Patents by Inventor Toru Imai
Toru Imai 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).
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Patent number: 6987245Abstract: A heat plate for fixation comprising: a metallic base plate; and a heating resistor arranged on a reverse face of the metallic base plate, the heating resistor being formed by laminating, at least, an electric insulating layer and heating resistor layer in this order on the metallic base plate, wherein the heat plate is capable of raising the temperature of the metallic base plate to a fixing temperature when the heating resistor layer is energized and heated. A semicircular heating member for fixation comprises the heat plate which is curved so that the metallic base plate has a convex surface, a belt type fixing device is provided with the semicircular heating member, and an electrophotographic image forming apparatus is provided with the belt type fixing device comprising the semicircular heating member.Type: GrantFiled: September 27, 2004Date of Patent: January 17, 2006Assignees: Takao Kawamura, Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd.Inventors: Koichi Sanpei, Mitsuhiro Mori, Akio Yano, Masatoshi Kimura, Masao Konishi, Takao Kawamura, Akio Harada, Tsuyoshi Nishi, Yukio Yamamoto, Yoshiaki Ohbayashi, Naoya Takehara, Toru Imai
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Publication number: 20060009075Abstract: The invention provides a coaxial connector with a switch in which the life property and contact reliability of a movable contact piece portion are improved, which is further miniaturized and low-profiled than the conventional art, and in which the component configuration is simple, and hence the production cost is low. According to the coaxial connector 1 with a switch, in accordance with fitting with a counter connector, a plug pin 100 is elastically contacted with the plug pin contact portion 57 of a movable contact piece portion 51, and the movable contact piece portion 51 is displaced in a direction substantially perpendicular to the direction of insertion and extraction of the plug pin against the spring force, and separated from the stationary contact portion 41.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 6, 2005Publication date: January 12, 2006Applicant: Hosiden CorporationInventors: Takayuki Nagata, Toru Imai
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Publication number: 20050035106Abstract: A heat plate for fixation comprising: a metallic base plate; and a heating resistor arranged on a reverse face of the metallic base plate, the heating resistor being formed by laminating, at least, an electric insulating layer and heating resistor layer in this order on the metallic base plate, wherein the heat plate is capable of raising the temperature of the metallic base plate to a fixing temperature when the heating resistor layer is energized and heated. A semicircular heating member for fixation comprises the heat plate which is curved so that the metallic base plate has a convex surface, a belt type fixing device is provided with the semicircular heating member, and an electrophotographic image forming apparatus is provided with the belt type fixing device comprising the semicircular heating member.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 27, 2004Publication date: February 17, 2005Applicants: Takao KawamuraInventors: Koichi Sanpei, Mitsuhiro Mori, Akio Yano, Masatoshi Kimura, Masao Konishi, Takao Kawamura, Akio Harada, Tsuyoshi Nishi, Yukio Yamamoto, Yoshiaki Ohbayashi, Naoya Takehara, Toru Imai
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Patent number: 6826382Abstract: A heat plate for fixation comprising: a metallic base plate; and a heating resistor arranged on a reverse face of the metallic base plate, the heating resistor being formed by laminating, at least, an electric insulating layer and heating resistor layer in this order on the metallic base plate, wherein the heat plate is capable of raising the temperature of the metallic base plate to a fixing temperature when the heating resistor layer is energized and heated. A semicircular heating member for fixation comprises the heat plate which is curved so that the metallic base plate has a convex surface, a belt type fixing device is provided with the semicircular heating member, and an electrophotographic image forming apparatus is provided with the belt type fixing device comprising the semicircular heating member.Type: GrantFiled: March 27, 2002Date of Patent: November 30, 2004Assignees: Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd.Inventors: Koichi Sanpei, Mitsuhiro Mori, Akio Yano, Masatoshi Kimura, Masao Konishi, Takao Kawamura, Akio Harada, Tsuyoshi Nishi, Yukio Yamamoto, Yoshiaki Ohbayashi, Naoya Takehara, Toru Imai
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Publication number: 20040179511Abstract: At member registration step, a master transmits a certificate and a priority to a slave. The certificate indicates that the slave receiving it belongs to the same data synchronization group as the master. The priority is used to solve a data conflict. At data synchronization step, after it is determined that members belong to the same data synchronization group by the certificate, data synchronization processing is performed between arbitrary members in which an input device and a display device such as wrist watch are limited. Data synchronization does not require a specific server.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 31, 2004Publication date: September 16, 2004Inventors: Sachio Kizu, Tetsuro Muranaga, Yoshiaki Takabatake, Shigeyasu Natsubori, Toru Imai, Shinya Amano
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Patent number: 6732144Abstract: At member registration step, a master transmits a certificate and a priority to a slave. The certificate indicates that the slave receiving it belongs to the same data synchronization group as the master. The priority is used to solve a data conflict. At data synchronization, after it is determined that members belong to the same data synchronization group by the certificate, data synchronization processing is performed between arbitrary members in which an input device and a display device such as a wrist watch are limited. Data synchronization does not require a specific server.Type: GrantFiled: November 16, 2000Date of Patent: May 4, 2004Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha ToshibaInventors: Sachio Kizu, Tetsuro Muranaga, Yoshiaki Takabatake, Shigeyasu Natsubori, Toru Imai, Shinya Amano
