Patents by Inventor Makoto A. Inoue

Makoto A. Inoue 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).

  • COMMUNICATION DEVICE
    Publication number: 20140364070
    Abstract: Electrodes are formed of a nonmagnetic metal in high-frequency electronic components that conduct high frequency electric current having a frequency included in any of a first frequency band for transmitting and a third frequency band for receiving, both assigned to a first transmitting/receiving unit for data communication, and a second frequency band for transmitting and a fourth frequency band for receiving, both assigned to a second transmitting/receiving unit for telephone communication. The high-frequency electronic components also restrict the frequency of the conducted electric current.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 10, 2013
    Publication date: December 11, 2014
    Applicant: TAIYO YUDEN CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hirotaka TAKEUCHI, Makoto INOUE, Takashi AMANO
  • Data communication apparatus, data communication method, and data communication packet
    Patent number: 8903423
    Abstract: A data communication apparatus capable of creating a new type of communication is provided. Motion information obtaining means 33 obtains information on the motion of an arbitrary apparatus. An other-party apparatus motion determination section 21 makes a determination as to the motion of the arbitrary apparatus on the basis of the information on the motion of the arbitrary apparatus, the information being obtained by the motion information obtaining means 33. A communication determination section 22 determines whether or not communication is to be performed with an arbitrary apparatus on the basis of the motion determination output by the other-party apparatus motion determination section 21. When it is determined by the communication determination section 22 that communication is to be performed, predetermined data communication is started with the arbitrary apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2006
    Date of Patent: December 2, 2014
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Yoichiro Sako, Toshiro Terauchi, Masamichi Asukai, Mitsuru Takehara, Takatoshi Nakamura, Makoto Inoue, Kosei Yamashita, Yasushi Miyajima, Toru Sasaki, Masafumi Matsuda
  • PLAYLIST SHARING METHODS AND APPARATUS
    Publication number: 20140337480
    Abstract: A player device uses playlists having names of contents. Users can update the playlists via network. The player device includes a storage device for storing digital data of the contents, a reception/reception circuit for downloading playlists, a display for displaying the titles of contents included in the playlists, a pointing device for specifying displayed titles, a circuit for retrieving digital data from the storage device in the event that digital data of a content specified by the pointing device is stored within the storage device, and an output circuit for outputting the retrieved digital data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 21, 2014
    Publication date: November 13, 2014
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Kosei Yamashita, Yasushi Miyajima, Makoto Inoue, Takatoshi Nakamura, Masamichi Asukai, Masafumi Matsuda, Toru Sasaki, Mitsuru Takehara, Toshiro Terauchi, Yoichiro Sako
  • Contents replay apparatus and contents replay method
    Patent number: 8868585
    Abstract: To enable a lot of audio data and image data such as a still image and a moving image to be effectively and efficiently used. When audio data accumulated in a material database 21 is replayed, a controller 10 acquires the metadata added to the audio data to be replayed from the material database, refer to the metadata of image data based on the above metadata to thereby search image data intimately related to the audio data, controls a voice replay system such as an audio decoder 32 and the like and an image replay system such as an image decoder 31 and the like, and replay the audio data to be replayed and the searched image data in relation with each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 21, 2014
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Yasushi Miyajima, Masamichi Asukai, Mitsuru Takehara, Takatoshi Nakamura, Yoichiro Sako, Toshiro Terauchi, Makoto Inoue, Kosei Yamashita, Toru Sasaki, Masafumi Matsuda
  • Sound-output-control device, sound-output-control method, and sound-output-control program
    Patent number: 8858453
