Patents by Inventor Tomohiro Katori

Tomohiro Katori 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: 11961971
    Abstract: Provided is a production method for an all-solid-state battery having a solid electrolyte layer between a positive electrode layer and a negative electrode layer, the production method including: coating or impregnating the positive electrode layer and/or the negative electrode layer with a solid electrolyte solution in which a boron hydride compound serving as the solid electrolyte has been dissolved in a solvent; and removing the solvent from the coated or impregnated solid electrolyte solution and causing the solid electrolyte to precipitate on the positive electrode layer and/or the negative electrode layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 12, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignees: MITSUBISHI GAS CHEMICAL COMPANY, INC., NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
    Inventors: Genki Nogami, Masahiro Shimada, Tomohiro Ito, Aki Katori, Keita Noguchi, Naoto Yamashita, Takashi Mukai, Masahiro Yanagida
  • Patent number: 10977774
    Abstract: There is provided an information processing apparatus, an information processing method, and a program capable of further reducing the unpleasant feeling caused by the disturbance of the display of the virtual object, the information processing apparatus including: a prediction accuracy estimation unit that estimates a degree of prediction accuracy related to prediction of a position or a posture of a real object; and an output control unit that outputs information for causing a display unit to display a virtual object corresponding to the real object on a basis of an estimation result of the prediction accuracy estimation unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 13, 2021
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tomohiro Katori, Jun Kimura, Ryo Fukazawa, Kazuomi Kondo, Tsubasa Tsukahara
  • Publication number: 20180240220
    Abstract: There is provided an information processing apparatus, an information processing method, and a program capable of further reducing the unpleasant feeling caused by the disturbance of the display of the virtual object, the information processing apparatus including: a prediction accuracy estimation unit that estimates a degree of prediction accuracy related to prediction of a position or a posture of a real object; and an output control unit that outputs information for causing a display unit to display a virtual object corresponding to the real object on a basis of an estimation result of the prediction accuracy estimation unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 14, 2016
    Publication date: August 23, 2018
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tomohiro KATORI, Jun KIMURA, Ryo FUKAZAWA, Kazuomi KONDO, Tsubasa TSUKAHARA
  • Patent number: 9703361
    Abstract: There is provided a memory control apparatus including a deciding unit deciding, among a first main storage apparatus that is a main storage apparatus with low power consumption and a second main storage apparatus with power consumption higher than the power consumption of the first main storage apparatus as memory devices of multiple CPU cores, whether the second main storage apparatus is capable of being suspended, and a power managing unit suppressing a power supplied to the second main storage apparatus and at least one of the multiple CPU cores in a case where the deciding unit decides that the second main storage apparatus is capable of being suspended.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 11, 2017
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tomohiro Katori, Katsuya Takahashi, Hiroki Nagahama
  • Patent number: 9693305
    Abstract: There is provided a communication control device including a prefetch controller configured to allow data corresponding to a target of processing to be prefetched through a communication based on information relating to a prefetch of data when a communication for an application being executed is performed in a connection state of being connected to an external device, the target of processing being different from the application being executed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2017
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tomohiro Katori, Nobuhiro Kaneko, Hui Peng, Satoru Iwasaki
  • Patent number: 9614488
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes an audio processing unit that performs a predetermined process for an input audio signal, and a power saving control unit that allows the audio processing unit to transition into a power saving state, depending on the length of a silence section in the audio signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 4, 2017
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takashi Kobayashi, Tomohiro Katori
  • Patent number: 9471424
    Abstract: The present technology relates to an information processing device and method, and a recording medium, which make it possible for a data recording system and so forth to be optimized in accordance with use. Provided are: a recording system decision unit that, on the basis of characteristics which are characteristics of data to be recorded in a recording medium, and include a lifespan value representing the retention period of the data and an error rate representing the percentage of errors assumed to be generated when the data is read, generates a plurality of recording regions of a logical device configured from the recording medium, and also decides recording systems to be applied in each of the recording regions; and a logical device initialization unit that initializes each of the recording regions of the logical device on the basis of the decided recording systems.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 21, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2016
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Kazumi Sato, Tomohiro Katori
  • Publication number: 20150282084
    Abstract: There is provided a communication control device including a prefetch controller configured to allow data corresponding to a target of processing to be prefetched through a communication based on information relating to a prefetch of data when a communication for an application being executed is performed in a connection state of being connected to an external device, the target of processing being different from the application being executed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 19, 2015
    Publication date: October 1, 2015
    Inventors: TOMOHIRO KATORI, NOBUHIRO KANEKO, HUI PENG, SATORU IWASAKI
  • Publication number: 20150281837
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes an audio processing unit that performs a predetermined process for an input audio signal, and a power saving control unit that allows the audio processing unit to transition into a power saving state, depending on the length of a silence section in the audio signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 20, 2015
    Publication date: October 1, 2015
    Inventors: TAKASHI KOBAYASHI, TOMOHIRO KATORI
  • Patent number: 9146859
    Abstract: There is provided an information processing apparatus including a rewrite frequency management section configured to manage a rewrite frequency of a page included in a nonvolatile primary storage apparatus having an upper limit in the rewrite frequency, and a data processing section configured, when an instruction for writing write data to a predetermined page is issued and a rewrite frequency of the predetermined page reaches a threshold value that is less than the upper limit of the rewrite frequency of the primary storage apparatus, to write the write data to another page different from the predetermined page, the other page storing no effective data and having a rewrite frequency that does not reach the threshold value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 15, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 29, 2015
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Nobuhiro Kaneko, Hiroki Nagahama, Tetsuya Asayama, Tomohiro Katori, Katsuya Takahashi
  • Patent number: 8972659
