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Koichi Yamamoto

Koichi Yamamoto, Hikari-Shi JP

Patent application numberDescriptionPublished
20100207790ANALOG INPUT AND OUTPUT CIRCUIT AND VACUUM PROCESSING APPARATUS - The invention provides an analog input and output circuit and a vacuum processing apparatus capable of automatically performing the correction of all analog inputs and outputs via a single reference voltage adjustment, thereby solving the prior art problem of requiring a different correction value for each channel for accurately controlling the analog input and output due to the difference in the on resistances of switches for respective channels of an analog multiplexer. The prevent invention comprises an A/D converter 08-19-2010

Koichi Yamamoto, Fukushima-Ken JP

Patent application numberDescriptionPublished
20100097246INPUT DEVICE AND KEYBOARD DEVICE HAVING ILLUMINATION FUNCTION - An input device includes a plurality of manipulation portions; an input function portion manipulated by the manipulation portions to perform an input function; a light guiding sheet facing the rear side of the plurality of manipulation portions; and a light source applying light into the light guiding sheet, wherein a rear surface opposite to a front surface of the light guiding sheet facing the manipulation portions is provided with a plurality of concave portions which is depressed to the inside of the light guiding sheet, wherein each concave portion has a circular opening and an inner surface which is a smooth concave curve surface, and wherein light propagated through the inside of the light guiding sheet is reflected by the inner surface toward the inside of the light guiding sheet, and the light is applied from the front surface of the light guiding sheet to the manipulation portions.04-22-2010

Patent applications by Koichi Yamamoto, Fukushima-Ken JP

Koichi Yamamoto, Fuchu JP

Patent application numberDescriptionPublished
20090326944VOICE RECOGNITION APPARATUS AND METHOD - An input voice detect is detected after starting a voice input waiting state; the detected voice is recognized; an elapsed time from the start of the voice input waiting state is counted; an informative sound which urges a user to input the voice is outputted when the elapsed time reaches a preset output set time; and the output of the informative sound is stopped when the elapsed time at the time of inputting the voice is shorter than the output set timedetect.12-31-2009

Koichi Yamamoto, Tokyo JP

Patent application numberDescriptionPublished
20090254341APPARATUS, METHOD, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT FOR JUDGING SPEECH/NON-SPEECH - A spectrum calculating unit calculates, for each of the frames, a spectrum by performing a frequency analysis on an acoustic signal. An estimating unit estimates a noise spectrum. An energy calculating unit calculates an energy characteristic amount. An entropy calculating unit calculates a normalized spectral entropy value. A generating unit generates a characteristic vector based on the energy characteristic amounts and the normalized spectral entropy values that have been calculated for a plurality of frames. A likelihood calculating unit calculates a speech likelihood value of a target frame that corresponds to the characteristic vector. In a case where the speech likelihood value is larger than a threshold value, a judging unit judges that the target frame is a speech frame.10-08-2009
20110238417SPEECH DETECTION APPARATUS - According to one embodiment, a speech detection apparatus includes a first acoustic signal analyzing unit configured to analyze a frequency spectrum of a first acoustic signal, and a feature extracting unit configured to remove a frequency spectrum of the first acoustic signal from a third acoustic signal, which is obtained by suppressing an echo component of the first acoustic signal contained in a second acoustic signal, so as to extract a feature of a frequency spectrum of the third acoustic signal.09-29-2011
20110246190SPEECH DIALOG APPARATUS - According to one embodiment, a speech dialog apparatus includes a speech detection unit that detects a start and an end of echo removed speech obtained by removing an echo of response speech contained in input speech; a response interruption control unit that outputs a response interruption command if the end is not yet detected when a predetermined period from the detection of the start passes; and a dialog control unit that causes a response speech output unit to interrupt output of the response speech upon receipt of the response interruption command from the response interruption control unit.10-06-2011

