Patents by Inventor Takashi Kawakami

Takashi Kawakami 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: 20160272964
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a method for producing a peptide library capable of incorporating an arbitrary number of arbitrary proteinogenic and/or non-proteinogenic amino acids in an arbitrary site. The invention provides a method for producing a peptide library including 1×106 or more kinds of peptides containing amino acids encoded by N1N2N3, including a step of preparing an mRNA library including mRNAs which encode peptides of the peptide library and each contain at least one N1N2N3; and a step of translating each mRNA of the mRNA library in a cell-free translation system added with tRNA containing an anticodon to any one of N1N2N3 codons and charged with an amino acid corresponding to the codon (wherein, N1, N2, and N3 are each independently selected from adenine (A), guanine (G), cytosine (C), and uracil (U) and an arbitrary amino acid is reassigned to each N1N2N3).
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 12, 2014
    Publication date: September 22, 2016
    Inventors: Hiroshi Murakami, Takashi Kawakami, Patrick Reid, Toru Sasaki
  • Publication number: 20150358529
    Abstract: A first image generating unit configured to generate a first image having a predetermined depth of field from each of a plurality of light-field data each of which a focus state is changeable; a searching unit configured to search the light-field data that includes a predetermined object by analyzing the first image generated by the first image generating unit; and a second image generating unit configured to generate a second image that has a shallower depth of field than the first image and focused on the predetermined object, based on the light-field data detected by the searching unit are included.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 27, 2015
    Publication date: December 10, 2015
    Inventor: Takashi Kawakami
  • Publication number: 20150299258
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a VEGFR2 inhibitor peptide having high specificity and available at a low cost.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 2, 2013
    Publication date: October 22, 2015
    Applicants: The University of Tokyo, Peptidream Inc.
    Inventors: Hiroshi Murakami, Takashi Kawakami, Takahiro Ishizawa, Hiroaki Suga, Patrick Reid
  • Publication number: 20140289671
    Abstract: Information storages store a plurality of different types of information. An update information storage stores a part of information updated in the information storages as update information associated with the respective types. An update information manager monitors an information update in the information storages and stores, when an information update is made in the information storages, the part of the updated information in the update information storage as update information associated with the respective types. Further, an information selector extracts the update information stored in the update information storage in time series and outputs them to display them on a screen.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 12, 2014
    Publication date: September 25, 2014
    Applicant: SONY MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS AB
    Inventors: Kenta OHMORI, Takashi KAWAKAMI, Seigo IWASAKI, Hiroyuki KAWAKAMI, Akitaka KIMURA, Xiaoyu RUAN, George ARRIOLA, Yoshimitsu FUNABASHI, Kichiro KUROZUMI, Brian JOHNSON, Jorge FURUYA, Takahiro KAWAGUCHI
  • Patent number: 8722126
    Abstract: Black currant anthocyanin-containing compositions for foods comprising 1 to 25% by weight of black currant anthocyanin on the basis of solid matters; a process for producing a black currant anthocyanin-containing composition for foods characterized by purifying and concentrating black currant juice employed as a starting material by using a charged reverse osmosis membrane; functional foods and drinks characterized by containing the above compositions for foods; and the above-described compositions for foods and the above-described functional foods and drinks having an effect of improving visual function, a function of improving blood fluidity, and/or a function of lowering blood pressure. The conventional black currant anthocyanin compositions have a low black currant anthocyanin content, strong acidity and poor stability, which makes them unsuitable as additives for foods and drinks.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2009
    Date of Patent: May 13, 2014
    Assignee: Meiji Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hitoshi Matsumoto, Shigeru Tominaga, Mitsuo Kishi, Takashi Kawakami, Takahisa Tokunaga, Masao Hirayama
  • Patent number: 8696604
