Patents by Inventor Hirofumi Kanai

Hirofumi Kanai 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: 8762740
    Abstract: An information processing system has a power supply section which detects a predetermined potential applied to a USB terminal and supplying the potential as a source potential, an information detection section which detects the predetermined information supplied to the USB terminal, and a processing section which executes, subsequent to the detection of the predetermined potential, the encoding process or the decoding process in accordance with at least the operating information supplied from the operation key arranged on the body and in accordance with the predetermined information supplied to the USB terminal after detection of the predetermined information. The recording and reproducing operation can be performed with the operating key on the body with power supplied only from the USB terminal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2012
    Date of Patent: June 24, 2014
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventor: Hirofumi Kanai
  • Patent number: 8745424
    Abstract: An information processing system has a power supply section which detects a predetermined potential applied to a USB terminal and supplying the potential as a source potential, an information detection section which detects the predetermined information supplied to the USB terminal, and a processing section which executes, subsequent to the detection of the predetermined potential, the encoding process or the decoding process in accordance with at least the operating information supplied from the operation key arranged on the body and in accordance with the predetermined information supplied to the USB terminal after detection of the predetermined information. The recording and reproducing operation can be performed with the operating key on the body with power supplied only from the USB terminal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 9, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 3, 2014
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventor: Hirofumi Kanai
  • Publication number: 20140148216
    Abstract: Disclosed is a cordless telephone set capable of suppressing power consumption during power failures to lengthen the time for a call. A cordless telephone (1) receives power supply from a handset (3) placed on a charging section (26) of a base unit (2), during power failures. In order to suppress current consumption of a secondary battery (BT) of the handset (3), the base unit (2) instructs a base unit radio section (21) to be switched to a transmission power-saving mode in which transmission power of the base unit radio section (21) is reduced down to a level at which no communication error occurs, according to radio wave information transmitted from the handset (3) and indicates the received signal strength of a radio signal from the base unit radio section (21) of the base unit (2), received by a handset radio section (39) of the handset (3).
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 29, 2014
    Publication date: May 29, 2014
    Applicant: PANASONIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hirofumi KANAI, Mitsuru KAWAMURA, Kenji KUROSU
  • Patent number: 8666384
    Abstract: Disclosed is a cordless telephone set capable of suppressing power consumption during power failures to lengthen the time for a call. A cordless telephone (1) receives power supply from a handset (3) placed on a charging section (26) of a base unit (2), during power failures. In order to suppress current consumption of a secondary battery (BT) of the handset (3), the base unit (2) instructs a base unit radio section (21) to be switched to a transmission power-saving mode in which transmission power of the base unit radio section (21) is reduced down to a level at which no communication error occurs, according to radio wave information transmitted from the handset (3) and indicates the received signal strength of a radio signal from the base unit radio section (21) of the base unit (2), received by a handset radio section (39) of the handset (3).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 2010
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2014
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Hirofumi Kanai, Mitsuru Kawamura, Kenji Kurosu
  • Patent number: 8438407
    Abstract: An information processing system has a power supply section which detects a predetermined potential applied to a USB terminal and supplying the potential as a source potential, an information detection section which detects the predetermined information supplied to the USB terminal, and a processing section which executes, subsequent to the detection of the predetermined potential, the encoding process or the decoding process in accordance with at least the operating information supplied from the operation key arranged on the body and in accordance with the predetermined information supplied to the USB terminal after detection of the predetermined information. The recording and reproducing operation can be performed with the operating key on the body with power supplied only from the USB terminal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2009
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2013
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventor: Hirofumi Kanai
  • Patent number: 8375222
    Abstract: An information processing system has a power supply section which detects a predetermined potential applied to a USB terminal and supplying the potential as a source potential, an information detection section which detects the predetermined information supplied to the USB terminal, and a processing section which executes, subsequent to the detection of the predetermined potential, the encryption process or the decryption process in accordance with at least the operating information supplied from the operation key arranged on the body and in accordance with the predetermined information supplied to the USB terminal after detection of the predetermined information. The recording and reproducing operation can be performed with the operating key on the body with power supplied only from the USB terminal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2009
    Date of Patent: February 12, 2013
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventor: Hirofumi Kanai
  • Publication number: 20120129512
    Abstract: Disclosed is a cordless telephone set capable of suppressing power consumption during power failures to lengthen the time for a call. A cordless telephone (1) receives power supply from a handset (3) placed on a charging section (26) of a base unit (2), during power failures. In order to suppress current consumption of a secondary battery (BT) of the handset (3), the base unit (2) instructs a base unit radio section (21) to be switched to a transmission power-saving mode in which transmission power of the base unit radio section (21) is reduced down to a level at which no communication error occurs, according to radio wave information transmitted from the handset (3) and indicates the received signal strength of a radio signal from the base unit radio section (21) of the base unit (2), received by a handset radio section (39) of the handset (3).
