Patents by Inventor Shinji Iizuka
Shinji Iizuka 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: 10237310Abstract: Provided is a method for controlling information shared in a virtual world by a server and a plurality of users' client terminals connected to each other through a network. In this information control method, a computer creates a third object between a first object and a second object in the virtual world when the first object and second object transmit communication information therebetween, and filters the information with the third object. In addition, when an object transmits visual information, the third object can be created around the object transmitting the visual information. The third object can be created as a pseudo wall.Type: GrantFiled: April 25, 2016Date of Patent: March 19, 2019Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Seiya Hayano, Shinji Iizuka, Toshitaka Imai, Kohtaroh Miyamoto
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Publication number: 20160241613Abstract: Provided is a method for controlling information shared in a virtual world by a server and a plurality of users' client terminals connected to each other through a network. In this information control method, a computer creates a third object between a first object and a second object in the virtual world when the first object and second object transmit communication information therebetween, and filters the information with the third object. In addition, when an object transmits visual information, the third object can be created around the object transmitting the visual information. The third object can be created as a pseudo wall.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 25, 2016Publication date: August 18, 2016Inventors: SEIYA HAYANO, SHINJI IIZUKA, TOSHITAKA IMAI, KOHTAROH MIYAMOTO
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Patent number: 9344468Abstract: Provided is a method for controlling information shared in a virtual world by a server and a plurality of users' client terminals connected to each other through a network. In this information control method, a computer creates a third object between a first object and a second object in the virtual world when the first object and second object transmit communication information therebetween, and filters the information with the third object. In addition, when an object transmits visual information, the third object can be created around the object transmitting the visual information. The third object can be created as a pseudo wall.Type: GrantFiled: February 5, 2013Date of Patent: May 17, 2016Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATIONInventors: Seiya Hayano, Shinji Iizuka, Toshitaka Imai, Kohtaroh Miyamoto
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Patent number: 8865349Abstract: The present invention provides a positive electrode active material that has rate characteristics suitable for nonaqueous electrolyte batteries and particularly nonaqueous electrolyte secondary batteries, a method by which this positive electrode active material can be easily mass produced, and a high-performance nonaqueous electrolyte battery that has a positive electrode active material obtained by this method. The present invention relates to a method of producing a positive electrode active material, the method comprising a step of mixing a carbon source with lithium manganese phosphate LiMnPO4 or a compound LiMn1-xMxPO4 (where, 0?x<1 and M is at least one metal element selected from the group consisting of Co, Ni, Fe, Zn, Cu, Ti, Sn, Zr, V, and Al) containing lithium manganese phosphate LiMnPO4 as a solid solution composition, and heat treating the obtained mixture under an inert gas atmosphere.Type: GrantFiled: September 20, 2006Date of Patent: October 21, 2014Assignees: Kanto Denka Kogyo Co., Ltd., Kyushu University, National University CorporationInventors: Shigeto Okada, Tomoyuki Shiratsuchi, Tomoko Iwanaga, Jun-ichi Yamaki, Shinji Iizuka, Osamu Omae, Kumiko Sueto, Takeshi Shimada
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Patent number: 8825690Abstract: An apparatus and method for recording activities of an avatar in a virtual world by means of a computer including: means for dividing the virtual world into a plurality of blocks each provided with a unique ID; means for recording a movement history in a storage area of the computer, the movement history including the ID of each block which an avatar acting in the virtual world enters and a time point at which the avatar enters the block; means for deleting the movement history between the first and the last blocks of a plurality of blocks which the avatar enters if the plurality of blocks are continuous in a straight line in one direction; and activity record DB recording means for recording, as an activity dataset in an activity record DB, an event content, the movement history and a repetition count of an event.Type: GrantFiled: August 27, 2012Date of Patent: September 2, 2014Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventor: Shinji Iizuka
