Patents by Inventor Toshitaka Imai
Toshitaka 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: 10237310Abstract: Provided is a method for controlling information shared in a virtual world by a server and a plurality of users' client terminals connected to each other through a network. In this information control method, a computer creates a third object between a first object and a second object in the virtual world when the first object and second object transmit communication information therebetween, and filters the information with the third object. In addition, when an object transmits visual information, the third object can be created around the object transmitting the visual information. The third object can be created as a pseudo wall.Type: GrantFiled: April 25, 2016Date of Patent: March 19, 2019Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Seiya Hayano, Shinji Iizuka, Toshitaka Imai, Kohtaroh Miyamoto
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Publication number: 20160241613Abstract: Provided is a method for controlling information shared in a virtual world by a server and a plurality of users' client terminals connected to each other through a network. In this information control method, a computer creates a third object between a first object and a second object in the virtual world when the first object and second object transmit communication information therebetween, and filters the information with the third object. In addition, when an object transmits visual information, the third object can be created around the object transmitting the visual information. The third object can be created as a pseudo wall.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 25, 2016Publication date: August 18, 2016Inventors: SEIYA HAYANO, SHINJI IIZUKA, TOSHITAKA IMAI, KOHTAROH MIYAMOTO
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Patent number: 9344468Abstract: Provided is a method for controlling information shared in a virtual world by a server and a plurality of users' client terminals connected to each other through a network. In this information control method, a computer creates a third object between a first object and a second object in the virtual world when the first object and second object transmit communication information therebetween, and filters the information with the third object. In addition, when an object transmits visual information, the third object can be created around the object transmitting the visual information. The third object can be created as a pseudo wall.Type: GrantFiled: February 5, 2013Date of Patent: May 17, 2016Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATIONInventors: Seiya Hayano, Shinji Iizuka, Toshitaka Imai, Kohtaroh Miyamoto
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Patent number: 8386566Abstract: Provided is a method for controlling information shared in a virtual world by a server and a plurality of users' client terminals connected to each other through a network. In this information control method, a computer creates a third object between a first object and a second object in the virtual world when the first object and second object transmit communication information therebetween, and filters the information with the third object. In addition, when an object transmits visual information, the third object can be created around the object transmitting the visual information. The third object can be created as a pseudo wall.Type: GrantFiled: November 11, 2008Date of Patent: February 26, 2013Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Seiya Hayano, Shinji Iizuka, Toshitaka Imai, Kohtaroh Miyamoto
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Patent number: 7667217Abstract: An apparatus for easily shooting an invisible image (such as an invisible two-dimensional bar code) latent on an object. The operation of the apparatus is made intuitive and simple and may be incorporated into cameras peripheral to computers and mobile telephones. A novel framing and focusing system is also disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: July 1, 2008Date of Patent: February 23, 2010Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Noboru Kamijoh, Toshitaka Imai, Kazumasa Ochiai, Konichi Kamijoh
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Patent number: 7569970Abstract: An electric motor comprising an inner periphery side rotor provided with inner peripheral permanent magnets with unlike poles, which are disposed alternately along a circumferential direction of the inner periphery side rotor, an outer periphery side rotor provided with outer peripheral permanent magnets with unlike poles, which are disposed alternately along a circumferential direction of the outer periphery side rotor, and a rotating device that varies a relative phase between the inner periphery side rotor and the outer periphery side rotor by rotating at least the inner periphery side rotor or the outer periphery side rotor around the rotational axis. The outer peripheral side rotor is arranged such that a rotational axis thereof is coaxial with a rotational axis of the inner periphery side rotor. The rotating device sets a variable width of the relative phase between the inner periphery side rotor and the outer periphery side rotor within a range of an electrical angle of below 180°.Type: GrantFiled: March 5, 2007Date of Patent: August 4, 2009Assignee: Honda Motor Co., Ltd.Inventors: Kazuyuki Iwata, Masato Fujioka, Toshitaka Imai
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Publication number: 20090125590Abstract: Provided is a method for controlling information shared in a virtual world by a server and a plurality of users' client terminals connected to each other through a network. In this information control method, a computer creates a third object between a first object and a second object in the virtual world when the first object and second object transmit communication information therebetween, and filters the information with the third object. In addition, when an object transmits visual information, the third object can be created around the object transmitting the visual information. The third object can be created as a pseudo wall.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 11, 2008Publication date: May 14, 2009Inventors: Seiya Hayano, Shinji Iizuka, Toshitaka Imai, Kohtaroh Miyamoto
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Patent number: 7484816Abstract: A vehicle control apparatus for controlling a prime mover and wheel brakes which are equipped in a vehicle with an automatic transmission. The vehicle control apparatus includes a prime mover stopping unit which stops and restarts the prime mover under predetermined conditions, and a braking force retaining unit which retains braking force of each of the wheel brakes. Even if the automatic transmission is set in a neutral range, the braking force retaining unit is controlled to retain the braking force of the wheel brakes for a first predetermined time after the operation of a brake operation member is disengaged.Type: GrantFiled: November 23, 2005Date of Patent: February 3, 2009Assignee: Honda Motor Co., Ltd.Inventors: Takahumi Maruyama, Toshitaka Imai, Seiji Ohsaki, Hiroyasu Ishizuka
