annunciator to perform the notification about the event when a lifting operation that lifts the mobile electronic device has been detected. A mobile electronic device includes an annunciator performing notification about an event, and a controller causing the annunciator to perform the notification about the event when it is detected that the mobile electronic device has made a transition to a handheld state.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 24, 2015Publication date: February 16, 2017Inventors: Kouji WATANABE, Saya MIURA, Shinya MIZUNO
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Publication number: 20170038741Abstract: A mobile electronic device according to one embodiment includes a sounding module that performs alarm sounding and a controller that determines whether the mobile electronic device is in a moving state. When it is determined that the mobile electronic device is in the moving state, the controller disables the alarm sounding by the sounding module.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 24, 2015Publication date: February 9, 2017Inventor: Kouji WATANABE
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Patent number: 9304691Abstract: According to embodiments, a memory system includes a plurality of memory chips configuring banks, an instruction generator, and a memory controller. The instruction generator generates a plurality of instructions. The memory controller is configured to execute memory accesses to the banks based on the instructions. Each memory access comprises a first command sequence and a second command sequence. The first command sequence causes in-bank processing shortly subsequent to the first command. The second command sequence is executed subsequent to the in-bank processing. The memory controller executes successively a second command sequence to a first bank based on a first instruction and a first command sequence to the first bank based on a second instruction subsequent to the first instruction, and then starts a memory access to a second bank based on a third instruction while the first bank is executing the in-bank processing caused by the first command sequence.Type: GrantFiled: March 9, 2015Date of Patent: April 5, 2016Assignee: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBAInventors: Takashi Ide, Kiyotaka Iwasaki, Kouji Watanabe, Hiroyuki Nanjou, Makoto Moriya
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Publication number: 20160077762Abstract: According to one embodiment, a memory system includes a plurality of nonvolatile memories, a generator which generates a select information, an issuing unit which issues a select command including the select information, a decoder which decodes the select information and the select command, and a selector which selects one of the plurality of nonvolatile memories on the basis of the decoding result from the decoder.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 26, 2014Publication date: March 17, 2016Inventors: Takashi Ide, Kouji Watanabe
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Patent number: 9213309Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a casing, a cover unit, and a liquid channel. The cover unit is disposed above an image forming unit. The cover unit includes a first member, a second member, and a neighboring portion positioned between the first member and the second member. The liquid channel is configured to guide liquid and includes a first channel and a second channel. The first channel is disposed between the neighboring portion and the image forming unit. The first channel includes a recess part and a liquid outlet. The recess part is disposed below the neighboring portion and extending toward the frame in an extending direction. The liquid outlet is positioned at an end portion of the recess part in the extending direction. The second channel is disposed at the frame. The second channel is configured to allow liquid to pass through the frame in the extending direction.Type: GrantFiled: October 28, 2014Date of Patent: December 15, 2015Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Masato Makino, Kouji Watanabe, Nobuyuki Futatsuki
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Patent number: 9189323Abstract: According to one embodiment, a semiconductor storage device includes a nonvolatile semiconductor memory, a temporary storage buffer that temporarily stores writing data to be written to the nonvolatile semiconductor memory, and a coding processing unit that divides coding target data of an error correction code into two or more divided data and writes an error correction code obtained by performing an error correction coding process based on the divided data stored in the temporary storage buffer to the temporary storage buffer as an intermediate code.Type: GrantFiled: December 15, 2011Date of Patent: November 17, 2015Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha ToshibaInventors: Toshikatsu Hida, Takashi Oshima, Kouji Watanabe
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Publication number: 20150205534Abstract: According to one embodiment, a controller includes a first command queuing part corresponding to a first bank, the first command queuing part queuing commands, a second command queuing part corresponding to a second bank, the second command queuing part queuing commands, and a bank control part which is configured to generate a first bound command by binding at least two commands in the first command queuing part, generate a second bound command by binding at least two commands in the second command queuing part, transfer the first bound command as an unit of an interleave operation between the first and second banks to the first bank, and transfer the second bound command as an unit of the interleave operation to the second bank.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 7, 2014Publication date: July 23, 2015Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBAInventors: Kouji WATANABE, Takashi Ide, Kiyotaka Iwasaki
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Publication number: 20150177993Abstract: According to embodiments, a memory system includes a plurality of memory chips configuring banks, an instruction generator, and a memory controller. The instruction generator generates a plurality of instructions. The memory controller is configured to execute memory accesses to the banks based on the instructions. Each memory access comprises a first command sequence and a second command sequence. The first command sequence causes in-bank processing shortly subsequent to the first command. The second command sequence is executed subsequent to the in-bank processing. The memory controller executes successively a second command sequence to a first bank based on a first instruction and a first command sequence to the first bank based on a second instruction subsequent to the first instruction, and then starts a memory access to a second bank based on a third instruction while the first bank is executing the in-bank processing caused by the first command sequence.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 9, 2015Publication date: June 25, 2015Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBAInventors: Takashi IDE, Kiyotaka IWASAKI, Kouji WATANABE, Hiroyuki NANJOU, Makoto MORIYA
