Patents by Inventor Takahiro Arai

Takahiro Arai 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: 9726363
    Abstract: In a first aspect of the present inventive subject matter, a light-emitting device includes a magnetic circuit including a magnetic gap; a movable member including a coil that is electrically connectable to an alternating current power source and arranged in the magnetic gap of the magnetic circuit; and a light source including a light-emitting diode and arranged above the movable member, and the movable member is able to be activated with a voltage falling in a range of one to five percent of an entire voltage range that is applicable to the light-emitting device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 8, 2017
    Assignees: CITIZEN ELECTRONICS CO., LTD., CITIZEN WATCH CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Takahiro Arai
  • Publication number: 20160245497
    Abstract: In a first aspect of the present inventive subject matter, a light-emitting device includes a magnetic circuit including a magnetic gap; a movable member including a coil that is electrically connectable to an alternating current power source and arranged in the magnetic gap of the magnetic circuit; and a light source including a light-emitting diode and arranged above the movable member, and the movable member is able to be activated with a voltage falling in a range of one to five percent of an entire voltage range that is applicable to the light-emitting device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 14, 2015
    Publication date: August 25, 2016
    Inventor: Takahiro ARAI
  • Patent number: 9274611
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, an electronic apparatus includes a touch panel, a display, a key detection module, a keyboard display module and a transmission module. The key detection module is configured to detect a touch and a release of a key of a software keyboard, based on touch detection on the touch panel. The transmission module is configured to transmit data indicative of key-down of a first key in accordance with touch detection of the first key, to transmit data indicative of key-down of a second key in accordance with touch detection of the second key in a state in which the first key is touched, and then to transmit data indicative of key-up of the first key and the second key in accordance with release detection of the first key and the second key.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 16, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2016
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventor: Takahiro Arai
  • Patent number: 8878994
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, an information processing apparatus includes a first receiver, a screen transmitter, a second receiver and a controller. The first receiver receives first information associated with a display function of an external device. The screen transmitter generates an operation screen for operating the apparatus based on the first information, and transmits a video signal of the generated operation screen to the external device. The second receiver receives second information associated with content of an operation on the operation screen from the external device. The controller controls operation of the apparatus based on the second information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 22, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 4, 2014
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Takahiro Arai, Eita Shuto
  • Patent number: 8837775
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a time series information acquisition unit acquires time series information of a position or a size of a specific part of a user's body. An operation segment detection unit detects a movement direction of the specific part from the time series information, and detects a plurality of operation segments each segmented by two of a start point, a turning point and an end point of the movement direction. A recognition unit specifies a first operation segment to be recognized and a second operation segment following the first operation segment among the plurality of operation segments, and recognizes a motion of the specific part in the first operation segment by using a first feature extracted from the time series information of the first operation segment and a second feature extracted from the time series information of the second operation segment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 16, 2014
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Toshiaki Nakasu, Hidetaka Ohira, Tsukasa Ike, Yojiro Tonouchi, Ryuzo Okada, Takahiro Arai
  • Publication number: 20140247223
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, an electronic apparatus includes a touch panel, a display, a key detection module, a keyboard display module and a transmission module. The key detection module is configured to detect a touch and a release of a key of a software keyboard, based on touch detection on the touch panel. The transmission module is configured to transmit data indicative of key-down of a first key in accordance with touch detection of the first key, to transmit data indicative of key-down of a second key in accordance with touch detection of the second key in a state in which the first key is touched, and then to transmit data indicative of key-up of the first key and the second key in accordance with release detection of the first key and the second key.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 16, 2014
    Publication date: September 4, 2014
    Applicant: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventor: Takahiro Arai
  • Publication number: 20140211088
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, an information processing apparatus includes a first receiver, a screen transmitter, a second receiver and a controller. The first receiver receives first information associated with a display function of an external device. The screen transmitter generates an operation screen for operating the apparatus based on the first information, and transmits a video signal of the generated operation screen to the external device. The second receiver receives second information associated with content of an operation on the operation screen from the external device. The controller controls operation of the apparatus based on the second information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 22, 2013
    Publication date: July 31, 2014
    Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA
    Inventors: Takahiro Arai, Eita Shuto
  • Patent number: 8760430
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, an electronic apparatus includes a touch panel, a display, a key detection module, a keyboard display module and a transmission module. The key detection module is configured to detect a touch and a release of a key of a software keyboard, based on touch detection on the touch panel. The transmission module is configured to transmit data indicative of key-down of a first key in accordance with touch detection of the first key, to transmit data indicative of key-down of a second key in accordance with touch detection of the second key in a state in which the first key is touched, and then to transmit data indicative of key-up of the first key and the second key in accordance with release detection of the first key and the second key.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 25, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 24, 2014
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventor: Takahiro Arai
  • Publication number: 20130307805
