Patents by Inventor Yuhi Hatano

Yuhi Hatano 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: 20240118755
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is a sensor system that detects a stylus on at least one panel surface having an effective region. The sensor system includes a memory device including computer-executable instructions, and a processor. The processor, when loaded with the computer-executable instructions, performs: and obtaining a position of the stylus and a pen pressure value indicating a pressure applied to a pen tip of the stylus; outputting the position and the pen pressure value to a host processor. In response to the position being outside the effective region, the processor performs processing to conceal from the host processor occurrence of at least one of a pen-down indicating the stylus contacting the panel surface and a pen-up indicating the stylus being removed from the panel surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 4, 2023
    Publication date: April 11, 2024
    Inventors: Yoshio NOMURA, Yuhi HATANO
  • Patent number: 11868549
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is a sensor system that detects a stylus on at least one panel surface having an effective region. The sensor system includes a memory device including computer-executable instructions, and a processor. The processor, when loaded with the computer-executable instructions, performs: and obtaining a position of the stylus and a pen pressure value indicating a pressure applied to a pen tip of the stylus; outputting the position and the pen pressure value to a host processor. In response to the position being outside the effective region, the processor performs processing to conceal from the host processor occurrence of at least one of a pen-down indicating the stylus contacting the panel surface and a pen-up indicating the stylus being removed from the panel surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: Wacom Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yoshio Nomura, Yuhi Hatano
  • Publication number: 20230110953
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is a sensor system that detects a stylus on at least one panel surface having an effective region. The sensor system includes a memory device including computer-executable instructions, and a processor. The processor, when loaded with the computer-executable instructions, performs: and obtaining a position of the stylus and a pen pressure value indicating a pressure applied to a pen tip of the stylus; outputting the position and the pen pressure value to a host processor. In response to the position being outside the effective region, the processor performs processing to conceal from the host processor occurrence of at least one of a pen-down indicating the stylus contacting the panel surface and a pen-up indicating the stylus being removed from the panel surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 12, 2022
    Publication date: April 13, 2023
    Inventors: Yoshio NOMURA, Yuhi HATANO
  • Patent number: 11550409
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is a sensor system that detects a stylus on at least one panel surface having an effective region. The sensor system includes a memory device including computer-executable instructions, and a processor. The processor, when loaded with the computer-executable instructions, performs: and obtaining a position of the stylus and a pen pressure value indicating a pressure applied to a pen tip of the stylus; outputting the position and the pen pressure value to a host processor. In response to the position being outside the effective region, the processor performs processing to conceal from the host processor occurrence of at least one of a pen-down indicating the stylus contacting the panel surface and a pen-up indicating the stylus being removed from the panel surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 7, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2023
    Assignee: Wacom Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yoshio Nomura, Yuhi Hatano
  • Publication number: 20220342494
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is a sensor system that detects a stylus on at least one panel surface having an effective region. The sensor system includes a memory device including computer-executable instructions, and a processor. The processor, when loaded with the computer-executable instructions, performs: and obtaining a position of the stylus and a pen pressure value indicating a pressure applied to a pen tip of the stylus; outputting the position and the pen pressure value to a host processor. In response to the position being outside the effective region, the processor performs processing to conceal from the host processor occurrence of at least one of a pen-down indicating the stylus contacting the panel surface and a pen-up indicating the stylus being removed from the panel surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 7, 2022
    Publication date: October 27, 2022
    Inventors: Yoshio NOMURA, Yuhi HATANO
  • Patent number: 11397476
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is a sensor system that detects a stylus on at least one panel surface having an effective region. The sensor system includes a memory device including computer-executable instructions, and a processor. The processor, when loaded with the computer-executable instructions, performs: and obtaining a position of the stylus and a pen pressure value indicating a pressure applied to a pen tip of the stylus; outputting the position and the pen pressure value to a host processor. In response to the position being outside the effective region, the processor performs processing to conceal from the host processor occurrence of at least one of a pen-down indicating the stylus contacting the panel surface and a pen-up indicating the stylus being removed from the panel surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 26, 2022
    Assignee: Wacom Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yoshio Nomura, Yuhi Hatano
  • Publication number: 20220197503
    Abstract: A touch detecting method includes determining a kind of a detected indicator based on a first area on a touch surface, obtaining a plurality of second capacitances formed by emphasizing a peak in comparison with a plurality of first capacitances by processing the plurality of first capacitances by a first filter in a case where the determining determines that the detected indicator is a stylus, deriving coordinates indicating a position of the stylus on the touch surface based on a second area on the touch surface, and deriving coordinates indicating a position of a finger on the touch surface based on a third area on the touch surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 14, 2022
    Publication date: June 23, 2022
    Inventors: Jui Min LIU, Shigeyuki SANO, Yuhi HATANO
  • Publication number: 20210223875
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is a sensor system that detects a stylus on at least one panel surface having an effective region. The sensor system includes a memory device including computer-executable instructions, and a processor. The processor, when loaded with the computer-executable instructions, performs: and obtaining a position of the stylus and a pen pressure value indicating a pressure applied to a pen tip of the stylus; outputting the position and the pen pressure value to a host processor. In response to the position being outside the effective region, the processor performs processing to conceal from the host processor occurrence of at least one of a pen-down indicating the stylus contacting the panel surface and a pen-up indicating the stylus being removed from the panel surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 7, 2020
    Publication date: July 22, 2021
    Inventors: Yoshio NOMURA, Yuhi HATANO
  • Patent number: 10983640
    Abstract: A position detection circuit is connected to a capacitive touch sensor that includes a plurality of line electrodes arranged in a two-dimensional lattice pattern. The position detection circuit includes: at least one processor device; and at least one memory device storing processor-executable instructions which, when executed by the processor device, cause the position detection circuit to: acquire capacitance-related detection values at crossing points of the line electrodes in association with positions of the crossing points; calculate a number of crossing points at which a detection value is smaller than a first threshold for each of the line electrodes; and determine that one or more of the line electrodes for which a calculated number of crossing points is greater than a second threshold are anomalous or possibly anomalous.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 20, 2021
    Assignee: Wacom Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: JuiMin Liu, Yuhi Hatano, Shigeyuki Sano
  • Publication number: 20190258337
    Abstract: A position detection circuit is connected to a capacitive touch sensor that includes a plurality of line electrodes arranged in a two-dimensional lattice pattern. The position detection circuit includes: at least one processor device; and at least one memory device storing processor-executable instructions which, when executed by the processor device, cause the position detection circuit to: acquire capacitance-related detection values at crossing points of the line electrodes in association with positions of the crossing points; calculate a number of crossing points at which a detection value is smaller than a first threshold for each of the line electrodes; and determine that one or more of the line electrodes for which a calculated number of crossing points is greater than a second threshold are anomalous or possibly anomalous.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 24, 2019
    Publication date: August 22, 2019
    Inventors: JuiMin Liu, Yuhi Hatano, Shigeyuki Sano