Patents by Inventor Kei Okuda

Kei Okuda 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: 20200065057
    Abstract: An aspect of the present invention allows a natural, humanlike conversation to be carried out between electronic apparatus. The audio adjustment device (1) includes: a sound analyzing section (21) for analyzing a second sound outputted from a second electronic apparatus; and an element adjusting section (24) for adjusting a first element characterizing the first sound, the first element being adjusted on a basis of either a content of a text in the second sound or a second element characterizing the second sound, the content of the text in the second sound and the second element being obtained by analysis by the sound analyzing section (21).
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 31, 2017
    Publication date: February 27, 2020
    Inventors: KAZUNORI WAKI, KEI OKUDA, YOSHIKO IMAKI, HIROYUKI OONISHI, FUMITOSHI TANOUE, SATOSHI EGUCHI
  • Patent number: 8359050
    Abstract: A mobile phone which allows a user to continuously watch a television broadcast even if there is a call from the other party phone is provided. If a call comes from the other party phone in a state of displaying television image on a main display, the television audio output part 36 stops outputting television audio corresponding to the television image while the television image display part maintains display of the television image on the main display, wherein the character information display part 38 causes the main display to display caption corresponding to the television image. Therefore, the user is allowed to continuously watch the television broadcast on the basis of the television image and caption while communicating with the other party phone.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 2011
    Date of Patent: January 22, 2013
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Kei Okuda, Yasuhiro Kawauti, Toshio Suganuma, Yuko Banba
  • Patent number: 8350965
    Abstract: A portable terminal device includes: an operation part 7 including operation keys 71 that are two-dimensionally arranged in a matrix form; an image enlarging part 91 that, in a state where a plurality of enlargement target areas 93 are preliminarily set as partial areas of an image, generates an enlarged image by, on the basis of an operation of any of the operation keys 71, enlarging an image within an enlargement target area 93 preliminarily related to the operation key 71; a display image generating part 92 that generates a display image including the image in a normal or an enlargement browsing mode generates a display image including the enlarged image; and a display part 5 that displays the display image. The respective enlargement target areas 93 respectively correspond in an arrangement order to the operation keys 71, and form overlap areas with their adjacent enlargement target areas.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 7, 2010
    Date of Patent: January 8, 2013
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Takayuki Mohri, Kei Okuda
  • Patent number: 8285333
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a mobile phone which allows a user to continuously watch a television broadcast even if there is a call from the other party phone. If a call comes from the other party phone in a state of displaying television image on a main display, the television audio output part 36 stops outputting television audio corresponding to the television image while the television image display part maintains display of the television image on the main display, wherein the character information display part 38 causes the main display to display caption corresponding to the television image. Therefore, the user is allowed to continuously watch the television broadcast on the basis of the television image and caption while communicating with the other party phone.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 7, 2006
    Date of Patent: October 9, 2012
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Kei Okuda, Yasuhiro Kawauti, Toshio Suganuma, Yuko Banba
  • Publication number: 20120129555
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a mobile phone which allows a user to continuously watch a television broadcast even if there is a call from the other party phone. If a call comes from the other party phone in a state of displaying television image on a main display, the television audio output part 36 stops outputting television audio corresponding to the television image while the television image display part maintains display of the television image on the main display, wherein the character information display part 38 causes the main display to display caption corresponding to the television image. Therefore, the user is allowed to continuously watch the television broadcast on the basis of the television image and caption while communicating with the other party phone.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 18, 2011
    Publication date: May 24, 2012
    Inventors: Kei Okuda, Yasuhiro Kawauti, Toshio Suganuma, Yuko Banba
  • Patent number: 8140059
    Abstract: It is an object to provide a digital TV broadcast system and a cellular phone in which content of a data broadcast can be checked with a small display area, and work for checking desired content in detail is easy. Extracted character strings extracted from content data are provided in a picto display area 21 in a horizontally long display state as a marquee display. In the case where a display screen is switched to a vertically long display state during the display of the extracted character strings, a cursor 26 is placed on a character string corresponding to an extracted character string displayed in the horizontally long display state upon the switching, among character strings displayed in a data broadcast display area 25.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2007