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Patent number: 8606785Abstract: An apparatus and method for recording activities of an avatar in a virtual world by means of a computer including: means for dividing the virtual world into a plurality of blocks each provided with a unique ID; means for recording a movement history in a storage area of the computer, the movement history including the ID of each block which an avatar acting in the virtual world enters and a time point at which the avatar enters the block; means for deleting the movement history between the first and the last blocks of a plurality of blocks which the avatar enters if the plurality of blocks are continuous in a straight line in one direction; and activity record DB recording means for recording, as an activity dataset in an activity record DB, an event content, the movement history and a repetition count of an event.Type: GrantFiled: August 27, 2012Date of Patent: December 10, 2013Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventor: Shinji Iizuka
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Publication number: 20130143253Abstract: The present invention provides a method for measuring the gastric acidity of a mammal using a 13C-labeled carbonate compound. Specifically, the present invention relates to a method for measuring the gastric acidity of a mammal including the following steps: (1) using, as a test sample, expired air of a mammalian subject excreted at any point in time within 30 minutes after oral administration of a predetermined amount of a 13C-labeled carbonate compound, measuring behavior of 13CO2 in the expired air; (2) comparing the behavior of 13CO2 (measured 13CO2 behavior) obtained in step (1) with the behavior of corresponding 13CO2 (reference 13CO2 behavior) that has been obtained beforehand in a control mammal; and (3) determining the gastric acidity of the mammalian subject based on a difference between the reference 13CO2 behavior and the measured 13CO2 behavior obtained above.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 18, 2011Publication date: June 6, 2013Inventors: Makoto Inada, Jun-ichi Kunizaki, Kazuki Tobita, Suguru Akamatsu, Shinji Iizuka
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Patent number: 8386566Abstract: Provided is a method for controlling information shared in a virtual world by a server and a plurality of users' client terminals connected to each other through a network. In this information control method, a computer creates a third object between a first object and a second object in the virtual world when the first object and second object transmit communication information therebetween, and filters the information with the third object. In addition, when an object transmits visual information, the third object can be created around the object transmitting the visual information. The third object can be created as a pseudo wall.Type: GrantFiled: November 11, 2008Date of Patent: February 26, 2013Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Seiya Hayano, Shinji Iizuka, Toshitaka Imai, Kohtaroh Miyamoto
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Publication number: 20120323893Abstract: An apparatus and method for recording activities of an avatar in a virtual world by means of a computer including: means for dividing the virtual world into a plurality of blocks each provided with a unique ID; means for recording a movement history in a storage area of the computer, the movement history including the ID of each block which an avatar acting in the virtual world enters and a time point at which the avatar enters the block; means for deleting the movement history between the first and the last blocks of a plurality of blocks which the avatar enters if the plurality of blocks are continuous in a straight line in one direction; and activity record DB recording means for recording, as an activity dataset in an activity record DB, an event content, the movement history and a repetition count of an event.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 27, 2012Publication date: December 20, 2012Applicant: International Business Machines CorporationInventor: Shinji Iizuka
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Publication number: 20120323894Abstract: An apparatus and method for recording activities of an avatar in a virtual world by means of a computer including: means for dividing the virtual world into a plurality of blocks each provided with a unique ID; means for recording a movement history in a storage area of the computer, the movement history including the ID of each block which an avatar acting in the virtual world enters and a time point at which the avatar enters the block; means for deleting the movement history between the first and the last blocks of a plurality of blocks which the avatar enters if the plurality of blocks are continuous in a straight line in one direction; and activity record DB recording means for recording, as an activity dataset in an activity record DB, an event content, the movement history and a repetition count of an event.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 27, 2012Publication date: December 20, 2012Applicant: International Business Machines CorporationInventor: Shinji Iizuka
