Patents by Inventor Hiroaki Miura
Hiroaki Miura 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).
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Patent number: 9485808Abstract: A sheet heater includes a first fiber layer, a second fiber layer distanced from the first fiber layer, a third fiber layer disposed between the first and second fiber layers, and a controller operable to control heat generation. The first fiber layer is constituted of first conductive portions and first non-conductive portions. The second fiber layer is constituted of second conductive portions and second non-conductive portions. The third fiber layer includes functional layers each constituted of connecting yarns and non-functional layers arranged to insulate each of the functional layers from others of the functional layers. The controller applies voltage between the first and second conductive portions to heat the connecting yarns. According to the heater, a desired temperature distribution can be created on the heater by applying the voltage selectively to one target segment composed of the first conductive portion, the functional layer and the second conductive portion.Type: GrantFiled: April 3, 2013Date of Patent: November 1, 2016Assignee: NISSAN MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventors: Youji Shimizu, Hiroaki Miura, Takashi Sunda, Yasuhiro Fukuyama
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Publication number: 20160295415Abstract: According to the present invention, a mobile terminal device includes: an operation input section which accepts operations; a memory section which previously stores a list of states of the mobile terminal device during use as locking conditions to determine a state at the time of limiting an operation of the mobile terminal device; a state determining section which generates state information in accordance with a state of the mobile terminal device; and a function limiting section which determines whether the state information meets the locking conditions, and switches the mobile terminal device to a locked state to limit an operation of the operation input section, when the state information is determined to meet the locking conditions.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 9, 2016Publication date: October 6, 2016Applicant: OLYMPUS CORPORATIONInventors: Kenta YUMOTO, Osamu TOKITA, Hiroaki MIURA, Takafumi ONISHI, Masaomi TOMIZAWA, Osamu NONAKA
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Publication number: 20160286158Abstract: An information recording apparatus, comprising: an information input unit configured to acquire audio data and/or image data; a tamper prevention unit that applies tamper prevention processing to the audio data and/or image data; and a controller that records, in a recording unit, both audio data and/or image data to which the tamper prevention processing is applied by the tamper prevention unit and audio data and/or image data to which the tamper prevention processing is not applied, if a predetermined condition is satisfied.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 23, 2016Publication date: September 29, 2016Applicant: OLYMPUS CORPORATIONInventors: Kenta YUMOTO, Hiroaki MIURA, Takafumi ONISHI, Tetsuya TOYODA, Osamu NONAKA
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Patent number: 9258848Abstract: A matrix-patterned cloth includes: first and second fiber layers including mutually isolated first and second conductors, respectively; an intermediate fiber layer between the first and second fiber layers; conductive connecting yarns connecting one of the first conductors and one of the second conductors, wherein, when a pressure is applied to the matrix-patterned cloth, each connecting yarn bends so that a position of contact between the connecting yarn and the first or second conductor changes depending on how large the pressure is; a selector; and a heating controller or a resistance measuring unit. The selector scans and sequentially selects one of the first conductors and one of the second conductors. The heating controller applies voltage to intersecting areas where the selected first and second conductors intersect each other via the first and second conductors. The resistance measuring unit measures electric resistances of the intersecting areas via the first and second conductors.Type: GrantFiled: July 10, 2013Date of Patent: February 9, 2016Assignee: NISSAN MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventors: Yasuhiro Fukuyama, Takashi Sunda, Hiroaki Miura, Youji Shimizu
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Patent number: 9137353Abstract: Provided are an electronic device wherein operability is improved by changing display contents as needed corresponding to a touch state with a display area, and a display method employed in the electronic device The electronic device is provided with: a display section (21) which indicates selection items; a detecting section (31) which detects a touch with a display area of the display section (21); and a control section (32) which controls to switch the display state of the display section (21) corresponding to the touch state with the display area to a first display state wherein a first display item group having a plurality of first hierarchical items relating to the selected item or to a second display state wherein a second display item group which has a plurality of second hierarchical items relating to the selected item and the number of items larger than that of the first display item group, at the time when a touch with the display area that corresponds to the selected item is detected by the detectType: GrantFiled: September 29, 2009Date of Patent: September 15, 2015Assignee: KYOCERA CORPORATIONInventor: Hiroaki Miura
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Patent number: 9122317Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: August 6, 2010Date of Patent: September 1, 2015Assignee: KYOCERA CORPORATIONInventors: Tomohiro Sudo, Atsuo Chiba, Nayu Nomachi, Hideko Murakami, Hiroaki Miura
