Patents by Inventor Yuichi Shirai
Yuichi Shirai 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: 10638213Abstract: A mobile device system that includes left and right earphones, and a mobile device connectable to the left and right earphones. Each of the left and right earphones includes at least one of an acceleration sensor and a geomagnetic sensor. The mobile device includes a controller that monitors a wearing state of the individual left and right earphones by a user on a basis of output from the least one of the acceleration sensors and the geomagnetic sensors, and controls a behavior of the mobile device connected to the left and right earphones according to the monitored wearing state of the left and right earphones by the user.Type: GrantFiled: December 27, 2017Date of Patent: April 28, 2020Assignee: SONY CORPORATIONInventors: Makoto Tachibana, Takashi Shiina, Tetsuya Naruse, Yuichi Shirai, Chikashi Yajima, Susumu Takatsuka
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Publication number: 20200060276Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a thiazole compound and a herbicide containing the thiazole compound. The present invention relates to a thiazole compound represented by general formula (1): wherein R1 and R2 are identical or different and represent a hydrogen atom, a halogen atom, or an alkyl group which may have a substituent, R3 and R4 are identical or different and represent, for example, a hydrogen atom, a deuterium atom, or a halogen atom, R5, R6, R7, R8, and R9 are identical or different and represent, for example, a hydrogen atom, a halogen atom, or a hydroxyl group, at least one of R5, R6, R7, R8 or R9 represents a hydroxyl group, an OCOR12 group, a COR13 group, or an OSO2R14 group, R10, R11, R12, R13, and R14 represent a hydrogen atom, an alkyl group which may have a substituent, or an aryl group which may have a substituent, and n represents 0, 1, or 2.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 26, 2018Publication date: February 27, 2020Applicant: OAT Agrio Co., Ltd.Inventors: Satoshi FUKUNAGA, Tatsuya SUMITOMO, Hayato SUMIYOSHI, Shinpei NOYAMA, Yuichi SHIRAI, Yusuke NORIMURA, Kohei MATSUZAKI
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Publication number: 20180124496Abstract: A mobile device system that includes left and right earphones, and a mobile device connectable to the left and right earphones. Each of the left and right earphones includes at least one of an acceleration sensor and a geomagnetic sensor. The mobile device includes a controller that monitors a wearing state of the individual left and right earphones by a user on a basis of output from the least one of the acceleration sensors and the geomagnetic sensors, and controls a behavior of the mobile device connected to the left and right earphones according to the monitored wearing state of the left and right earphones by the user.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 27, 2017Publication date: May 3, 2018Applicant: SONY MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS INC.Inventors: Makoto Tachibana, Takashi Shiina, Tetsuya Naruse, Yuichi Shirai, Chikashi Yajima, Susumu Takatsuka
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Patent number: 9916004Abstract: An information processing apparatus including a communication interface configured to be connected to an external posture detecting device to be worn by a user; a display configured to rotatably display a display image; and circuitry configured to control a rotation angle of the image displayed by the display based on posture information received from the external posture detecting device.Type: GrantFiled: August 27, 2013Date of Patent: March 13, 2018Assignee: SONY MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS INC.Inventors: Makoto Tachibana, Takashi Shiina, Tetsuya Naruse, Yuichi Shirai, Chikashi Yajima, Susumu Takatsuka
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Patent number: 9860625Abstract: A mobile device system that includes left and right earphones, and a mobile device connectable to the left and right earphones. Each of the left and right earphones includes at least one of an acceleration sensor and a geomagnetic sensor. The mobile device includes a controller that monitors a wearing state of the individual left and right earphones by a user on a basis of output from the least one of the acceleration sensors and the geomagnetic sensors, and controls a behavior of the mobile device connected to the left and right earphones according to the monitored wearing state of the left and right earphones by the user.Type: GrantFiled: March 23, 2016Date of Patent: January 2, 2018Assignee: Sony Mobile Communications Inc.Inventors: Makoto Tachibana, Takashi Shiina, Tetsuya Naruse, Yuichi Shirai, Chikashi Yajima, Susumu Takatsuka
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Patent number: 9479872Abstract: An information processing apparatus that reproduces left and right audio signals based on data acquired from a sound source; acquires left and right surrounding sounds collected by left and right microphones included in a headphone unit connected to the information processing apparatus; combines a sound corresponding to at least one of the left and right surrounding sounds with at least one of the left and right audio signals; and outputs the left and right audio signals combined with the sound corresponding to the at least one of the left and right surrounding sounds to left and right earphones of the headphone unit.Type: GrantFiled: September 10, 2013Date of Patent: October 25, 2016Assignees: Sony Corporation, Sony Mobile Communications, Inc.Inventors: Makoto Tachibana, Takashi Shiina, Tetsuya Naruse, Yuichi Shirai, Chikashi Yajima, Susumu Takatsuka
