Patents by Inventor Masanori Sambe

Masanori Sambe 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: 20110145300
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a database system includes first and second storing units, a detecting unit, an acquiring unit, a generating unit, and an updating unit. The first storing unit stores a first data table that describes plural first data records respectively including information concerning plural information fields. The second storing unit stores a second data table that describes second data records each including plural kinds of attribute information respectively representing attributes concerning the information fields. The detecting unit detects an information field not in use among the information fields. The acquiring unit acquires, according to an instruction of a user, attribute information concerning the detected information field. The generating unit generates a data record including the acquired attribute information and identification information of the detected information field.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 3, 2010
    Publication date: June 16, 2011
    Applicant: TOSHIBA TEC KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Akio Hiruma, Kenji Shimizu, Masanori Sambe
  • Publication number: 20110137938
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a database system includes a first and second storage unit, a reading unit, and a generating unit. The first storage unit stores a first data table in which first data records, each including information about information fields, are described. The second storage unit stores a second data table in which second data records including pieces of attribute information, each representing a display attribute about the information field included in the first data record, are described. The reading unit reads out the first and second data records from the first and second storage units in accordance with the fact that displaying the information included in the first data table is requested. The generating unit generates an image for displaying the information included in the read first data record in accordance with the display attribute represented by the attribute information included in the read second data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 3, 2010
    Publication date: June 9, 2011
    Applicant: TOSHIBA TEC KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Kenji Shimizu, Masanori Sambe
  • Publication number: 20110131229
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a query generating apparatus includes a query storing unit, a detecting unit, and a query generating unit. The query storing unit stores, in association with query identification information for identifying a database query, a query character string in which a portion of a parameter as a data retrieval condition for the database query specified by the query identification information is described as an arbitrary variable identifier. When the query identification information specifying the database query and a parameter necessary for retrieval of data are received from a client, the detecting unit detects the query character string associated with the received query identification information from the query storing unit. The query generating unit replaces the variable identifier described in the query character string detected from the query storing unit with the parameter received from the client and generates a database query.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 30, 2010
    Publication date: June 2, 2011
    Applicant: TOSHIBA TEC KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Takahide Kubota, Kenji Shimizu, Masanori Sambe
  • Publication number: 20100262934
    Abstract: An order receiving apparatus includes: a receiving unit configured to receive selection of a task other than an order task related to an order of a menu item; and a display control unit configured to display an order input screen including an area in which an operation image for operating execution of the order task is displayed and an area in which an operation image for operating execution of the task, the selection of which is received, is displayed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 7, 2010
    Publication date: October 14, 2010
    Applicant: TOSHIBA TEC KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Takahide Kubota, Yumiko Okuma, Masanori Sambe, Hisashi Sato, Takashi Makiyama
  • Publication number: 20100259496
    Abstract: An order receiving apparatus includes: a display control unit configured to display an order input screen on which a menu area and a details area are arranged, the menu area being an area in which operation images for receiving orders for menu items are displayed for each section of menu items and the details area being an area in which details of the menu item for which an order is received are displayed; a receiving unit configured to receive selection of a detail out of the details displayed in the details area; and a switching unit configured to switch the operation images displayed in the menu area to the operation images for receiving menu items of the section related to the menu item, whose selection of the detail is received.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 7, 2010
    Publication date: October 14, 2010
    Applicant: TOSHIBA TEC KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Kenji Shimizu, Masanori Sambe, Takashi Makiyama, Yumiko Okuma, Hisashi Sato
  • Publication number: 20100262935
    Abstract: An order receiving apparatus includes: a display unit configured to display an order input screen including an order list in which order information indicating ordered menu items is list-displayed; a receiving unit configured to receive the order information indicating a menu item, an order of which is to be cancelled, among the pieces of order information list-displayed in the order list; a canceling unit configured to cancel the order of the menu item indicated by the received order information; and a changing unit configured to change display of the order information indicating the menu item, the order of which is cancelled, among the pieces of order information list-displayed in the order list to special display.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 7, 2010
