Patents by Inventor Hitoshi Akiyama

Hitoshi 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).

  • Publication number: 20240137607
    Abstract: A technique for transmitting or receiving an advanced digital broadcasting service more preferably is provided. One or a plurality of receivers detect a 2K broadcasting service that transmits a 2K broadcasting program by performing a frequency scan for a received broadcast wave and create a service list of the 2K broadcasting service by using information related to the detected 2K broadcasting service, the one or plurality of receivers detect, after the detection of the 2K broadcasting service, a 4K broadcasting service that transmits a 4K broadcasting program by performing a frequency scan for the broadcast wave and create a service list of the 4K broadcasting service by using information related to the detected 4K broadcasting service, and a memory stores a service list obtained by composing the created service list of the 2K broadcasting service and the created service list of the 4K broadcasting service.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 6, 2022
    Publication date: April 25, 2024
    Inventors: Nobuo MASUOKA, Takuya SHIMIZU, Yasunobu HASHIMOTO, Kazuhiko YOSHIZAWA, Hitoshi AKIYAMA
  • Patent number: 11954247
    Abstract: Provided regarding a technique of an HMD is a technique capable of realizing high functionality and weight reduction in a well-balanced manner and improving usability for a user. An HMD of an embodiment is a head mounted display apparatus, includes: a head attached part that is attached to a user's head and has a display screen for displaying an image; and a body trunk attached part communicating with the head attached part and attached to a portion of the user's body trunk, measures a relatively positional relationship between the head attached part and the body trunk attached part and grasps states including a position and a direction of the head attached part states including a position and a direction of the body trunk attached part based on the positional relationship.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: MAXELL, LTD.
    Inventors: Yasunobu Hashimoto, Kazuhiko Yoshizawa, Mayumi Nakade, Hitoshi Akiyama
  • Patent number: 11949940
    Abstract: A technique of transmitting or receiving an advanced digital broadcasting service more suitably is provided. As the means, a broadcast receiving apparatus for receiving a broadcasting wave, a 2K broadcasting service and a 4K broadcasting service being transmitted by the broadcasting wave, includes: a receiver configured to receive the broadcasting wave; a display; and a controller. The controller is configured to identify whether simultaneous broadcasting of a 2K broadcasting service and a 4K broadcasting service in the broadcasting wave is executed or not on a basis of control information, the control information being contained in the broadcasting wave received by the receiver.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: MAXELL, LTD.
    Inventors: Kazuhiko Yoshizawa, Yasunobu Hashimoto, Takuya Shimizu, Hitoshi Akiyama
  • Publication number: 20240104883
    Abstract: A display apparatus includes a display device and a processor, and the display device displays at least the virtual object among the individual real object cut out from the external real body as an object and the virtual object to be arranged in three dimensions, the object for which the user wants to view is determined as the target object, the object to be interfered when the user views the target object is detected as the interfering object, and when there is an interfering object, the display mode of at least one of the target object and the interfering object is changed so as to eliminate or reduce the interfering caused by the interfering object for viewing the target object.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 10, 2020
    Publication date: March 28, 2024
    Inventors: Yasunobu HASHIMOTO, Yoshinori OKADA, Kazuhiko YOSHIZAWA, Hitoshi AKIYAMA, Mayumi NAKADE
  • Publication number: 20240103621
    Abstract: Provided is a technique in which, in arranging a virtual object with respect to a real space, a user has less trouble, usability is good, and the object is suitably placeable. A head mounted display apparatus (HMD apparatus) according to one embodiment has a function of arranging and displaying the virtual object in a space based on an operation by a user. The HMD apparatus displays, on a display surface, a grid including a plurality of points for supporting an operation of the virtual object, and disposes and displays, according to an operation includes designation of a target virtual object and designation of a first point at an arrangement destination, the target virtual object at the position of the first point.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 6, 2023
    Publication date: March 28, 2024
    Inventors: Yasunobu HASHIMOTO, Hitoshi AKIYAMA, Megumi KURACHI
  • Publication number: 20240088726
    Abstract: A wireless power transfer system includes a wireless terminal apparatus, a wireless power transmitter, and a wireless base station (a wide-area base station and a narrow-area base station). The wireless base station creates schedule information containing allocation of wireless resources regarding the wireless data communication and the wireless power transfer on the basis of grasp of a request of the wireless data communication and a request of the wireless power transfer from the wireless terminal apparatus, and transmits the schedule information to the wireless power transmitter and the wireless terminal apparatus. The wireless power transmitter executes the wireless power transfer to the wireless terminal apparatus in accordance with the schedule information. The wireless terminal apparatus receives the wireless power transfer from the wireless power transmitter in accordance with the schedule information, and executes the wireless data communication via the wireless base station.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 22, 2023
