Patents by Inventor Hikaru Fukuda

Hikaru Fukuda 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: 10264110
    Abstract: Telephone directory data stored in storage unit (103) of a cordless telephone device of the present invention is data in which a telephone directory serial number, name information, telephone number information, and thumbnail image data are associated with each communication partner. With respect to telephone directory data, slave device transfer data transmitting unit (125) transmits only telephone directory serial number and thumbnail image data after conversion in association with each other, to the cordless phone slave device. In a case where there is an incoming call destined to a specific cordless phone slave device from a subscriber line, call control unit (121) transmits the telephone directory serial number, the name information, and the telephone number information of the telephone directory data of a caller, together with incoming information, to the cordless phone slave device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2019
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Hikaru Fukuda
  • Patent number: 10257338
    Abstract: Provided is a telephone apparatus including a wireless communicator that performs wireless communication of data with a music reproducing device, a controller that remotely controls the music reproducing device through the wireless communicator, a speaker, a sound processor that reproduces sound data from the music reproducing device and outputs the sound data to the speaker, and a call controller that detects outgoing or incoming of a call through a telephone line and restricts output of sound data from the music reproducing device in a case where the incoming or outgoing of a call is detected while the sound data is output as a sound.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2019
    Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hikaru Fukuda, Hideyuki Matsuo
  • Patent number: 10116782
    Abstract: A telephone device includes a short-distance wireless communication unit that performs wireless communication of data with a mobile-phone, and a speaker from which audio data is output, in which a music playback function of the mobile-phone can be remotely operated from a place that is a distance away from the mobile-phone, and in which music playback is stopped by switching a radio resource to that for a telephone call and a smooth transition to a telephone call state can take place automatically without performing a playback stopping operation in a case where a mobile-destined call arrival or mobile-originated call-placing takes place while the music playback is in progress.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 30, 2018
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hikaru Fukuda, Hideyuki Matsuo
  • Patent number: 9936058
    Abstract: Disclosed is cordless telephone equipment allowing various kinds of data stored in a mobile telephone to be stored in a cordless handset in a state usable therein, without provision of a new device thereto. A handset transfer-data conversion section that executes a predetermined conversion process according to a type of handset transfer-data stored in a storage section. Specifically, the handset transfer-data conversion section converts an audio format of ringtone data according to a use CODEC of a cordless handset. In addition, the handset transfer-data conversion section converts an image size of wallpaper data into a size reproducible in the cordless handset. Further, the handset transfer-data conversion section converts an image size of image data of the other party included in telephone directory data into a size reproducible in the cordless handset.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 17, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 3, 2018
    Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hikaru Fukuda, Eiichi Hatae, Satoshi Ando
  • Patent number: 9930184
    Abstract: Slave device information transmitting unit of the present invention transmits slave device information to a mobile phone. Slave device transfer data receiving unit receives slave device transfer data from the mobile phone, and stores the slave device transfer data in storage unit. Destination slave device determining unit extracts destination slave device information from slave device transfer data stored in storage unit, and selects a cordless telephone slave device which is a destination of the slave device transfer data, based on destination slave device identification information which is set in the destination slave device information. Slave device transfer data transmitting unit transmits slave device transfer data to a cordless telephone slave device selected by destination slave device determining unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 3, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 27, 2018
    Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hikaru Fukuda, Eiichi Hatae, Satoshi Ando, Takayoshi Shibata
  • Patent number: 9924014
    Abstract: Cordless telephone equipment includes a portable unit and a base unit. The base unit includes: a portable unit control section controlling a communication protocol with the portable unit through a wireless interface wirelessly connecting with the non-IP terminal type portable unit; a wireless LAN interface section transmitting and receiving packet data to and from a wireless IP terminal and wireless LAN access point; a wireless LAN bridge control section forwarding the received packet data to the wireless IP terminal, or the wireless LAN access point, or within the base unit in accordance with a destination address of the packet data received through the wireless LAN interface section; and a base unit control section processing the packet data received from the wireless IP terminal and forwarded within the base unit, as data received from a portable unit under control of the base unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 20, 2018
    Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hikaru Fukuda, Eiichi Hatae, Satoshi Ando
  • Patent number: 9807216
    Abstract: A cordless phone base unit includes a storage unit that stores a phone number of other party in association with a name of the other party in a registration table, a reading unit that reads the name of the other party from the storage unit based on a received phone number of the other party, a language selection unit that selects a language corresponding to the read name of the other party, and a voice data generating unit that converts the read name of the other party into voice data in the selected language and outputs the voice data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 19, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2017
    Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hikaru Fukuda, Masaru Baba, Hideo Fujii
  • Patent number: 9769298
    Abstract: A cordless phone apparatus is provided, which includes one or more slave devices and a master device. The master device includes: i) a LAN transmitter configured to transmit slave device information to a wireless IP terminal via a wireless LAN, wherein the slave device information includes identification information of each slave device registered to the master device, ii) a receiver configured to receive from the wireless IP terminal selection of the identification information of a destination slave device and selection of transfer data including at least one of ringtone data, wallpaper data, and phone book data, iii) a transfer data converter configured to convert at least one of the ringtone data, wallpaper data, and phone book data included in the transfer data into a data format usable in the destination slave device, and iv) a cordless phone transmitter configured to transmit the converted transfer data to the destination slave device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 3, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2017
    Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hikaru Fukuda, Eiichi Hatae, Satoshi Ando
  • Publication number: 20170094041
    Abstract: A cordless phone base unit includes a storage unit that stores a phone number of other party in association with a name of the other party in a registration table, a reading unit that reads the name of the other party from the storage unit based on a received phone number of the other party, a language selection unit that selects a language corresponding to the read name of the other party, and a voice data generating unit that converts the read name of the other party into voice data in the selected language and outputs the voice data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 19, 2016
    Publication date: March 30, 2017
    Inventors: Hikaru Fukuda, Masaru Baba, Hideo Fujii
  • Publication number: 20170078467
    Abstract: Slave device information transmitter (127) of the present disclosure transmits slave device information to a mobile phone. Slave device transfer data receiver (122) receives slave device transfer data from the mobile phone, and stores the slave device transfer data in storage (103). Destination slave device determiner (123) extracts destination slave device information from slave device transfer data stored in storage (103), and selects a cordless phone slave device which is a destination of the slave device transfer data, based on destination slave device identification information which is set in the destination slave device information. Slave device transfer data transmitter (125) transmits slave device transfer data to a cordless phone slave device selected by destination slave device determiner (123).
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 3, 2015
    Publication date: March 16, 2017
    Inventors: Hikaru Fukuda, Eiichi Hatae, Satoshi Ando
  • Publication number: 20170070603
    Abstract: Disclosed is cordless telephone equipment allowing various kinds of data stored in a mobile telephone to be stored in a cordless handset in a state usable therein, without provision of a new device thereto. A handset transfer-data conversion section that executes a predetermined conversion process according to a type of handset transfer-data stored in a storage section. Specifically, the handset transfer-data conversion section converts an audio format of ringtone data according to a use CODEC of a cordless handset. In addition, the handset transfer-data conversion section converts an image size of wallpaper data into a size reproducible in the cordless handset. Further, the handset transfer-data conversion section converts an image size of image data of the other party included in telephone directory data into a size reproducible in the cordless handset.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 17, 2016
    Publication date: March 9, 2017
    Inventors: Hikaru Fukuda, Eiichi Hatae, Satoshi Ando
  • Publication number: 20170070604
    Abstract: Cordless telephone equipment includes a portable unit and a base unit. The base unit includes: a portable unit control section controlling a communication protocol with the portable unit through a wireless interface wirelessly connecting with the non-IP terminal type portable unit; a wireless LAN interface section transmitting and receiving packet data to and from a wireless IP terminal and wireless LAN access point; a wireless LAN bridge control section forwarding the received packet data to the wireless IP terminal, or the wireless LAN access point, or within the base unit in accordance with a destination address of the packet data received through the wireless LAN interface section; and a base unit control section processing the packet data received from the wireless IP terminal and forwarded within the base unit, as data received from a portable unit under control of the base unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 18, 2016
    Publication date: March 9, 2017
    Inventors: Hikaru FUKUDA, Eiichi HATAE, Satoshi ANDO
  • Publication number: 20170019516
    Abstract: Telephone directory data stored in storage unit (103) of a cordless telephone device of the present invention is data in which a telephone directory serial number, name information, telephone number information, and thumbnail image data are associated with each communication partner. With respect to telephone directory data, slave device transfer data transmitting unit (125) transmits only telephone directory serial number and thumbnail image data after conversion in association with each other, to the cordless phone slave device. In a case where there is an incoming call destined to a specific cordless phone slave device from a subscriber line, call control unit (121) transmits the telephone directory serial number, the name information, and the telephone number information of the telephone directory data of a caller, together with incoming information, to the cordless phone slave device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 5, 2015
    Publication date: January 19, 2017
    Inventor: Hikaru Fukuda
  • Publication number: 20170006165
    Abstract: Slave device information transmitting unit of the present invention transmits slave device information to a mobile phone. Slave device transfer data receiving unit receives slave device transfer data from the mobile phone, and stores the slave device transfer data in storage unit. Destination slave device determining unit extracts destination slave device information from slave device transfer data stored in storage unit, and selects a cordless telephone slave device which is a destination of the slave device transfer data, based on destination slave device identification information which is set in the destination slave device information. Slave device transfer data transmitting unit transmits slave device transfer data to a cordless telephone slave device selected by destination slave device determining unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 3, 2015
    Publication date: January 5, 2017
    Inventors: Hikaru Fukuda, Eiichi Hatae, Satoshi Ando, Takayoshi Shibata
  • Patent number: 9531857
    Abstract: Cordless telephone equipment includes a portable unit and a base unit. The base unit includes: a portable unit control section controlling a communication protocol with the portable unit through a wireless interface wirelessly connecting with the non-IP terminal type portable unit; a wireless LAN interface section transmitting and receiving packet data to and from a wireless IP terminal and wireless LAN access point; a wireless LAN bridge control section forwarding the received packet data to the wireless IP terminal, or the wireless LAN access point, or within the base unit in accordance with a destination address of the packet data received through the wireless LAN interface section; and a base unit control section processing the packet data received from the wireless IP terminal and forwarded within the base unit, as data received from a portable unit under control of the base unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 30, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2016
    Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co. Ltd.
