Patents by Inventor Tadashi Kuwabara
Tadashi Kuwabara 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).
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Patent number: 10656424Abstract: In a wearable information display terminal, information related to an object is displayed at a timing required by a user in an easily recognized form. Photography is performed in a field-of-vision direction, a first object is detected from a first image obtained by the photography, relevant information related to the first object is acquired from a network, and a second image related to the relevant information is generated. A second object different from the first object is detected from the first image, the second object is used as a display trigger, and the second image is displayed when the second object is close to the first object.Type: GrantFiled: July 11, 2019Date of Patent: May 19, 2020Assignee: MAXELL, LTD.Inventors: Susumu Yoshida, Satoshi Ouchi, Yukinobu Tada, Tadashi Kuwabara, Yoshiho Seo
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Publication number: 20190331927Abstract: In a wearable information display terminal, information related to an object is displayed at a timing required by a user in an easily recognized form. Photography is performed in a field-of-vision direction, a first object is detected from a first image obtained by the photography, relevant information related to the first object is acquired from a network, and a second image related to the relevant information is generated. A second object different from the first object is detected from the first image, the second object is used as a display trigger, and the second image is displayed when the second object is close to the first object.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 11, 2019Publication date: October 31, 2019Inventors: Susumu YOSHIDA, Satoshi OUCHI, Yukinobu TADA, Tadashi KUWABARA, Yoshiho SEO
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Patent number: 10386637Abstract: In a wearable information display terminal, information related to an object is displayed at a timing required by a user in an easily recognized form. Photography is performed in a field-of-vision direction, a first object is detected from a first image obtained by the photography, relevant information related to the first object is acquired from a network, and a second image related to the relevant information is generated. A second object different from the first object is detected from the first image, the second object is used as a display trigger, and the second image is displayed when the second object is close to the first object.Type: GrantFiled: January 15, 2014Date of Patent: August 20, 2019Assignee: MAXELL, LTD.Inventors: Susumu Yoshida, Satoshi Ouchi, Yukinobu Tada, Tadashi Kuwabara, Yoshiho Seo
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Publication number: 20160320622Abstract: In a wearable information display terminal, information related to an object is displayed at a timing required by a user in an easily recognized form. Photography is performed in a field-of-vision direction, a first object is detected from a first image obtained by the photography, relevant information related to the first object is acquired from a network, and a second image related to the relevant information is generated. A second object different from the first object is detected from the first image, the second object is used as a display trigger, and the second image is displayed when the second object is close to the first object.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 15, 2014Publication date: November 3, 2016Inventors: Susumu YOSHIDA, Satoshi OUCHI, Yukinobu TADA, Tadashi KUWABARA, Yoshiho SEO
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Patent number: 7912928Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide network devices and a network device control method which enable control network devices connected to an IP network, AV devices connected over 1394IF through gateway devices from the IP network, and home devices connected to ECHONET to be controlled without distinction among them. To achieve this object, a network device to serve as a controller comprises a controller application that detects a service of a target network device, using a message complying with an information exchange protocol common to the network, collects information such as an access method for the service, a function name, and parameters, and controls the network device upon request, and an information exchange protocol processing part that exchanges messages according to a protocol common to the network devices.Type: GrantFiled: May 23, 2008Date of Patent: March 22, 2011Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.Inventors: Mayuko Tanaka, Yoshimichi Kudo, Shigeto Oeda, Tadashi Kuwabara
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Publication number: 20100003555Abstract: A method of air decontamination for a fuel cell to remove contaminants, that reduce cell performance, in air to be supplied to a fuel cell by treating the air so that the concentration of a sulfur compound is reduced to 5 ppb or less by removing the sulfur compound in the air is provided. By reducing the concentration of the sulfur compound in the fuel cell air to 5 ppb or less, the electromotive-force reduction in the fuel cell caused by the fuel cell electromotive-force-reducing impurities in the fuel cell air can be substantially completely prevented to stably maintain the characteristics of the fuel cell for a long period of time and to extend the lifetime thereof.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 29, 2009Publication date: January 7, 2010Inventors: Hisashi MORI, Yasushige Shigyo, Tadashi Kuwabara, Hiroshi Chizawa, Tsutomu Aoki
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Publication number: 20080225883Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide network devices and a network device control method which enable control network devices connected to an IP network, AV devices connected over 1394IF through gateway devices from the IP network, and home devices connected to ECHONET to be controlled without distinction among them. To achieve this object, a network device to serve as a controller comprises a controller application that detects a service of a target network device, using a message complying with an information exchange protocol common to the network, collects information such as an access method for the service, a function name, and parameters, and controls the network device upon request, and an information exchange protocol processing part that exchanges messages according to a protocol common to the network devices.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 23, 2008Publication date: September 18, 2008Applicant: Hitachi, Ltd.Inventors: Mayuko TANAKA, Yoshimichi Kudo, Shigeto Oeda, Tadashi Kuwabara
