Patents by Inventor Katsuya Miyata
Katsuya Miyata 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: 10240810Abstract: The present invention is intended to provide a general-purpose display device that is able to display on a display unit easily operating information required for assessing a test operation state, and an application program to be executed by the display device. Accordingly, in this display device which displays on the display unit the operating information of an air conditioner in which an outdoor unit provided with an outdoor heat exchanger and an indoor unit provided with an indoor heat exchanger are connected by a refrigerant pipe and a refrigerant is circulated by a compressor, a control unit of the display device controls the display unit so that time information is displayed horizontally and a first operating information display area and a second operating information display area for displaying first operating information and second operating information, respectively, corresponding to the time information are displayed vertically side by side.Type: GrantFiled: January 27, 2014Date of Patent: March 26, 2019Assignee: Hitachi-Johnson Controls Air Conditioning, Inc.Inventors: Emi Saito, Naoya Sugiyama, Katsuya Miyata, Makoto Itoh, Shinya Suenaga, Tatsuya Sugiyama
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Publication number: 20170307246Abstract: In order to determine configuration information of an air conditioner, to display a cause of a malfunction of the air conditioner during a trial operation and maintenance, and to easily check, on the mobile terminal, repair work based on determination results, a maintenance system of the air conditioner includes a display device that displays configuration information, a cause of a malfunction, and a repair work procedure of the air conditioner in which an outdoor device provided with an outdoor heat exchanger and an indoor device provided with an indoor heat exchanger are connected via refrigerant piping and a refrigerant is circulated by a compressor, and the display device includes a control unit that determines a configuration of the outdoor device or the indoor device of the air conditioner, a control unit that determines whether or not a malfunction occurs, and a display unit that displays a repair work procedure.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 7, 2016Publication date: October 26, 2017Inventors: Takatoshi OHARA, Emi SAITO, Toru FUJIHIRA, Naoya SUGIYAMA, Katsuya MIYATA, Toshiyuki NEMOTO, Kouichirou SAKURAI
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Patent number: 9766679Abstract: The present invention pertains to a power monitoring device configured in such a manner as to make it as easy as possible to perform power monitoring, notification and control for customers in coordination with the power utilization rate of a utility grid. The power monitoring device is provided with: a target power setting unit that receives, from outside, information indicating the power utilization rate of a utility grid by time, and, with regard to time periods in which the power utilization rate is greater than a prescribed threshold value, reduces preset target power consumption levels, and sets target power consumption levels by time; and an assessment and control unit that obtains, from outside, the power usage of power-consuming devices, and performs control in order to save power for the power-consuming devices in time periods in which the obtained power usage exceeds the target power consumption level.Type: GrantFiled: April 16, 2012Date of Patent: September 19, 2017Assignee: HITACHI APPLIANCES, INCInventors: Tadayoshi Kosaka, Katsuya Miyata, Hidetoshi Teraoka
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Publication number: 20170010016Abstract: The present invention is intended to provide a general-purpose display device that is able to display on a display unit easily operating information required for assessing a test operation state, and an application program to be executed by the display device. Accordingly, in this display device which displays on the display unit the operating information of an air conditioner in which an outdoor unit provided with an outdoor heat exchanger and an indoor unit provided with an indoor heat exchanger are connected by a refrigerant pipe and a refrigerant is circulated by a compressor, a control unit of the display device controls the display unit so that time information is displayed horizontally and a first operating information display area and a second operating information display area for displaying first operating information and second operating information, respectively, corresponding to the time information are displayed vertically side by side.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 27, 2014Publication date: January 12, 2017Inventors: Emi SAITO, Naoya SUGIYAMA, Katsuya MIYATA, Makoto ITOH, Shinya SUENAGA, Tatsuya SUGIYAMA