Koichi Yamamoto, Miyagi-Ken JP

Patent application numberDescriptionPublished
20090073724INPUT DEVICE WITH ILLUMINATION FUNCTION - An input device having an illumination function includes a wiring board having a predetermined wiring pattern thereon containing a fixed contact point, a light-emitting diode, a planar light-guide plate for guiding emission light from the light-emitting diode in a direction along a surface, a metal dome serving as a movable contact, and a cover sheet having an actuator thereon to be used to press the metal dome. The wiring board is manufactured of a white translucent material. The planar light-guide plate includes a plurality of prism grooves arranged in stripes on the surface thereof, and on a predetermined portion thereof a through-hole for housing the metal dome. An air layer is arranged between the prism bearing surface of the planar light-guide plate and the cover sheet. The metal dome 03-19-2009
20090244905ILLUMINATION DEVICE AND INPUT DEVICE WITH ILLUMINATION FUNCTION HAVING THE SAME - In an input device with an illumination function including an illumination device having light-emitting diodes, strip-like light-guide plates that distribute light emitted from the light-emitting diodes to the side surfaces other than a light-incident surface, and a planar light-guide plate that is provided with a plurality of through-holes and laterally propagates light incident from the strip-like light-guide plates and emits the light from through-holes, the planar light-guide plate is provided with strip-like light-guide-plate providing grooves at portions where the through-holes are not provided, and the strip-like light-guide plates are provided in the strip-like light-guide-plate providing grooves such that the side surfaces of the strip-like light-guide-plate providing grooves and the side surfaces of the strip-like light-guide plates face each other.10-01-2009

Koichi Yamamoto, Saitama JP

Patent application numberDescriptionPublished
20090120620VEHICLE BATTERY COOLING DEVICE - A vehicle battery cooling device, which includes: a battery case for housing a plurality of batteries to be mounted on a vehicle; a fan for circulating air for cooling the batteries by suctioning air in the battery case; an air inlet disposed on each of a pair of side wall portions facing each other for introducing air from outside the battery case; and an air outlet disposed on a bottom wall portion of the battery case for exhausting air from the battery case by suctioning of the fan.05-14-2009
20090206096THREE-PIECE SQUARE CAN AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING THE SAME - The present invention provides a three-piece rectangular can which can overcome drawbacks (joint defect) of a can body joint portion of a three-piece can, and is of a new type which overcomes shortage of a can body strength which a two-piece can possesses, and exhibits excellent liquid leakage resistance, excellent can body strength and excellent heat radiation property or the like even when the can is used as a casing of a battery or electric equipment. For this end, the three-piece rectangular can of the present invention is formed such that a circular blank formed of an aluminum plate which forms an organic film on at least one surface thereof is formed into a bottomed circular can by deep drawing such that the organic film forms an inner side of the can, a cylindrical sleeve having no seam on a side surface thereof is formed by cutting a can bottom of the bottomed circular can, a rectangular can body portion having no seam on a side surface thereof is formed by deforming the cylindrical sleeve into a rectangular shape, a necking formed portion is formed by applying necking forming to opening portions at both ends of the rectangular can body, and a top lid and a bottom lid are mounted on the opening portions at both ends of the rectangular can body by double seaming by way of an organic compound.08-20-2009