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Patent number: 7403982Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide network devices and a network device control method which enable control network devices connected to an IP network, AV devices connected over 1394IF through gateway devices from the IP network, and home devices connected to ECHONET to be controlled without distinction among them. To achieve this object, a network device to serve as a controller comprises a controller application that detects a service of a target network device, using a message complying with an information exchange protocol common to the network, collects information such as an access method for the service, a function name, and parameters, and controls the network device upon request, and an information exchange protocol processing part that exchanges messages according to a protocol common to the network devices.Type: GrantFiled: November 6, 2002Date of Patent: July 22, 2008Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.Inventors: Mayuko Tanaka, Yoshimichi Kudo, Shigeto Oeda, Tadashi Kuwabara
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Patent number: 7339895Abstract: A non-IP device holds an interface ID defined by Ipv6. A gateway generates and holds an Ipv6 address for the non-IP device. The gateway serves to convert the protocol of a packet destined to the non-IP device from a portable telephone or a personal computer coupled to an internet into the protocol for a network connected to the non-IP device and transmit the packet to the non-IP device.Type: GrantFiled: July 19, 2002Date of Patent: March 4, 2008Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.Inventors: Tomochika Ozaki, Tadashi Kuwabara, Isao Nakagawa, Hiromichi Ito
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Publication number: 20060240295Abstract: A method of air decontamination for fuel cell to remove contaminants, reducing cell performance in air to be supplied to a fuel cell by treating the air so that the concentration of a sulfur compound is reduced to 5 ppb or less by removing the sulfur compound in the air. By reducing the concentration of the sulfur compound in the fuel-cell air to 5 ppb or less, the electromotive-force reduction in the fuel cell caused by the fuel-cell electromotive-force-reducing impurities in the fuel-cell air can be substantially completely prevented to stably maintain the characteristics of the fuel cell for a long period of time and to extend the lifetime thereof.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 22, 2006Publication date: October 26, 2006Inventors: Hisashi Mori, Yasushige Shigyo, Tadashi Kuwabara, Hiroshi Chizawa, Tsutomu Aoki
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Patent number: 6895393Abstract: For changing services to readers who desires to obtain electronic books exactly or minutely, an electronic book management system 1 distributes at least electronic purchase certificates relating to books which are stocked at a bookstores owing a bookstore terminal device 2, in advance, to that bookstore terminal device 2. When buying the book(s), a reader obtains in an IC card 4 owned by her/him a purchase certificate(s) of that book(s) which she/he bought, from the bookstore terminal 2. When ordering to obtain the electronic book(s), the reader transmits the purchase certificate(s) from a reader terminal device 3 to the electronic book management system 1 through a communication network 5. The electronic book management system 1 changes over it's service when supplying the electronic book(s) to that reader depending upon the existence of the purchase certificate(s).Type: GrantFiled: October 1, 1999Date of Patent: May 17, 2005Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.Inventors: Toru Numata, Tadashi Kuwabara, Hiroshi Shimizu, Misuzu Mochizuki, Yukinobu Tada, Naoki Yamamoto, Yutaka Igarashi, Shinichiro Fukushima, Mayumi Ueyama, Rituko Kanazawa, Maki Furui, Katsuki Ikuta
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Patent number: 6857131Abstract: A device and method of displaying images and data on a display device. The device and method displays still and moving images in which at least one icon is associated and displayed with each image on a screen. A single screen may contain several images which change over time. As the images change so do the icons associated with them. Upon selection of an icon by a viewer, the device and method will display one of several possible advertisements or information associated with the icon. The selection of which advertisement or piece of information is based on information stored about the viewer. This information would include data concerning the viewer's age, income, address and hobbies. A list of selections made by a viewer is maintained and may be displayed at the viewer's request. The system may also force the display of advertisements if desired by advertisers.Type: GrantFiled: December 23, 1997Date of Patent: February 15, 2005Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.Inventors: Yuichi Yagawa, Michio Morioka, Shigeki Hirasawa, Tadashi Kuwabara, Tomochika Ozaki, Akio Yajima
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Publication number: 20040172661Abstract: A device and method of displaying images and data on a display device. The device and method displays still and moving images in which at least one icon is associated and displayed with each image on a screen. A single screen may contain several images which change over time. As the images change so do the icons associated with them. Upon selection of an icon by a viewer, the device and method will display one of several possible advertisements or information associated with the icon. The selection of which advertisement or piece of information is based on information stored about the viewer. This information would include data concerning the viewer's age, income, address and hobbies. A list of selections made by a viewer is maintained and may be displayed at the viewer's request. The system may also force the display of advertisements if desired by advertisers.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 8, 2004Publication date: September 2, 2004Inventors: Yuichi Yagawa, Michio Morioka, Shigeki Hirasawa, Tadashi Kuwabara, Tomochika Ozaki, Akio Yajima
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Publication number: 20040071148Abstract: A non-IP device holds an interface ID defined by Ipv6. A gateway generates and holds an Ipv6 address for the non-IP device. The gateway serves to convert the protocol of a packet destined to the non-IP device from a portable telephone or a personal computer coupled to an internet into the protocol for a network connected to the non-IP device and transmit the packet to the non-IP device.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 19, 2002Publication date: April 15, 2004Applicant: Hitachi, Ltd.Inventors: Tomochika Ozaki, Tadashi Kuwabara, Isao Nakagawa, Hiromichi Ito
