Patents by Inventor Katsuhiko Kawasaki
Katsuhiko Kawasaki 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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Patent number: 8983149Abstract: An information processing apparatus for selecting images used in an album indicating a group of a plurality of images includes a person setting unit configured to set a person appearing in an image included in the album, an image evaluation unit configured to evaluate an image based on a composition of the image, a count unit configured to count a number of times in which the person set by the person setting unit appears in a plurality of images, and a selection unit configured to select images used in the album based on evaluation made by the image evaluation unit, and a count value obtained by the count unit.Type: GrantFiled: October 11, 2012Date of Patent: March 17, 2015Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Katsuhiko Kawasaki, Shigeki Mori
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Publication number: 20140118068Abstract: An amplification output control device includes: a determination unit that determines whether or not a gain of a power amplifier varies based on a monitor value of input power from a driver amplifier to the power amplifier, and, when determining that the gain varies, outputs a monitor value of output power of the power amplifier to a driver control unit to cause the driver control unit to execute control of a bias voltage of the driver amplifier; and a control unit that determines whether or not the gain varies based on the monitor value of the output power of the power amplifier when determining that the gain does not vary based on the monitor value of the input power to the power amplifier, and, when determining that the gain varies, controls the bias voltage of the power amplifier.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 11, 2013Publication date: May 1, 2014Applicant: FUJITSU LIMITEDInventors: Katsuhiko KAWASAKI, Mitsuhiko MANPO, Shigeki TAKAHASHI
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Patent number: 7812819Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a first display control unit configured to display information on a display screen, a detection unit configured to detect the operation direction and an operation amount of a direction inputting operation, a scroll control unit configured to scroll the information displayed on the display screen in the operation direction detected by the detection unit, and a second display control unit configured to control the display of information so that the higher the operation amount detected by the detection unit, the wider a display area becomes in the operation direction detected by the detection unit.Type: GrantFiled: May 4, 2007Date of Patent: October 12, 2010Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Katsuhiko Kawasaki, Kenichiro Nakagawa
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Patent number: 7702546Abstract: An article storage apparatus which enables categories to be subsequently assigned to storage sections or categories given to storage sections to be changed according to the progress of the user's storing operation or the user's desire. A plurality of storage shelves are provided to store articles. A RFID reader reads out a category assigned to an article to be stored in each of the storage shelves. A controller sets a category to be assigned to each storage shelf according to the category assigned to the article stored in the storage shelf.Type: GrantFiled: January 19, 2005Date of Patent: April 20, 2010Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Katsuhiko Kawasaki, Yasuhiro Komori, Tsuyoshi Yagisawa
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Publication number: 20080079691Abstract: An information processing apparatus including a switch configured to detect a first operation and a second operation and a display screen includes a first display control unit configured to display information on the display screen according to a first setting, a second display control unit configured to, when the first operation is detected by the switch, display information on the display screen according to a second setting that is set when the second operation is detected by the switch, and a third display control unit configured to shift from the first setting to the second setting when the second operation is detected after the first operation is detected and before the detected first operation is canceled, and to display information on the display screen according to the first setting when it is detected that the first operation is canceled while the second operation is not detected.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 14, 2007Publication date: April 3, 2008Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Hideo Kuboyama, Katsuhiko Kawasaki
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Patent number: 7330868Abstract: A command for incrementing a numeric value is inputted by pressing a “2” key. A command for decrementing the numeric value is inputted by depressing an “8” key. At least one of a process for incrementing the numeric value by the amount of increment according to the length of time during which the “2” key is held down and a process for decrementing the numeric value by the amount of decrement according to the length of time during which the “8” key is held down is performed to determine a value to be input.Type: GrantFiled: October 8, 2003Date of Patent: February 12, 2008Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Katsuhiko Kawasaki, Tsuyoshi Yagisawa, Makoto Hirota
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Publication number: 20070290994Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a first display control unit configured to display information on a display screen, a detection unit configured to detect the operation direction and an operation amount of a direction inputting operation, a scroll control unit configured to scroll the information displayed on the display screen in the operation direction detected by the detection unit, and a second display control unit configured to control the display of information so that the higher the operation amount detected by the detection unit, the wider a display area becomes in the operation direction detected by the detection unit.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 4, 2007Publication date: December 20, 2007Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Katsuhiko Kawasaki, Kenichiro Nakagawa
