Patents by Inventor Mamoru Shimazaki

Mamoru Shimazaki 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: 8810609
    Abstract: A mobile terminal includes user setting unit 101, data conversion unit 106 and display alteration unit 107. A user setting unit 101 sets which conversion data to use as the conversion data for converting a contrast difference in data for display out of a plurality of conversion data. Also, data conversion unit 106 performs processing which makes the contrast difference in the data for display small using the conversion data set by user setting judgment unit 104. Also, display alteration unit 107 alters a displayed content on a display screen based on the data for display converted by data conversion unit 106, and sets which conversion data to use as the conversion data for converting the contrast difference in the data for display out of a plurality of conversion data. By performing processing which makes the contrast difference in the data for display small using the set conversion data, peeking from the surroundings is prevented.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2009
    Date of Patent: August 19, 2014
    Assignee: NEC Corporation
    Inventor: Mamoru Shimazaki
  • Publication number: 20140229884
    Abstract: To provide a terminal device, an information input method, and a program, capable of facilitating input of information of two or more digits or two or more characters. The terminal device comprises an operation unit configured to receive an operation from a user, a display unit configured to display an operation object capable of being operated by the user, an operation recognition unit configured to change input information having a length of two or more digits or two or more characters according to an amount of operation on the operation object and based on a predetermined rule, and a control unit configured to perform a predetermined process using input information selected by the operation on the operation object.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 5, 2012
    Publication date: August 14, 2014
    Applicant: NEC CASIO MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS, LTD.
    Inventor: Mamoru Shimazaki
  • Patent number: 8582747
    Abstract: A telephone device has a storage unit 17 in which prescribed count information 173 is pre-registered, telephone call initiating/receiving means 181 for initiating a call to a telephone number of a receiving party, determining whether the receiving party responds to the call, and registering outgoing call history information 172 in the storage unit 17 each time a call is initiated, and function switching means 182 for acquiring the number of continuous non-responses of the same receiving party with reference to the outgoing call history information 172 when the receiving party does not respond and initiating a mail function when the acquired number of the non-responses is no less than the prescribed count.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 11, 2008
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2013
    Assignee: NEC Corporation
    Inventor: Mamoru Shimazaki
  • Publication number: 20110273490
    Abstract: A mobile terminal includes user setting unit 101, data conversion unit 106 and display alteration unit 107. A user setting unit 101 sets which conversion data to use as the conversion data for converting a contrast difference in data for display out of a plurality of conversion data. Also, data conversion unit 106 performs processing which makes the contrast difference in the data for display small using the conversion data set by user setting judgment unit 104. Also, display alteration unit 107 alters a displayed content on a display screen based on the data for display converted by data conversion unit 106, and sets which conversion data to use as the conversion data for converting the contrast difference in the data for display out of a plurality of conversion data. By performing processing which makes the contrast difference in the data for display small using the set conversion data, peeking from the surroundings is prevented.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 14, 2009
    Publication date: November 10, 2011
    Inventor: Mamoru Shimazaki
  • Publication number: 20100278515
    Abstract: A mobile terminal according to an exemplary of the invention includes a recording control means for controlling television broadcasts recording and playing, a setting storage means for storing predetermined conditions and a recording means for recording contents of the television broadcasts based on control of the recording control means, the recording control means controls the recording means so as to start recording the television broadcasts when the mobile terminal has changed its form into a predetermined form as a trigger during the television broadcasts being received, and controls the recording means so as to stop recording the television broadcasts when the predetermined conditions stored in the setting storage means is satisfied to solve a problem of wasting a memory area when television broadcasts is recorded by the mobile terminal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 16, 2009
    Publication date: November 4, 2010
    Inventor: Mamoru Shimazaki
  • Publication number: 20100189232
    Abstract: A telephone device has a storage unit 17 in which prescribed count information 173 is pre-registered, telephone call initiating/receiving means 181 for initiating a call to a telephone number of a receiving party, determining whether the receiving party responds to the call, and registering outgoing call history information 172 in the storage unit 17 each time a call is initiated, and function switching means 182 for acquiring the number of continuous non-responses of the same receiving party with reference to the outgoing call history information 172 when the receiving party does not respond and initiating a mail function when the acquired number of the non-responses is no less than the prescribed count.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 11, 2008
    Publication date: July 29, 2010
    Inventor: Mamoru Shimazaki
  • Patent number: 7181006
