Patents by Inventor Katsuaki Akama

Katsuaki Akama 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).

  • Patent number: 9753617
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a memory; and a processor coupled to the memory, wherein the processor executes a process includes, detecting flick operation in a text area where an input character string is displayed, determining a direction of the detected flick operation, selecting, when the flick operation is performed in a predetermined direction, characters the number of which is according to a length of the flick operation from the character string located at a starting position of the flick operation, storing the selected characters in a finger recording buffer, obtaining, when the flick operation is performed in a direction reverse to the predetermined direction, the number of characters according to the length of the flick operation from the finger recording buffer, and outputting the obtained characters to the starting position of the flick operation in the text area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 28, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2017
    Assignee: FUJITSU LIMITED
    Inventors: Masakazu Murata, Katsuaki Akama
  • Publication number: 20160342807
    Abstract: A processor of a mobile terminal refers to an app table that stores a reference flag on a per-app basis, the flag indicating whether the operation-unlock app screen is to be displayed in the foreground window of a display. Furthermore, the processor acquires from the app table the flag that corresponds to the current app in response to a lighting-off command. Moreover, the processor determines whether the operation-unlock app screen is to be displayed in the foreground window instead of the current app screen on the basis of the acquired flag. On the basis of the result of the determination, the processor controls the changing of a screen in the foreground window.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 8, 2016
    Publication date: November 24, 2016
    Applicant: FUJITSU LIMITED
    Inventors: Shinya KIMURA, Katsuaki AKAMA
  • Patent number: 9448989
    Abstract: A terminal device includes: a memory that stores a candidate group including a plurality of conversion word candidates for an input character; and a processor that, if a display rank of any candidate in the candidate group is changed, determines whether the changed display rank is included in a predetermined range of display ranks and, if the changed display rank is included in the predetermined range of display ranks, lets a communication unit transmit the candidate group including the changed display rank to another terminal device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2016
    Assignee: FUJITSU LIMITED
    Inventor: Katsuaki Akama
  • Patent number: 9445268
    Abstract: A processor of a mobile terminal refers to an app table that stores a reference flag on a per-app basis, the flag indicating whether the operation-unlock app screen is to be displayed in the foreground window of a display. Furthermore, the processor acquires from the app table the flag that corresponds to the current app in response to a lighting-off command. Moreover, the processor determines whether the operation-unlock app screen is to be displayed in the foreground window instead of the current app screen on the basis of the acquired flag. On the basis of the result of the determination, the processor controls the changing of a screen in the foreground window.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 10, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2016
    Assignee: FUJITSU LIMITED
    Inventors: Shinya Kimura, Katsuaki Akama
  • Patent number: 9367225
    Abstract: A mobile terminal device displays at least one category on a predetermined display unit upon reception of copy operation or cut operation with respect to display information which is to be displayed on the predetermined display unit. The mobile terminal device stores the display information which is subjected to the copy operation or the cut operation in the memory, while associating the display information with a category selected out of the at least one category displayed on the predetermined display unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2016
    Assignee: FUJITSU LIMITED
    Inventors: Misa Kumazawa, Katsuaki Akama
  • Patent number: 9285918
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus including a processor, a touch panel, and a display, wherein the processor moves a part or all of a display screen by a predetermined vector and displays the part or all of the display screen on the display when a touch on the touch panel is detected, determines whether or not there are touches that follow the movement of the part or all of the display screen before and after the movement when a touch on the touch panel is detected after the movement, and detects the touches that follow the movement of the part or all of the display screen to be of a user operation, and does not detect touches that do not follow the movement of the part or all of the display screen.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 15, 2016
    Assignee: FUJITSU LIMITED
    Inventors: Katsue Nakano, Katsuaki Akama
  • Patent number: 9207805
    Abstract: A computer-readable recording medium stores a correction processing program causes a computer including a touch panel and a temperature sensor to execute a process. The process includes determining whether a temperature measured by the temperature sensor is lower than a predetermined threshold when a first event completing contact with the touch panel is detected, waiting for a second event starting contact with the touch panel and a third event moving a contact position with the touch panel for a predetermined period of time when it is determined that the measured temperature is lower than the predetermined threshold, and discarding the first event and the second event and notifying an application of the third event, when the second event and the third event are detected during the predetermined waiting period of time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 8, 2015
