Patents by Inventor Eiko Hirose

Eiko Hirose 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: 20230334448
    Abstract: There is provided an information processing apparatus. A request unit requests a specific server among a plurality of servers to execute predetermined processing, the specific server being associated with specific locale information that is currently set. A storage unit stores server identification information that identifies the specific server associated with the specific locale information. An obtainment unit identifies the specific server based on the server identification information, and obtains predetermined information derived from the predetermined processing from the specific server that has been identified.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 11, 2023
    Publication date: October 19, 2023
    Inventor: EIKO HIROSE
  • Patent number: 11275605
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a call unit, a detection unit, and a control unit. The call unit makes a call request for a second application according to a first application. The detection unit detects, in a case where the call request for the second application is made, whether the second application is in a state of performing a predetermined function. The control unit performs control to switch and operate the second application in a predetermined mode based on a detection result of the state of the second application. In a case where the second application operates in the predetermined mode, the control unit performs control not to perform the predetermined function provided by the second application.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 11, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 15, 2022
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Eiko Hirose
  • Patent number: 11246038
    Abstract: An image capturing apparatus is provided. Upon receiving a request for encrypted communication from an external apparatus that received an advertising signal in a state where the image capturing apparatus is not paired with the external apparatus and accepting a predetermined operation made on a release switch, the request is allowed. Upon receiving a request for encrypted communication from the external apparatus that received the advertising signal in a state where the image capturing apparatus is paired with the external apparatus, the request is allowed without accepting the predetermined operation made on the release switch. In response to an operation different from the predetermined operation being received in a state where the dial is in a state corresponding to the communication mode and the image capturing apparatus is paired with the external apparatus, the pairing is canceled.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 8, 2022
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Eiko Hirose, Kenta Watanabe
  • Publication number: 20210058768
    Abstract: An image capturing apparatus is provided. Upon receiving a request for encrypted communication from an external apparatus that received an advertising signal in a state where the image capturing apparatus is not paired with the external apparatus and accepting a predetermined operation made on a release switch, the request is allowed. Upon receiving a request for encrypted communication from the external apparatus that received the advertising signal in a state where the image capturing apparatus is paired with the external apparatus, the request is allowed without accepting the predetermined operation made on the release switch. In response to an operation different from the predetermined operation being received in a state where the dial is in a state corresponding to the communication mode and the image capturing apparatus is paired with the external apparatus, the pairing is canceled.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 20, 2020
    Publication date: February 25, 2021
    Inventors: Eiko Hirose, Kenta Watanabe
  • Patent number: 10218912
    Abstract: If an operation to switch a first display mode to a second display mode is performed by a user, a display size of an image that is displayed in the first display mode is compared with a minimum display size that is associated with the second display mode. If the display size of the image that is displayed in the first display mode is smaller than the minimum display size in the second display mode, the display size is changed into the minimum display size in the second display mode and the image is displayed on the display screen in a changed display size.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 26, 2019
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Eiko Hirose
  • Patent number: 10148843
    Abstract: A communication apparatus comprises: a communication unit configured to communicate with a recording apparatus having storage medium and capable of accepting an operation on the content data stored in the storage medium via communication; a registration unit configured to register a predetermined recording apparatus; and a control unit configured to perform control for receiving the content data stored in the storage medium, and to control predetermined processing for causing the recording apparatus to delete the content data stored in the storage medium, wherein the control unit, in a case where the recording apparatus is the predetermined recording apparatus registered by the registration unit, performs control so as to perform the predetermined processing for causing the content data stored in the storage medium to be deleted.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 21, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 4, 2018
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Kaori Ikeda, Eiko Hirose
  • Publication number: 20180314546
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a call unit, a detection unit, and a control unit. The call unit makes a call request for a second application according to a first application. The detection unit detects, in a case where the call request for the second application is made, whether the second application is in a state of performing a predetermined function. The control unit performs control to switch and operate the second application in a predetermined mode based on a detection result of the state of the second application. In a case where the second application operates in the predetermined mode, the control unit performs control not to perform the predetermined function provided by the second application.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 11, 2018
    Publication date: November 1, 2018
    Inventor: Eiko Hirose
  • Publication number: 20180007279
    Abstract: If an operation to switch a first display mode to a second display mode is performed by a user, a display size of an image that is displayed in the first display mode is compared with a minimum display size that is associated with the second display mode. If the display size of the image that is displayed in the first display mode is smaller than the minimum display size in the second display mode, the display size is changed into the minimum display size in the second display mode and the image is displayed on the display screen in a changed display size.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 26, 2017
    Publication date: January 4, 2018
    Inventor: Eiko HIROSE
  • Publication number: 20170318182
    Abstract: A communication apparatus comprises: a communication unit configured to communicate with a recording apparatus having storage medium and capable of accepting an operation on the content data stored in the storage medium via communication; a registration unit configured to register a predetermined recording apparatus; and a control unit configured to perform control for receiving the content data stored in the storage medium, and to control predetermined processing for causing the recording apparatus to delete the content data stored in the storage medium, wherein the control unit, in a case where the recording apparatus is the predetermined recording apparatus registered by the registration unit, performs control so as to perform the predetermined processing for causing the content data stored in the storage medium to be deleted.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 21, 2017
    Publication date: November 2, 2017
    Inventors: Kaori Ikeda, Eiko Hirose
  • Publication number: 20150092764
    Abstract: A communication apparatus establishes communication with a data processing apparatus via a first network created by the data processing apparatus, receives an instruction to transmit data to an external apparatus different from the data processing apparatus after the communication with the data processing apparatus is established, transmits, to the data processing apparatus, a notification for terminating the communication with the data processing apparatus and a notification for causing the data processing apparatus to continue the first network, if the instruction is received, and establishes communication with the external apparatus via a second network after the communication with the data processing apparatus is terminated.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 26, 2014
    Publication date: April 2, 2015
    Inventor: Eiko Hirose
  • Patent number: 8395749
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display device includes: a component substrate including a transistor device; an opposing substrate disposed so as to face the component substrate through a liquid crystal layer; a back light disposed on a side of the component substrate located opposite to the opposing substrate; first and second measurement portions formed on a surface of the component substrate and the opposing substrate, respectively, located on the liquid crystal layer side and used for measuring a difference between bonding positions of the component substrate and the opposing substrate; a measurement opening portion disposed on the second measurement portion side; and a light shielding layer disposed between the component substrate and the second measurement portion and preventing transmission of light from the back light through the measurement opening portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 12, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2013
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Osamu Kobayashi, Osamu Kai, Eiko Hirose
  • Publication number: 20110181808
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display device includes: a component substrate including a transistor device; an opposing substrate disposed so as to face the component substrate through a liquid crystal layer; a back light disposed on a side of the component substrate located opposite to the opposing substrate; first and second measurement portions formed on a surface of the component substrate and the opposing substrate, respectively, located on the liquid crystal layer side and used for measuring a difference between bonding positions of the component substrate and the opposing substrate; a measurement opening portion disposed on the second measurement portion side; and a light shielding layer disposed between the component substrate and the second measurement portion and preventing transmission of light from the back light through the measurement opening portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 12, 2011
    Publication date: July 28, 2011
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Osamu Kobayashi, Osamu Kai, Eiko Hirose