Patents by Inventor Takeshi Minemoto

Takeshi Minemoto 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: 7312791
    Abstract: There is provided a display unit including a touch panel disposed on a display screen of a display panel to detect a touch position of a pointing device, operation being conducted by touching a touch operation member displayed on the screen. The display unit includes a sensor for sensing a pushing pressure caused when touching the touch operation member, and a control section for conducting first processing concerning the touch operation member pushed by the pointing device when the pressure sensed by the sensing unit satisfies a first predetermined pressure condition, and conducting second processing concerning the touch operation member, when the pushing pressure has changed from the first condition to a second one. Upon the change from the first condition to the second one, a function of moving the screen in a direction of pushing pressure caused by the pointer is executed by the second processing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 2003
    Date of Patent: December 25, 2007
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Takeshi Hoshino, Takeshi Minemoto, Yujin Tsukada
  • Patent number: 7245293
    Abstract: A display unit with a touch panel to move a touch-driven member such as a functional button to a desired position through a touch operation. By touching a draggable icon displayed on a screen with a finger, the icon is changed in color to indicate that the user can drag the icon. Then, by pushing the icon, the icon is changed in size and color to indicate that the user can drag the icon. As by reducing the pushing force to touch on the icon, and moving the finger, the icon is dragged following the finger. As by pushing the icon with the finger at a predetermined position, the icon is set at this position and changed in size and color. When releasing the finger from the icon, the icon is settled at this position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 28, 2005
    Date of Patent: July 17, 2007
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Takeshi Hoshino, Takeshi Minemoto, Yujin Tsukada
  • Publication number: 20060226220
    Abstract: A sales office system acquires information about a customer's attention to financial commodities without demanding special operations from the customer and provides effective information matching the acquired customer's attention. In the sales office system that connects with plural information processors via networks, a sales office system server includes a part that cooperates with an Internet banking server, a part that cooperates with a customer management server, a part that acquires dealing statuses, a part that acquires consultation reservation information, a part that acquires commodity information, a part that determines valuable information by valuable information criteria, and a part that holds customers' operation histories, and effective sales are performed for customers by flexibly and effectively using information about purchasers of a variety of commodities.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 14, 2005
    Publication date: October 12, 2006
    Inventors: Atsushi Hasegawa, Akihito Itou, Masahiro Abe, Kazuma Kurata, Masataka Itakura, Toshiyuki Tsutsui, Takeshi Minemoto
  • Publication number: 20050259087
    Abstract: A display unit with a touch panel to move a touch-driven member such as a functional button to a desired position through a touch operation. By touching a draggable icon displayed on a screen with a finger, the icon is changed in color to indicate that the user can drag the icon. Then, by pushing the icon, the icon is changed in size and color to indicate that the user can drag the icon. As by reducing the pushing force to touch on the icon, and moving the finger, the icon is dragged following the finger. As by pushing the icon with the finger at a predetermined position, the icon is set at this position and changed in size and color. When releasing the finger from the icon, the icon is settled at this position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 28, 2005
    Publication date: November 24, 2005
    Inventors: Takeshi Hoshino, Takeshi Minemoto, Yujin Tsukada
  • Patent number: 6940494
    Abstract: A display unit with a touch panel to move a touch-driven member such as a functional button to a desired position through a touch operation. By touching a draggable icon displayed on a screen with a finger, the icon is changed in color to indicate that the user can drag the icon. Then, by pushing the icon, the icon is changed in size and color to indicate that the user can drag the icon. As by reducing the pushing force to touch on the icon, and moving the finger, the icon is dragged following the finger. As by pushing the icon with the finger at a predetermined position, the icon is set at this position and changed in size and color. When releasing the finger from the icon, the icon is settled at this position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 2002
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2005
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Takeshi Hoshino, Takeshi Minemoto, Yujin Tsukada
  • Publication number: 20050183023
    Abstract: An individual information screen is displayed for each of operators on the same table surface and it is possible to surely acquire shared information required for conversation between the operators. The data on each of individual information screens cannot be viewed by the other operators. A shared information screen and a plurality of individual information screens are displayed in a display surface arranged on a table surface. The individual information screens are used by each operator and display individual information on each of the operators. Among the individual information displayed on each individual information screen, those which can be viewed by the other operators may be displayed as shared information on the shared screen by a predetermined operation on the respective individual information screen. It becomes possible to display the individual information screens at predetermined positions at arbitrary positions on the table surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 5, 2005
    Publication date: August 18, 2005
    Inventors: Yukinobu Maruyama, Takeshi Hoshino, Takeshi Minemoto, Yuuichi Kurosawa
  • Patent number: 6760074
    Abstract: A portable electronic computer has a cabinet having a top case forming an upper surface of the cabinet, a bottom case forming a lower surface of the cabinet and a middle case interposed between the top case and the bottom case to form a side surface of the cabinet, a display unit provided on the upper surface of the cabinet so as to be visible from outside, at least one circuit board mounted to the lower surface of the cabinet and adapted to implement the function of a camera unit and the function of a portable information terminal, and a camera lens provided on the lower surface of the cabinet so as to be directed to the outside of the cabinet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2000
    Date of Patent: July 6, 2004
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Yukinobu Maruyama, Takeshi Hoshino, Takeshi Minemoto, Taisuke Kashima
  • Publication number: 20040108995
