Patents by Inventor Norihiro Nagai
Norihiro Nagai 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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Publication number: 20240340482Abstract: A comment that can easily arouse viewer's interest and attention to a game video can be outputted. An attribute information acquisition section acquires viewer attribute information which indicates an attribute of a viewer who has made access to a video distribution apparatus. A comment information selection section selects at least one of a plurality of comment information items associated with a predetermined scene included in a video, on the basis of the viewer attribute information. A comment output section outputs a comment that is based on the selected comment information, together with the predetermined scene included in the video.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 30, 2021Publication date: October 10, 2024Applicants: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc., Sony Group CorporationInventors: Shinpei KAMEOKA, Masaomi NISHIDATE, Norihiro NAGAI, Norihiro TAKAHASHI, Kae NAGANO
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Publication number: 20240337119Abstract: A binding machine includes a wire feeding unit configured to feed a wire, a curl guide configured to curl the wire fed by the wire feeding unit around an object to be bound, a binding unit including a twisting shaft provided to be rotatable around a predetermined axis, and a gripping part provided at one end side of the twisting shaft, wherein the gripping part is configured to grip the wire curled by the curl guide and the twisting shaft is configured to twist the gripped wire so as to bind the object, a binding machine main body having one end side at which the curl guide is arranged and configured to accommodate therein the wire feeding unit and the binding unit, and a setting unit provided at an opposite end side of the binding machine main body and configured to set a predetermined operation condition.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 4, 2024Publication date: October 10, 2024Inventors: Osamu Itagaki, Akira Kasahara, Norihiro Nagai
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Patent number: 12077929Abstract: Provided are a reinforcing method and a reinforcing structure for a manhole having a neck part in a position shifted from the middle part of an upper slab which allow the buried manhole to be reinforced sufficiently against stress inflicted thereon while reducing the operation and material costs involved in the reinforcement.Type: GrantFiled: March 26, 2019Date of Patent: September 3, 2024Assignee: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATIONInventors: Norihiro Fujimoto, Tomoyasu Nagai, Shunsuke Tsuda, Takashi Sugiura
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Patent number: 11946267Abstract: A binding machine includes a wire feeding unit configured to feed a wire, a curl guide configured to curl the wire fed by the wire feeding unit around an object to be bound, a binding unit including a twisting shaft provided to be rotatable around a predetermined axis, and a gripping part provided at one end side of the twisting shaft, wherein the gripping part is configured to grip the wire curled by the curl guide and the twisting shaft is configured to twist the gripped wire so as to bind the object, a binding machine main body having one end side at which the curl guide is arranged and configured to accommodate therein the wire feeding unit and the binding unit, and a setting unit provided at an opposite end side of the binding machine main body and configured to set a predetermined operation condition.Type: GrantFiled: September 25, 2020Date of Patent: April 2, 2024Assignee: Max Co., Ltd.Inventors: Osamu Itagaki, Akira Kasahara, Norihiro Nagai
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Patent number: 11795711Abstract: A binding machine includes: a feeding unit capable of feeding a wire and winding the wire around a to-be-bound object; and a function unit movable between a first position located on a feeding locus of the wire and a second position deviating from a position on the feeding locus of the wire. The function unit is located in the second position in a predetermined state.Type: GrantFiled: June 29, 2021Date of Patent: October 24, 2023Assignee: MAX CO., LTD.Inventors: Takahiro Hashimoto, Norihiro Nagai, Takahiro Ito, Hikaru Mizukami, Kozo Iwaki
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Publication number: 20230327594Abstract: There is provided an electric power tool including: an electric motor; a communication device; and a first controller including a first storage section configured to store a control program for driving the electric motor, a second storage section configured to store an update program of the control program that is to be received by the communication device, and a processor configured to drive the electric motor by executing the control program after the communication device starts reception of the update program.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 7, 2023Publication date: October 12, 2023Applicant: MAX CO., LTD.Inventors: Kozo IWAKI, Norihiro NAGAI, Takahiro HASHIMOTO
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Publication number: 20230324887Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes processing circuitry configured to: acquire, from each of a plurality of electric power tools, position information of each of the plurality of electric power tools and actuation information indicating that each of the plurality of electric power tools is actuated; generate work information indicating a work status of each of the plurality of electric power tools based on the actuation information, the work status including a actuation history of each of the plurality of the electric power tools; receive designation of a region; extract, from among the plurality of electric power tools, an electric power tool of which the position information is included in the designated region; generate display data for causing a display device to display the work information of the extracted electric power tool; and output the display data.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 7, 2023Publication date: October 12, 2023Applicant: MAX CO., LTD.Inventors: Kozo IWAKI, Norihiro Nagai, Takahiro Hashimoto, Yasuhisa Arabiki, Sadayoshi Takeuchi
