Patents by Inventor Yasushi Katayama
Yasushi Katayama 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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Publication number: 20150235404Abstract: A display system is a display system which is installed in a vehicle and includes a liquid crystal display unit which outputs information representing a deviation amount of the current running speed of the vehicle from a speed limit set for an area where the vehicle is currently running.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 30, 2015Publication date: August 20, 2015Inventors: Osamu Hiraoka, Yasushi Katayama
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Patent number: 9105219Abstract: A light emitting element drive device includes: a light emitting section having a light emitting element; output capacitance capable of storing power supplied to the light emitting section; a driver connected between the light emitting section and a reference potential and including a switch section whose conductive state is controlled by a pulse-like lighting signal depending on magnitude of a load current and a constant current source section connected in series to the switch section; and a power supply controller being a power supply that provides drive power to the light emitting section and including a function to adjust an output current supplied to the output capacitance. The power supply controller changes the supply amount of the output current for the light emitting section from the power supply controller based on load current information that is necessary peak power of the light emitting section.Type: GrantFiled: February 28, 2013Date of Patent: August 11, 2015Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Tatsuki Nishino, Yasushi Katayama, Makoto Kobori, Yoshiki Oyama
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Patent number: 8852915Abstract: A method of retrovirus storage, characterized in that a retrovirus is sustained in the presence of a substance with retrovirus binding activity immobilized on a solid phase. Further, there is provided a retrovirus composition characterized in that a retrovirus in the form of binding to a substance with retrovirus binding activity is sealed in a container holding a solid phase having the substance with retrovirus binding activity immobilized thereon.Type: GrantFiled: October 12, 2012Date of Patent: October 7, 2014Assignee: Takara Bio Inc.Inventors: Hideto Chono, Yasushi Katayama, Hiromi Okuyama, Junichi Mineno, Kiyozo Asada, Ikunoshin Kato
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Patent number: 8742301Abstract: A heater apparatus includes: a heater unit including a heater resistor; a first switching unit disposed on a downstream side of the heater resistor for on/off controlling a power supply path from a supply voltage; a second switching unit disposed on an upstream side of the heater resistor for on/off controlling the power supply path from the supply voltage; and a controller outputting first and second control signals for on/off controlling the first and second switching units, respectively. The first switching unit is switched on when the first control signal is high, and the second switching unit is switched on when the second control signal is low. The heater unit is switched on when the sensor temperature is equal to or lower than a first threshold, and is switched off when the sensor temperature is equal to or higher than a second threshold.Type: GrantFiled: August 5, 2009Date of Patent: June 3, 2014Assignee: Yazaki CorporationInventor: Yasushi Katayama
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Publication number: 20140132536Abstract: There is provided an information processing device including an operation acceptance unit configured to accept a user operation related to an image based on image data received from another information processing device using short-range wireless communication when the image is displayed on a display unit, and a controller configured to perform control in a manner that notification information for issuing a notification that the user operation is accepted is output when the user operation is accepted, and control data corresponding to the user operation is transmitted to the other information processing device.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 5, 2013Publication date: May 15, 2014Applicant: Sony CorporationInventors: Yoshihiko Ikenaga, Yasushi Katayama, Sho Amano, Tomoya Yamaura
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Publication number: 20140060892Abstract: A printed circuit board is designed to meet the following requirements. A front-back copper foil residual rate difference a?b falls within a range of ?10% to 10%, where the insulative board is divided into a plurality of divisions, in which front and back surface copper foil residual rates of each division are a % and b %, respectively. A difference (a?b)?(c?d) between front-back copper foil residual rate differences of adjacent divisions falls within a range of ?10% to 10%, where the front and back surface copper foil residual rates of a division adjacent to the each division are c % and d %, respectively. There are not three or more consecutive divisions for which the difference between the front-back copper foil residual rate differences goes beyond a range of ?5% to 5%.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 3, 2013Publication date: March 6, 2014Applicant: YAZAKI CORPORATIONInventor: Yasushi Katayama