    Abstract: There is provided a display unit including a touch panel disposed on a display screen of a display panel to detect a touch position of a pointing device, operation being conducted by touching a touch operation member displayed on the screen. The display unit includes a sensor for sensing a pushing pressure caused when touching the touch operation member, and a control section for conducting first processing concerning the touch operation member pushed by the pointing device when the pressure sensed by the sensing unit satisfies a first predetermined pressure condition, and conducting second processing concerning the touch operation member, when the pushing pressure has changed from the first condition to a second one. Upon the change from the first condition to the second one, a function of moving the screen in a direction of pushing pressure caused by the pointer is executed by the second processing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 27, 2003
    Publication date: June 10, 2004
    Inventors: Takeshi Hoshino, Takeshi Minemoto, Yujin Tsukada
  • Publication number: 20040021643
    Abstract: A display unit with a touch panel to move a touch-driven member such as a functional button to a desired position through a touch operation. By touching a draggable icon displayed on a screen with a finger, the icon is changed in color to indicate that the user can drag the icon. Then, by pushing the icon, the icon is changed in size and color to indicate that the user can drag the icon. As by reducing the pushing force to touch on the icon, and moving the finger, the icon is dragged following the finger. As by pushing the icon with the finger at a predetermined position, the icon is set at this position and changed in size and color. When releasing the finger from the icon, the icon is settled at this position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 29, 2002
    Publication date: February 5, 2004
    Inventors: Takeshi Hoshino, Takeshi Minemoto, Yujin Tsukada
  • Patent number: 6466202
    Abstract: A portable information terminal unit comprises a first and a second casing, a hinge means for coupling the first and second casing so that the first and second casing are rotatable relative to each other, an opening piercing though the first casing, a first see-thorough liquid crystal display part fitted in the opening, a means for detecting opening of the first and second casing, relative to each other, and a control means for reversing a display on the first see-through liquid crystal display part in response to a detection by the detecting means, wherein monochromatic information is displayed on the first see-through liquid crystal display part so as to reduce power consumption.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 23, 2000
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2002
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Koji Suso, Yukinobu Maruyama, Takeshi Hoshino, Takeshi Minemoto, Taisuke Kashima
  • Patent number: 6396506
    Abstract: A display device and operation method thereof for displaying images processed on an image processing apparatus on a horizontally installed, upward facing display screen with the operation method for said display device comprising; a step for specifying the number of screens for display on the display screen, a step for displaying image information on a screen with a predetermined image direction in said display device based on the specified number of screens, a step to change the established display direction, a step to display said screen based on instructions for changing the display direction; and further comprising a step to specify the number of screens for display on said display screen and the direction of said display screen, a step to display an image on the display screen based on the specified number of screens and specified direction of the display screen thus allowing an ideal screen to be provided on a single display device for a plurality of users by changing the direction of the screen along w
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 1998
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2002
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Takeshi Hoshino, Yoshimasa Yokoyama, Takeshi Minemoto, Masahide Aoki, Atsuo Osawa, Kunio Umehara
  • Publication number: 20010007980
    Abstract: The invention relates to an electronic book system (a contents display method) that functionally or efficiently displays information related to reading or advertisement in a small display area on a display of a portable reading terminal, the portable reading terminal receives digitized book contents and digitized related information proper to the contents via the Internet and the related information is displayed together with the book contents on the portable reading terminal by operating a button of the portable reading terminal or operator guidance on the display screen.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 10, 2001
    Publication date: July 12, 2001
    Inventors: Atsushi Ishibashi, Yuichi Kosukegawa, Masaki Takano, Yujin Tsukada, Takeshi Minemoto, Tatsuro Arai
  • Patent number: 6188569
    Abstract: Provided is an information processing apparatus in which a whole information processing apparatus system including a display device is compacted by making full use of thin and light characteristics of a liquid crystal display device, whereby space efficiency is improved and an ease of use is also acquired.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 5, 1998
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2001
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Takeshi Minemoto, Atsuhiko Urushihara, Takeshi Hoshino, Taisuke Kashima, Satoshi Hamazaki, Masaaki Hiramatsu
  • Patent number: 5852474
    Abstract: In a television receiver and a display method thereof, the television receiver includes a video signal processing circuit for receiving a video signal, converting the signal into a video display signal, and outputting the signal therefrom; a video signal storage circuit for receiving the video display signal from the processing circuit, recording the signal for a predetermined period of time, writing the video display signal in an overwriting manner after lapse of the predetermined period of time, and repeating the recording operation at an interval of the predetermined period of time; a switch circuit for receiving the video display signals from the video signal processing and storage circuits, combining the signals with each other in a switching fashion, and outputting a resultant signal therefrom; a control circuit for controlling the video signal storage circuit and switch circuit in response to an indication signal supplied from an external device, combining with each other the video display signals from
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 15, 1996
    Date of Patent: December 22, 1998
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Nobufumi Nakagaki, Takeshi Minemoto, Takeshi Hoshino, Masahide Aoki, Atsushi Ishibashi
  • Patent number: D437851
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 2, 2000
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2001
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Satoko Kojima, Masayuki Ohki, Takeshi Minemoto, Koji Suso, Keiichi Shimada
  • Patent number: D397324
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 3, 1997
    Date of Patent: August 25, 1998
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Takeshi Minemoto, Atsuhiko Urushihara, Minoru Ikeda, Yoshiaki Amano, Taisuke Kashima, Satoshi Hamazaki
  • Patent number: D406824
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 3, 1997
    Date of Patent: March 16, 1999
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Takeshi Minemoto, Atsuhiko Urushihara, Minoru Ikeda, Yoshiaki Amano, Taisuke Kashima, Satoshi Hamazaki
  • Patent number: D423471
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 2, 1999
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2000
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Takeshi Minemoto, Masayuki Ohki, Koji Suso, Takashi Matsubara, Yuhei Abe