Patents by Inventor Hiroyuki Akiya
Hiroyuki Akiya 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: 20240087571Abstract: To take security into account and increase user friendliness, an information processing device includes: an input unit to which information is input; an extracting unit extracting predetermined words from the information input to the input unit; a classifying unit classifying the words extracted by the extracting unit into first words and second words; and a converting unit converting the first words by a first conversion method and converting the second words by a second conversion method, the second conversion method being different from the first conversion method.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 22, 2023Publication date: March 14, 2024Applicant: NIKON CORPORATIONInventors: Hideo HOSHUYAMA, Hiroyuki AKIYA, Kazuya UMEYAMA, Keiichi NITTA, Hiroki UWAI, Masakazu SEKIGUCHI
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Publication number: 20190392835Abstract: To take security into account and increase user friendliness, an information processing device includes: an input unit to which information is input; an extracting unit extracting predetermined words from the information input to the input unit; a classifying unit classifying the words extracted by the extracting unit into first words and second words; and a converting unit converting the first words by a first conversion method and converting the second words by a second conversion method, the second conversion method being different from the first conversion method.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 4, 2019Publication date: December 26, 2019Applicant: NIKON CORPORATIONInventors: Hideo HOSHUYAMA, Hiroyuki AKIYA, Kazuya UMEYAMA, Keiichi NITTA, Hiroki UWAI, Masakazu SEKIGUCHI
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Publication number: 20170193994Abstract: To take security into account and increase user friendliness, an information processing device includes: an input unit to which information is input; an extracting unit extracting predetermined words from the information input to the input unit; a classifying unit classifying the words extracted by the extracting unit into first words and second words; and a converting unit converting the first words by a first conversion method and converting the second words by a second conversion method, the second conversion method being different from the first conversion method.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 17, 2017Publication date: July 6, 2017Applicant: NIKON CORPORATIONInventors: Hideo HOSHUYAMA, Hiroyuki AKIYA, Kazuya UMEYAMA, Keiichi NITTA, Hiroki UWAI, Masakazu SEKIGUCHI
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Patent number: 9626151Abstract: To take security into account and increase user friendliness, an information processing device includes: an input unit to which information is input; an extracting unit extracting predetermined words from the information input to the input unit; a classifying unit classifying the words extracted by the extracting unit into first words and second words; and a converting unit converting the first words by a first conversion method and converting the second words by a second conversion method, the second conversion method being different from the first conversion method.Type: GrantFiled: February 3, 2015Date of Patent: April 18, 2017Assignee: NIKON CORPORATIONInventors: Hideo Hoshuyama, Hiroyuki Akiya, Kazuya Umeyama, Keiichi Nitta, Hiroki Uwai, Masakazu Sekiguchi
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Publication number: 20150145770Abstract: To take security into account and increase user friendliness, an information processing device includes: an input unit to which information is input; an extracting unit extracting predetermined words from the information input to the input unit; a classifying unit classifying the words extracted by the extracting unit into first words and second words; and a converting unit converting the first words by a first conversion method and converting the second words by a second conversion method, the second conversion method being different from the first conversion method.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 3, 2015Publication date: May 28, 2015Applicant: NIKON CORPORATIONInventors: Hideo HOSHUYAMA, Hiroyuki AKIYA, Kazuya UMEYAMA, Keiichi NITTA, Hiroki UWAI, Masakazu SEKIGUCHI
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Patent number: 9013399Abstract: To take security into account and increase user friendliness, an information processing device includes: an input unit to which information is input; an extracting unit extracting predetermined words from the information input to the input unit; a classifying unit classifying the words extracted by the extracting unit into first words and second words; and a converting unit converting the first words by a first conversion method and converting the second words by a second conversion method, the second conversion method being different from the first conversion method.Type: GrantFiled: February 4, 2011Date of Patent: April 21, 2015Assignee: Nikon CorporationInventors: Hideo Hoshuyama, Hiroyuki Akiya, Kazuya Umeyama, Keiichi Nitta, Hiroki Uwai, Masakazu Sekiguchi
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Patent number: 8810597Abstract: An image display device includes: an image display unit that displays a list of images each including information related to a position of photography; a selection unit that selects at least one image from among the images; a photography position information acquisition unit that acquires information related to the position of photography; a specification unit that specifies a map server based on the information related to the position of photography; a requesting unit that transmits to the specified map server the information related to the position of photography, and that requests the map server to transmit map data for a range that includes the position of photography; a reception unit that receives the map data transmitted from the map server; and a display control unit that displays a map based on the received map data, and displays information specifying the position of photography upon the map.Type: GrantFiled: February 1, 2013Date of Patent: August 19, 2014Assignee: Nikon CorporationInventors: Hiroyuki Akiya, Akihiko Hamamura