    Abstract: A sound-output-control device including an acquisition unit which acquires an anaerobic threshold, a reception unit which receives an input about exercise intensity, a calculation unit which calculates a value indicating a target heart rate of a user on the basis of the acquired anaerobic threshold and the received exercise-intensity input, a detection unit which detects a value indicating the current tempo of a physical exercise done by the user, and a control unit that controls a sound output on the basis of a result of a comparison of the target heart-rate value calculated by the calculation unit and the current physical-exercise-tempo value detected by the detection unit, so as to lead a heart rate of the user so that the heart rate of the user attains the target heart rate is provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 11, 2006
    Date of Patent: October 14, 2014
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Masamichi Asukai, Katsuya Shirai, Makoto Inoue, Akane Sano
  • System for notifying mail-receiving error information
    Patent number: 8825771
    Abstract: In a case where mail can not be stored in a mail box in a mail receiving server due to capacity excess, a detail content of the mail can be notified to an addressee of the mail. A mail receiving server comprises a mail receiving unit, a first mail box, a determining unit, a temporal storage space, an extracting unit, an information notice mail managing unit, and a second mail box.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 2010
    Date of Patent: September 2, 2014
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Makoto Inoue
  • Content reproducing apparatus, content reproduction method, and program
    Patent number: 8812502
    Abstract: Music contents assigned to play lists are reproduced so as to correspond to user's preference. A music content database 7 has stored a plurality of music contents. A CPU 3 creates genre ranks such that music contents that have been more frequently, for example, reproduced are more highly ranked. In addition, the CPU 3 creates play lists corresponding, for example, to tempos and stores the created play lists in a play list database 8. The CPU 3 selects a play list corresponding to a moving tempo obtained from a tempo detection section 9 and selects music content categorized as a highly ranked genre in the genre ranks from those corresponding to the selected play list. The selected music content is supplied to a decoder and amplifier section 12 and then reproduced from a head phone 14.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 2007
    Date of Patent: August 19, 2014
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Susumu Takatsuka, Toru Sasaki, Yuichi Sakai, Yoichiro Sako, Toshiro Terauchi, Hirofumi Tamori, Makoto Inoue, Katsuya Shirai, Kenichi Makino, Motoyuki Takai, Takatoshi Nakamura, Akihiro Komori, Akane Sano
  • CHROMANE COMPOUNDS
    Publication number: 20140179695
    Abstract: The present invention provides a compound which is useful as an active ingredient of a pharmaceutical composition, in particular, a pharmaceutical composition for preventing or treating diseases or conditions associated with and/or mediated by ?-secretase activity, hydrolysis of a ?-secretase site of a ?-amyloid precursor protein, and/or ?-amyloid protein accumulation, including a pharmaceutical composition for preventing or treating diseases including, but not limited to, Glaucoma, MCI (Mild cognitive impairment) or Alzheimer's disease, especially, Alzheimer's disease.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 27, 2014
    Publication date: June 26, 2014
    Applicants: CoMentis, Inc., ASTELLAS PHARMA INC.
    Inventors: Ryosuke MUNAKATA, Makoto INOUE, Hiroaki TOMINAGA, Shingo YAMASAKI, Yasuhiro SHIINA, Kiyohiro SAMIZU, Hisao HAMAGUCHI, Lin HONG
  • Methods for producing minus-strand RNA viral vectors using hybrid promoter comprising cytomegalovirus enhancer and chicken ?-actin promoter
    Patent number: 8741650
    Abstract: The present invention provides methods for producing a minus-strand RNA viral vector, which comprise using a promoter comprising a cytomegalovirus enhancer and a chicken ?-actin promoter, to induce the transcription of the genome RNA of a minus-strand RNA viral vector and the expression of minus-strand RNA viral proteins that form a ribonucleoprotein with the genome RNA. The methods of the present invention enable high efficiency production of highly safe minus-strand RNA viral vectors. The methods of the present invention are particularly useful for producing minus-strand RNA viral vectors that are deficient in envelope-constituting protein genes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 20, 2005
    Date of Patent: June 3, 2014
    Assignee: DNAVEC Research Inc.