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Publication number: 20170010014Abstract: An air conditioner test operation application which allows to input control inputs for test operation of an air conditioner from a mobile terminal. Through input of a prescribed control input to a control input unit of the mobile terminal, model information pertaining to units that belong to a prescribed group to undergo test operation is not displayed on the display unit of the mobile terminal by the controller of the mobile terminal, whereas model information pertaining to the other group is displayed; and through input of a display switching control input to the control input unit of the mobile terminal, the model information pertaining to the other group that was not being displayed is displayed on the display unit of the mobile terminal by the controller of the mobile terminal, whereas the model information pertaining to the one group that was being displayed ceases to be displayed.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 27, 2014Publication date: January 12, 2017Inventors: Katsuya MIYATA, Shinya SUENAGA, Naoya SUGIYAMA, Makoto ITOH, Emi SAITO, Tatsuya SUGIYAMA
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Patent number: 9403496Abstract: Provided is a communication system capable of enhancing convenience for remotely operating a movable-body-mounted apparatus mountable in a movable body such as a vehicle. For example, a communication system includes a movable-body-mounted apparatus including: a movable body information storage part which stores movable body information including a received signal quality of a radio wave used for communication to/from a center server and information on a vehicle; a separation determination part which determines whether or not a user who moves along with the vehicle is separated from the vehicle; and a movable body information notification part which notifies the user of the movable body information stored in the movable body information storage part when the separation determination part determines that the user is separated from the vehicle.Type: GrantFiled: August 10, 2012Date of Patent: August 2, 2016Assignee: HITACHI, LTD.Inventors: Yuichi Kobayashi, Katsuya Miyata, Tetsuo Nakano, Mitsuhiro Kitani, Hirokazu Aoshima, Noboru Kiyama
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Publication number: 20150310756Abstract: A learner's terminal is provided with a time acquiring unit for acquiring time, an input unit capable of carrying out a handwriting input, and answer input history data notifying unit for use in notifying a school server of the time acquired by the time acquiring unit and handwriting input data inputted thereto by the input unit as answer input history data, and the school server is provided with an answer input history data storage unit for storing the answer input history data notified by the learner's terminal and an answer input history data transmitting unit for transmitting the answer input history data stored in the answer input history data storage unit to an instructor's terminal, while the instructor's terminal is provided with an answer screen display unit for displaying a screen at the time of answering in time series based upon the answer input history data transmitted by the answer input history data transmitting unit.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 12, 2012Publication date: October 29, 2015Inventors: Hideki NAKAMURA, Tetsuo NAKANO, Katsuya MIYATA, Yusaku KATSUBE, Masaaki YAMADA
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Publication number: 20150076926Abstract: The present invention pertains to a power monitoring device configured in such a manner as to make it as easy as possible to perform power monitoring, notification and control for customers in coordination with the power utilization rate of a utility grid. The power monitoring device is provided with: a target power setting unit that receives, from outside, information indicating the power utilization rate of a utility grid by time, and, with regard to time periods in which the power utilization rate is greater than a prescribed threshold value, reduces preset target power consumption levels, and sets target power consumption levels by time; and an assessment and control unit that obtains, from outside, the power usage of power-consuming devices, and performs control in order to save power for the power-consuming devices in time periods in which the obtained power usage exceeds the target power consumption level.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 16, 2012Publication date: March 19, 2015Inventors: Tadayoshi Kosaka, Katsuya Miyata, Hidetoshi Teraoka
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Patent number: 8965448Abstract: In a multimode mobile station capable of communicating with a plurality of cellular systems where a current cellular system which the mobile station has acquired and a cellular system which the mobile station tries to access differ, access-failure information is stored at access failure time. The access-failure information includes any one of, or the combination of information on access failure such as access-system type, access time information, access location information, access failure reason, number of access failures, etc. Since an access cellular system is selected on the basis of the stored access-failure information, even when a current cellular system which the mobile station has acquired and a cellular system which the mobile station tries to access differ, it is possible to shorten re-acquisition time and to reduce power consumption.Type: GrantFiled: February 17, 2006Date of Patent: February 24, 2015Assignee: Lenovo Innovations Limited (Hong Kong)Inventor: Katsuya Miyata