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Publication number: 20230327525Abstract: There is provided an electric power tool including: a second voltage supply portion configured to supply, based on a first power supply voltage supplied from a first battery, a second operating voltage for operating a second controller, and configured to supply, based on a second power supply voltage supplied from a second battery, the second operating voltage for operating the second controller; a first voltage line configured to connect a first voltage supply portion and the second voltage supply portion and configured to supply the first power supply voltage; and a backflow suppression circuit configured to permit a current to flow from the first voltage supply portion to the second voltage supply portion in the first voltage line and configured to suppress a current from flowing from the second voltage supply portion to the first voltage supply portion in the first voltage line.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 7, 2023Publication date: October 12, 2023Applicant: MAX CO., LTD.Inventors: Kozo Iwaki, Norihiro Nagai, Takahiro Hashimoto
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Publication number: 20230327262Abstract: There is provided an electric power tool including: an electric motor; a first battery; a second battery; a first controller configured to control the electric motor at a first operating voltage supplied based on a first power supply voltage supplied from the first battery; a communication device; and a second controller configured to control the communication device at a second operating voltage supplied based on the first power supply voltage supplied from the first battery, and configured to control the communication device at the second operating voltage supplied based on a second power supply voltage supplied from the second battery when the first power supply voltage is not supplied from the first battery. The second controller is configured to execute a reset operation when a predetermined condition is satisfied.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 7, 2023Publication date: October 12, 2023Applicant: MAX CO., LTD.Inventors: Kozo IWAKI, Norihiro NAGAI, Takahiro HASHIMOTO
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Publication number: 20230321809Abstract: A control device of an electric power tool includes: a memory; and processing circuitry. The processing circuitry is configured to: transmit actuation information, which is information indicating that a predetermined operation is performed by the electric power tool, when the electric power tool performs the predetermined operation; and temporarily store the actuation information in the memory when transmission of the actuation information performed fails. When the electric power tool performs the predetermined operation and the actuation information is stored in the memory, the processing circuitry transmits, as one transmission data, the latest actuation information and the actuation information temporarily stored in the memory.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 7, 2023Publication date: October 12, 2023Applicant: MAX CO., LTDInventors: Kozo IWAKI, Norihiro Nagai, Takahiro Hashimoto
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Patent number: 11654353Abstract: An apparatus includes a housing having a holding portion for gripping by a hand of a user; a manipulation block having a first side that includes at least one of: (i) one or more pressable buttons, and (ii) a stick button, and having a second side that includes a trigger button; and at least one of: (i) a thumb sensor block, located proximate to the first side of the manipulation block, and operable to detect the presence of the thumb of the hand of the user when the holding portion is gripped by the user, (ii) a first finger sensor, located on the trigger button, and operable to detect the presence of the at least one finger of the hand of the user when the holding portion is gripped by the user, and (iii) a second finger sensor, located proximate to both the second side of the manipulation block and the holding portion of the housing, and operable to detect the presence of at least one of a middle finger, a ring finger, and a pinky finger of the hand of the user when the holding portion is gripped by the usType: GrantFiled: November 9, 2021Date of Patent: May 23, 2023Assignee: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.Inventors: Yuichi Machida, Kunihito Sawai, Shinichi Hirata, Yoshihisa Takahashi, Yoichi Nishimaki, Yasushi Okumura, Norihiro Nagai
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Patent number: 11529762Abstract: A method of 3D print modelling includes: obtaining a target virtual object for 3D printing, evaluating the target virtual object for 3D printing with respect to one or more printability criteria to detect whether the 3D printed model would have one or more predetermined undesirable physical characteristics, and if so, generating 3D printable model data defining a transparent matrix to be printed surrounding the 3D printed model of the target virtual object.Type: GrantFiled: July 4, 2018Date of Patent: December 20, 2022Assignee: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.Inventors: Andrew James Bigos, Norihiro Nagai
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Patent number: 11386901Abstract: An audio confirmation system includes a voice acquiring section configured to acquire a voice contained in a motion picture; a voice text producing section configured to produce a voice text based on the acquired voice; a determining section configured to determine whether or not the produced voice text and a caption text that is embedded in an image contained in the motion picture correspond to each other; and an outputting section configured to output a result of the determination of the determining section.Type: GrantFiled: March 18, 2020Date of Patent: July 12, 2022Assignee: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.Inventors: Masaomi Nishidate, Isamu Terasaka, Norihiro Nagai
