Patents by Inventor Hiroaki SHIMODA

Hiroaki SHIMODA 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: 20180082334
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, with respect to each of content data Cn (or an output form thereof) which is output, audience information for use in output control of the content data Cn, a condition of external information for executing the output control, and a content of the output control which is executed when the condition is satisfied, are set up, and are set in an output control information definition file 20D. From photography data including an audience photographed by an image photography unit, and from external information such as a distance to a subject, which is measured by a range finder, the external information of a kind corresponding to each content Cn that is output is acquired. By judging whether the condition of the external information is satisfied or not, the content of the output control is executed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 13, 2017
    Publication date: March 22, 2018
    Inventors: Hiroaki Shimoda, Toshihiko Yoshida, Yoichi Murayama, Gou Kawakami, Kazuma Kawahara, Takashi Kawashimo
  • Publication number: 20170372367
    Abstract: A content output device includes: a display that outputs content; a communication unit that transmits at least one piece of beacon information correlated to the content which is being output by the display; and a CPU that makes responsive period information or unresponsive period information for a communication device based on the content which is being output by the display, and causes the communication unit to transmit the beacon information containing the responsive period information or the unresponsive period information, wherein the responsive period information or the unresponsive period information indicates a period which the communication device executes or does not execute an action corresponding to the received beacon information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 27, 2017
    Publication date: December 28, 2017
    Applicant: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Gou KAWAKAMI, Takashi KAWASHIMO, Yoichi MURAYAMA, Kazuma KAWAHARA, Hiroaki SHIMODA, Toshihiko YOSHIDA
  • Publication number: 20170277269
    Abstract: The display control device includes: a distance acquirer acquiring a distance between a display surface on which an item is displayed and an operator operating the item; and a display controller displaying on the display surface an item belonging to a hierarchy level corresponding to the distance acquired by the distance acquirer from an item group including multiple hierarchized items.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 6, 2016
    Publication date: September 28, 2017
    Applicant: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kazuma KAWAHARA, Toshihiko YOSHIDA, Yoichi MURAYAMA, Gou KAWAKAMI, Takashi KAWASHIMO, Hiroaki SHIMODA
  • Publication number: 20170277428
    Abstract: An information processing device according to the present disclosure includes a shape detector detecting a shape of a detection object, an output controller performing a control to select a virtual input device to be displayed based on the detected shape of the detection object, and to display the selected virtual input device, and a display displaying the selected virtual input device based on the control given by the output controller.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 13, 2016
    Publication date: September 28, 2017
    Applicant: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yoichi MURAYAMA, Toshihiko YOSHIDA, Gou KAWAKAMI, Kazuma KAWAHARA, Takashi KAWASHIMO, Hiroaki SHIMODA