Patents by Inventor Izua Kano

Izua Kano 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: 20100115461
    Abstract: [Problem] To make it possible to switch display of plural windows depending on a situation such as a time and a place. [Solution] A mobile communication terminal stores condition data for applications that display a window. Condition data is data describing for applications, an application (namely, a window), an attribute of a location associated with the application, and a frequency at which the application has been executed. The mobile communication terminal, if plural overlapping windows are displayed, determines a window to be displayed on top, using the condition data. For example, the mobile communication terminal, if an attribute of a location of the terminal is “office”, and an application “groupware” is running, displays a window of the application on top.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 25, 2008
    Publication date: May 6, 2010
    Applicant: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Yasushi Onda, Izua Kano, Dai Kamiya, Keiichi Murakami, Eiju Yamada, Kazuhiro Yamada
  • Publication number: 20090209294
    Abstract: This invention provides a mobile base station device which can simplify the setting of internal functions, as well as a portable terminal used in operation of such a mobile base station device. In a mobile base station device 1 and a portable terminal 2, when the portable terminal 2 is physically connected to the mobile base station device 1 by means of a dedicated USB cable 6, one screen information item conforming to the type and browser of the portable terminal 2 is transmitted to the portable terminal 2, and a configuration settings screen for the mobile base station device 1 is displayed in the browser of the portable terminal 2.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 23, 2007
    Publication date: August 20, 2009
    Inventors: Takeshi Natsuno, Izua Kano, Kazuhiro Yamada
  • Publication number: 20090177593
    Abstract: A mobile base station device and billing method, which can provide an incentive for use at a specific position, while securing convenience for users, are provided. In a mobile base station device 10, upon installation by an owner, registered user terminal-specific information transmitted from a network N, and installation position information specifying the installation position, are stored. When there is transmission from a portable terminal 30, judgment is made as to whether the user of the portable terminal 30 is a registered user and as to whether transmission is from within a prescribed area; only when these conditions are satisfied, a communication connection is established at a flat rate. By this means, in the mobile base station device 10, an incentive can be provided to users for use in a specific position. Further, billing adjustments are made for use at other than the specific position, but communication service is not completely forbidden, and user convenience is secured.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 23, 2007
    Publication date: July 9, 2009
    Applicant: NTT DoCoMo, Inc.
    Inventors: Takeshi Natsuno, Izua Kano, Kazuhiro Yamada
  • Publication number: 20090131019
    Abstract: This invention provides a mobile base station device which allows tamper resistance to be adequately secured even when the housing is opened illicitly. In a mobile base station device 1, when a housing 2 is opened illicitly, a user ID or similar is transmitted to a service management server 20, and the user attempting an illicit operation is identified. By registering the identified user on a blacklist, subsequent use of the mobile base station device 1 by this user can be prohibited. Also, in the mobile base station device 1, together with transmission of the user ID, a communication control program 7 is deleted from a communication control module 6, so that the interior of the housing 2 is rendered a “black box”, and modification and illicit use of the communication control program can be deterred. As a result, even when the housing 2 of the mobile base station device 1 is opened illicitly, tamper resistance can be adequately secured.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 23, 2007
    Publication date: May 21, 2009
    Applicant: NTT DoCoMo , Inc.
    Inventors: Takeshi Natsuno, Izua Kano, Kazuhiro Yamada
  • Publication number: 20090125839
    Abstract: A CPU 102, in a state in which multiple windows are being displayed in a display 107, when execution of a program is newly instructed, judges whether or not it is possible to display a window of the program that has been instructed to be executed without overlapping windows that are already being displayed. The CPU 102, when the window to be newly displayed will overlap a window that is already being displayed, minimizes the window with the largest size among the windows that are already being displayed to perform display, and displays the window of the program instructed to be executed in a display 107.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 23, 2008
    Publication date: May 14, 2009
    Applicant: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Izua Kano, Eiju Yamada, Keiichi Murakami, Yasushi Onda, Kazuhiro Yamada, Dai Kamiya
  • Publication number: 20090083627
    Abstract: In an information providing system 100, a virtual three-dimensional space (virtual space) is established by an information management server 40. A user of a mobile communication terminal 50 moves in the virtual space, and browses, posts, and searches message information items by manipulating an avatar representing the user. The information management server 40 manages the message information items and responds to searches requested from mobile communication terminals 50. The information management server 40 specifies an area where the number of message information items relevant to a search word specified by a user of a mobile communication terminal 50 is equal to or greater than a predetermined number. The information management server 40 outputs a guide information item for indicating a direction or route toward the specified area from the position of an avatar.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 2, 2008
    Publication date: March 26, 2009
    Applicant: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Yasushi Onda, Izua Kano, Dai Kamiya, Keiichi Murakami, Eiju Yamada, Kazuhiro Yamada
