Patents by Inventor Hideaki Shimizu

Hideaki Shimizu 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: 20160004381
    Abstract: Disclosed is an operation display device including: a touch panel unit to detect a touch position; a display unit; and a display control unit to execute a display according to a first display process on the display unit when a first operation is received on the touch panel unit, and to execute both of the display according to the first display process and a display according to a second display process when a second operation including an element of the first operation is received on the touch panel unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 10, 2015
    Publication date: January 7, 2016
    Inventors: Hideaki Shimizu, Chohiko Fukuoh
  • Patent number: 9179022
    Abstract: Disclosed is an operation display device for carrying out a setting relating to an image forming device, including: a display device; an operating unit to receive an operation for starting a scroll display of a list in which a plurality of display items are listed, on a screen of the display device; and a control unit to control the scroll display so as to set a speed of the scroll display to a slow speed which is slower than a normal speed when the display item which satisfies a predetermined condition is displayed on the screen after the scroll display of the list is started by receiving the operation, wherein each display item has a plurality of attributes, and the control unit controls the scroll display in accordance with a satisfaction situation of the predetermined condition with respect to each of the plurality of attributes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 3, 2015
    Assignee: KONICA MINOLTA BUSINESS TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
    Inventors: Hideaki Shimizu, Yasuaki Sugimoto, Takashi Kamada, Takashi Kondo
  • Patent number: 9158428
    Abstract: Disclosed is an operation display device including: a touch panel unit to detect a touch position; a display unit; and a display control unit to execute a display according to a first display process on the display unit when a first operation is received on the touch panel unit, and to execute both of the display according to the first display process and a display according to a second display process when a second operation including an element of the first operation is received on the touch panel unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 13, 2015
    Assignee: Konica Minolta, Inc.
    Inventors: Hideaki Shimizu, Chohiko Fukuoh
  • Patent number: 9098223
    Abstract: Disclosed is a job information display device, including: an AR display unit configured to display an augmented reality space in which an image is overlapped with a real space viewed by a user; a recognition unit configured to recognize an image forming apparatus which exists in the real space viewed by the user; an information obtaining unit configured to obtain job information indicating an execution state of a job input to the image forming apparatus recognized by the recognition unit; and a control unit configured to instruct the AR display unit to display the augmented reality space in which the execution state of the job is indicated by a virtual paper on a paper passage of the image forming apparatus in which the job is executed, in accordance with the job information obtained by the information obtaining unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 4, 2015
    Assignee: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.
    Inventors: Hideaki Shimizu, Yasuaki Sugimoto
  • Patent number: 9042282
    Abstract: A first communication control unit and a second communication control unit share a single transmission and reception unit. The second communication control unit maintains connection with a terminal device while the first communication control unit is scanning frequency channels to search for an access point. When a search processing unit 104 detects an access point, the second communication control unit 200 switches the frequency channel for use in communication with the terminal device to the channel used in the detected access point.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 26, 2015
    Assignees: Sony Corporation, Sony Computer Entertainment Inc.
    Inventors: Tai Hirakawa, Hideaki Shimizu, Jun Nishihara, Kenji Inose
  • Publication number: 20150035747
    Abstract: Disclosed is an operating device including: an operating unit having a plurality of operation buttons; a gaze detection unit configured to detect a gaze of an operator who operates the operating unit; and a judgment unit configured to judge whether an operation for a predetermined operation button of the operating unit is valid or invalid when the operation is received from the operator, wherein in case that the gaze of the operator is not within a predetermined area relating to the predetermined operation button when the operation for the predetermined operation button is received from the operator, the judgment unit judges that the operation is invalid.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 30, 2014
    Publication date: February 5, 2015
    Inventors: Hideaki SHIMIZU, Yasuaki SUGIMOTO
  • Publication number: 20140293329
    Abstract: Disclosed is a job information display device, including: an AR display unit configured to display an augmented reality space in which an image is overlapped with a real space viewed by a user; a recognition unit configured to recognize an image forming apparatus which exists in the real space viewed by the user; an information obtaining unit configured to obtain job information indicating an execution state of a job input to the image forming apparatus recognized by the recognition unit; and a control unit configured to instruct the AR display unit to display the augmented reality space in which the execution state of the job is indicated by a virtual paper on a paper passage of the image forming apparatus in which the job is executed, in accordance with the job information obtained by the information obtaining unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 13, 2014
    Publication date: October 2, 2014
    Applicant: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.