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Publication number: 20150203121Abstract: Heart rates of the driver are recorded at a deceleration start time when a vehicle in a travelling state starts to decelerate and stop. The heart rates within a predetermined period recorded before the deceleration start time by the biological information record unit are referred to, and a pre-deceleration heart rate which is a representative value of the referred heart rates is extracted. Furthermore, the heart rates within a predetermined period recorded after the deceleration start time by the biological information record unit are referred to and a post-deceleration heart rate which is a representative value of the referred heart rates is extracted. Then, the pre-deceleration biological information and the post-deceleration biological information extracted by the biological information extraction unit are compared with each other to estimate the steady state of the driver after deceleration.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 14, 2013Publication date: July 23, 2015Applicant: Nissan Motor Co., Ltd.Inventors: Souichirou Mori, Youji Shimizu, Hiroaki Miura, Yasuhiro Fukuyama, Takashi Sunda
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Patent number: 9083780Abstract: According to an aspect, an electronic device includes: a display unit; and a control unit for acquiring information related to a process of an application program being executed in background and, executing an operation repeatedly to display the acquired information as additional information on the display unit.Type: GrantFiled: July 28, 2011Date of Patent: July 14, 2015Assignee: KYOCERA CORPORATIONInventors: Hiroaki Miura, Tomoko Asano
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Publication number: 20150164400Abstract: A driver's fatigue degree estimation apparatus includes a biological information value acquisition unit configured to acquire a biological information value of a driver of a vehicle, a vehicle speed detection unit configured to detect a vehicle speed of the vehicle, a stable value convergence change degree detection unit configured to detect a stable value convergence change degree which is a degree of change in the biological information value from a peak value of the biological information value increasing after the vehicle starts deceleration compared to the biological information value before the vehicle starts the deceleration, to a preset stable value, to which the biological information value decreases after the vehicle stops, based on the biological information value and the vehicle speed, and a fatigue degree estimation unit configured to estimate a fatigue degree of the driver depending on the stable value convergence change degree.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 24, 2013Publication date: June 18, 2015Applicant: Nissan Motor Co., Ltd.Inventors: Youji Shimizu, Takashi Sunda, Souichirou Mori, Hiroaki Miura, Yasuhiro Fukuyama
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Publication number: 20150000425Abstract: A sheet pressure sensor includes a first fiber layer, a second fiber layer, and a third fiber layer provided between the first and second fiber layers. The third fiber layer has connecting yarns that electrically connect first conductive portions of the first fiber layer and the second conductive portion in the second fiber layer with a predetermined electric resistivity. The sheet pressure sensor further includes a measuring instrument for measuring electric resistance between at least one of the first conductive portions and the second conductive portion. The connecting yarns unstrain due to deformation of the first or second conductive portion which is generated by applied pressure, and then are short-circuited with one of them. The sheet pressure sensor can detect the pressure while keeping air ventilation characteristic by giving a pressure detection function to the fiber layers.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 12, 2013Publication date: January 1, 2015Inventors: Hiroaki Miura, Takashi Sunda, Yasuhiro Fukuyama
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Publication number: 20140332522Abstract: The cloth-like heater of the present invention has an upper layer 2 in which a plurality of upper layer conducting parts 4 is provided, a lower layer 3 in which at least one lower layer conducting part 6 is provided, and an intermediate heat generation layer 8 that links the upper layer 2 to the lower layer 3 and has electroconductivity, and the most principal characteristic is that a linking string 8a of the intermediate heat generation layer 8 between the upper layer conducting part 4 and the lower layer conducting part 6, to which a voltage is applied, generates heat.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 12, 2012Publication date: November 13, 2014Applicant: NISSAN MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventors: Hiroaki Miura, Takashi Sunda, Yasuhiro Fukuyama
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Publication number: 20140313020Abstract: An electronic device 10 has an alarm 13; an alarm execution portion 170 making the alarm 13 execute an alarm operation at a previously set alarm time T(ALM); and a determination portion 170 determining whether or not an alarm stop condition for stopping in advance the alarm operation of the alarm execution portion 170 is satisfied in a first period PBAL from a predetermined time before the alarm time to the alarm time. The alarm execution portion 170 does not operate the alarm at the alarm time T(ALM) when the determination portion 170 determines that the alarm stop condition is satisfied.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 30, 2014Publication date: October 23, 2014Applicant: KYOCERA CORPORATIONInventor: Hiroaki MIURA