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Publication number: 20150117893Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a casing, a cover unit, and a liquid channel. The cover unit is disposed above an image forming unit. The cover unit includes a first member, a second member, and a neighboring portion positioned between the first member and the second member. The liquid channel is configured to guide liquid and includes a first channel and a second channel. The first channel is disposed between the neighboring portion and the image forming unit. The first channel includes a recess part and a liquid outlet. The recess part is disposed below the neighboring portion and extending toward the frame in an extending direction. The liquid outlet is positioned at an end portion of the recess part in the extending direction. The second channel is disposed at the frame. The second channel is configured to allow liquid to pass through the frame in the extending direction.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 28, 2014Publication date: April 30, 2015Inventors: Masato Makino, Kouji Watanabe, Nobuyuki Futatsuki
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Patent number: 9010749Abstract: A sheet feeder is provided that includes a housing, a feed tray having a loading surface, and a swingable opening cover including a sliding contact portion, extending in a direction perpendicular to a width direction of a sheet. The sliding contact portion is configured to slide in contact with a feed tray in a swing motion of the feed tray from a first position where the loading surface is directed downward above the housing to a second position where the loading surface is directed upward at an upstream side relative to the housing in a feeding direction. The sliding contact portion is disposed on at least one end of the opening cover in the width direction, and exposed to an outside of the sheet feeder when the feed tray is in the first position.Type: GrantFiled: June 5, 2014Date of Patent: April 21, 2015Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Masatsugu Mizuno, Kouji Watanabe
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Patent number: 8996782Abstract: According to embodiments, a memory system includes a plurality of memory chips configuring banks, an instruction generator, and a memory controller. The instruction generator generates a plurality of instructions. The memory controller is configured to execute memory accesses to the banks based on the instructions. Each memory access comprises a first command sequence and a second command sequence. The first command sequence causes in-bank processing shortly subsequent to the first command. The second command sequence is executed subsequent to the in-bank processing. The memory controller executes successively a second command sequence to a first bank based on a first instruction and a first command sequence to the first bank based on a second instruction subsequent to the first instruction, and then starts a memory access to a second bank based on a third instruction while the first bank is executing the in-bank processing caused by the first command sequence.Type: GrantFiled: August 31, 2012Date of Patent: March 31, 2015Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha ToshibaInventors: Takashi Ide, Kiyotaka Iwasaki, Kouji Watanabe, Hiroyuki Nanjou, Makoto Moriya
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Publication number: 20150054691Abstract: There is provided an information processing apparatus in which an antenna operating in two or more communication bands is disposed in a space conserving manner. An information processing apparatus according to the present disclosure has: a network interface for processing signals used for communications in a plurality of frequency bands; a display panel having a main surface for displaying an image, a rear surface opposite to the main surface, and a side surface defining a thickness between the main surface and the rear surface; an antenna connected to the network interface and having a conductive antenna element; and a conductive rib conducted to the antenna element, and holding the antenna with a predetermined gap between the antenna and the side surface of the display panel. The network interface processes the signals by resonance of a part of the antenna element and a part of the rib.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 29, 2014Publication date: February 26, 2015Inventors: Kouji WATANABE, Yasuharu MATSUOKA
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Publication number: 20150055419Abstract: According to one embodiment, a memory system includes a memory chip and a controller. The controller is configured to count a first elapsed time from a start of an Erase process when causing the memory chip to execute the Erase process. The controller is configured to cause the memory chip to interrupt the Erase process after the first elapsed time exceeds a threshold value.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 30, 2013Publication date: February 26, 2015Applicant: Kabushiki Kaisha ToshibaInventors: Kiyotaka IWASAKI, Takashi Ide, Kouji Watanabe
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Publication number: 20140284876Abstract: A sheet feeder is provided that includes a housing, a feed tray having a loading surface, and a swingable opening cover including a sliding contact portion, extending in a direction perpendicular to a width direction of a sheet. The sliding contact portion is configured to slide in contact with a feed tray in a swing motion of the feed tray from a first position where the loading surface is directed downward above the housing to a second position where the loading surface is directed upward at an upstream side relative to the housing in a feeding direction. The sliding contact portion is disposed on at least one end of the opening cover in the width direction, and exposed to an outside of the sheet feeder when the feed tray is in the first position.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 5, 2014Publication date: September 25, 2014Applicant: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Masatsugu Mizuno, Kouji Watanabe