Patents by Inventor Masayuki Yamada

Masayuki Yamada 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: 11314332
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus that is connected to a device having a button that can be pressed within a prescribed movement range, detecting the push-in position when the button is pressed, and being capable of presenting a resistance force against a pressing force of the button and that determines control information indicating the magnitude of the resistance force to be presented, which relates to the push-in position of the button on the basis of a determination standard that includes at least one of the number of pressing actions, past maximum push-in position, and duration of pressing operation of the button of the device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2022
    Assignee: SONY INTERACTIVE ENTERTAINMENT INC.
    Inventors: Nicolas Doucet, Masayuki Yamada, Hideyuki Uchida
  • Patent number: 11276144
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus realizing an enlargement function without system-level customization is provided. The information processing apparatus includes an application unit, an enlargement control unit, and a screen control unit. The application unit generates and draws an image in a normal display area. The enlargement control unit enlarges the image drawn in the normal display area, and generates and draws an enlarged image including part of the enlarged image in an expansion display area. The screen control unit displays the image drawn in the normal display area on a display when the enlargement function is invalid, and displays the enlarged image drawn in the expansion display area on the display when the enlargement function is valid.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 15, 2022
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Hideshi Ichimi, Masayuki Yamada
  • Publication number: 20210346792
    Abstract: Provided is an information processing apparatus that is to be connected to a controller apparatus including a push-button, a force sense presentation section, and the push-button. The push-button moves between a first position and a second position when depressed by a finger of a user. The force sense presentation section presents a force sense to the push-button. The information processing apparatus determines, according to a prescribed force sense setting, the aspect of a force sense to be imparted to the push-button, and controls the force sense presentation section of the controller apparatus, according to the determination. Each time a predefined operation is performed, the information processing apparatus changes the force sense setting from a current force sense setting to a different force sense setting.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 27, 2019
    Publication date: November 11, 2021
    Inventors: Tomohito ITO, Naoyuki SAITO, Hideyuki UCHIDA, Nicolas DOUCET, Masayuki YAMADA
  • Patent number: 11146771
    Abstract: There is provided a display control device, display control method, and program capable of executing control such that information can be displayed more appropriately and efficiently according to an environment in which information is displayed or a situation of displayed information, the display control device including: a display control unit configured to decide a display region of a display object to be displayed on a display surface according to information regarding a real object on the display surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 2, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 12, 2021
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tetsuo Ikeda, Takayuki Sakamoto, Tomohiro Ishii, Atsushi Izumihara, Masayuki Yamada, Yohei Fukuma, Yuzuru Kimura, Yasushi Okumura, Takashi Shibuya, Katsuya Hyodo
  • Publication number: 20210314457
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes a reading unit configured to read an original, a transmission unit configured to transmit image data to an external apparatus, a printing unit configured to print an image, a display unit configured to display the image, and a control unit configured to suspend a job executed by the printing unit in response to a selection of a key for suspending a currently executed job, display a list of jobs on the display unit, and cancel a job selected by a user from the displayed list of the jobs. The control unit displays a list of transmission jobs for the transmission unit to transmit the image data generated when the reading unit reads the original in response to the selection of the key during display of a main menu screen for accepting a selection of a function to be used.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 15, 2021
    Publication date: October 7, 2021
    Inventor: Masayuki Yamada
  • Patent number: 11125573
    Abstract: A pickup system for picking up a product using a vehicle having an autonomous travelling function includes a communication unit configured to accept a pickup request from a user, a travel control unit configured to cause the vehicle to autonomously travel to a user position specified in the pickup request accepted through the communication unit, and an informing unit configured to inform the user that, when the vehicle arrives at the user position, the arrived vehicle is a vehicle that is to pick up a product in response to the pickup request.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 21, 2021
    Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Tomohito Matsuoka, Seiichi Tsunoda, Jiro Goto, Masayuki Yamada, Yasutaka Eto, Keima Fukunaga
  • Publication number: 20210275905
    Abstract: There are provided a controller apparatus and a control method thereof. The controller apparatus is held by a hand of a user and includes a microphone, a tactile sensation presentation device that presents a tactile sensation to the hand of the user, and a speaker. In addition, during a period in which the user inputs sound from the microphone, the controller apparatus reduces emission of sound of the speaker and causes the tactile sensation presentation device to perform control of tactile sensation presentation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 2, 2019
    Publication date: September 9, 2021
    Applicant: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.
