Patents by Inventor Hirokatsu Akiyama

Hirokatsu Akiyama 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: 8780227
    Abstract: An image pick-up device having an image pick-up condition adjuster that instructs an image pick-up condition optimizer to optimizes an image pick-up condition relative to an object included in a pick-up candidate image corresponding to pick-up candidate image object feature information and an indicator that causes a display section to display at least one item of personal information associated with the object feature information when the pick-up candidate image includes the image of the object which represents feature matching with or a similarity to the feature represented by the object feature information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 21, 2008
    Date of Patent: July 15, 2014
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Hirokatsu Akiyama
  • Publication number: 20100103286
    Abstract: If a plurality of objects exist, an image pick-up device of this invention more easily identifies an object that a user desires and optimizes an image pick-up condition.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 21, 2008
    Publication date: April 29, 2010
    Inventor: Hirokatsu Akiyama
  • Patent number: 5184907
    Abstract: A portable word processor transports a printing sheet along a straight path without flexing or bending it such that its output can be printed by a printer head even on an inflexible sheet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 1991
    Date of Patent: February 9, 1993
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Akira Hamada, Yasuji Obuchi, Hirokatsu Akiyama
  • Patent number: 5095448
    Abstract: A data displaying apparatus including a storing device for storing one or more data, a displaying device for displaying one or more data stored in the storing device on a screen and a processor, wherein the processor calculates a sum of the maximum lengths to the left and right of a predetermined position within each data which can be displayed on the screen by left scrolling and right scrolling from the predetermined position to determine the maximum display data, also calculates the position and the ratio in the lateral direction of display data displayed on the screen with respect to the maximum display data, displays the calculated position and ratio on the screen in a graphic form, and also displays the display data on the screen while justifying it at the above-mentioned predetermined position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 17, 1990
    Date of Patent: March 10, 1992
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Yasuji Obuchi, Akira Hamada, Hideo Miyoshi, Hirokatsu Akiyama
  • Patent number: 5002408
    Abstract: An apparatus for printing characters and ruled lines which includes an input device for inputting character data and lateral and longitudinal line data, a printing device for printing characters and ruled lines every page on prescribed paper, and a control device for judging whether a longitudinal line exists or not in each of the lines just before and after the boundary between two pages and giving any one of the following instructions to the printing device when the existence of a lateral line is recognized on the boundary; (i) to print a lateral line on the bottom of the foot line of the previous page when the longitudinal line exists on the last line before the boundary but not on the first line after the boundary; (ii) to print a lateral line on the upside of the first line of the following page when the longitudinal line exists on the first line after the boundary but not on the first line before the boundary; and (iii) to print a lateral line on the bottom of the foot line of the previous page and the
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 1989
    Date of Patent: March 26, 1991
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Akira Hamada, Yasuji Obuchi, Hideo Miyoshi, Hirokatsu Akiyama
  • Patent number: 4992959
    Abstract: A word processor with capability of printing characters in rotated orientations as well as in the normal upright orientation is so programmed that characters appearing inside a specified reference area on its display device can be printed not only in a rotated orientation but also at a new position which is symmetric from its original position such that a character arrangement, for example, for describing a seating arrangement as seen in one direction can be automatically converted into another character arrangement corresponding to the same seating arrangement but as seen in another direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 1989
    Date of Patent: February 12, 1991
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Akira Hamada, Yasuji Obuchi, Hirokatsu Akiyama, Yasuhisa Nakamura
  • Patent number: 4976182
    Abstract: A musical score display device for a music score processor is formed into a rectangular platelike form so as to be detachably mounted on the processor. The device includes a cable for connecting the display device with the processor. The musical score display device may include an LCD provided with two touch sensors. By pressing the sensors, the next page or previous page of music score is displayed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 14, 1988
    Date of Patent: December 11, 1990
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Yasuji Obuchi, Akira Hamada, Hirokatsu Akiyama, Yasuhisa Nakamura