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Patent number: 7147901Abstract: The object of the present invention is to obtain a double-side ink jet recording sheet at least one side of which has gloss surface and in which scratches caused by rubbing of sheets hardly occur. According to the present invention, there is obtained a double-side ink jet recording sheet comprising a support provided with at least one ink-receiving layer on each of both sides, wherein at least one side has a gloss surface having a 75° specular glossiness of not less than 40% and the ink-receiving layer on the side opposite to the side having gloss surface contains organic particles having an average particle diameter of 2–40 ?m. The outermost layer of the side having the gloss surface is preferably formed by subjecting to pressure-contact specular finishing by cast-coating method.Type: GrantFiled: October 29, 2002Date of Patent: December 12, 2006Assignee: Mitsubishi Paper Mills LimitedInventors: Kunio Kasamatsu, Katsuhiko Kawasaki, Suguru Kashima
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Publication number: 20060095263Abstract: A character string input apparatus having specifying means for specifying a category of a character, and speech receiving means for receiving speech, wherein a character string is input based upon a specifying input from the specifying means and speech that has been received by the speech receiving means, is provided. Obtaining means obtains a plurality of character strings based-upon a series of specifying inputs by the specifying means. Generating means which, on the basis of the plurality of character strings obtained by the obtaining means, generates speech recognition grammar with respect to speech received by the speech receiving means following the series of specifying inputs. Speech recognition means performs speech recognition, using the speech recognition grammar generated by the generating means, with respect to the speech received by the speech receiving means following the series of specifying inputs.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 7, 2005Publication date: May 4, 2006Inventors: Katsuhiko Kawasaki, Makoto Hirota
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Publication number: 20050182622Abstract: A state of a system, such as a printer or wireless device set, is monitored and sound information corresponding to the state of the system is output. An output mode for output sound information can be set by a user to a mode (e.g., silent mode) in which the sound information output manner is controlled by the user. When the sound information corresponding to the operation state of the system is acquired, if the output mode for the sound information is set to the silent mode, the acquired sound information is silenced, and the silenced sound information is output.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 29, 2004Publication date: August 18, 2005Applicant: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Katsuhiko Kawasaki, Hiroki Yamamoto, Kenichiro Nakagawa, Tsuyoshi Yagisawa
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Publication number: 20050158151Abstract: An article storage apparatus which enables categories to be subsequently assigned to storage sections or categories given to storage sections to be changed according to the progress of the user's storing operation or the user's desire. A plurality of storage shelves are provided to store articles. A RFID reader reads out a category assigned to an article to be stored in each of the storage shelves. A controller sets a category to be assigned to each storage shelf according to the category assigned to the article stored in the storage shelf.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 19, 2005Publication date: July 21, 2005Inventors: Katsuhiko Kawasaki, Yasuhiro Komori, Tsuyoshi Yagisawa
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Patent number: 6728224Abstract: A portable mobile terminal or a transmission unit, applicable to multiplex radiocommunication systems including a CDMA, comprises a modulating section for modulating a transmission signal by using a spectrum spread system, an amplifying section for amplifying the modulated transmission signal to a needed transmission power, a plurality of variable gain units provided between the modulating section and the amplifying section to be connected in series to each other to provide an ability of changing a gain of the transmission signal modulated by the modulating section, and respectively having gain-to-phase characteristics set to cancel a phase variation of the transmission signal to the entire gain variation, and a control section for controlling a gain of each of the variable gain units. The portable mobile terminal and the transmission unit can control the transmission power in multistage throughout a wide range, and can minimize the phase variation of the transmission signal at that time.Type: GrantFiled: August 11, 1999Date of Patent: April 27, 2004Assignee: Fujitsu LimitedInventors: Shinji Kakizaki, Kunitoshi Yonekura, Katsuhiko Kawasaki, Youji Nakata
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Publication number: 20040078416Abstract: A command for incrementing a numeric value is inputted by pressing a “2” key. A command for decrementing the numeric value is inputted by depressing an “8” key. At least one of a process for incrementing the numeric value by the amount of increment according to the length of time during which the “2” key is held down and a process for decrementing the numeric value by the amount of decrement according to the length of time during which the “8” key is held down is performed to determine a value to be input.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 8, 2003Publication date: April 22, 2004Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Katsuhiko Kawasaki, Tsuyoshi Yagisawa, Makoto Hirota
