Patents by Inventor Nobuo Shimizu

Nobuo Shimizu 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: 20240151976
    Abstract: A head-mounted display comprises: a wearing body; a display; a communication module configured to perform communication connection with a mobile information terminal; a field of view(FOV) sensor configured to output status data used for determining whether the mobile information terminal is included in a user's FOV through the wearing body; and a controller connected to each of the display, the communication module, and the FOV detection sensor. The controller determines whether the mobile information terminal is included in the user's FOV based on the status data, and performs display control with respect to the display so as to display an application screen of the mobile information terminal on the display when determining that the mobile information terminal is not included in the FOV, and not to display the application screen on the display when determining that the mobile information terminal is included in the FOV.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 17, 2024
    Publication date: May 9, 2024
    Inventors: Mitsunobu WATANABE, Yasunobu HASHIMOTO, Osamu KAWAMAE, Nobuo MASUOKA, Kazuhiko YOSHIZAWA, Hiroshi SHIMIZU
  • Patent number: 11979684
    Abstract: There is provided a content distribution device including a virtual character arrangement acquisitor that acquires an arrangement in a virtual space of each of a plurality of virtual characters respectively corresponding to a plurality of participants in accordance with an operation of a corresponding participant, a trigger detector that detects a first trigger and thereafter detects a second trigger, and a display control data distributor that generates and distributes display control data for displaying at least a part of the virtual space in which the plurality of virtual characters is arranged.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: DWANGO Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Nobuo Kawakami, Takashi Kojima, Hiroaki Saito, Toshihiro Shimizu
  • Publication number: 20240146992
    Abstract: A digital broadcast receiving apparatus capable of executing a function with a higher added value is provided. A broadcast receiving apparatus configured to receive contents includes: a receiving unit configured to receive the contents; an interface via which the contents received by the receiving unit is outputted; a control unit configured to control an output state of the contents from the interface. In this case, the control unit is configured to determine the output state of the contents from the interface in accordance with a combination of control information indicating a copy control state of the contents, control information for specifying necessity or not of protection when to output the contents, information indicating resolution of video of the contents, and information indicating transmission characteristics of video of the contents, which are received by the receiving unit together with the contents.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 19, 2023
    Publication date: May 2, 2024
    Inventors: Kazuhiko YOSHIZAWA, Takuya SHIMIZU, Yasunobu HASHIMOTO, Nobuo MASUOKA, Nobuaki KABUTO
  • Patent number: 11974009
    Abstract: A broadcast reception device includes: a program recording execution unit that stores, into a recording-content storage area, program identification information for identifying a broadcast program, and storage-destination information for specifying a server device storing the broadcast program; a reception function execution unit that transmits the program identification information and the program storage-destination information to the server device specified from the program storage-destination information; and an output unit that outputs sound information and image information on the broadcast program transmitted from the server device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: MAXELL, LTD.
    Inventors: Kazuhiko Yoshizawa, Nobuo Masuoka, Hiroshi Shimizu, Yasunobu Hashimoto
  • Publication number: 20240137607
    Abstract: A technique for transmitting or receiving an advanced digital broadcasting service more preferably is provided. One or a plurality of receivers detect a 2K broadcasting service that transmits a 2K broadcasting program by performing a frequency scan for a received broadcast wave and create a service list of the 2K broadcasting service by using information related to the detected 2K broadcasting service, the one or plurality of receivers detect, after the detection of the 2K broadcasting service, a 4K broadcasting service that transmits a 4K broadcasting program by performing a frequency scan for the broadcast wave and create a service list of the 4K broadcasting service by using information related to the detected 4K broadcasting service, and a memory stores a service list obtained by composing the created service list of the 2K broadcasting service and the created service list of the 4K broadcasting service.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 6, 2022
    Publication date: April 25, 2024
    Inventors: Nobuo MASUOKA, Takuya SHIMIZU, Yasunobu HASHIMOTO, Kazuhiko YOSHIZAWA, Hitoshi AKIYAMA
  • Patent number: 11962843
    Abstract: A broadcast receiving apparatus includes: a digital broadcast receiver configured to receive digital broadcasting in which contents are transmitted; a network transceiver configured to execute network communication; a data string converter configured to perform a mixing process for creating a new coded data string based on a coded data string of the received contents and a coded data string acquired by the network transceiver; a digital interface configured to output the contents to external equipment; and a controller configured to determine a state of the network communication of the external equipment. The state of the network communication of the external equipment includes a first state in which the network communication is in a communicable state and a second state in which the network communication is in an uncommunicable state. In accordance with the determined state of the network communication, the digital interface performs three types of output operations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 9, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: MAXELL, LTD.