    Abstract: A portable terminal device has a timer directly transmitting a signal to a displaying circuit. The displaying circuit directly receives the signal from the timer at set time intervals to update time display of a display part. The control part of the portable terminal device need not be started to update the time display. The battery consumption of the portable terminal device can be reduced. The time display can be updated when the portable terminal device is in a power conservation state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 9, 2003
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2007
    Assignee: NEC Corporation
    Inventor: Mamoru Shimazaki
  • Publication number: 20030128839
    Abstract: A portable terminal device has a timer directly transmitting a signal to a displaying circuit. The displaying circuit directly receives the signal from the timer at set time intervals to update time display of a display part. The control part of the portable terminal device need not be started to update the time display. The battery consumption of the portable terminal device can be reduced. The time display can be updated when the portable terminal device is in a power conservation state.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 9, 2003
    Publication date: July 10, 2003
    Applicant: NEC Corporation
    Inventor: Mamoru Shimazaki
  • Publication number: 20010049293
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus to which this invention is applicable comprises a hinge mechanism and first and second cases each of which has front and back sides, the first and the second cases are coupled to each other through the hinge mechanism so that the information processing apparatus is folded with the front sides of the first and the second cases are faced to each other. The first case has a display unit so that a displayed content of the display unit can be seen from both of the front and the back sides of the first case. The display unit is provided with a liquid crystal display plate having first and second sides and a pair of screens, the screens being substantially transparent and being arranged over the first and the second sides of the liquid crystal display plate. The second case has at least one of operating buttons for the operation of the information processing apparatus.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 31, 2001
    Publication date: December 6, 2001
    Applicant: NEC Corporation
    Inventor: Mamoru Shimazaki
  • Patent number: 6204699
    Abstract: A voltage detection circuit is capable of detecting a low voltage without malfunctioning, and this so even if the voltage is lower than a minimum operating voltage. The voltage detection circuit includes two input terminals, a voltage selecting circuit, and a voltage-detecting integrated circuit (IC). In operation, a standard voltage is input into a first input terminal of the voltage detection circuit and the voltage to be detected is input into the second input terminal. The first terminal voltage is then divided by a voltage divider circuit. This divided voltage and the voltage to be detected are input into the voltage selecting circuit, which outputs one of the voltages to the voltage detecting IC. The voltage detecting IC compares the input voltage to a detection voltage and outputs a value accordingly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 1999
    Date of Patent: March 20, 2001
    Assignee: NEC Corporation
    Inventor: Mamoru Shimazaki
  • Patent number: 5689821
    Abstract: In an IC memory card radio modem including an antenna, intensity of electric field received by the antenna is measured by an electric field intensity detector. An antenna driver is controlled such that, when the electric field intensity exceeds a predetermined value, the antenna is retracted or is not risen. The antenna is extended when the electric field intensity is equal to or lower than the predetermined value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 1994
    Date of Patent: November 18, 1997
    Assignee: NEC Corporation
    Inventor: Mamoru Shimazaki
  • Patent number: 5493690
    Abstract: A foldable portable telephone set which allows switching between a speech holding condition and a speaking condition without the necessity of an operation of a key thereby to prevent an operation in error. An open or closed condition of a cover section relative to a body section is detected by means of a reed switch provided on the cover section, a magnet provided on the body section, and a detection circuit for detecting an on- or off-state of the reed switch. A speech holding condition is established when it is detected that the cover section is closed during speech. In the speech holding condition, manually operable keys are covered with the body section and not exposed outside.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 1994
    Date of Patent: February 20, 1996
    Assignee: NEC Corporation
    Inventor: Mamoru Shimazaki
  • Patent number: 4596453
    Abstract: An electromagnetic drive device for a focal plane shutter having a tubular yoke and a cylindrical permanent magnet concentrically fixed to the yoke by clamping apparatus. A moving coil in a space between the permanent magnet cylinder and the yoke rotates about the axis of the permanent magnet and is drivingly connected through a shaft to blades of a leading or trailing curtain of the shutter, wherein a pair of holes are formed in one of the end surfaces of the permanent magnet cylinder symmetrical with respect to the axis thereof. The running characteristic of the shutter blades can be adjusted when the distribution of magnetic flux density is previously adjusted by turning the permanent magnet with the use of a tool engaged in the holes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 1985
    Date of Patent: June 24, 1986
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Masahisa Fujino, Ryuji Suzuki, Mamoru Shimazaki, Yasuo Suda
  • Patent number: 4273426
