Patents by Inventor Takashi Kojima

Takashi Kojima 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: 12181336
    Abstract: An optical fiber sensing system according to the present disclosure includes an optical fiber (10A) configured to detect a vibration in underground, an acquisition unit (21) configured to acquire, from the optical fiber (10A), an optical signal on which the vibration detected by the optical fiber (10A) is superimposed, and an identifying unit (22) configured to identify a suspicious action in the underground based on a vibration pattern included in the optical signal acquired by the acquisition unit (21).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 5, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2024
    Assignee: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventor: Takashi Kojima
  • Patent number: 12146786
    Abstract: An optical fiber sensing system that includes an optical fiber provided in a monitor area, a detection unit that detects an anomaly that has occurred in the monitor area and identifies a location on the optical fiber where the anomaly is detected, based on a vibration pattern included in an optical signal received from the optical fiber, and a control unit that displays an arrangement situation of the optical fiber in an overlapping manner on a map of the monitor area, displays a mark indicating a location on the optical fiber where the anomaly is detected, in an overlapping manner on the map of the monitor area, and displays information indicating a detail of the anomaly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2024
    Assignee: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventor: Takashi Kojima
  • Patent number: 12134567
    Abstract: Provided are a ferrite powder that suppresses decreases in saturation magnetization and decreases in filler filling ratio and also suppresses inhibition of resin curing, and a method for producing the same. A ferrite powder composed of spherical ferrite particles, wherein the ferrite powder contains iron (Fe) 54.0-70.0 mass % and manganese (Mn) 3.5-18.5 mass %, has an average volume particle size of 2.0-20.0 ?m, and has a carbon content of 0.100 mass % or lower.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2024
    Assignee: POWDERTECH CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Takashi Kojima, Koji Aga
  • Publication number: 20240361836
    Abstract: An alert display system includes at least one processor. The at least one processor displays an alert on a display device of a user terminal, detects the line of sight of a user of the user terminal, acquires user viewpoint coordinates on the display device, and changes a display form of the alert on the basis of the viewpoint coordinates and area coordinates of the alert on the display device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 14, 2022
    Publication date: October 31, 2024
    Applicant: DWANGO CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Takashi KOJIMA, Yuri ODAGIRI, Akihiko KOIZUKA
  • Patent number: 12120403
    Abstract: To provide a content generating device, content streaming server, content generating method, and content generating program for generating highly interesting video content. A content generating device according to an embodiment comprises: an acquiring portion for requesting, from an accumulating portion that accumulates a plurality of video data, video data that satisfies a prescribed condition, to acquire a plurality of video data that satisfies the condition; a starting frame identifying portion for identifying starting frames wherein prescribed actions start, in the video playback of the plurality of video data acquired by the acquiring portion; and a generating portion for generating multi-video data by combining a plurality of video data with the timings of the identified starting frames synchronized.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2024
    Assignee: DWANGO CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Takashi Kojima, Kazuomi Niwa
  • Patent number: 12119151
    Abstract: Provided are a ferrite powder capable of maintaining a high withstand voltage even when used in a resin composition having high magnetic properties and electrical resistivity and a high filling ratio, and a method for producing the same. A ferrite powder composed of spherical ferrite particles, wherein the ferrite powder contains iron (Fe): 55.0-70.0 mass % and manganese (Mn): 3.5-18.5 mass %, the ferrite powder containing more than 0.0 mass % to 7.5 mass % ?-Fe2O3, and the ferrite powder has a volume average particle size (D50) of 15.0 ?m or less.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2024
    Assignee: POWDERTECH CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Koji Aga, Takashi Kojima, Takao Sugiura, Sho Kuwahara, Satomi Konno, Tadashi Tsuduki
  • Publication number: 20240333902
    Abstract: The present disclosure causes live content to be drawn on the basis of specification data on a virtual object, operation data on the virtual object, and the like, and causes the drawn content to be provided for viewing reproduction on a terminal for viewing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 10, 2024
    Publication date: October 3, 2024
    Applicant: DWANGO Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Nobuo KAWAKAMI, Shinnosuke IWAKI, Takashi KOJIMA, Hiroaki SAITO
  • Patent number: 12104946
    Abstract: An optical fiber sensing system according to the present disclosure includes: a cable (20) including optical fibers; a reception unit (31) configured to receive, from at least one optical fiber included in the cable (20), an optical signal on which a vibration detected in each of a plurality of locations on the cable (20) is superimposed; and an action specifying unit (32) configured to specify, based on the optical signal, a location on the cable (20) in which the vibration has been detected and specify an action of a target to be monitored which has caused the vibration, in which the action specifying unit (32) specifies a detection pattern that is used to specify the action of the target to be monitored depending on the environment of the location on the cable (20) in which the vibration has been detected.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 15, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2024
    Assignee: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventor: Takashi Kojima
  • Patent number: 12087328
    Abstract: A posting server including a storage unit that stores, for each moving image posting service, delivery policy information based on the characteristics of the moving image posting service; a reception unit that receives an original moving image; an editing unit that uses the delivery policy information for each moving image posting service, edits the original moving images with content that differs among the moving image posting services, and generates a posted moving image for each moving image posting service; and a posting unit that posts the posted moving image to each of the moving image posting services. The editing unit 12 applies screen effects or acoustic effects in conformance with characteristics of each of the moving image posting services, and generates a posted moving image for each of the moving image posting services.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 16, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2024
    Assignee: DWANGO Co., LTD.