    Date of Patent: March 20, 2012
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Kei Okuda, Takayuki Mohri, Akihiko Uchiyama
  • Patent number: 8140125
    Abstract: There is provided a mobile communication terminal of which a display area is inhibited from narrowing when a state of a display screen is switched from a vertically long state to a horizontally long state. The mobile communication terminal is configured to include: a connecting state detecting part 18 adapted to determine whether a display screen 2a is in the vertically long state or the horizontally long state; a display object storage part 20 adapted to store first and second display objects to be displayed depending on an operating state; and a display controlling part 16 adapted to display the respective display objects on the display screen 2a.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2007
    Date of Patent: March 20, 2012
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Kei Okuda, Naoto Satokata
  • Patent number: 8135437
    Abstract: In a cellular phone a rotational position sensing part senses that a display casing has been rotated from a horizontally long state to a vertically long state, and a drive voltage is supplied to a TV broadcast receiving part by a drive voltage supplying part, and an incoming call processing part performs incoming call processing, such that a response part establishes a telephone conversion state in response to the incoming call, and a drive voltage control part stops the supply of the drive voltage by the drive voltage supplying part. When a call is made from an opposite side telephone set while a TV broadcast is watched, the call can be responded to only by rotating the display casing, and the supply of the drive voltage to the TV broadcast receiving part can be automatically stopped, so that power consumption can be efficiently reduced while reducing the burden of operations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2007
    Date of Patent: March 13, 2012
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Kei Okuda
  • Patent number: 7889192
    Abstract: The present invention provides a mobile phone that includes a single camera for picking up a 2D image and provides the 2D image with parallax information to create a 3D image. The 3D image is displayed on a display unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 3, 2003
    Date of Patent: February 15, 2011
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Minehiro Konya, Yusuke Miyata, Kei Okuda, Takashi Yasumoto
  • Publication number: 20100289947
    Abstract: It is an object to provide a mobile information terminal device capable of surely preventing erroneous determination that caption data is included in a digital TV broadcast wave for a program other than a closed-captioned broadcast program. A PES generating part 13 combines a plurality of TS (Transport Stream) packets extracted from a digital TV broadcast wave on a data type basis to thereby generate a PES (Packetized Elementary Stream) including caption data. A caption management data detecting part 18 detects a presence or an absence of caption management data periodically included in the caption data, and on the basis of a result of the detection, a caption outputting part 16 outputs a caption.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 10, 2007
    Publication date: November 18, 2010
    Inventors: Kei Okuda, Takayuki Mohri
  • Publication number: 20100208138
    Abstract: To provide a portable terminal device that, in the case where a part of an image displayed on a display screen is enlarged, make content of the enlarged image easily visually recognizable. The portable terminal device includes: an operation part 7 including a plurality of operation keys 71 that are two-dimensionally arranged in a matrix form; image enlarging means 91 that, in a state where a plurality of enlargement target areas 93 are preliminarily set as partial areas of a TV image, generates an enlarged TV image by, on the basis of an operation of any of the operation keys 71, enlarging an image within an enlargement target area 93 preliminarily related to the operation key 71; display image generating means 92 that generates a display image including the TV image in a normal browsing mode, or in an enlargement browsing mode, generates a display image including the enlarged TV image; and display means 5 that displays the display image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 7, 2010
    Publication date: August 19, 2010
    Applicant: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Takayuki MOHRI, Kei Okuda
  • Publication number: 20100166385
    Abstract: There is provided a mobile communication terminal that can start video recording at a preliminarily specified time even if an application inexecutable simultaneously with a video recording operation for a TV broadcast is in execution. The mobile communication terminal includes: a TV video recording/reproduction processing part 33 adapted to video-record a TV broadcast; an application program executing part 34 adapted to execute on the basis of a user operation an application program that is inexecutable simultaneously with a video recording operation for the TV broadcast; a flag storing part 36 adapted to store a reservation video recording priority flag; a reservation video recording priority specifying part 35 adapted to enable the reservation video recording priority flag on the basis of a user operation; and a reservation video recording controlling part 31 adapted to specify a video recording start time on the basis of a user operation, and reproduce a video recording start signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 10, 2007