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Patent number: 8271491Abstract: An apparatus and method for recording activities of an avatar in a virtual world by means of a computer including: means for dividing the virtual world into a plurality of blocks each provided with a unique ID; means for recording a movement history in a storage area of the computer, the movement history including the ID of each block which an avatar acting in the virtual world enters and a time point at which the avatar enters the block; means for deleting the movement history between the first and the last blocks of a plurality of blocks which the avatar enters if the plurality of blocks are continuous in a straight line in one direction; and activity record DB recording means for recording, as an activity dataset in an activity record DB, an event content, the movement history and a repetition count of an event.Type: GrantFiled: December 4, 2008Date of Patent: September 18, 2012Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventor: Shinji Iizuka
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Patent number: 7964118Abstract: The present invention provides an olivine-type positive electrode active material that is an inexpensive and very safe positive electrode active material that also exhibits excellent battery properties even at high energy densities. The present invention also provides a method of producing this olivine-type positive electrode active material and a nonaqueous electrolyte battery that has a positive electrode that contains this olivine-type positive electrode active material. The present invention relates to a positive electrode active material that comprises an olivine-type lithium manganese phosphate compound represented by the following general formula (1) LixMnyMaPO4??(1) (in the formula, 0<x<2, 0<y<1, 0<a<1, and M is at least one metal element selected from the group consisting of Co, Ni, Fe, Zn, Cu, Ti, Sn, Zr, V, and Al) and that has a particle diameter of 10 to 500 nm.Type: GrantFiled: September 20, 2006Date of Patent: June 21, 2011Assignees: Kanto Denka Kogyo Co., Ltd., Kyushu University, National University Corp.Inventors: Shinji Iizuka, Osamu Omae, Kumiko Sueto, Takeshi Shimada, Shigeto Okada, Tomoko Iwanaga, Tomoyuki Shiratsuchi, Jun-ichi Yamaki
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Publication number: 20100223550Abstract: An assisting apparatus, method and computer program that assists a user in understanding content. The assisting apparatus includes a history storing unit that stores a history of assistance settings set up by the user for each of a plurality of pieces of content already accessed by the user, a retrieval unit that, when the user accesses content, retrieves the history of assistance settings stored in the history storing unit in association with the accessed content, and a setting-up unit that sets up one of assisting functions that assists the user in understanding the accessed content, on the basis of the history of assistance settings retrieved by the retrieval unit.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 24, 2010Publication date: September 2, 2010Applicant: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATIONInventors: Shinji Iizuka, Kohtaroh Miyamoto, Reiko Nagatsuma
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Publication number: 20100148114Abstract: The present invention provides an olivine-type positive electrode active material that is an inexpensive and very safe positive electrode active material that also exhibits excellent battery properties even at high energy densities. The present invention also provides a method of producing this olivine-type positive electrode active material and a nonaqueous electrolyte battery that has a positive electrode that contains this olivine-type positive electrode active material. The present invention relates to a positive electrode active material that comprises an olivine-type lithium manganese phosphate compound represented by the following general formula (1) LixMnyMaPO4??(1) (in the formula, 0<x<2, 0<y<1, 0<a<1, and M is at least one metal element selected from the group consisting of Co, Ni, Fe, Zn, Cu, Ti, Sn, Zr, V, and Al) and that has a particle diameter of 10 to 500 nm.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 20, 2006Publication date: June 17, 2010Inventors: Shinji Iizuka, Osamu Omae, Kumiko Sueto, Takeshi Shimada, Shigeto Okada, Tomoko Iwanaga, Tomoyuki Shiratsuchi
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Publication number: 20090150357Abstract: An apparatus and method for recording activities of an avatar in a virtual world by means of a computer including: means for dividing the virtual world into a plurality of blocks each provided with a unique ID; means for recording a movement history in a storage area of the computer, the movement history including the ID of each block which an avatar acting in the virtual world enters and a time point at which the avatar enters the block; means for deleting the movement history between the first and the last blocks of a plurality of blocks which the avatar enters if the plurality of blocks are continuous in a straight line in one direction; and activity record DB recording means for recording, as an activity dataset in an activity record DB, an event content, the movement history and a repetition count of an event.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 4, 2008Publication date: June 11, 2009Inventor: Shinji Iizuka