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Publication number: 20040049524Abstract: A system for autonomous decentralized control in which a client terminal and a center server are connected, as a network through a WAN and/or LAN, to a remote control server connected to a monitored/controlled target device through a control communication network. The system is characterized in that a virtual machine, which is described as the other self of the monitored/controlled target device having the same information as that possessed by the monitored/controlled target device, and which is a software object having communication protocols used for communication with the monitored/controlled target device and concealed in the software object, is moved in the system with transparency and/or is held in the client terminal, the center server, or the remote control server.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 11, 2003Publication date: March 11, 2004Inventors: Masatoshi Toyota, Toru Imai, Shunji Kurokawa, Sadayuki Matsumoto, Yoshikazu Nakanishi, Koji Ohno, Ryoichiro Higashihara, Kenji Ozaki
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Publication number: 20030210893Abstract: By using program information, the amount of which to be transmitted is not fixed, and related information which is related to the expected amount of the main information, an area for recording main information is ensured in advance on a recording medium. This ensures a reliable recording of a program, the recording of which has already been reserved, without affecting any program which has already been recorded. In addition, even when a change occurs in related information before or after the start of recording information on the recording medium, an area assigned before the start of the recording can be changed corresponding to related information after the change.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 16, 2003Publication date: November 13, 2003Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISA TOSHIBAInventors: Shigeyasu Natsubori, Toru Imai, Toshiya Takahashi, Shigeru Oyanagi
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Publication number: 20030063931Abstract: A heat plate for fixation comprising: a metallic base plate; and a heating resistor arranged on a reverse face of the metallic base plate, the heating resistor being formed by laminating, at least, an electric insulating layer and heating resistor layer in this order on the metallic base plate, wherein the heat plate is capable of raising the temperature of the metallic base plate to a fixing temperature when the heating resistor layer is energized and heated. A semicircular heating member for fixation comprises the heat plate which is curved so that the metallic base plate has a convex surface, a belt type fixing device is provided with the semicircular heating member, and an electrophotographic image forming apparatus is provided with the belt type fixing device comprising the semicircular heating member.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 27, 2002Publication date: April 3, 2003Inventors: Koichi Sanpei, Mitsuhiro Mori, Akio Yano, Masatoshi Kimura, Masao Konishi, Takao Kawamura, Akio Harada, Tsuyoshi Nishi, Yukio Yamamoto, Yoshiaki Ohbayashi, Naoya Takehara, Toru Imai
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Patent number: 6523176Abstract: A reservation processing apparatus. A data receiving section receives broadcast data including mainview data and preview data. The preview data represents information of next mainview data. A preview data record section records the preview data received by the data receiving section. A reservation list management section extracts the information of next mainview data from the preview data and stores the information as a reservation list. A reservation item execution section records the next mainview data according to the reservation list when the data receiving section receives the next mainview data transmitted.Type: GrantFiled: March 3, 1999Date of Patent: February 18, 2003Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha ToshibaInventors: Tetsuya Yamane, Shigeyasu Natsubori, Toshiya Takahashi, Shozo Isobe, Toru Imai, Shigeru Oyanagi
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Publication number: 20020129373Abstract: The content playback method comprises inputting scene descriptive information to specify a time based order regarding playback of a piece of content data, receiving and playing back the content data according to the scene descriptive information, measuring an available bandwidth of a network, and requesting a content distribution device to transfer a subsequent piece of the content data based on the scene descriptive information when the available bandwidth exists.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 7, 2002Publication date: September 12, 2002Inventors: Reiko Noda, Toru Imai, Tatsuya Zettsu
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Patent number: 6449514Abstract: An integrated network management and apparatus for managing devices connected to a network which have the same function. Control modules prepare local management tables by reading information regarding recordings made on respective recording media of the devices, and an integrated control module communicates with the control modules to prepare an integrated management table by reading the local management tables. The integrated management table enables the integrated control module to recognize a correlation between a recorded program and the control module, recording medium and recording position. The integrated control module also controls the control modules in the respective devices in an integrated manner using the integrated management table.Type: GrantFiled: September 14, 1999Date of Patent: September 10, 2002Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha ToshibaInventors: Shigeyasu Natsubori, Toshiya Takahashi, Tatsuya Zettsu, Toru Imai
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Publication number: 20020101925Abstract: A moving picture playback method comprises forming a first window based on a software, forming a second window as a child window of the first window on the first window, forming a third window as a child window of the second window within the second window, setting a shape of each frame of the moving picture on the second window, and drawing a picture of the frame on the third window.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 28, 2002Publication date: August 1, 2002Inventors: Tatsuya Zettsu, Toru Imai
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Patent number: 6393398Abstract: A second pass processor detects a stable portion in a 1-best word string obtained by a second pass processing, and determines the word string in the detected stable portion as a speech recognition result.Type: GrantFiled: November 22, 1999Date of Patent: May 21, 2002Assignee: Nippon Hoso KyokaiInventors: Toru Imai, Akio Ando
