Patents by Inventor Keiichi Yoshitomi

Keiichi Yoshitomi 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: 12242680
    Abstract: An information processing system includes: an information processing and a pen configured to communicate with the apparatus, in which the apparatus includes a display unit configured to display a movement trace of the pen, a touch sensor unit that detects a contact position of the pen on a screen of the display unit, a display processing unit that displays, on the display unit, the movement trace of the pen based on the contact position of the pen detected by the touch sensor unit, an image transmission processing unit that transmits, to the pen, image data displayed by the display unit and including the movement trace, and a position transmission processing unit that transmits, to the pen, the contact position of the pen detected by the touch sensor unit, and the pen includes a vibration generator that outputs vibration based on a vibration waveform signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2025
    Assignee: Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. Ltd.
    Inventors: Keiichi Yoshitomi, Zhouxing Wu
  • Publication number: 20250053250
    Abstract: An information processing system is configured by including a coordinates detector which is configured to detect coordinates which correspond to a position of an operational object surface with which a pen-shaped input device is in contact and a controller which is configured to so control as to switch ON/OFF of vibrations which are generated from the pen-shaped input device in accordance with an interval pattern which is obtained by sectionalizing a moving locus of the coordinates which are detected by the coordinates detector in a case where the pen-shaped input device moves in contact with the operational object surface in accordance with a predetermined distance.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 7, 2024
    Publication date: February 13, 2025
    Applicant: Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. Ltd.
    Inventors: Keiichi Yoshitomi, Mitsuhiro Yamazaki, Yoshitsugu Suzuki
  • Publication number: 20250021173
    Abstract: An input device control system includes: a vibration control unit which is configured to vibrate a pen-shaped input device by using writing sound data so as to generate writing sounds in accordance with detection of a state that the pen-shaped input device is in contact with an operational object surface; and a correction unit which is configured to execute processing which relates to change of a frequency characteristic of the writing sound data in such a manner that a frequency characteristic of real writing sounds which are generated in accordance with vibrations of the pen-shaped input device by the vibration control unit is corrected to a frequency characteristic of ideal writing sounds.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 9, 2024
    Publication date: January 16, 2025
    Applicant: Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. Ltd.
    Inventors: Keiichi Yoshitomi, Mitsuhiro Yamazaki
  • Publication number: 20240402810
    Abstract: An information processing system includes: an information processing device and a pen-type input device. The information processing device includes: a sensor unit which is configured to detect contact of the pen-type input device and a parameter output unit which is configured to transmit feedback parameters which contain at least a parameter for controlling the vibration of the pen-type input device to the pen-type input device in accordance with detection of the contact by the sensor unit. The pen-type input device includes a vibration unit and a vibration control unit which is configured to vibrate the vibration unit on the basis of the feedback parameters which are received. At least either the pen-type input device or the information processing device includes a sound output control unit which is configured to output sounds from the sound output unit at a timing which accords with the vibration of the vibration unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 24, 2024
    Publication date: December 5, 2024
    Applicant: Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. Ltd.
    Inventors: Keiichi Yoshitomi, Mitsuhiro Yamazaki
  • Publication number: 20240353928
    Abstract: An information processing system includes: an information processing device; and an input device. The information processing device includes a host system which is configured to display a diagram which is based on an inputting operation which is performed by using the input device and is detected by a touch sensor on a display. A controller of the host system or the input device is configured to acquire a voice signal and the input device includes a vibration generator which is configured to vibrate in accordance with a drive signal which includes the voice signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 15, 2024
    Publication date: October 24, 2024
    Applicant: Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. Ltd.
    Inventors: Keiichi Yoshitomi, Mitsuhiro Yamazaki
  • Publication number: 20240319803
    Abstract: A pen-shaped input device includes: an elongated rod-shaped housing having a tip end and extending in an axial direction that extends in the longitudinal direction; a pen-tip section that protrudes from the tip end of the housing; and a vibration generator that is supported inside the housing and generates vibrations along the axial direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 31, 2024
    Publication date: September 26, 2024
    Applicant: Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. Ltd.
    Inventors: Mitsuhiro Yamazaki, Keiichi Yoshitomi
  • Publication number: 20240319793
    Abstract: An input-information acquisition unit acquires input information indicating pressure acting on an input device and a moving state of the input device, a vibration control unit controls vibration characteristics of a vibration source signal acquired from a vibration source based on the input information, and controls the vibration characteristics using a delayed speed that is obtained by delaying a speed indicating the moving state, the input device includes a vibration generator that vibrates in accordance with a drive signal, and the drive signal includes the vibration signal that has vibration characteristics controlled by the vibration control unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 18, 2024
    Publication date: September 26, 2024
    Applicant: Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. Ltd.
