Patents by Inventor Kunio Nakatsukasa

Kunio Nakatsukasa 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: 9832640
    Abstract: A wireless connection authentication method includes: receiving first information transmitted by a first access point according to a message transmitted from a first wireless communications apparatus; receiving second information transmitted by a second access point according to a message transmitted from a second wireless communications apparatus which has already established communication with a second access point; and, if the first access point indicated in the first information and the second access point indicated in the second information are the same access point, determining the same access point as a connection destination access point of the first wireless communications apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 16, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2017
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICA
    Inventors: Yuji Osaki, Takeshi Nakayama, Masaaki Harada, Kunio Nakatsukasa
  • Patent number: 9754354
    Abstract: An information processing terminal displays a layout drawing that indicates a layout of targets on a display screen on a display unit. The information processing terminal includes a calculator that calculates an angle formed by one edge of borderlines in the layout drawing and one edge of the display screen and also has a display controller that rotates the layout drawing through the calculated angle so that the one edge of the borderlines in the layout drawing is made parallel to the one edge of the display screen and displays the rotated layout drawing on the display unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2017
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICA
    Inventors: Kunio Nakatsukasa, Hiroko Sugimoto
  • Publication number: 20170094035
    Abstract: A method for a device connected to a first control device and a second control device, including: transmitting a command for causing a first device to execute a predetermined operation, the first device being controlled by the first control device; transmitting a command for causing the first device to transmit first information indicating a state of the first device after the predetermined operation is executed; transmitting a third command for causing a second device to transmit second information indicating a state of the second device; receiving the first information and the second information; comparing the first information and the second information; and storing, in a memory, third information indicating the first device is controlled by the first control device and the second control device when the first device is determined to be the second device based on the first information and the second information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 20, 2016
    Publication date: March 30, 2017
    Inventors: TOMONORI NAKAMURA, HIROO ISHIKAWA, KUNIO NAKATSUKASA, SHIKI KOU
  • Publication number: 20170094014
    Abstract: A control method for a controller connected to a first appliance includes: accepting a first request for causing the first appliance to execute a first service, the first appliance being disposed in a first space; transmitting a first command to execute the first service to the first appliance; acquiring first information indicative of an environment state of the first space; and determining whether or not the environment state satisfies a termination condition of the first service based on a correspondence between the first service and the termination condition and the first information, when it is determined that the environment state does not satisfy the termination condition, a second request for causing the first appliance to execute a second service different from the first service is not accepted, and a second command to execute the second service is not transmitted to the first appliance.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 16, 2016
    Publication date: March 30, 2017
    Inventors: KUNIO NAKATSUKASA, TOMONORI NAKAMURA, HIROO ISHIKAWA, SHIKI KOU
  • Publication number: 20150279000
    Abstract: An information processing terminal displays a layout drawing that indicates a layout of targets on a display screen on a display unit. The information processing terminal includes a calculator that calculates an angle formed by one edge of borderlines in the layout drawing and one edge of the display screen and also has a display controller that rotates the layout drawing through the calculated angle so that the one edge of the borderlines in the layout drawing is made parallel to the one edge of the display screen and displays the rotated layout drawing on the display unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 10, 2015
    Publication date: October 1, 2015
    Inventors: KUNIO NAKATSUKASA, HIROKO SUGIMOTO
  • Publication number: 20150172923
    Abstract: A wireless connection authentication method includes: receiving first information transmitted by a first access point according to a message transmitted from a first wireless communications apparatus; receiving second information transmitted by a second access point according to a message transmitted from a second wireless communications apparatus which has already established communication with a second access point; and, if the first access point indicated in the first information and the second access point indicated in the second information are the same access point, determining the same access point as a connection destination access point of the first wireless communications apparatus.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 16, 2014
    Publication date: June 18, 2015
    Inventors: Yuji Osaki, Takeshi Nakayama, Masaaki Harada, Kunio Nakatsukasa