    Inventors: Nicolas Doucet, Hideyuki Uchida, Naoyuki Saito, Tomohito Ito, Eric Bailey, Masayuki Yamada
  • Publication number: 20210268370
    Abstract: The information processing apparatus is connected to a controller apparatus provided with a push button which moves from a first position to a second position by being pushed by a user's finger. The information processing apparatus acquires the push-in amount of the push button of the controller apparatus, determines whether or not the push-in amount is in a range that excludes the first position and the second position and is configured by two threshold values set between the first position and the second position, and performs predetermined processing on the basis of the result of the determination.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 2, 2019
    Publication date: September 2, 2021
    Applicant: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.
    Inventors: Nicolas Doucet, Hideyuki Uchida, Naoyuki Saito, Tomohito Ito, Eric Bailey, Masayuki Yamada
  • Patent number: 11085780
    Abstract: A pickup system for picking up a product using a vehicle having an autonomous travelling function includes a communication unit configured to accept a pickup request from a user, a travel control unit configured to cause the vehicle to autonomously travel to a user position specified in the pickup request accepted through the communication unit, and an informing unit configured to inform the user that, when the vehicle arrives at the user position, the arrived vehicle is a vehicle that is to pick up a product in response to the pickup request.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 10, 2021
    Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Tomohito Matsuoka, Seiichi Tsunoda, Jiro Goto, Masayuki Yamada, Yasutaka Eto, Keima Fukunaga
  • Patent number: 11064085
    Abstract: An image, processing apparatus includes a reading unit configured to read an original, a transmission unit configured to transmit image data to an external apparatus, a printing unit configured to print an image, a display unit configured to display the image, and a control unit configured to suspend a job executed by the printing unit in response to a selection of a key for suspending a currently executed job display a list of jobs on the display unit, and cancel a job selected by a user from the displayed list of the jobs. The control unit displays a list of transmission jobs for the transmission unit to transmit the image data generated when the reading unit reads the original in response to the selection of the key during display of a main menu screen for accepting a selection of a function to be used.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 13, 2021
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Masayuki Yamada
  • Patent number: 11052775
    Abstract: A second communication unit of a power receiving vehicle sends a charging start request signal to a power supplying vehicle located on a planned travel route of the power receiving vehicle. At least one of a first travel control unit of the power supplying vehicle and a second travel control unit of the power receiving vehicle brings the power supplying vehicle and the power receiving vehicle close to each other up to a position that satisfies a charging start condition when the first travel control unit receives the charging start request signal from the power receiving vehicle through a first communication unit of the power supplying vehicle. The remaining charge of a battery of the power receiving vehicle is managed by performing charging between the power supplying vehicle and the power receiving vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 6, 2021
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Tomohito Matsuoka, Seiichi Tsunoda, Jiro Goto, Masayuki Yamada, Yasutaka Eto, Keima Fukunaga
  • Publication number: 20210194058
    Abstract: The nonaqueous electrolyte battery has good storage characteristics in a high temperature environment. The inventive nonaqueous electrolyte battery includes: an electrode body that is obtained by laminating a positive electrode and a negative electrode with a separator in between; a nonaqueous electrolyte solution that contains a lithium salt and an organic solvent. The inventive nonaqueous electrolyte battery is characterized in that the positive electrode includes a lithium-containing layered nickel oxide that contains 50% by mole or more of Ni relative to Li; that the negative electrode includes a laminate that contains a metal base layer which is not alloyed with Li, and an Al active layer that is bonded to one surface or both surfaces of the metal base layer; and that a Li—Al alloy is formed on at least the surface side of the Al active layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 26, 2017
    Publication date: June 24, 2021
    Applicant: MAXELL HOLDINGS, LTD.
