Patents by Inventor Kazutaka Yamamoto

Kazutaka Yamamoto 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: 20200092479
    Abstract: An image pickup device includes a camera, a display to display an image being obtained by the camera, and a touch panel that overlaps the display and is capable of detecting a flick operation performed on the touch panel. While the display displays the image being obtained by the camera, a brightness of the display is changed from a first brightness to a second brightness by a flick operation on the touch panel from down to up in a vertical direction. The second brightness is brighter than the first brightness. While the display displays the image being obtained by the camera, a setting other than a setting of the brightness of the display is changed by a flick operation on the touch panel from left to right in a lateral direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 22, 2019
    Publication date: March 19, 2020
    Applicant: PANASONIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takashi ISHIHARA, Kazutaka YAMAMOTO, Katsuyuki ITO
  • Patent number: 10531000
    Abstract: An image pickup device includes a camera, a display, and a touch panel detects a user operation including a flick operation in first and second directions. The image pickup device has first, second and third imaging modes, in which the display displays a video image being obtained by the camera. After determining that the user operation is the flick operation, switching to the second imaging mode occurs by a first flick operation in the first direction in the first imaging mode. Switching to the first imaging mode occurs by a second flick operation in the second direction in the second imaging mode. Switching to the third imaging mode occurs by a third flick operation in the second direction in the first imaging mode. Switching to the first imaging mode occurs by a fourth flick operation in the first direction in the third imaging mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 9, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2020
    Assignee: PANASONIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takashi Ishihara, Kazutaka Yamamoto, Katsuyuki Ito
  • Patent number: 10496346
    Abstract: A communication apparatus, a control program of the communication apparatus, and a relay apparatus are provided. The communication apparatus is configured to download electronic data from a server storing a first amount or more of electronic data and to output the downloaded electronic data. The communication apparatus includes an output unit configured to output a second amount of electronic data smaller than the first amount at one time, a download information acquiring unit configured to acquire download information necessary for downloading the first amount of electronic data stored in the server, from the server, a download unit configured to download the second amount of electronic data of the first amount of electronic data from the server, using the download information acquired by the download information acquiring unit. The output unit is configured to output the electronic data downloaded by the download unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 6, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2019
    Assignee: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yutaka Urakawa, Satoshi Watanabe, Katsuaki Ito, Hirokazu Banno, Kazutaka Yamamoto, Masafumi Miyazawa, Yusuke Shimada, Takeshi Nagasaki
  • Publication number: 20190238752
    Abstract: An image pickup device includes a camera, a display, and a touch panel detects a user operation including a flick operation in first and second directions. The image pickup device has first, second and third imaging modes, in which the display displays a video image being obtained by the camera. After determining that the user operation is the flick operation, switching to the second imaging mode occurs by a first flick operation in the first direction in the first imaging mode. Switching to the first imaging mode occurs by a second flick operation in the second direction in the second imaging mode. Switching to the third imaging mode occurs by a third flick operation in the second direction in the first imaging mode. Switching to the first imaging mode occurs by a fourth flick operation in the first direction in the third imaging mode.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 9, 2019
    Publication date: August 1, 2019
    Applicant: PANASONIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takashi ISHIHARA, Kazutaka YAMAMOTO, Katsuyuki ITO
  • Patent number: 10306144
    Abstract: An image pickup device includes at least one camera, a display, and a touch panel that overlaps the display, and detects a touch operation in a first direction, a second direction substantially opposite to the first direction, a third direction, and a fourth direction substantially opposite to the third direction. The image pickup device has at least first and second imaging modes, in which the display displays a video image being obtained by the at least one camera. Switching to the second imaging mode occurs by a first touch operation in the first direction in the first imaging mode. Switching to the first imaging mode occurs by a second touch operation in the second direction in the second imaging mode. In the first and second imaging modes, a setting is changed by a third touch operation in the third direction and a fourth touch operation in the fourth direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 9, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2019
    Assignee: PANASONIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takashi Ishihara, Kazutaka Yamamoto, Katsuyuki Ito
  • Publication number: 20180375923
    Abstract: A communication apparatus, a control program of the communication apparatus, and a relay apparatus are provided. The communication apparatus is configured to download electronic data from a server storing a first amount or more of electronic data and to output the downloaded electronic data. The communication apparatus includes an output unit configured to output a second amount of electronic data smaller than the first amount at one time, a download information acquiring unit configured to acquire download information necessary for downloading the first amount of electronic data stored in the server, from the server, a download unit configured to download the second amount of electronic data of the first amount of electronic data from the server, using the download information acquired by the download information acquiring unit. The output unit is configured to output the electronic data downloaded by the download unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 6, 2018
    Publication date: December 27, 2018
    Applicant: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yutaka URAKAWA, Satoshi WATANABE, Katsuaki ITO, Hirokazu BANNO, Kazutaka YAMAMOTO, Masafumi MIYAZAWA, Yusuke SHIMADA, Takeshi NAGASAKI
  • Patent number: 10126752
