Patents by Inventor Hironari Nishino
Hironari Nishino 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).
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Publication number: 20240126370Abstract: The electronic apparatus includes a processor, a memory, a signal generation circuit and a vibration generator. The processor executes a program. The memory stores the program. The signal generation circuit generates a beep signal for generating a beep sound. The vibration generator generates the vibrations on the basis of the beep signal.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 8, 2023Publication date: April 18, 2024Applicant: Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. Ltd.Inventors: Hironari Nishino, Xinmei Yang, Hidehisa Mori, Thixuanmai Tran
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Publication number: 20230370768Abstract: A vibration isolator is a vibration isolator for supporting a speaker box to a chassis of an electronic apparatus and includes a main body having a bar shape, and an attachment piece having a plate shape, the attachment piece including a hole portion through which a screw thread to fix the vibration isolator to the speaker box is passed through, the attachment piece being provided to protrude from the main body. The main body includes a core and a rubber material covering a surface of the core, and the attachment piece is made of the rubber material.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 24, 2023Publication date: November 16, 2023Applicant: LENOVO (SINGAPORE) PTE. LTD.Inventors: Kosei Kimura, Takumi Imai, Hironari Nishino, Yoshiyuki Shibayama
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Publication number: 20200274905Abstract: A conference system includes: an electronic apparatus configured to output shared information; and a terminal apparatus, wherein the electronic apparatus includes: a sound wave output unit configured to output a sound wave; and an output processing unit configured to convert apparatus identification information for identifying the electronic apparatus into the sound wave, and output the sound wave from the sound wave output unit, and wherein the terminal apparatus includes: a sound collection unit configured to collect the sound wave output from the sound wave output unit; and a connection processing unit configured to extract the apparatus identification information from a sound signal of the sound wave collected by the sound collection unit, and connect the terminal apparatus to the electronic apparatus by wireless communication based on the extracted apparatus identification information.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 9, 2019Publication date: August 27, 2020Applicant: LENOVO (SINGAPORE) PTE. LTD.Inventors: Hironari Nishino, Derek Linville Maynard, Takumi Imai
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Patent number: 9407230Abstract: An apparatus is provided with a device storing machine readable code and a processor executing the machine readable code. The machine readable code includes sound setting code and audio processing code. The sound setting code detects use of a microphone and sets sound characteristics that are suitable for conversation in response to detecting the use of the microphone. The audio processing code processes sound on the basis of the sound characteristics set by the sound setting code.Type: GrantFiled: January 10, 2012Date of Patent: August 2, 2016Assignee: Lenovo (Singapore) PTE. LTD.Inventors: Shinichi Kikuchi, Hironari Nishino, Yasushi Tsukamoto
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Publication number: 20120185245Abstract: An apparatus is provided with a device storing machine readable code and a processor executing the machine readable code. The machine readable code includes sound setting code and audio processing code. The sound setting code detects use of a microphone and sets sound characteristics that are suitable for conversation in response to detecting the use of the microphone. The audio processing code processes sound on the basis of the sound characteristics set by the sound setting code.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 10, 2012Publication date: July 19, 2012Applicant: LENOVO (SINGAPORE) PTE, LTD.Inventors: Shinichi Kikuchi, Hironari Nishino, Yasushi Tsukamoto
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Patent number: 8174547Abstract: A tablet PC capable of providing continuous utilization of a sound signal collected from a microphone without requiring any user intervention when a use mode thereof has been changed from a PC use mode to a tablet use mode is disclosed. The tablet PC includes a set of microphones to form a microphone array. The tablet PC is able to operate in a sound emphasis mode wherein sound signals collected from the microphones are processed while forming an emphasis space, and to operate in a non-processing mode wherein the sound signals are processed without forming the emphasis space. When a user manipulates a chassis orientation of the tablet PC from a PC use mode to a tablet use mode, the tablet PC operates to process the emphasis space so that the sound signals collected by the microphones can be utilized in the tablet use mode.Type: GrantFiled: August 10, 2009Date of Patent: May 8, 2012Assignee: Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. Ltd.Inventors: Masaharu Yoneda, Hironari Nishino, Hidetoshi Mori