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Publication number: 20090016568Abstract: An apparatus for easily shooting an invisible image (such as an invisible two-dimensional bar code) latent on an object. The operation of the apparatus is made intuitive and simple and may be incorporated into cameras peripheral to computers and mobile telephones. A novel framing and focusing system is also disclosed.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 1, 2008Publication date: January 15, 2009Applicant: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATIONInventors: Noboru Kamijoh, Toshitaka Imai, Kazumasa Ochiai, Kohichi Kamijoh
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Publication number: 20070205684Abstract: This electric motor is provided with: an inner periphery side rotor provided with inner peripheral permanent magnets with unlike poles, which are disposed alternately along a circumferential direction; an outer periphery side rotor provided with outer peripheral permanent magnets with unlike poles, which are disposed alternately along a circumferential direction, the outer periphery side rotor being arranged such that a rotational axis thereof is coaxial with a rotational axis of the inner periphery side rotor; and a rotating device that varies a relative phase between the inner periphery side rotor and the outer periphery side rotor by rotating at least the inner periphery side rotor or the outer periphery side rotor around the rotational axis, and sets a variable width of the relative phase between the inner periphery side rotor and the outer periphery side rotor within a range of an electrical angle of below 180°.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 5, 2007Publication date: September 6, 2007Inventors: Kazuyuki Iwata, Masato Fujioka, Toshitaka Imai
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Publication number: 20070114841Abstract: A vehicle control apparatus for controlling a prime mover and wheel brakes which are equipped in a vehicle with an automatic transmission. The vehicle control apparatus includes a prime mover stopping unit which stops and restarts the prime mover under predetermined conditions, and a braking force retaining unit which retains braking force of each of the wheel brakes. Even if the automatic transmission is set in a neutral range, the braking force retaining unit is controlled to retain the braking force of the wheel brakes for a first predetermined time after the operation of a brake operation member is disengaged.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 23, 2005Publication date: May 24, 2007Applicant: Honda Motor Co., Ltd.Inventors: Takahumi Maruyama, Toshitaka Imai, Seiji Ohsaki, Hiroyasu Ishizuka
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Patent number: 7094179Abstract: A hydraulic transmission apparatus with a lockup clutch has a pump impeller, a turbine runner, a side cover, a lockup clutch, a clutch piston, a lockup control unit, a frictional engagement unit and a resilient member, a backward movement stopping unit, wherein a transmission capacity of the lockup clutch by virtue of a biasing force of the resilient member is set smaller than a torque absorption capacity of the pump impeller when the engine is in an idle state so that the clutch piston is held at the predetermined backward position by virtue of the pressure difference when the engine is in the idle state.Type: GrantFiled: March 29, 2004Date of Patent: August 22, 2006Assignee: Honda Motor Co., Ltd.Inventors: Hiroya Abe, Tetsurou Maruyama, Toshitaka Imai
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Publication number: 20040206592Abstract: A hydraulic transmission apparatus with a lockup clutch has a pump impeller, a turbine runner, a side cover, a lockup clutch, a clutch piston, a lockup control unit, a frictional engagement unit and a resilient member, a backward movement stopping unit, wherein a transmission capacity of the lockup clutch by virtue of a biasing force of the resilient member is set smaller than a torque absorption capacity of the pump impeller when the engine is in an idle state so that the clutch piston is held at the predetermined backward position by virtue of the pressure difference when the engine is in the idle state.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 29, 2004Publication date: October 21, 2004Applicant: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventors: Hiroya Abe, Tetsurou Maruyama, Toshitaka Imai
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Publication number: 20030154291Abstract: A modular computer system includes a core unit comprising a processor and a memory; a removable modular accessory; a docking connector for connecting the accessory to the core unit; and one or more subsystems contained within the accessory. The system is partitioned such that any of the cooling, power or input/output subsystems can be disposed within the modular accessory such that these subsystems can be removed from the system by removing the accessory. The core unit by itself is not useful to a user because it lacks power, cooling, or a user interface. The core unit can be connected into any of a variety of accessories and it adapts its functions to the system resources provided by each type of accessory.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 18, 2002Publication date: August 14, 2003Applicant: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Kenneth Blair Ocheltree, Masato Anzai, Nicholas R. Dono, Akira Hino, Toshitaka Imai, Seiichi Kawano, Shinsuke Noda, Ernest Nelson Mandese, Toshitsugu Mito, James Randal Moulic, Robert K. Montoye, Robert Stephen Olyha, Ronald Alan Smith, Hiromi Tanaka, Kazuhiko Yamazaki, Yoshihisa Sueta, Masatoshi Ishii
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Patent number: 6398437Abstract: To provide a keyboard having a home position for control keys such as cursor keys. A notebook personal computer includes a region in which a plurality of keys such as character keys and control keys are disposed and a palm rest 53 adjacent to the plurality of keys. Cursor keys 65, 67, 69, and 71, which belong to the control keys, are disposed adjacently to the palm rest and a slanted region 101 distinguishable by touch from the main surface of the palm rest is provided in a place adjacent to the cursor keys as their home position. Because the slanted region 101 is locatable with tactile sensation, the touch typing of the cursor keys is enabled.Type: GrantFiled: October 4, 2000Date of Patent: June 4, 2002Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Kazuhiko Yamazaki, Toshitaka Imai, Hisashi Shima
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Patent number: D364148Type: GrantFiled: October 13, 1994Date of Patent: November 14, 1995Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Joseph E. Jasinski, Susan S. Moffatt, Toshitaka Imai, John A. Wiseman
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Patent number: D364851Type: GrantFiled: October 13, 1994Date of Patent: December 5, 1995Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Susan S. Moffatt, Toshitaka Imai, John A. Wiseman, Joseph E. Jasinski
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Patent number: D366029Type: GrantFiled: October 13, 1994Date of Patent: January 9, 1996Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Susan S. Moffatt, Toshitaka Imai, John A. Wiseman, Joseph E. Jasinski
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Patent number: D368075Type: GrantFiled: March 7, 1995Date of Patent: March 19, 1996Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventor: Toshitaka Imai
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Patent number: D419138Type: GrantFiled: December 1, 1997Date of Patent: January 18, 2000Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventor: Toshitaka Imai