Patents by Inventor Noriaki Sakamoto

Noriaki Sakamoto 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: 20230195192
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides novel and improved information processing apparatus, information processing method, and program with which it is easy for a user to predict a future remaining battery amount. According to the present disclosure, there is provided an information processing apparatus including a control unit that performs control to calculate a future prediction value of remaining battery amount on the basis of a use history of an information processing apparatus by a user and to present prediction value related information related to the prediction value to the user. According to the present disclosure, the user can easily predict the future remaining battery amount. Note that the effects described above are not necessarily limitative. With or in the place of the above effects, there may be achieved any one of the effects described in this specification or other effects that may be grasped from this specification.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 17, 2023
    Publication date: June 22, 2023
    Applicants: Sony Mobile Communications Inc., Sony Group Corporation
    Inventors: Tomoo MIZUKAMI, Noriaki SAKAMOTO, Tomonobu TSUJIKAWA, Shota KAWARAZAKI, Ryo NAKAGAWA, Yoshiyuki KOBAYASHI
  • Patent number: 11609621
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides novel and improved information processing apparatus, information processing method, and program with which it is easy for a user to predict a future remaining battery amount. According to the present disclosure, there is provided an information processing apparatus including a control unit that performs control to calculate a future prediction value of remaining battery amount on the basis of a use history of an information processing apparatus by a user and to present prediction value related information related to the prediction value to the user. According to the present disclosure, the user can easily predict the future remaining battery amount. Note that the effects described above are not necessarily limitative. With or in the place of the above effects, there may be achieved any one of the effects described in this specification or other effects that may be grasped from this specification.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 21, 2023
    Assignees: SONY MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS INC., SONY GROUP CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tomoo Mizukami, Noriaki Sakamoto, Tomonobu Tsujikawa, Shota Kawarazaki, Ryo Nakagawa, Yoshiyuki Kobayashi
  • Publication number: 20220113778
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides novel and improved information processing apparatus, information processing method, and program with which it is easy for a user to predict a future remaining battery amount. According to the present disclosure, there is provided an information processing apparatus including a control unit that performs control to calculate a future prediction value of remaining battery amount on the basis of a use history of an information processing apparatus by a user and to present prediction value related information related to the prediction value to the user. According to the present disclosure, the user can easily predict the future remaining battery amount. Note that the effects described above are not necessarily limitative. With or in the place of the above effects, there may be achieved any one of the effects described in this specification or other effects that may be grasped from this specification.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 23, 2021
    Publication date: April 14, 2022
    Applicants: Sony Mobile Communications Inc., Sony Group Corporation
    Inventors: Tomoo MIZUKAMI, Noriaki SAKAMOTO, Tomonobu TSUJIKAWA, Shota KAWARAZAKI, Ryo NAKAGAWA, Yoshiyuki KOBAYASHI
  • Patent number: 11209884
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides novel and improved information processing apparatus, information processing method, and program with which it is easy for a user to predict a future remaining battery amount. According to the present disclosure, there is provided an information processing apparatus including a control unit that performs control to calculate a future prediction value of remaining battery amount on the basis of a use history of an information processing apparatus by a user and to present prediction value related information related to the prediction value to the user. According to the present disclosure, the user can easily predict the Future remaining battery amount. Note that the effects described above are not necessarily limitative. With or in the place of the above effects, there may be achieved any one of the effects described in this specification or other effects that may be grasped from this specification.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 28, 2021
    Assignees: SONY MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS INC., SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tomoo Mizukami, Noriaki Sakamoto, Tomonobu Tsujikawa, Shota Kawarazaki, Ryo Nakagawa, Yoshiyuki Kobayashi
  • Patent number: 11175601
    Abstract: A toner includes toner particles and zinc stearate particles. The toner particles each include a toner mother particle containing a binder resin. The zinc stearate particles have a 50% volume cumulative diameter of at least 3.0 ?m and no greater than 6.0 ?m. A presence ratio of the zinc stearate particles having a particle diameter of no greater than 1.0 ?m is no greater than 2.0% by volume relative to a total amount of the zinc stearate particles. A presence ratio of the zinc stearate particles having a particle diameter of at least 10.0 ?m is no greater than 2.0% by volume relative to the total amount of the zinc stearate particles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 16, 2021
    Assignee: KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc.