    Inventors: Kazuhiko Yoshizawa, Takuya Shimizu, Nobuo Masuoka, Yusuke Uchiyama, Yasunobu Hashimoto
  • Patent number: 11947609
    Abstract: The purpose of the present invention is to provide a suitable user-friendliness to a user regarding a recommendation of application software on a portable information terminal. In order to accomplish the purpose, this portable information terminal is configured to set an application as a recommendation candidate when the status of the portable information terminal matches a condition corresponding to the application, and recommend the application when the application further matches a pre-set recommendation permitting condition. Hence, the portable information terminal and the application recommending method thereof capable of providing a preferable user-friendliness to the user can be provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: MAXELL, LTD.
    Inventors: Yasunobu Hashimoto, Kazuhiko Yoshizawa, Nobuo Masuoka, Motoyuki Suzuki, Hiroshi Shimizu, Hideyuki Kuwajima
  • Publication number: 20240089527
    Abstract: A broadcast receiving includes a broadcast receiver that receives a broadcast wave of a digital broadcasting service; a separator that separates coded program video data, program-cooperation data, and screen layout control information, from the broadcast wave; a video decoder that decodes the coded program video data to reproduce program video information; a cooperation information generator that interprets the program-cooperation data to generate program-cooperation information; and a control unit that, when an instruction to display a given screen is input while the presentation processor divides video display region into sub-regions based on the screen layout control information, places the program video information in one of the sub-regions, places the program-cooperation information in another sub-region, and outputs the data of the video display region as the video information, outputs information of the given screen as the video information without dividing the video display region based on the screen
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 21, 2023
    Publication date: March 14, 2024
    Inventors: Kazuhiko YOSHIZAWA, Takuya SHIMIZU, Nobuo MASUOKA, Yusuke UCHIYAMA, Yasunobu HASHIMOTO
  • Patent number: 11921293
    Abstract: A head-mounted display comprises: a wearing body; a display; a communication module configured to perform communication connection with a mobile information terminal; a field of view (FOV) sensor configured to output status data used for determining whether the mobile information terminal is included in a user's FOV through the wearing body; and a controller connected to each of the display, the communication module, and the FOV detection sensor. The controller determines whether the mobile information terminal is included in the user's FOV based on the status data, and performs display control with respect to the display so as to display an application screen of the mobile information terminal on the display when determining that the mobile information terminal is not included in the FOV, and not to display the application screen on the display when determining that the mobile information terminal is included in the FOV.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: MAXELL, LTD.