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Publication number: 20140115536Abstract: A user interface which is easy-to-understand and easy-to-use for the user is provided in displaying an image by a displaying program including a reading step which reads a target image to be displayed, a decision step which decides a content of a user interface for accepting various settings for the target image to be displayed on the displaying apparatus based on the target image, and a displaying step which displays the user interface on the displaying apparatus based on the content being decided in the decision step.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 1, 2012Publication date: April 24, 2014Applicant: NIKON CORPORATIONInventors: Hiroyuki Akiya, Naotaka Yamashita, Kensuke Kanamaru, Takafumi Sekiya
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Patent number: 8411114Abstract: The image display device includes: a storage unit that stores a plurality of templates for image arrangement a setting unit that sets a number of arrangement subject images; an image selection unit that selects the arrangement subject images from among photographic images; a decision unit that makes a decision as to whether or not the orientations of the selected arrangement subject images are portrait format or landscape format; a template selection unit that selects a subject template from among the plurality of templates stored in the storage unit, on the basis of the number of images to be arranged and the decision result by the decision unit; a creation unit that creates an image for display by arranging the arrangement subject images in the image arrangement regions within the selected subject template; and a display control unit that displays the created image upon a display device.Type: GrantFiled: March 26, 2008Date of Patent: April 2, 2013Assignee: Nikon CorporationInventor: Hiroyuki Akiya
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Publication number: 20120299824Abstract: To take security into account and increase user friendliness, an information processing device includes: an input unit to which information is input; an extracting unit extracting predetermined words from the information input to the input unit; a classifying unit classifying the words extracted by the extracting unit into first words and second words; and a converting unit converting the first words by a first conversion method and converting the second words by a second conversion method, the second conversion method being different from the first conversion method.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 4, 2011Publication date: November 29, 2012Applicant: NIKON CORPORATIONInventors: Hideo Hoshuyama, Hiroyuki Akiya, Kazuya Umeyama, Keiichi Nitta, Hiroki Uwai, Masakazu Sekiguchi
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Publication number: 20110193975Abstract: An image inputting apparatus includes: an input unit that inputs an original image file including at least an image data region in which image data is stored and an appended information region; a decision unit that decides whether or not falsification of the original image file is prohibited, based upon the appended information; a file modification unit that modifies the original image file to create a new image file in which the appended information region is expanded; and a store control unit that disallows the file modification unit to create the new image file and stores the original image file just as it is if the decision unit has decided that falsification of the inputted original image file is prohibited, and that makes the file modification unit create the new image file and stores the new image file if the decision unit has decided that falsification of the inputted original image file is not prohibited.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 15, 2011Publication date: August 11, 2011Applicant: Nikon CorporationInventors: Nobuhiro Hayashi, Hiromi Kuwata, Hiroyuki Akiya, Shutaro Teramoto, Kazuhira Jinnouchi
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Publication number: 20110187741Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes: an input unit that inputs an image as an input image, the image being recorded in correlation with information related to ground point of photography; an image selection unit that selects, as selected images, a plurality of images from among the input images input by the input section; a region extraction unit that extracts a map region on the basis of a number of the selected images included in a predetermined region upon the map, the predetermined region including the ground points of the selected images selected by the image selection unit; and a display unit that displays the map region extracted by the region extraction unit with photographic ground point signs, the photographic ground point manifesting the ground point of the selected image.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 27, 2010Publication date: August 4, 2011Applicant: NIKON CORPORATIONInventors: Hiroyuki AKIYA, Shutaro TERAMOTO, Naoki SEKIGUCHI
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Publication number: 20100164992Abstract: The image display device includes: a storage unit that stores a plurality of templates for image arrangementa setting unit that sets a number of arrangement subject images; an image selection unit that selects the arrangement subject images from among photographic images; a decision unit that makes a decision as to whether or not the orientations of the selected arrangement subject images are portrait format or landscape format; a template selection unit that selects a subject template from among the plurality of templates stored in the storage unit, on the basis of the number of images to be arranged and the decision result by the decision unit; a creation unit that creates an image for display by arranging the arrangement subject images in the image arrangement regions within the selected subject template; and a display control unit that displays the created image upon a display device.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 26, 2008Publication date: July 1, 2010Applicant: Nikon CorporationInventor: Hiroyuki Akiya