    Publication date: March 14, 2024
    Inventors: Yasuo YAHAGI, Takatoshi SHIROSUGI, Hitoshi AKIYAMA, Osamu KAWAMAE, Manabu KATSUKI
  • Publication number: 20240048805
    Abstract: A display controlling method for a broadcast receiving apparatus allowed to receive IP simultaneous broadcasting of a 4K broadcasting service via a communication transmission line, in which simultaneous broadcasting of the 4K broadcasting service and a 2K broadcasting service is executed by a broadcasting wave, is configured to: receive and demodulate the 4K broadcasting service, and display a broadcasting program of the 4K broadcasting service; and select and execute one display switching process of first and second display switching processes in accordance with priority order in a case where a defect occurs in reception, demodulation, or display of the 4K broadcasting service, the 2K broadcasting service being received and demodulated to display a broadcasting program of the 2K broadcasting service in the first display switching process, the IP simultaneous broadcasting being received and demodulated to display a program of the IP simultaneous broadcasting in the second display switching process.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 20, 2023
    Publication date: February 8, 2024
    Inventors: Yasunobu HASHIMOTO, Kazuhiko YOSHIZAWA, Takuya SHIMIZU, Hitoshi AKIYAMA
  • Patent number: 11893153
    Abstract: Provided is a technique in which, in arranging a virtual object with respect to a real space, a user has less trouble, usability is good, and the object is suitably placeable. A head mounted display apparatus (HMD apparatus) according to one embodiment has a function of arranging and displaying the virtual object in a space based on an operation by a user. The HMD apparatus displays, on a display surface, a grid including a plurality of points for supporting an operation of the virtual object, and disposes and displays, according to an operation includes designation of a target virtual object and designation of a first point at an arrangement destination, the target virtual object at the position of the first point.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 23, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: MAXELL, LTD.
    Inventors: Yasunobu Hashimoto, Hitoshi Akiyama, Megumi Kurachi
  • Publication number: 20240028112
    Abstract: An image display device is for displaying an image including a user in, and comprises: a display processing unit displaying an image within a user's visual field display range; and a processor controlling the entire operation including a display operation on the display processing unit. The processor controls the display processing unit such that, in a state where information is displayed at a low content level within a visual field display range by control of the display processing unit, when an observation point which a user observes closely stays within a prescribed display range for a prescribed period of time, the vicinity of the observation point is displayed as information of a high content level, whereas when the observation point has deviated from the location of said information of the high content level, the vicinity of the observation point is returned to the information display at the low content level.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 8, 2020
    Publication date: January 25, 2024
    Inventors: Yasunobu HASHIMOTO, Yoshinori OKADA, Hitoshi AKIYAMA, Nobuo MASUOKA, Koji KANIWA, Nobuaki KABUTO
  • Publication number: 20240027617
    Abstract: A portable terminal comprises a distance measurement device capable of treasuring a distance of a first distance measurement range and a distance of a second distance measurement range different from the first distance measurement range, and a processor configured to determine a distance to an object based on a result of distance measurement by the distance measurement device and output the result as a distance measurement value. The present invention relates to one of the sustainable development goals which concerns building “Infrastructure, Industrialization, and Innovation”.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 10, 2020
    Publication date: January 25, 2024
    Inventors: Osamu KAWAMAE, Mayumi NAKADE, Hitoshi AKIYAMA
  • Patent number: 11870276
    Abstract: A wireless power transfer system includes a wireless terminal apparatus, a wireless power transmitter, and a wireless base station (a wide-area base station and a narrow-area base station). The wireless base station creates schedule information containing allocation of wireless resources regarding the wireless data communication and the wireless power transfer on the basis of grasp of a request of the wireless data communication and a request of the wireless power transfer from the wireless terminal apparatus, and transmits the schedule information to the wireless power transmitter and the wireless terminal apparatus. The wireless power transmitter executes the wireless power transfer to the wireless terminal apparatus in accordance with the schedule information. The wireless terminal apparatus receives the wireless power transfer from the wireless power transmitter in accordance with the schedule information, and executes the wireless data communication via the wireless base station.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 2, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: MAXELL, LTD.
