Patents by Inventor Koumei Kubota
Koumei Kubota 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).
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Publication number: 20230202506Abstract: An awakening support device promotes awakening of a driver. The awakening support device includes: a vehicle state determiner that determines whether a vehicle of the driver is traveling or stopped; and a stimulus controller that controls a stimulus generation device that generates a stimulus used for supporting the awakening of the driver based on a result of determination by the vehicle state determiner. The stimulus controller causes the stimulus generation device to generate a stimulus more intense than a stimulus generated when the vehicle is determined to be traveling, when the vehicle state determiner determines that the vehicle is stopped.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 6, 2022Publication date: June 29, 2023Applicant: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.Inventors: Tomoka ISHIBASHI, Kazuhiko MAEDA, Koumei KUBOTA
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Patent number: 10479201Abstract: An in-vehicle display system is provided with first display unit, second display unit, vehicle information acquisition unit, and CPU. When a display operation for outputting at least a portion of first content to second display unit with the first content being output to first display unit is performed, CPU selects either of first display unit and second display unit with which to associate an authority to operate the output of at least one of first display unit and second display unit according to at least one signal from among a plurality of signals indicating a type of the first content, an attribute of first display unit, an attribute of second display unit, vehicle information, and a detail of the display operation.Type: GrantFiled: October 5, 2016Date of Patent: November 19, 2019Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.Inventors: Koji Hamasaki, Daiki Matsuda, Koumei Kubota
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Patent number: 10358146Abstract: A display control system includes a display controller, and a single virtual frame-memory. The display controller controls a plurality of display devices physically separated from each other. The virtual frame-memory stores one or more screen images to be displayed on the plurality of the display devices. The display controller is configured to write, into the virtual frame-memory, a screen image to be displayed on and across at least two of the plurality of the display devices.Type: GrantFiled: June 27, 2018Date of Patent: July 23, 2019Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.Inventors: Shigeki Fujii, Koumei Kubota
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Publication number: 20190070959Abstract: An in-vehicle display system is provided with first display unit, second display unit, vehicle information acquisition unit, and CPU. When a display operation for outputting at least a portion of first content to second display unit with the first content being output to first display unit is performed, CPU selects either of first display unit and second display unit with which to associate an authority to operate the output of at least one of first display unit and second display unit according to at least one signal from among a plurality of signals indicating a type of the first content, an attribute of first display unit, an attribute of second display unit, vehicle information, and a detail of the display operation.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 5, 2016Publication date: March 7, 2019Inventors: KOJI HAMASAKI, DAIKI MATSUDA, KOUMEI KUBOTA
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Publication number: 20190009796Abstract: A display control system includes a display controller, and a single virtual frame-memory. The display controller controls a plurality of display devices physically separated from each other. The virtual frame-memory stores one or more screen images to be displayed on the plurality of the display devices. The display controller is configured to write, into the virtual frame-memory, a screen image to be displayed on and across at least two of the plurality of the display devices.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 27, 2018Publication date: January 10, 2019Inventors: Shigeki FUJII, Koumei KUBOTA
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Publication number: 20140344860Abstract: A broadcast image output device includes: a reception unit that receives a broadcast; an output unit that outputs a plurality of home screens in each of which a broadcast image relating to the broadcast received by the reception unit or an app image is allocatable to each section of a display area, the broadcast image and the app image being selectable by user operation; and a control unit that selects one of the home screens in accordance with preset setting information to cause the output unit to output the selected home screen as an initial screen that is ready to accept the user operation and appears after the broadcast image output device is turned on.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 30, 2014Publication date: November 20, 2014Inventors: Shunsuke TANAKA, Koumei KUBOTA, Tatsuo HIROSE
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Patent number: 8817187Abstract: In a launcher display state, a launcher image is displayed on a screen. The launcher image includes a display frame. An application image, which has been reduced based on application video data at the time of startup previously stored in a main memory, is displayed in the display frame. In an intermediate display state, an intermediate launcher image is displayed on the screen. The intermediate launcher image includes an intermediate frame. In the intermediate frame, an application image, which has been reduced based on the application video data at the time of startup previously stored in the main memory, is displayed in the intermediate frame. In an application display state, an application image during startup is displayed on the whole screen of a monitor.Type: GrantFiled: January 28, 2010Date of Patent: August 26, 2014Assignee: Panasonic CorporationInventor: Koumei Kubota
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Publication number: 20140176798Abstract: A broadcast image output device includes: a reception unit that receives a broadcast; an output unit that outputs a plurality of home screens in each of which a broadcast image relating to the broadcast received by the reception unit or an app image is allocatable to each section of a display area, the broadcast image and the app image being selectable by user operation; and a control unit that selects one of the home screens in accordance with preset setting information to cause the output unit to output the selected home screen as an initial screen that is ready to accept the user operation and appears after the broadcast image output device is turned on.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 27, 2013Publication date: June 26, 2014Inventors: Shunsuke TANAKA, Koumei KUBOTA, Tatsuo HIROSE
