Patents by Inventor Masafumi Ueno

Masafumi Ueno 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: 20220052128
    Abstract: A display device includes a display panel provided with a display region including a plurality of self light-emitting elements, a light-transmitting protective member that covers a surface of the display panel, a housing that houses the display panel and the protective member, and a luminance sensor provided so as not to overlap with the display region. A portion of light from the self light-emitting element positioned inside the display region and adjacent to the luminance sensor is guided to the luminance sensor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 10, 2018
    Publication date: February 17, 2022
    Inventors: MASAFUMI UENO, MASAAKI MORIYA, NAOKI SHIOBARA
  • Patent number: 11138823
    Abstract: An information processing device includes a display control unit that, when at least one NFC antenna has performed close-range wireless communication, effects a display of a communication prompter image that indicates the position of an NFC antenna which is different from the at least one NFC antenna and that prompts for close-range wireless communication with the different NFC antenna.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 16, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 5, 2021
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Masafumi Ueno, Naoki Shiobara, Masaaki Moriya
  • Patent number: 11133582
    Abstract: The present disclosure improves the speed at which communication is started by an antenna that is to carry out communication from among a plurality of antennas for near field communication. An information processing device (10) is provided with a touch panel (120), a plurality of NFC antennas (110), and a control unit (130) for controlling the NFC antennas, and starts driving a drive target antenna which is one or more NFC antennas that correspond to a contact position or proximity position of an object detected by the touch panel, from among the plurality of NFC antennas.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 8, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 28, 2021
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Masafumi Ueno, Naoki Shiobara, Masaaki Moriya
  • Publication number: 20210264839
    Abstract: A display device is it that can more efficiently compensate for degradation of drive transistors by promptly determining an average degradation level of the drive transistors on the entire screen. The display device is provided with a total current measuring circuit (50) that measures, as a total current, drive currents flowing through. all of a plurality of pixel circuits or two or more pixel circuits in a state where a specific image is displayed; a determination data storage unit (110) that holds determination data used to determine whether to perform characteristics detection monitoring for detecting characteristics of the drive transistors; and a determining unit (120) that determines whether to perform the characteristics detection monitoring, based on the total current and the determination data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 28, 2018
    Publication date: August 26, 2021
    Inventors: HIROYUKI FURUKAWA, MASAFUMI UENO
  • Publication number: 20210144628
    Abstract: Notification of a situation in which communication with another terminal is not possible is expressly given to a user. A display apparatus (1) includes an NFC communication unit (112), an NFC controller (13) configured to detect a mobile apparatus (100), a communication mode determination unit (142) configured to determine, when the mobile terminal is detected, whether or not communication with the mobile apparatus based on a P2P mode via an NFC communication unit is possible, and a notification control unit (144) configured to notify that the communication is not possible when it is determined that the communication is not possible.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 15, 2017
    Publication date: May 13, 2021
    Applicant: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: MASAAKI MORIYA, MASAFUMI UENO, NAOKI SHIOBARA
  • Publication number: 20210125450
    Abstract: An information processing device includes a display control unit that, when at least one NFC antenna has performed close-range wireless communication, effects a display of a communication prompter image that indicates the position of an NFC antenna which is different from the at least one NFC antenna and that prompts for close-range wireless communication with the different NFC antenna.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 16, 2018
    Publication date: April 29, 2021
    Inventors: MASAFUMI UENO, NAOKI SHIOBARA, MASAAKI MORIYA
  • Publication number: 20210012715
    Abstract: A display device according to the disclosure includes a display unit including a plurality of electro-optical elements as display elements, luminance and transmittance of which are controlled by a current, a luminance measurement unit configured to measure luminance of the display elements of the display unit in a blocked state, and a correction value arithmetic operation unit configured to compensate a data signal provided to each of pixels of the display elements on the basis of a measurement result obtained by the luminance measurement unit. This enables accurate compensation in units of pixels.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 30, 2018