    Inventors: Hideaki SHIMIZU, Yasuaki SUGIMOTO
  • Patent number: 8848230
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes: an operation unit; an image forming unit; a control unit making the image forming unit perform an image formation; a data acquisition unit obtaining an image formation object data; a data conversion unit converting the image formation object data to an image formation format data; and a plurality of memory regions storing the image formation format data, wherein when the data acquisition unit obtains the image formation object data, the control unit makes the data conversion unit convert the image formation object data to the image formation format data, makes each of the plurality of memory regions store each of the image formation format data, and, when the operation unit receives an image formation instruction, makes the image forming unit perform an image formation, in a predetermined order, of the image formation format data stored in the plurality of memory regions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2011
    Date of Patent: September 30, 2014
    Assignee: Kyocera Document Solutions Inc.
    Inventors: Yasuhiko Kida, Hideaki Shimizu
  • Publication number: 20140278873
    Abstract: An example system includes: a terminal device accepting operation of contributing content by a contributor or accepting operation by an evaluator of evaluating published content or a contributor who contributed content; and a content sharing server apparatus having a value information providing unit providing value information to a user, a content contribution acceptance unit accepting contribution of content from a contributor through communication with the terminal device, and an evaluation acceptance unit accepting an evaluation, for contributed content or a contributor who contributed content, from an evaluator with reduction in value of the value information through communication with the terminal device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 10, 2014
    Publication date: September 18, 2014
    Applicant: NINTENDO CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hideaki SHIMIZU, Yoshiaki KOIZUMI
  • Publication number: 20140278872
    Abstract: An example system includes: a terminal device accepting operation of contributing content by a contributor or operation by an evaluator of evaluating published content or a contributor who contributed the content; and a content sharing server apparatus having a content contribution acceptance unit accepting a contribution of content from a contributor through communication with the terminal device, an evaluation acceptance unit accepting an evaluation, for the contributed content or the contributor who contributed the content, from an evaluator through communication with the terminal device, and an evaluation reward giving unit giving a reward to the evaluator who made the evaluation accepted by the evaluation acceptance unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 10, 2014
    Publication date: September 18, 2014
    Applicant: NINTENDO CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hideaki SHIMIZU, Yoshiaki KOIZUMI
  • Patent number: 8761583
    Abstract: For lower load in image encoding, the present invention causes the CPU core to function as the following sections: an editing execution section for an editing process, including shifting process, of an unprocessed image which may undergo previous editing process, under user's input; a shift amount calculation section for calculating the shift amount of the resultant edited image; a difference data calculation section for obtaining difference data between the processed image and an image obtained through shifting of the unprocessed image by the calculated shift amount; and an image addition section for storing, in the image storage section, the calculated shift amount, and the obtained difference data, so as to be associated with each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2012
    Date of Patent: June 24, 2014
    Assignee: Nintendo Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Hideaki Shimizu
  • Patent number: 8681356
    Abstract: Disclosed is the information processing apparatus, which makes it possible to easily conduct a setting change operation for a plurality of setting items after the concerned setting operation has been completed. The information processing apparatus includes: an operating section to establish a set of setting values corresponding to a plurality of setting items, therefrom; a storage section to store the set of setting values established from the operating section, therein; a display section; and a controlling section to control the display section. When receiving a request for changing the set of setting values established in advance through the operating section, the controlling section controls the display section so as to display at least one candidate of change contents onto the display section, based on differential components between the set of setting values established in advance and another set of setting values stored in the storage section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 2010
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2014
    Assignee: Konica Minolta Business Technologies, Inc.