    Inventor: Noriaki Sakamoto
  • Publication number: 20210157251
    Abstract: A toner includes toner particles and zinc stearate particles. The toner particles each include a toner mother particle containing a binder resin. The zinc stearate particles have a 50% volume cumulative diameter of at least 3.0 ?m and no greater than 6.0 ?m. A presence ratio of the zinc stearate particles having a particle diameter of no greater than 1.0 ?m is no greater than 2.0% by volume relative to a total amount of the zinc stearate particles. A presence ratio of the zinc stearate particles having a particle diameter of at least 10.0 ?m is no greater than 2.0% by volume relative to the total amount of the zinc stearate particles.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 23, 2020
    Publication date: May 27, 2021
    Applicant: KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc.
    Inventor: Noriaki SAKAMOTO
  • Publication number: 20200042064
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides novel and improved information processing apparatus, information processing method, and program with which it is easy for a user to predict a future remaining battery amount. According to the present disclosure, there is provided an information processing apparatus including a control unit that performs control to calculate a future prediction value of remaining battery amount on the basis of a use history of an information processing apparatus by a user and to present prediction value related information related to the prediction value to the user. According to the present disclosure, the user can easily predict the future remaining battery amount. Note that the effects described above are not necessarily limitative. With or in the place of the above effects, there may be achieved any one of the effects described in this specification or other effects that may be grasped from this specification.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 28, 2017
    Publication date: February 6, 2020
    Applicants: Sony Mobile Communications Inc., Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Tomoo MIZUKAMI, Noriaki SAKAMOTO, Tomonobu TSUJIKAWA, Shota KAWARAZAKI, Ryo NAKAGAWA, Yoshiyuki KOBAYASHI
  • Patent number: 10365573
    Abstract: A two-component developer includes toner particles and carrier particles. The toner particles each include a toner mother particle and first resin particles. The carrier particles each include a carrier mother particle and second resin particles. An amount of the second resin particles is at least 0.010 parts by mass and no greater than 0.100 parts by mass relative to 100 parts by mass of the carrier mother particles. The first resin particles and the second resin particles have a number average primary particle diameter of at least 40 nm and no greater than 100 nm and a blocking rate (measurement temperature: 160° C.) of less than 30% by mass. A difference in blocking rate between the first resin particles and the second resin particles is no greater than 5% by mass, and a difference in number average primary particle diameter therebetween is no greater than 5 nm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 16, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 30, 2019
    Assignee: KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc.
    Inventor: Noriaki Sakamoto
  • Publication number: 20190049871
    Abstract: A two-component developer includes toner particles and carrier particles. The toner particles each include a toner mother particle and first resin particles. The carrier particles each include a carrier mother particle and second resin particles. An amount of the second resin particles is at least 0.010 parts by mass and no greater than 0.100 parts by mass relative to 100 parts by mass of the carrier mother particles. The first resin particles and the second resin particles have a number average primary particle diameter of at least 40 nm and no greater than 100 nm and a blocking rate (measurement temperature: 160° C.) of less than 30% by mass. A difference in blocking rate between the first resin particles and the second resin particles is no greater than 5% by mass, and a difference in number average primary particle diameter therebetween is no greater than 5 nm.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 16, 2017
    Publication date: February 14, 2019
    Applicant: KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc.