    Abstract: A muscle force assisting can increase a bending angle of a second attachment with respect to a first attachment. The muscle force assisting device includes the first attachment arranged along one bone of a joint, the second attachment arranged along the other bone of the joint, and an artificial muscle having one end provided on the first attachment and having the other end provided on the second attachment, an actuator that is extensible or contractible by supplying or discharging a substance such as gas, liquid and solid, or a mixture thereof is used as the artificial muscle, and the muscle force assisting device assists motion of a user's elbow, knee and wrist, the one end of the artificial muscle can be displaced with respect to the first attachment, the one end of the artificial muscle is displaced, and a bending angle of the second attachment with respect to the first attachment is increased as compared with a case where the one end of the artificial muscle is not displaced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2008
    Date of Patent: April 15, 2014
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Takashi Kawakami, Toshihiko Ishiko, Keisuke Ueda
  • Patent number: 8668659
    Abstract: It is an object of the present invention to provide a finger motion assisting apparatus that can be attached to a user without precise positioning or aligning the mechanism parts and substantially without size-fitting operation caused by physical size difference. According to the finger motion assisting apparatus of the present invention, the wire guide group 30 includes the first wire guide group 31 located on the palm side of the phalanxes 10, and the second wire guide group 32 located on the back side of the phalanxes 10, the wire is fixed to the finger holding member 20 located on the distal phalanx, the wire 40 includes the first wire 41 inserted through the first wire guide group 31, and the second wire 42 inserted through the second wire guide group 32, and the driving unit 53, 54 loosens the second wire 42 when the first wire 41 is pulled, and loosens the first wire 41 when the second wire 42 is pulled.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 7, 2010
    Date of Patent: March 11, 2014
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventor: Takashi Kawakami
  • Patent number: 8638292
    Abstract: A terminal apparatus includes a display displaying a plurality of display elements representing options on a display screen, an image-capturing section capturing an image of an operator who is viewing the display screen, a face position detector detecting the position of a facial image of the operator in a captured image, and a controller controlling the display to move the plurality of display elements in a predetermined direction on the display screen and to sequentially update and display the display elements when it is detected that the facial image of the operator in the captured image is outside of a predetermined range, and to stop the movement of the plurality of display elements when it is detected that the facial image falls within the predetermined range.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 2009
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2014
    Assignees: Sony Corporation, Sony Mobile Communications, Inc.
    Inventors: Takashi Kawakami, Hiroyuki Kawakami, Kenta Ohmori
  • Patent number: 8624927
    Abstract: A display apparatus includes a display unit displaying information on a display screen, a distance detector detecting a distance from the display screen to the face of an operator, and a controller causing the information to be enlarged and reduced on the display screen in response to a change of the detected distance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 20, 2010
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2014
    Assignees: Sony Corporation, Sony Mobile Communications, Inc.
    Inventors: Kenta Ohmori, Takashi Kawakami
  • Patent number: 8597212
    Abstract: A wrist assisting apparatus can smoothly bend and stretch a joint even if a turning shaft of a joint and a rotation shaft of a wearing tool are deviated from each other. Also, an excessive load is not applied to a user. The wrist assisting apparatus of the present invention includes a palm support member for supporting a hand, angle changing members connected to sides of the palm support member, a front arm wearing tool disposed along the front arm, and joint members for forming a rotation shaft of the angle changing member with respect to the front arm wearing tool, wherein the angle changing members are provided on both sides of the palm support member, the joint members are provided on the angle changing members, respectively, and the joint members are located on both sides of a wrist.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 7, 2010
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2013
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Takashi Kawakami, Toshihiko Ishiko, Keisuke Ueda
  • Patent number: 8554186
    Abstract: A mobile terminal device that has a short range wireless communications unit performing short range wireless communications. A personal information storage unit storing a set of simple personal information relevant to the user of the mobile terminal device and a set of contact information for the user attached to the set of simple personal information and inhibited from being displayed on a device receiving this information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2008
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2013
    Assignees: Sony Corporation, Sony Mobile Communications, Inc.