    Publication date: July 1, 2010
    Applicant: SHARP KABUSHIKI KSIAHA
    Inventors: Kei Okuda, Takayuki Mohri
  • Publication number: 20100016018
    Abstract: It is an object to provide a digital TV broadcast system and a cellular phone in which content of a data broadcast can be checked with a small display area, and work for checking desired content in detail is easy. Extracted character strings extracted from content data are provided in a picto display area 21 in a horizontally long display state as a marquee display. In the case where a display screen is switched to a vertically long display state during the display of the extracted character strings, a cursor 26 is placed on a character string corresponding to an extracted character string displayed in the horizontally long display state upon the switching, among character strings displayed in a data broadcast display area 25.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 29, 2007
    Publication date: January 21, 2010
    Inventors: Kei Okuda, Takayuki Mohri, Akihiko Uchiyama
  • Publication number: 20090258675
    Abstract: It is an object to provide a cellular phone capable of efficiently reducing power consumption. If a rotational position sensing part senses that a display casing has been rotated from a horizontally long state to a vertically long state, and further if a drive voltage is supplied to a TV broadcast receiving part by a drive voltage supplying part 33, and an incoming call processing part 31 performs incoming call processing, a response part 32 establishes a telephone conversion state in response to the incoming call, and a drive voltage control part 35 stops the supply of the drive voltage by the drive voltage supplying part 33. Based on this, if a call from an opposite side telephone set is made while a TV broadcast is watched, the call can be responded to only by rotating the display casing, and the supply of the drive voltage to the TV broadcast receiving part can be automatically stopped, so that power consumption can be efficiently reduced while reducing the burden of operations.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 9, 2007
    Publication date: October 15, 2009
    Inventor: Kei Okuda
  • Publication number: 20090170565
    Abstract: There is provided a mobile communication terminal of which a display area is inhibited from narrowing when a state of a display screen is switched from a vertically long state to a horizontally long state. The mobile communication terminal is configured to include: a connecting state detecting part 18 adapted to determine whether a display screen 2a is in the vertically long state or the horizontally long state; a display object storage part 20 adapted to store first and second display objects to be displayed depending on an operating state; and a display controlling part 16 adapted to display the respective display objects on the display screen 2a.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 9, 2007
    Publication date: July 2, 2009
    Inventors: Kei Okuda, Naoto Satokata
  • Publication number: 20090137272
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a mobile phone which allows a user to continuously watch a television broadcast even if there is a call from the other party phone. If a call comes from the other party phone in a state of displaying television image on a main display, the television audio output part 36 stops outputting television audio corresponding to the television image while the television image display part maintains display of the television image on the main display, wherein the character information display part 38 causes the main display to display caption corresponding to the television image. Therefore, the user is allowed to continuously watch the television broadcast on the basis of the television image and caption while communicating with the other party phone.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 7, 2006
    Publication date: May 28, 2009
    Inventors: Kei Okuda, Yasuhiro Kawauti, Toshio Suganuma, Yuko Banba
  • Publication number: 20040095462
    Abstract: The present invention provides a mobile phone capable of displaying a stereoscopic image at a display unit. When the mobile phone is powered on, it displays a stereoscopic screen as a start screen.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 2, 2003
    Publication date: May 20, 2004
    Inventors: Yusuke Miyata, Kei Okuda
  • Publication number: 20040008154
    Abstract: A mobile terminal unit configured to be foldable includes first and second display portions arranged so as to be located on an inner side and an outer side of the mobile terminal unit respectively when it is folded. When a mail arrives, a title of an unread mail is shown on the second display portion located on the outer side of the mobile terminal unit when folded. A body of the mail is displayed on the first display portion or the second display portion in succession to display of the unread mail with its title, by operating a scroll key provided on the inner side and the outer side of the mobile terminal unit when folded, or by unfolding the folded mobile terminal unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 1, 2003
    Publication date: January 15, 2004
    Inventors: Yusuke Miyata, Kei Okuda
  • Publication number: 20040004616
    Abstract: The present invention provides a mobile phone that includes a single camera for picking up a 2D image and provides the 2D image with parallax information to create a 3D image. The 3D image is displayed on a display unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 3, 2003
    Publication date: January 8, 2004
    Inventors: Minehiro Konya, Yusuke Miyata, Kei Okuda, Takashi Yasumoto