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Publication number: 20160205460Abstract: A mobile device system that includes left and right earphones, and a mobile device connectable to the left and right earphones. Each of the left and right earphones includes at least one of an acceleration sensor and a geomagnetic sensor. The mobile device includes a controller that monitors a wearing state of the individual left and right earphones by a user on a basis of output from the least one of the acceleration sensors and the geomagnetic sensors, and controls a behavior of the mobile device connected to the left and right earphones according to the monitored wearing state of the left and right earphones by the user.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 23, 2016Publication date: July 14, 2016Applicants: SONY CORPORATION, SONY MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS INC.Inventors: Makoto TACHIBANA, Takashi SHIINA, Tetsuya NARUSE, Yuichi SHIRAI, Chikashi YAJIMA, Susumu TAKATSUKA
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Patent number: 9351090Abstract: An information processing apparatus that detects an output from a 3-axis acceleration sensor included in an earphone unit worn by a user while the user is in a still state; monitors the output of the 3-axis acceleration sensor while a nodding gesture is performed by the user; detects a time when an angle of the nodding gesture reaches a maximum; and determines an earphone wearing state based on the output from the 3-axis acceleration sensor in the still state and the output from the 3-axis acceleration sensor at the time of detecting the maximum nodding angle.Type: GrantFiled: October 2, 2013Date of Patent: May 24, 2016Assignees: Sony Corporation, SONY MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS, INC.Inventors: Makoto Tachibana, Takashi Shiina, Tetsuya Naruse, Yuichi Shirai, Chikashi Yajima, Susumu Takatsuka
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Patent number: 9326058Abstract: A mobile device system that includes left and right earphones, and a mobile device connectable to the left and right earphones. Each of the left and right earphones includes at least one of an acceleration sensor and a geomagnetic sensor. The mobile device includes a controller that monitors a wearing state of the individual left and right earphones by a user on a basis of output from the least one of the acceleration sensors and the geomagnetic sensors, and controls a behavior of the mobile device connected to the left and right earphones according to the monitored wearing state of the left and right earphones by the user.Type: GrantFiled: September 24, 2013Date of Patent: April 26, 2016Assignees: Sony Corporation, Sony Mobile Communications Inc.Inventors: Makoto Tachibana, Takashi Shiina, Tetsuya Naruse, Yuichi Shirai, Chikashi Yajima, Susumu Takatsuka
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Publication number: 20140148477Abstract: The present invention provides an animal ectoparasite-controlling agent and a method for preventing or treating infection in animals caused by parasites by using the controlling agent. An animal ectoparasite-controlling agent exhibiting excellent insecticidal activity, and a method for preventing or treating infection in animals caused by parasites by using the controlling agent are obtained by using a compound having a pyrazole ring at the 4-position of the piperidine ring as an active ingredient.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 19, 2012Publication date: May 29, 2014Applicant: OTSUKA AGRITECHNO CO., LTD.Inventors: Yasuhiro Endo, Yuichi Shirai
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Patent number: 8718930Abstract: An information processing apparatus that detects a current location of the information processing apparatus; obtains a direction of a destination from the detected current location as a target direction; detects a facial orientation of a user wearing a headphone unit connected to the information processing apparatus via a wired or wireless connection in relation to a reference orientation based on outputs of a geomagnetic sensor and an acceleration sensor connected to the headphone unit; obtains a relative target angle based on a difference between the target direction and the user's facial orientation; and generates sound to be output by the headphone unit based on the obtained relative target angle.Type: GrantFiled: August 16, 2013Date of Patent: May 6, 2014Assignees: Sony Corporation, Sony Mobile Communications Inc.Inventors: Makoto Tachibana, Takashi Shiina, Tetsuya Naruse, Yuichi Shirai, Chikashi Yajima, Susumu Takatsuka
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Publication number: 20140093088Abstract: An information processing apparatus that detects an output from a 3-axis acceleration sensor included in an earphone unit worn by a user while the user is in a still state; monitors the output of the 3-axis acceleration sensor while a nodding gesture is performed by the user; detects a time when an angle of the nodding gesture reaches a maximum; and determines an earphone wearing state based on the output from the 3-axis acceleration sensor in the still state and the output from the 3-axis acceleration sensor at the time of detecting the maximum nodding angle.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 2, 2013Publication date: April 3, 2014Applicant: Sony Mobile Communications, Inc.Inventors: Makoto TACHIBANA, Takashi Shiina, Tetsuya Naruse, Yuichi Shirai, Chikashi Yajima, Susumu Takatsuka