    Inventors: Takashi Kojima, Kazuomi Niwa
  • Patent number: 12081673
    Abstract: A system which performs both identification and authentication of a user ID at the same time with only one step of inputting a one-time password without the need of step of inputting a user ID is provided. A one-time password deriving rule for generating a one-time password by being applied to pattern elements at specific positions in a case where a plurality of pattern elements arranged in a predetermined pattern are presented to a user who is to be authenticated as a presentation pattern is set as a password of the user, and the user is authenticated on the basis of a character string for authentication in which a user ID is embedded at a predetermined embedding position within the one-time password.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2024
    Assignee: CSE CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Takashi Kojima
  • Publication number: 20240282793
    Abstract: The present technology relates to a solid-state imaging device and an electronic apparatus each capable of improving characteristics without causing processing damage. The solid-state imaging device includes a pixel array unit that includes a plurality of pixels. The pixel array unit includes a color filter layer that includes color filters, a photoelectric conversion layer that includes photoelectric conversion units, an oxide film layer formed between the color filter layer and the photoelectric conversion layer, and a low refractive index wall that includes a material having a lower refractive index than that of the color filters and that is formed between pixels from an end of the color filter layer on the side opposite to the oxide film layer to an intermediate position in the oxide film layer. The present technology is applicable to a CMOS image sensor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 15, 2022
    Publication date: August 22, 2024
    Inventors: MIZUKI HOYANO, HIROMASA SAITO, SEIKI TAKAHASHI, TAKASHI KOJIMA
  • Patent number: 12041218
    Abstract: The present disclosure causes live content to be drawn on the basis of specification data on a virtual object, operation data on the virtual object, and the like, and causes the drawn content to be provided for viewing reproduction on a terminal for viewing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 24, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2024
    Assignee: DWANGO CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Nobuo Kawakami, Shinnosuke Iwaki, Takashi Kojima, Hiroaki Saito
  • Patent number: 12027893
    Abstract: A power supply device includes: a first high-voltage line for exchanging the electric power externally; a second high-voltage line for applying current flowing in a direction opposite to the first high-voltage line; a plurality of batteries; a plurality of SUs, the SUs being provided corresponding to the respective batteries, switching a connection state of the batteries to the first high-voltage line, and being disposed in a circle; and an SCU that controls the SUs. The SU can switch between a first state in which the battery corresponding to the SU is connected in series to the first high-voltage line and a second state in which the battery is not connected to the first high-voltage line. The SCU controls the SUs to switch to the first state or the second state in accordance with a voltage of the electric power to be charged and discharged.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 18, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2024
    Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Junta Izumi, Kenji Kimura, Masakazu Habu, Hiroshi Tsukada, Atsuhiro Takahashi, Takashi Kojima, Shuji Tomura, Kazuo Ootsuka, Naoki Yanagizawa, Kyosuke Tanemura
  • Patent number: 12028560
    Abstract: A content correction device, a content delivery server, a content correction method, and a recording medium for correcting a portion of content that requires complaint resolution without impairing quality or enjoyability. The content correction device includes: an acquisition unit acquiring complaint information; a specification unit acquiring the data of content that requires complaint resolution from a storage unit where the data of a plurality of delivered content is stored and specifying a relevant correction period in the time line of the content that requires complaint resolution, in which period the complaint to be resolved is included; and a corrected content generation unit acquiring from the storage unit the data of first content correcting the relevant correction period, generating, using at least a portion of the first content, second content that does not contain the complaint to be resolved, and storing the data of the second content in the storage unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2024
    Assignee: DWANGO Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Takashi Kojima, Kazuomi Niwa
  • Publication number: 20240204014