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Publication number: 20090130559Abstract: The present invention provides a positive electrode active material that has rate characteristics suitable for nonaqueous electrolyte batteries and particularly nonaqueous electrolyte secondary batteries, a method by which this positive electrode active material can be easily mass produced, and a high-performance nonaqueous electrolyte battery that has a positive electrode active material obtained by this method. The present invention relates to a method of producing a positive electrode active material, the method comprising a step of mixing a carbon source with lithium manganese phosphate LiMnPO4 or a compound LiMn1-xMxPO4 (where, 0?x<1 and M is at least one metal element selected from the group consisting of Co, Ni, Fe, Zn, Cu, Ti, Sn, Zr, V, and Al) containing lithium manganese phosphate LiMnPO4 as a solid solution composition, and heat treating the obtained mixture under an inert gas atmosphere.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 20, 2006Publication date: May 21, 2009Inventors: Shigeto Okada, Tomoyuki Shiratsuchi, Tomoko Iwanaga, Jun-ichi Yamaki, Shinji Iizuka, Osamu Omae, Kumiko Sueto, Takeshi Shimada
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Publication number: 20090125590Abstract: Provided is a method for controlling information shared in a virtual world by a server and a plurality of users' client terminals connected to each other through a network. In this information control method, a computer creates a third object between a first object and a second object in the virtual world when the first object and second object transmit communication information therebetween, and filters the information with the third object. In addition, when an object transmits visual information, the third object can be created around the object transmitting the visual information. The third object can be created as a pseudo wall.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 11, 2008Publication date: May 14, 2009Inventors: Seiya Hayano, Shinji Iizuka, Toshitaka Imai, Kohtaroh Miyamoto
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Publication number: 20050147820Abstract: Iron oxide powder for an undercoat layer of a coat-type magnetic recording medium having a multilayer structure which comprises cobalt-doped iron oxide particles having an average length of 0.02 to 0.3 ?m, an aspect ratio (length to width ratio) of 2 to 13, and a BET specific surface area of 40 to 100 m2/g and containing a cobalt compound in an amount of 0.2 to 10 atom % in terms of cobalt based on total iron.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 5, 2003Publication date: July 7, 2005Applicant: Kanto Denka Kogyo Co., Ltd.Inventors: Tamio Nagatsuka, Shinji Iizuka, Takashi Saito, Yosimi Moriya, Masatomo Hayashi
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Publication number: 20050120918Abstract: Iron oxide powder for an undercoat layer of a coat-type magnetic recording medium having a multilayer structure which comprises cobalt-doped iron oxide particles having an average length of 0.02 to 0.3 ?m, an aspect ratio (length to width ratio) of 2 to 13, and a BET specific surface area of 40 to 100 m2/g, containing a cobalt compound in an amount of 0.2 to 10 atom % in terms of cobalt based on total iron, and having a pH of 6 to 8, a soluble cation content of 50 ppm or less, and a soluble anion content of 50 ppm or less.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 5, 2003Publication date: June 9, 2005Applicant: Kanto Denka Kogyo Co., LTD.Inventors: Shinji Iizuka, Tamio Nagatsuka, Takashi Saito, Yosimi Moriya, Masatomo Hayashi
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Patent number: 6760007Abstract: The present invention relates to an input method using the pointing device in which the pointing device's ON operation causes an application to recognize that the state of the pointing device has transitioned to an ON state and the pointing device's OFF operation causes the application to recognize that the state of the pointing device has transitioned to an OFF state. The input method includes responding to the ON operation of the pointing device maintained in a certain period and bringing about a latch state in which the pointing device remains in the ON state for the application even if the OFF operation of the pointing device has taken place; and executing a program for informing a user that the latch state has been brought about.Type: GrantFiled: December 13, 2001Date of Patent: July 6, 2004Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Shinji Iizuka, Tomoaki Kondo, Hidetoshi Mori, Takashi Yomo