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 5, 2010
    Publication date: May 24, 2012
    Applicant: PANASONIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hirofumi Kanai, Mitsuru Kawamura, Kenji Kurosu
  • Publication number: 20090319698
    Abstract: An information processing system has a power supply section which detects a predetermined potential applied to a USB terminal and supplying the potential as a source potential, an information detection section which detects the predetermined information supplied to the USB terminal, and a processing section which executes, subsequent to the detection of the predetermined potential, the encryption process or the decryption process in accordance with at least the operating information supplied from the operation key arranged on the body and in accordance with the predetermined information supplied to the USB terminal after detection of the predetermined information. The recording and reproducing operation can be performed with the operating key on the body with power supplied only from the USB terminal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 28, 2009
    Publication date: December 24, 2009
    Inventor: Hirofumi KANAI
  • Publication number: 20090319803
    Abstract: An information processing system has a power supply section which detects a predetermined potential applied to a USB terminal and supplying the potential as a source potential, an information detection section which detects the predetermined information supplied to the USB terminal, and a processing section which executes, subsequent to the detection of the predetermined potential, the encryption process or the decryption process in accordance with at least the operating information supplied from the operation key arranged on the body and in accordance with the predetermined information supplied to the USB terminal after detection of the predetermined information. The recording and reproducing operation can be performed with the operating key on the body with power supplied only from the USB terminal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 28, 2009
    Publication date: December 24, 2009
    Inventor: Hirofumi KANAI
  • Patent number: 7603567
    Abstract: An information processing system has a power supply section which detects a predetermined potential applied to a USB terminal and supplying the potential as a source potential, an information detection section which detects the predetermined information supplied to the USB terminal, and a processing section which executes, subsequent to the detection of the predetermined potential, the encryption process or the decryption process in accordance with at least the operating information supplied from the operation key arranged on the body and in accordance with the predetermined information supplied to the USB terminal after detection of the predetermined information. The recording and reproducing operation can be performed with the operating key on the body with power supplied only from the USB terminal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 18, 2004
    Date of Patent: October 13, 2009
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventor: Hirofumi Kanai
  • Publication number: 20050172139
    Abstract: An information processing system has a power supply section which detects a predetermined potential applied to a USB terminal and supplying the potential as a source potential, an information detection section which detects the predetermined information supplied to the USB terminal, and a processing section which executes, subsequent to the detection of the predetermined potential, the encryption process or the decryption process in accordance with at least the operating information supplied from the operation key arranged on the body and in accordance with the predetermined information supplied to the USB terminal after detection of the predetermined information. The recording and reproducing operation can be performed with the operating key on the body with power supplied only from the USB terminal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 18, 2004
    Publication date: August 4, 2005
    Inventor: Hirofumi Kanai
  • Patent number: 6738944
    Abstract: Time series progressing signal data and error correcting data for the data are recorded on a non-volatile memory card 25, and the recorded time series progressing signal data is reproduced after having been error-corrected with the error correcting data. During reproduction, if there is time series progressing signal data uncorrectable with the error correcting data, the time series progressing signal data is reproduced with an uncorrectable data error portion being contained therein, or the uncorrectable data error portion is skipped or muted and an error-free portion following the uncorrectable data error portion is reproduced. Thus, it is possible to reproduce and output the desired file data from the first data to the final data. Accordingly, it is possible to solve the problem that when there appears time series progressing signal data uncorrectable with error correcting data, it becomes impossible to reproduce time series progressing signal data which appears subsequently to the point in time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2000
    Date of Patent: May 18, 2004
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventor: Hirofumi Kanai
  • Patent number: 6467016
    Abstract: A control means 24A reads an unrecorded area of a recording medium 25 in advance, and stores the read unrecorded area in a stack of a RAM 11. The unrecorded area is stored in the stack of the RAM 11 by being pushed onto the bottom of a stack pointer. When new data is recorded on the recording medium 25, recording is executed in order from the top of the stack pointer. Accordingly, information which continuously progresses in a time series manner can be recorded on the recording medium 25 without lack of the information which continuously progresses, and it is possible to reduce the time required to calculate and display the remaining recording time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2000
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2002
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventor: Hirofumi Kanai
  • Patent number: 5790338
    Abstract: A library apparatus has a recording and reproducing unit and a storing rack having a number of shelves each adapted to store a recording medium and a carry robot is moved between shelves of the storing rack or between the recording and reproducing unit and a shelf of the storing rack to load/unload a target recording medium to/from a shelf or the recording and reproducing unit. A photosensor is mounted to the tip of a hand of the carry robot. The carry robot is moved to the target shelf in two-step control. Namely, a robot controller calculates the position of the target shelf and moves the robot to the calculated position in a coarse control.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 1996
    Date of Patent: August 4, 1998
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Hirofumi Kanai, Kenji Toki
  • Patent number: 5343450
    Abstract: A timer operation management apparatus for managing the playback and recording of multiple video tape cassettes comprising cassette information storage capabilities for storing the presence/absence of cassette, the presence/absence of a safety lug, and the like; timer information capabilities capable of storing cassette designation information, start and stop time designations, record and play time designations, etc.; and wherein the cassette designation information includes both individual cassette designation information and all cassette designation information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 1992
    Date of Patent: August 30, 1994
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Keiji Hamoda, Jun Yoshikawa, Takeo Yamada, Isamu Odane, Masahiro Ito, Yoshimasa Noudan, Hideo Kunii, Hirofumi Kanai, Masashi Yasuzato