Patents by Inventor Takayoshi Shimizu

Takayoshi Shimizu 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: 20240101751
    Abstract: The hollow microballoon of the invention includes a resin produced by polymerizing a polymerizing composition that contains a cyclic molecule having at least three side chains with a polymerizable functional group introduced into the terminal thereof and a polymerizable monomer other than the cyclic molecule having at least three side chains with a polymerizable functional group introduced into the terminal thereof. According to the invention, there are provided hollow microballoon capable of imparting not only polishing characteristics but also excellent durability to a CMP polishing pad using the hollow microballoon.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 27, 2022
    Publication date: March 28, 2024
    Applicant: TOKUYAMA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yasutomo SHIMIZU, Kazuishi FUKUDA, Takayoshi KAWASAKI
  • Publication number: 20240101819
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a curable composition containing (A) a cyclic molecule that contains three or more side chains each having at a terminal thereof an active hydrogen-containing group, (B) a urethane prepolymer having an iso(thio)cyanate group on each of both terminals of a molecule, (C) a diol, and (D) an amino group-containing monomer. According to the present invention, it is possible to provide a curable composition that gives a cured product having a high abrasion resistance and capable of exhibiting superior mechanical properties, in particular, a curable composition that can give a cured product capable of being suitably used in a polishing pad.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 27, 2022
    Publication date: March 28, 2024
    Applicant: TOKUYAMA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yasutomo SHIMIZU, Kazuishi FUKUDA, Takayoshi KAWASAKI
  • Publication number: 20240084067
    Abstract: The curable composition of the present invention contains (A) a cyclic monomer having both a polymerizable functional group and an ionic functional group in the molecule and (B) a polymerizable monomer having a polymerizable functional group capable of being polymerized with the polymerizable functional group of the cyclic monomer (A). The present invention can provide a curable composition that has easy handleability becoming a cured article that has high abrasion resistance and enhanced hydrophilicity without impairing the mechanical characteristics, and particularly can provide a curable composition becoming a cured article that can be favorably used as a polishing pad.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 27, 2022
    Publication date: March 14, 2024
    Applicant: Tokuyama Corporation
    Inventors: Kazuishi FUKUDA, Yasutomo SHIMIZU, Takayoshi KAWASAKI
  • Patent number: 11929569
    Abstract: A circuit board includes a board body and pair of connection portions disposed at both ends of the board body. Each of the pair of connection portions is inserted into a connector. Each of the pair of connection portions includes a connection terminal electrically connected to the connector, and at least one of the pair of connection portions includes an extending portion extending from the connection terminal to an insertion leading end of the at least one of the pair of connection portion. The extending portion is disposed at a position to avoid a virtual line extending in an insertion direction through a position where the connector and the connection terminal are electrically connected.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: RICOH COMPANY, LTD.
    Inventor: Takayoshi Shimizu
  • Patent number: 11912813
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a urethane resin obtained by reacting a polymerizable composition containing at least a urethane prepolymer (B2) having an iso(thio)cyanate group at an end of a molecule thereof, which is obtained by reacting a bifunctional active hydrogen-containing compound (C1) having two groups having active hydrogen in a molecule thereof and a bifunctional iso(thio)cyanate group-containing compound (B1) having two iso(thio)cyanate groups in a molecule thereof, a polyrotaxane (A) having a composite molecular structure formed by an axial molecule and a plurality of cyclic molecules clathrating the axial molecule, in which side chains having a group having active hydrogen are introduced into at least a part of the cyclic molecules, and a polyfunctional active hydrogen-containing compound (C2) other than the polyrotaxane (A) and having three or more groups having active hydrogen in a molecule thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 8, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: TOKUYAMA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yasutomo Shimizu, Takayoshi Kawasaki, Mitsuki Tochi
  • Patent number: 11907434
    Abstract: To provide an information processing apparatus (100) including: a detection unit (110) that detects an object selected by a user with a finger-pointing gesture as a selected object, in which the detection unit detects the selected object on the basis of a first extension line extending from a first line segment connecting a first reference point indicating a position of a wrist of a hand of the user corresponding to the finger-pointing gesture and a second reference point corresponding to a height of the wrist on a first perpendicular line perpendicularly extending from a base of an arm of the user corresponding to the finger-pointing gesture to a floor surface toward a wrist side.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 21, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: SONY GROUP CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takayoshi Shimizu, Kazuma Takahashi
  • Publication number: 20230391109
    Abstract: An embodiment of the present invention is a printer including: a body case; a platen roller configured to feed a print medium; and a printer cover being swingable relative to the body case and having an outer printer cover and an inner printer cover that are disposed to overlap each other. The inner printer cover is detachably attached to the outer printer cover, and is swingable relative to the body case, independently of the outer printer cover, when the inner printer cover is detached from the outer printer cover. The outer printer cover includes: a first holder configured to detachably hold both ends of a platen shaft of the platen roller when the inner printer cover is detached; and a second holder configured to detachably hold the platen roller when the inner printer cover is detached.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 10, 2021
    Publication date: December 7, 2023
    Applicant: SATO HOLDINGS KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Takayoshi SHIMIZU, Kazuyuki HOSHI
  • Publication number: 20230385011
    Abstract: Proposed is an information processing apparatus including a control unit that controls display of a virtual space, in which the control unit performs control to acquire communication information of one or more other users in another virtual space and present the acquired communication information by a virtual object disposed in the virtual space.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 18, 2021
    Publication date: November 30, 2023
    Applicants: SONY GROUP CORPORATION, SONY INTERACTIVE ENTERTAINMENT INC.