    Inventors: Keiichi Yoshitomi, Mitsuhiro Yamazaki
  • Publication number: 20240310931
    Abstract: An input device is a pen-shaped input device, and includes: a rod-shaped housing having a tip end and extending in an axial direction; a pen-tip section that protrudes from the tip end of the housing; a sound source disposed inside the housing; and a cavity having an opening at the tip end and extending along the axial direction of the housing, thus outputting sound generated by the sound source from the opening to outside of the housing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 17, 2023
    Publication date: September 19, 2024
    Applicant: LENOVO (SINGAPORE) PTE. LTD.
    Inventors: Keiichi Yoshitomi, Mitsuhiro Yamazaki
  • Publication number: 20240272857
    Abstract: A display control apparatus includes: a display control unit configured to execute control related to display on each of a plurality of display devices that include at least one electronic paper display device; an operation detection unit configured to detect an operation performed on a screen displayed on any of the plurality of display devices; and a determination unit configured to determine whether the operation detected by the operation detection unit satisfies a predetermined condition. The display control unit is configured to execute display control to refresh a screen of the electronic paper display device in response to the determination unit determining that the predetermined condition is satisfied.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 16, 2024
    Publication date: August 15, 2024
    Applicant: Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. Ltd.
    Inventors: Keiichi Yoshitomi, Yoshitsugu Suzuki
  • Patent number: 12056294
    Abstract: An information processing system includes a pen having a vibration generator; a display unit with a screen; a touch sensor unit to detect a contact position of the pen on the screen of the display unit; an angle detector to detect a pen angle, which indicates a direction on the screen in which the pen in contact with the screen is tilted; and a pen vibration control unit to generate a vibration waveform signal based on the pen angle detected by the angle detector and a movement direction of the pen to vibrate the vibration generator based on the generated vibration waveform signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 2023
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2024
    Assignee: Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. Ltd.
    Inventors: Keiichi Yoshitomi, Mitsuhiro Yamazaki
  • Publication number: 20240256207
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a system device that, based on operation information input from an input device, identifies a target display device. The target display device is a display device as an object of display, from a plurality of display devices having different display speeds and target coordinates, which are coordinates in the target display device, based on operation information input from the input device, and displays a cursor at the target coordinates. The system device displays the cursor more prominently for a target display device having a display speed not higher than a predetermined speed than for a target display device having a display speed exceeding the predetermined speed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 18, 2024
    Publication date: August 1, 2024
    Applicant: Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. Ltd.
    Inventor: Keiichi Yoshitomi
  • Patent number: 12050731
    Abstract: An information processing system includes an information processing apparatus and an input device, where the input device includes a vibrating unit, the information processing apparatus includes a touch sensor and a display unit, and the touch sensor and the display unit are superimposed on each other. A controller of the information processing apparatus or the input device monitors input operation of the input device to the touch sensor to enable a sound mode when detecting a sound output request, and to enable a vibration mode when detecting the input operation, the sound mode is a drive mode to cause the vibrating unit to present sound, and the vibration mode is a drive mode to vibrate the vibrating unit in response to contact of the input device with the touch sensor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 11, 2023
    Date of Patent: July 30, 2024
    Assignee: Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. Ltd.
    Inventors: Mitsuhiro Yamazaki, Keiichi Yoshitomi, Yoshitsugu Suzuki, Kazunori Yamamura
  • Publication number: 20240249542
    Abstract: An electronic apparatus includes a processor configured to execute area extraction processing of extracting a character area including a character in an image, processing of applying dithering to an area other than the character area in the image, and emphasizing processing of emphasizing the character in the character area.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 20, 2023
    Publication date: July 25, 2024
    Applicant: Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. Ltd.
    Inventor: Keiichi Yoshitomi
  • Publication number: 20240220039
    Abstract: An information processing system includes: an information processing and a pen configured to communicate with the apparatus, in which the apparatus includes a display unit configured to display a movement trace of the pen, a touch sensor unit that detects a contact position of the pen on a screen of the display unit, a display processing unit that displays, on the display unit, the movement trace of the pen based on the contact position of the pen detected by the touch sensor unit, an image transmission processing unit that transmits, to the pen, image data displayed by the display unit and including the movement trace, and a position transmission processing unit that transmits, to the pen, the contact position of the pen detected by the touch sensor unit, and the pen includes a vibration generator that outputs vibration based on a vibration waveform signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 19, 2023
    Publication date: July 4, 2024
    Applicant: Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. Ltd.
