Patents by Inventor Hirokazu Ishikawa

Hirokazu Ishikawa 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: 20190343444
    Abstract: The obtain information on the urination amount of a measurement target arid determine the health status of the measurement target on the basis of the information obtained, a CPU (1) of a urination amount measurement device (100) compares the urination amount detected by a sensor (31) with a threshold value corresponding to the body weight of the measurement target to determine the health status of the measurement target, and an output section (9) outputs the result of the determination by the CPU (1).
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 31, 2017
    Publication date: November 14, 2019
    Inventors: YUHICHI YABUKI, HIROKAZU ISHIKAWA
  • Publication number: 20180283930
    Abstract: A weight measuring device which allows an accurate measurement of a weight of a pet is realized. A pet toilet (1) includes a first weight scale (21) configured to measure a weight of an excretion of an animal and a second weight scale (22) configured to measure a weight of the animal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 27, 2016
    Publication date: October 4, 2018
    Inventors: HIROKAZU ISHIKAWA, KATSUNORI IKEDA, AYAKO KUGA, MASAYUKI HIRATA, SHUJI DAIOKU
  • Patent number: 9852350
    Abstract: The present disclosure prevents erroneous recognition of a character string that is not actually contained in a video. In the present disclosure, a rectangular region extraction section (12) extracts a rectangular region string from an image contained in a video created by an image capture section (10), the rectangular region being a unit region for recognition of a character string.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 6, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2017
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Kenichi Horiuchi, Hirokazu Ishikawa, Tatsuo Kishimoto
  • Patent number: 9826158
    Abstract: A translation display device of the present invention carries out a translation process of translating text extracted from a certain image and displays translated text while a display frame rate is maintained. A translation processing section (5) carries out the translation process in a case where no image other than the certain image is being subjected to the translation process. An image movement analyzing section (7) identifies a displacement of a position of an object in a most recent image which has been most recently obtained, the displacement being measured with respect to a reference position of an object in a reference image for which the translation process most recently ended. A generated image in which translated text obtained by translating extracted text extracted from the reference image is displayed so as to be superimposed on the most recent image in accordance with (i) a position of the extracted text and (ii) information on the displacement.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2017
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Takaaki Mitsunaga, Tatsuo Kishimoto, Kiyofumi Ohtsuka, Hirokazu Ishikawa
  • Publication number: 20170300772
    Abstract: The present disclosure prevents erroneous recognition of a character string that is not actually contained in a video. In the present disclosure, a rectangular region extraction section (12) extracts a rectangular region string from an image contained in a video created by an image capture section (10), the rectangular region being a unit region for recognition of a character string.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 6, 2017
    Publication date: October 19, 2017
    Inventors: Kenichi HORIUCHI, Hirokazu ISHIKAWA, Tatsuo KISHIMOTO
  • Patent number: 9740954
    Abstract: The present disclosure prevents erroneous recognition of a character string that is not actually contained in a video. In the present disclosure, a rectangular region extraction section (12) extracts a rectangular region string from an image contained in a video created by an image capture section (10), the rectangular region being a unit region for recognition of a character string.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2017
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Kenichi Horiuchi, Hirokazu Ishikawa, Tatsuo Kishimoto
  • Publication number: 20170004373
    Abstract: The present disclosure prevents erroneous recognition of a character string that is not actually contained in a video. In the present disclosure, a rectangular region extraction section (12) extracts a rectangular region string from an image contained in a video created by an image capture section (10), the rectangular region being a unit region for recognition of a character string.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 22, 2014
    Publication date: January 5, 2017
    Inventors: Kenichi Horiuchi, Hirokazu Ishikawa, Tatsuo Kishimoto
  • Publication number: 20160350895
    Abstract: A device including: a source string orientation deciding section (23) for deciding a source string orientation, the source string orientation being an orientation of a character string to be translated; a source string orientation display control section (24) for controlling a display section to display source string orientation information indicating the source string orientation; and a translation section (26) for translating characters as a character string having the source string orientation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 19, 2014
