Patents by Inventor Mikio Kurihara
Mikio Kurihara 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: 11804975Abstract: A method, system, and computer program product for attentive listening in multiple contemporaneous meetings. The method identifies a set of keywords designated by a host of a meeting. Remarks in a set of sub-meetings of the meeting are monitored. One or more remarks of interest are identified which match one or more keywords within the remarks of a sub-meeting of the set of sub-meetings. Each sub-meeting has a meeting designation. The one or more remarks of interest are determined to exceed an interest threshold. The method presents the meeting designation and a remark indication to the host in response to determining the one or more remarks of interest exceed the interest threshold.Type: GrantFiled: September 21, 2022Date of Patent: October 31, 2023Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Miho Takahashi, Tkashi Nerome, Fumihiko Kitayama, Mikio Kurihara
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Patent number: 11526623Abstract: According to one embodiment, a method, computer system, and computer program product for displaying information on a public device is provided. The present invention may include displaying, based on information received from a connected mobile device, user information and dummy information on a display device. The present invention may further include displaying an indicator alongside the user information and a dummy indicator alongside the dummy information. The present invention may further include transmitting user information and dummy information to a display device, synchronizing display of the user information to the display device, and synchronizing haptic feedback based on a received visual pattern. The present invention may further include generating dummy information according to the type of information.Type: GrantFiled: June 12, 2019Date of Patent: December 13, 2022Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Daisuke Maruyama, Tomoko Kuwata, Yuta Adachi, Yuya Suzuki, Mikio Kurihara
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Publication number: 20220036323Abstract: A computer-implemented system and method uses a processor of a device of an expiring virtual currency (EVC) wallet user. An EVC transaction is retrieved that is associated with a blockchain and addressed to an address associated with the EVC wallet. The EVC transaction comprises an expiration date for the EVCs, as part of virtual currency user rules (VCURs). If the expiration date of the EVCs has passed, the method automatically, and without user intervention, transfers the EVCs to a transferee designated in the VCURs.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 28, 2020Publication date: February 3, 2022Inventors: Yu Sasaki, GOYA SAKURADA, HIROSHIGE TAKEUCHI, MASATO TAKAI, MIKIO KURIHARA
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Publication number: 20200394326Abstract: According to one embodiment, a method, computer system, and computer program product for displaying information on a public device is provided. The present invention may include displaying, based on information received from a connected mobile device, user information and dummy information on a display device. The present invention may further include displaying an indicator alongside the user information and a dummy indicator alongside the dummy information. The present invention may further include transmitting user information and dummy information to a display device, synchronizing display of the user information to the display device, and synchronizing haptic feedback based on a received visual pattern. The present invention may further include generating dummy information according to the type of information.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 12, 2019Publication date: December 17, 2020Inventors: Daisuke Maruyama, Tomoko Kuwata, Yuta Adachi, Yuya Suzuki, Mikio Kurihara
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Patent number: 7274424Abstract: A touch sensor type liquid crystal display is disclosed to provide a touch sensor type liquid crystal display which can endure long-time use while achieving a weight reduction. The touch sensor type liquid crystal display includes: a liquid crystal display panel 2 having an array substrate 14 and a color filter substrate 13, which are arranged oppositely to each other by interpolating a liquid crystal layer 18; and a touch sensor panel 3 having a movable electrode plate 4 and a fixed electrode plate 5, which are arranged oppositely to each other by a specified gap. These panels 2 and 3 are laminated together. A gap controlling spacer 19 is fixed in the array substrate 14 to restrict a spacer movement in a planar direction.Type: GrantFiled: August 8, 2000Date of Patent: September 25, 2007Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Mikio Kurihara, Eisuke Kanzaki
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Patent number: 6624868Abstract: A liquid crystal display structure, includes a glass substrate and at least one or more chips mounted on the glass substrate including flexible printed circuit connect pins. A common wiring for connecting the at least one or more chips to a flexible printed circuit is formed on the glass substrate. The common wiring is connected to the flexible printed circuit connect pins of the at least one or more chips and to the flexible printed circuit at at least one position on the common wiring.Type: GrantFiled: February 14, 2000Date of Patent: September 23, 2003Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Asao Terukina, Katsurou Hayashi, Yoshiharu Fujii, Mitsuru Ikezaki, Mikio Kurihara, Fumitoshi Kiyooka, Hideo Iiyori
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Patent number: 6538709Abstract: A liquid crystal display panel part group composed of a plurality of panel parts such as an array cell, a optical system sheet family, a light guide plate, a lamp reflector, and a lamp, and a liquid crystal display panel is enveloped in a film for laminating the parts. This film may be provided so as to cover the whole of the liquid crystal display panel part group and the film may have an opening. In order to adjust the positions of the parts, convex and concave portions are provided in the liquid crystal display panel parts.Type: GrantFiled: December 15, 1998Date of Patent: March 25, 2003Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Mikio Kurihara, Yasuhiro Kimura