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Patent number: 8673439Abstract: An article undergoing stimulus-induced deformation, that is capable of being driven rapidly and in large displacement in air, is provided. An article undergoing stimulus-induced deformation comprising, incorporated in a polymer material having a cell, a liquid crystal serving as a deformation source in a skeleton other than the cell.Type: GrantFiled: February 21, 2012Date of Patent: March 18, 2014Assignee: Nissan Motor Co., Ltd.Inventor: Hiroaki Miura
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Publication number: 20140014646Abstract: A matrix-patterned cloth includes: first and second fiber layers including mutually isolated first and second conductors, respectively; an intermediate fiber layer between the first and second fiber layers; conductive connecting yarns connecting one of the first conductors and one of the second conductors, wherein, when a pressure is applied to the matrix-patterned cloth, each connecting yarn bends so that a position of contact between the connecting yarn and the first or second conductor changes depending on how large the pressure is; a selector; and a heating controller or a resistance measuring unit. The selector scans and sequentially selects one of the first conductors and one of the second conductors. The heating controller applies voltage to intersecting areas where the selected first and second conductors intersect each other via the first and second conductors. The resistance measuring unit measures electric resistances of the intersecting areas via the first and second conductors.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 10, 2013Publication date: January 16, 2014Inventors: Yasuhiro FUKUYAMA, Takashi SUNDA, Hiroaki MIURA, Youji SHIMIZU
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Publication number: 20130264331Abstract: A sheet heater includes a first fiber layer, a second fiber layer distanced from the first fiber layer, a third fiber layer disposed between the first and second fiber layers, and a controller operable to control heat generation. The first fiber layer is constituted of first conductive portions and first non-conductive portions. The second fiber layer is constituted of second conductive portions and second non-conductive portions. The third fiber layer includes functional layers each constituted of connecting yarns and non-functional layers arranged to insulate each of the functional layers from others of the functional layers. The controller applies voltage between the first and second conductive portions to heat the connecting yams. According to the heater, a desired temperature distribution can be created on the heater by applying the voltage selectively to one target segment composed of the first conductive portion, the functional layer and the second conductive portion.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 3, 2013Publication date: October 10, 2013Inventors: Youji SHIMIZU, Hiroaki Miura, Takashi Sunda, Yasuhiro Fukuyama
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Publication number: 20130235088Abstract: According to an aspect, a device includes a touch screen display and a controller. The touch screen display displays a screen including a plurality of pieces of information. When scrolling the screen, the controller controls speed of scrolling the screen according to an attribute of the piece of the information displayed on the touch screen display.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 7, 2013Publication date: September 12, 2013Applicant: KYOCERA CORPORATIONInventor: Hiroaki MIURA
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Patent number: 8501317Abstract: Cloth, in which air permeability is variable by energization, includes: a fibrous object composed of composite fibers, each of the composite fibers including: an electrical-conductive polymeric material; and a material different from the electrical-conductive polymeric material, the different material being directly stacked on the electrical-conductive polymeric material; and electrodes which are attached to the fibrous object, and energize the electrical-conductive polymeric material. Each of the composite fibers has a structure in which the material different from the electrical-conductive polymeric material is stacked on at least a part of a surface of the electrical-conductive polymeric material, or a structure in which either one of the electrical-conductive polymeric material and the material different from the electrical-conductive polymeric material penetrates the other material in a longitudinal direction.Type: GrantFiled: March 13, 2007Date of Patent: August 6, 2013Assignee: Nissan Motor Co., Ltd.Inventor: Hiroaki Miura
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Publication number: 20130122968Abstract: According to an aspect, an electronic device includes: a display unit; and a control unit for acquiring information related to a process of an application program being executed in background and, executing an operation repeatedly to display the acquired information as additional information on the display unit.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 28, 2011Publication date: May 16, 2013Applicant: KYOCERA CORPORATIONInventors: Hiroaki Miura, Tomoko Asano
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Publication number: 20120148827Abstract: An article undergoing stimulus-induced deformation, that is capable of being driven rapidly and in large displacement in air, is provided. An article undergoing stimulus-induced deformation comprising, incorporated in a polymer material having a cell, a liquid crystal serving as a deformation source in a skeleton other than the cell.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 21, 2012Publication date: June 14, 2012Inventor: Hiroaki MIURA
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Publication number: 20120133844Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: August 6, 2010Publication date: May 31, 2012Applicant: KYOCERA CORPORATIONInventors: Tomohiro Sudo, Atsuo Chiba, Nayu Nomachi, Hideko Murakami, Hiroaki Miura