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Patent number: 11373379Abstract: A contact determination section determines whether or not there is any contact between a body part of a user and an object in a real world. An AR region determination section determines, as an augmented reality region, a region that corresponds to a partial space including a portion of the object in the real world, the portion having been contacted by the body part, and that is viewed from a viewpoint of the user. An AR generation section generates an augmented reality image in the augmented reality region in a shot image of the real world.Type: GrantFiled: August 23, 2018Date of Patent: June 28, 2022Assignee: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.Inventors: Yoshinori Ohashi, Masaomi Nishidate, Norihiro Nagai
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Patent number: 11335071Abstract: A moving-object position and orientation acquisition section acquires a position and an orientation of a moving object detected by a tracker provided in the moving object to be moved by a user. An AR region determination section determines, as an augmented reality region, a region that corresponds to a partial space occupied by the moving object in a real world and viewed from a viewpoint of the user. The moving object is configured to be moved by the user. An AR generation section generates an augmented reality image in the augmented reality region in a shot image of the real world.Type: GrantFiled: August 2, 2018Date of Patent: May 17, 2022Assignee: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.Inventors: Yoshinori Ohashi, Masaomi Nishidate, Norihiro Nagai
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Publication number: 20220062757Abstract: An apparatus includes a housing having a holding portion for gripping by a hand of a user; a manipulation block having a first side that includes at least one of: (i) one or more pressable buttons, and (ii) a stick button, and having a second side that includes a trigger button; and at least one of: (i) a thumb sensor block, located proximate to the first side of the manipulation block, and operable to detect the presence of the thumb of the hand of the user when the holding portion is gripped by the user, (ii) a first finger sensor, located on the trigger button, and operable to detect the presence of the at least one finger of the hand of the user when the holding portion is gripped by the user, and (iii) a second finger sensor, located proximate to both the second side of the manipulation block and the holding portion of the housing, and operable to detect the presence of at least one of a middle finger, a ring finger, and a pinky finger of the hand of the user when the holding portion is gripped by the usType: ApplicationFiled: November 9, 2021Publication date: March 3, 2022Applicant: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.Inventors: Yuichi Machida, Kunihito Sawai, Shinichi Hirata, Yoshihisa Takahashi, Yoichi Nishimaki, Yasushi Okumura, Norihiro Nagai
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Publication number: 20210404197Abstract: A binding machine includes: a feeding unit capable of feeding a wire and winding the wire around a to-be-bound object and a function unit movable between a first position located on a feeding locus of the wire and a second position deviating from a position on the feeding locus of the wire. The function unit is located in the second position in a predetermined state.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 29, 2021Publication date: December 30, 2021Applicant: MAX CO., LTD.Inventors: Takahiro HASHIMOTO, Norihiro NAGAI, Takahiro ITO, Hikaru MIZUKAMI, Kozo IWAKI
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Publication number: 20210390782Abstract: A moving-object position and orientation acquisition section acquires a position and an orientation of a moving object detected by a tracker provided in the moving object to be moved by a user. An AR region determination section determines, as an augmented reality region, a region that corresponds to a partial space occupied by the moving object in a real world and viewed from a viewpoint of the user. The moving object is configured to be moved by the user. An AR generation section generates an augmented reality image in the augmented reality region in a shot image of the real world.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 2, 2018Publication date: December 16, 2021Applicant: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.Inventors: Yoshinori Ohashi, Masaomi Nishidate, Norihiro Nagai
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Patent number: 11198060Abstract: Methods and apparatus provide for causing a device to present a sense of force against depressing of a button in response to receiving an input initiated by the user of a sense-of-force presentation start position in said predetermined movable range, and to store the sense-of-force presentation start position in a memory in response to the input initiated by the user; acquiring a depress amount of said button; receiving the sense-of-force presentation start position from the memory; and instructing the presentation of the sense of force against depressing of said button when said depress amount reaches said sense-of-force presentation start position.Type: GrantFiled: July 29, 2020Date of Patent: December 14, 2021Assignee: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.Inventors: Yuichi Machida, Kunihito Sawai, Shinichi Hirata, Yoshihisa Takahashi, Yoichi Nishimaki, Yasushi Okumura, Norihiro Nagai
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Publication number: 20210197248Abstract: A binding machine includes a first body part having an operation part, a second body part having a feeding unit configured to feed a wire, a guide part configured to guide the wire to a surrounding of a binding object, and a twisting unit configured to twist the wire, thereby binding the binding object, an elongated connecting part configured to connect the first body part and the second body part, a first output unit configured to detect an operation on the operation part and to output a first signal, a second output unit configured to detect that the binding object is inserted in a feeding path of the wire and to output a second signal, and a control unit that controls the feeding unit and the twisting unit to execute a binding operation when the control unit detects the first signal and the second signal.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 5, 2019Publication date: July 1, 2021Applicant: MAX CO., LTD.Inventors: Takeshi MORIJIRI, Norihiro NAGAI, Nobutaka TASHIMA, Kozo IWAKI, Shinpel SUGIHARA