    Inventors: Yasuo Yahagi, Takatoshi Shirosugi, Hitoshi Akiyama, Osamu Kawamae, Manabu Katsuki
  • Publication number: 20230384831
    Abstract: A mobile terminal device including a camera for imaging the person to be photographed and a flexible and foldable display is provided with a line of sight detection unit for detecting a line of sight of the person to be photographed. Here, when photographing in the state where the mobile terminal device is folded, the mobile terminal device displays a mirror image on the display part on the side of the person to be photographed when it has been identified that the line of sight direction of the person to be photographed detected by the line of sight detection unit is directed to the display part on the side of the person to be photographed, the camera, or at least the mobile terminal device itself.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 21, 2020
    Publication date: November 30, 2023
    Inventors: Hitoshi AKIYAMA, Yoshinori OKADA
  • Patent number: 11831951
    Abstract: A display controlling method for a broadcast receiving apparatus allowed to receive IP simultaneous broadcasting of a 4K broadcasting service via a communication transmission line, in which simultaneous broadcasting of the 4K broadcasting service and a 2K broadcasting service is executed by a broadcasting wave, is configured to: receive and demodulate the 4K broadcasting service, and display a broadcasting program of the 4K broadcasting service; and select and execute one display switching process of first and second display switching processes in accordance with priority order in a case where a defect occurs in reception, demodulation, or display of the 4K broadcasting service, the 2K broadcasting service being received and demodulated to display a broadcasting program of the 2K broadcasting service in the first display switching process, the IP simultaneous broadcasting being received and demodulated to display a program of the IP simultaneous broadcasting in the second display switching process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2023
    Assignee: MAXELL, LTD.
    Inventors: Yasunobu Hashimoto, Kazuhiko Yoshizawa, Takuya Shimizu, Hitoshi Akiyama
  • Publication number: 20230353266
    Abstract: A broadcast receiving apparatus includes: a tuner configured to receive a transmission wave in which identification information is stored in a carrier, the carrier being modulated differently from a data carrier, a frequency band when the transmission wave is transmitted in an air being able to be identified by the identification information; and a controller. The controller is configured to identify a frequency band when the transmission wave is transmitted in the air by using the identification information contained in transmission wave received by the tuner.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 30, 2023
    Publication date: November 2, 2023
    Inventors: Kazuhiko YOSHIZAWA, Yasunobu HASHIMOTO, Takuya SHIMIZU, Hitoshi AKIYAMA
  • Publication number: 20230315199
    Abstract: A video display device comprising; a display; an exercise amount detection sensor configured to detect an exercise amount of a viewer while the viewer is viewing content displayed and output sensor information; a timer that measures a viewing time; and a processor. The processor: acquires the viewing time from the timer; calculates the exercise amount of the viewer based on the sensor information acquired within a predetermined period of viewing time; compares the exercise amount with an exercise facilitation threshold for determining whether to facilitate exercise for the viewer; displays a specific object within a display area of the display when the exercise amount falls below the exercise facilitation threshold; and moves the specific object from an inside of the display area to an outside thereof in accordance with an external coordinate system expressing a position in a real space associated with a two-dimensional coordinate system in the display area.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 9, 2023
    Publication date: October 5, 2023
    Inventors: Mayumi NAKADE, Hitoshi AKIYAMA, Nobutaka OKUYAMA
  • Publication number: 20230309057
    Abstract: A position estimation system uses an information terminal and has an improved position accuracy. To achieve the purpose, this position estimation system is provided with a first information terminal having a function to transmit a wireless signal associated with identification information and a second information terminal having a function to measure a reception intensity of the wireless signal, and is configured in such a way that: the reception intensity of the wireless signal transmitted by the first information terminal is measured by the second information terminal; at least one of the first information terminal and the second information terminal measures a movement distance; and at least one of the first information terminal and the second information terminal estimates a relative positional relationship between the first information terminal and the second information terminal from a change in the reception intensity of the wireless signal with respect to the movement distance.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 31, 2020