    Inventors: Akihiro Iida, Hiroshi Ban, Makoto Inoue, Takahiro Hirata, Mamoru Hasegawa
  • Playlist sharing methods and apparatus
    Patent number: 8737177
    Abstract: A player device uses playlists having names of contents. Users can update the playlists via network. The player device includes a storage device for storing digital data of the contents, a reception/reception circuit for downloading playlists, a display for displaying the titles of contents included in the playlists, a pointing device for specifying displayed titles, a circuit for retrieving digital data from the storage device in the event that digital data of a content specified by the pointing device is stored within the storage device, and an output circuit for outputting the retrieved digital data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 13, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 27, 2014
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Kosei Yamashita, Yasushi Miyajima, Makoto Inoue, Takatoshi Nakamura, Masamichi Asukai, Masafumi Matsuda, Toru Sasaki, Mitsuru Takehara, Toshiro Terauchi, Yoichiro Sako
  • Communication terminal, communication system, server apparatus, and communication connecting method
    Patent number: 8712025
    Abstract: A communication terminal includes a communication unit configured to carry out communications with a communication terminal of an intended counterparty; a detector configured to detect information reflecting a status of a user of the own communication terminal; a condition checker configured to check whether a predetermined condition is satisfied by comparing information reflecting a status of a user of the communication terminal of the counterparty, received via the communication unit, with the information detected by the detector; and a controller configured to exercise control so that a communication circuit is established with the communication terminal of the counterparty via the communication unit when it is determined by the condition checker that the condition is satisfied.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 29, 2014
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Masamichi Asukai, Yoichiro Sako, Toshiro Terauchi, Makoto Inoue, Yasushi Miyajima, Kosei Yamashita, Takatoshi Nakamura, Mitsuru Takehara, Toru Sasaki, Masafumi Matsuda
  • Method and apparatus for processing bio-information
    Patent number: 8641616
    Abstract: A bio-information processing apparatus includes a bio-information sensor for measuring the bio-information of a subject in a non-contact manner and in an unrestricted manner; and a circuit for estimating the psychological state of the subject and the intensity thereof on the basis of the measured value of the bio-information measured using the bio-information sensor and on the basis of an initial value or a standard value of the measured value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 2005
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2014
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Katsuya Shirai, Yoichiro Sako, Toshiro Terauchi, Makoto Inoue, Masamichi Asukai, Kenichi Makino, Motoyuki Takai, Yasushi Miyajima
  • BRIDGE CIRCUIT
    Publication number: 20140032786
    Abstract: A bridge circuit of an embodiment includes: a command transfer portion which is configured by wired logic into which a host controller capable of sending a command that corresponds to each of a plurality of devices inputs the command, and which is configured to transfer the inputted command to the plurality of devices; a command analysis portion which is configured by wired logic, and which is configured to analyze the command from the host controller; and a response reply portion which is configured by wired logic, and which is capable of reading out a response based on an analysis result of the command analysis portion from a register that holds a response corresponding to the command and sending the response to the host controller.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 27, 2013
    Publication date: January 30, 2014
    Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA
    Inventors: Makoto INOUE, Keisuke KUDO, Takayuki NAKAGAWA, Akira IRUBE
  • Health exercise assist system, portable music playback apparatus, service information providing apparatus, information processing apparatus, and health exercise assist method
    Patent number: 8612030
    Abstract: In a health exercise assist system, a portable music playback apparatus acquires a preset exercise plan, a history of exercise information, and a music playback history and stores them. An information processing apparatus produces a service request including at least one of the preset exercise plan, the history of exercise information, and the music playback history acquired from the portable music playback apparatus, and transmits it to a service information providing apparatus. In accordance with the service request received from the information processing apparatus, the service information providing apparatus produces service information and returns the produced service information to the information processing apparatus. The information processing apparatus provides the received service information to a user of the audio playback apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 9, 2007
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2013
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Yuichi Sakai, Katsuya Shirai, Yoichiro Sako, Masamichi Asukai, Akane Sano, Motoyuki Takai, Makoto Inoue
  • VIRUS VECTOR FOR PRIME/BOOST VACCINES, WHICH COMPRISES VACCINIA VIRUS VECTOR AND SENDAI VIRUS VECTOR
    Publication number: 20130302367
