Patents by Inventor Hiroaki SUGIMURA

Hiroaki SUGIMURA 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: 10891021
    Abstract: A selection option information presentation system includes a processor that executes a procedure. The procedure includes: displaying plural items of selection option information on a first display device in states in which a selection operation can be received, and, at a specific timing in a duration in which no selection operation is detected, modifying and displaying a display position of at least one or more items of selection option information set as a display target such that a combination of adjacent items of selection option information within a display region forms a combination in which a display position differs in an up-down direction or a left-right direction, or both; and, when a selection operation of any of the plural items of selection option information displayed on the first display device has been received, displaying the selection option information that received the selection operation on a second display device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 12, 2021
    Assignee: FUJITSU LIMITED
    Inventors: Soichi Nishiyama, Hiroaki Sugimura
  • Patent number: 10860176
    Abstract: An image control method includes: acquiring detection information indicating a gaze region or a position of a user with respect to a display device displaying plural items of selection option information that are subject to a selection operation; determining whether or not the gaze region of the user indicated by the acquired detection information is in a resting state, or whether or not the position of the user indicated by the acquired detection information is within a predetermined range; and by a processor, controlling modification of a display state of items of the selection option information displayed in a specific region of the display device in accordance with a determination result based on the detection information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 8, 2020
    Assignee: FUJITSU LIMITED
    Inventors: Soichi Nishiyama, Hiroaki Sugimura, Ken Fujiki, Hajime Hirozumi
  • Patent number: 10820132
    Abstract: A voice providing method includes obtaining position information from a voice reproducing device, and performing processing, in a case in which a first position of obtained position information and a second position of a virtual talker are in a predetermined relationship, to cause the voice reproducing device to reproduce voice for the virtual talker to have a dialogue with a user with content according to the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 9, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 27, 2020
    Assignees: Yamaha Corporation, Fujitsu Limited
    Inventors: Miho Kyoya, Mitsuki Arita, Ikuro Ohshima, Hiroki Uchida, Hiroaki Sugimura, Yukio Tada
  • Publication number: 20200037098
    Abstract: A voice providing method includes obtaining position information from a voice reproducing device, and performing processing, in a case in which a first position of obtained position information and a second position of a virtual talker are in a predetermined relationship, to cause the voice reproducing device to reproduce voice for the virtual talker to have a dialogue with a user with content according to the user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 9, 2019
    Publication date: January 30, 2020
    Inventors: Miho KYOYA, Mitsuki ARITA, Ikuro OHSHIMA, Hiroki UCHIDA, Hiroaki SUGIMURA, Yukio TADA
  • Patent number: 10372297
    Abstract: An image control method includes referencing a first storage section where selection option information, for which a selection operation is received on a display device, is stored in association with a selection timing, and a second storage section where detection information, detected by a detection device that detects at least one of a state of a area at which the display device is disposed or a state of a user, is stored in association with detection time information; and identifying an item of selection option information stored at the first storage section in association with a timing that corresponds to the time information stored at the second storage section in association with detection information indicating a predetermined state; and effecting control so as to display the identified item of selection option information on the display device using a different display mode from that of other displayed selection option information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 3, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2019
    Assignee: FUJITSU LIMITED
    Inventors: Soichi Nishiyama, Hiroaki Sugimura, Ken Fujiki, Hajime Hirozumi
  • Publication number: 20180039386
    Abstract: An image control method includes: acquiring detection information indicating a gaze region or a position of a user with respect to a display device displaying plural items of selection option information that are subject to a selection operation; determining whether or not the gaze region of the user indicated by the acquired detection information is in a resting state, or whether or not the position of the user indicated by the acquired detection information is within a predetermined range; and by a processor, controlling modification of a display state of items of the selection option information displayed in a specific region of the display device in accordance with a determination result based on the detection information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 27, 2017
    Publication date: February 8, 2018
    Applicant: FUJITSU LIMITED
    Inventors: Soichi Nishiyama, Hiroaki Sugimura, Ken Fujiki, Hajime Hirozumi
  • Publication number: 20170329470
    Abstract: An image control method includes referencing a first storage section where selection option information, for which a selection operation is received on a display device, is stored in association with a selection timing, and a second storage section where detection information, detected by a detection device that detects at least one of a state of a area at which the display device is disposed or a state of a user, is stored in association with detection time information; and identifying an item of selection option information stored at the first storage section in association with a timing that corresponds to the time information stored at the second storage section in association with detection information indicating a predetermined state; and effecting control so as to display the identified item of selection option information on the display device using a different display mode from that of other displayed selection option information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 3, 2017
    Publication date: November 16, 2017
    Applicant: FUJITSU LIMITED
    Inventors: Soichi Nishiyama, Hiroaki Sugimura, Ken Fujiki, Hajime Hirozumi
  • Publication number: 20170115835
    Abstract: A selection option information presentation system includes a processor that executes a procedure. The procedure includes: displaying plural items of selection option information on a first display device in states in which a selection operation can be received, and, at a specific timing in a duration in which no selection operation is detected, modifying and displaying a display position of at least one or more items of selection option information set as a display target such that a combination of adjacent items of selection option information within a display region forms a combination in which a display position differs in an up-down direction or a left-right direction, or both; and, when a selection operation of any of the plural items of selection option information displayed on the first display device has been received, displaying the selection option information that received the selection operation on a second display device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 21, 2016
    Publication date: April 27, 2017
    Applicant: FUJITSU LIMITED
    Inventors: Soichi NISHIYAMA, Hiroaki SUGIMURA
  • Publication number: 20170115836
    Abstract: A selection option information presentation system includes a processor that executes a procedure. The procedure includes: displaying plural items of selection option information on a first display device in states in which a selection operation can be received; and displaying on a second display device plural items of selection option information that received a selection operation such that display sizes of the items of selection option information on the second display device are at least two or more different display sizes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 21, 2016
    Publication date: April 27, 2017
    Applicant: FUJITSU LIMITED
    Inventors: Soichi NISHIYAMA, Hiroaki SUGIMURA