Patents by Inventor Kuniaki Ito

Kuniaki Ito 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: 7305232
    Abstract: The present invention is intended to provide a mobile communication terminal permitting a user to obtain location information of wireless base station which provides contents data in certain areas. The terminal accumulates identification information of wireless base stations when wireless services are received. The invention has functions of interrelating the identification information with location information of the terminal when the services are received and of storing both kinds of information. Wireless LAN service areas are displayed together with map information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 2003
    Date of Patent: December 4, 2007
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Naoko Ono, Hiroki Shoki, Ichiro Seto, Takehiko Toyoda, Hiroshi Yoshida, Shuichi Sekine, Kuniaki Ito
  • Patent number: 7292866
    Abstract: A mobile communications terminal includes positional information generator configured to generate positional information indicating a current position of the terminal, receiver which receives identification information sent from the base station of the second mobile communication network, notification information generator configured to generate notification information including the identification information and the positional information generated at the time of receiving the identification information, and transmitter which transmits the notification information to the service area calculation apparatus via the first mobile communication network to derive the information concerning the service area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2006
    Date of Patent: November 6, 2007
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Hiroki Shoki, Ichiro Seto, Shuichi Sekine, Kuniaki Ito, Naoko Ono, Hiroshi Yoshida, Takehiko Toyoda
  • Publication number: 20070151646
    Abstract: A heavy-duty tire comprises a tread portion provided with at least three circumferentially continuously extending ribs divided by at least two circumferential grooves extending straight in the tire circumferential direction, wherein the ribs have side edges adjacent to the circumferential grooves; each of the side edges is provided with edge sipes at intervals in the tire circumferential direction; each of the edge sipes extends parallel with the tire axial direction from the adjacent circumferential groove and terminates in the rib; each of the edge sipe has an axial length in a range of not less than 5% but not more than 15% of the axial width of the rib, a thickness in a range of not less than 0.3 mm but not more than 1.0 mm and a depth in a range of not less than 50% but not more than 100% of the depth of the circumferential groove; and the total number of the edge sipes per tire is in a range of from 4 to 8 times the value of the tire diameter in millimeter.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 28, 2006
    Publication date: July 5, 2007
    Applicant: Sumitomo Rubber Industries, Ltd.
    Inventor: Kuniaki Ito
  • Publication number: 20070104171
    Abstract: The wireless communication apparatus includes transmitter modules and receiver modules for carrying out transmission/reception via a plurality of antenna beams formed by an adaptive array antenna between stations. The apparatus is provided with an end time detecting section and a maximum reception end time is detected by detecting section based on reception signals on the receiver modules. A reception end signal is generated from a notifying section, when current time counted by a counter is reached to the maximum reception end time. The transmission enabling section causes the transmitter modules to transmit data in response to the reception end signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 20, 2006
    Publication date: May 10, 2007
    Inventors: Hideo KASAMI, Kuniaki Ito, Kiyoshi Toshimitsu, Tomoko Adachi
  • Publication number: 20070066394
    Abstract: A home entertainment system for video games and other applications includes a main unit and handheld controllers. The handheld controllers sense their own motion by detecting illumination emitted by emitters positioned at either side of a display. The controllers can be plugged into expansion units that customize the overall control interface for particular applications including but not limited to legacy video games.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 15, 2006
    Publication date: March 22, 2007
    Applicant: Nintendo Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Akio Ikeda, Kuniaki Ito, Ryoji Kuroda, Genyo Takeda, Masahiro Urata
  • Publication number: 20070060391
    Abstract: A game operating device (controller) includes a longitudinal housing, and a holding portion held by hand to be wrapped by its palm it is formed in the housing. A direction switch is provided on an upper surface at a position where it can be operated by thumb of the hand holding the holding portion, and a start switch and a select switch are provided backward thereof. An X button 46 and a Y button are further arranged in line on the upper surface of the housing. An imaging information arithmetic unit is provided at a front end of the housing in a longitudinal direction in such a manner that an imaging device thereof is exposed from a front-end surface. A concave portion is formed on a lower surface at a position corresponding to the direction switch. The concave portion includes a valley and two inclined surfaces. An A button capable of being operated by index finger of the hand holding the holding portion is provided on the backward inclined surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 5, 2006
    Publication date: March 15, 2007
    Applicant: Nintendo Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Akio Ikeda, Kuniaki Ito
  • Publication number: 20070012389
    Abstract: A pneumatic tire comprises a tread portion provided with at least two circumferential grooves and lateral grooves extending from the circumferential grooves so as to form blocks which are circumferentially divided by the lateral grooves and arranged in at least three circumferential rows axially divided by said at least two circumferential grooves. Each of the lateral grooves is provided with a tie-bar rising from the groove bottom to a certain height as to connect the opposite groove-walls with each other. The tie-bars in the lateral grooves extend towards the adjacent circumferential grooves but terminate before the circumferential grooves so as to provide certain distances therebetween, and the distances are gradually decreased from the axially outside to the axially inside of the tread portion. The inclination angles of the lateral grooves are gradually decreased from the axially outside to the axially inside of the tread portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 11, 2006
    Publication date: January 18, 2007
    Applicant: Sumitomo Rubber Industries, Ltd.
