Patents by Inventor Kazushi Kawase

Kazushi Kawase 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: 9451384
    Abstract: The objective of the invention is to arrange that, when a plurality of mobile terminals are connected to, for example, a vehicle-mounted device, a to-be-controlled application be automatically determined in accordance with the connection history and the types of applications on the mobile terminals. A mobile terminal control apparatus (1) comprises: a device control unit (12) that detects whether a plurality of mobile terminals (2) are connected or not and that holds device information and application information into a connection history (11); and an application control unit (14) that determines, out of a plurality of applications held by connected mobile terminals (2), a to-be-controlled application on the basis of the connection history (11) and an application DB (13).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2016
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Kazushi Kawase
  • Publication number: 20150079969
    Abstract: The objective of the invention is to arrange that, when a plurality of mobile terminals are connected to, for example, a vehicle-mounted device, a to-be-controlled application be automatically determined in accordance with the connection history and the types of applications on the mobile terminals. A mobile terminal control apparatus (1) comprises: a device control unit (12) that detects whether a plurality of mobile terminals (2) are connected or not and that holds device information and application information into a connection history (11); and an application control unit (14) that determines, out of a plurality of applications held by connected mobile terminals (2), a to-be-controlled application on the basis of the connection history (11) and an application DB (13).
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 22, 2013
    Publication date: March 19, 2015
    Inventor: Kazushi Kawase
  • Publication number: 20090069974
    Abstract: It is an object of the present invention to provide a display control device that can assist a driver to check a blind spot more appropriately. In a control device 16 to be mounted on a vehicle to control left front and right front obstruction sensors 11a and 11b for detecting an obstacle ahead of the vehicle, a left camera 12a mounted on left side part of the vehicle to take a video indicative of a view from the vehicle, a right camera 12b mounted on right side part of the vehicle to take a video indicative of a view from the vehicle, and a display device 13 for displaying a video on a screen, the CPU 16b has the display device 13 display, on the basis of detection results of the left front and right front obstruction sensors 11a and 11b, a video taken by the camera 12a or 12b opposite to a direction in which an obstacle is out of line.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 2, 2005
    Publication date: March 12, 2009
    Applicant: MATSUSHITA ELECTRIC INDUSTRIAL CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kazushi Kawase, Takahiro Kudo
  • Publication number: 20090009533
    Abstract: A display controller can prevent a display from displaying unnecessary information on the video to improve visibility in displaying the video. The display controller comprises a controller for controlling a display to display a video and navigation information on respective video and navigation display areas allocated to a screen of the display. The controller permits the concern information concerned with a user among the navigation information to be displayed on the video display area in addition to the navigation display area.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 9, 2005
    Publication date: January 8, 2009
    Applicant: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd
    Inventors: Takahiro Kudo, Kazushi Kawase
  • Patent number: 7058506
    Abstract: There are provided a positioning section for locating a current position, a travel history database for storing a history of a current position located by the positioning section and a history of a travel to an institution or the like actually visited by walking or so from at least one geographic point in the history, and a destination predicting section for predicting a destination on the basis of a history of using an institution actually visited by walking or so stored in the travel history database. This makes it possible to practically predict as a destination an institution actually visited by walking or so.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 2004
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2006
    Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kazushi Kawase, Noriyuki Yoshida, Kazuaki Yamaguchi
  • Publication number: 20040260457
    Abstract: There are provided a positioning section for locating a current position, a travel history database for storing a history of a current position located by the positioning section and a history of a travel to an institution or the like actually visited by walking or so from at least one geographic point in the history, and a destination predicting section for predicting a destination on the basis of a history of using an institution actually visited by walking or so stored in the travel history database. This makes it possible to practically predict as a destination an institution actually visited by walking or so.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 14, 2004
    Publication date: December 23, 2004
    Inventors: Kazushi Kawase, Noriyuki Yoshida, Kazuaki Yamaguchi