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Publication number: 20140086438Abstract: A mobile device system that includes left and right earphones, and a mobile device connectable to the left and right earphones. Each of the left and right earphones includes at least one of an acceleration sensor and a geomagnetic sensor. The mobile device includes a controller that monitors a wearing state of the individual left and right earphones by a user on a basis of output from the least one of the acceleration sensors and the geomagnetic sensors, and controls a behavior of the mobile device connected to the left and right earphones according to the monitored wearing state of the left and right earphones by the user.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 24, 2013Publication date: March 27, 2014Applicant: SONY MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS INC.Inventors: Makoto Tachibana, Takashi Shiina, Tetsuya Naruse, Yuichi Shirai, Chikashi Yajima, Susumu Takatsuka
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Publication number: 20140072154Abstract: An information processing apparatus that reproduces left and right audio signals based on data acquired from a sound source; acquires left and right surrounding sounds collected by left and right microphones included in a headphone unit connected to the information processing apparatus; combines a sound corresponding to at least one of the left and right surrounding sounds with at least one of the left and right audio signals; and outputs the left and right audio signals combined with the sound corresponding to the at least one of the left and right surrounding sounds to left and right earphones of the headphone unit.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 10, 2013Publication date: March 13, 2014Applicant: Sony Mobile Communications, Inc.Inventors: Makoto TACHIBANA, Takashi Shiina, Tetsuya Naruse, Yuichi Shirai, Chikashi Yajima, Susumu Takatsuka
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Publication number: 20140062842Abstract: An information processing apparatus including a communication interface configured to be connected to an external posture detecting device to be worn by a user; a display configured to rotatably display a display image; and circuitry configured to control a rotation angle of the image displayed by the display based on posture information received from the external posture detecting device.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 27, 2013Publication date: March 6, 2014Applicant: Sony Mobile Communications, Inc.Inventors: Makoto TACHIBANA, Takashi Shiina, Tetsuya Naruse, Yuichi Shirai, Chikashi Yajima, Susumu Takatsuka
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Publication number: 20140058662Abstract: An information processing apparatus that detects a current location of the information processing apparatus; obtains a direction of a destination from the detected current location as a target direction; detects a facial orientation of a user wearing a headphone unit connected to the information processing apparatus via a wired or wireless connection in relation to a reference orientation based on outputs of a geomagnetic sensor and an acceleration sensor connected to the headphone unit; obtains a relative target angle based on a difference between the target direction and the user's facial orientation; and generates sound to be output by the headphone unit based on the obtained relative target angle.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 16, 2013Publication date: February 27, 2014Applicant: Sony Mobile Communications, Inc.Inventors: Makoto TACHIBANA, Takashi SHIINA, Tetsuya NARUSE, Yuichi SHIRAI, Chikashi YAJIMA, Susumu TAKATSUKA
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Patent number: 7994094Abstract: The N-pyridylpiperidine compound of the invention is represented by Formula (1) wherein R1 is a halogen atom, a C1-4 haloalkyl group, a cyano group, a nitro group, or C1-4 alkoxycarbonyl group; R2, R3, R4, R5, R6, R7, R8, and R9 are each independently a hydrogen atom or a C1-4 alkyl group; R10 is a hydrogen atom, etc.; R11 is a halogen atom, etc.; X is an oxygen atom or a sulfur atom, m is an integer of 1 to 4; and n is an integer of 1 or 2. The N-pyridylpiperidine compound of the invention has an excellent miticidal activity against spider mites and rust mites.Type: GrantFiled: August 29, 2007Date of Patent: August 9, 2011Assignee: Otsuka Agritechno Co., Ltd.Inventors: Yasuhiro Endo, Go Uenaka, Yuichi Shirai
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Publication number: 20100137582Abstract: The N-pyridylpiperidine compound of the invention is represented by Formula (1) wherein R1 is a halogen atom, a C1-4 haloalkyl group, a cyano group, a nitro group, or C1-4 alkoxycarbonyl group; R2, R3, R4, R5, R6, R7, R8, and R9 are each independently a hydrogen atom or a C1-4 alkyl group; R10 is a hydrogen atom, etc.; R11 is a halogen atom, etc.; X is an oxygen atom or a sulfur atom, m is an integer of 1 to 4; and n is an integer of 1 or 2. The N-pyridylpiperidine compound of the invention has an excellent miticidal activity against spider mites and rust mites.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 29, 2007Publication date: June 3, 2010Applicant: Otsuka Chemical Co., Ltd.Inventors: Yasuhiro Endo, Go Uenaka, Yuichi Shirai