Patents by Inventor Keiko Hirukawa

Keiko Hirukawa 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: 20240053950
    Abstract: A display control system includes a first display processing unit that displays a first user icon of a user at a predetermined position in a virtual space on the basis of a current position of the user in a real space, a reception processing unit that receives, from the user corresponding to the first user icon, moving operation of the first user icon displayed at the predetermined position in the virtual space, and a second display processing unit that displays a second user icon corresponding to the moving operation by the user in the virtual space, in a case where the reception processing unit receives the moving operation of the first user icon from the user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 26, 2023
    Publication date: February 15, 2024
    Inventor: KEIKO HIRUKAWA
  • Patent number: 11861140
    Abstract: A system including: a control device; a storage device that stores a file; a display device; and a voice device, wherein the control device displays a list of first identification display for specifying the file on the display device when voice of a command for displaying a list is input from a user via the voice device, the control device assigns an identification code to the file displayed in the list, and displays the identification code as second identification display, and the control device selects the file corresponding to the identification code when voice including the identification code is input from the user via the voice device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Hiroki Munetomo, Keiko Hirukawa, Yuuki Iwamoto
  • Patent number: 11831455
    Abstract: A meeting support system includes: an acquisition processor that acquires medium information corresponding to a communication medium installed in the meeting room by communication of the user terminal with the communication medium; and a permission processor that identifies a meeting in which a user is scheduled to participate acquired from the user terminal, on the basis of user information for identifying the user and the medium information acquired from the user terminal. The permission processor permits login to a meeting support application of the identified meeting.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 11, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2023
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Keiko Hirukawa
  • Patent number: 11695754
    Abstract: An information processing system includes a file acquirer that acquires a file used in a meeting, an authentication processor that selects, if a password is set to the file acquired by the file acquirer, an authentication scheme of the password, based on meeting information about the meeting, and executes a process of authenticating the password by the selected authentication scheme, and a file executer that executes the file if the password is authenticated by the authentication processor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2023
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yosuke Osaki, Jin Gao, Keiko Hirukawa, Satoshi Terada
  • Patent number: 11670296
    Abstract: A voice processing system includes a command specifier that specifies a command based on a first voice; a command processor that causes the specified command to be executed for a control target; a command determiner that determines whether or not the specified command is a repeated command; and an instruction determiner that determines whether or not a second voice, which corresponds to an execution instruction word indicating an instruction for executing the repeated command, has been received, after the repeated command corresponding to the first voice is executed, when the specified command is the repeated command, wherein when the second voice is received after the repeated command is executed, the command processor causes the repeated command to be repeatedly executed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2023
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Keiko Hirukawa, Yuuki Iwamoto, Satoshi Terada
  • Publication number: 20230154190
    Abstract: A display control system includes a meeting acquisition processor that acquires meeting information related to a meeting; a video image acquisition processor that acquires video image information corresponding to a video image capturing a user participating in the meeting; a determination processor that determines an image type of an image to be displayed on a meeting terminal on the basis of the meeting information acquired by the meeting acquisition processor; and an output processor that outputs an image corresponding to the video image information acquired by the video image acquisition processor and the image type determined by the determination processor, to the meeting terminal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 8, 2022
    Publication date: May 18, 2023
    Inventors: YOSUKE OSAKI, KEIKO HIRUKAWA
  • Publication number: 20230134080
    Abstract: A system including: a control device; a storage device that stores a file; a display device; and a voice device, wherein the control device displays a list of first identification display for specifying the file on the display device when voice of a command for displaying a list is input from a user via the voice device, the control device assigns an identification code to the file displayed in the list, and displays the identification code as second identification display, and the control device selects the file corresponding to the identification code when voice including the identification code is input from the user via the voice device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 27, 2022