    Assignee: FUJITSU LIMITED
    Inventors: Shinya Kimura, Katsuaki Akama
  • Patent number: 9190027
    Abstract: When a French character is selected while an English character string candidate is presented, a mobile terminal presents English and French character string candidates by using an English/French mixed candidate dictionary. Furthermore, when a French character is selected while English and French character string candidates are presented by using the English/French mixed candidate dictionary, the mobile terminal presents a French character string candidate by using a French candidate dictionary. Moreover, when a character other than French is selected while a French character string candidate is presented by using the French candidate dictionary, the mobile terminal presents an English character string candidate by using an English candidate dictionary.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 23, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 17, 2015
    Assignee: FUJITSU LIMITED
    Inventors: Nao Horiguchi, Ena Watanabe, Masashi Tanimura, Kota Ariyama, Takeshi Ueno, Katsuaki Akama
  • Patent number: 9189103
    Abstract: The terminal device includes a touch panel that accepts a touch entry including a first touch on a first key corresponding to a first position and a second touch on a second key corresponding to a second position that is different from the first position, and a processor that detects the first touch and the second touch, determines elapsed time from the first touch to the second touch when detecting the second touch after detecting the first touch, and decides that the second touch is a touch to the first key when the elapsed time is less than a threshold.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 11, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 17, 2015
    Assignee: FUJITSU LIMITED
    Inventors: Kyoko Kamata, Katsuaki Akama
  • Patent number: 9170842
    Abstract: In an information processing terminal, a second screen activation monitoring unit that has received a focus OFF notification sends a domain switch request notification to a domain control unit, and the domain control unit that has received the notification sends a domain switch notification to a first OS. Then, the first OS sends a focus ON notification to a first screen activation monitoring unit and further sends the focus OFF notification to a first application. A resource is thereby released by the first application that is implemented to release an acquired resource upon receiving the focus OFF notification.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 27, 2015
    Assignees: NTT DOCOMO, INC., FUJITSU LIMITED
    Inventors: Tomohiro Nakagawa, Maki Ohata, Kazuhisa Sekine, Ken Ohta, Masahiro Fukuyori, Tetsuya Shioda, Takahiro Ito, Katsuaki Akama
  • Patent number: 9160691
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a receiving unit that receives messages, and a control unit that sends an editing message indicating that a reply message responding to a received message received by the receiving unit is being edited, to a sending source of the received message.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 5, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 13, 2015
    Assignee: FUJITSU LIMITED
    Inventors: Katsuaki Akama, Takeshi Matsuda, Shinichi Takeda, Kyouta Sakai, Atsushi Nagasawa, Jun'ichi Kosaka
  • Publication number: 20150089420
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a memory; and a processor coupled to the memory, wherein the processor executes a process includes, detecting flick operation in a text area where an input character string is displayed, determining a direction of the detected flick operation, selecting, when the flick operation is performed in a predetermined direction, characters the number of which is according to a length of the flick operation from the character string located at a starting position of the flick operation, storing the selected characters in a finger recording buffer, obtaining, when the flick operation is performed in a direction reverse to the predetermined direction, the number of characters according to the length of the flick operation from the finger recording buffer, and outputting the obtained characters to the starting position of the flick operation in the text area.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 28, 2014
    Publication date: March 26, 2015
    Inventors: MASAKAZU MURATA, Katsuaki AKAMA
  • Publication number: 20150058806
    Abstract: An electronic device includes a memory, and a processor coupled to the memory, configured to cause a display to display a menu, determine whether or not a menu item selected from among menu items included in the menu defines that the menu continues to be displayed when the menu item is selected, maintain a state in which the menu is displayed when the processor determines that the selected menu item defines that the menu continues to be displayed, and deletes the displayed menu when the processor determines that the selected menu item defines that the menu does not continue to be displayed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 7, 2014
    Publication date: February 26, 2015
    Inventors: Ryuuta TSUMURA, Katsuaki AKAMA
  • Patent number: 8938360