    Publication date: October 14, 2010
    Applicant: TOSHIBA TEC KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Takahide Kubota, Yumiko Okuma, Masanori Sambe, Hisashi Sato, Takashi Makiyama
  • Publication number: 20100262936
    Abstract: An order receiving apparatus includes: a display unit configured to display an order input screen including a menu item space in which operation images for receiving orders of menu items are allocated according to definition information for defining the operation images and a menu allocation screen including the menu item space and a list of menu items for which the operation images can be allocated to the menu item space; a first selecting unit configured to select a menu item for which the operation image is allocated to the menu item space among the menu items included in the list; a second selecting unit configured to select an allocation position to which the operation image of the menu item selected by the first selecting unit is allocated among allocation positions to which the operation images can be allocated in the menu item space; and an updating unit configured to update the definition information according to the menu item selected by the first selecting unit and the allocation position selected
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 7, 2010
    Publication date: October 14, 2010
    Applicant: TOSHIBA TEC KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Kenji Shimizu, Masanori Sambe, Takashi Makiyama, Yumiko Okuma, Hisashi Sato
  • Publication number: 20100231355
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes: an authenticating unit configured to perform, when an input from an operator not having operation authority is received on a restricted input button that can be operated only by an operator having the operation authority, authentication by the operator having the operation authority; and a restriction releasing unit configured to temporarily release the operation restriction for the restricted input button when the authentication by the operator having the operation authority is successful.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 25, 2010
    Publication date: September 16, 2010
    Applicant: TOSHIBA TEC KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yumiko Okuma, Maki Sato, Takashi Makiyama, Masanori Sambe, Hisashi Sato
  • Publication number: 20100192090
    Abstract: An order receiving apparatus includes: a display control unit configured to display an order input screen in which function information concerning menu order functions is arranged in a plurality of areas; a moving unit configured to move a boundary between the areas adjacent to each other; and a scaling unit configured to scale the function information arranged in the areas adjacent to each other across the moved boundary.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 25, 2010
    Publication date: July 29, 2010
    Applicant: TOSHIBA TEC KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Kenya Hiramatsu, Yumiko Okuma, Hisashi Sato, Masanori Sambe, Takashi Makiyama
  • Publication number: 20100191627
    Abstract: An accounting device includes: a first calculation unit which calculates a total amount for ordered menu items; a second calculation unit which calculates an estimate deposit amount as a result of adding, to the total amount calculated by the first calculation unit, a difference between an amount in a processing target digit of the total amount and an amount of a coin or banknote that is more expensive than the amount in the processing target digit; a display control unit which displays an operation image to input the estimate deposit amount calculated by the second calculation unit; and an input acceptance unit which accepts input of the estimate deposit amount calculated by the second calculation unit corresponding to the operation image when the displayed operation image is operated.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 6, 2010
    Publication date: July 29, 2010
    Applicant: TOSHIBA TEC KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Takashi Makiyama, Yumiko Okuma, Hisashi Sato, Masanori Sambe
  • Publication number: 20100191607
    Abstract: An order accepting device includes: an addition unit which, every time a menu button having an article name attached thereto and accepting an operation by an operator is operated, adds a count value indicating the number of orders of an article corresponding to the operated menu button; and a first count display unit which displays the count value indicating the number of orders obtained by the addition unit, on the menu button.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 21, 2010
    Publication date: July 29, 2010
    Applicant: TOSHIBA TEC KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Akio Hiruma, Hisashi Sato, Takashi Makiyama, Yumiko Okuma, Masanori Sambe
  • Publication number: 20100067210
    Abstract: An aspect of the invention is a radio wave shielding case including, a case body having at least a first facet and a second facet connected to the first facet, the first facet including an opening configured to surround a reading facet of a wireless tag reader antenna, a wireless tag slit which is formed in the second facet of the case body and enables a wireless tag to be inserted in the case body so as to face the reading facet of the antenna surrounded by the opening, and a radio wave absorber which covers the opening of the case body and an inner surface except for the wireless tag slit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 31, 2009
    Publication date: March 18, 2010
    Applicant: TOSHIBA TEC KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Hisashi Sato, Masanori Sambe