Patents by Inventor Tomoaki Matsuki
Tomoaki Matsuki 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: 11860644Abstract: A flying device is provided, which includes: an acquisition unit that acquires communication quality information with which position information indicating a position and the communication quality at a position indicated by the position information are associated; a flight position identification unit that identifies a flight position, which is an in-flight position; a path determination unit that determines a flight path on the basis of the communication quality associated with the position information corresponding to the flight position in the communication quality information; and a flight control unit that controls a flying mechanism on the basis of the flight path determined by the path determination unit.Type: GrantFiled: December 6, 2017Date of Patent: January 2, 2024Assignee: KDDI CORPORATIONInventors: Tomoaki Matsuki, Masafumi Hirono
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Patent number: 11678294Abstract: An operation management device is configured to acquire a subscriber ID to identify a subscriber joining a service using a mobile telephone line from a mobile terminal over the mobile telephone line, to acquire the position information representing the position of a flight device, which the mobile terminal acquires from the flight device before or during its flight over a wireless communication line different from the mobile telephone line, from the mobile terminal over the mobile telephone line, and to acquire a device ID to identify the flight device from the mobile terminal over the mobile telephone line.Type: GrantFiled: March 9, 2018Date of Patent: June 13, 2023Assignee: KDDI CORPORATIONInventor: Tomoaki Matsuki
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Publication number: 20220229450Abstract: A flight management apparatus includes a condition information acquisition unit that acquires condition information including a weather condition for flight of a flight apparatus, the weather condition being associated with a position provided on a flight path or in a flight range in which the flight apparatus is scheduled to fly, a weather information acquisition unit that acquires weather information including weather at a current position at which the flight apparatus is positioned, or a scheduled position at which the flight apparatus is scheduled to be positioned, a determination unit that determines whether or not the weather satisfies the weather condition associated with the current position or the scheduled position in the condition information, and an output unit that outputs information corresponding to a determination result of the determination unit.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 24, 2021Publication date: July 21, 2022Applicant: KDDI CORPORATIONInventors: Tomoaki MATSUKI, Masayuki TACHIIWA, Hiroshi KAWANA
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Publication number: 20220222617Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes an article specification unit specifying a delivery destination of a first delivery target article which is a delivery target desired by a user, and a first feature of the first delivery target article, a time specification unit that specifies one or more dates and times scheduled for a flight, which can deliver the first delivery target article specified based on the first feature and flying object information indicating a feature of an article that can be delivered by a flying object scheduled to fly to the delivery destination, to fly to the delivery destination, an information transmission unit transmitting the one or more dates and times to an information terminal of the user, and an output unit receiving date and time information indicating a date and time selected from the one or more dates and times and outputs the received date and time information.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 24, 2021Publication date: July 14, 2022Applicant: KDDI CORPORATIONInventors: Masayuki TACHIIWA, Tomoaki MATSUKI, Kyohei TSUJI
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Publication number: 20220215763Abstract: A flight management apparatus includes a reception unit that receives, from a user's terminal, flight schedule information including user identification information for identifying the user, a flight path or a flight range in which a flight apparatus is scheduled to fly, and a flight schedule period in which the flight apparatus is scheduled to fly, an aircraft identification unit that identifies aircraft information related to the flight apparatus and associated with the user identification information, a carrier identification unit that identifies a communication carrier providing a communication service available to the flight apparatus on the basis of the aircraft information, a determination unit that determines whether the flight apparatus is communicable during flight using the communication service on the basis of the communication carrier and the flight path or the flight range, and a transmission unit that transmits a determination result to the user's terminal.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 26, 2021Publication date: July 7, 2022Applicant: KDDI CORPORATIONInventors: Tomoaki MATSUKI, Masayuki TACHIIWA, Hiroshi KAWANA
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Publication number: 20220207476Abstract: A user can receive an article even when the user of a delivery destination is absent. An information processing device includes: a storage unit configured to store article identification information, article name information, delivery destination user identification information, delivery destination information, and arrival date and time information in association with each other; a notification unit configured to notify a delivery destination information terminal used by the delivery destination user of an arrival date and time before the moving body starts to move to deliver the delivery target article to the delivery destination; and an information receiving unit configured to store housing place identification information in the storage unit when the housing place identification information and information are received, in which the notification unit notifies the delivery destination information terminal of the article name of the delivery target article and the housing place.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 30, 2021Publication date: June 30, 2022Applicant: KDDI CORPORATIONInventors: Masayuki Tachiiwa, Tomoaki Matsuki, Hiroshi Kawana
