Patents by Inventor Kohji Akasaka

Kohji Akasaka 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: 9170719
    Abstract: A display device (1) includes: a sensor section (11) detecting a hover state; a position detecting section (33) for specifying a position in the hover state; a selection guide creating section (34) for detecting objects within a predetermined range from the position thus specified; a selection guide display processing section (35) for displaying pieces of object information corresponding to the objects thus detected; and an object processing section (36) for carrying out, when any of the pieces of object information is selected, the same process(es) as a process(es) that is/are to be carried out if an object(s) corresponding to the any of the pieces of object information is/are selected.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 5, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 27, 2015
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Kohji Akasaka, Hiroshi Fukutomi
  • Publication number: 20140344753
    Abstract: A display device (1) includes: a sensor section (11) detecting a hover state; a position detecting section (33) for specifying a position in the hover state; a selection guide creating section (34) for detecting objects within a predetermined range from the position thus specified; a selection guide display processing section (35) for displaying pieces of object information corresponding to the objects thus detected; and an object processing section (36) for carrying out, when any of the pieces of object information is selected, the same process(es) as a process(es) that is/are to be carried out if an object(s) corresponding to the any of the pieces of object information is/are selected.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 5, 2012
    Publication date: November 20, 2014
    Inventors: Kohji Akasaka, Hiroshi Fukutomi
  • Publication number: 20130167019
    Abstract: An electronic notebook device (100) disclosed includes: a state shifting section (11) for accepting deletion mode shift gesture information indicative of a gesture performed in a direction along, among the sides of a page displayed, a side on which the page is bound; and a page deleting section (14) for deleting page information for the currently display page in the case where after the state shifting section (11) has accepted the deletion mode shift gesture information, a deletion accepting section (13) has accepted gesture information indicative of a gesture performed in a direction away from the page binding side.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 11, 2011
    Publication date: June 27, 2013
    Applicant: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Minoru Wadayama, Kohji Akasaka, Hiroshi Fukutomi
  • Publication number: 20130159916
    Abstract: An information processing device of the present invention includes: a selected region image display processing section (17) for (i) generating a selecting object which includes a partial image designated by a user operation and (ii) displaying the selecting object thus generated; and a shift and copy managing section (18) for, according to an operation of determining a position of the selecting object, copying or shifting, to the position determined by the operation, the partial image on the basis of which the selecting object is generated. When a page on which the selecting object is displayed is changed to another page, the selected region image display processing section (17) displays the selecting object on the another page.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 4, 2011
    Publication date: June 20, 2013
    Applicant: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Minoru Wadayama, Kohji Akasaka, Hiroshi Fukutomi