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, an electronic apparatus includes a touch panel, a display, a key detection module, a keyboard display module and a transmission module. The key detection module is configured to detect a touch and a release of a key of a software keyboard, based on touch detection on the touch panel. The transmission module is configured to transmit data indicative of key-down of a first key in accordance with touch detection of the first key, to transmit data indicative of key-down of a second key in accordance with touch detection of the second key in a state in which the first key is touched, and then to transmit data indicative of key-up of the first key and the second key in accordance with release detection of the first key and the second key.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 25, 2013
    Publication date: November 21, 2013
    Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA
    Inventor: Takahiro Arai
  • Patent number: 8567308
    Abstract: In a food transfer heat treatment apparatus using a spiral transfer belt, heat treatment gas blowing means and a heat treatment gas circulating method for enhancing the heat transfer efficiency between a heat treatment gas and food and for improving the heat treatment effect are realized to expand the degree of freedom for the layout of the apparatus and to simplify the assembly. Provided is a spiral transfer heat treatment apparatus comprising endless conveyer belts (2) for circulating the food (f) in a store room (1), and a spiral moving unit (3) for causing a heat treatment gas (c) to act on the food (f) while transferring the food (f) on the conveyer belts (2).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 13, 2009
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2013
    Assignee: Mayekawa Mfg. Co., Ltd
    Inventors: Masayuki Onozato, Hideki Miyanishi, Norio Ishiwata, Shigeru Takahashi, Akira Taniyama, Takahiro Arai, Akira Sekino
  • Patent number: 8519977
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, an electronic apparatus includes a touch panel, a display, a key detection module, a keyboard display module and a transmission module. The key detection module is configured to detect a touch and a release of a key of a software keyboard, based on touch detection on the touch panel. The transmission module is configured to transmit data indicative of key-down of a first key in accordance with touch detection of the first key, to transmit data indicative of key-down of a second key in accordance with touch detection of the second key in a state in which the first key is touched, and then to transmit data indicative of key-up of the first key and the second key in accordance with release detection of the first key and the second key.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 2011
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2013
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventor: Takahiro Arai
  • Publication number: 20130219433
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, an electronic apparatus includes an operation detection module, a first menu display module, a first instruction module, a second menu display module, and a second instruction module. The operation detection module detects first and second operation. The first and second menu display module display first and second menu on a display in accordance with the first and second operation. The first instruction module instructs display of content corresponding to a first display area displayed at a first predetermined position in the first menu. The second instruction module instructs display of content corresponding to a second display area displayed at a second predetermined position in the second menu.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 3, 2012
    Publication date: August 22, 2013
    Inventor: Takahiro Arai
  • Publication number: 20130034265
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a time series information acquisition unit acquires time series information of a position or a size of a specific part of a user's body. An operation segment detection unit detects a movement direction of the specific part from the time series information, and detects a plurality of operation segments each segmented by two of a start point, a turning point and an end point of the movement direction. A recognition unit specifies a first operation segment to be recognized and a second operation segment following the first operation segment among the plurality of operation segments, and recognizes a motion of the specific part in the first operation segment by using a first feature extracted from the time series information of the first operation segment and a second feature extracted from the time series information of the second operation segment.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 15, 2012
    Publication date: February 7, 2013
    Inventors: Toshiaki Nakasu, Hidetaka Ohira, Tsukasa Ike, Yojiro Tonouchi, Ryuzo Okada, Takahiro Arai
  • Patent number: 8347639
    Abstract: A tempering treatment method whereby the temperature of meat, which involves a carcass prepared by slaughtering cattle or poultry and sterilizing and washing, is lowered as close to the ice storage temperature as possible to prevent a temperature rise caused by the actions of enzymes contained within the meat before transporting the meat to a refrigerated storage, which comprises surface-freezing the meat by blowing a cold air stream at about ?20 to about ?40° C. to the meat before conducting the tempering treatment, thus allowing the generation of freezing latent heat in the subcutaneous part owing to the surface-freezing (freezing the subcutaneous tissue), and then rapidly lowering the core temperature inside the meat due to the latent heat released at the melting of the freezing latent heat to thereby conduct the tempering treatment at a temperature of 0 to +15° C.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2009
    Date of Patent: January 8, 2013
    Assignee: Mayekawa Mfg. Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Naoto Okamoto, Suguru Sakuramoto, Takahiro Arai, Kouichi Tsubata, Akira Taniyama
  • Publication number: 20110285632
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, an electronic apparatus includes a touch panel, a display, a key detection module, a keyboard display module and a transmission module. The key detection module is configured to detect a touch and a release of a key of a software keyboard, based on touch detection on the touch panel. The transmission module is configured to transmit data indicative of key-down of a first key in accordance with touch detection of the first key, to transmit data indicative of key-down of a second key in accordance with touch detection of the second key in a state in which the first key is touched, and then to transmit data indicative of key-up of the first key and the second key in accordance with release detection of the first key and the second key.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 20, 2011
    Publication date: November 24, 2011
    Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA
    Inventor: Takahiro ARAI
  • Publication number: 20100147161
    Abstract: In a food transfer heat treatment apparatus using a spiral transfer belt, heat treatment gas blowing means and a heat treatment gas circulating method for enhancing the heat transfer efficiency between a heat treatment gas and food and for improving the heat treatment effect are realized to expand the degree of freedom for the layout of the apparatus and to simplify the assembly. Provided is a spiral transfer heat treatment apparatus comprising endless conveyer belts (2) for circulating the food (f) in a store room (1), and a spiral moving unit (3) for causing a heat treatment gas (c) to act on the food (f) while transferring the food (f) on the conveyer belts (2).
