Patents by Inventor Masanobu Yamashita

Masanobu Yamashita 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).

  • Publication number: 20150051959
    Abstract: There is provided an information processing device including an association unit configured to associate content of which a first post destination is designated by a first user with a predetermined advertisement, and a transmission control unit configured to transmit the content associated with the predetermined advertisement by the association unit to the first post destination as affiliate content, and when the affiliate content is reproduced in the first post destination and then a second post destination is designated by a second user, to transmit a duplicate of the affiliate content of which the second post destination has been designated to the second post destination.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 13, 2013
    Publication date: February 19, 2015
    Inventors: Masanobu Yamashita, Ko Shikita, Ko Kobayashi, Fumiaki Suzuki
  • Publication number: 20130254331
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a storage block and a transmission control block. The storage block stores identification information about a device in association with information about a post destination. The transmission control block transmits content which has been sent from the device and which is provided with the identification information to the post destination associated with the identification information. In addition, an information processing method and a program for causing a computer to function as an apparatus include storing identification information about a device in association with information about a post destination, and transmitting content which has been sent from the device and which is provided with the identification information to the post destination associated with the identification information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 7, 2013
    Publication date: September 26, 2013
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masanobu Yamashita, Ko Shikita, Ko Kobayashi, Fumiaki Suzuki
  • Patent number: 7840341
    Abstract: A system which automatically makes a travel plan by using on-vehicle or portable terminal. The system can prepare a travel plan in which the concrete destination and route are specified when rough positional and temporal conditions are inputted. The objective area and schedule inputted through the terminal are transmitted to an information center. At the information center, a basic frame of the travel meeting the received conditions is prepared. For a day trip, an example of the basic frame is “departure-walk-lunch-amusement park-night view-return”. After the basic frame is prepared, concrete facilities meeting the actions are specified by making access to a data base. The specified facilities are inputted to the basic frame, and thus a concrete plan is completed. The completed plan is supplied to the terminal and displayed on a display to the persons who want to travel. The completed plan is further supplied to a navigation system and the system guides the persons in accordance with the plan.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 1, 1995
    Date of Patent: November 23, 2010
    Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Koji Sato, Masafumi Kizu, Makoto Morita, Masanobu Yamashita
  • Patent number: 6625257
    Abstract: A message processing device is adapted to obtain text data and read aloud the text data aloud by using a voice synthesizer. A loudspeaker device is connected to the message processing device to output or read aloud the text data. The text data can be received through a receiving device that receives outside information data or e-mail message data. The voice synthesizer can be controlled by an outside information controller, with the outside information controller being able to distinguish senders of the text data and being able to select one voice tone data to read aloud messages sent by one sender. If the controller recognizes that there are other messages sent by another sender, the controller allots different voice tone data for the other sender's messages. The message processing device can include a voice navigation device to generate voice signals for giving route guidance messages or information to a driver of a vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 1998
    Date of Patent: September 23, 2003
    Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Taizo Asaoka, Hiroyuki Kanemitsu, Naoki Maeda, Masanobu Yamashita
  • Patent number: 6336038
    Abstract: An information terminal device and a cellular phone are interconnected by a connector in order to efficiently perform the locking of personal information separate for individual users. A number checking unit compares the phone number of the cellular phone with phone numbers stored in a memory of the information terminal device. In accordance with the phone number of the cellular phone, the information terminal device manages the access to the information stored in an external information storage and a location point list storage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 1998
    Date of Patent: January 1, 2002
    Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Akihiko Nojima, Masanobu Yamashita
  • Patent number: 5781119
    Abstract: A vehicle guiding system enables a plurality of vehicles to run in a platoon with minimum assistance from drivers, and is intended to enhance effective use of from auto-drive lane. When the vehicle runs in the platoon, a front running vehicle detects its displacement from a magnetic nail, and calculates a steering amount to be corrected (i.e. control variables). The front running vehicle not only controls its own movements on the basis of the control variable data but also transmits them to a following vehicle. The following vehicle does not detect its displacement from the magnetic nail, but controls its steering amount on the basis of the received control variable data. The first following vehicle transfers the control variable data to a further following vehicle. The further following vehicle simply receives the control variable data from the following vehicle, and does not calculate its own control variables.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 1996
    Date of Patent: July 14, 1998
    Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Masanobu Yamashita, Akihide Tachibana, Keiji Aoki
  • Patent number: 4651687
    Abstract: An automatic compression releasing device intended for reducing the pressure inside the combustion chamber of the four cycle engine at the start by opening and closing the intake or exhaust valve of the combustion chamber actuated by the cam on the cam shaft through the tappet. A single moving piece mounted, on the side of the gear integrated with the cam shaft, as enclosing the cam shaft, can slide over the side of the gear in a given direction, guided by two slots opened in the moving piece and two pins planted on the gear side. A tappet lifting arm is extended from the moving piece to such a position as to push up the tappet. At the start, the centrifugal force on the moving piece is designed not to exceed the opposing force, thus keeping the tappet lifting arm projected out of the cam base circle, and also retaining the returning force of the moving piece acting on the tappet lifting arm through the tappet being supported by the guide slots and pins.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 1985
    Date of Patent: March 24, 1987
    Assignee: Kawasaki Jukogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Masanobu Yamashita, Hiroshi Takada, Takemi Inoue, Suguru Yamauchi
  • Patent number: 4548167
    Abstract: A suction air passage of the side-valve type of internal combustion engines is composed of a pipe-shaped portion which is integrated into the cylinder, for example by means of metal mold, and is opened at its outside, and a cover which is fixed to the pipe-shaped portion to close the opening thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 1984
    Date of Patent: October 22, 1985
    Assignee: Kawasaki Jukogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Shinichi Tamba, Masato Sato, Kozo Watanabe, Masanobu Yamashita
  • Patent number: 4353847
    Abstract: A fuel supply system for a small engine including a constant level fuel chamber for receiving fuel from a fuel tank through a fuel drawing pipe to eject the fuel into a carburetor through a main nozzle after temporarily storing the fuel therein. A cover is provided to enclose the fuel drawing pipe and the constant level fuel chamber to separate the fuel drawing pipe and the constant level fuel chamber from a fuel storing section in the fuel tank, to enable fuel of a constant flow rate to be fed to the carburetor through the main nozzle irrespective of variations in the liquid level in the fuel storing section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 1981
    Date of Patent: October 12, 1982
    Assignee: Kawasaki Jukogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Masato Sato, Masanobu Yamashita