    Inventor: Kuniaki Ito
  • Patent number: 7158501
    Abstract: The wireless communication apparatus includes transmitter modules and receiver modules for carrying out transmission/reception via a plurality of antenna beams formed by an adaptive array antenna between stations. The apparatus is provided with an end time detecting section and a maximum reception end time is detected by detecting section based on reception signals on the receiver modules. A reception end signal is generated from a notifying section, when current time counted by a counter is reached to the maximum reception end time. The transmission enabling section causes the transmitter modules to transmit data in response to the reception end signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 29, 2002
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2007
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Hideo Kasami, Kuniaki Ito, Kiyoshi Toshimitsu, Tomoko Adachi
  • Patent number: 7120417
    Abstract: A mobile communications terminal includes positional information generator configured to generate positional information indicating a current position of the terminal, receiver which receives identification information sent from the base station of the second mobile communication network, notification information generator configured to generate notification information including the identification information and the positional information generated at the time of receiving the identification information, and transmitter which transmits the notification information to the service area calculation apparatus via the first mobile communication network to derive the information concerning the service area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2003
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2006
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Hiroki Shoki, Ichiro Seto, Shuichi Sekine, Kuniaki Ito, Naoko Ono, Hiroshi Yoshida, Takehiko Toyoda
  • Publication number: 20060194590
    Abstract: A mobile communications terminal includes positional information generator configured to generate positional information indicating a current position of the terminal, receiver which receives identification information sent from the base station of the second mobile communication network, notification information generator configured to generate notification information including the identification information and the positional information generated at the time of receiving the identification information, and transmitter which transmits the notification information to the service area calculation apparatus via the first mobile communication network to derive the information concerning the service area.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 27, 2006
    Publication date: August 31, 2006
    Inventors: Hiroki Shoki, Ichiro Seto, Shuichi Sekine, Kuniaki Ito, Naoko Ono, Hiroshi Yoshida, Takehiko Toyoda
  • Publication number: 20060072501
    Abstract: This is a radio communication system having a radio base station controller 20 which is connected to a plurality of base stations 10n?1, 10n and 10n+1, and then assigns a fixed channel to each of radio mobile stations 18a, 18b and 18c, and further controls the beam patterns of the radio base stations 10n?1, 10n and 10n+1, and accordingly carries out the radio communications with the radio mobile stations 18a, 18b and 18c. The radio base station controller 20, when transmitting to and receiving from the different radio mobile stations 18a, 18b and 18c to which the same channel is assigned, controls the beam patterns so that the channels do not interfere with each other.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 7, 2005
    Publication date: April 6, 2006
    Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA
    Inventors: Kiyoshi Toshimitsu, Akihiro Tsujimura, Kuniaki Ito, Shuichi Obayashi, Hiroki Shoki
  • Patent number: 7006465
    Abstract: A radio communication system having a radio base station controller which is connected to a plurality of base stations, and assigns a fixed channel to each of the radio mobile stations. The radio base station controller also controls the beam patterns of the radio base stations to communicate with the radio mobile stations. The radio base station controller, when transmitting to and receiving from the different radio mobile stations to which the same channel is assigned, controls the beam patterns so that the channels do not interfere with each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2000
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2006
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Kiyoshi Toshimitsu, Akihiro Tsujimura, Kuniaki Ito, Shuichi Obayashi, Hiroki Shoki
  • Publication number: 20060040709
    Abstract: A station determines the presence/absence of directional beam control in an access point, on the basis of received power measured when data transmitted from the access point are received, and the type of the received data. In accordance with the result of this determination, the station controls transmitting power to transmit data to the access point.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 25, 2005
    Publication date: February 23, 2006
    Inventors: Tomoko Adachi, Kuniaki Ito, Hideo Kasami, Kiyoshi Toshimitsu
  • Patent number: 6983167
    Abstract: A station determines the presence/absence of directional beam control in an access point, on the basis of received power measured when data transmitted from the access point are received, and the type of the received data. In accordance with the result of this determination, the station controls transmitting power to transmit data to the access point.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 6, 2002
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2006
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Tomoko Adachi, Kuniaki Ito, Hideo Kasami, Kiyoshi Toshimitsu
  • Publication number: 20050163270
