Patents by Inventor Masaki Takakura

Masaki Takakura 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: 9008980
    Abstract: A display is estimating every day working time of a worker involved in a load based on power consumption data in which electricity supplied to the load is measured in a certain period; calculating power consumption of the load during working time a day to calculate an average of the power consumption in a predetermined period; and calculating estimated daily power saving for every day based on a difference between maximum power during working time a day and power for each of the time, in which an index in which a proportion of the daily estimated power saving to a sum of the estimated electric saving and the power consumption serves as a parameter while a proportion of the power consumption a day to an average of the power consumption in a predetermined period serves as another parameter is displayed with the measured power consumption for each of the time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 14, 2015
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Masaki Takakura
  • Patent number: 8870591
    Abstract: An identification adapter is provided with a case made of a transparent resin which is able to transmit environment light; a socket which is provided on a predetermined surface of the case and into which a power plug of an electrical device is able to be inserted; an adapter plug which is provided on a surface different from the predetermined surface of the case to apply a current to the power plug of the electrical device via the socket, and able to be inserted into another electrical outlet; and an identification mark which is provided near the adapter plug.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 28, 2014
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Masaki Takakura
  • Publication number: 20130138368
    Abstract: A power consumption display apparatus is comprised of a portion for estimating a clock-in time and a clock-out time of a worker involved in a load based on power consumption data obtained by measuring electric power supplied to the load for a certain period to calculate an average clock-in time and an average clock-out time of the worker using the estimated value; a portion for calculating average power consumption of the load during working hours a day based on the power consumption data, the average clock-in time and the average clock-out time; and a portion for calculating target power consumption of the load reduced at a predetermined rate from the average power consumption, in which a measurement value of power consumption per day of the load is graphically displayed together with the average clock-in time the average clock-out time and the target power consumption.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 12, 2012
    Publication date: May 30, 2013
    Applicant: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Masaki TAKAKURA
  • Publication number: 20110047485
    Abstract: In creating an image in accordance with an operation performed on a shared image, each image is created on an object-by-object basis. In this case, selection of a public mode or a private mode for an other apparatus, i.e., a B terminal apparatus, is received for each object. Information of the selected public or private mode is transmitted to a server apparatus. The other apparatus, i.e., the B terminal apparatus, receives information of an image created by an A terminal apparatus, and displays only an image, with which the information of the public mode is associated, based on the information of the public or private mode included in the received image information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 19, 2010
    Publication date: February 24, 2011
    Applicant: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Masaki Takakura
  • Patent number: 7147922
    Abstract: There are provided a resin film being excellent in blocking resistance, scratch resistance, transparency, water resistance and chemical resistance and a member having the resin film as an outermost layer. The resin film comprises a vinylidene fluoride (VdF) copolymer and an acrylic polymer as essential components, in which a heat of fusion of crystal derived from the VdF copolymer in the resin film is from 15 to 30 J/g when measured with a differential scanning calorimeter (DSC), and light transmittance (light transmittance at 600 nm of 50 ?m thick resin film) is not less than 85%. The member has the resin film as an outermost layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 2004
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2006
    Assignee: Daikin Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Nobuhiko Tsuda, Keisuke Matsumoto, Masaki Takakura, Ken Okanishi
  • Publication number: 20050019584
    Abstract: There are provided a resin film being excellent in blocking resistance, scratch resistance, transparency, water resistance and chemical resistance and a member having the resin film as an outermost layer. The resin film comprises a vinylidene fluoride (VdF) copolymer and an acrylic polymer as essential components, in which a heat of fusion of crystal derived from the VdF copolymer in the resin film is from 15 to 30 J/g when measured with a differential scanning calorimeter (DSC), and light transmittance (light transmittance at 600 nm of 50 ?m thick resin film) is not less than 85%. The member has the resin film as an outermost layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 22, 2004
    Publication date: January 27, 2005
    Inventors: Nobuhiko Tsuda, Keisuke Matsumoto, Masaki Takakura, Ken Okanishi
  • Patent number: 6803915
    Abstract: A key frame animation processing method includes steps of outputting information indicating a time for presenting a key frame for every key frame, and outputting state information of each object in correspondence to the time information of the key frame for every key frame, thereby reducing the quantity of outputted data. The data may be outputted to either a storage medium or a communication medium. This method may include a step of outputting link information as to each object and another object in another key frame in correspondence to the state information of the object. The state information may include only the quantity of a state change. Also disclosed is a method of displaying a key frame animation in real time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2003