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Patent number: 8606172Abstract: A data receiving and recording method and data receiver are provided for receiving data coded by a predetermined method and copyright information attached to the data. While recording the received data on a predetermined recording medium, the copyright information is recorded into a predetermined area of the recording medium. Preferably, the data consists of audio data of the song, lyrics data of the song and image data relating to the song and the copyright information is allotted respectively to the audio data, lyrics data and image data.Type: GrantFiled: July 9, 2010Date of Patent: December 10, 2013Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Shintaro Tsutsui, Susumu Nagano, Yasushi Katayama
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Patent number: 8588678Abstract: A data receiving and recording method and data receiver are provided for receiving data coded by a predetermined method and copyright information attached to the data. While recording the received data on a predetermined recording medium, the copyright information is recorded into a predetermined area of the recording medium. Preferably, the data consists of audio data of the song, lyrics data of the song and image data relating to the song and the copyright information is allotted respectively to the audio data, lyrics data and image data.Type: GrantFiled: July 9, 2010Date of Patent: November 19, 2013Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Shintaro Tsutsui, Susumu Nagano, Yasushi Katayama
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Patent number: 8559203Abstract: A power source apparatus includes: a first alternating current line; a second alternating current line; an electric power inputting portion including a rectifying circuit for rectifying an alternating current voltage supplied from an alternating current power source, the electric power inputting portion serving to output the rectified voltage to each of the first and second alternating current lines; a first converter including a switching element for converting the alternating current voltage into a first direct current voltage; a second converter for converting the first direct current voltage obtained in the first converter into a second direct current voltage; and a control circuit for carrying out control for driving at least the switching element of the first converter so as to be turned ON or OFF.Type: GrantFiled: April 26, 2010Date of Patent: October 15, 2013Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Masaya Uemura, Tsutomu Fukuda, Yasushi Katayama
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Publication number: 20130249972Abstract: A light emitting element drive device includes: a light emitting section having a light emitting element; output capacitance capable of storing power supplied to the light emitting section; a driver connected between the light emitting section and a reference potential and including a switch section whose conductive state is controlled by a pulse-like lighting signal depending on magnitude of a load current and a constant current source section connected in series to the switch section; and a power supply controller being a power supply that provides drive power to the light emitting section and including a function to adjust an output current supplied to the output capacitance. The power supply controller changes the supply amount of the output current for the light emitting section from the power supply controller based on load current information that is necessary peak power of the light emitting section.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 28, 2013Publication date: September 26, 2013Applicant: SONY CORPORATIONInventors: Tatsuki Nishino, Yasushi Katayama, Makoto Kobori, Yoshiki Oyama
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Patent number: 8531283Abstract: A purpose of the invention is to provide a control method for switching between scales in the vehicular instrument that can prevent erroneous recognition and perform highly safety displaying. When a vehicle information display of a scale A is changed to a vehicle information display of a scale B, emission of light for displaying a scale associated with the vehicle information display of the scale A is temporarily stopped, and after that, emission of light for displaying a scale associated with the vehicle information display of the scale B is started.Type: GrantFiled: December 8, 2009Date of Patent: September 10, 2013Assignee: Yazaki CorporationInventor: Yasushi Katayama
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Patent number: 8427078Abstract: A light-emitting element driving device includes: a plurality of light emitters; a power supply; a plurality of current control transistors; a plurality of constant-current circuits; a voltage selecting circuit; a control circuit; and a voltage controller.Type: GrantFiled: March 3, 2011Date of Patent: April 23, 2013Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Takahiro Naito, Yasushi Katayama, Tatsuki Nishino
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Patent number: 8384373Abstract: Disclosed herein is an AC line signal detection device including: a semiconductor integrated circuit; and a conversion section adapted to rectify an AC line signal and convert the rectified signal to an input signal to be fed to the semiconductor integrated circuit, wherein the semiconductor integrated circuit includes a monitoring section adapted to divide the AC line signal into a plurality of voltage ranges with at least one reference voltage proportional to the amplitude of the AC line signal to monitor within which voltage range the AC line signal falls; a measuring section adapted to measure a duration for which the AC line signal remains in each of the voltage ranges; and a determination section adapted to determine, based on the monitoring result of the monitoring section and the measurement result of the measuring section, whether the duration for which the AC line signal remains in each of the voltage ranges exceeds a set time which can be set in advance to make a pass/fail determination on the AC lType: GrantFiled: March 22, 2010Date of Patent: February 26, 2013Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Hiroyuki Watanabe, Yasushi Katayama, Masaya Uemura