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Publication number: 20220207459Abstract: An information processing device includes: an information acquiring unit configured to acquire article identification information from an information terminal; a specifying unit configured to specify a total weight value of one or more delivery target articles corresponding to one or more pieces of the article identification information by referring to an article database; a determination unit configured to determine whether or not the one or more delivery target articles can be delivered by a flying object on the basis of at least the total weight value; and a display control unit configured to cause the information terminal to display a delivery method designation screen on which a delivery method for delivering articles using the flying object can be designated in a case in which the determination unit determines that the one or more delivery target articles can be delivered by the flying object.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 25, 2021Publication date: June 30, 2022Applicant: KDDI CORPORATIONInventors: Masayuki TACHIIWA, Tomoaki MATSUKI, Mitsuyoshi MIYAZAWA
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Publication number: 20220198193Abstract: An information display device includes: an acquisition unit that acquires a plurality of sensing data acquired by a sensor provided on a flight device by sensing a sensed object to be sensed at a plurality of flying positions of the flight device when the flight device flies, a plurality of sensing positions at which the plurality of the sensing data are acquired, respectively, and a plurality of directional information each indicating a direction of the sensed object when each of the plurality of sensing data is acquired; and a display control unit that causes a display unit to display the sensing data acquired by sensing the sensed object at each of the acquisition positions, and the directional information for indicating the direction of the sensed object when the sensing data is acquired at the acquisition position at each of the sensing positions, in association with each of the sensing positions, wherein the display control unit causes the display unit to display the sensing data acquired by sensing theType: ApplicationFiled: August 25, 2021Publication date: June 23, 2022Applicant: KDDI CORPORATIONInventors: Tomoaki MATSUKI, Sou YAMAZAKI, Kyohei TSUJI
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Publication number: 20220053506Abstract: A flying device that flies by being controlled from an external location, the flying device including a determination unit that determines a communication quality on a first wireless communication channel used for transmitting data to a control device that controls the flying device within a prescribed range from a flight position at which the flying device is flying; and a transmission control unit that controls a type of data to be transmitted to the control device on the basis of the communication quality determined by the determination unit.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 1, 2021Publication date: February 17, 2022Applicant: KDDI CORPORATIONInventors: Tomoaki MATSUKI, Masafumi HIRONO
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Patent number: 11212816Abstract: A flying device that flies by being controlled from an external location, the flying device including a determination unit that determines a communication quality on a first wireless communication channel used for transmitting data to a control device that controls the flying device within a prescribed range from a flight position at which the flying device is flying; and a transmission control unit that controls a type of data to be transmitted to the control device on the basis of the communication quality determined by the determination unit.Type: GrantFiled: December 5, 2017Date of Patent: December 28, 2021Assignee: KDDI CORPORATIONInventors: Tomoaki Matsuki, Masafumi Hirono
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Publication number: 20210287557Abstract: A flying device is provided, which includes: an acquisition unit that acquires communication quality information with which position information indicating a position and the communication quality at a position indicated by the position information are associated; a flight position identification unit that identifies a flight position, which is an in-flight position; a path determination unit that determines a flight path on the basis of the communication quality associated with the position information corresponding to the flight position in the communication quality information; and a flight control unit that controls a flying mechanism on the basis of the flight path determined by the path determination unit.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 6, 2017Publication date: September 16, 2021Applicant: KDDI CORPORATIONInventors: Tomoaki MATSUKI, Masafumi HIRONO
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Publication number: 20210144671Abstract: An operation management device is configured to acquire a subscriber ID to identify a subscriber joining a service using a mobile telephone line from a mobile terminal over the mobile telephone line, to acquire the position information representing the position of a flight device, which the mobile terminal acquires from the flight device before or during its flight over a wireless communication line different from the mobile telephone line, from the mobile tell sinal over the mobile telephone line, and to acquire a device ID to identify the flight device from the mobile terminal over the mobile telephone line.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 9, 2018Publication date: May 13, 2021Applicant: KDDI CORPORATIONInventor: Tomoaki MATSUKI
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Publication number: 20200068584Abstract: A flying device that flies by being controlled from an external location, the flying device including a determination unit that determines a communication quality on a first wireless communication channel used for transmitting data to a control device that controls the flying device within a prescribed range from a flight position at which the flying device is flying; and a transmission control unit that controls a type of data to be transmitted to the control device on the basis of the communication quality determined by the determination unit.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 5, 2017Publication date: February 27, 2020Applicant: KDDI CORPORATIONInventors: Tomoaki MATSUKI, Masafumi HIRONO