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Publication number: 20020048043Abstract: An apparatus, method and computer program product for transmitting a plurality of still pictures extracted from a picture stream. The apparatus includes a transmission request receiving unit for receiving a transmission request for the still pictures, and a transmission sequence determining unit for determining a transmission sequence for the still pictures which is different than the sequence of the still pictures in the picture stream. Also included is a transmission unit for transmitting the still pictures according to the determined transmission sequence. Further, a display apparatus, method and computer program product for displaying a plurality of still pictures extracted from a picture stream is also provided. The display apparatus includes a still picture receiving unit for receiving a table having values corresponding to a sequence of the still pictures included in the picture stream, and for receiving any still pictures transmitted from an external apparatus.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 27, 2001Publication date: April 25, 2002Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBAInventors: Toshiya Takahashi, Naomi Takeda, Toru Imai, Osamu Hori
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Patent number: 6367076Abstract: A compiling method, for compiling a source program into an object program for a CPU having multiple functional units that allow for concurrent operations and supporting predicated execution, for generating the object program that can be executed on the CPU at high speed by analyzing the source program and generating intermediate codes, making an analysis of the intermediate codes, generating, based on the analysis, an execution mode set instruction to set an execution mode managed within the CPU, allocating, based on the analysis, instructions such that whether they are to be executed or not to be executed depends on the execution mode set by the execution mode set instruction from the intermediate codes, wherein one or more instructions in which values in their respective specific fields are identical make an block together for every value in the specific field, finding, for each block, an ending part of the block in which its last instruction is allocated, and generating, when the ending part of a certain bType: GrantFiled: March 12, 1999Date of Patent: April 2, 2002Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha ToshibaInventors: Toru Imai, Hiroko Fujii, Yoshio Masubuchi
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Patent number: 6339774Abstract: An information sharing system using a computer so as to allow a plurality of users to share disclosed information, the system comprising, input section for receiving responses to the disclosed information from references of the disclosed information, evaluation information generation section for totalizing and processing the responses to generate evaluation information and storing the evaluation information after correlating it with the disclosed information, and evaluation information notifying section for presenting the evaluation information generated by the evaluation information generation section.Type: GrantFiled: January 28, 1998Date of Patent: January 15, 2002Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha ToshibaInventors: Yasuko Nakayama, Kouichi Sasaki, Yoichi Takebayashi, Mika Fukui, Yoshihisa Ohtake, Kazuyuki Gotoh, Toshihiko Manabe, Toru Imai, Toshinari Takahashi
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Publication number: 20010023433Abstract: A broadcasting station creates a broadcast schedule for broadcasting advertisement information. An information providing apparatus receives the broadcast schedule through a communication network, changes the broadcast schedule based on advertisement rates for broadcasting the advertisement information, and creating a commercial program guide. The commercial program guide is transmitted through a communication network and received by an information storage apparatus. The information storage apparatus automatically records and stores the advertisement information from the broadcasting station based on the received commercial program guide. Also, commercials can be reproduced according to classifications in accordance with the commercial program guide. Thus, it is made possible to automatically record a commercial according to advertisement rates and to display a commercial as desired by a user.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 7, 2001Publication date: September 20, 2001Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBAInventors: Shigeyasu Natsubori, Toru Imai, Toshiya Takahashi, Tatsuya Zettsu, Shozo Isobe, Shinya Amano
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Patent number: 6185531Abstract: A method for improving the associating articles of information or stories with topics associated with specific subjects (subject topics) and with a general topic of words that are not associated with any subject. The inventive method is trained using Hidden Markov Models (HMM) to represent each story with each state in the HMM representing each topic. A standard Expectation and Maximization algorithm, as are known in this art field can be used to maximize the expected likelihood to the method relating the words associated with each topic to that topic. In the method, the probability that each word in a story is related to a subject topic is determined and evaluated, and the subject topics with the lowest probability are discarded. The remaining subject topics are evaluated and a sub-set of subject topics with the highest probabilities over all the words in a story are considered to be the “correct” subject topic set.Type: GrantFiled: January 9, 1998Date of Patent: February 6, 2001Assignee: GTE Internetworking IncorporatedInventors: Richard M. Schwartz, Toru Imai
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Patent number: 6148334Abstract: A scheme for transferring files from a file server to a file requesting client, which enables request and transfer of files which are related to a user requested file at a time of transferring a user requested file. The file requesting client makes a file request indicating a desired file, and in response the file server transfers a file list of files related to the desired file indicated by the file request. Then, the file requesting client makes a transfer request requesting a transfer of files according to the file list, and in response the file server transfers the files requested by the transfer request. Alternatively, the file requesting client makes a request indicating a desired file, and in response the file server transfers a concatenated file formed by concatenating files related to the desired file indicated by the request. Then, the file requesting client extracts individual files from the concatenated file.Type: GrantFiled: July 8, 1998Date of Patent: November 14, 2000Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha ToshibaInventors: Toru Imai, Hiroko Fujii, Hideki Yoshida, Toshihiko Shimokawa