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Patent number: 6522543Abstract: A first heat-conductive rubber is disposed on a surface of a printed wiring film, which is an opposite side to a driver IC, a second heat-conductive rubber is disposed on a surface of the driver IC, which is an opposite side to the surface of the printed wiring film, and the first heat-conductive rubber is made harder than the second heat-conductive rubber. In addition, heat-conductive grease is coated on a surface of the first heat-conductive rubber, which contacts the printed wiring film, and on a surface of the second heat-conductive rubber, which contacts the driver IC.Type: GrantFiled: October 1, 2001Date of Patent: February 18, 2003Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Mikio Kurihara, Yoshihisa Yamada, Fumihisa Hanzawa
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Patent number: 6501529Abstract: The present invention provides a newly constituted liquid crystal display element incorporating a touch sensor unit. In a liquid crystal display element where a liquid crystal layer is inserted between a first substrate and a second substrate, a display electrode for displaying an image and a touch electrode for detecting a touch position are provided on the surfaces of the first substrate and the second substrate opposing with each other. The display electrode may be used as the touch electrode. A pillar-shaped spacer may be formed to support the first substrate and the second substrate. Additionally, the touch electrode may be provided on a convex-shaped part formed on the substrate.Type: GrantFiled: July 28, 2000Date of Patent: December 31, 2002Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Mikio Kurihara, Eisuke Kanzaki, Fumitoshi Kiyooka
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Patent number: 6483498Abstract: A liquid crystal display, in accordance with the present invention, includes a first substrate having a first conductive layer formed thereon. A linearization pattern is formed on the first conductive layer for applying voltage gradients across the first conductive layer. A flexible polarizer is included having a second conductive layer formed thereon facing the first conductive layer across a gap formed therebetween, the polarizer providing a contact surface such that a touched position on the polarizer causes contact between the first conductive layer and the second conductive layer thereby identifying a location of the touched position.Type: GrantFiled: March 17, 1999Date of Patent: November 19, 2002Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Evan G. Colgan, Eisuke Kanzaki, Satoshi Karube, Mikio Kurihara, James L. Levine
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Patent number: 6476797Abstract: A display 2 comprises a display area, and at least one touch switch region 6 formed in the display area and to be driven by an independent power supply, wherein the touch switch region 6 is operated with a predetermined input, whereby predetermined functions are controlled. Preferably, the input for controlling the predetermined function is provided by a touch of one touch switch region 6 or a simultaneous touch of a plurality of touch switch regions 6 once or a plurality of times in a predetermined order. Alternatively, the touch switch region 6 is provided with an image read function, and at the time of the predetermined input, fingerprint authentication is performed simultaneously with the touch of the touch switch region. Alternatively, a window is displayed on the touch panel simultaneously with the touch of the touch switch region, a signature is written on the displayed window, and then signature authentication is performed.Type: GrantFiled: April 25, 2000Date of Patent: November 5, 2002Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Mikio Kurihara, Satoshi Karube, Eisuke Kanzaki
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Patent number: 6445758Abstract: Within an upper plenum of a nuclear reactor, a portion of a heated coolant flows radially outward from a central portion of a core barrel (30) towards outlet nozzles (12) in a region of an upper core plate (21) extending outside of an outer periphery of the core along an inner wall of a core barrel (30). Portions of the coolant flows beneath the outlet nozzles (12). Thus, streams of heated coolant flowing in opposite directions may collide with each other. After collision, the flow directions of the heated coolant are changed to flow upward. Due to the collision, the coolant flow behavior becomes complicated and unstable, making it difficult to measure the temperature of the heated coolant with an outlet pipe (42) connected to the outlet nozzle (12).Type: GrantFiled: October 13, 1999Date of Patent: September 3, 2002Assignee: Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, LTDInventors: Hajime Izumi, Makoto Nakajima, Chikara Kurimura, Takehiko Tsutsui, Noboru Kubo, Mikio Kurihara, Toshio Ichikawa
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Publication number: 20020048152Abstract: A first heat-conductive rubber is disposed on a surface of a printed wiring film, which is an opposite side to a driver IC, a second heat-conductive rubber is disposed on a surface of the driver IC, which is an opposite side to the surface of the printed wiring film, and the first heat-conductive rubber is made harder than the second heat-conductive rubber. In addition, heat-conductive grease is coated on a surface of the first heat-conductive rubber, which contacts the printed wiring film, and on a surface of the second heat-conductive rubber, which contacts the driver IC.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 1, 2001Publication date: April 25, 2002Applicant: IBMInventors: Mikio Kurihara, Yoshihisa Yamada, Fumihisa Hanzawa
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Patent number: 6339530Abstract: The present invention provides an attachment structure of a display device which enables the outer dimensions to be reduced while maintaining the display area and makes assembling simple. More specifically, the present invention is directed to an attachment structure for a display device for attaching a display device comprising a display part 102 of a shape of a rectangular plate and a frame part 104 arranged in the outer periphery thereof to an external casing 200 having a rectangular opening part 204 formed of a side wall, in which an aperture 106 is formed in at least one of two opposing edges of the frame 104 in the direction parallel to the plane of the display part 102 and the external casing 200 is provided with a pin 218 which is engageable with said aperture 106 and is or is not moveable in the direction parallel to the plane of the display part 102.Type: GrantFiled: July 28, 2000Date of Patent: January 15, 2002Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Yoshiharu Uchiyama, Mikio Kurihara, Hiroyuki Noguchi