    Inventor: Hideaki Shimizu
  • Publication number: 20130249953
    Abstract: An example system causes a computer to execute: operation acceptance for accepting a first movement operation to move an object displayed in a folder area to a buffer area and a second movement operation to return the object moved to the buffer area, to the folder area; and display control in which when the first movement operation is accepted, an object in a selected state among the objects displayed arranged in the folder area is moved to the buffer area, and when the second movement operation is accepted, at least one of the objects displayed in the buffer area is moved to a predetermined position in the folder area in an order in accordance with a movement order of the first movement operation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 21, 2013
    Publication date: September 26, 2013
    Applicant: NINTENDO CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hideaki SHIMIZU, Yasuhiko MATSUZAKI
  • Publication number: 20130229370
    Abstract: Disclosed is an operation display device including: a touch panel unit to detect a touch position; a display unit; and a display control unit to execute a display according to a first display process on the display unit when a first operation is received on the touch panel unit, and to execute both of the display according to the first display process and a display according to a second display process when a second operation including an element of the first operation is received on the touch panel unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 28, 2013
    Publication date: September 5, 2013
    Applicant: Konica Minolta Business Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Hideaki Shimizu, Chohiko Fukuoh
  • Patent number: 8506398
    Abstract: A game apparatus that includes a CPU and in which a plurality of players participate and play a game on a display screen displayed on a common display device. A display area is divided by the number of participating players, and the divided areas are allotted to each player. In addition, an evaluating value is set according to a superiority or inferiority situation of a play content of each player, a size of the divided areas are changed based on the evaluating value, and the display screen in correspondence with a change of the divided areas is generated and displayed. Furthermore, when there is a player who reaches game-over, the display area is re-divided by the number of remaining players.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2011
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2013
    Assignee: Nintendo Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Hideaki Shimizu
  • Patent number: 8501813
    Abstract: It is intended to provide a novel compound that has an excellent ?-secretase inhibitory effect and specifically inhibits A? production. The present invention provides a compound of the following formula (1) or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof: wherein R1 represents a linear or branched alkyl group having 1 to 4 carbon atoms or a phenyl group; R2 represents a linear or branched alkyl group having 1 to 4 carbon atoms which may be substituted by one or more phenyl or halogenophenyl groups; R3 represents a linear or branched alkyl group having 1 to 4 carbon atoms which may be substituted by one or more hydroxyl groups; R4 represents a linear or branched alkyl group having 1 to 4 carbon atoms; and the symbol “*” represents a chiral center.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 2008
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2013
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Yakult Honsha
    Inventors: Atsuhiro Abe, Hideaki Shimizu, Seigo Sawada, Hiroshi Kodaira
  • Publication number: 20130191540
    Abstract: An example method includes: transmitting content data to a server that determines whether to permit or deny transmission of storage location information indicating a storage location of the content data; receiving the storage location information from the server; and transmitting the storage location information to another information processing device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 2, 2012
    Publication date: July 25, 2013
    Applicant: Nintendo Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Hideaki SHIMIZU
  • Publication number: 20120274665
    Abstract: Disclosed is an operation display device for carrying out a setting relating to an image forming device, including: a display device; an operating unit to receive an operation for starting a scroll display of a list in which a plurality of display items are listed, on a screen of the display device; and a control unit to control the scroll display so as to set a speed of the scroll display to a slow speed which is slower than a normal speed when the display item which satisfies a predetermined condition is displayed on the screen after the scroll display of the list is started by receiving the operation, wherein each display item has a plurality of attributes, and the control unit controls the scroll display in accordance with a satisfaction situation of the predetermined condition with respect to each of the plurality of attributes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 25, 2012
    Publication date: November 1, 2012
    Applicant: KONICA MINOLTA BUSINESS TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
    Inventors: Hideaki Shimizu, Yasuaki Sugimoto, Takashi Kamada, Takashi Kondo
  • Publication number: 20120189267
    Abstract: For lower load in image encoding, the present invention causes the CPU core to function as the following sections: an editing execution section for an editing process, including shifting process, of an unprocessed image which may undergo previous editing process, under user's input; a shift amount calculation section for calculating the shift amount of the resultant edited image; a difference data calculation section for obtaining difference data between the processed image and an image obtained through shifting of the unprocessed image by the calculated shift amount; and an image addition section for storing, in the image storage section, the calculated shift amount, and the obtained difference data, so as to be associated with each other.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 30, 2012
    Publication date: July 26, 2012
    Applicant: NINTENDO CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Hideaki SHIMIZU
  • Publication number: 20120180695
    Abstract: An Object of the present invention is to, provide an ink composition for a ballpoint pen which shows no offset of writing, offers writing with an excellent water resistance, and provides an excellent writing feeling. The present invention is an ON type emulsion ink composition for a ballpoint pen, comprising (A) an oil-based ink component comprising at least an oil-soluble dye as a colorant and an organic solvent capable of dissolving the dye and having a solubility of 5 g or less in 100 g of water at 20° C., (B) an emulsifier component comprising at least a polyglycerin fatty acid ester having an HLB of 8 or less, an acyllactic acid salt having 8 or more carbon atoms, and an organic amine compound, and (C) water, the components (A) and (B) being emulsified and dispersed in the water (C).
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 28, 2010
    Publication date: July 19, 2012
    Inventors: Akiko Itabashi, Hideaki Shimizu