Patents by Inventor Kentaro Endo

Kentaro Endo 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: 9704273
    Abstract: An image processing device including: a color correction section that is input with an RGB signal, and performs color correction on the RGB signal; a YC conversion section that converts the color corrected RGB signal to a first brightness signal and a color difference signal; a Y conversion section that is input with the RGB signal, and generates a second brightness signal from the RGB signal; a processor configured to execute a process, the process including computing a ratio at which to combine the first brightness signal and the second brightness signal based on the RGB signal; and a combining section that combines the first brightness signal and the second brightness signal at the computed ratio.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 11, 2017
    Assignee: SOCIONEXT INC.
    Inventors: Kentaro Endo, Junzo Sakurai
  • Publication number: 20160078638
    Abstract: An image processing device including: a color correction section that is input with an RGB signal, and performs color correction on the RGB signal; a YC conversion section that converts the color corrected RGB signal to a first brightness signal and a color difference signal; a Y conversion section that is input with the RGB signal, and generates a second brightness signal from the RGB signal; a processor configured to execute a process, the process including computing a ratio at which to combine the first brightness signal and the second brightness signal based on the RGB signal; and a combining section that combines the first brightness signal and the second brightness signal at the computed ratio.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 10, 2015
    Publication date: March 17, 2016
    Inventors: Kentaro ENDO, Junzo SAKURAI
  • Patent number: 8571260
    Abstract: A character input apparatus includes a liquid crystal monitor 104 which overlappingly displays a character selection screen 101a that displays character selection information for accepting a character input from a user, and a character display area 101b that displays a character selected from the character selection screen 101a; an eye-gaze tracker 201 for detecting a finger of the user by tracking the eye-gaze of the user; and a controller 202 for controlling the liquid crystal monitor 104 so as to display the character display area 101b in a location that accords with the location of the finger detected by the eye-gaze tracker 201.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 2009
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2013
    Assignee: NTT DoCoMo, Inc.
    Inventors: Hitoshi Yamazaki, Kazuya Anzawa, Kentaro Endo, Toshihiko Kamiya
  • Patent number: 8508473
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide an information processing device which is capable of suitably switching between hardware buttons and an electrostatic pad such as a touch panel, depending on the operating circumstances of a user. In a cellular phone, judgment is made as to an application, which is an operation target for the user, and, in accordance with the application judged, an input device control section is able to switch between accepting inputs from an electrostatic pad input acceptance section and accepting inputs from a hardware button input acceptance section, depending on the application thus judged by a CPU.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 2008
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2013
    Assignee: NTT DoCoMo, Inc.
    Inventors: Keiichi Murakami, Noriko Ooi, Kentaro Endo
  • Patent number: 8266529
    Abstract: An information processing device of an aspect of the invention has display means having a display region; operation means, having a contact region, for outputting a position signal indicating the position of a contact operation in the contact region; range decision means for deciding a target range of the display region based on the position signals for two points from the operation means; processing menu display means for causing the display means to display a processing menu at a position corresponding to the target range of the display region; processing decision means for deciding the processing of the processing menu corresponding to the position of the contact operation in the contact region; and processing execution means for executing the processing on the target range of the display region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 11, 2009
    Date of Patent: September 11, 2012
    Assignee: NTT DoCoMo, Inc.
    Inventors: Noriko Ooi, Keiichi Murakami, Kentaro Endo
  • Patent number: 8064818
    Abstract: The present invention enables provision of a service in which a distribution method of content is changed depending on a location of a mobile station. Specifically, if a user of mobile station MS is located in a country where the usage of content is not permitted, content server CS detains the content temporarily, and after confirming that the user has moved to a country where the usage of the content is permitted, sends the detained content to mobile station MS of the user. When detaining the content, content server CS checks whether an expected date of the user moving to a country where the usage of the content is permitted is within a distribution period of the content, and if so, detains the content.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 2007
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2011
    Assignee: NTT DoCoMo, Inc.
