Patents by Inventor Chie Hideishi

Chie Hideishi 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: 9507330
    Abstract: In a remote control system that causes a controlled appliance to perform a function specified with use of a terminal device, a function managing device manages functions including a first function and a second function associated with the first function.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 6, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2016
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Takayuki Nagamatsu, Chie Hideishi, Masaki Hashiura
  • Patent number: 9461953
    Abstract: An agent server determines a posting timing of a message on a family message board on the basis of urgency associated with situation information based on which a message is generated and a posting state, which is obtained by the posting state obtaining section, on the family message board.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 20, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2016
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Chie Hideishi, Takayuki Nagamatsu, Masaki Hashiura
  • Patent number: 9325651
    Abstract: An operation instruction detecting section detects an operation instruction from a message and specifies, as an instruction provider, a member who has posted the message. A report message displaying section causes a message, which (i) reports a result of an operation executed in accordance with the operation instruction and (ii) is explicitly directed to the instruction provider, to be displayed on a family message board.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2016
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Makoto Sakuta, Takayuki Nagamatsu, Chie Hideishi, Yoshihisa Waki
  • Publication number: 20140257525
    Abstract: The present invention includes function identifying means for identifying, from a functions listing table, a function to be processed so as to be available and function enabling means for processing the function identified, the function identifying means identifying, as a first function, a function selected by a user and further identifying, as a second function, a paired function to be processed, the second function being associated with the first function.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 6, 2014
    Publication date: September 11, 2014
    Applicant: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Takayuki NAGAMATSU, Chie HIDEISHI, Masaki HASHIURA
  • Publication number: 20140244769
    Abstract: An operation instruction detecting section detects an operation instruction from a message and specifies, as an instruction provider, a member who has posted the message. A report message displaying section causes a message, which (i) reports a result of an operation executed in accordance with the operation instruction and (ii) is explicitly directed to the instruction provider, to be displayed on a family message board.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 24, 2014
    Publication date: August 28, 2014
    Applicant: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Makoto SAKUTA, Takayuki NAGAMATSU, Chie HIDEISHI, Yoshihisa WAKI
  • Publication number: 20140244767
    Abstract: An agent server determines a posting timing of a message on a family message board on the basis of urgency associated with situation information based on which a message is generated and a posting state, which is obtained by the posting state obtaining section, on the family message board.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 20, 2014
    Publication date: August 28, 2014
    Applicant: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Chie HIDEISHI, Takayuki NAGAMATSU, Masaki HASHIURA
  • Publication number: 20140095635
    Abstract: An agent server includes: a conversational message determining section which determines a conversational message to a message on a family message board; an appliance-related message determining section which obtains operation-assisting information for a domestic appliance according to the message; and a message transmitting section which causes the conversational message and the operation-assisting information to be written on the family message board.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 16, 2013
    Publication date: April 3, 2014
    Applicant: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yoshiharu Yoshimoto, Takayuki Nagamatsu, Minako Kuwata, Chie Hideishi, Makoto Sakuta