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Publication number: 20140172198Abstract: Provided is a communication system capable of enhancing convenience for remotely operating a movable-body-mounted apparatus mountable in a movable body such as a vehicle. For example, a communication system includes a movable-body-mounted apparatus including: a movable body information storage part which stores movable body information including a received signal quality of a radio wave used for communication to/from a center server and information on a vehicle; a separation determination part which determines whether or not a user who moves along with the vehicle is separated from the vehicle; and a movable body information notification part which notifies the user of the movable body information stored in the movable body information storage part when the separation determination part determines that the user is separated from the vehicle.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 10, 2012Publication date: June 19, 2014Inventors: Yuichi Kobayashi, Katsuya Miyata, Tetsuo Nakano, Mitsuhiro Kitani, Hirokazu Aoshima, Noboru Kiyama
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Patent number: 8711845Abstract: The first communication unit 101 performs data communication in a first communication mode specializing in packet communication via a first communication system A. The second communication unit 102 performs data communication in a second communication mode supporting voice communication via a second communication system B. The control unit 109 controls the first communication unit 101 and second communication unit 102. The control unit 109 controls the first communication unit 101 to perform data communication via the first communication system A until a voice communication start instruction is received. The control unit 109 determines whether to perform data communication via the second communication system B based on access control information on the second communication system B in response to the reception of a voice communication start instruction.Type: GrantFiled: April 27, 2011Date of Patent: April 29, 2014Assignee: NEC Casio Mobile Communications, Ltd.Inventor: Katsuya Miyata
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Patent number: 8655364Abstract: When a terminal-status detecting unit detects a predetermined terminal status with communication over a first mobile communication system being enabled by a first mobile communication unit, a control unit causes a second mobile communication system to start a process of acquiring a second mobile communication system to set communication via the second mobile communication system in an enabled status.Type: GrantFiled: February 24, 2011Date of Patent: February 18, 2014Assignee: NEC Casio Mobile Communications, Ltd.Inventors: Mitsuhiro Kitani, Katsuya Miyata
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Patent number: 8615268Abstract: A control unit 19 switches four antennas 111 to 114 at predetermined time intervals, receives signals from an LTE base station 2 using four receiving antennas 111 to 114, and receives signals from a GSM base station 3 using the four antennas 111 to 114. The control unit 19 determines the reception level in a cell 2c of the LTE base station 2 on the basis of signal strengths detected by a received signal detector 14p when signals are received from the LTE base station 2 using the four antennas 111 to 114. In addition, the control unit 19 determines the reception level in a cell 3c of the GSM base station 3 on the basis of four signal strengths detected by the received signal detector 14p when signals are received from the GSM base station 3 using the four antennas 111 to 114.Type: GrantFiled: November 1, 2010Date of Patent: December 24, 2013Assignee: NEC CorporationInventors: Yoshikazu Sugiyama, Katsuya Miyata
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Patent number: 8588868Abstract: A controller of the communication terminal identifies, after power is turned on, whether or not to use a cellular phone communicating unit or a wireless LAN communicating unit based on communication system information stored beforehand in a storing unit. When the identification is complete, the controller initializes the cellular phone communicating unit, and, according to results of the identification, causes the cellular phone communicating unit to enter standby state or sleep state. Next, the controller initializes the wireless LAN communicating unit, and, according to results of the identification, causes the wireless LAN communicating unit to enter standby state or sleep state. When an application which using a wireless communicating unit in sleep state is launched, the controller causes that wireless communicating unit to enter standby state from sleep state.Type: GrantFiled: April 14, 2008Date of Patent: November 19, 2013Assignee: NEC CorporationInventor: Katsuya Miyata