    Inventors: Hikaru Fukuda, Eiichi Hatae, Satoshi Ando
  • Patent number: 9525990
    Abstract: Disclosed is cordless telephone equipment allowing various kinds of data stored in a mobile telephone to be stored in a cordless handset in a state usable therein, without provision of a new device thereto. A handset transfer-data conversion section that executes a predetermined conversion process according to a type of handset transfer-data stored in a storage section. Specifically, the handset transfer-data conversion section converts an audio format of ringtone data according to a use CODEC of a cordless handset. In addition, the handset transfer-data conversion section converts an image size of wallpaper data into a size reproducible in the cordless handset. Further, the handset transfer-data conversion section converts an image size of image data of the other party included in telephone directory data into a size reproducible in the cordless handset.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 24, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 20, 2016
    Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hikaru Fukuda, Eiichi Hatae, Satoshi Ando
  • Publication number: 20160286022
    Abstract: A telephone device includes a short-distance wireless communication unit that performs wireless communication of data with a mobile-phone, and a speaker from which audio data is output, in which a music playback function of the mobile-phone can be remotely operated from a place that is a distance away from the mobile-phone, and in which music playback is stopped by switching a radio resource to that for a telephone call and a smooth transition to a telephone call state can take place automatically without performing a playback stopping operation in a case where a mobile-destined call arrival or mobile-originated call-placing takes place while the music playback is in progress.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 10, 2016
    Publication date: September 29, 2016
    Inventors: Hikaru FUKUDA, Hideyuki MATSUO
  • Publication number: 20160269532
    Abstract: Provided is a telephone apparatus including a wireless communicator that performs wireless communication of data with a music reproducing device, a controller that remotely controls the music reproducing device through the wireless communicator, a speaker, a sound processor that reproduces sound data from the music reproducing device and outputs the sound data to the speaker, and a call controller that detects outgoing or incoming of a call through a telephone line and restricts output of sound data from the music reproducing device in a case where the incoming or outgoing of a call is detected while the sound data is output as a sound.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 26, 2016
    Publication date: September 15, 2016
    Inventors: Hikaru Fukuda, Hideyuki Matsuo
  • Patent number: 9325815
    Abstract: A cordless telephone apparatus comprises a portable handset and a base station. The base station including a first wireless communication unit which, in operation, communicates data with a music player, a first control unit which, in operation, monitors a status of the music player and remotely controls the music player via the first wireless communication unit, a speaker which outputs audio data, an audio processing unit which, in operation, reproduces the audio data received by the first wireless communication unit from the music player and outputs the audio data to the speaker, a second wireless communication unit which wirelessly communicates data with the portable handset; and a second control unit which, in operation, controls the portable handset as an operation unit to remotely control the music player.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2016
    Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hikaru Fukuda, Hideyuki Matsuo
  • Publication number: 20150148027
    Abstract: A cordless telephone apparatus comprises a portable handset and a base station. The base station including a first wireless communication unit which, in operation, communicates data with a music player, a first control unit which, in operation, monitors a status of the music player and remotely controls the music player via the first wireless communication unit, a speaker which outputs audio data, an audio processing unit which, in operation, reproduces the audio data received by the first wireless communication unit from the music player and outputs the audio data to the speaker, a second wireless communication unit which wirelessly communicates data with the portable handset; and a second control unit which, in operation, controls the portable handset as an operation unit to remotely control the music player.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 19, 2014
    Publication date: May 28, 2015
    Inventors: Hikaru Fukuda, Hideyuki Matsuo