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 13, 2009
    Publication date: June 17, 2010
    Applicant: MAYEKAWA MFG. CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Masayuki ONOZATO, Hideki MIYANISHI, Norio ISHIWATA, Shigeru TAKAHASHI, Akira TANIYAMA, Takahiro ARAI, Akira SEKINO
  • Publication number: 20100075016
    Abstract: A tempering treatment method whereby the temperature of meat, which involves carcass prepared by slaughtering cattle or poultry and sterilizing and washing, is lowered as close to the ice storage temperature as possible to prevent a temperature rise caused by the actions of enzymes contained within the meat before transporting the meant to a refrigerated storage, which comprises surface-freezing the meat by blowing a cold air stream at about ?20 to about ?40° C. to the meant before conducting the tempering treatment, thus allowing the generation of freezing latent heat in the subcutaneous part owing to the surface-freezing (freezing the subcutaneous tissue), and then rapidly lowering the core temperature inside the meat due to the latent heat released at the melting of the freezing latent heat to thereby conduct the tempering treatment at a temperature of 0 to +15° C.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 21, 2009
    Publication date: March 25, 2010
    Applicant: MAYEKAWA MFG. CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Naoto OKAMOTO, Suguru SAKURAMOTO, Takahiro ARAI, Kouichi TSUBATA, Akira TANIYAMA
  • Patent number: 7121107
    Abstract: A continuous transfer type freezer for cooling or freezing articles such as foodstuffs transferred on a conveyor belt by spraying chilled air from slit nozzles on the articles is provided in which chilled air jets rectified to have long spray travel is produced, thin stream layer of chilled air is formed on the surface of the article to achieve increased heat transfer, and exhaust passages of the chilled air are formed such that they do not affect the cooling function. A plurality of slit nozzles 5a, 6a are apposed above and under the conveyor belt along the belt transfer direction, each of the nozzles 5a, 6a is shaped such that it has an angled and succeeding parallel entrance way so that the chilled air is rectified in the entrance ways and spout from the nozzle opening at large velocity, and exhaust passages 12 are formed between each of the slit nozzles such that the chilled air spouted from the nozzles flows toward both lateral end sides of the conveyor belt 2.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 7, 2005
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2006
    Assignee: Mayekawa Mfg. Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kou Ishikura, Takahiro Arai, Akira Taniyama
  • Publication number: 20060090497
    Abstract: A continuous transfer type freezer for cooling or freezing articles such as foodstuffs transferred on a conveyor belt by spraying chilled air from slit nozzles on the articles is provided in which chilled air jets rectified to have long spray travel is produced, thin stream layer of chilled air is formed on the surface of the article to achieve increased heat transfer, and exhaust passages of the chilled air are formed such that they do not affect the cooling function. A plurality of slit nozzles 5a, 6a are apposed above and under the conveyor belt along the belt transfer direction, each of the nozzles 5a, 6a is shaped such that it has an angled and succeeding parallel entrance way so that the chilled air is rectified in the entrance ways and spout from the nozzle opening at large velocity, and exhaust passages 12 are formed between each of the slit nozzles such that the chilled air spouted from the nozzles flows toward both lateral end sides of the conveyor belt 2.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 7, 2005
    Publication date: May 4, 2006
    Applicant: Mayekawa Mfg. Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kou Ishikura, Takahiro Arai, Akira Taniyama
  • Publication number: 20020018466
    Abstract: A communication parts of the present invention comprises first and second electronic circuit packages which are employed as an operating system or a waiting system, a switch which changes a system following instruction, a first signal level detect station which detects a signal level of output signals from a transmitter in the first electronic circuit package, a second signal level detect station which detects a signal level of output signals from a transmitter in the second electronic circuit package and a switch control station which changes and controls the switch on the basis of detection result from the first and second signal level detect stations. Consequently, communication parts of the present invention realizes changing a system with a simple structure.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 1, 2001
    Publication date: February 14, 2002
    Applicant: NEC Corporation
    Inventor: Takahiro Arai