    Abstract: Radio receiving apparatus comprises antennas, radio units adjusting gains of received signals, and outputting the adjusted received signals, respectively, converters converting the adjusted received signals into digital signals, selector device which selects several of the digital signals, combination of the selected digital signals exhibiting good receiving characteristic, controller which determines the gains and outputs single control signal included in information of the determined gains to certain radio units, the certain radio units being included in the radio units and connected to certain converters of the converters which output digital signals included in the selected combination, weight calculator which calculates weight for each of the selected digital signals to enhance the receiving characteristic if the controller outputs the single control signal, synthesizer which synthesizes, into synthetic digital signal, digital signals obtained by multiplying each of the selected digital signals by the we
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 28, 2004
    Publication date: July 28, 2005
    Inventors: Koji Akita, Kazumi Sato, Kuniaki Ito, Akihiro Tsujimura
  • Publication number: 20050130740
    Abstract: With a game system, a timing fetch section fetches an input-timing for input data determined to be valid by an input-determination section, and an evaluation section compares the fetched input-timing and a reference-timing, and evaluates an operation with an operation section by a player or a sound-input action performed in answer to a first or second direction-mark. An input-reception section receives first and second input data generated based on an operation-detection of the operation section a sound-detection of the sound-detection section, respectively, and an input-determination section compares the first and second input data, determines that the first input data is valid when it is determined that the operation with the operation section by the player and the sound-input action by the player overlap within a given period, based on the first and second input data, and determines that the first and second input data are valid in other cases.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 9, 2004
    Publication date: June 16, 2005
    Applicants: NAMCO LTD., NINTENDO CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Onoda, Hiroumi Endo, Hiroshi Igarashi, Junji Takamoto, Takeshi Nagareda, Kuniaki Ito, Takao Shimizu
  • Publication number: 20050056997
    Abstract: An operating apparatus for game machine includes a depressing member, and a main body of the depressing member is provided with three engaging protrusions and two depressing protrusions that downwardly protrude. For example, the two depressing protrusions are provided between the three engaging protrusions. In response to a beating operation by a player, the right side of the depressing member is depressed, and then, an engaging portion of the engaging protrusion at the left side is engaged with a rear surface of an upper surface panel. Accordingly, the depressing member is sure to be depressed at the right side without being upwardly actuated, and a rubber switch depressed by the depressing protrusion is brought into contact with a board. At this time, a contact provided on the board and a contact provided on the rubber switch are brought into contact with each other, and an operation signal according to the beating operation is output to the game machine.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 10, 2004
    Publication date: March 17, 2005
    Inventors: Noboru Wakitani, Junji Takamoto, Takeshi Nagareda, Kuniaki Ito, Hideo Nagata, Hiroshi Igarashi, Akio Onda
  • Publication number: 20050025262
    Abstract: A controller controls weighting factors of received signals of combining units, such that impairment included in an output signal of the combining unit and impairment included in an output signal of the combining unit are mutually uncorrelated and that the combining units strongly receive different multipath signals which arrive at different propagation delay timing. Soft output decoders perform decoding by iterating soft output detection on the basis of the outputs of the combining units and results of mutual soft output detection, to enhance the reliability of likelihood information about the detected signal discrimination. After that, a hard output decoder performs hard output.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 1, 2004
    Publication date: February 3, 2005
    Inventors: Yasuhiko Tanabe, Kuniaki Ito
  • Publication number: 20040176101
    Abstract: A mobile communications terminal includes positional information generator configured to generate positional information indicating a current position of the terminal, receiver which receives identification information sent from the base station of the second mobile communication network, notification information generator configured to generate notification information including the identification information and the positional information generated at the time of receiving the identification information, and transmitter which transmits the notification information to the service area calculation apparatus via the first mobile communication network to derive the information concerning the service area.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 18, 2003
    Publication date: September 9, 2004
    Inventors: Hiroki Shoki, Ichiro Seto, Shuichi Sekine, Kuniaki Ito, Naoko Ono, Hiroshi Yoshida, Takehiko Toyoda
  • Publication number: 20040152472
    Abstract: The present invention is intended to provide a mobile communication terminal permitting a user to obtain location information of wireless base station which provides contents data in certain areas. The terminal accumulates identification information of wireless base stations when wireless services are received. The invention has functions of interrelating the identification information with location information of the terminal when the services are received and of storing both kinds of information. Wireless LAN service areas are displayed together with map information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 19, 2003
    Publication date: August 5, 2004
    Applicant: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Naoko Ono, Hiroki Shoki, Ichiro Seto, Takehiko Toyoda, Hiroshi Yoshida, Shuichi Sekine, Kuniaki Ito