    Publication date: September 28, 2023
    Inventors: Yasunobu HASHIMOTO, Hideyuki KUWAJIMA, Nobutaka OKUYAMA, Hitoshi AKIYAMA, Susumu YOSHIDA
  • Patent number: 11742971
    Abstract: A broadcast receiving apparatus includes: a tuner configured to receive a transmission wave in which identification information is stored in a carrier, the carrier being modulated differently from a data carrier, a frequency band when the transmission wave is transmitted in an air being able to be identified by the identification information; and a controller. The controller is configured to identify a frequency band when the transmission wave is transmitted in the air by using the identification information contained in transmission wave received by the tuner.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 13, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2023
    Assignee: MAXELL, LTD.
    Inventors: Kazuhiko Yoshizawa, Yasunobu Hashimoto, Takuya Shimizu, Hitoshi Akiyama
  • Patent number: 11714486
    Abstract: A video display device comprising; a display; an exercise amount detection sensor configured to detect an exercise amount of a viewer while the viewer is viewing content displayed and output sensor information; a timer that measures a viewing time; and a processor. The processor: acquires the viewing time from the timer; calculates the exercise amount of the viewer based on the sensor information acquired within a predetermined period of viewing time; compares the exercise amount with an exercise facilitation threshold for determining whether to facilitate exercise for the viewer; displays a specific object within a display area of the display when the exercise amount falls below the exercise facilitation threshold; and moves the specific object from an inside of the display area to an outside thereof in accordance with an external coordinate system expressing a position in a real space associated with a two-dimensional coordinate system in the display area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2023
    Assignee: MAXELL, LTD.
    Inventors: Mayumi Nakade, Hitoshi Akiyama, Nobutaka Okuyama
  • Publication number: 20230239411
    Abstract: An information processing terminal allowing a user to view a content stored in an external server via contracted communication lines comprises a communication data amount management unit configured to manage an amount of data communicated via a high-speed communication line of the communication lines, and a display control unit configured to execute display control, and in a case where there is a possibility that an amount of data necessary for viewing of the content is about to exceed an amount of data remaining within a contracted amount of data, the communication data amount management unit calculates, as a purchase price, a price to additionally purchase a predetermined amount of data of the high-speed communication line based on a predetermined condition, and the display control unit displays the calculated purchase price.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 14, 2020
    Publication date: July 27, 2023
    Inventors: Hitoshi AKIYAMA, Kazuhiko YOSHIZAWA
  • Publication number: 20230229006
    Abstract: An HMD includes first and second batteries mounted therein, and includes a plurality of power receivers that receive power from the first and second batteries by wireless transmission, a power supply manager that monitors states of the first and second batteries, a communication interface that performs wireless communication with the first and second batteries, and a plurality of limiters that limit the power received by the plurality of power receivers. A controller causes the limiters to limit power, which is supplied to a load, according to a power use state of the load in the device, and the power supply manager acquires information of remaining power storage amounts of the first and second batteries through the communication interface and displays the acquired information on a display. Therefore, since it is possible to supply power required for driving the device while wearing the HMD, the HMD can be continuously used.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 28, 2023
    Publication date: July 20, 2023
    Inventors: Yasuo YAHAGI, Takatoshi SHIROSUGI, Hitoshi AKIYAMA, Osamu KAWAMAE