    Inventors: Takayuki Usami, Mitsuhiro Nishibe, Shunsuke Kunieda, Kazunori Ueda, Takashi Kawakami, Makoto Kawamura
  • Patent number: 8539151
    Abstract: Herein disclosed a data delivery system including an information processing apparatus and a terminal apparatus. The terminal apparatus has a first attachment unit, a first writing unit, a first reading unit, a decoding unit, a storage unit, and a first control unit. The information processing apparatus has a second attachment unit, a second writing unit, a second reading unit, and a second control unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2007
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2013
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventor: Takashi Kawakami
  • Patent number: 8350896
    Abstract: A terminal apparatus includes: a display unit configured to display a projection image of a three-dimensional object on a two-dimensional display screen; an imaging unit configured to capture an image of an operator who is in a state of viewing the display screen; a changing unit configured to change a viewpoint position relative to the three-dimensional object in response to a position of an image of the operator's face relative to the captured image; and a projection image generator configured to obtain a projection image generated by projecting each portion of the three-dimensional object viewed from the viewpoint position onto a predetermined projection plane.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 2009
    Date of Patent: January 8, 2013
    Assignee: Sony Mobile Communications Japan, Inc.
    Inventors: Takashi Kawakami, Hiroyuki Kawakami, Kenta Ohmori
  • Patent number: 8256014
    Abstract: When a PC 10 connects to a PD 20, the PC 10 decides whether or not the PD 20 holds a group ID and if the PC 10 decides PD 20 holds the group ID, PC 10 decides whether or not the group ID held in the PC 10 and the group ID held in the PD 20 coincide with each other. If the both IDs are not decided that they don't coincide with each other, the PC 10 acquires a device ID corresponding to PD 20 from PD 20 and transfers the device ID and a terminal ID of the PC 10 to a server apparatus 32. Then the PC 10 receives, from the server apparatus 32, a user link completion information representative that an association between first user ID corresponding to the terminal ID and second user ID corresponding to the device ID is completed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2006
    Date of Patent: August 28, 2012
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Takayuki Kori, Takashi Kawakami, Susumu Takatsuka, Hideo Tsukazaki, Kotaro Asaka
  • Patent number: 8234301
    Abstract: A system including a management server, a medium issuing apparatus, and a service provider is disclosed. The medium issuing apparatus includes recording means for recording right information and unique identifiers on a package storage medium. The right information denotes services available to the package storage medium, and includes a download authorization bit and an upload authorization bit. The management server includes receiving means for receiving the right information and the identifiers from the package storage medium. The management server also includes storing means for storing the right information corresponding to each of the identifiers and the identifiers in a database. In addition, the management server includes checking means for checking an identifier transmitted from a terminal device by way of the service provider against the identifiers stored in the database.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 14, 2009
    Date of Patent: July 31, 2012
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Manabu Kii, Takashi Kawakami
  • Publication number: 20120156170
    Abstract: The present invention relates to: drug compositions of angiogenesis therapy that contains gene coding for human prostacyclin synthase (hPGIS) synthesizing prostaglandin I2 with activities of vasodialation and/or anti-platelet aggregation; drug compositions contain adeno-associated virus (AAV) inserted with gene for angiogenesis factors. The administration of the drug compositions into the aimed treatment region results in transfer of AAV type 1-hPGIS to skeletal muscles and induces a notable expression of human PGIS gene in skeletal muscles. The PGI2 is produced by mediation of the gene expression in the muscle cells, secreted, induces vessel-protective, neovascularization and anti-platelet aggregation actions, which lead to an improvement in vascular ischemia.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 30, 2010
    Publication date: June 21, 2012
    Inventors: Tadashi Tanabe, Keiichi Hukuda, Takashi Kawakami
  • Patent number: 8180731