    Abstract: An imaging device according to an embodiment of the present disclosure includes: a semiconductor substrate in which a plurality of pixels is arranged in a matrix, the semiconductor substrate including a plurality of photoelectric conversion sections that each generate electric charge corresponding to a light receiving amount by photoelectric conversion for each of the pixels; an inter-pixel separation section between the pixels adjacent to each other, electrically and optically separating the adjacent pixels from each other, and having a first refractive index; and an in-pixel separation section between the photoelectric conversion sections adjacent to each other inside each of the pixels, electrically separating the adjacent photoelectric conversion sections, and having a second refractive index, a difference between the second refractive index and a refractive index of the semiconductor substrate being smaller than a difference between the first refractive index and the refractive index of the semiconductor
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 28, 2022
    Publication date: June 20, 2024
    Applicant: SONY SEMICONDUCTOR SOLUTIONS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Michiko SAKAMOTO, Hiroshi TANAKA, Shogo OTANI, Takashi KOJIMA, Tadashi IIJIMA, Shota KITAMURA
  • Patent number: 12002073
    Abstract: It is very useful for advertisers of banner ads or owners of websites when browsing information such as where on a website an individual is viewing can be collected. However, such browsing information is personal information that is difficult to be collected. Provided are an information display terminal, an information transmission method and a computer program in which there is a storage for presenting a message indicating that a reward to be paid if the viewer permits collection of browsing information, and storing an electrical message of permission as evidence when the viewer gives permission. When attributes (age, gender, occupation, type of industry, family structure etc.) of a viewer are collected under agreement in obtaining permission of collection of information from the viewer and stored in a user information storage, the browsing information becomes higher value-added.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2024
    Assignee: Dwango Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Nobuo Kawakami, Yuri Odagiri, Takashi Kojima, Keisuke Ogaki
  • Patent number: 11979684
    Abstract: There is provided a content distribution device including a virtual character arrangement acquisitor that acquires an arrangement in a virtual space of each of a plurality of virtual characters respectively corresponding to a plurality of participants in accordance with an operation of a corresponding participant, a trigger detector that detects a first trigger and thereafter detects a second trigger, and a display control data distributor that generates and distributes display control data for displaying at least a part of the virtual space in which the plurality of virtual characters is arranged.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: DWANGO Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Nobuo Kawakami, Takashi Kojima, Hiroaki Saito, Toshihiro Shimizu
  • Patent number: 11966653
    Abstract: An information processing system includes: a processing apparatus that includes a first processor and performs processing of print data; and a management apparatus that includes a second processor, generates print data, transmits the print data to the processing apparatus, and manages the print data, the first processor being configured to: make a request to the management apparatus for registration of first print data with the management apparatus, the first print data serving as a target for processing by the processing apparatus, the second processor being configured to: receive the request for the registration from the processing apparatus, and in response to the first print data not being the print data generated by the management apparatus, newly register the first print data with the management apparatus and manage the first print data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
    Inventors: Masaharu Tonouchi, Takashi Kojima
  • Patent number: 11961190
    Abstract: A content distribution system according to an embodiment is provided with at least one processor. The at least one processor: specifies a real image region and a farthest region in a space represented with a content image showing a first virtual object; disposes a second virtual object in the farthest region; and displays, on a user terminal, a content image representing a space in which the second virtual object is disposed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: DWANGO Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Nobuo Kawakami, Takashi Kojima
  • Patent number: 11956504
    Abstract: Provided is a content distribution server which is able to establish restrictions on the public disclosure of an object displayed in virtual space at the convenience of the distributor. The content distribution server comprises: a distribution unit that distributes live content for synthesizing video in virtual space using information from the distributor as virtual character information; and a first setting receiving unit that receives from the distributor terminal used by the distributor public disclosure restriction settings for establishing restrictions on objects present in virtual space displayed on the distributor terminal that can be viewed on a viewer terminal used by a viewer to view live content.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: DWANGO CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Nobuo Kawakami, Kentarou Matsui, Shinnosuke Iwaki, Takashi Kojima, Naoki Yamaguchi