    Inventors: Mitsunobu Watanabe, Yasunobu Hashimoto, Osamu Kawamae, Nobuo Masuoka, Kazuhiko Yoshizawa, Hiroshi Shimizu
  • Publication number: 20240069412
    Abstract: The present invention provides an image pickup device that recognizes the object that the user is attempting to capture as the subject, tracks the movement of that subject, and can continue tracking the movement of the subject even when the subject leaves the capturing area so that the subject can always be reliably brought into focus. The image pickup device includes a main camera that captures the subject; an EVF that displays the captured image captured by the main camera, a sub-camera that captures the subject using a wider capturing region than the main camera, and a processing unit that extracts the subject from the captured images captured by the main camera and the sub-camera, tracks the extracted subject, and brings the subject into focus when an image of the subject is actually captured. When the subject moves outside of a capturing region of the main camera, the processing unit tracks the subject extracted from the captured image captured by the sub-camera.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 8, 2023
    Publication date: February 29, 2024
    Inventors: Hiroshi SHIMIZU, Kazuhiko YOSHIZAWA, Yasunobu HASHIMOTO, Nobuo MASUOKA
  • Patent number: 11803179
    Abstract: A SCADA Web HMI system includes a drawing generation device (1) and an HMI terminal device (32). A drawing editor (11) generates SVG data (21) and part runtime attribute data (22). The HMI terminal device (32) includes a Web browser (321) that reads SVG data (21) and displays an HMI screen, and an HMI Web runtime (322) that reads the part runtime attribute data (22) as setting parameters and operates on the Web browser (321). When receiving signal data corresponding to unique signal names from a monitoring target device (7), the HMI Web runtime (322) changes display of parts corresponding to the unique signal names on the HMI screen.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2023
    Assignee: TOSHIBA MITSUBISHI-ELECTRIC INDUSTRIAL SYSTEMS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Fujieda, Nobuo Shimizu, Akira Nojima, Ryo Shimizu, Takaharu Hashizume
  • Publication number: 20230342184
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a SCADA web HMI system that can reduce a load for processing input/output signals in a large-scale system. An HMI server apparatus performs three filtering processing. In first filtering processing, in a case where received block data corresponds to a screen currently displayed on a web browser, a set of input/output signals is extracted from the received block data. In second filtering processing, input/output signals each having a value varied from a previous value are extracted from the set of input/output signals extracted in the first filtering processing. In third filtering processing, input/output signals corresponding to display parts arranged in the screen currently displayed on the web browser, are extracted from the input/output signals extracted in the second filtering processing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 10, 2021
    Publication date: October 26, 2023
    Applicant: TOSHIBA MITSUBISHI-ELECTRIC INDUSTRIAL SYSTEMS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ryo SHIMIZU, Akira NOJIMA, Nobuo SHIMIZU
  • Publication number: 20230280724
    Abstract: The SCADA web HMI client device runs a plurality of web browsers communicating with a web server. A first web browser is displayed on first monitor and draws an HMI screen for monitoring and controlling an industrial plant. A second web browser is displayed on a second monitor and draws the HMI screen. An operation right table is obtained from the web server. If, in the operation right table, the first web browser is not permitted to operate the HMI screen, an operation part positioned on the HMI screen of the first web browser is drawn in an inoperable state. If, in the operation right table, the second web browser is permitted to operate the HMI screen, the operation part positioned on the HMI screen of the second web browser is drawn in an operable state.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 7, 2021
    Publication date: September 7, 2023
    Applicant: TOSHIBA MITSUBISHI-ELECTRIC INDUSTRIAL SYSTEMS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ryo SHIMIZU, Akira NOJIMA, Nobuo SHIMIZU
  • Publication number: 20230259087
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a SCADA web HMI system that can reduce a load for processing an alarm signal in a large-scale system. An HMI server apparatus performs buffering processing and alarm filtering processing. In the buffering processing, in a case where a received block data includes a set of alarm signals, at least the set of alarm signals included in the block data is temporarily stored in an alarm buffer memory. In the alarm filtering processing, the set of alarm signals stored in the alarm buffer memory is taken out for every second period that is longer than a first period, and the alarm signal having a value varied from a previous value is extracted from the taken-out set of alarm signals.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 10, 2021
    Publication date: August 17, 2023
    Applicant: TOSHIBA MITSUBISHI-ELECTRIC INDUSTRIAL SYSTEMS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ryo SHIMIZU, Akira NOJIMA, Nobuo SHIMIZU
  • Publication number: 20230251624