    Abstract: A travel route automatic selection system for a work machine includes a travel route search unit that searches a travel route satisfying a condition that the work machine can enter from a current position for preparing entry only by forward movement along an entry route formed so that the work machine enters at an entry position in a same direction as a traveling direction when the work machine travels the travel route, at an entry position positioned between a travel route start position and a work start position, from a predetermined travel route corresponding to each of the one or a plurality of work target zones, by determining whether the condition is satisfied based on at least the travel route part of the predetermined distance from the travel route start position at least between the travel route start position and the work start position of the predetermined travel route.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 13, 2018
    Assignee: MAMIYA-OP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Seiichiro Ishijima, Tadashi Oshimi, Kazutaka Yamamoto, Noboru Yazaki, Hiroshi Sugawara
  • Patent number: 10120382
    Abstract: An entry availability determination system including a detector that detects a current position of a work machine that performs predetermined work while traveling a work target zone along a predetermined travel route; and a determination information generation unit that generates determination information indicating whether entry is possible by determining whether the work machine can enter from a current position for preparing entry of the work machine only by forward movement along an entry route formed so that the work machine enters at an entry position in a same direction as a traveling direction when the work machine travels the travel route, at the entry position positioned on an opposite side of the traveling direction of the work machine with respect to a work complete position or a work incomplete position on the travel route, when the work machine gets out of the travel route.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 6, 2018
    Assignee: MAMIYA-OP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Seiichiro Ishijima, Tadashi Oshimi, Kazutaka Yamamoto, Noboru Yazaki, Hiroshi Sugawara
  • Patent number: 10114377
    Abstract: A travel route generation system of generating a travel route of a work machine that performs predetermined work while traveling a route formed by linking ends of at least a plurality of substantially parallel routes through inversion routes in a work target zone, the ends being positioned at or near intersections of the routes and the periphery of the work target zone, the system including a zone setting unit that sets a periphery of the work target zone and a periphery of an entry prohibited zone outside of the work target zone; and a route generation unit that selects, for each of the inversion routes, an inside inversion route, not an outside inversion route, according to a positional relationship between the periphery of the work target zone and the periphery of the entry prohibited zone, wherein the inside inversion route is selected as the travel route.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 30, 2018
    Assignee: MAMIYA-OP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Seiichiro Ishijima, Tadashi Oshimi, Kazutaka Yamamoto, Noboru Yazaki, Hiroshi Sugawara
  • Publication number: 20180272749
    Abstract: An information processing device is connected to a first reading device to read a recording medium to generate first data, a writing device to write on the recording medium based on second data, and a second reading device to read the recording medium to generate third data. The information processing device includes a first retrieval unit to obtain the first data; an identifying unit to identify the recording medium based on the first data; a second retrieval unit to obtain, upon detecting that the writing device writes on the recording medium, the third data; a determination unit to determine whether the second data differs from the third data; a calculation unit to calculate a number of times of writing on the recording medium; a storage unit to store the calculation value; and an evaluation unit to evaluate the recording medium based on the calculation value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 14, 2016
    Publication date: September 27, 2018
    Inventors: Kazutaka YAMAMOTO, Daisuke TEZUKA, Yukari SUMITA
  • Publication number: 20180239565
    Abstract: A data generating device is for generating writing data. The data generating device is connected to a writing device for writing a character on a recording medium based on the writing data. The data generating device includes an input unit configured to input the character and a layout, the layout being defined by a position, a size, and a range of writing the character; a calculation unit configured to calculate, in response to detecting that the character or the layout is changed, a writing time for writing by the writing device based on whether the character is to be written, an order of writing the character, and the layout; and an output unit configured to generate the writing data based on the character and the layout, and configured to output the generated writing data to the writing device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 14, 2016
    Publication date: August 23, 2018
    Applicant: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Kazutaka YAMAMOTO, Yukari SUMITA, Mutsuko NAGASHIMA, Daisuke TEZUKA
  • Patent number: 10044881
    Abstract: A relay apparatus connected to service providing apparatuses respectively providing services and a communication apparatus that includes an additional-information storage unit configured to store additional information associated with the service and identification information, comprises: a receiving unit configured to receive notification including the service and the user identification information from the communication apparatus; a generating unit generating an output command for outputting, to the relay apparatus, the additional information stored in the additional-information storage unit corresponding to the service and the identification information included in the notification; an output commanding unit transmitting the output command to the communication apparatus; an acquiring unit acquiring the additional information output in response to the output command; a first communication unit configured to perform communication with the service providing apparatus using the acquired additional information
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2011
    Date of Patent: August 7, 2018
    Assignee: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Toyoshi Inoue, Takeshi Nagasaki, Yusuke Shimada, Satoshi Watanabe, Katsuaki Ito, Hirokazu Banno, Kazutaka Yamamoto
  • Patent number: 10044789
