Patents by Inventor Masao Inadome

Masao Inadome 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: 8730262
    Abstract: In an electronic device and its display method, which dissolves a feeling of wrongness given to users in the case where information displayed in the foreground image and its related information is displayed in the background image, thereby making it possible to reduce a burden imposed on users; when a wallpaper display processing is carried out and a background image displayed by a background image display unit (183) is included in information and its related information displayed by an information display unit (182), such as a clock, a date, a radio condition, a remaining battery charge, and the like; an information display suppression unit (184) suppresses display of either the information display by the information display unit (182) or the information display by the background image display unit (183).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2008
    Date of Patent: May 20, 2014
    Assignee: Kyocera Corporation
    Inventor: Masao Inadome
  • Patent number: 8723802
    Abstract: Provided is a mobile electronic device capable of reflecting a user's intention. While an initial screen for waiting for an incoming-call is being displayed on an LCD display unit, a control unit performs control so that a first type character display area and a second type character display area are displayed on the LCD display unit in place of the initial screen, wherein the first type character display area is an area for, when any of first keys is depressed, displaying a first type character (for example, a number such as “1”, “2”, “3”) assigned to the depressed first key and the second type character display area is an area for displaying a second type character (for example, “a”, “i”, “u”, etc. in Japanese Hiragana letter) assigned to the depressed first key.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 28, 2009
    Date of Patent: May 13, 2014
    Assignee: Kyocera Corporation
    Inventors: Kouji Watanabe, Yuuki Wada, Michiko Takei, Yuka Ishizuka, Tomoyasu Takahashi, Takafumi Satou, Masao Inadome, Hideko Murakami
  • Publication number: 20110175818
    Abstract: Provided is a mobile electronic device capable of reflecting a user's intention. While an initial screen (100) for waiting for an incoming-call is being displayed on an LCD display unit (21), a control unit (45) performs control so that a first type character display area (101) and a second type character display area (102) are displayed on the LCD display unit (21) in place of the initial screen (100), wherein the first type character display area (101) is an area for, when any of first keys is depressed, displaying a first type character (for example, a number such as “1”, “2”, “3”) assigned to the depressed first key and the second type character display area (102) is an area for displaying a second type character (for example, “a”, “i”, “u”, etc. in Japanese Hiragana letter) assigned to the depressed first key.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 28, 2009
    Publication date: July 21, 2011
    Applicant: KYOCERA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kouji Watanabe, Yuuki Wada, Michiko Takei, Yuka Ishizuka, Tomoyasu Takahashi, Takafumi Satou, Masao Inadome, Hideko Murakami
  • Publication number: 20100321403
    Abstract: In an electronic device and its display method, which dissolves a feeling of wrongness given to users in the case where information displayed in the foreground image and its related information is displayed in the background image, thereby making it possible to reduce a burden imposed on users; when a wallpaper display processing is carried out and a background image displayed by a background image display unit (183) is included in information and its related information displayed by an information display unit (182), such as a clock, a date, a radio condition, a remaining battery charge, and the like; an information display suppression unit (184) suppresses display of either the information display by the information display unit (182) or the information display by the background image display unit (183).
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 27, 2008
    Publication date: December 23, 2010
    Applicant: Kyocera Corporation
    Inventor: Masao Inadome