  • Publication number: 20090031248
    Abstract: An information processing device includes: a receiving unit configured to receive an instruction input by a user; a display control unit configured to control a display unit to display a plurality of windows in a display area of the display unit; and a window control unit configured to control a size or position of a window displayed on the display unit in response to the instruction received, the window control unit being configured to control, if the receiving unit receives an instruction to expand a first window and the expanded first window overlaps a second window, a size or position of the second window in response to a positional relationship between the first window and the second window.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 24, 2008
    Publication date: January 29, 2009
    Applicant: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Izua Kano, Eiju Yamada, Keiichi Murakami, Yasushi Onda, Kazuhiro Yamada, Dai Kamiya
  • Publication number: 20090031243
    Abstract: In a mobile phone 1, in a state in which multiple windows are being displayed in a display 107, when an operation to change the size of any of the windows is performed, whether it is possible to display each window in the display 107 without overlapping after the change is determined. When it is not possible to display each window in the display 107 without overlapping, the mobile phone 1 minimizes, of the windows other than the window whose size was changed, the window with the largest number of size changes. Thus, when the number of windows is large, a window with low priority to the user is minimized.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 23, 2008
    Publication date: January 29, 2009
    Applicant: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Izua Kano, Eiju Yamada, Keiichi Murakami, Yasushi Onda, Kazuhiro Yamada, Dai Kamiya
  • Publication number: 20090029694
    Abstract: A control device comprises a memory and a processor. The memory is configured to store captured image data and alternative image data. The processor is configured to: measure time that has elapsed since establishment of a communication connection between a first communication terminal and a second communication terminal, or since a predetermined point subsequent to the establishment of the communication connection; and select image data to be sent to the first communication terminal from among captured image data or alternative image data, on the basis of the measured elapsed time, to allow the first communication terminal to display an image on the basis of the selected image data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 24, 2008
    Publication date: January 29, 2009
    Applicant: NTT DoCoMo, Inc.
    Inventors: Izua Kano, Eiju Yamada, Keiichi Murakami, Yasushi Onda, Kazuhiro Yamada, Dai Kamiya
  • Publication number: 20080301577
    Abstract: An information processing device according to the present invention stores user attribute data and pieces of application attribute data. The information processing device retrieves the user attribute data (Sa1), retrieves application attribute data of running application programs (Sa3), and determine whether there is application attribute data matching the user attribute data (Sa5). If the determination is affirmative, the information processing device identifies an application program corresponding to the application attribute data, and subsequently identifies a window (subject window) corresponding to the identified application program (Sa6). The information processing device sets priority levels for the subject window and windows overlapping the subject window so that the priority level for the subject window is higher than those of the windows (Sa8), and changes a display order of the subject window and the windows in accordance with the priority levels for the subject window and the windows (Sa9).
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 30, 2008
    Publication date: December 4, 2008
    Applicant: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Yasushi Onda, Izua Kano, Dai Kamiya, Keiichi Murakami, Eiju Yamada, Kazuhiro Yamada
  • Publication number: 20080254813
    Abstract: A control device comprises a first memory, a second memory, and a processor. The first memory is configured to store captured image data and alternative image data. The second memory is configured to store positional data in association with a communication terminal. The processor is configured to: retrieve from the second memory first positional data associated with a first communication terminal and second positional data associated with a second communication terminal; calculate a distance between a first position indicated by the first positional data and a second position indicated by the second positional data; and select image data to be sent to the first communication terminal from among captured image data or alternative image data, on the basis of the calculated distance, to allow the first communication terminal to display an image on the basis of the selected image data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 8, 2008
    Publication date: October 16, 2008
    Applicant: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Izua Kano, Eiju Yamada, Dai Kamiya, Kazuhiro Yamada, Yasushi Onda, Keiichi Murakami
  • Publication number: 20080254828
    Abstract: A control device includes a display control unit that causes one of first and second communication terminals, to display one of a camera image and a substitute image substitutable for the camera image. The camera image or the substitute image being transmitted from the other communication terminals. A transmission unit is provided and transmits a requirement for switching the camera image or the substitute image which is presently displayed on to the other of the camera image and the substitute image. A reception unit receives a response to the requirement transmitted by the transmission unit, and a switching unit determines whether content of the response transmitted by the transmission unit to the requirement satisfies the requirement and causes the display control unit to switch the displayed images if necessary.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 8, 2008
    Publication date: October 16, 2008
    Applicant: NTT DoCoMo, Inc.