    Inventors: Takayoshi SHIMIZU, Kazuharu TANAKA, Masaaki MATSUBARA
  • Publication number: 20230360316
    Abstract: To provide an information processing device, an information processing method, and an information distribution system capable of providing content with high added value. An information processing device according to the present disclosure includes a correction section that corrects a position of a virtual camera on the basis of first information regarding a height of a visual line of a performer in a virtual space and second information regarding a height of the virtual camera linked with a viewer in the virtual space.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 29, 2021
    Publication date: November 9, 2023
    Inventor: TAKAYOSHI SHIMIZU
  • Publication number: 20230260235
    Abstract: Provided are an information processing apparatus, an information processing method, and an information processing system capable of further enhancing the entertainment value of image capturing experience in a virtual space. The information processing apparatus includes a control unit that, when an imaging trigger for imaging a subject in a virtual space is detected, generates a captured image obtained by imaging the subject, and performs control to arrange the generated captured image in the virtual space as a virtual object.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 26, 2021
    Publication date: August 17, 2023
    Applicant: Sony Group Corporation
    Inventor: Takayoshi SHIMIZU
  • Publication number: 20230179756
    Abstract: The present technology relates to an information processing device, an information processing method, and a program that enables advantages of a virtual world to be obtained without impairing the sense of reality. For at least one viewer from among a plurality of viewers viewing content distributed from a distributor virtually disposed at a predetermined distribution position, a viewing position where the at least one viewer views the content as an experiencing person and the distribution position are set such that a relative positional relationship between the viewing position and the distribution position is a positional relationship determined for the experiencing person in a virtual space or an actual space.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 20, 2021
    Publication date: June 8, 2023
    Applicant: SONY GROUP CORPORATION
    Inventor: Takayoshi SHIMIZU
  • Publication number: 20230154106
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus according to an embodiment of the present technology includes an image capture control unit. The image capture control unit performs, depending on a positional relationship between a target object that moves in a virtual space and a virtual camera that moves in the virtual space and captures an image of a target object, a collision avoidance process for avoiding a collision of the virtual camera against the target object.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 27, 2021
    Publication date: May 18, 2023
    Applicant: SONY GROUP CORPORATION
    Inventor: Takayoshi SHIMIZU
  • Publication number: 20230071828
    Abstract: To provide an information processing apparatus (100) including: a detection unit (110) that detects an object selected by a user with a finger-pointing gesture as a selected object, in which the detection unit detects the selected object on the basis of a first extension line extending from a first line segment connecting a first reference point indicating a position of a wrist of a hand of the user corresponding to the finger-pointing gesture and a second reference point corresponding to a height of the wrist on a first perpendicular line perpendicularly extending from a base of an arm of the user corresponding to the finger-pointing gesture to a floor surface toward a wrist side.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 21, 2021
    Publication date: March 9, 2023
    Applicant: SONY GROUP CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takayoshi SHIMIZU, Kazuma TAKAHASHI
  • Patent number: 11553009
    Abstract: There is provided an information processing device, an information processing method, and a computer program that enable to switch communication between virtual space and real space smoothly. The information processing device includes a communication control unit that controls communication performed in virtual space in which a virtual image corresponding to a real image of a user present in real space is created, interactively between users through the virtual image of the user; a user-information acquiring unit that acquires position information regarding a position of the user in the real space and attribute information including at least information regarding intimacy between the users at predetermined timing; and a switching control unit that controls switching between communication performed in the real space and communication performed in the virtual space according to at least either one of the position information and the attribute information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 28, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2023
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kei Takahashi, Takayoshi Shimizu, Ryouhei Yasuda, Ayumi Nakagawa