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Patent number: 6259490Abstract: The present invention provides a liquid crystal display device having a position detecting function with a high sensitivity and a high resolution. The position detecting function comprises a position detecting electrically conductive film on a polarizer or a color filter glass substrate of the liquid crystal display device. The present invention also can suppress the undesired generation of an air gap between the polarizer and color filter glass substrate by using a polarizer that is smaller in size relative to the position detecting electrically conductive film.Type: GrantFiled: August 26, 1998Date of Patent: July 10, 2001Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Evan George Colgan, James Lewis Levine, Mikio Kurihara, Satoshi Karube, Kazumi Sakai, Eisuke Kanzaki, Hiroshi Mishima
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Patent number: 6128183Abstract: The present invention provides an attachment structure of a display device which enables the outer dimensions to be reduced while maintaining the display area and makes assembling simple. More specifically, the present invention is directed to an attachment structure for a display device for attaching a display device comprising a display part (102) of a shape of a rectangular plate and a frame part (104) arranged in the outer periphery thereof to an external casing (200) having a rectangular opening part (204) formed of a side wall, in which an aperture (106) is formed in at least one of two opposing edges of the frame (104) in the direction parallel to the plane of the display part (102) and a bracket member (210) fixed to the external casing (200) is provided with a pin (218) which is engageable with the aperture (106) and is or is not moveable in the direction parallel to the plane of the display part (102).Type: GrantFiled: February 12, 1998Date of Patent: October 3, 2000Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Yoshiharu Uchiyama, Mikio Kurihara, Hiroyuki Noguchi
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Patent number: 6055029Abstract: Since a backlighting apparatus 1 for liquid crystal display is constituted such that a light guiding plate 2 and a frame 3 are molded together as a single unit provided with a deformation relaxation design, an attaching unit and parts, such as attaching feet and screws, for attaching the light guiding plate 2 to the frame 3 are not required, thereby making it possible to reduce the thickness and size of the backlighting apparatus 1 for liquid crystal display which has been restricted by the sizes of these parts.Type: GrantFiled: July 22, 1997Date of Patent: April 25, 2000Assignees: Stanley Electric Co., Ltd., International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Mikio Kurihara, Fumihisa Hanzawa, Yoji Oki, Kazushige Ohta, Takashi Noma, Hidiaki Sasaya, Tatsuo Fukui
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Patent number: 5946061Abstract: A fixing method where no dead space occurs when a liquid crystal panel is fixed to the main body cover of a liquid crystal display unit, enhancing mechanical fixing strength with relatively simpler structure. The present invention is directed to a liquid crystal display unit comprising a liquid crystal panel with a display portion and a plurality of side surfaces mounted thereon through a support body fixed to a main body cover. The liquid crystal panel is provided with a plurality of protrusions on each of the plurality of side surfaces. The protrusions each have a flat surface. A plurality of spaces are each provided between the flat surface and the side surface. The support body is fitted into the spaces formed in the liquid crystal panel.Type: GrantFiled: May 8, 1998Date of Patent: August 31, 1999Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Mikio Kurihara, Tohru Tsunekawa, Masayuki Morimoto
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Patent number: 5587557Abstract: In a printed circuit board for a liquid crystal display using Tape Automated Bonding (TAB) for making interconnections, flow of molten solder to adjacent input electrodes on the TAB is prevented as well as short-circuiting between electrodes and wire breakage by using an improved TAB structure that avoids applying a concentration of shearing stress to the input electrodes and retards short-circuiting solder flow. This is accomplished by making the width of the slit for the input electrodes uneven. The width of the slit where each of the electrodes crosses over the slit is narrower than elsewhere.Type: GrantFiled: September 29, 1994Date of Patent: December 24, 1996Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Mikio Kurihara, Satoru Nishi, Takahiro Onodera, Kazunari Kushima
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Patent number: 5544005Abstract: A keyboard housing structure is disclosed that includes a keyboard housing section for housing a keyboard body and a cable housing section for housing a cable. The cable is connected at one end to the keyboard body which is movable in the cable housing section along a housing direction in a pull-out direction. The other end of the cable is moveable in the housing direction within the cable housing section when housing the keyboard body in the keyboard housing section. Further included is a cable side connector, which is provided on the other end of the cable. A storing section side connector is detachably connected to the cable side connector and is housed in the cable housing section in such a manner as to be movable along the housing direction and the pull-out direction. The cable side connector is latched by a latch when the store section side connector is at a predetermined position in the pull-out direction in the cable housing section.Type: GrantFiled: July 7, 1994Date of Patent: August 6, 1996Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Seita Horikoshi, Mikio Kurihara, Atsuhisa Naitoh, Kazuhide Yoshihara