    Publication date: January 14, 2021
    Inventors: MASAFUMI UENO, MASAAKI MORIYA, NAOKI SHIOBARA
  • Patent number: 10812146
    Abstract: An unwanted process is prevented from being performed due to near field communication based on a process performed via an antenna which is not intended by a user. An information processing apparatus (1) includes a communication antenna determination unit (22) configured to, when a proximity state of an NFC terminal (10) to an NFC antenna (12) continues, determines that the NFC antenna (12) is an NFC antenna (12) that performs near field communication for executing a prescribed process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 16, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 20, 2020
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Masafumi Ueno, Naoki Shiobara, Masaaki Moriya
  • Publication number: 20200249801
    Abstract: An association between each input area and processing can be made preferable for a user. A client device (1) includes an analysis unit (45) configured to analyze an execution log of near field radio communication performed by an operator using any of NFC antennas (121) to determine a preferred association between each of the NFC antennas (121) and the processing based on the prescribed rule.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 20, 2016
    Publication date: August 6, 2020
    Applicants: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA, SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: NAOKI SHIOBARA, MASAFUMI UENO
  • Publication number: 20200249835
    Abstract: An information processing device capable of automatically adjusting the size of a work area and the like is provided. An information processing device (1) includes a display device (10) including a screen configured to display a work area, an NFC unit (112) superimposed on the screen, a terminal information acquisition unit (211) configured to acquire terminal information about a terminal device, a positional information acquisition unit (212) configured to acquire positional information about an NFC antenna (114) used for acquiring the terminal information, and a work area setting unit (213) configured to set the work area.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 11, 2016
    Publication date: August 6, 2020
    Applicant: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: MASAFUMI UENO, NAOKI SHIOBARA
  • Patent number: 10726216
    Abstract: A user is guided with a simple configuration so that near field communication is performed. An information processing device (1) includes an NFC antenna (520) configured to perform near field communication with an NFC terminal (100), and a display unit (53) configured to display a guide region (Ai). The guide region (Ai) serves as a guide for a communication-enabling region. The display unit (53) displays the guide region (Ai) such that the guide region (Ai) is included in the communication-enabling region (B) and the guide region (Ai) is smaller than the communication-enabling region (B).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 28, 2020
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Naoki Shiobara, Masafumi Ueno, Masaaki Moriya
  • Publication number: 20200136678
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus more reliably performs communications with an information communication terminal. The information processing apparatus includes NFC antennas that perform near field communication with an NFC tag and an NFC control unit that controls a sequential order in accordance with which the NFC antennas are scanned.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 12, 2018
    Publication date: April 30, 2020
    Inventors: NAOKI SHIOBARA, MASAFUMI UENO, MASAAKI MORIYA
  • Patent number: 10634313
    Abstract: Provided is a light-emitting device and the like in which a light source emits light on the basis of information obtained through communications and the light thus emitted is easy for a user to visually recognize. A light-emitting device includes an LED, a light guide plate, a transparent NFC antenna sheet, and an NFC antenna. The transparent NFC antenna sheet and the NFC antenna are disposed on a principal surface or a backside surface of the light guide plate. At least some part of the light guided by the light guide plate exits out through the principal surface. The LED emits light on the basis of identification information obtained through communications via the NFC antenna sheet and the NFC antenna.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 28, 2020
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Masaaki Moriya, Masafumi Ueno, Naoki Shiobara, Mitsuru Hineno, Tomohiro Omatsu, Hiroyuki Furukawa, Yasuhiro Sugita, Shinji Yamagishi, Jean Mugiraneza
  • Publication number: 20200104552
    Abstract: A user is guided with a simple configuration so that near field communication is performed. An information processing device (1) includes an NFC antenna (520) configured to perform near field communication with an NFC terminal (100), and a display unit (53) configured to display a guide region (Ai). The guide region (Ai) serves as a guide for a communication-enabling region. The display unit (53) displays the guide region (Ai) such that the guide region (Ai) is included in the communication-enabling region (B) and the guide region (Ai) is smaller than the communication-enabling region (B).