    Publication date: May 4, 2023
    Inventors: HIROKI MUNETOMO, KEIKO HIRUKAWA, YUUKI IWAMOTO
  • Patent number: 11567629
    Abstract: A system including: a control device; a storage device that stores a file; a display device; and a voice device, wherein the control device displays a list of first identification display for specifying the file on the display device when voice of a command for displaying a list is input from a user via the voice device, the control device assigns an identification code to the file displayed in the list, and displays the identification code as second identification display, and the control device selects the file corresponding to the identification code when voice including the identification code is input from the user via the voice device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2023
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Hiroki Munetomo, Keiko Hirukawa, Yuuki Iwamoto
  • Publication number: 20230025512
    Abstract: A meeting support system includes: an acquisition processor that acquires medium information corresponding to a communication medium installed in the meeting room by communication of the user terminal with the communication medium; and a permission processor that identifies a meeting in which a user is scheduled to participate acquired from the user terminal, on the basis of user information for identifying the user, and the medium information acquired from the user terminal, and that permits login to a meeting support application of the identified meeting.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 11, 2022
    Publication date: January 26, 2023
    Inventor: KEIKO HIRUKAWA
  • Patent number: 11322145
    Abstract: A voice processing device includes a voice receiver that receives a voice, an imager, an image acquirer that acquires a captured image captured by the imager, an utterer identifier that identifies an utterer based on the voice received by the voice receiver and the captured image acquired by the image acquirer, a voice determiner that determines whether the voice is a specific word based on the voice received by the voice receiver and an image of the utterer identified by the utterer identifier, the image being included in the captured image, and a voice transmitter that switches a transmission destination of the voice received by the voice receiver based on a determination result by the voice determiner.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2022
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Keiko Hirukawa, Satoshi Terada
  • Publication number: 20220124129
    Abstract: An information processing system includes: a first acquisition processor that acquires time and date information indicating time and date of the conference and conference room information indicating a conference room in which the conference is held; a second acquisition processor that acquires, from a storage that stores the conference room information indicating the conference room and unique device information on the device used for the conference in the conference room in association with each other, the device information on a predetermined device based on the conference room information acquired by the first acquisition processor; and a connection processor that connects the user terminal to the device based on the device information acquired by the second acquisition processor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 12, 2021
    Publication date: April 21, 2022
    Inventors: YOSUKE OSAKI, KEIKO HIRUKAWA, AKIHIRO KUMATA
  • Patent number: 11262977
    Abstract: A display control apparatus includes a message storage section configured to store input messages, an attribute information applying section configured to apply attribute information to the messages, and a display control section configured to control displaying of a first display screen having a first display region for displaying the messages in chronological order and a second display region for displaying a message extracted from the messages based on the attribute information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2022
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Keiko Hirukawa, Satoshi Terada, Tomonobu Tomaru, Kazuki Sato
  • Publication number: 20210287672
    Abstract: A voice processing system includes a command specifier that specifies a command based on a first voice; a command processor that causes the specified command to be executed for a control target; a command determiner that determines whether or not the specified command is a repeated command; and an instruction determiner that determines whether or not a second voice, which corresponds to an execution instruction word indicating an instruction for executing the repeated command, has been received, after the repeated command corresponding to the first voice is executed, when the specified command is the repeated command, wherein when the second voice is received after the repeated command is executed, the command processor causes the repeated command to be repeatedly executed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 19, 2021
    Publication date: September 16, 2021
    Inventors: KEIKO HIRUKAWA, YUUKI IWAMOTO, SATOSHI TERADA
  • Publication number: 20210243314
    Abstract: A system including: a control device; a storage device that stores a file; a display device; and a voice device, wherein the control device displays a list of first identification display for specifying the file on the display device when voice of a command for displaying a list is input from a user via the voice device, the control device assigns an identification code to the file displayed in the list, and displays the identification code as second identification display, and the control device selects the file corresponding to the identification code when voice including the identification code is input from the user via the voice device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 27, 2021