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Patent number: 9753567Abstract: A method is disclosed of successively displaying pages of an electronic book by one or more pages each time on a display screen, and turning the pages on the screen in response to a user's input via finger touch of the screen. This method includes: upon the user's soft touch on the screen with the finger with an intensity below a predetermined value, selecting a page turn direction based on at least one of a position at which the soft touch was performed with the finger, and a direction of the finger's movement after the soft touch; and upon the selection being followed by the user's hard touch on the screen with the finger with an intensity above the predetermined value, authorizing initiation of a page turn event for turning the pages on the screen in the selected page-turn-direction.Type: GrantFiled: September 5, 2012Date of Patent: September 5, 2017Assignee: KDDI CORPORATIONInventor: Tomoaki Matsuki
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Patent number: 9720587Abstract: A process is disclosed of operating a user interface device configured to display an image on a display screen and enable user input by a user's finger touch on a touch screen in association with the displayed image, the process including: after the user starts a finger touch on the touch screen, if the user holds the finger at a substantially same location for a duration equal to or longer than a predetermined duration, initiating stationary displaying to display the image stationarily on the display screen, despite any later finger-slide motions on screen; and, after the stationary displaying starts, if a match is made between the finger's contact point on the touch screen and a location of a desirable graphical object included in the image displayed on the display screen, determining that the user has provisionally selected the object.Type: GrantFiled: June 29, 2012Date of Patent: August 1, 2017Assignee: KDDI CORPORATIONInventor: Tomoaki Matsuki
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Patent number: 9454230Abstract: A method of operating an image-capturing device for displaying an image of a subject on a screen, and performing image-capturing operation for the subject in response to a user's input to the screen. The method includes: a first step of detecting a pressing force of the user's finger press on the screen; a second step of displaying an image capture icon on the screen, the icon being actuated by the user for commanding the device for the capturing operation; a third step of, in response to a determination that the touch position overlaps with a region of the icon displayed, and that the force is above a first threshold, initiating focusing operation to focus on the subject; and a fourth step of, after the focusing operation is initiated, in response to a determination that the force is above a second threshold larger than the first threshold, initiating the capturing operation.Type: GrantFiled: September 21, 2012Date of Patent: September 27, 2016Assignee: KDDI CORPORATIONInventor: Tomoaki Matsuki
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Patent number: 9389722Abstract: A method is disclosed of controlling a user interface device for displaying on a display screen a plurality of objects, and for enabling a user to perform an input action by touching the display screen with the user's finger. This method includes: upon the user's touch to the display screen at a region of one of the plurality of objects being displayed, selecting the one object as a zoom target; upon an event occurring in which an intensity of the finger's touch on the display screen exceeds a predetermined threshold, determining a magnification ratio of the zoom target or a change rate of the magnification ratio, based on the intensity of the finger's touch; and zooming in the zoom target on the display screen with the determined magnification ratio or the determined change rate.Type: GrantFiled: September 5, 2012Date of Patent: July 12, 2016Assignee: KDDI CORPORATIONInventors: Tomoaki Matsuki, Hiroyuki Tsuchida, Yoshisato Ono
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Patent number: 9285976Abstract: A process is disclosed of scrolling an image on a user interface device configured to display the image on a display screen and enable a user to input with the user's finger touch on a touch screen in association with the displayed image, the process including: scrolling the image in response to the finger's drag motion on the touch screen; and, in response to an event occurring in which, after the drag motion ended, the finger is held in touch with the touch screen at substantially the same location as where the finger was located when the drag motion ended, without releasing from the touch screen, further scrolling the image to perform follow-up scrolling, after experiencing an idle period or not.Type: GrantFiled: June 29, 2012Date of Patent: March 15, 2016Assignee: KDDI CORPORATIONInventor: Tomoaki Matsuki
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Patent number: 9244544Abstract: A process is disclosed for displaying an image on a display screen and recognizing a user's input by the user's finger touch on a touch screen, the process including: a first step of displaying an original image; a second step of forming a screen pad, such that a reference image, which is a reduced duplicate of the original image, is displayed on the screen pad within the display screen, such that the reference image is overlaid with the original image, in a translucent mode that renders the original image visible through the reference image, or an opaque mode where the original image is not visible. The reference image is obtained by reducing the original image with or without image simplification. A third step, in response to the user touching the screen pad, detects finger position on the screen pad, and recognizes the user's input based on the detected finger position.Type: GrantFiled: June 29, 2012Date of Patent: January 26, 2016Assignee: KDDI CORPORATIONInventor: Tomoaki Matsuki
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Publication number: 20140362016Abstract: A method is disclosed of successively displaying pages of an electronic book by one or more pages each time on a display screen, and turning the pages on the screen in response to a user's input via finger touch of the screen. This method includes: upon the user's soft touch on the screen with the finger with an intensity below a predetermined value, selecting a page turn direction based on at least one of a position at which the soft touch was performed with the finger, and a direction of the finger's movement after the soft touch; and upon the selection being followed by the user's hard touch on the screen with the finger with an intensity above the predetermined value, authorizing initiation of a page turn event for turning the pages on the screen in the selected page-turn-direction.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 5, 2012Publication date: December 11, 2014Applicant: KDDI CORPORATIONInventor: Tomoaki Matsuki