Patents by Inventor Kiyofumi Ohtsuka

Kiyofumi Ohtsuka 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: 20200186880
    Abstract: The present invention presents appropriate information that corresponds to a situation of a game which a user is watching arid reacting to. In an electronic apparatus (10) including information presenting devices (12, 15, 16) and a control device (11), the control device (11) controls the information presenting devices (12, 15, 16) to present information in response to the situation of the game which situation has been determined based on information that (i) relates to the game which the user is watching and reacting to and (ii) is accumulated in a server (30).
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 6, 2018
    Publication date: June 11, 2020
    Inventors: MEGUMI YOKOGAWA, TADAO ANDOH, KIYOFUMI OHTSUKA
  • Publication number: 20200145733
    Abstract: The present invention allows, without hindering a user from cheering, the user to obtain information at an appropriate timing at which the user wishes to obtain the information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 6, 2018
    Publication date: May 7, 2020
    Inventors: MEGUMI YOKOGAWA, TADAO ANDOH, KIYOFUMI OHTSUKA
  • Publication number: 20200135046
    Abstract: An object is to enhance a user's motivation for cheering for a sport and motivate the user to cheer at a stadium or the like. An electronic apparatus (10) includes: at least one motion detecting device (13); and at least one control device (11), the at least one control device (11) being configured to, in a case where at least one motion is detected by the at least one motion detecting device (13), carry out a point acquiring process that includes acquiring a point(s) corresponding to the at least one motion, the at least one motion each being a motion of a body of a user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 6, 2018
    Publication date: April 30, 2020
    Inventors: MEGUMI YOKOGAWA, KIYOFUMI OHTSUKA, TADAO ANDOH
  • Patent number: 10573046
    Abstract: The present invention makes it possible to see an original text string which (i) is contained in a captured image and (ii) has been translated, even after a translation of the original text string is displayed. The text string decoration display control section (12) decorates a part indicating a text string contained in a captured image and causes the decorated part to be displayed. The translation image generating section (13) generates a translation image showing a result of translating the text string into another language. The translation display control section (16) switches between display and non-display of the translation image in accordance with an input carried out by a user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 4, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2020
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Kiyofumi Ohtsuka, Tadao Nagasawa
  • Publication number: 20200057533
    Abstract: The present invention enables making a response that (i) increases a user's motivation to cheer for an event and (ii) motivates the user to visit an event site to cheer. A totalizing system (100) includes a server (3) and a terminal system (10). In a specific mode, the terminal system (i) detects a user's behavior including motion and utterance, (ii) transmits a cheering point calculated with reference to the behavior which has been detected, and (iii) displays a result of totalization obtained. The server makes a totalization of a cheering point obtained and transmits a result of the totalization.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 6, 2018
    Publication date: February 20, 2020
    Applicant: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: TORU UEDA, KIYOSHI SUZUKI, MINORU WADAYAMA, KIYOFUMI OHTSUKA
  • Publication number: 20180322677
    Abstract: The present invention makes it possible to see an original text string which (i) is contained in a captured image and (ii) has been translated, even after a translation of the original text string is displayed. The text string decoration display control section (12) decorates a part indicating a text string contained in a captured image and causes the decorated part to be displayed. The translation image generating section (13) generates a translation image showing a result of translating the text string into another language. The translation display control section (16) switches between display and non-display of the translation image in accordance with an input carried out by a user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 17, 2018
    Publication date: November 8, 2018
    Inventors: Kiyofumi OHTSUKA, Tadao NAGASAWA
  • Publication number: 20180276868
    Abstract: The present invention makes it possible to see an original text string which (i) is contained in a captured image and (ii) has been translated, even after a translation of the original text string is displayed. The text string decoration display control section (12) decorates a part indicating a text string contained in a captured image and causes the decorated part to be displayed. The translation image generating section (13) generates a translation image showing a result of translating the text string into another language. The translation display control section (16) switches between display and non-display of the translation image in accordance with an input carried out by a user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 4, 2018
    Publication date: September 27, 2018
    Inventors: Kiyofumi OHTSUKA, Tadao NAGASAWA
  • Patent number: 10068359
    Abstract: The present invention makes it possible to see an original text string which (i) is contained in a captured image and (ii) has been translated, even after a translation of the original text string is displayed. The text string decoration display control section (12) decorates a part indicating a text string contained in a captured image and causes the decorated part to be displayed. The translation image generating section (13) generates a translation image showing a result of translating the text string into another language. The translation display control section (16) switches between display and non-display of the translation image in accordance with an input carried out by a user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 19, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 4, 2018
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Kiyofumi Ohtsuka, Tadao Nagasawa
  • Patent number: 9826158