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Publication number: 20040058145Abstract: The object of the present invention is to obtain a double-side ink jet recording sheet at least one side of which has gloss surface and in which scratches caused by rubbing of sheets hardly occur. According to the present invention, there is obtained a double-side ink jet recording sheet comprising a support provided with at least one ink-receiving layer on each of both sides, wherein at least one side has a gloss surface having a 75° specular glossiness of not less than 40% and the ink-receiving layer on the side opposite to the side having gloss surface contains organic particles having an average particle diameter of 2-40 &mgr;m. The outermost layer of the side having the gloss surface is preferably formed by subjecting to pressure-contact specular finishing by cast-coating method.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 25, 2003Publication date: March 25, 2004Inventors: Kunio Kasamatsu, Katsuhiko Kawasaki, Suguru Kashima
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Publication number: 20030158735Abstract: With this invention, an information processing apparatus which has an audio data playback function and text-to-speech synthesis function allows the user to input an instruction by a fewer operations and provides a fast-forward/fast-reverse function optimal to speech synthesis. During speech synthesis, an instruction input by a button operation is supplied to a speech synthesis unit. When playback of audio data is underway, but speech synthesis is inactive, an instruction input by a button operation is supplied to an audio data playback unit. In a fast-forward mode, an abstract is read aloud or head parts of sentences are read aloud. In a fast-reverse mode, head parts of sentences are read aloud. Also, given tones are generated in correspondence with skipped parts.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 11, 2003Publication date: August 21, 2003Applicant: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Masayuki Yamada, Katsuhiko Kawasaki, Toshiaki Fukada, Yasuo Okutani
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Patent number: 6338891Abstract: The present invention provides an ink jet recording sheet excellent in ink absorption properties, surface gloss, transparency and color of recorded images. The ink jet recording sheet has a gloss like photographic papers and has a high transparency, and can be used as OHP films. In this ink jet recording sheet, an ink receiving layer containing a pseudo-boehmite alumina hydrate and a binder is provided on a support, the ratio of a pore volume of the pores having a radius of 13 nm or more and less than 50 nm to a pore volume of the pores having a radius of 3 nm or more and less than 13 nm is 0.3-0.9 or the pore volume of the pores having a radius of 13 nm or more and less than 50 nm is 0.1-0.5 ml/g. Furthermore, the ink receiving layer has a surface pH of 4.0-5.4.Type: GrantFiled: July 21, 1998Date of Patent: January 15, 2002Assignee: Mitsubishi Paper Mills LimitedInventors: Katsuhiko Kawasaki, Tetsuya Uto, Mitsuhiro Ikeda
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Publication number: 20010051511Abstract: The invention relates to transmitting power control equipment for controlling the level of a transmission wave at the transmitting end of a radio transmission system and transmitting equipment incorporating this transmitting power control equipment. In the radio transmission system to which the invention is applied, the gains of amplifiers disposed individually in a pre-stage and a subsequent stage of means for executing frequency conversion in a transmission wave generation process are kept at suitable values with respect to a level at which the transmission wave is to be transmitted, and are properly updated. Therefore, transmission quality can be highly maintained over a broad dynamic range of transmitting power to be set, in comparison with prior art equipment.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 20, 2000Publication date: December 13, 2001Applicant: FUJITSU LIMITEDInventors: Shinji Kakizaki, Shigeki Takahashi, Katsuhiko Kawasaki
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Patent number: 6076061Abstract: A viewpoint of a user is detected in a viewpoint detecting process, and how long the detected viewpoint has stayed in an area is determined. The obtained viewpoint and its trace is displayed on a display unit. In a recognition information controlling process, the relationship between the viewpoint (in an area) and/or its movement, and recognition information (words, sentences, grammar, etc.) is obtained as weight P(). When the user pronounces a word (or sentence), the speech is inputted and A/D converted via a speech input unit. Next, in a speech recognition process, a speech recognition probability PS() is obtained. Finally, speech recognition is performed on the basis of a product of the weight P() and the speech recognition probability PS(). Accordingly, classes of the recognition information are controlled in accordance with the movement of the user's viewpoint, thereby improving the speech recognition probability and the speed of recognition.Type: GrantFiled: September 8, 1995Date of Patent: June 13, 2000Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Katsuhiko Kawasaki, Yasunori Ohora, Yasuhiro Komori
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Patent number: 6023481Abstract: A module includes an element having a temperature response, a Peltier element thermally coupled to the element having the temperature response, and a capacitance component electrically coupled to the Peltier element.Type: GrantFiled: January 7, 1998Date of Patent: February 8, 2000Assignee: Fujitsu LimitedInventors: Masaki Kuribayashi, Tetsuo Ishizuka, Katsuhiko Kawasaki, Shuuichi Matsuura
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Patent number: 5220629Abstract: A method and apparatus for reading out a feature parameter and a driver sound source stored in a VCV (vowel-consonant-vowel) speech segment file, sequentially connecting the readout parameter and the readout sound source information in accordance with a predetermined rule, and supplying connected data to a speech synthesizer, thereby generating a speech output, includes a memory for storing the average power of each vowel, and a power controller for controlling the apparatus to normalize a VCV speech segment so that powers at both ends of each VCV segment coincide with the average power of each vowel.Type: GrantFiled: November 5, 1990Date of Patent: June 15, 1993Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Tetsuo Kosaka, Atsushi Sakurai, Junichi Tamura, Yasunori Ohora, Takeshi Fujita, Takashi Aso, Katsuhiko Kawasaki