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Patent number: 8751237Abstract: A sound control section (114) selects and outputs a text-to-speech item from items included in program information multiplexed with a broadcast signal; and starts or stops outputting the text-to-speech item, based on request from a remote controller control section (113). A sound generation section (115) converts the text-to-speech item to a sound signal. A speaker (109) reproduces the sound signal. The sound control section (114) compares each item of information about a program currently selected by user's operation of the remote controller, with each item of information about the previous program selected just before the user's operation. If an item of the currently selected program information is the same as the corresponding item of the operation-prior program information, and text-to-speech processing has been already completed for the item after the last change in the item, the sound control section (114) stops outputting the item to the sound generation section (115).Type: GrantFiled: February 23, 2011Date of Patent: June 10, 2014Assignee: Panasonic CorporationInventor: Koumei Kubota
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Publication number: 20140074270Abstract: An audio read-out system comprises a client and a server, the client including a remote-control input to accept a remote control; a first communicator to transmit a request per the remote control to the server, a process controller; an audio generator; an audio output; a client-main-memory; and a process controller to cause the audio generator to repeatedly generate an audio signal indicating a process per the remote control, to cause associated processing on content in the client-main-memory during the process, and to cause the audio generator to generate an audio signal corresponding to playback progress of the content, and the server including a second communicator to receive the client request and to return response data; a storage; a server-main-memory; and a content manager to manage content in the storage and content-information in the server-main-memory, and per the received request, to establish the managed content and content-information as the response data.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 21, 2011Publication date: March 13, 2014Applicant: PANASONIC CORPORATIONInventor: Koumei Kubota
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Patent number: 8493512Abstract: In a television display state, a television image is displayed on the whole of a screen. In an intermediate display state, an intermediate launcher image is displayed on the screen. The intermediate launcher image includes an intermediate frame having a perspective shape of the screen. A television image the vertical and horizontal sizes of which are reduced is displayed in the intermediate frame. In a launcher display state, a last launcher image is displayed on the screen. The last launcher image includes a display frame having a perspective shape of the screen. A television image having further reduced vertical and horizontal sizes is displayed in the display frame.Type: GrantFiled: January 28, 2010Date of Patent: July 23, 2013Assignee: Panasonic CorporationInventor: Koumei Kubota
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Publication number: 20120323578Abstract: A sound control section (114) selects and outputs a text-to-speech item from items included in program information multiplexed with a broadcast signal; and starts or stops outputting the text-to-speech item, based on request from a remote controller control section (113). A sound generation section (115) converts the text-to-speech item to a sound signal. A speaker (109) reproduces the sound signal. The sound control section (114) compares each item of information about a program currently selected by user's operation of the remote controller, with each item of information about the previous program selected just before the user's operation. If an item of the currently selected program information is the same as the corresponding item of the operation-prior program information, and text-to-speech processing has been already completed for the item after the last change in the item, the sound control section (114) stops outputting the item to the sound generation section (115).Type: ApplicationFiled: February 23, 2011Publication date: December 20, 2012Applicant: PANASONIC CORPORATIONInventor: Koumei Kubota
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Publication number: 20110304769Abstract: In a television display state, a television image is displayed on the whole of a screen. In an intermediate display state, an intermediate launcher image is displayed on the screen. The intermediate launcher image includes an intermediate frame having a perspective shape of the screen. A television image the vertical and horizontal sizes of which are reduced is displayed in the intermediate frame. In a launcher display state, a last launcher image is displayed on the screen. The last launcher image includes a display frame having a perspective shape of the screen. A television image having further reduced vertical and horizontal sizes is displayed in the display frame.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 28, 2010Publication date: December 15, 2011Applicant: PANASONIC CORPORATIONInventor: Koumei Kubota
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Publication number: 20110304770Abstract: In a launcher display state, a launcher image is displayed on a screen. The launcher image includes a display frame. An application image, which has been reduced based on application video data at the time of startup previously stored in a main memory, is displayed in the display frame. In an intermediate display state, an intermediate launcher image is displayed on the screen. The intermediate launcher image includes an intermediate frame. In the intermediate frame, an application image, which has been reduced based on the application video data at the time of startup previously stored in the main memory, is displayed in the intermediate frame. In an application display state, an application image during startup is displayed on the whole screen of a monitor.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 28, 2010Publication date: December 15, 2011Applicant: PANASONIC CORPORATIONInventor: Koumei Kubota