Patents by Inventor Kazutoshi Kashimoto

Kazutoshi Kashimoto 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).

  • Patent number: 11463128
    Abstract: An information processing device to enable a user to create a program with visual operations, and to enable the stable implementation of many functions with a small number of devices. In a basic core, a pairing unit executes pairing with a user terminal that executes control for causing functional modules, to exhibit prescribed functions. A transmission information generation unit generates transmission information including: prescribed information to be used by the functional modules, to exhibit the prescribed functions or while exhibiting the prescribed functions on the basis of the control by the user terminal; and information indicating a transmission destination, which is one of the functional modules. A connection unit executes control to superimpose the transmission information on a signal for supplying power to the functional modules in the form of electric current and to transmit the signal to the functional modules.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 13, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2022
    Assignee: VIVIWARE JAPAN, INC.
    Inventors: Hideaki Nii, Shozaburo Shimada, Kazutoshi Kashimoto, Vijay Siddharth Pillai, Shintaro Itamoto
  • Patent number: 11250174
    Abstract: The present invention provides a technique for forming a prescribed three-dimensional shape from a material member having a prescribed thickness. A CAD device creates a mold for cutting out at least one component for forming a prescribed three-dimensional shape from a material member. A developed view generation unit creates a developed view or an isolated plan view of the prescribed three-dimensional shape. On the basis of the developed view or the isolated plan view, a mold creation unit creates a mold for a component having a fitting part for fitting with an other, adjacent component. A cut-out order determination unit attaches a symbol indicating the cut-out order to each component or to each of a plurality of isolated elements in the component.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 15, 2022
    Assignee: VIVIWARE JAPAN, INC.
    Inventors: Kazutoshi Kashimoto, Jimi Okelana, Kazuto Nishizawa, Shota Kagami
  • Publication number: 20220026868
    Abstract: An objective of the present invention is to provide a technology with which, when a hardware device is operated on the basis of a control program created by a program creation assistance device, an operation at a desirable response speed as, for example, a toy is possible, and an actual device of the hardware device can be independently driven. Provided is an information processing system comprising: a user terminal which assists with the creation of a control program by a user command; basic cores comprising a function for communicating with each of function modules and a function for controlling each of the function modules on the basis of the control program; and the function modules comprising a function for communicating with the basic core and a function for exercising a prescribed function. A control sending unit of the user terminal sends at least a portion of the control program to at least one of one or more of the basic cores.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 12, 2019
    Publication date: January 27, 2022
    Inventors: Shozaburo SHIMADA, Shota KAGAMI, Kazutoshi KASHIMOTO, Shintaro ITAMOTO, Tomohiro HAYASHI, Hideaki NII
  • Patent number: 11024196
    Abstract: In order to enable a user to produce a program by means of visible operations, a pairing unit pairs a user terminal and a basic core. A program production unit produces a program on the basis of touch operations by the user. An H parts supply unit and an S parts supply unit respectively supply H parts and S parts to the program production unit. A parts connection unit connects the various H parts and S parts in accordance with touch operations by the user. A program execution unit extracts from a program storage unit a program to be executed, and executes that program. A communication control unit transmits the execution result for the program executed by the program execution unit to the basic core via a second close-range communication unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 21, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 1, 2021
    Assignee: VIVITA JAPAN, INC.
