Patents by Inventor Akihiro Kumata

Akihiro Kumata 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).

  • Publication number: 20240020088
    Abstract: A voice control system includes a setting processing unit that sets up a conversation group including a plurality of users in a virtual space, and a restriction processing unit that restricts an output of voice which is outside the conversation group to be set by the setting processing unit to a user in the conversation group.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 11, 2023
    Publication date: January 18, 2024
    Applicant: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: AKIHIRO KUMATA, KAZUO MAKIJIMA
  • Patent number: 11632406
    Abstract: An information processing system includes: a reception processor which receives a display request for displaying a display screen of a first user terminal on one or a plurality of display devices, from the first user terminal of a first user among a plurality of users participating in a conference; a specifying processor which specifies a first display application for enabling the display screen to be shared by all users participating in the conference, of display applications which can be used in the first user terminal and the one or plurality of display devices, when the display request has been received by the reception processor; and an output processor which outputs a display instruction including information of the first display application specified by the specifying processor, to the first user terminal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 6, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2023
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Akihiro Kumata, Daisuke Yamashita, Tomonobu Tomaru
  • Publication number: 20220124129
    Abstract: An information processing system includes: a first acquisition processor that acquires time and date information indicating time and date of the conference and conference room information indicating a conference room in which the conference is held; a second acquisition processor that acquires, from a storage that stores the conference room information indicating the conference room and unique device information on the device used for the conference in the conference room in association with each other, the device information on a predetermined device based on the conference room information acquired by the first acquisition processor; and a connection processor that connects the user terminal to the device based on the device information acquired by the second acquisition processor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 12, 2021
    Publication date: April 21, 2022
    Inventors: YOSUKE OSAKI, KEIKO HIRUKAWA, AKIHIRO KUMATA
  • Publication number: 20210385262
    Abstract: An information processing system includes: a reception processor which receives a display request for displaying a display screen of a first user terminal on one or a plurality of display devices, from the first user terminal of a first user among a plurality of users participating in a conference; a specifying processor which specifies a first display application for enabling the display screen to be shared by all users participating in the conference, of display applications which can be used in the first user terminal and the one or plurality of display devices, when the display request has been received by the reception processor; and an output processor which outputs a display instruction including information of the first display application specified by the specifying processor, to the first user terminal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 6, 2021
    Publication date: December 9, 2021
    Inventors: AKIHIRO KUMATA, DAISUKE YAMASHITA, TOMONOBU TOMARU
  • Publication number: 20210083890
    Abstract: An information processing system according to the present disclosure includes a registration processor that registers, in a storage, location information indicating a location where a meeting is held, identification information of a voice processing device installed at the location, and identification information of a terminal device of a participant participating in the meeting, in a mutually associated manner, a voice acquirer that acquires voice information via the voice processing device in the meeting, a command specifier that specifies a command for executing a predetermined process, based on the voice information; an authority receiver that receives a grant request for an authority to execute the command, and an authority granter that grants the authority to a predetermined terminal device, based on the location information and the identification information of the terminal device, if the grant request is received by the authority receiver.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 11, 2020
    Publication date: March 18, 2021
    Inventors: AKIHIRO KUMATA, KEIKO HIRUKAWA, SATOSHI TERADA, DAISUKE YAMASHITA
  • Publication number: 20200195886
    Abstract: An information processing system 1 includes a server 2 and an output device. The server 2 can control a plurality of terminal devices A. The output device includes an inputter that is connectable with the plurality of terminal devices A by wire or wirelessly. The server 2 includes a controller 24. The controller 24 determines a terminal device connected to the inputter so that the terminal device A can input a signal, among the plurality of terminal devices A.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 13, 2019
    Publication date: June 18, 2020
    Inventor: AKIHIRO KUMATA
  • Patent number: 8922351
    Abstract: A wireless output unit of a remote controller 2 having a touch pad 23 or a touch panel wirelessly outputs a coordinate value associated with a continuous contact input for the touch pad 23 to a television 1. A reception unit of the television 1 wirelessly receives the coordinate value associated with the continuous contact input output from the wireless output unit. A display processing unit displays on a display unit 14 a pointer 3 moving on the basis of the coordinate value received by the reception unit. An output unit outputs, when the continuous contact input is finished, acceptance information indicating that an input for an object T displayed on the display unit 14 is accepted at a final coordinate value for the pointer 3 displayed on the display unit 14.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 2, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 30, 2014
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Tadashi Motoyama, Akihiro Kumata, Takatoshi Oishi
  • Publication number: 20140043535
    Abstract: A wireless output unit of a remote controller having a touch pad or a touch panel wirelessly outputs a coordinate value associated with a continuous contact input for the touch pad to a television. A reception unit of the television wirelessly receives the coordinate value associated with the continuous contact input. A display processing unit displays on a display unit a pointer moving on the basis of the coordinate value received by the reception unit. A reducing unit reduces the moving rate of the pointer 3 on the basis of the coordinate value received by the reception unit, when the distance between an object T displayed on the display unit and the pointer 3 displayed on the display unit is within a predetermined distance. An output unit outputs, when the continuous contact input is finished, acceptance information indicating that an input for an object T displayed on the display unit is accepted at a final coordinate value for the pointer 3 displayed on the display unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 2, 2012
    Publication date: February 13, 2014
    Applicant: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Tadashi Motoyama, Akihiro Kumata, Takatoshi Oishi
  • Publication number: 20140016040
    Abstract: A wireless output unit of a remote controller 2 having a touch pad 23 or a touch panel wirelessly outputs a coordinate value associated with a continuous contact input for the touch pad 23 to a television 1. A reception unit of the television 1 wirelessly receives the coordinate value associated with the continuous contact input output from the wireless output unit. A display processing unit displays on a display unit 14 a pointer 3 moving on the basis of the coordinate value received by the reception unit. An output unit outputs, when the continuous contact input is finished, acceptance information indicating that an input for an object T displayed on the display unit 14 is accepted at a final coordinate value for the pointer 3 displayed on the display unit 14.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 2, 2012
    Publication date: January 16, 2014
    Applicant: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Tadashi Motoyama, Akihiro Kumata, Takatoshi Oishi
  • Patent number: 6466242
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus having a schedule management function includes a display section for displaying temporal axes of at least two different cities on a schedule display screen in accordance with a time difference therebetween; a pointing section for pointing to each of the temporal axes of the different cities displayed by the display section; and an input section for inputting a time and a city of the temporal axis, which are pointed to by the pointing section, as a schedule.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 16, 1999
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2002
    Assignee: Sharp Kabuhsiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Akihiro Kumata, Kiyoshi Suzuki