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Publication number: 20100070927Abstract: An image display device includes: an image display unit that displays a list of images each including information related to a position of photography; a selection unit that selects at least one image from among the images; a photography position information acquisition unit that acquires information related to the position of photography; a specification unit that specifies a map server based on the information related to the position of photography; a requesting unit that transmits to the specified map server the information related to the position of photography, and that requests the map server to transmit map data for a range that includes the position of photography; a reception unit that receives the map data transmitted from the map server; and a display control unit that displays a map based on the received map data, and displays information specifying the position of photography upon the map.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 28, 2009Publication date: March 18, 2010Applicant: NIKON CORPORATIONInventors: Hiroyuki Akiya, Akihiko Hamamura
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Patent number: 7545958Abstract: A system for providing advice on photographing is constructed under the circumstance where a user side personal computer 1 and a server side personal computer 2 are connected via a network 3. Photographed image data are transferred to the server side personal computer 2 from the user side personal computer 1. The server side personal computer 2 analyzes the received image data. The server side personal computer 2 prepares an advice related to a photographing method based on the results of analysis and transfers it to the user side personal computer 1.Type: GrantFiled: June 20, 2002Date of Patent: June 9, 2009Assignee: Nikon CorporationInventors: Akira Ohmura, Hiroyuki Akiya
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Publication number: 20090066809Abstract: An image inputting apparatus includes: an input unit that inputs an original image file including at least an image data region in which image data is stored and an appended information region; a decision unit that decides whether or not falsification of the original image file is prohibited, based upon the appended information; a file modification unit that modifies the original image file to create a new image file in which the appended information region is expanded; and a store control unit that disallows the file modification unit to create the new image file and stores the original image file just as it is if the decision unit has decided that falsification of the inputted original image file is prohibited, and that makes the file modification unit create the new image file and stores the new image file if the decision unit has decided that falsification of the inputted original image file is not prohibited.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 31, 2008Publication date: March 12, 2009Applicant: NIKON CORPORATIONInventors: Nobuhiro Hayashi, Hiromi Kuwata, Hiroyuki Akiya, Shutaro Teramoto, Kazuhira Jinnouchi
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Publication number: 20080166631Abstract: A flat organic electrolyte secondary battery includes a negative electrode, a positive electrode, an organic electrolyte, a separator, a sealing plate, and a positive electrode can gasket. The negative electrode includes an oxide capable of reversibly absorbing and desorbing lithium ions as a negative electrode active material. The sealing plate is in contact with the negative electrode and serves as a negative electrode terminal. The gasket is interposed between the positive electrode can and the sealing plate. The gasket is composed of tetrafluoroethylene-perfluoroalkyl vinyl ether copolymer resin having a heat deformation temperature of 70° C. or more at a load of 0.45 MPa and a heat deformation temperature of 60° C. or less at a load of 1.82 MPa.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 20, 2008Publication date: July 10, 2008Inventors: Tadayoshi TAKAHASHI, Hiroyuki AKIYA, Akira KAKINUMA, Kanji KAWAKAMI, Tuyoshi YANAGIMOTO
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Publication number: 20040208475Abstract: A system for providing advice on photographing is constructed under the circumstance where a user side personal computer 1 and a server side personal computer 2 are connected via a network 3. Photographed image data are transferred to the server side personal computer 2 from the user side personal computer 1. The server side personal computer 2 analyzes the received image data. The server side personal computer 2 prepares an advice related to a photographing method based on the results of analysis and transfers it to the user side personal computer 1.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 19, 2003Publication date: October 21, 2004Inventors: Akira Ohmura, Hiroyuki Akiya, Setsu Mitsuhashi
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Publication number: 20030162088Abstract: A coin type battery having a structure that contributes to improved discharge capacity and prevent deposition of lithium metal is provided. A positive electrode plate (7) and a negative electrode plate (8) are folded at their connecting pieces and coiled around into a flat shape to construct an electrode plate group (1) such that layer faces of the positive electrode plate (7) and layer faces of the negative electrode plate (8) are alternately layered upon one another with a separator (9) interposed therebetween, and the electrode plate group is accommodated in a battery case made of a cap case (4) having an open end and a sealing case (5) for sealing this open end. An insulating member is provided to a connecting piece of the positive electrode plate (7) that is to be located at the center when the electrode plates are coiled around, on a face opposite one end of the negative electrode plate (8).Type: ApplicationFiled: March 11, 2003Publication date: August 28, 2003Inventors: Makoto Nakanishi, Koshi Takamura, Hiroyuki Akiya, Nobuharu Koshiba