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).

  • 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
  • Publication number: 20150036671
    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: July 24, 2014
    Publication date: February 5, 2015
    Inventors: Hikaru FUKUDA, Eiichi HATAE, Satoshi ANDO
  • Publication number: 20140362839
    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: May 30, 2014
    Publication date: December 11, 2014
    Applicant: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Hikaru Fukuda, Eiichi Hatae, Satoshi Ando
  • Patent number: 7859695
    Abstract: In the network system, which includes a scanner apparatus and a printer apparatus connected to network, the scanner apparatus scan the image of a plurality of pages of an original document, and the scanned image data is transmitted to the printer apparatus before the completion of scanning all of the plurality of original document pages.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2004
    Date of Patent: December 28, 2010
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Hikaru Fukuda, Ikuo Ueno
  • Patent number: 7679789
    Abstract: Individual destination information is registered into each character/symbol input key on an operation panel. Upon transmitting data, one of the registered character/symbol input keys is pressed to select a destination. In addition to character/symbol input keys, it is possible to register destinations into selection keys. When one of the selection keys having been pre-assigned for a predetermined operation is chosen for a registration, the registration of the key is denied. The registered destination information can be printed out, by a recorder, as a destination list that associates key names and destination names. The destination information can be displayed on a screen by a display, after a retrieval process based on a specified search condition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 4, 2004
    Date of Patent: March 16, 2010
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventor: Hikaru Fukuda
  • Publication number: 20050134941
    Abstract: A network scanner apparatus that obtains scanned image data quickly and efficiently by reducing the time that elapses between the start of document scanning and the end of the scanned image data transfer when scanned image data is transferred to a destination in a network. The network scanner apparatus includes a scanner that scans multiple pages of a document, and a controller that begins the transfer of scanned image data before completing the scanning of a multiple page document.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 7, 2004
    Publication date: June 23, 2005
    Applicant: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hikaru Fukuda, Ikuo Ueno
  • Publication number: 20050134914
    Abstract: In the network system, which includes a scanner apparatus and a printer apparatus connected to network, the scanner apparatus scan the image of a plurality of pages of an original document, and the scanned image data is transmitted to the printer apparatus before the completion of scanning all of the plurality of original document pages.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 7, 2004
    Publication date: June 23, 2005
    Applicant: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hikaru Fukuda, Ikuo Ueno
  • Publication number: 20040165220
    Abstract: Individual destination information is registered into each character/symbol input key on an operation panel. Upon transmitting data, one of the registered character/symbol input keys is pressed to select a destination. In addition to character/symbol input keys, it is possible to register destinations into selection keys. When one of the selection keys having been pre-assigned for a predetermined operation is chosen for a registration, the registration of the key is denied. The registered destination information can be printed out, by a recorder, as a destination list that associates key names and destination names. The destination information can be displayed on a screen by a display, after a retrieval process based on a specified search condition.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 4, 2004
    Publication date: August 26, 2004
    Applicant: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Hikaru Fukuda
  • Patent number: 5428457
    Abstract: An image communication apparatus includes a plurality of communication units each for performing communication. A first control device serves to generate and control communication jobs of executing communications of image information by the respective communication units, and serves to generate and control a sequence of the communication jobs in accordance with types of the communication units. A second control device serves to perform processes by which the communication units independently start and end the communication jobs generated by the first control device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 1992
    Date of Patent: June 27, 1995
    Assignee: Matsushita Graphic Communication Systems, Inc.
    Inventors: Takahito Okumura, Hikaru Fukuda, Hitoshi Kuga, Yutaka Nitta