Patents by Inventor Hideko Murakami

Hideko Murakami 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: 20130047114
    Abstract: According to an aspect, a mobile electronic device includes: a display unit, an operating unit, and a control unit. The display unit for displays a character input screen including a part of a plurality of soft key objects each associated with a process in a line. The operating unit receives input of an operation. Upon detecting a changing operation through the operating unit, the control unit changes arrangement of the soft key objects such that at least one of the soft key objects that has been displayed is not displayed and at least one of the soft key objects that has not been displayed is displayed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 16, 2012
    Publication date: February 21, 2013
    Applicant: KYOCERA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hideko MURAKAMI, Atsuo CHIBA
  • Publication number: 20130035141
    Abstract: According to an aspect, a mobile electronic device includes a display unit, an operating unit, and a control unit. The display unit displays a lock screen in a first locked state. The operating unit receives an input of an operation. The control unit cancels the first locked state when an input of a first operation is detected through the operating unit while the lock screen is displayed on the display unit, and enters a second locked state when an input of a second operation is detected through the operating unit while the lock screen is displayed on the display unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 2, 2012
    Publication date: February 7, 2013
    Applicant: KYOCERA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hideko MURAKAMI, Atsuo CHIBA
  • Publication number: 20120133844
    Abstract: According to an aspect, an electronic device includes a display unit, an operation unit, and a control unit. The display unit displays a screen corresponding to an application during execution thereof. The operation unit is operated in order to input a character. When an operation for a character input is performed through the operation unit while the screen corresponding to the application is displayed on the display unit, the control unit displays an input character on the display unit while maintaining a state in which the screen corresponding to the application before the character is input is displayed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 6, 2010
    Publication date: May 31, 2012
    Applicant: KYOCERA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tomohiro Sudo, Atsuo Chiba, Nayu Nomachi, Hideko Murakami, Hiroaki Miura
  • Publication number: 20110175818
    Abstract: Provided is a mobile electronic device capable of reflecting a user's intention. While an initial screen (100) for waiting for an incoming-call is being displayed on an LCD display unit (21), a control unit (45) performs control so that a first type character display area (101) and a second type character display area (102) are displayed on the LCD display unit (21) in place of the initial screen (100), wherein the first type character display area (101) is an area for, when any of first keys is depressed, displaying a first type character (for example, a number such as “1”, “2”, “3”) assigned to the depressed first key and the second type character display area (102) is an area for displaying a second type character (for example, “a”, “i”, “u”, etc. in Japanese Hiragana letter) assigned to the depressed first key.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 28, 2009
    Publication date: July 21, 2011
    Applicant: KYOCERA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kouji Watanabe, Yuuki Wada, Michiko Takei, Yuka Ishizuka, Tomoyasu Takahashi, Takafumi Satou, Masao Inadome, Hideko Murakami