    Abstract: [Problem] To provide a set of virus vectors which can be used for producing a prime/boost vaccine that can activate both cellular immunity and humoral immunity and is effective on infections by pathogenic microorganisms and malignant tumors which are generally believed to be difficult to be treated by vaccine therapy. [Solution] Provided is a set of virus vectors for prime/boost vaccines, comprising the following virus vector (a) and virus vector (b): (a) a vaccinia virus vector which carries a gene encoding an immunogenic polypeptide in such a manner that the gene can be expressed; and (b) a Sendal virus vector which carries the gene encoding the immunogenic polypeptide in such a manner that the gene can be expressed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 21, 2011
    Publication date: November 14, 2013
    Inventors: Hisatoshi Shida, Tomoyoshi Sobue, Kazunori Kato, Marmoru Hasegawa, Makoto Inoue
  • ILLUMINATING LIGHT SOURCE AND ILLUMINATING DEVICE
    Publication number: 20130229794
    Abstract: Provided is a light source including a light-emitting element, an outer shell that houses therein the light-emitting element, and a base that is provided at the outer shell and receives power from the outside to cause the light-emitting element to emit light. The outer shell is electrically-insulative and light-transmissive. On at least part of the outer surface or the inner surface of the outer shell, an electrically-conductive member is provided. The electrically-conductive member is electrically connected to a grounding terminal of the lighting fixture. According to this structure, an electric charge stored on the outer surface can be discharged to the outside from the lighting fixture. This prevents the attachment of dust to the outer shell, and keeps the luminous flux close to the initial level for a long time period and reduces the amount of maintenance.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 16, 2011
    Publication date: September 5, 2013
    Applicant: PANASONIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masahiro Miki, Hideo Nagai, Takaari Uemoto, Mitsuko Shuto, Makoto Inoue
  • Illumination device including a light-emitting module fastened to mount member with a constant orientation
    Patent number: 8449154
    Abstract: A mount member (5) has a contact surface (27a) touching the bottom surface of an LED module (3) and protrusions (5a) protruding from the periphery of the contact surface (27a) in the thickness direction of the LED module (3) and regulating sliding motions thereof. A fixing member (6) made of a resilient, plate-like member comprises an opposing pair of flat portions (43) near the contact surface (27a) of the mount member (5) and flat tabs (44) projecting from the flat portions (43) toward the contact surface (27a) touching the upper surface of a substrate (17). The flat portions (43) of the fixing member (6) are fastened to be lower than the top surface of the substrate (17) of the LED module (3). Thus, elastically deformed areas extending from the fastened parts of the flat portions (43) through the flat tabs (44) press the substrate (17) into the mount member (5).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2010
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2013
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Takaari Uemoto, Yasuyuki Ueda, Mitsuko Shuto, Masahiro Miki, Makoto Inoue, Hideo Nagai, Kenji Takahashi, Takeshi Saito
  • PYRROLIDINE COMPOUNDS WHICH INHIBIT BETA-SECRETASE ACTIVITY AND METHODS OF USE THEREOF
    Publication number: 20130102593
    Abstract: Described herein are novel beta-secretase inhibitors and methods for their use, including methods of treating Alzheimer's disease.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 9, 2009
    Publication date: April 25, 2013
    Inventors: Geoffrey M. Bilcer, Thippeswamy Devasamudram, Sudha V. Ankala, John C. Lilly, Chunfeng Liu, Hui Lei, Arun K. Ghosh, Makoto Inoue
  • Content playback method and content playback apparatus
    Patent number: 8358906
    Abstract: By allowing the movement of a user to affect the playback of content, the entertainment characteristic or uplifting spirits derived from content playback itself can be enhanced. The timing at which the user places his/her foot on the ground while walking or the timing at which the user shakes or changes from swinging in one direction to swinging to another direction is detected. Then, content, such as a music piece or moving pictures, is played back by allowing the timing of beats or bars of the music piece or the timing of scene changes or cut changes of the moving pictures to be synchronized with the timing of the movement of the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 18, 2005
    Date of Patent: January 22, 2013
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Motoyuki Takai, Toshiro Terauchi, Yoichiro Sako, Yasushi Miyajima, Kosei Yamashita, Makoto Inoue, Masamichi Asukai, Katsuya Shirai, Kenichi Makino
  • PLAYLIST SHARING METHODS AND APPARATUS
    Publication number: 20120311086
    Abstract: A player device uses playlists having names of contents. Users can update the playlists via network. The player device includes a storage device for storing digital data of the contents, a reception/reception circuit for downloading playlists, a display for displaying the titles of contents included in the playlists, a pointing device for specifying displayed titles, a circuit for retrieving digital data from the storage device in the event that digital data of a content specified by the pointing device is stored within the storage device, and an output circuit for outputting the retrieved digital data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 13, 2012
    Publication date: December 6, 2012
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Kosei Yamashita, Yasushi Miyajima, Makoto Inoue, Takatoshi Nakamura, Masamichi Asukai, Masafumi Matsuda, Toru Sasaki, Mitsuru Takehara, Toshiro Terauchi, Yoichiro Sako