Patents by Inventor Masayuki Terao

Masayuki Terao 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: 11243796
    Abstract: A management apparatus includes: a data holding part that holds a function management table for storing information associating apparatus identification information identifying an expansion apparatus and function identification information for identifying a function that is set in the expansion unit; a function management part that specifies an expansion apparatus in response to an instruction to start up a virtual machine, that sets, in the expansion unit, function identification information corresponding to a function satisfying a functional requirement of the virtual machine, that sets the function satisfying the functional requirement as an internal function in the expansion unit, and that stores function identification information in the function management table; and a function setting part that determines driver software necessary for an internal function of the expansion apparatus based on function identification information set in the expansion unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 8, 2022
    Assignee: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kazuma Mifune, Masayuki Terao
  • Patent number: 11182022
    Abstract: A coordinate detection system includes a camera configured to capture an image of a face opposite to a display face of a transmissive display panel including a plurality of luminous parts and to thereby produce video information, and a video processor configured to detect coordinates instructed on the display face of the transmissive display panel based on the luminance or chromaticity of reflected light, which occurs when reflecting light emitted from each luminous part of the transmissive display panel, according to the captured video information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 4, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 23, 2021
    Assignee: SHARP NEC DISPLAY SOLUTIONS, LTD.
    Inventor: Masayuki Terao
  • Publication number: 20200319730
    Abstract: A coordinate detection system includes a camera configured to capture an image of a face opposite to a display face of a transmissive display panel including a plurality of luminous parts and to thereby produce video information, and a video processor configured to detect coordinates instructed on the display face of the transmissive display panel based on the luminance or chromaticity of reflected light, which occurs when reflecting light emitted from each luminous part of the transmissive display panel, according to the captured video information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 4, 2016
    Publication date: October 8, 2020
    Inventor: Masayuki TERAO
  • Publication number: 20190317798
    Abstract: A management apparatus includes: a data holding part that holds a function management table for storing information associating apparatus identification information identifying an expansion apparatus and function identification information for identifying a function that is set in the expansion unit; a function management part that specifies an expansion apparatus in response to an instruction to start up a virtual machine, that sets, in the expansion unit, function identification information corresponding to a function satisfying a functional requirement of the virtual machine, that sets the function satisfying the functional requirement as an internal function in the expansion unit, and that stores function identification information in the function management table; and a function setting part that determines driver software necessary for an internal function of the expansion apparatus based on function identification information set in the expansion unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 15, 2017
    Publication date: October 17, 2019
    Applicant: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kazuma MIFUNE, Masayuki TERAO
  • Patent number: 10268435
    Abstract: A display device includes a network unit including a first port that is connectable to a control computer or a display device on a prior stage in a daisy chain manner and a second port that is connectable to a display device on a subsequent stage in the daisy chain manner, and a storage unit that stores addresses of display devices, as transmission sources, transmitted from one or each of the display devices at subsequent stages of a daisy chain connected via the second port in response to a request to search for a plurality of display devices as targets for determining display device IDs thereof the plurality of display devices being connected to the control computer in the daisy chain manner, the request being transmitted from the control computer to the plurality of display devices, where the addresses are received by the network unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2019
    Assignee: NEC DISPLAY SOLUTIONS, LTD.
    Inventor: Masayuki Terao
  • Publication number: 20180321893
    Abstract: A display device includes a network unit including a first port that is connectable to a control computer or a display device on a prior stage in a daisy chain manner and a second port that is connectable to a display device on a subsequent stage in the daisy chain manner, and a storage unit that stores addresses of display devices, as transmission sources, transmitted from one or each of the display devices at subsequent stages of a daisy chain connected via the second port in response to a request to search for a plurality of display devices as targets for determining display device IDs thereof the plurality of display devices being connected to the control computer in the daisy chain manner, the request being transmitted from the control computer to the plurality of display devices, where the addresses are received by the network unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 19, 2018
    Publication date: November 8, 2018
    Inventor: Masayuki Terao
  • Patent number: 10055188
    Abstract: Provided are a network unit whose first port is connectable to a control computer or a display device on a prior stage in a daisy chain manner and whose second port is connectable to a display device on a subsequent stage in the daisy chain manner; a storage unit wherein in response to a request to search for display devices as targets for determining display device IDs thereof, the request being transmitted from the control computer to the display devices, the storage unit stores addresses of display devices connected to the second port as transmission sources, where the addresses are transmitted from the individual display devices on subsequent stages and received by the network unit; and a control unit that receives a total number which is the total number of the display devices and transmitted from the control computer, where the control unit determines the display device ID to be assigned to its own display device according to the received total number and the number of the addresses stored in the storag
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 21, 2018
    Assignee: NEC DISPLAY SOLUTIONS, LTD.