    Inventors: Keiichi Yoshitomi, Zhouxing Wu
  • Patent number: 11989372
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a display section; a touch sensor section which is arranged on a screen of the display section and detects touching of a manipulation medium on the screen; a denoising filter part which acquires first detected position data on the manipulation medium on the screen detected at predetermined detection intervals in response to touching of the manipulation medium on the screen, denoises the first detected position data on the basis of the first detected position data and thereby generates second detected position data; and an input processing part which acquires the second detected position data that the denoising filter part generates and makes the display section display a movement locus of the manipulation medium that the manipulation medium is moved on the screen in a state of touching on the screen on the basis of the second detected position data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 2023
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2024
    Assignee: Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. Ltd.
    Inventors: Keiichi Yoshitomi, Qiang Yao
  • Patent number: 11954272
    Abstract: An information processing device includes a first display, a touch sensor on a screen of the first display detects a position of an object on the screen and detects approach of a pen within a distance above the screen, a pen input processing acquires a position of the pen on the screen by switching between a first input mode for displaying a movement locus of the pen on the screen based on the position of the pen and a second input mode for making a second display sets to a specific arrangement relation with the first display displays the movement locus of the pen and an input switch processing which switches between the first input mode and the second input mode alternately in accordance with a movement of the pen performed in a non-contact state based on the specific arrangement relation after detection of the pen.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 7, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. Ltd.
    Inventors: Keiichi Yoshitomi, Yoshitsugu Suzuki
  • Publication number: 20240111477
    Abstract: An information processing system includes an information processing apparatus and an input device, where the input device includes a vibrating unit, the information processing apparatus includes a touch sensor and a display unit, and the touch sensor and the display unit are superimposed on each other. A controller of the information processing apparatus or the input device supplies, to the vibrating unit, a drive signal obtained by synthesizing a vibration component and a sound component in response to contact of the input device with the touch sensor, and determines output characteristics of the sound component based on an acoustic environment of the information processing apparatus.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 9, 2023
    Publication date: April 4, 2024
    Applicant: Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. Ltd.
    Inventors: Keiichi Yoshitomi, Mitsuhiro Yamazaki
  • Publication number: 20240094820
    Abstract: An information processing system includes an information processing apparatus and an input device, where the input device includes a vibrating unit, the information processing apparatus includes a touch sensor and a display unit, and the touch sensor and the display unit are superimposed on each other. A controller of the information processing apparatus or the input device monitors input operation of the input device to the touch sensor to enable a sound mode when detecting a sound output request, and to enable a vibration mode when detecting the input operation, the sound mode is a drive mode to cause the vibrating unit to present sound, and the vibration mode is a drive mode to vibrate the vibrating unit in response to contact of the input device with the touch sensor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 11, 2023
    Publication date: March 21, 2024
    Applicant: Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. Ltd.
    Inventors: Mitsuhiro Yamazaki, Keiichi Yoshitomi, Yoshitsugu Suzuki, Kazunori Yamamura
  • Publication number: 20230409128
    Abstract: An information processing system includes a pen having a vibration generator; a display unit with a screen; a touch sensor unit to detect a contact position of the pen on the screen of the display unit; an angle detector to detect a pen angle, which indicates a direction on the screen in which the pen in contact with the screen is tilted; and a pen vibration control unit to generate a vibration waveform signal based on the pen angle detected by the angle detector and a movement direction of the pen to vibrate the vibration generator based on the generated vibration waveform signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 25, 2023
    Publication date: December 21, 2023
    Applicant: Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. Ltd.
    Inventors: Keiichi Yoshitomi, Mitsuhiro Yamazaki
  • Publication number: 20230376128
    Abstract: An information processing device includes a first display, a touch sensor on a screen of the first display detects a position of an object on the screen and detects approach of a pen within a distance above the screen, a pen input processing acquires a position of the pen on the screen by switching between a first input mode for displaying a movement locus of the pen on the screen based on the position of the pen and a second input mode for making a second display sets to a specific arrangement relation with the first display displays the movement locus of the pen and an input switch processing which switches between the first input mode and the second input mode alternately in accordance with a movement of the pen performed in a non-contact state based on the specific arrangement relation after detection of the pen.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 7, 2023
    Publication date: November 23, 2023
    Applicant: Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. Ltd.
    Inventors: Keiichi Yoshitomi, Yoshitsugu Suzuki