  • Publication number: 20220345760
    Abstract: There is provided a device and method for playing back a performer reaction image frame in response to a user action on playback content, the performer reaction image frame including a scene of the performer in reaction. In a case where a user action on the playback content is detected and the user action is detected, a playback image frame in the playback content is replaced with a performer reaction image frame including a scene of a performer in reaction, and the performer reaction image frame is played back. A data processing unit calculates a similarity rate between the playback image frame at a time of detection of the user action and a performer reaction image frame, and selects and plays back a performer reaction image frame of which calculated similarity rate is equal to or higher than a predetermined threshold value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 6, 2020
    Publication date: October 27, 2022
    Inventor: TAKAYOSHI SHIMIZU
  • Publication number: 20220337805
    Abstract: The present technology relates to a reproduction device, a reproduction method, and a recording medium capable of suppressing influence of motion parallax and image distortion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 31, 2020
    Publication date: October 20, 2022
    Inventor: TAKAYOSHI SHIMIZU
  • Patent number: 11372473
    Abstract: It is desirable to enhance the human-like motion of an object. Provided is an information processing apparatus including: a motion control unit configured to control, when an abnormality of a signal input for controlling a motion of an object is detected, the motion of the object such that the object continues a predetermined motion until a normality of the signal input is detected, the signal input responding to a motion of a user, in which until the motion of the object transitions to the predetermined motion after the detection of the abnormality of the signal input, the motion control unit controls the object such that the object performs at least one first intermediate motion, the at least one first intermediate motion being different from the motion of the object at the detection of the abnormality of the signal input and the predetermined motion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 28, 2022
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventor: Takayoshi Shimizu
  • Publication number: 20220166939
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus according to one example of the present disclosure includes an imaging control unit that causes a first imaging apparatus to acquire a real video while moving at least one of a viewpoint and a line of sight in accordance with a movement instruction given by a user, and a video generation unit that, when the first imaging apparatus approaches an imaging disapproved region that is set as a region in which imaging by the first imaging apparatus is disapproved while moving at least one of the viewpoint and the line of sight in accordance with the movement instruction, generates a video in which the real video is continuously switched to a virtual video of an inside of the imaging disapproved region.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 6, 2020
    Publication date: May 26, 2022
    Inventors: TSUYOSHI ISHIKAWA, RYOUHEI YASUDA, KEI TAKAHASHI, JUNICHI SHIMIZU, TAKAYOSHI SHIMIZU
  • Patent number: 11311164
    Abstract: A vacuum cleaner includes a main body portion, a secondary battery, an electric blower, a handle and a conductive member. The secondary battery is disposed in the main body portion. The electric blower operates by electric power supply from the secondary battery. The handle is one which a user contacts when the vacuum cleaner is used. At least a part of the conductive member is disposed at the handle and conducts static electricity generated due to operation of the electric blower.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2022
    Assignee: Toshiba Lifestyle Products & Services Corporation
    Inventors: Yukio Machida, Yusuke Abe, Naoko Shinagawa, Takayoshi Shimizu, Fumiki Mano
  • Patent number: 11272820
    Abstract: A vacuum cleaner includes a primary dust container that includes a container body, the container body delineating a dust collecting chamber that accumulates dust sucked into the vacuum cleaner and including a waste outlet that discharges the dust accumulated in the dust collecting chamber, the primary dust container also including a waste-outlet lid that opens and closes the waste outlet. A station includes a secondary dust container that accumulates the dust discharged from the primary dust container, and a driving source that generates opening driving force and closing driving force for the waste outlet. The electric vacuum cleaner generates a driving force for opening and closing an air passage connecting a primary dust container and a secondary dust container, without impairing convenience of a vacuum cleaner.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 2, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 15, 2022
    Assignee: TOSHIBA LIFESTYLE PRODUCTS & SERVICES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tsuyoshi Sato, Masatoshi Tanaka, You Torizawa, Yukio Machida, Hiromitsu Ichikawa, Hiromitsu Murata, Takayoshi Shimizu, Yuuji Ohtsuka