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Patent number: 6643189Abstract: A memory device which includes dynamic random access memories for effecting data read and write operations, first and second data terminals for receiving data, and a controller having a first data input connected to receive first data, a second data input connected to receive second data, a third data input connected to receive a function mode signal, and operation unit for executing operations between the first data and the second data. The operation unit includes a function setting unit for setting a function indicated by a function mode signal prior to receipt of the first data. The second data is read out of a selected part of the storage locations. The operation corresponding to the set function is executed for the first and second data. The operation result is written into the selected part of the storage locations during one memory cycle.Type: GrantFiled: January 31, 2002Date of Patent: November 4, 2003Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.Inventors: Koichi Kimura, Toshihiko Ogura, Hiroaki Aotsu, Mitsuru Ikegami, Tadashi Kuwabara, Hiromichi Enomoto, Tadashi Kyoda
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Publication number: 20030158956Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide network devices and a network device control method which enable control network devices connected to an IP network, AV devices connected over 1394IF through gateway devices from the IP network, and home devices connected to ECHONET to be controlled without distinction among them. To achieve this object, a network device to serve as a controller comprises a controller application that detects a service of a target network device, using a message complying with an information exchange protocol common to the network, collects information such as an access method for the service, a function name, and parameters, and controls the network device upon request, and an information exchange protocol processing part that exchanges messages according to a protocol common to the network devices.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 6, 2002Publication date: August 21, 2003Applicant: Hitachi, Ltd.Inventors: Mayuko Tanaka, Yoshimichi Kudo, Shigeto Oeda, Tadashi Kuwabara
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Patent number: 6535921Abstract: In an information sending and receiving system in which an information sending equipment and at least one information receiving equipment send and receive information through a transmission medium, a management message is sent from the information sending equipment to the information receiving equipment thereby to create a list of a content code expressing a data message registered on the information receiving equipment side within the information receiving equipment. Then, a data message containing a content code and data is transmitted from the information sending equipment to the information receiving equipment. The information receiving equipment selects a data message by comparing a content code of a data message and a list of its own content code. The content code list may be created within the information sending equipment based on a property value in an answer message from the information receiving equipment.Type: GrantFiled: September 18, 2001Date of Patent: March 18, 2003Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.Inventors: Shigeki Hirasawa, Michio Morioka, Tadashi Kuwabara, Tomochika Ozaki, Yuichi Yagawa, Akio Yajima
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Publication number: 20020188937Abstract: A method is provided for updating system components of all apparatuses on a network capable of exchanging data between apparatuses to the optimum generation system components. A system update manager of FAV collects system information, and identification information and generation information of system update modules, from each apparatus. By using this information, the system update manager calculates an optimum system component combination for each apparatus connected to the network. In accordance with this calculation results, the system update manager reads necessary system update modules from each apparatus, and supplies necessary modules to each apparatus to update the system.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 19, 2001Publication date: December 12, 2002Applicant: Hitachi, Ltd.Inventors: Rodney Gordon Webster, Yoshimichi Kudo, Tadashi Kuwabara
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Patent number: 6487543Abstract: Information associated with broadcasting, information associated with a network, and information associated with a package are included in data. A terminal device has means for acquiring data from broadcasting, data from the network, and data from the package. The terminal device further has a means for displaying the data acquired by the above-mentioned means together or a means for displaying information included in the data as a link. This novel constitution allows positive information provision to users by a combination of three types of media, broadcasting, network, and package. At the same time, this novel constitution allows provision of new services by making the most of mass storage provided by package and up-to-date information provided over network.Type: GrantFiled: December 12, 1997Date of Patent: November 26, 2002Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.Inventors: Tomochika Ozaki, Tadashi Kuwabara, Michio Morioka, Yuichi Yagawa, Shigeki Hirasawa, Akio Yajima
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Publication number: 20020093852Abstract: A memory device which includes dynamic random access memories for effecting data read and write operations, first and second data terminals for receiving data, and a controller having a first data input connected to receive first data, a second data input connected to receive second data, a third data input connected to receive a function mode signal, and operation unit for executing operations between the first data and the second data. The operation unit includes a function setting unit for setting a function indicated by a function mode signal prior to receipt of the first data. The second data is read out of a selected part of the storage locations. The operation corresponding to the set function is executed for the first and second data. The operation result is written into the selected part of the storage locations during one memory cycle.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 31, 2002Publication date: July 18, 2002Inventors: Koichi Kimura, Toshihiko Ogura, Hiroaki Aotsu, Mitsuru Ikegami, Tadashi Kuwabara, Hiromichi Enomoto, Tadashi Kyoda