    Inventor: Noriaki SAKAMOTO
  • Patent number: 10140019
    Abstract: There is provided an information processing apparatus including an acquisition unit configured to acquire an input signal generated in response to user's input operation for specifying a predetermined position in an image displayed on a display unit, and a display control unit configured to allow display of a selection image for allowing a user to select display information that is newly displayed in a region according to the position, in a superimposed manner on the image. The display control unit controls display of the display unit in such a manner that the region and the selection image do not overlap each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 27, 2018
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Noriaki Sakamoto, Kentaro Ida
  • Patent number: 9772573
    Abstract: A toner includes a plurality of toner particles each having a core and a shell layer residing on a surface of the core. Each of the toner particles has a distribution of surface potential, as measured by a scanning probe microscope with respect to a 1 ?m2 region of the toner particle in a state where no external additive adheres thereto, satisfying that the surface potential is at least Vmin+?V×0.4 in at least 70% and no greater than 95% of the 1 ?m2 region, where ?V denotes a potential difference calculated by subtracting a minimum surface potential Vmin of the 1 ?m2 region from a maximum surface potential Vmax of the 1 ?m2 region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 16, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 26, 2017
    Assignee: KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc.
    Inventor: Noriaki Sakamoto
  • Patent number: 9709910
    Abstract: An electrostatic latent image developing toner includes a plurality of toner particles. The toner particles each have a toner mother particle and first inorganic oxide particles disposed on a surface of the toner mother particle. The first inorganic oxide particles are contained in the electrostatic latent image developing toner in an amount of no less than 1.0% by mass and no greater than 2.0% by mass relative to mass of the toner mother particles. The toner mother particles have an average roundness of no less than 0.960. The first inorganic oxide particles have an average major axis diameter of no less than 500 nm and no greater than 3,000 nm, an average minor axis diameter of no less than 100 nm and no greater than 250 nm, and an aspect ratio of no less than 2 and no greater than 20.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 19, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2017
    Assignee: KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc.
    Inventor: Noriaki Sakamoto
  • Patent number: 9690223
    Abstract: A toner includes a plurality of toner particles each including a core and a shell layer residing on a surface of the core. The shell layer has a plurality of cavities each exposing the core. Each of the toner particles has a distribution of surface hardness, as measured by a scanning probe microscope in a state where no external additive adheres to the toner particle, satisfying that the surface hardness is at least 1.10 times a surface hardness Ss in at least 75% and no greater than 95% by area ratio of a surface of the toner particle, where Ss denotes the surface hardness at a location where the core is exposed through any of the cavities.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 16, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2017
    Assignee: KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc.
    Inventors: Noriaki Sakamoto, Takatoshi Nozaki
  • Patent number: 9547247
    Abstract: A toner includes a plurality of toner particles that each include a core and a shell layer disposed over a surface of the core. The shell layer contains a unit derived from a thermoplastic resin and a unit derived from a monomer or prepolymer of a thermosetting resin. A surface of each of the toner particles has a Young's modulus that changes by a proportion of no greater than 20% from 30° C. to 50° C., and changes by a proportion from 50° C. to 70° C. that when divided by the proportion of change from 30° C. to 50° C., yields a value of at least 3.0 and no greater than 10.0. The Young's modulus is measured in a state in which an external additive is not adhered to the toner particle using a scanning probe microscope while raising a cantilever temperature thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 15, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2017
    Assignee: KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc.
    Inventors: Yoshio Ozawa, Noriaki Sakamoto, Ken Maetani
  • Publication number: 20160313659
    Abstract: An electrostatic latent image developing toner includes a plurality of toner particles. The toner particles each have a toner mother particle and first inorganic oxide particles disposed on a surface of the toner mother particle. The first inorganic oxide particles are contained in the electrostatic latent image developing toner in an amount of no less than 1.0% by mass and no greater than 2.0% by mass relative to mass of the toner mother particles. The toner mother particles have an average roundness of no less than 0.960. The first inorganic oxide particles have an average major axis diameter of no less than 500 nm and no greater than 3,000 nm, an average minor axis diameter of no less than 100 nm and no greater than 250 nm, and an aspect ratio of no less than 2 and no greater than 20.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 19, 2016
    Publication date: October 27, 2016
    Applicant: KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc.