    Inventors: Noriaki Tobita, Kentaro Endo, Toshiki Takatsu
  • Publication number: 20090295750
    Abstract: The present invention provides a mobile terminal having a touch panel, which is capable of improving the convenience and operability of character input. The mobile terminal having a touch panel includes an input control unit that detects a switching instruction for switching a screen of the touch panel, the switching instruction being issued by a user, and a screen display control unit that displays a text sheet displaying the character string input by the user on the touch panel, and when the switching instruction is detected by the input control unit, displays a character input sheet having a software keyboard for inputting a character string, on the text sheet in an overlapping manner on the touch panel, and makes the character string displayed on the text sheet visible.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 27, 2009
    Publication date: December 3, 2009
    Applicant: NTT DoCoMo, Inc.
    Inventors: Hitoshi Yamazaki, Kazuya Anzawa, Kentaro Endo, Toshihiko Kamiya
  • Publication number: 20090298551
    Abstract: The present invention provides a mobile terminal having a touch panel, which is capable of improving the convenience and operability of an input operation or information display. The mobile terminal having a touch panel includes an input control unit that receives character data from a user via the touch panel, a conversion candidate creating unit that creates a conversion candidate list corresponding to the character data, and a screen display control unit that displays the conversion candidate list on a conversion candidate display region of the touch panel, and, when the conversion candidate list cannot be displayed completely on the conversion candidate display region of the touch panel, scroll-displays the conversion candidate list displayed on the conversion candidate display region during contact movement in which a finger of the user continues moving on the touch panel without having a contact state therebetween disconnected, in accordance with the contact movement.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 27, 2009
    Publication date: December 3, 2009
    Applicant: NTT DoCoMo, Inc.
    Inventors: Hitoshi YAMAZAKI, Kazuya Anzawa, Kentaro Endo, Toshihiko Kamiya
  • Publication number: 20090296988
    Abstract: A character input apparatus includes a liquid crystal monitor 104 which overlappingly displays a character selection screen 101a that displays character selection information for accepting a character input from a user, and a character display area 101b that displays a character selected from the character selection screen 101a; an eye-gaze tracker 201 for detecting a finger of the user by tracking the eye-gaze of the user; and a controller 202 for controlling the liquid crystal monitor 104 so as to display the character display area 101b in a location that accords with the location of the finger detected by the eye-gaze tracker 201.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 27, 2009
    Publication date: December 3, 2009
    Applicant: NTT DoCoMo, Inc.
    Inventors: Hitoshi Yamazaki, Kazuya Anzawa, Kentaro Endo, Toshihiko Kamiya
  • Publication number: 20090287999
    Abstract: An information processing device of an aspect of the invention has display means having a display region; operation means, having a contact region, for outputting a position signal indicating the position of a contact operation in the contact region; range decision means for deciding a target range of the display region based on the position signals for two points from the operation means; processing menu display means for causing the display means to display a processing menu at a position corresponding to the target range of the display region; processing decision means for deciding the processing of the processing menu corresponding to the position of the contact operation in the contact region; and processing execution means for executing the processing on the target range of the display region.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 11, 2009
    Publication date: November 19, 2009
    Applicant: NTT DoCoMo, Inc.
    Inventors: Noriko Ooi, Keiichi Murakami, Kentaro Endo
  • Publication number: 20090153489
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide an information processing device which is capable of suitably switching between hardware buttons and an electrostatic pad such as a touch panel, depending on the operating circumstances of a user. In a cellular phone, judgment is made as to an application, which is an operation target for the user, and, in accordance with the application judged, an input device control section is able to switch between accepting inputs from an electrostatic pad input acceptance section and accepting inputs from a hardware button input acceptance section, depending on the application thus judged by a CPU.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 8, 2008
    Publication date: June 18, 2009
    Applicant: NTT DoCoMo, Inc.
    Inventors: Keiichi MURAKAMI, Noriko OOI, Kentaro ENDO
  • Publication number: 20090011697
    Abstract: The present invention enables provision of a service in which a distribution method of content is changed depending on a location of a mobile station. Specifically, if a user of mobile station MS is located in a country where the usage of content is not permitted, content server CS detains the content temporarily, and after confirming that the user has moved to a country where the usage of the content is permitted, sends the detained content to mobile station MS of the user. When detaining the content, content server CS checks whether an expected date of the user moving to a country where the usage of the content is permitted is within a distribution period of the content, and if so, detains the content.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 29, 2007
    Publication date: January 8, 2009
    Inventors: Noriaki Tobita, Kentaro Endo, Toshiki Takatsu