    Abstract: There is provided a memory control device including a device driver that executes writing or reading of data to/from a main storage unit and temporary writing or reading of data to/from a cache unit including a plurality of cache blocks, and a control unit that issues an instruction for writing or reading of data of a file system to/from the main storage unit or the cache unit to the device driver. The control unit may notify priority information about a priority for data storage into a logical block to which the cache block is associated to the device driver.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 3, 2015
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Hiroaki Ishizawa, Nobuhiro Kaneko, Shusuke Saeki, Takashi Kida, Tomohiro Katori
  • Publication number: 20140297927
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a main storage device, in which the main storage device includes a non-volatile storage unit and a volatile storage unit, and a page is moved between the non-volatile storage unit and the volatile storage unit at a predetermined timing based on a priority that is assigned to the page.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 28, 2014
    Publication date: October 2, 2014
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Tomohiro KATORI, Satoru IWASAKI, Hiroki NAGAHAMA
  • Publication number: 20140289486
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a main storage device, and a secondary storage device, in which the main storage device includes a non-volatile storage unit and a volatile storage unit, the volatile storage unit has a synchronization area that is synchronized with a predetermined area of the secondary storage device, and a page placed in the synchronization area is synchronized with the secondary storage device to be stored during an operation of the volatile storage unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 21, 2014
    Publication date: September 25, 2014
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tomohiro KATORI, Satoru IWASAKI
  • Publication number: 20140237273
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes: a wakeup-target identifying section configured to identify a wakeup target in response to a wakeup trigger; and a wakeup processing section configured to wake up the wakeup target identified by the wakeup-target identifying section.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 30, 2013
    Publication date: August 21, 2014
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Keiichi HIRANO, Satoru IWASAKI, Tomohiro KATORI, Ryo TAKAHASHI
  • Publication number: 20140201601
    Abstract: The present technology relates to an information processing device and method, and a recording medium, which make it possible for a data recording system and so forth to be optimized in accordance with use. Provided are: a recording system decision unit that, on the basis of characteristics which are characteristics of data to be recorded in a recording medium, and include a lifespan value representing the retention period of the data and an error rate representing the percentage of errors assumed to be generated when the data is read, generates a plurality of recording regions of a logical device configured from the recording medium, and also decides recording systems to be applied in each of the recording regions; and a logical device initialization unit that initializes each of the recording regions of the logical device on the basis of the decided recording systems.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 21, 2012
    Publication date: July 17, 2014
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Kazumi Sato, Tomohiro Katori
  • Publication number: 20130332662
    Abstract: There is provided an information processing apparatus including a table saving unit configured to copy an address conversion table stored in a first storage area of a memory to a storage area other than the first storage area and save the copied address conversion table, a table recovery unit configured to recover the address conversion table of a saving time point by copying the saved address conversion table to the first storage area of the memory, and a rewrite control unit configured to, when there is a rewrite request for data of a virtual address associated with a physical address on the address conversion table after the address conversion table has been saved, change the physical address associated with the virtual address, and cause the rewritten data to be stored in a storage area corresponding to the changed physical address.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 5, 2013
    Publication date: December 12, 2013
    Inventors: Tomohiro Katori, Hiroki Nagahama
  • Publication number: 20130332661
    Abstract: There is provided an information processing apparatus including a rewrite frequency management section configured to manage a rewrite frequency of a page included in a nonvolatile primary storage apparatus having an upper limit in the rewrite frequency, and a data processing section configured, when an instruction for writing write data to a predetermined page is issued and a rewrite frequency of the predetermined page reaches a threshold value that is less than the upper limit of the rewrite frequency of the primary storage apparatus, to write the write data to another page different from the predetermined page, the other page storing no effective data and having a rewrite frequency that does not reach the threshold value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 15, 2013
    Publication date: December 12, 2013
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Nobuhiro KANEKO, Hiroki Nagahama, Tetsuya Asayama, Tomohiro Katori, Katsuya Takahashi
  • Publication number: 20130332695
    Abstract: There is provided an information processing apparatus including a primary storage apparatus configured by combining a plurality of memories each having a different upper limit of a number of possible rewrites, and an allocation management section configured to allocate a storage area of data to be stored in the primary storage apparatus to one of the plurality of memories based on a rewrite frequency of the data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 15, 2013
    Publication date: December 12, 2013
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Tomohiro KATORI, Tetsuya Asayama, Katsuya Takahashi, Hiroki Nagahama, Nobuhiro Kaneko
  • Publication number: 20130275785
    Abstract: There is provided a memory control apparatus including a deciding unit deciding, among a first main storage apparatus that is a main storage apparatus with low power consumption and a second main storage apparatus with power consumption higher than the power consumption of the first main storage apparatus as memory devices of multiple CPU cores, whether the second main storage apparatus is capable of being suspended, and a power managing unit suppressing a power supplied to the second main storage apparatus and at least one of the multiple CPU cores in a case where the deciding unit decides that the second main storage apparatus is capable of being suspended.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 11, 2013
    Publication date: October 17, 2013
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Tomohiro Katori, Katsuya Takahashi, Hiroki Nagahama
  • Publication number: 20120331235
    Abstract: There is provided a memory management apparatus including a data input/output part for requesting to read data in units of blocks in a first size from a first storage medium and storing the data read from the first storage medium into a second storage medium, a data creating part for creating prefetch data obtained by converting a history of the request to read the data from the first storage medium into data of which read position and size are indicated in units of blocks in a second size, the request being issued by the data input/output part in response to a request from a program to be prefetched, and a prefetching part for requesting the data input/output part to prefetch the data of the program from the first storage medium to the second storage medium based on the prefetch data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 15, 2012
    Publication date: December 27, 2012
    Inventors: Tomohiro KATORI, Kazumi Sato