    Abstract: A translation display device of the present invention carries out a translation process of translating text extracted from a certain image and displays translated text while a display frame rate is maintained. A translation processing section (5) carries out the translation process in a case where no image other than the certain image is being subjected to the translation process. An image movement analyzing section (7) identifies a displacement of a position of an object in a most recent image which has been most recently obtained, the displacement being measured with respect to a reference position of an object in a reference image for which the translation process most recently ended. A generated image in which translated text obtained by translating extracted text extracted from the reference image is displayed so as to be superimposed on the most recent image in accordance with (i) a position of the extracted text and (ii) information on the displacement.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2017
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Takaaki Mitsunaga, Tatsuo Kishimoto, Kiyofumi Ohtsuka, Hirokazu Ishikawa
  • Patent number: 9495090
    Abstract: A touch control section (5) includes: an operation accepting section (51) which accepts a touch operation conducted with respect to an icon or the like; and an accepting operation control section (52) which controls the operation accepting section (51) to forbid an accepting operation in a case where screen scroll is started. In a case where screen scroll is started, the accepting operation control section (52) controls the accepting operation control section (52) to lift the forbiddance of an accepting operation before the screen scroll automatically stops.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 15, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2016
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Kiyofumi Ohtsuka, Hirokazu Ishikawa, Megumi Yokogawa, Shinya Satoh, Tatsuo Kishimoto, Yuhichi Yabuki, Tadao Nagasawa
  • Publication number: 20160301869
    Abstract: A translation display device of the present invention carries out a translation process of translating text extracted from a certain image and displays translated text while a display frame rate is maintained. A translation processing section (5) carries out the translation process in a case where no image other than the certain image is being subjected to the translation process. An image movement analyzing section (7) identifies a displacement of a position of an object in a most recent image which has been most recently obtained, the displacement being measured with respect to a reference position of an object in a reference image for which the translation process most recently ended. A generated image in which translated text obtained by translating extracted text extracted from the reference image is displayed so as to be superimposed on the most recent image in accordance with (i) a position of the extracted text and (ii) information on the displacement.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 8, 2014
    Publication date: October 13, 2016
    Applicant: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Takaaki MITSUNAGA, Tatsuo KISHIMOTO, Kiyofumi OHTSUKA, Hirokazu ISHIKAWA
  • Publication number: 20160117854
    Abstract: The present invention makes it possible to see an original text string which (i) is contained in a captured image and (ii) has been translated, even after a translation of the original text string is displayed. The text string decoration display control section (12) decorates a part indicating a text string contained in a captured image and causes the decorated part to be displayed. The translation image generating section (13) generates a translation image showing a result of translating the text string into another language. The translation display control section (16) switches between display and non-display of the translation image in accordance with an input carried out by a user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 19, 2014
    Publication date: April 28, 2016
    Inventors: Kiyofumi OHTSUKA, Tadao NAGASAWA
  • Publication number: 20150261431
    Abstract: The present invention allows a software keyboard and an application in execution to coexist. The present invention includes a display area setting section (31). In a case where (i) it is detected that the software keyboard is activated by a first application and (ii) it is determined that a second application is being executed, the display area setting section (31) changes a display area and a display position of the second application so that an operation to the software keyboard is not disturbed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 19, 2014
    Publication date: September 17, 2015
    Applicant: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Kiyofumi Ohtsuka, Hirokazu Ishikawa, Yoshichika Iida, Takaaki Mitsunaga, Tadao Andou, Megumi Yokogawa
  • Publication number: 20140317634
    Abstract: In a case where a procedure in which a process generation step of allocating a resource necessary for application execution is carried out and then an application execution screen is displayed in a display panel is an application execution procedure, an application execution processing section (102) of the present invention carries out the process generation step in the background during application execution in the foreground.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 15, 2013
    Publication date: October 23, 2014
    Inventors: Hirokazu Ishikawa, Kiyofumi Ohtsuka, Megumi Yokogawa, Shinya Satoh, Yuhichi Yabuki, Tadao Nagasawa
  • Publication number: 20140298251
    Abstract: A touch control section (5) includes: an operation accepting section (51) which accepts a touch operation conducted with respect to an icon or the like; and an accepting operation control section (52) which controls the operation accepting section (51) to forbid an accepting operation in a case where screen scroll is started. In a case where screen scroll is started, the accepting operation control section (52) controls the accepting operation control section (52) to lift the forbiddance of an accepting operation before the screen scroll automatically stops.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 15, 2013
    Publication date: October 2, 2014
    Inventors: Kiyofumi Ohtsuka, Hirokazu Ishikawa, Megumi Yokogawa, Shinya Satoh, Tatsuo Kishimoto, Yuhichi Yabuki, Tadao Nagasawa
  • Publication number: 20140285530
    Abstract: A mobile phone (1) which displays a scrollable screen includes a degraded operation setting section (104). In a case where a scrollable screen is being displayed when an operation input for instructing a scrolling is accepted, the degraded operation setting section (104) inhibits degraded operation for a predetermined time period and, in a case where a scrollable screen is not displayed, the degraded operation setting section (104) causes the process to be carried out in the degraded state.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 15, 2013
    Publication date: September 25, 2014
    Inventors: Kiyofumi Ohtsuka, Hirokazu Ishikawa, Kenichi Horiuchi, Seigo Itoh, Tadao Nagasawa