    Inventors: Shozaburo Shimada, Kazutoshi Kashimoto, Siddharth Vijay Pillai, Shintaro Itamoto
  • Publication number: 20210152214
    Abstract: An information processing device to enable a user to create a program with visual operations, and to enable the stable implementation of many functions with a small number of devices. In a basic core, a pairing unit executes pairing with a user terminal that executes control for causing functional modules, to exhibit prescribed functions. A transmission information generation unit generates transmission information including: prescribed information to be used by the functional modules, to exhibit the prescribed functions or while exhibiting the prescribed functions on the basis of the control by the user terminal; and information indicating a transmission destination, which is one of the functional modules. A connection unit executes control to superimpose the transmissio information on a signal for supplying power to the functional modules in the form of electric current and to transmit the signal to the functional modules.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 13, 2018
    Publication date: May 20, 2021
    Inventors: Hideaki NII, Shozaburo SHIMADA, Kazutoshi KASHIMOTO, Vijay Siddharth PILLAI, Shintaro ITAMOTO
  • Publication number: 20210127247
    Abstract: The present invention enables determination of a pairing partner from among a plurality of devices. In response to acquisition of individual identification information enabling identification of one peripheral terminal, from among one or more peripheral terminals, a pairing unit of a central terminal starts a process (scanning) for acquiring an advertising packet, which is information transmitted from the one peripheral terminal and which is necessary for pairing, and executes pairing with the peripheral terminal by using the acquired advertising packet. In addition, a pairing unit of the peripheral terminal executes control for transmitting the advertising packet in response to acquisition of individual identification information by the central terminal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 11, 2019
    Publication date: April 29, 2021
    Inventors: Shozaburo SHIMADA, Kazutoshi KASHIMOTO, Siddharth Vijay PILLAI, Shintaro ITAMOTO, Hideaki NII, Masatoshi IMAI, Shota KAGAMI
  • Publication number: 20200242278
    Abstract: The present invention provides a technique for forming a prescribed three-dimensional shape from a material member having a prescribed thickness. A CAD device creates a mold for cutting out at least one component for forming a prescribed three-dimensional shape from a material member. A developed view generation unit creates a developed view or an isolated plan view of the prescribed three-dimensional shape. On the basis of the developed view or the isolated plan view, a mold creation unit creates a mold for a component having a fitting part for fitting with an other, adjacent component. A cut-out order determination unit attaches a symbol indicating the cut-out order to each component or to each of a plurality of isolated elements in the component.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 26, 2018
    Publication date: July 30, 2020
    Inventors: Kazutoshi KASHIMOTO, Jimi OKELANA, Kazuto NISHIZAWA, Shota KAGAMI
  • Publication number: 20190378433
    Abstract: In order to enable a user to produce a program by means of visible operations, a pairing unit pairs a user terminal and a basic core. A program production unit produces a program on the basis of touch operations by the user. An H parts supply unit and an S parts supply unit respectively supply H parts and S parts to the program production unit. A parts connection unit connects the various H parts and S parts in accordance with touch operations by the user. A program execution unit extracts from a program storage unit a program to be executed, and executes that program. A communication control unit transmits the execution result for the program executed by the program execution unit to the basic core via a second close-range communication unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 21, 2018
    Publication date: December 12, 2019
    Inventors: Shozaburo SHIMADA, Kazutoshi KASHIMOTO, Siddharth Vijay PILLAI, Shintaro ITAMOTO
  • Patent number: 9613625
    Abstract: A dynamic speech recognition dictionary generating unit extracts, from phrases stored in a speech recognition dictionary, phrases of which heads match a head of a character string inputted through a character string input unit and generates a dynamic speech recognition dictionary that stores difference phrases that are each part of an extracted phrase excluding a common phrase that is common among the extracted phrases. A speech recognition unit carries out recognition of a user utterance by using the dynamic speech recognition dictionary. An input character string confirming unit confirms an input character string candidate that includes a recognized difference phrase as an input character string.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 10, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 4, 2017
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Kazutoshi Kashimoto
  • Publication number: 20150243277
    Abstract: A dynamic speech recognition dictionary generating unit extracts, from phrases stored in a speech recognition dictionary, phrases of which heads match a head of a character string inputted through a character string input unit and generates a dynamic speech recognition dictionary that stores difference phrases that are each part of an extracted phrase excluding a common phrase that is common among the extracted phrases. A speech recognition unit carries out recognition of a user utterance by using the dynamic speech recognition dictionary. An input character string confirming unit confirms an input character string candidate that includes a recognized difference phrase as an input character string.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 10, 2015
    Publication date: August 27, 2015