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Patent number: 8351845Abstract: A data receiving and recording method and data receiver are provided for receiving data coded by a predetermined method and copyright information attached to the data. While recording the received data on a predetermined recording medium, the copyright information is recorded into a predetermined area of the recording medium. Preferably, the data consists of audio data of the song, lyrics data of the song and image data relating to the song and the copyright information is allotted respectively to the audio data, lyrics data and image data.Type: GrantFiled: April 3, 2006Date of Patent: January 8, 2013Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Shintaro Tsutsui, Susumu Nagano, Yasushi Katayama
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Patent number: 8209734Abstract: A receiving apparatus comprising means for receiving an event notice that includes time information. Upon receipt of the event notice, an event corresponding to the time information is generated. The event is immediately generated if the event notice includes a code that indicates immediate generation.Type: GrantFiled: September 1, 2005Date of Patent: June 26, 2012Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Naohisa Kitazato, Junya Saito, Kenichi Murata, Yasushi Katayama
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Patent number: 8195821Abstract: An apparatus and a method for implementing an execution configuration for efficiently recording and reproducing data using distributed nodes are provided. When data recording processing is performed for a plurality of distributed nodes connected to a network or when data recorded in the distributed nodes is collected and reproduced, a processing command apparatus sets data for determining for the nodes to determine whether to execute data recording or data reproducing and transmits a data processing request, in which the data for determination and data specifying data to be recorded or reproduced are stored, to the nodes so that the node side can autonomously determine whether to execute data processing based on the data for determination. This configuration eliminates the need for the command apparatus, which issues a processing request, to perform preprocessing such as the selection of a particular node, thus increasing the efficiency of data recording and reproducing processing for distributed nodes.Type: GrantFiled: November 18, 2003Date of Patent: June 5, 2012Assignee: Sony CorporationInventor: Yasushi Katayama
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Publication number: 20110285313Abstract: A light-emitting element driving device includes: a plurality of light emitters; a power supply; a plurality of current control transistors; a plurality of constant-current circuits; a voltage selecting circuit; a control circuit; and a voltage controller.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 3, 2011Publication date: November 24, 2011Applicant: Sony CorporationInventors: Takahiro Naito, Yasushi Katayama, Tatsuki Nishino
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Publication number: 20110285685Abstract: Disclosed herein is a light-emitting element driver including: a light-emitting section; a power supply section; a switching section; a constant current circuit or resistor; and a control circuit.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 7, 2011Publication date: November 24, 2011Applicant: Sony CorporationInventors: Takahiro Naito, Tatsuki Nishino, Takuro Akiyama, Yasushi Katayama
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Publication number: 20110139766Abstract: A heater apparatus includes: a heater unit including a heater resistor; a first switching unit disposed on a downstream side of the heater resistor for on/off controlling a power supply path from a supply voltage; a second switching unit disposed on an upstream side of the heater resistor for on/off controlling the power supply path from the supply voltage; and a controller outputting first and second control signals for on/off controlling the first and second switching units, respectively. The first switching unit is switched on when the first control signal is high, and the second switching unit is switched on when the second control signal is low. The heater unit is switched on when the sensor temperature is equal to or lower than a first threshold, and is switched off when the sensor temperature is equal to or higher than a second threshold.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 5, 2009Publication date: June 16, 2011Applicant: YAZAKI CORPORATIONInventor: Yasushi Katayama
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Publication number: 20110043347Abstract: A purpose of the invention is to provide a control method for switching between scales in the vehicular instrument that can prevent erroneous recognition and perform highly safety displaying. When a vehicle information display of a scale A is changed to a vehicle information display of a scale B, emission of light for displaying a scale associated with the vehicle information display of the scale A is temporarily stopped, and after that, emission of light for displaying a scale associated with the vehicle information display of the scale B is started.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 8, 2009Publication date: February 24, 2011Applicant: YAZAKI CORPORATIONInventor: Yasushi Katayama