    Publication date: August 5, 2021
    Inventors: HIROKI MUNETOMO, KEIKO HIRUKAWA, YUUKI IWAMOTO
  • Patent number: 10996923
    Abstract: A display control device controls a display device. The display device includes two or more input units to which information processing devices are connected. The display control device includes a storage unit, a determination unit, and a command generation unit. The storage unit stores device information and reception status information. The device information indicates a state of each of the information processing devices. The reception status information indicates one of the information processing devices, which outputs a display image displayed by the display device. The determination unit determines a content of an instruction from an user. The command generation unit generates a command to be issued to at least one of the display device and the information processing devices based on a determination result of the determination unit and the information stored in the storage unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 4, 2021
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Go Nakazawa, Satoshi Terada, Keiko Hirukawa
  • Publication number: 20210105437
    Abstract: An information processing device includes an image acquirer that acquires a captured image captured by an imager, an utterer identifier that identifies an utterer, a display target identifier that identifies a display target corresponding to the utterer identified by the utterer identifier from the captured image acquired by the image acquirer, and a display processor that displays display information corresponding to the display target identified by the display target identifier, on a first display.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 28, 2020
    Publication date: April 8, 2021
    Inventors: SATOSHI TERADA, KEIKO HIRUKAWA, YOSUKE OSAKI
  • Publication number: 20210105262
    Abstract: An information processing system includes a file acquirer that acquires a file used in a meeting, an authentication processor that selects, if a password is set to the file acquired by the file acquirer, an authentication scheme of the password, based on meeting information about the meeting, and executes a process of authenticating the password by the selected authentication scheme, and a file executer that executes the file if the password is authenticated by the authentication processor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 28, 2020
    Publication date: April 8, 2021
    Inventors: YOSUKE OSAKI, JIN GAO, KEIKO HIRUKAWA, SATOSHI TERADA
  • Publication number: 20210083890
    Abstract: An information processing system according to the present disclosure includes a registration processor that registers, in a storage, location information indicating a location where a meeting is held, identification information of a voice processing device installed at the location, and identification information of a terminal device of a participant participating in the meeting, in a mutually associated manner, a voice acquirer that acquires voice information via the voice processing device in the meeting, a command specifier that specifies a command for executing a predetermined process, based on the voice information; an authority receiver that receives a grant request for an authority to execute the command, and an authority granter that grants the authority to a predetermined terminal device, based on the location information and the identification information of the terminal device, if the grant request is received by the authority receiver.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 11, 2020
    Publication date: March 18, 2021
    Inventors: AKIHIRO KUMATA, KEIKO HIRUKAWA, SATOSHI TERADA, DAISUKE YAMASHITA
  • Publication number: 20210073356
    Abstract: An information processing system according to the present disclosure includes a registration processor that registers, in a storage, location information indicating a location where a meeting is held, identification information of a device installed at the location where the meeting is held, and license information regarding a license for a function corresponding to the device, in a mutually associated manner, an inquiry acquirer that acquires an inquiry whether the license for the function is present, and a utilization controller that controls a utilization of the function, based on the location information, the identification information of the device, and the license information stored in the storage, if the inquiry is acquired by the inquiry acquirer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 31, 2020
    Publication date: March 11, 2021
    Inventors: KEIKO HIRUKAWA, YUUKI IWAMOTO, SATOSHI TERADA
  • Publication number: 20200286478
    Abstract: A voice processing device includes a voice receiver that receives a voice, an imager, an image acquirer that acquires a captured image captured by the imager, an utterer identifier that identifies an utterer based on the voice received by the voice receiver and the captured image acquired by the image acquirer, a voice determiner that determines whether the voice is a specific word based on the voice received by the voice receiver and an image of the utterer identified by the utterer identifier, the image being included in the captured image, and a voice transmitter that switches a transmission destination of the voice received by the voice receiver based on a determination result by the voice determiner.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 26, 2020
    Publication date: September 10, 2020
    Inventors: KEIKO HIRUKAWA, SATOSHI TERADA