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 4, 2017
    Publication date: April 2, 2020
    Applicant: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: NAOKI SHIOBARA, MASAFUMI UENO, MASAAKI MORIYA
  • Publication number: 20200021023
    Abstract: The present disclosure improves the speed at which communication is started by an antenna that is to carry out communication from among a plurality of antennas for near field communication. An information processing device (10) is provided with a touch panel (120), a plurality of NFC antennas (110), and a control unit (130) for controlling the NFC antennas, and starts driving a drive target antenna which is one or more NFC antennas that correspond to a contact position or proximity position of an object detected by the touch panel, from among the plurality of NFC antennas.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 8, 2017
    Publication date: January 16, 2020
    Inventors: MASAFUMI UENO, NAOKI SHIOBARA, MASAAKI MORIYA
  • Patent number: 10525342
    Abstract: A process is performed by linking communication information acquired by Near field radio communication from a client device with position information of the client device. An information processing device (1) includes an association unit (211) configured to: acquire via an NFC unit (112) configured to perform Near field radio communication, terminal information held by an NFC terminal; acquire touch information including information on a position on the touch panel (111), the NFC terminal coming into contact with the position; and associate the terminal information and the touch information and store a result of the association.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2020
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Masafumi Ueno, Naoki Shiobara
  • Publication number: 20190372625
    Abstract: An unwanted process is prevented from being performed due to near field communication based on a process performed via an antenna which is not intended by a user. An information processing apparatus (1) includes a communication antenna determination unit (22) configured to, when a proximity state of an NFC terminal (10) to an NFC antenna (12) continues, determines that the NFC antenna (12) is an NFC antenna (12) that performs near field communication for executing a prescribed process.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 16, 2018
    Publication date: December 5, 2019
    Inventors: MASAFUMI UENO, NAOKI SHIOBARA, MASAAKI MORIYA
  • Publication number: 20190323683
    Abstract: Provided is a light-emitting device and the like in which a light source emits light on the basis of information obtained through communications and the light thus emitted is easy for a user to visually recognize. A light-emitting device includes an LED, a light guide plate, a transparent NFC antenna sheet, and an NFC antenna. The transparent NFC antenna sheet and the NFC antenna are disposed on a principal surface or a backside surface of the light guide plate. At least some part of the light guided by the light guide plate exits out through the principal surface. The LED emits light on the basis of identification information obtained through communications via the NFC antenna sheet and the NFC antenna.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 27, 2017
    Publication date: October 24, 2019
    Inventors: MASAAKI MORIYA, MASAFUMI UENO, NAOKI SHIOBARA, MITSURU HINENO, TOMOHIRO OMATSU, HIROYUKI FURUKAWA, YASUHIRO SUGITA, SHINJI YAMAGISHI, JEAN MUGIRANEZA
  • Publication number: 20190274023
    Abstract: The present disclosure increases the degree of freedom for setting a function region. In an information processing device (1), a communicable region is divided to obtain a plurality of regions that include a function region and a non-function region, or include a plurality of types of function regions. The information processing device is provided with a processing deciding unit (23) that decides the content of transmission or reception processing of information between an NFC terminal (100) and an NFC antenna (13a) in accordance with which region includes the position of the NFC terminal detected by a touch panel (11).
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 7, 2017
    Publication date: September 5, 2019
    Applicant: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: NAOKI SHIOBARA, MASAFUMI UENO, MASAAKI MORIYA
  • Publication number: 20190227762
    Abstract: The present disclosure executes various types of processing by means of simple operations and processing. An information processing device includes a terminal information acquisition circuit acquiring identification information from an NFC terminal via an NFC antenna; a position determination circuit determining whether or not a terminal position corresponds to at least one prescribed position determined in advance; and a processing permission circuit permitting prescribed processing in a case where the identification information satisfies a prescribed condition and the terminal position is determined to correspond to the prescribed position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 28, 2017
    Publication date: July 25, 2019
    Inventors: MASAAKI MORIYA, MASAFUMI UENO, NAOKI SHIOBARA, YASUHIRO SUGITA