    Inventors: Tomohito Sekiya, Masayuki Yamada, Yasunori Masaoka, Yoshihisa Hirose, Atsushi Hatakeyama, Hidetoshi Morikami
  • Patent number: 11029637
    Abstract: A positioning structure includes a positioning aiding member attached to a horizontal beam of a sheet feeder and having a positioning hole formed at an opposed portion thereof opposed to the horizontal beam. The positioning aiding member has a guide part that, when an image forming apparatus is installed onto a top of the sheet feeder, guides a horizontal beam of the image forming apparatus such that a positioning hole formed in a lower surface of the horizontal beam of the image forming apparatus approaches a first positioning pin coupled with the positioning aiding member as viewed in an extending direction of the horizontal beam of the sheet feeder.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 8, 2021
    Assignee: KYOCERA DOCUMENT SOLUTIONS INC.
    Inventors: Akira Ishii, Masayuki Yamada
  • Patent number: 11009891
    Abstract: A vehicle is configured to accommodate a cart and a passenger. A communication unit of the vehicle is configured to communicate with the cart. A traveling environment acquisition unit of the vehicle is configured to acquire a traveling environment of the vehicle. A cart control unit of the vehicle is configured to control an arrangement of the cart in the vehicle through the communication unit according to the traveling environment acquired toy the traveling environment acquisition unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 18, 2021
    Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Tomohito Matsuoka, Seiichi Tsunoda, Jiro Goto, Masayuki Yamada, Yasutaka Eto, Keima Fukunaga, Kinya Tagawa, Yasuhiro Sasaki, Sho Tanaka, Yuki Shinohara
  • Patent number: 10981744
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a stacking tray, a control unit, an alignment member and a supporting mechanism. The control unit performs a rotational sorting. An alignment member includes a leading end wall coming into contact with a leading edge of a portrait sheet stack, a pair of first side walls coming into contact with both side edges of the portrait sheet stack and a leading edge of a landscape sheet stack, and a pair of second side walls coming into contact with both side edges of the landscape sheet stack and aligning the portrait sheet stack and the landscape sheet stack. The supporting mechanism supports the alignment member so as to be movable in an alignment position where the alignment member protrudes from an upper face of the stacking tray and in a retracting position where the alignment member retracts from the upper face of the stacking tray.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 7, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 20, 2021
    Assignee: KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc.
    Inventors: Masayuki Yamada, Yoshifumi Okauchi
  • Patent number: 10977935
    Abstract: In an information processing device, an acquirer acquires a congestion degree in the vicinity of multiple vehicles arranged in a certain arrangement pattern. A deriver derives a move instruction for moving a target vehicle among the multiple vehicles such as to change a space between vehicles, on the basis of an acquired congestion degree. A communication unit transmits the move instruction to the target vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 13, 2021
    Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Tomohito Matsuoka, Seiichi Tsunoda, Jiro Goto, Masayuki Yamada, Yasutaka Eto, Keima Fukunaga, Kinya Tagawa, Yasuhiro Sasaki, Sho Tanaka, Yuki Shinohara
  • Patent number: 10962921
    Abstract: An electrical connector of an image forming apparatus exposes outward from a bottom surface of the image forming apparatus. An electrical connector of a sheet feeder protrudes from a top surface of the sheet feeder. The sheet feeder has a slider configured to be horizontally movable, while holding the electrical connector of the sheet feeder, between a connecting position at which the electrical connectors of the sheet feeder and image forming apparatus are connected and a disconnecting position at which the electrical connectors are disconnected. A locking member having a locking engaged part is fixed to the image forming apparatus. When the slider is moved to the connecting position, a locking engaging part of the slider engages the locking engaged part of the locking member so that the locking member and the slider are locked such that they cannot be separated vertically from each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 30, 2021
    Assignee: KYOCERA DOCUMENT SOLUTIONS INC.
    Inventors: Akira Ishii, Masayuki Yamada
  • Patent number: D932389
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 12, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 5, 2021
    Inventors: Hideki Hayashi, Masayuki Yamada, Junya Furuta
  • Patent number: D935955
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 12, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 16, 2021
    Inventors: Hideki Hayashi, Masayuki Yamada, Lu Yi
  • Patent number: D938308
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 12, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 14, 2021
    Inventors: Hideki Hayashi, Masayuki Yamada, Junya Furuta, Lu Yi, Masaaki Yagi, Hiroki Kato, Shingo Hatori, Eishi Suzuki, Yuma Hoshino