Koichi Yamamoto, Kanagawa JP

Patent application numberDescriptionPublished
20080235729USER INTERFACE APPARATUS, DISPLAY METHOD, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT - A content material of a first content which is reproducible constantly and content information describing information relating to a reproduction of a second content which is reproducible on a predetermined time and date are stored in a storage unit. A timewise characteristic or a characteristic relating to a reproducing state of the content material and/or the content information corresponding to operation candidate contents are determined. The operation candidate contents are list-displayed for each type of the characteristic, and an execution process corresponding to the characteristic of an operation candidate content is displayed as a processing candidate.09-25-2008
20090083029RETRIEVING APPARATUS, RETRIEVING METHOD, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT - A word coinciding with a key word input by speech and a word related to the word are set as retrieval candidate words based on a word dictionary in which words representing formal names and aliases of the formal names are registered in association with a family attribute indicating a familiar relation among the words. Content related to any one of retrieval words selected out of the retrieval candidate words and a word related to the retrieval word is retrieved.03-26-2009
20090083227RETRIEVING APPARATUS, RETRIEVING METHOD, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT - A word coinciding with a retrieval object keyword and a word tied to the word are read out from a word dictionary in which words representing formal names and aliases of the normal names are registered in association with a family attribute indicating a family relation among the words. The keyword is expanded by reading out the words and content related to any one of the read words is retrieved.03-26-2009
20090178127Authentication system, authentication server, authenticating method, authenticating program, terminal, authentication requesting method, authentication requesting program, and storage medium - Disclosed herein is an authentication system offering high degrees of security and convenience by use of two storage media. An automatic log-in system (07-09-2009
20110172003FOLD MOBILE PHONE APPARATUS - The present invention has operating section 07-14-2011

Patent applications by Koichi Yamamoto, Kanagawa JP

Koichi Yamamoto, Yokohama-Shi JP

Patent application numberDescriptionPublished
20090047003PLAYBACK APPARATUS AND METHOD - A playback apparatus used for an audio database includes a first acquisition unit configured to acquire first position information and second position information, an estimation unit configured to estimate a required period from a first position to a second position based on the first position information and the second position information, a second acquisition unit configured to acquire a data length of an audio signal to be played back from the audio database, a determination unit configured to determine a playback speed required to play back the audio signal based on the required period and the data length to complete playback of the audio signal within the required period, and a playback unit configured to play back the audio signal according to the playback speed.02-19-2009
20090081511Electrode Catalyst for Fuel Cell - An object of the present invention is to provide an electrode catalyst which is excellent in catalyst performance compared with a conventional electrode catalyst. It is also an object of the present invention to provide an electrode composition for fuel cell and a polymer electrolyte fuel cell using the electrode catalyst. The fuel cell electrode catalyst of the present invention is characterized in that a catalyst component is supported on a carrier having a specific feature.03-26-2009

Koichi Yamamoto, Kawasaki-Shi JP

Patent application numberDescriptionPublished
20090040378INFORMATION DISPLAY APPARATUS, INFORMATION DISPLAY METHOD AND PROGRAM THEREFOR - An information display apparatus includes a display device configured to display a video, a speech detection unit configured to detect a playback state of a playback speech, a closed caption display unit configured to generate character information associated with the playback speech and display it on the display device together with the video, and a closed caption display unit configured to carry out a changing control for changing according to the detected playback state a display state of the character information that is displayed on the display device by the closed caption display unit.02-12-2009
20090074378CLOSED CAPTION CONTROL APPARATUS AND METHOD THEREFOR - A closed caption display controller to control a display mode of a closed caption corresponding to a speech of an audio signal, the controller comprises an analysis unit to analyze the speech on a speech quality, an examination unit configured to examine a speech listening level according to a given rule based on an analysis result of the analysis unit, and a determination unit to determine a display mode according to an examination result of the examination unit.03-19-2009

Patent applications by Koichi Yamamoto, Kawasaki-Shi JP

Koichi Yamamoto, Wako JP

Patent application numberDescriptionPublished
20120121962BATTERY COOLING STRUCTURE - A battery cooling structure includes a first battery group, a second battery group, a third battery group, a first duct, a second duct, a third duct, a fourth duct, a fifth duct, a first connecting duct, a second connecting duct, a third connecting duct, and a bypass duct. The first duct is configured to allow a cooling medium after heat exchange to flow through the first duct. The second duct is configured to allow a cooling medium after heat exchange to flow through the second duct. The fifth duct is configured to allow a cooling medium after heat exchange to flow through the fifth duct. The bypass duct connects the fifth duct to the second duct or to the first duct.05-17-2012