    Applicant: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: KAZUTOSHI KASHIMOTO
  • Patent number: 9071680
    Abstract: An information communication apparatus having a display section, includes: a sensor section used for communication between an information communication terminal and another apparatus; a terminal information storing section configured to store information about a position of the sensor section in the information communication terminal and information about a position and a size of the display section in the information communication terminal; and a control section configured to calculate a relative positional relationship of the sensor section and the display section, based on the information stored in the terminal information storing section, generate an indicator that allows the position of the sensor section to be specified, and display the indicator on the display section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 15, 2012
    Date of Patent: June 30, 2015
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICA
    Inventor: Kazutoshi Kashimoto
  • Patent number: 8810588
    Abstract: Provided is a display switching apparatus that reduces delayed display, and the like, of frame images. An information processing terminal 1 is provided with a first rendering component 61 that, in each first time interval, generates and writes an image to a buffer, a second rendering component 62 that, in each second time interval, generates and writes an image to a buffer, a frame buffer management unit 11 that allocates a high-speed frame buffer 31 on a high-speed memory device 18 and a universal frame buffer 32 on a universal memory device 19, and a display switching apparatus 12 that includes a switching determination unit 81 that repeatedly calculates a rendering load for each rendering component and a switching performance unit 82 that switches the buffers allocated to the rendering components when the high-speed frame buffer 31 is not allocated to the rendering component with the higher rendering load.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2011
    Date of Patent: August 19, 2014
    Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America
    Inventor: Kazutoshi Kashimoto
  • Publication number: 20140059249
    Abstract: When an information storing area included only in a first data format among the first data format corresponding to a version of processing target data and a second data format corresponding to an output version is present as a difference area, a data conversion device 110 converts information data in the difference area in the processing target data to a post-conversion character string using codes for non-display characters, and generates post-conversion data of the output version in which the post-conversion character string is embedded. When an information storing area included only in the second data format is present as a difference area, the data conversion device 110 inversely converts a character string embedded in the processing target data and uses the codes for the non-display characters, and generates post-inverse conversion data of the output version in which information data restored by the inverse conversion is stored in the difference area.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 17, 2012
    Publication date: February 27, 2014
    Applicant: PANASONIC CORPORATION
    Inventor: Kazutoshi Kashimoto
  • Publication number: 20130143604
    Abstract: An information communication apparatus having a display section, according to one aspect of the present invention, includes: a sensor section used for communication between an information communication terminal and another apparatus; a terminal information storing section configured to store information about the position of the sensor section in the information communication terminal and information about the position and the size of the display section in the information communication terminal; and a control section configured to calculate the relative positional relationship of the sensor section and the display section, based on the information stored in the terminal information storing section, generate an indicator that allows the position of the sensor section to be specified, and display the indicator on the display section.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 15, 2012
    Publication date: June 6, 2013
    Inventor: Kazutoshi Kashimoto
  • Publication number: 20120223968
    Abstract: A display processing device extracts a marker image from an image (captured image) of a page in a book. Afterward, a curved plane is created according to the extracted marker image to represent the degree of curvature of the page. Then, a virtual object is distorted to match the curved plane and overlaid on the captured image for display on an HMD.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 2, 2011
    Publication date: September 6, 2012
    Inventor: Kazutoshi Kashimoto
  • Publication number: 20120062573
    Abstract: Provided is a display switching apparatus that reduces delayed display, and the like, of frame images. An information processing terminal 1 is provided with a first rendering component 61 that, in each first time interval, generates and writes an image to a buffer, a second rendering component 62 that, in each second time interval, generates and writes an image to a buffer, a frame buffer management unit 11 that allocates a high-speed frame buffer 31 on a high-speed memory device 18 and a universal frame buffer 32 on a universal memory device 19, and a display switching apparatus 12 that includes a switching determination unit 81 that repeatedly calculates a rendering load for each rendering component and a switching performance unit 82 that switches the buffers allocated to the rendering components when the high-speed frame buffer 31 is not allocated to the rendering component with the higher rendering load.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 22, 2011
    Publication date: March 15, 2012
    Inventor: Kazutoshi Kashimoto