    Abstract: A guidance apparatus for guiding to a predetermined orientation includes a detection section configured to detect a contact of an object via a contact surface; a measurement section configured to measure an orientation of the guidance apparatus; a calculation section configured to calculate a direction of the predetermined orientation relative to the orientation measured by the measurement section; and a vibration section configured to generate vibration if the contact of the object is detected by the detection section either within an area including the direction, or within another area other than the area including the direction, among a plurality of areas partitioning the contact surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 10, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 20, 2015
    Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
    Inventors: Hideyuki Kato, Katsuaki Akama
  • Patent number: 8896741
    Abstract: A photographing device to photograph an object includes a displaying unit to display an image acquired from the object, an image recording unit to record the image, an enlarged image generating unit to extract a portion or whole of the image displayed on the displaying unit to generate an enlarged image from the image, and a display control unit to display the enlarged image instead of the image on the displaying unit or in an overlapped manner with the image before capturing the image into the image recording unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 19, 2010
    Date of Patent: November 25, 2014
    Assignees: Fujitsu Limited, Fujitsu Frontech Limited
    Inventors: Miwa Akagi, Atsushi Miura, Katsuaki Akama, Yukio Takayashiki, Takashi Wakabayashi, Mikihiko Yamamoto, Shoichi Sato
  • Publication number: 20140313147
    Abstract: A display device includes a display unit, an input device, and a processor. The display unit includes a screen. The input device accepts an input from a user. The processor assigns a part of the input device to a detection area which detects a request for a change in a display position of an image on the screen. The processor detects the input from the detection area. When the input from the detection area is detected when a first image is displayed on the screen, the processor displays on the screen a second image obtained by moving the display position of the first image so that a target area may approach the detection area. Here, the first image includes the target area as an area selectable by the user as a process target.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 9, 2014
    Publication date: October 23, 2014
    Applicant: FUJITSU LIMITED
    Inventors: Hideaki Joe, RYUUTA TSUMURA, Katsuaki AKAMA
  • Publication number: 20140304634
    Abstract: A mobile terminal device displays at least one category on a predetermined display unit upon reception of copy operation or cut operation with respect to display information which is to be displayed on the predetermined display unit. The mobile terminal device stores the display information which is subjected to the copy operation or the cut operation in the memory, while associating the display information with a category selected out of the at least one category displayed on the predetermined display unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 28, 2014
    Publication date: October 9, 2014
    Applicant: FUJITSU LIMITED
    Inventors: Misa KUMAZAWA, Katsuaki AKAMA
  • Publication number: 20140300573
    Abstract: A computer-readable recording medium stores a correction processing program causes a computer including a touch panel and a temperature sensor to execute a process. The process includes determining whether a temperature measured by the temperature sensor is lower than a predetermined threshold when a first event completing contact with the touch panel is detected, waiting for a second event starting contact with the touch panel and a third event moving a contact position with the touch panel for a predetermined period of time when it is determined that the measured temperature is lower than the predetermined threshold, and discarding the first event and the second event and notifying an application of the third event, when the second event and the third event are detected during the predetermined waiting period of time.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 28, 2014
    Publication date: October 9, 2014
    Applicant: FUJITSU LIMITED
    Inventors: Shinya Kimura, Katsuaki AKAMA
  • Publication number: 20140297184
    Abstract: A guidance apparatus for guiding to a predetermined orientation includes a detection section configured to detect a contact of an object via a contact surface; a measurement section configured to measure an orientation of the guidance apparatus; a calculation section configured to calculate a direction of the predetermined orientation relative to the orientation measured by the measurement section; and a vibration section configured to generate vibration if the contact of the object is detected by the detection section either within an area including the direction, or within another area other than the area including the direction, among a plurality of areas partitioning the contact surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 10, 2014
    Publication date: October 2, 2014
    Applicant: Fujitsu Limited
    Inventors: Hideyuki KATO, Katsuaki AKAMA
  • Publication number: 20140292727
    Abstract: The terminal device includes a touch panel that accepts a touch entry including a first touch on a first key corresponding to a first position and a second touch on a second key corresponding to a second position that is different from the first position, and a processor that detects the first touch and the second touch, determines elapsed time from the first touch to the second touch when detecting the second touch after detecting the first touch, and decides that the second touch is a touch to the first key when the elapsed time is less than a threshold.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 11, 2014
    Publication date: October 2, 2014
    Applicant: FUJITSU LIMITED
    Inventors: Kyoko KAMATA, Katsuaki AKAMA