Patents by Inventor Hiromi Tomii

Hiromi Tomii 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: 20160327922
    Abstract: There has been a desire for proactively adding more detailed embodiments relating to the acquisition and use of biometric information. Therefore, according to a first aspect of the present invention, for example, provided is an electronic device including an input section that inputs biometric information, which is information relating to a living body of a user; and an output section that outputs a limit signal limiting contact with the user to a bidirectional communication device, based on the biometric information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 22, 2016
    Publication date: November 10, 2016
    Applicant: NIKON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masakazu SEKIGUCHI, Motoyuki KUBOI, Toshiaki MAEDA, Kazue MINAGAWA, Hiromi TOMII
  • Publication number: 20150095179
    Abstract: An electronic device includes: an information offering unit that offers information on joint purchase of a commodity to a plurality of candidates; and an adjuster that performs adjustment about the commodity. Alternatively, an electronic device includes: an information obtainer that obtains information on a purchase commodity or a purchase scheduled commodity of a first group; and an information offering unit that offers information on a commodity relevant to the purchase commodity or the purchase scheduled commodity of the first group to a second group, based on the information obtained by the information obtainer, the second group being different from the first group.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 19, 2013
    Publication date: April 2, 2015
    Inventors: Hiromi Tomii, Sayako Yamamoto, Mitsuko Matsumura, Saeko Samejima, Yae Nakamura, Masakazu Sekiguchi
  • Publication number: 20150084984
    Abstract: To improve the usability of an electronic device, the electronic device includes: a first camera provided to a main unit, a second camera provided to the main unit at a different location form the first camera, a first orientation detection sensor configured to detect an orientation of the main unit, and a control unit configured to carry out image capturing by the first and second cameras depending on a detection result of the first orientation detection sensor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 5, 2012
    Publication date: March 26, 2015
    Inventors: Hiromi Tomii, Sayako Yamamoto, Mitsuko Matsumura, Saeko Samejima, Yae Nakamura, Masakazu Sekiguchi
  • Publication number: 20150018023
    Abstract: To acquire information related to contents of word-of-mouth information, an electronic device includes: an input unit that accepts an input of a text from a user; an information acquiring unit that acquires information of the user in relation to the input of the text when allowed to acquire the information by the user; and a transmitting unit that transmits the text and the information of the user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 2, 2012
    Publication date: January 15, 2015
    Inventors: Hiromi Tomii, Sayako Yamamoto, Mitsuko Matsumura, Saeko Samejima, Yae Nakamura, Masakazu Sekiguchi
  • Publication number: 20150018979
    Abstract: In order to acquire suitable information related to an apparatus, an electronic apparatus has a first acquisition unit that acquires usage status of a first apparatus that belongs to a given category, and a second acquisition unit that acquires information about a second apparatus that belongs to the given category and is different from the first apparatus on the basis of the usage status of the first apparatus acquired by the first acquisition unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 6, 2012
    Publication date: January 15, 2015
    Inventors: Hiromi Tomii, Sayako Yamamoto, Mitsuko Matsumura, Saeko Samejima, Yae Nakamura, Masakazu Sekiguchi
  • Publication number: 20130234826
    Abstract: There has been a desire for proactively adding more detailed embodiments relating to the acquisition and use of biometric information. Therefore, according to a first aspect of the present invention, for example, provided is an electronic device including an input section that inputs biometric information, which is information relating to a living body of a user; and an output section that outputs a limit signal limiting contact with the user to a bidirectional communication device, based on the biometric information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 16, 2011
    Publication date: September 12, 2013
    Applicant: NIKON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masakazu Sekiguchi, Motoyuki Kuboi, Toshiaki Maeda, Kazue Minagawa, Hiromi Tomii
  • Patent number: 8477209
    Abstract: An electronic camera comprises an image processing unit that performs image processing using a plurality of adjustment parameters and a parameter setting unit that sets each of the plurality of parameters for the image processing unit according to a single change command.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 2011
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2013
    Assignee: Nikon Corporation
    Inventors: Hiromi Tomii, Kazuhiro Takahashi, Riichi Higaki
  • Publication number: 20110234839
    Abstract: An electronic camera comprises an image processing unit that performs image processing using a plurality of adjustment parameters and a parameter setting unit that sets each of the plurality of parameters for the image processing unit according to a single change command.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 6, 2011
    Publication date: September 29, 2011
    Applicant: NIKON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hiromi Tomii, Kazuhiro Takahashi, Riichi Higaki
  • Publication number: 20090040316
    Abstract: An electronic camera comprises an image processing unit that performs image processing using a plurality of adjustment parameters and a parameter setting unit that sets each of the plurality of parameters for the image processing unit according to a single change command.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 30, 2008
    Publication date: February 12, 2009
    Applicant: NIKON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hiromi Tomii, Kazuhiro Takahashi, Riichi Higaki