    Abstract: An information-processing apparatus, reproduction apparatus, communication method and computer program are disclosed wherein an evaluation value can be added automatically to contents stored in a storage apparatus or medium. The information-processing apparatus comprising an acquisition section which acquires, from a portable reproduction apparatus which is capable of reproducing contents data, reproduction history information of the contents data in the portable reproduction apparatus. An evaluation value arithmetic operation section arithmetically operates a computed evaluation value corresponding to the content data based on the reproduction history information acquired by the acquisition section. A transfer section transfers the computed evaluation value arithmetically operated by the evaluation value arithmetic operation section to the portable reproduction apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 25, 2006
    Date of Patent: May 15, 2012
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Tatsuya Konno, Susumu Takatsuka, Hideo Tsukazaki, Takashi Kinouchi, Kotaro Asaka, Takashi Kawakami, Yasuharu Seki
  • Publication number: 20120083260
    Abstract: [Object] To enable a user to simply and easily confirm update information of a plurality of pieces of content data handled by a plurality of various application programs without any troublesome operation. [Solving Means] A plurality of update information display cards (51) are aligned and displayed on a display screen (50). The update information display cards (51) displayed on the display screen (50) are associated with different pieces of content data, and update information of the content data is individually arranged on the corresponding update information display card (51). Moreover, the update information display cards (51) on which the update information of the different types of content data are arranged are aligned and displayed on the display screen (50) in a chronological order of the updates of the content data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 30, 2009
    Publication date: April 5, 2012
    Applicant: SONY ERICSSON MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS AB
    Inventors: George Arriola, Kichiro Kurozumi, Takahiro Kawaguchi, Jorge Furuya, Brian Jonhson, Takashi Kawakami, Masatoshi Inagawa, Takamasa Kuramitsu, Takahiro Okada, Hironobu Aoki, Seigo Iwasaki, Yoshimitsu Funabashi, Takashi Hasegawa, Erica Kato, Tetsuya Takahashi, Makoto Kamiya
  • Publication number: 20120036443
    Abstract: An information terminal enables a user to simply and easily confirm a plurality of pieces of update information handled by a plurality of various application programs without any troublesome operation. An information storage stores a plurality of different types of information. An update information storage stores a part of information updated in the information storages as update information associated with the respective types. An update information manager monitors an information update in the information storages and stores, when an information update is made in the information storages, the part of the updated information in the update information storage as update information associated with the respective types. Further, an information selector extracts the update information stored in the update information storage in time series and outputs them to display them on a screen.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 30, 2009
    Publication date: February 9, 2012
    Applicant: SONY ERICSSON MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS
    Inventors: Kenta Ohmori, Takashi Kawakami, Siego Iwasaki, Hiroyuki Kawakami, Akitaka Kimura, Xiaoyu Ruan, George Arriola, Yoshimitsu Funabashi, Kichiro Kurozumi, Brian Johnson, Jorge Furuya, Takahiro Kawaguchi
  • Patent number: 8074695
    Abstract: An adhesive transfer device can reliably transfer by simple operation an adhesive onto a transfer target surface by either of spot-like transfer and linear transfer that are alternately selected. The adhesive transfer device has a supply reel (20) around which a transfer tape (1) having a backing material (2) provided with an adhesive (3) on one surface thereof is wound, a take-up reel (30) for taking up the transfer tape, and a transfer head (40) for transferring the adhesive onto the transfer target surface. The transfer head is pivotally supported at one end thereof and includes a first transfer section (45a) formed at a free end portion thereof and having a circular arc-shaped contact surface for mutual contact with the transfer target surface, a second transfer section (45b) having a flat transfer surface (45c) between the first transfer section and a pivot portion of the transfer head, and a spring member (46) for urging the free end portion of the transfer head toward the transfer target surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 7, 2008
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2011
    Assignee: Nichiban Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Nobuyuki Sekiya, Masatsugu Yamaguchi, Masashi Tanaka, Takashi Kawakami