    Abstract: In the disclosed motion picture system a shutter drive control circuit renders it possible to operate a rotary shutter in various exposure control modes including a mode in which rotation of the shutter is stopped for each long exposure of motion picture frame, the system can defer release of the shutter to the exposure aperture closed position pending completion of a picture frame exposure in any of the modes. The system terminates the preceding manual actuation of a shutter trigger when the taking of the particular picture frame is in progress.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 11, 1977
    Date of Patent: June 16, 1981
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Hideto Iwama, Masamichi Toyama, Mamoru Shimazaki, Toshikazu Ichiyanagi
  • Patent number: 4120571
    Abstract: A motion picture camera which can use a cartridge for film having a sound track includes sound recording means and a mechanism which actuates and releases the sound recording means to an operative state and to an inoperative state, respectively, in response to an actuation and a release of a shutter release member. All such parts which are needed to engage a film are arranged in a cartridge chamber defined in the camera housing so that the operator enables to readily insert a cartridge into the chamber so long as the sound recording means are set to their inoperative position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 5, 1976
    Date of Patent: October 17, 1978
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Keiichi Sakaguchi, Yoshio Komine, Toshikazu Ichiyanagi, Mamoru Shimazaki, Kazuya Hosoe
  • Patent number: 4079398
    Abstract: A self-timer for cinecameras wherein an electric delay circuit is used for detecting a length of time from the release to the commencement of a photographing process which takes place with an electric power having been actually supplied to a film feeding motor. The amount of the rotation made by the film feeding motor from the start of the rotation of the motor is either mechanically or electrically detected. When the detected amount of rotation reaches a preset value corresponding to a number of frames of the film required for self-timer photographing, the motor is stopped to terminate the photographing operation, so that the photographing operation with the self-timer can be accomplished exactly for a preset number of frames.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 11, 1975
    Date of Patent: March 14, 1978
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Toshikazu Ichiyanagi, Hideto Iwama, Noritsugu Hirata, Kazuo Ishikawa, Hidekazu Okajima, Masamichi Toyama, Mamoru Shimazaki, Tomoshi Takigawa
  • Patent number: 4046464
    Abstract: An automatic exposure control system for controlling the diaphragm of a motion picture camera in accordance with the object brightness level photoelectrically determined from the amount of light passing through the diaphragm is provided with a manually switchable shutter control device having a number ofswitched positions including positions for selection of various speeds of rotation of the camera shutter and for selection of various shutter intervals each effected in one revolution of the shutter in combination with a corresponding number of branch circuits of the exposure metering device controlling operation of the camera diaphragm, whereby it is made possible to make exposures not only at normal light levels but also at low light levels outside the lower limit of the normal light level range.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 20, 1975
    Date of Patent: September 6, 1977
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Mamoru Shimazaki, Masamichi Toyama, Toshikazu Ichiyanagi, Hideto Iwama
  • Patent number: 4046465
    Abstract: A self-timer device for a motion picture camera of the type having a first motor for driving a film feeding device and a shutter device and a second motor for driving other moving parts such as a zoom lens system. In the device, automatic photographing controlling means which is provided with cam portions for controlling the timing for starting and stopping the camera release operation is operated by the second motor. For photographing, an interlock arrangement between the second motor and the other moving parts which are to be driven by the motor is released while, at the same time, the cam portions of the controlling means are brought into a given relation to a camera release arrangement. This is done in such a manner that the timing for starting and stopping the camera release, i.e.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 1975
    Date of Patent: September 6, 1977
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Masamichi Toyama, Tomoshi Takigawa, Mamoru Shimazaki, Hidekazu Okajima, Toshikazu Ichiyanagi, Hideto Iwama
  • Patent number: 4037948
    Abstract: A photographic camera in which a film cartridge, housing a photographing film having a recording belt capable of recording sound signal, can be loaded, wherein for the purpose of effecting the recording of sound signal simultaneously with photographing a sound signal recording head and a constant speed film running mechanism are provided at the sound signal recording part being separated from an intermittent film transport mechanism for running the above mentioned film with a constant speed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 16, 1974
    Date of Patent: July 26, 1977
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Keiichi Sakaguchi, Yoshio Komine, Toshikazu Ichiyanagi, Mamoru Shimazaki, Kazuya Hosoe
  • Patent number: 4012124
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a device to adjust the position of optics lens systems which are movable relative to each other, and is characterized in that the device is equipped with a plural number of cam grooves variable relative to each other to adjust the position, frames to support the optical elements composing said optic lens system and springs forcing said frames to always be engaged in said adjusting cam grooves, whereby the forcing springs present forcing forces to compensate the components along the directions to move said adjusting cam grooves of the forces given to said plural number of said adjusting cam grooves.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 16, 1975
    Date of Patent: March 15, 1977
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Katuhiko Toda, Mamoru Shimazaki, Michiharu Suwa