    Inventor: Masayuki Terao
  • Publication number: 20170024179
    Abstract: Provided are a network unit whose first port is connectable to a control computer or a display device on a prior stage in a daisy chain manner and whose second port is connectable to a display device on a subsequent stage in the daisy chain manner; a storage unit wherein in response to a request to search for display devices as targets for determining display device IDs thereof, the request being transmitted from the control computer to the display devices, the storage unit stores addresses of display devices connected to the second port as transmission sources, where the addresses are transmitted from the individual display devices on subsequent stages and received by the network unit; and a control unit that receives a total number which is the total number of the display devices and transmitted from the control computer, where the control unit determines the display device ID to be assigned to its own display device according to the received total number and the number of the addresses stored in the storag
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 13, 2014
    Publication date: January 26, 2017
    Inventor: Masayuki TERAO
  • Patent number: 9372657
    Abstract: When assigning display IDs to displays which form a multi-screen system, the displays are arranged such that short distance radio communication is possible and an ID setting apparatus which can perform the short distance radio communication is employed. After each display ID is set in the ID setting apparatus, the ID setting apparatus and each of the displays are placed near each other in a contactless manner so as to transfer the display ID set in the ID setting apparatus to the display and assign the display ID to the display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 2012
    Date of Patent: June 21, 2016
    Assignee: NEC DISPLAY SOLUTIONS, LTD.
    Inventors: Kazushi Ueda, Masayuki Terao
  • Patent number: 7085382
    Abstract: A communication device which can be freely inserted into and extracted from a slot of a terminal device has its part exposed from the terminal device when inserted into the slot applied a color according to a kind of the communication device and includes a radio unit adapted to a predetermined mobile communication service, applied a color according to a kind of the mobile communication service and storing information necessary for the connection to a specific provider.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 26, 2000
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2006
    Assignee: NEC Corporation
    Inventors: Masayuki Terao, Akira Sakai, Masakatsu Takizawa, Shuuji Yamaguchi
  • Patent number: 6529382
    Abstract: An electronic computer with a file bay cover includes an electronic lock unit for selectively opening and closing the file bay cover and a sensor responsive to the locked state of the lock. The electronic lock unit is controlled by electronic control. The computer enhances the efficiency of a centralized control system and security.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 1999
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2003
    Assignee: NEC Corporation
    Inventor: Masayuki Terao
  • Publication number: 20020075657
    Abstract: An electronic computer with a file bay cover includes an electronic lock unit for selectively opening and closing the file bay cover and a sensor responsive to the locked state of the lock. The electronic lock unit is controlled by electronic control. The computer enhances the efficiency of a centralized control system and security.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 23, 1999
    Publication date: June 20, 2002
    Inventor: MASAYUKI TERAO
  • Patent number: 6340145
    Abstract: To place a desktop computer effectively on a desk, a desk fastening member is located so that it encloses an edge of a top of the desk and the desk fastening member is fastened to the desk by tightening screws. Hooks of a computer holding member are engaged in holes of an extending member of the desk fastening member from an inside I of a kneehole of the desk, and then, the computer's main body is held in a space outside of the kneehole.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 18, 1999
    Date of Patent: January 22, 2002
    Assignee: NEC Corporation
    Inventors: Mitsuhiro Tagami, Masayuki Terao
  • Publication number: 20010055011
    Abstract: To provide an information processor which, in case a component in which a moving picture is displayed is overlapped by another window, can apply display effect only to a region on which the moving picture is actually displayed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 25, 2001
    Publication date: December 27, 2001
    Applicant: NEC Corporation
    Inventors: Masayuki Terao, Hidehiko Okada
  • Patent number: 6256402
    Abstract: The password input apparatus of the present invention comprises: a database for storing feature data of a previously registered master fingerprint and a password of an authorized user in a related manner; a camera for obtaining a fingerprint being inputted from the user's finger; an extractor for extracting feature data of the fingerprint; a controller for reading the password from the database based on the feature data extracted by the extractor; and an interface for outputting the password to another device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 6, 1998
    Date of Patent: July 3, 2001
    Assignee: NEC Corporation
    Inventor: Masayuki Terao
  • Publication number: 20010005682
    Abstract: A communication device which can be freely inserted into and extracted from a slot of a terminal device has its part exposed from the terminal device when inserted into the slot applied a color according to a kind of the communication device and includes a radio unit adapted to a predetermined mobile communication service, applied a color according to a kind of the mobile communication service and storing information necessary for the connection to a specific provider.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 26, 2000
    Publication date: June 28, 2001
    Inventors: Masayuki Terao, Akira Sakai, Masakatsu Takizawa, Shuuji Yamaguchi