Patents by Inventor Akira Tojima

Akira Tojima 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: 20110237184
    Abstract: An on-board device 10 has: a communication unit 110 that carries out communication with a portable device 30 that has a transfer reservation function of place information indicating an arbitrary place; a place information acquisition unit 130 that acquires the place information from the portable device 30 after the communication is established; a place information determination unit 140 that determines a category of processing relating to the place information acquired by the place information acquisition unit 130; a place information processing unit 200 that at least registers a place or sets a destination using the place information based on the category determined by the place information determination unit 140; and a route guidance unit 180 that guides a route to a destination when the destination has been set.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 30, 2009
    Publication date: September 29, 2011
    Applicants: PIONEER CORPORATION, SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Kunihiro Minoshima, Takehiko Shioda, Akihiro Tozaki, Kazunori Hashimoto, Nobuhiro Ishizuka, Ken Murayama, Junichi Shirakawa, Shuji Daioku, Nobuo Kusumoto, Akira Tojima
  • Publication number: 20110205153
    Abstract: A mobile phone (1) in accordance with the present invention includes: a transmission setting database (50); a transmission setting section (21) for registering, on the transmission setting database (50), a piece of image data to be transmitted to a data receiving device; and an image data transmitting section (12) for transmitting, to the data receiving device, the piece of image data registered on the transmission setting database (50), the image data transmitting section (12) transmitting the piece of image data to the data receiving device in response to a transmission request received from the data receiving device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 3, 2009
    Publication date: August 25, 2011
    Applicants: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA, PIONEER CORPORATION
    Inventors: Toru Ueda, Junichi Shirakawa, Nobuo Kusumoto, Syuji Daioku, Azusa Umemoto, Akira Tojima, Takehiko Shioda, Akihiro Tozaki, Kunihiro Minoshima, Kazunori Hashimoto
  • Publication number: 20110183627
    Abstract: It is possible to present identification information of a sender in such a manner that the identification information is easily understood by a user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 2, 2009
    Publication date: July 28, 2011
    Applicants: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA, PIONEER CORPORATION
    Inventors: Toru Ueda, Junichi Shirakawa, Syuji Daioku, Nobuo Kusumoto, Akira Tojima, Takehiko Shioda, Akihiro Tozaki, Kunihiro Minoshima, Kazunori Hashimoto
  • Publication number: 20110072493
    Abstract: A service providing device (400) includes: one-time PW generating processing section (435) which generates, for each operation device (300), authentication information for use in authentication processing carried out by the service providing device (400) in a case where the service providing device (400) is accessed by a display processing device (200); and an image data generating processing section (436) which (i) generates operation data including the authentication information generated and processing specifying information specifying the authentication processing, and (ii) transmits the operation data thus generated to the operation device (300).
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 18, 2009
    Publication date: March 24, 2011
    Inventors: Taichiro Morishita, Masaki Takeuchi, Tohru Sugayama, Junichi Shirakawa, Mitsunori Nojima, Yohhei Iwami, Akira Tojima
  • Publication number: 20110030000
    Abstract: An operation object device (200) includes a permission obtaining section (7) for (i) transmitting to a permitter device (3002) a permission request for permission to allow an operator to carry out an operation that is restricted, which permitter device is used by a permitter that provides such permission, and (ii) receiving a permission result response transmitted from the permitter device (3002) as a response to the request. Moreover, the permitter device (3002) includes a permission request receiving processing section (24) for (i) receiving the permission request, (ii) accepting input of permission by the permitter in response to the permission request, and (iii) transmitting the permission result response to the apparatus from which the permission request is transmitted, in accordance with the input.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 10, 2009
    Publication date: February 3, 2011
    Inventor: Akira Tojima
  • Publication number: 20110018754
    Abstract: A remote operation apparatus (300) includes: an operating-side first communication section (301) that is capable of transmitting a signal to an operation target apparatus (200); an operating-side second communication section (302) that is capable of transmitting/receiving the signal to/from the operation target apparatus (200); a connection start section (11) which transmits a connection start signal, which notifies a start of the transmission/reception of the signal via the operating-side second communication section (302), to the operation target apparatus (200) via the operating-side first communication section (301); and an operating-side communication control section (12) which transmits/receives the signal to/from the operation target apparatus (200) via the operating-side second communication section (302). With this arrangement, it is possible to easily specify a communication partner to/from which a signal is transmitted/received via the operating-side second communication section (302).
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 12, 2009
    Publication date: January 27, 2011
    Inventors: Akira Tojima, Junichi Shirakawa
  • Publication number: 20100289746
    Abstract: An input system, a portable terminal, a data processor, and an input method are provided that can be used to easily input a character of the type permitted to be input. The input system includes the data processor and the portable terminal. The data processor stores an input permitted character type that is a type of characters permitted to be input to a corresponding one of not less than one input box, in association with the corresponding input box. The data processor transmits to the portable terminal the input permitted character type associated with a character input enabled input box. The portable terminal sets the type of characters to be input, to the input permitted character type as received, and transmits to the data processor an input character that is of the input permitted character type as set.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 11, 2008
    Publication date: November 18, 2010
    Inventors: Akira Tojima, Taichi Andoh, Akihiro Azuma, Taichiro Morishita, Masaki Takeuchi
  • Publication number: 20100293246
    Abstract: A system allowing an authorized user to view information in a server from a point far away from the server, and preventing leakage of information in the server is provided. For this purpose, a management server 26 includes: a first communication unit 90 for communication with a terminal, not shown; a storage unit 98 storing, in addition to content, terminal use schedule for specifying date and time and location in association with a terminal identifier; a time measuring unit 100; and a control unit 102 connected to the first communication unit 90, the storage unit 98 and the time measuring unit 100. When the first communication unit 90 receives a content distribution requests from a terminal and the identifier of the terminal is stored in storage unit 98, the control unit 102 performs the following process.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 15, 2009
    Publication date: November 18, 2010
    Applicant: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Koichi Urazoe, Akira Tojima
  • Publication number: 20070016877
    Abstract: There is provided a communication system, a data terminal apparatus, a server apparatus, and a menu screen updating method that succeed in enhancing the ease-of-use of a menu screen with additional functions. The service server transmits to the receiving apparatus additional menu data for permitting selection of additional functions. In the receiving apparatus, on the basis of initial menu data for permitting selection of initial functions and the additional menu data obtained as the second menu data, menu display data is produced. On the basis of the menu display data, a menu screen is created. The menu screen is outputted to the display device so that it shows up on the display section of the display device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 29, 2006
    Publication date: January 18, 2007
    Applicant: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Junichi Shirakawa, Shinichi Kitabayashi, Akira Tojima