    Publication date: December 1, 2016
    Inventors: Koichi YAMAGUCHI, Hirokazu ISHIKAWA, Seigoh SASAKI
  • Patent number: 9495090
    Abstract: A touch control section (5) includes: an operation accepting section (51) which accepts a touch operation conducted with respect to an icon or the like; and an accepting operation control section (52) which controls the operation accepting section (51) to forbid an accepting operation in a case where screen scroll is started. In a case where screen scroll is started, the accepting operation control section (52) controls the accepting operation control section (52) to lift the forbiddance of an accepting operation before the screen scroll automatically stops.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 15, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2016
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Kiyofumi Ohtsuka, Hirokazu Ishikawa, Megumi Yokogawa, Shinya Satoh, Tatsuo Kishimoto, Yuhichi Yabuki, Tadao Nagasawa
  • Publication number: 20160301869
    Abstract: A translation display device of the present invention carries out a translation process of translating text extracted from a certain image and displays translated text while a display frame rate is maintained. A translation processing section (5) carries out the translation process in a case where no image other than the certain image is being subjected to the translation process. An image movement analyzing section (7) identifies a displacement of a position of an object in a most recent image which has been most recently obtained, the displacement being measured with respect to a reference position of an object in a reference image for which the translation process most recently ended. A generated image in which translated text obtained by translating extracted text extracted from the reference image is displayed so as to be superimposed on the most recent image in accordance with (i) a position of the extracted text and (ii) information on the displacement.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 8, 2014
    Publication date: October 13, 2016
    Applicant: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Takaaki MITSUNAGA, Tatsuo KISHIMOTO, Kiyofumi OHTSUKA, Hirokazu ISHIKAWA
  • Publication number: 20150261431
    Abstract: The present invention allows a software keyboard and an application in execution to coexist. The present invention includes a display area setting section (31). In a case where (i) it is detected that the software keyboard is activated by a first application and (ii) it is determined that a second application is being executed, the display area setting section (31) changes a display area and a display position of the second application so that an operation to the software keyboard is not disturbed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 19, 2014
    Publication date: September 17, 2015
    Applicant: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Kiyofumi Ohtsuka, Hirokazu Ishikawa, Yoshichika Iida, Takaaki Mitsunaga, Tadao Andou, Megumi Yokogawa
  • Publication number: 20140317634
    Abstract: In a case where a procedure in which a process generation step of allocating a resource necessary for application execution is carried out and then an application execution screen is displayed in a display panel is an application execution procedure, an application execution processing section (102) of the present invention carries out the process generation step in the background during application execution in the foreground.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 15, 2013
    Publication date: October 23, 2014
    Inventors: Hirokazu Ishikawa, Kiyofumi Ohtsuka, Megumi Yokogawa, Shinya Satoh, Yuhichi Yabuki, Tadao Nagasawa
  • Publication number: 20140298251
    Abstract: A touch control section (5) includes: an operation accepting section (51) which accepts a touch operation conducted with respect to an icon or the like; and an accepting operation control section (52) which controls the operation accepting section (51) to forbid an accepting operation in a case where screen scroll is started. In a case where screen scroll is started, the accepting operation control section (52) controls the accepting operation control section (52) to lift the forbiddance of an accepting operation before the screen scroll automatically stops.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 15, 2013
    Publication date: October 2, 2014
    Inventors: Kiyofumi Ohtsuka, Hirokazu Ishikawa, Megumi Yokogawa, Shinya Satoh, Tatsuo Kishimoto, Yuhichi Yabuki, Tadao Nagasawa
  • Publication number: 20140285530
    Abstract: A mobile phone (1) which displays a scrollable screen includes a degraded operation setting section (104). In a case where a scrollable screen is being displayed when an operation input for instructing a scrolling is accepted, the degraded operation setting section (104) inhibits degraded operation for a predetermined time period and, in a case where a scrollable screen is not displayed, the degraded operation setting section (104) causes the process to be carried out in the degraded state.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 15, 2013
    Publication date: September 25, 2014
    Inventors: Kiyofumi Ohtsuka, Hirokazu Ishikawa, Kenichi Horiuchi, Seigo Itoh, Tadao Nagasawa
  • Publication number: 20130145025