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Publication number: 20100066665Abstract: A tablet PC capable of providing continuous utilization of a sound signal collected from a microphone without requiring any user intervention when a use mode thereof has been changed from a PC use mode to a tablet use mode is disclosed. The tablet PC includes a set of microphones to form a microphone array. The tablet PC is able to operate in a sound emphasis mode wherein sound signals collected from the microphones are processed while forming an emphasis space, and to operate in a non-processing mode wherein the sound signals are processed without forming the emphasis space. When a user manipulates a chassis orientation of the tablet PC from a PC use mode to a tablet use mode, the tablet PC operates to process the emphasis space so that the sound signals collected by the microphones can be utilized in the tablet use mode.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 10, 2009Publication date: March 18, 2010Inventors: Masaharu Yoneda, Hironari Nishino, Hidetoshi Mori
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Patent number: 6986067Abstract: The present invention provides a method, apparatus an device for reducing power loss by lowering an operating frequency of a power supply device in a standby state such as soft-off state, suspend state, or a state in which a line is not connected. In one aspect of the present invention, an AC adaptor connectable to a main body of an apparatus through a power line, comprising a rectifying and smoothing unit, a switching unit, and an operating frequency supplying unit, is provided for.Type: GrantFiled: February 13, 2002Date of Patent: January 10, 2006Assignee: Lenovo (Singapore) PTE LTDInventors: Shigefumi Odaohhara, Hironari Nishino, Hideaki Nakanishi
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Publication number: 20020190579Abstract: The present invention provides a method, apparatus an device for reducing power loss by lowering an operating frequency of a power supply device in a standby state such as soft-off state, suspend state, or a state in which a line is not connected. In one aspect of the present invention, an AC adaptor connectable to a main body of an apparatus through a power line, comprising a rectifying and smoothing unit, a switching unit, and an operating frequency supplying unit, is provided for.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 13, 2002Publication date: December 19, 2002Applicant: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Shigefumi Odaohhara, Hironari Nishino, Hideaki Nakanishi
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Patent number: 5805150Abstract: A synchronous signal separation circuit is disclosed which separates and fetches a synchronous signal from a video signal to which the synchronous signal has been added. The synchronous signal separation circuit includes an amplifier for amplifying a voltage of the video signal to output an amplified signal having an amplified voltage which is within a predetermined dynamic range. A voltage generator outputs a variable offset voltage to the amplifier for shifting a reference level of the amplified voltage to a predetermined level. A synchronous signal fetch means which, by comparing the amplified video signal with a threshold voltage in which the variable offset voltage has been adjusted based on the degree of amplification of the amplifier, fetches only the synchronous signal from the video signal.Type: GrantFiled: September 22, 1995Date of Patent: September 8, 1998Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Hironari Nishino, Hirokazu Nishimura, Masayuki Sohda
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Patent number: 5479073Abstract: To generate a dot clock for a liquid crystal display device from a horizontal sync signal with reduced skew, a phase locked loop (PLL) is divided into three functional parts. The first part generates a particular frequency by supplying voltage from a latch type DAC (digital/analog converter) to a VCO (voltage controller oscillator). A horizontal sync signal is estimated from the dot clock signal that is finally generated and the output value of the DAC is increased or decreased in accordance with the difference between this estimated horizontal sync signal and the actual horizontal sync signal. This increase or decrease correction is made at, for example, the vertical sync timing. The second part achieves synchronization. A signal corresponding to the phase error between the actual horizontal sync signal and the dot clock signal is added to the signal from the DAC to control the phase of the dot clock.Type: GrantFiled: September 30, 1994Date of Patent: December 26, 1995Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Johji Mamiya, Hironari Nishino, Kohnji Ishii