    Abstract: A communication apparatus, a control program of the communication apparatus, and a relay apparatus are provided. The communication apparatus is configured to download electronic data from a server storing a first amount or more of electronic data and to output the downloaded electronic data. The communication apparatus includes an output unit configured to output a second amount of electronic data smaller than the first amount at one time, a download information acquiring unit configured to acquire download information necessary for downloading the first amount of electronic data stored in the server, from the server, a download unit configured to download the second amount of electronic data of the first amount of electronic data from the server, using the download information acquired by the download information acquiring unit. The output unit is configured to output the electronic data downloaded by the download unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 2011
    Date of Patent: August 7, 2018
    Assignee: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yutaka Urakawa, Satoshi Watanabe, Katsuaki Ito, Hirokazu Banno, Kazutaka Yamamoto, Masafumi Miyazawa, Yusuke Shimada, Takeshi Nagasaki
  • Publication number: 20180183781
    Abstract: A relay apparatus is connected to a communication apparatus, a service providing apparatus and a browser-equipped apparatus.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 27, 2017
    Publication date: June 28, 2018
    Applicant: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Masafumi MIYAZAWA, Yusuke SHIMADA, Takeshi NAGASAKI, Kazutaka YAMAMOTO, Hirokazu BANNO, Satoshi WATANABE, Katsuaki ITO
  • Patent number: 9860231
    Abstract: A relay apparatus is connected to a communication apparatus, a service providing apparatus and a browser-equipped apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 3, 2011
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2018
    Assignee: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Masafumi Miyazawa, Yusuke Shimada, Takeshi Nagasaki, Kazutaka Yamamoto, Hirokazu Banno, Satoshi Watanabe, Katsuaki Ito
  • Publication number: 20170339344
    Abstract: An image pickup device includes at least one camera, a display, and a touch panel that overlaps the display, and detects a touch operation in a first direction, a second direction substantially opposite to the first direction, a third direction, and a fourth direction substantially opposite to the third direction. The image pickup device has at least first and second imaging modes, in which the display displays a video image being obtained by the at least one camera. Switching to the second imaging mode occurs by a first touch operation in the first direction in the first imaging mode. Switching to the first imaging mode occurs by a second touch operation in the second direction in the second imaging mode. In the first and second imaging modes, a setting is changed by a third touch operation in the third direction and a fourth touch operation in the fourth direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 9, 2017
    Publication date: November 23, 2017
    Applicant: PANASONIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takashi ISHIHARA, Kazutaka YAMAMOTO, Katsuyuki ITO
  • Patent number: 9824784
    Abstract: To provide a protection barrier, which includes an inlet from which laser light emitted from a laser device enters; an outlet from which the laser light is output towards an irradiation target; and a unit configured to prevent a leakage, where the unit is configured to reduce an intensity of the laser light leaked from the protection barrier, wherein the protection barrier is configured to surround a light path of the laser light emitted from the laser device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2017
    Assignee: RICOH COMPANY, LTD.
    Inventor: Kazutaka Yamamoto
  • Patent number: 9800785
    Abstract: An image pickup device includes at least one camera, a display, and a touch panel that overlaps the display, and detects a flick operation in at least first and second directions substantially opposite to each other. The image pickup device has at least a first, second and third imaging modes, in which the display displays a video image being obtained by the at least one camera. Switching to the second imaging mode occurs by a first flick operation in the first direction in the first imaging mode. Switching to the first imaging mode occurs by a second flick operation in the second direction in the second imaging mode. Switching to the third imaging mode occurs by a third flick operation in the first direction in the first imaging mode. Switching to the first imaging mode occurs by a fourth flick operation in the second direction in the third imaging mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2017
    Assignee: PANASONIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takashi Ishihara, Kazutaka Yamamoto, Katsuyuki Ito
  • Publication number: 20170201682
    Abstract: An image pickup device includes at least one camera, a display, and a touch panel that overlaps the display, and detects a flick operation in at least first and second directions substantially opposite to each other. The image pickup device has at least a first, second and third imaging modes, in which the display displays a video image being obtained by the at least one camera. Switching to the second imaging mode occurs by a first flick operation in the first direction in the first imaging mode. Switching to the first imaging mode occurs by a second flick operation in the second direction in the second imaging mode. Switching to the third imaging mode occurs by a third flick operation in the first direction in the first imaging mode. Switching to the first imaging mode occurs by a fourth flick operation in the second direction in the third imaging mode.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 27, 2017
    Publication date: July 13, 2017
    Applicant: PANASONIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takashi ISHIHARA, Kazutaka YAMAMOTO, Katsuyuki ITO
  • Publication number: 20170168491
    Abstract: A travel route generation system of generating a travel route of a work machine that performs predetermined work while traveling a route formed by linking ends of at least a plurality of substantially parallel routes through inversion routes in a work target zone, the ends being positioned at or near intersections of the routes and the periphery of the work target zone, the system including a zone setting unit that sets a periphery of the work target zone and a periphery of an entry prohibited zone outside of the work target zone; and a route generation unit that selects, for each of the inversion routes, an inside inversion route, not an outside inversion route, according to a positional relationship between the periphery of the work target zone and the periphery of the entry prohibited zone, wherein the inside inversion route is selected as the travel route.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 22, 2016
    Publication date: June 15, 2017
    Applicant: MAMIYA-OP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Seiichiro ISHIJIMA, Tadashi OSHIMI, Kazutaka YAMAMOTO, Noboru YAZAKI, Hiroshi SUGAWARA