    Abstract: The present invention includes a connection unit that performs reception of a request from an upper-level device and transmission of a response thereto via the established connection for each application; a communication buffer that temporarily stores requests received by the connection unit for each connection; a system main unit that reads a requested device value from the input/output memory area; a priority storage area that stores setting of a priority level for each connection; and a communication scheduling unit that successively obtains requests from the communication buffer, transfers the obtained request to the system main unit, and transfers the device value read by the system main unit to the connection unit as a response, wherein the communication scheduling unit obtains requests with a higher frequency for a connection for which a higher priority is set in the priority storage area.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 17, 2011
    Publication date: June 6, 2013
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hirokazu Ishikawa, Tomoaki Takagi
  • Patent number: 7980708
    Abstract: A document presentation device comprising an imaging unit that takes images of documents and a display unit that displays the images of documents taken by the imaging unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 2006
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2011
    Assignee: Fujinon Corporation
    Inventors: Hirokazu Ishikawa, Junichi Yokoyama, Takashi Nagashima, Akinori Hamana
  • Patent number: 7798071
    Abstract: A rotary table system having high axial and radial run-out accuracy, high resolution, and thin and medium- or large-sized system. The rotary table system includes a guide apparatus and a rotary table mounted on the guide apparatus. The guide apparatus includes a ring-shaped integrated rail having no discontinuity in the travel direction thereof, and a plurality of guide blocks assembled to the rail from the direction of their surfaces opposing the rail. The surface of the rail opposite to the surface thereof opposing the guide blocks and the underside of the rotary table are joined together. The rail has an L-shaped cross-sectional configuration formed from a vertical portion and a horizontal portion extending from the upper end of the vertical portion in the radial direction of the rotary table. A tape scale that is detected by a detecting mechanism is provided on the outer peripheral surface of the rail.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 20, 2005
    Date of Patent: September 21, 2010
    Assignees: THK Co., Ltd., THK Intechs Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hirokazu Ishikawa, Shunji Matsutomi, Tsutomu Hasegawa, Mitsuteru Nanba
  • Patent number: 7766239
    Abstract: A code-reading apparatus determines the type of data in recorded code data and carries out appropriate processes depending on the determined type of data. The code-reading apparatus comprises an imaging unit 7 for photographing encoded data. The encoded data comprises a header portion and a body portion, the body portion including encoded ring tone data, the header portion including a data identifier D indicating the type of data in the body portion. The apparatus further comprises a data identifier unit 19a for identifying the type of the encoded data photographed by the imaging unit 7 based on the data identifier D, and control units 13 and 19 for reading the encoded data depending on the identified data type and for reproducing the ring tone data that has been read.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 15, 2003
    Date of Patent: August 3, 2010
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Takeharu Muramatsu, Hirokazu Ishikawa
  • Patent number: 7704837
    Abstract: A unit cell for an integrated circuit includes a first conductive type active region and a second conductive type active region which extend in a first direction. Each of the active regions has first and second ends. The first end of the second conductive type active region opposes the second end of the first conductive type active region. A poly-silicon pattern extends in the first direction across the first conductive type active region and second conductive type active region. A first contact region is adjacent the first end of the first conductive type active region in the first direction. A second contact region is adjacent the second end of the second conductive type active region in the first direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 7, 2008
    Date of Patent: April 27, 2010
    Assignee: Oki Semiconductor Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hirohisa Masuda, Hirokazu Ishikawa
  • Publication number: 20080315258
    Abstract: A unit cell for an integrated circuit includes a first conductive type active region and a second conductive type active region which extend in a first direction. Each of the active regions has first and second ends. The first end of the second conductive type active region opposes the second end of the first conductive type active region. A poly-silicon pattern extends in the first direction across the first conductive type active region and second conductive type active region. A first contact region is adjacent the first end of the first conductive type active region in the first direction. A second contact region is adjacent the second end of the second conductive type active region in the first direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 7, 2008
    Publication date: December 25, 2008
    Applicant: Oki Electric Industry Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hirohisa Masuda, Hirokazu Ishikawa