    Inventors: Izua Kano, Yasushi Onda, Eiju Yamada, Dai Kamiya, Kazuhiro Yamada, Keiichi Murakami
  • Publication number: 20080252716
    Abstract: A first mobile communication terminal sends position data of an avatar for the terminal and position data of an avatar for a second mobile communication terminal, with which a user of the first terminal wishes to communicate, to a communication control device. The communication control device determines whether a position indicated by each of the two pieces of position data is within a predetermined space. If the communication control device determines that positions indicated by the two pieces of position data are within the predetermined space, the first and second mobile communication terminals start a videophone call using captured images, and otherwise, the mobile communication terminals start a videophone call using avatar images.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 4, 2008
    Publication date: October 16, 2008
    Applicant: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Izua Kano, Kazuhiro Yamada, Eiju Yamada, Yasushi Onda, Keiichi Murakami, Dai Kamiya
  • Publication number: 20080254840
    Abstract: A control device includes: a word storage unit that stores a plurality of words; an obtaining unit that obtains messages which are transmitted/received together with images between first and second communication terminals; a determination unit that determines whether any of the plurality of words stored in the storage unit is identical or similar to any of words included in the messages obtained by the obtaining unit; and a control unit that causes one or each of the first and second communication terminals to display either a camera image or a substitute image which is transmitted from the other of the first and second communication terminals, depending on a determination result of the determination unit, the substitute image being substitutable for the camera image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 8, 2008
    Publication date: October 16, 2008
    Applicant: NTT DoCoMo, Inc.
    Inventors: Izua Kano, Yasushi Onda, Keiichi Murakami, Dai Kamiya, Kazuhiro Yamada, Eiju Yamada
  • Publication number: 20080254829
    Abstract: There is provided a control apparatus comprising: a receiving unit that, from one of a first communications terminal and a second communications terminal, each of the communications terminals being capable of sending and receiving images and messages and of displaying messages and images, receives a notification indicating detection of an outside party who is not a communicant with either of the communications terminals; and a control unit that, when the receiving unit does not receive the notification from the first communications terminal, causes the first communications terminal to display a captured image sent by the second communications terminal, and when the receiving unit receives the notification from the first communications terminal, causes the first communications terminal to display a substitute image for display in place of the captured image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 8, 2008
    Publication date: October 16, 2008
    Applicant: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Izua Kano, Eiju Yamada, Kazuhiro Yamada, Yasushi Onda, Dai Kamiya, Keiichi Murakami
  • Publication number: 20080250001
    Abstract: In an information providing system 100, a virtual three-dimensional space (virtual space) is established. Each of users of mobile communication terminals 50 virtually moves in the virtual space by manipulating an avatar representing the user, and obtains advertisement information through electronic signboards. Each of users of information providing terminals 30 places electronic signboards at appropriate positions in the virtual space, and provides announcement information for the users of the mobile communication terminals 50. An information management server 40 manages the announcement information provided by the information providing terminals 30, and generates links each of which lead from advertisement information to other advertisement information. The information management server 40 determines priorities for such links, based on use of advertisement information by the users of the mobile communication terminals 50.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 2, 2008
    Publication date: October 9, 2008
    Applicant: NTT DoCoMo, INC.
    Inventors: Yasushi Onda, Izua Kano, Dai Kamiya, Keiichi Murakami, Eiju Yamada, Kazuhiro Yamada
  • Publication number: 20080250391
    Abstract: A Java application is started, the started Java application instructs a Flash bridge section 16 to start a Flash file via an application managing section 15, and the Flash bridge section 16 transmits interaction information for causing the Flash file and the Java application to interact with each other while designating an application for the interaction to the application managing section 15.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 1, 2008
    Publication date: October 9, 2008
    Applicant: NTT DoCoMo, Inc.
    Inventors: Izua Kano, Eiju Yamada, Kazuhiro Yamada, Dai Kamiya, Keiichi Murakami, Yasushi Onda, Yusuke Kushida
  • Publication number: 20080242363
    Abstract: A communications terminal comprises a display, a first storage for storing data, a second storage unit that stores a first and a second information set, the first information set including a first communications address and a communications recipient's name, and the second information set includes a second communications address and a communications recipient's name, a first display controller displays a text string expressed by data stored in the first storage unit; and a second display controller that identifies a name from the second storage unit included in the text string being displayed. When the name is associated with the first communications address, a screen prompts communications to the first communications address, or when the name is associated with the second communications address, a screen prompts communications to the second communications address.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 27, 2008
    Publication date: October 2, 2008
    Applicant: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Yasushi Onda, Izua Kano, Dai Kamiya, Keiichi Murakami, Eiju Yamada, Kazuhiro Yamada
  • Publication number: 20080242361
    Abstract: A CPU of mobile a terminal causes, if to-do data is selected on a to-do review screen, a liquid crystal display to display a to-do data confirmation screen of the to-do data. In the to-do data confirmation screen, if the to-do data contains a character string that is an index of a telephone number or an email address in a phonebook data storage area, the character string is linked to the telephone number or the email address.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 26, 2008
    Publication date: October 2, 2008
    Applicant: NTT DoCoMo, Inc.
    Inventors: Yasushi Onda, Izua Kano, Dai Kamiya, Keiichi Murakami, Eiju Yamada, Kazuhiro Yamada