    Abstract: A drawing creating device generates HMI configuration data for a system monitoring screen from a network configuration diagram drawn by drag-and-drop operation. An HMI server device executes a system monitoring process by applying HMI configuration data to a predetermined server runtime library, and transmits a display signal according to the communication status of a monitored device. An HMI client device draws the system monitoring screen on a web browser and changes the display statuses of the parts positioned on the system monitoring screen according to the received display signal. According to the present invention, the system monitoring function of an industrial plant can be implemented in a non-programmable graphical manner.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 7, 2021
    Publication date: August 10, 2023
    Applicant: TOSHIBA MITSUBISHI-ELECTRIC INDUSTRIAL SYSTEMS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ryo SHIMIZU, Akira NOJIMA, Nobuo SHIMIZU
  • Patent number: 11720082
    Abstract: A SCADA web HMI system dynamically distributes server connection priority lists from web HMI servers to HMI clients in accordance with order of assignment which takes load balancing into account. As a result, preliminary settings associated with connection priority do not need to be made on the HMI clients. Also, since the server connection priority lists are assigned to the HMI clients in accordance with the order of assignment which takes load balancing into account, the numbers of clients connected to the individual web HMI servers are equalized and the load balancing can be ensured. The SCADA web HMI system can reduce the operating costs necessary in client settings while ensuring redundancy and load balancing of servers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 10, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 8, 2023
    Assignee: TOSHIBA MITSUBISHI-ELECTRIC INDUSTRIAL SYSTEMS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ryosuke Higashiya, Akira Nojima, Nobuo Shimizu, Ryo Shimizu
  • Publication number: 20230236584
    Abstract: When a general-purpose operation part (22, 23) is hidden by a window part (24), it becomes hard for an operator to visually check an association state between a field device (10A, 10B) and a hardware switch (3). If such a display state has occurred, an HMI server (5) stops a health check signal which is being output to a PLC (6). The PLC (6) detects the stop of the health check signal and forcibly cancels the association state between the field device (10A, 10B) and the hardware switch (3). Thus, a human error can be prevented.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 24, 2020
    Publication date: July 27, 2023
    Applicant: TOSHIBA MITSUBISHI-ELECTRIC INDUSTRIAL SYSTEMS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Vittal RAO, Akira NOJIMA, Nobuo SHIMIZU, Ryo SHIMIZU
  • Publication number: 20230145367
    Abstract: A SCADA web HMI system dynamically distributes server connection priority lists from web HMI servers to HMI clients in accordance with order of assignment which takes load balancing into account. As a result, preliminary settings associated with connection priority do not need to be made on the HMI clients. Also, since the server connection priority lists are assigned to the HMI clients in accordance with the order of assignment which takes load balancing into account, the numbers of clients connected to the individual web HMI servers are equalized and the load balancing can be ensured. The SCADA web HMI system can reduce the operating costs necessary in client settings while ensuring redundancy and load balancing of servers.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 10, 2019
    Publication date: May 11, 2023
    Applicant: Toshiba Mitsubishi-Electric Industrial Systems Corporation
    Inventors: Ryosuke HIGASHIYA, Akira NOJIMA, Nobuo SHIMIZU, Ryo SHIMIZU
  • Patent number: 11644810
    Abstract: A hybrid rendering HMI terminal device (32) is provided with a web browser (321) and an HMI Web Runtime (322). The web browser (321) displays an HMI screen on which a first part and a second part that represent the state of a monitoring target device (7) are arranged. When signal data from the monitoring target device (7) is analog numerical data, a WebGL rendering processing unit (322i) renders the first part associated with the signal data by WebGL rendering. When signal data from the monitoring target device (7) is data other than analog numerical data, an SVG rendering processing unit (322h) renders the second part associated with the signal data by SVG rendering.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2023
    Assignee: TOSHIBA MITSUBISHI-ELECTRIC INDUSTRIAL SYSTEMS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Fujieda, Nobuo Shimizu, Akira Nojima, Kyohei Miyake
  • Publication number: 20230050820
    Abstract: A non directional pneumatic tire is provided for an agricultural irrigation system. The tire includes first and second side walls and a radially outer wall defining an internal inflation chamber. A non directional tread pattern is defined on the tire and includes a plurality of longitudinal protrusions positioned substantially parallel to a rotational axis of the tire. The longitudinal protrusions are arranged in first and second rows extending from the first and second side walls toward and across the equatorial plane of the tire. The longitudinal protrusions of the first and second rows circumferentially alternate with each other and there is a circumferential spacing between adjacent longitudinal protrusions at the equatorial plane so that no portion of one longitudinal protrusion circumferentially coincides with or overlaps another.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 1, 2022
    Publication date: February 16, 2023
    Inventors: Bill J. Wallet, John J. Regallis, Jeffrey D. Parker, Nobuo Shimizu, Andrew T. Miklic