    Date of Patent: October 12, 2004
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Masaki Takakura, Minoru Nishihata
  • Publication number: 20030197703
    Abstract: A key frame animation processing method includes steps of outputting information indicating a time for presenting a key frame for every key frame, and outputting state information of each object in correspondence to the time information of the key frame for every key frame, thereby reducing the quantity of outputted data. The data may be outputted to either a storage medium or a communication medium. This method may include a step of outputting link information as to each object and another object in another key frame in correspondence to the state information of the object. The state information may include only the quantity of a state change. Also disclosed is a method of displaying a key frame animation in real time.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 26, 2003
    Publication date: October 23, 2003
    Applicant: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Masaki Takakura, Minoru Nishihata
  • Patent number: 6597361
    Abstract: A key frame animation processing method includes steps of outputting information indicating a time for presenting a key frame for every key frame, and outputting state information of each object in correspondence to the time information of the key frame for every key frame, thereby reducing the quantity of outputted data. The data may be outputted to either a storage medium or a communication medium. This method may include a step of outputting link information as to each object and another object in another key frame in correspondence to the state information of the object. The state information may include only the quantity of a state change. Also disclosed is a method of displaying a key frame animation in real time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2001
    Date of Patent: July 22, 2003
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Masaki Takakura, Minoru Nishihata
  • Publication number: 20020130873
    Abstract: A key frame animation processing method includes steps of outputting information indicating a time for presenting a key frame for every key frame, and outputting state information of each object in correspondence to the time information of the key frame for every key frame, thereby reducing the quantity of outputted data. The data may be outputted to either a storage medium or a communication medium. This method may include a step of outputting link information as to each object and another object in another key frame in correspondence to the state information of the object. The state information may include only the quantity of a state change. Also disclosed is a method of displaying a key frame animation in real time.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 10, 2001
    Publication date: September 19, 2002
    Applicant: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Masaki Takakura, Minoru Nishihata
  • Patent number: 6414685
    Abstract: A key frame animation processing method includes steps of outputting information indicating a time for presenting a key frame for every key frame, and outputting state information of each object in correspondence to the time information of the key frame for every key frame, thereby reducing the quantity of outputted data. The data may be outputted to either a storage medium or a communication medium. This method may include a step of outputting link information as to each object and another object in another key frame in correspondence to the state information of the object. The state information may include only the quantity of a state change. Also disclosed is a method of displaying a key frame animation in real time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 1997
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2002
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Masaki Takakura, Minoru Nishihata
  • Patent number: 5614934
    Abstract: A color correction circuit is best adjusted to consistently obtain a stable, color printing by compensating for a change in the characteristic of a printer under the influence of ambient temperature and humidity.Before the printing of pictorial data, e.g., an image, (reference data produced by a reference data generator), is entered into a printer engine by which it is printed out on a sheet of a paper. This printed data is read in by a color sensor, which in turn produces an output detection signal. A feedback control circuit produces a control signal necessary for a color correction according to the output signal of the color sensor and then sends it to the color correction circuit. The color correction circuit is adjusted and corrects the colors of the pictorial data to be printed. The corrected data is printed out. Repeating this process for each color printing can prevent a variation in the printed colors due to the effect of ambient temperature.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 3, 1993
    Date of Patent: March 25, 1997
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Yasuhiro Yoshida, Gen Itoh, Hiroyuki Furukawa, Masaki Takakura
  • Patent number: 5509113
    Abstract: An apparatus for producing a railroad symbol and a road symbol, includes a CPU, a coordinates input device, an external storage device and a display. The CPU has an operation unit for performing a drawing operation, an interface circuit and a memory for storing data and a program. The railroad symbol is produced by continuous drawing of figure parts. The road symbol is produced by overlapping curved line drawn with a circle in a color and curved line drawn with smaller circle in another color.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 1994
    Date of Patent: April 16, 1996
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Masaki Takakura, Masaki Kobayashi, Yasukuni Yamane, Noritoshi Kako
  • Patent number: 5425111