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Patent number: 8515486Abstract: A wireless communication terminal has a first wireless communication unit which performs data communication via a first wireless communication system and a second wireless communication unit which performs voice communication via a second wireless communication system. When an instruction of starting a voice communication is given, a temporal withdrawal process is started to the first wireless communication system, and an acquiring process of the second wireless communication system is started. After the voice communication ends, until a predetermined time elapses, an acquiring state of the second wireless communication system by the second wireless communication unit is continued. After the predetermined time has elapsed, the acquiring state of the second wireless communication system is cancelled, and a temporal withdrawal cancelling process is started to the first wireless communication system.Type: GrantFiled: October 21, 2010Date of Patent: August 20, 2013Assignee: NEC Casio Mobile Communications, Ltd.Inventor: Katsuya Miyata
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Patent number: 8335472Abstract: A mobile communication terminal includes a proximity wireless communication unit and a control command generating unit. The proximity wireless communication unit performs wireless communication directly with another mobile communication terminal present in a communicationable range. When the proximity wireless communication unit is capable of communicating with another mobile communication terminal, the control command generating unit generates a control command which is associated with an internal state and which is for controlling another mobile communication terminal, and transmits the control command to another mobile communication terminal through the proximity wireless communication unit.Type: GrantFiled: March 12, 2010Date of Patent: December 18, 2012Assignee: Casio Hitachi Mobile Communications Co., Ltd.Inventor: Katsuya Miyata
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Patent number: 8132217Abstract: First, a control device determines a reproduction-display device, from which the control device has been able to obtain neighborhood device information via a short-range wireless communication section, to be located in the neighborhood of the control device, and registers this reproduction-display device to neighborhood determination information. Next, the control device detects the reproduction-display devices connected to a network, to which a content server is connected, using a network communication section and registers these reproduction-display devices to reproduction device registration information. The reproduction-display device, which is registered in both of the reproduction device registration information and the neighborhood determination information, is designated by priority, and reproduces and displays content.Type: GrantFiled: November 20, 2008Date of Patent: March 6, 2012Assignee: Casio Hitachi Mobile Communications Co., Ltd.Inventor: Katsuya Miyata
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Patent number: 8099097Abstract: A wireless LAN device determines whether there is a necessity to search for a base station based on base station information as to a currently associated first base station, and selects all or a part of base station search conditions stored in advance to search for the base station when there is the necessity for searching the base station. When detecting at least one base station, the wireless LAN device determines whether there is a necessity to execute a handover based on base station information of each of the detected base station and the first base station. If the handover is necessary, the wireless LAN device determines the second base station from the base stations and associates the wireless LAN device with the second base station.Type: GrantFiled: November 13, 2007Date of Patent: January 17, 2012Assignee: Casio Hitachi Mobile Communications Co., Ltd.Inventor: Katsuya Miyata
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Publication number: 20110268109Abstract: The first communication unit 101 performs data communication in a first communication mode specializing in packet communication via a first communication system A. The second communication unit 102 performs data communication in a second communication mode supporting voice communication via a second communication system B. The control unit 109 controls the first communication unit 101 and second communication unit 102. The control unit 109 controls the first communication unit 101 to perform data communication via the first communication system A until a voice communication start instruction is received. The control unit 109 determines whether to perform data communication via the second communication system B based on access control information on the second communication system B in response to the reception of a voice communication start instruction.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 27, 2011Publication date: November 3, 2011Inventor: Katsuya MIYATA
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Publication number: 20110207427Abstract: When a terminal-status detecting unit detects a predetermined terminal status with communication over a first mobile communication system being enabled by a first mobile communication unit, a control unit causes a second mobile communication system to start a process of acquiring a second mobile communication system to set communication via the second mobile communication system in an enabled status.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 24, 2011Publication date: August 25, 2011Applicant: NEC CASIO Moblie Communications, LtdInventors: Mitsuhiro KITANI, Katsuya MIYATA