Patents by Inventor Tsutomu Yanagi

Tsutomu Yanagi 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).

  • Information Display System and Information Display Apparatus
    Publication number: 20100313171
    Abstract: This information display system includes an input device, a computer, a receiving apparatus including a receiving portion and a control portion and a display portion, and a user can set whether to transmit operating information from the computer to the receiving apparatus in at least either the computer or the receiving apparatus in the information display system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 7, 2010
    Publication date: December 9, 2010
    Applicant: Funai Electric Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Tsutomu YANAGI, Shusuke Narita, Tetsuya Shihara, Kazuteru Adachi
  • Broadcast receiving device
    Patent number: 7788545
    Abstract: A broadcast receiving device includes a card slot, a fan, a temperature sensor, a memory component and a control unit. The card slot accepts an IC card. The fan rotates to cool the IC card. The temperature sensor measures a first temperature. The memory component stores correlation information indicating a correlation between the first temperature and a second temperature of the IC card. The control unit acquires the second temperature based on the first temperature and the correlation information. The control unit determines if the second temperature exceeds a predetermined temperature. The control unit switches from a first output mode, in which an audio-video signal is outputted via the IC card, to a second output mode, in which the audio-video signal is outputted by bypassing the IC card, when the control unit determines that the second temperature exceeds the predetermined temperature.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 6, 2008
    Date of Patent: August 31, 2010
    Assignee: Funai Electric Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Tsutomu Yanagi
  • BROADCAST RECEIVING DEVICE
    Publication number: 20090070621
    Abstract: A broadcast receiving device includes a card slot, a fan, a temperature sensor, a memory component and a control unit. The card slot accepts an IC card. The fan rotates to cool the IC card. The temperature sensor measures a first temperature. The memory component stores correlation information indicating a correlation between the first temperature and a second temperature of the IC card. The control unit acquires the second temperature based on the first temperature and the correlation information. The control unit determines if the second temperature exceeds a predetermined temperature. The control unit switches from a first output mode, in which an audio-video signal is outputted via the IC card, to a second output mode, in which the audio-video signal is outputted by bypassing the IC card, when the control unit determines that the second temperature exceeds the predetermined temperature.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 6, 2008
    Publication date: March 12, 2009
    Applicant: FUNAI ELECTRIC CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Tsutomu YANAGI