    Abstract: A image processing apparatus for coloring an original image includes a unit for inputting an original image to be painted and a color image, a unit for dividing the original image input by the inputting unit into a plurality of areas corresponding to the original image and for generating area information data corresponding to the plurality of areas, a unit for selecting the same number of colors as the number of the plurality of areas based on data of the color image input by the inputting unit, and a unit for allocating the colors selected by the selecting unit to the plurality of divided areas based on the area information data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 1994
    Date of Patent: June 13, 1995
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Aoi Kitaura, Masaki Takakura, Yasukuni Yamane, Noritoshi Kako
  • Patent number: 5345544
    Abstract: A data base system has a chart generation unit for generating a chart pattern in accordance with chart data applied thereto, an indicator management unit for managing a plurality of indicators which symbolize particular functions, and attribute information associated with the indicators, and an indicator pattern generation unit for generating indicator patterns representative of the indicators in accordance with the attribute information associated with the respective indicators, which attribute information are managed by the indicator management unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 1991
    Date of Patent: September 6, 1994
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Keisuke Iwasaki, Masaki Takakura, Yasusuke Asayama
  • Patent number: 5313226
    Abstract: An image synthesizing apparatus includes a first storage unit for storing first image data, a second storage unit for storing second image data, a third storage unit for storing data of a synthesizing ratio of the first image data to the second image data, a selective unit for selectively outputting at least the lower bits of the first and second image data based on the synthesizing ratio, and a synthesizing unit for synthesizing the image data selected by the selective unit and outputting the synthesized image data. The selective unit is connected to the first, second and third storage unit, and the synthesizing unit is connected to the selective unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 11, 1993
    Date of Patent: May 17, 1994
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Masaki Takakura, Yasukuni Yamane, Noritoshi Kako
  • Patent number: 5285193
    Abstract: A system which includes a chart forming section for forming a pattern of a chart to be displayed on a screen, a recording section for recording, per each record, attribute information which designates a predetermined position on the chart, a display section for displaying the chart formed by the chart forming device on the screen and also for displaying a symbol at the predetermined position on the chart as designated by each attribute information, and a designating section capable of designating the record corresponding to the attribute information which indicates the position of the symbol by specifying any of the symbol on the chart displayed on the screen by the display section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 1991
    Date of Patent: February 8, 1994
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Keisuke Iwasaki, Masaki Takakura, Yasukuni Yamane, Noritoshi Kako
  • Patent number: 5267333
    Abstract: An image compressing apparatus forms a synthetic image from a plurality of image data. The apparatus includes a device for sorting a plurality of image data into a plurality of image types in accordance with at least one of a nature and a use of each image data, a device for selecting an image compressing method out of a plurality of predetermined various image compressing methods for each image data in accordance with the sorted image type, and a device for compressing the image data in accordance with the selected image compressing method and recording the compressed image data in a recording medium.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 1992
    Date of Patent: November 30, 1993
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Tomoko Aono, Hiroyuki Katata, Masaki Takakura, Yoji Noguchi, Noritoshi Kako
  • Patent number: 5264946
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus is provided with: at least one image memory for storing each picture element value of an original image; a coordinate inputting device by which a coordinate of an arbitrary point on the original image can be inputted; a device for setting a threshold according to the picture element value at the coordinate inputted by the coordinate inputting device; and a data buffer for successively storing the set threshold. The image processing apparatus is further provided with at least one look up table for converting each picture element value to either one color component data, which color indicates that the picture element value is within the region prescribed by the set threshold, or another color component data, which color indicates that the picture element value is outside the region prescribed by the set threshold, according to the set threshold, each time the threshold is set by the threshold setting device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 25, 1991
    Date of Patent: November 23, 1993
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Masaki Takakura, Yasukuni Yamane, Noritoshi Kako
  • Patent number: 5195180
    Abstract: In a method for displaying an image, the image is divided into a first image area which includes characters, the border of which is overlapping a part of a color background, and a second image area which includes the other part of the background. The method includes the steps of setting data of pixels of the image using n bits in a multi-purpose area of an image memory, in a manner that, in setting data of pixels in the first image area, some of the n bits are used for color information of the background present at the border of the characters and the others are used for data of the characters. Further, in setting data for pixels in the second image area, all of the n bits are used for color information of the background, except that of the part underlying the border of the characters.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 1989
    Date of Patent: March 16, 1993
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Masaki Takakura, Yasukuni Yamane, Noritoshi Kako