    Inventor: Noriaki SAKAMOTO
  • Patent number: 9417543
    Abstract: A toner includes toner particles each including a core and a shell layer disposed over a surface thereof. The shell layers contain a unit derived from a thermoplastic resin and a unit derived from a monomer or prepolymer of a thermosetting resin. Young's moduli of the shell layers and the cores, as measured using an SPM while raising cantilever temperature thereof, satisfy conditions: X2/X1 is at least 2.0 and no greater than 5.0; and Y2/Y1 is at least 4.0 and no greater than 7.0. X1 denotes a proportion of change of the Young's modulus of the shell layers and X2 denotes a proportion of change of the Young's modulus of the cores from 30° C. to 50° C. Y1 denotes a proportion of change of the Young's modulus of the shell layers and Y2 denotes a proportion of change of the Young's modulus of the cores from 50° C. to 70° C.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 20, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2016
    Assignee: KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc.
    Inventors: Yoshio Ozawa, Noriaki Sakamoto, Kazuki Tsuchihashi
  • Patent number: 9389526
    Abstract: An electrostatic latent image developing toner includes toner particles each including a toner core and a shell layer. The shell layer contains a resin including a unit derived from a monomer of a thermosetting resin and a unit derived from a thermoplastic resin. The thermosetting resin is one or more resins selected from the group of amino resins consisting of a melamine resin, a urea resin, and a glyoxal resin. When heat and pressure are applied to a toner layer formed on a polyester film under conditions of a temperature of 140° C. and a pressure of 7 MPa so that the toner particles are not superimposed, the toner particles of the toner layer are broken in a manner that a melt of a component of the toner core flows out from a plurality of points in an outer surface of the shell layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 7, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2016
    Assignee: KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc.
    Inventors: Yoshio Ozawa, Noriaki Sakamoto, Hiroaki Moriyama, Tomoyuki Ogawa, Takatoshi Nozaki
  • Patent number: 9377709
    Abstract: A toner contains a plurality of toner particles. Each of the toner particles includes a toner core containing a binder resin, a shell layer disposed over a surface of the toner core, internal particles located within the shell layer, and an external additive located on a surface of the shell layer. Each of the toner particles has 4 to 169 projections resulting from the internal particles and having a height of no less than 40 nm and no greater than 200 nm when a 1-?m2 region of the surface of the toner particle is observed, and the projections satisfy the following equation (1) {(1000/2Y)?0.5}2?X?{(1000/2Y)+0.5}2??(1) wherein X represents the number of the projections, and Y represents the height of the projections.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 26, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 28, 2016
    Assignee: KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc.
    Inventors: Takatoshi Nozaki, Noriaki Sakamoto
  • Publication number: 20150325247
    Abstract: A communication terminal according to one aspect of the present invention includes a baseband LSI that performs baseband processing for communication, an application LSI that includes a vocoder function and performs processing according to an application, an audio LSI that performs one of D/A conversion and A/D conversion on audio data, and a switch circuit that is installed in the application LSI and connects a data path between the audio processor LSI and the baseband LSI.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 21, 2015
    Publication date: November 12, 2015
    Inventors: Yutaka Uchimura, Takahiro Irita, Noriaki Sakamoto
  • Publication number: 20150324086
    Abstract: There is provided an information processing apparatus including an acquisition unit configured to acquire an input signal generated in response to user's input operation for specifying a predetermined position in an image displayed on a display unit, and a display control unit configured to allow display of a selection image for allowing a user to select display information that is newly displayed in a region according to the position, in a superimposed manner on the image. The display control unit controls display of the display unit in such a manner that the region and the selection image do not overlap each other.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 16, 2013
    Publication date: November 12, 2015
    Inventors: Noriaki SAKAMOTO, Kentaro IDA