Patents by Inventor Masatoshi Nakao

Masatoshi Nakao 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: 20100328209
    Abstract: In a case where a user carries out input operation by use of a touch panel, operability can be improved even if the operation target is small, efficient input operation is enabled by the user in various situations. The screen generation unit 200 generates screen display information of a display screen including an operation object being an operation target. A size or the like of the operation object on the display screen is judged by the minute operation presence/absence judgment unit 210 and in a case where an operation object which cannot be easily operated by a user's finger is included, the virtual stylus display control unit 310 generates display information of the virtual stylus as a pointer for carrying out instruction input to the operation object.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 4, 2008
    Publication date: December 30, 2010
    Applicant: PANASONIC CORPORATION
    Inventor: Masatoshi Nakao
  • Publication number: 20100289768
    Abstract: The display area of an operation button, etc., to be operated and a sensitive area to operation are appropriately set in various situations and if the operation target cannot clearly be recognized, operability is improved. When an operation button is placed in a non-display state or is placed in a display state in a mode in which clearness of the contours of the operation button is low by a screen display control section 500, an input signal analysis section 200 determines whether or not the input position of a touch panel 10 detected by an input signal control section 300 is in a sensitive area A1 larger than the display area of the operation button. If it is determined that the input position is in the sensitive area A1, processing for the input operation is executed and a command is sent to a setting control section 400 and the screen display control section 500 and the operation button or the contours thereof are placed in the display state by the screen display control section 500.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 14, 2008
    Publication date: November 18, 2010
    Applicant: PANASONIC CORPORATION
    Inventor: Masatoshi Nakao
  • Publication number: 20100283754
    Abstract: It is made possible to cancel the effect of the already executed command without performing burdensome operation if an unobjective command is executed for input operation of the user. An input signal analysis section 200 gives a command of execution of a first command corresponding to detection of input operation to a first operation button based on an input position of a touch panel 10 detected by an input signal control section 300 and if input operation to a second operation button is detected, gives a command of a second command corresponding to detection. If continuous input operation to the second operation button is detected after the first command corresponding to the first operation button is executed, and command change notification from the input signal analysis section 200 is received, an application 100 cancels the effect of the immediately preceding executed first command and executes the second command.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 14, 2008
    Publication date: November 11, 2010
    Applicant: PANASONIC CORPORATION
    Inventor: Masatoshi Nakao
  • Publication number: 20100245277
    Abstract: To enable performance of blind operation despite user's input operation for a touch panel. An input operation identification section 200 outputs to an application 100 a control signal for instructing execution of a corresponding command based on an operation signal input from an input signal control section 300 along with performance of a touch panel 10. On this occasion, when there is detected input operation involving movement of input coordinates over an input surface resultant from user's continual operation, the size of a movement trajectory of the input operation is determined. Input operation whose movement trajectory is smaller than a predetermined value is recognized as ordinary operation, and execution of a first command is instructed. Input operation whose movement trajectory is equal to or greater than the predetermined value is recognized as a special operation and execution of a second command is instructed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 14, 2008
    Publication date: September 30, 2010
    Applicant: PANASONIC CORPORATION
    Inventor: Masatoshi Nakao
  • Publication number: 20100208878
    Abstract: A communication apparatus capable of reducing a burden caused by operation for registering a plurality of serial phone numbers is provided. A communication apparatus 100 includes a database 140 for storing information, an input section 110 for inputting input information including a start number and an end number showing a plurality of serial phone numbers, and a registered information management section 130 that registers registration information as serial phone numbers to the database 140 in accordance with the input information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 31, 2007
    Publication date: August 19, 2010
    Applicant: PANASONIC CORPORATION
    Inventor: Masatoshi Nakao
  • Patent number: 7372181
    Abstract: A rotor for a brushless motor which can securely prevent an idle running and a scattering of a magnet while restricting a manufacturing cost as low as possible. The rotor is provided with a sintered ring magnet in which not-ground recess portions are formed in an axial direction of a inner peripheral surface in correspondence to a magnetic pole, and a portion between the recess portions is ground in an inner peripheral surface having a desired inner diameter, a rotor yoke in which convex portions each having a larger diameter than the inner diameter of the sintered ring magnet are formed in an axial direction of an outer peripheral surface in correspondence to the recess portion, and a through hole is pierced in an axial center, and which is concentrically adhered to the sintered ring magnet by fitting the recess portions and the convex portions, and a shaft inserted and fitted to the through hole of the rotor yoke.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 6, 2005
    Date of Patent: May 13, 2008
    Assignee: Ichinomiya Denki Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yoshikazu Kinashi, Masatoshi Nakao
  • Publication number: 20080026790
    Abstract: A communication terminal according to the invention aims at improving convenience by proper reflection of a user's intention changing in accordance with a status of the terminal. A portable phone terminal provided with a broadcast program reception function, including: a program reservation unit 31 for reserving a process for a broadcast program; a terminal status detection unit 42 for detecting a status of the terminal; and a terminal operation control unit 43 for performing control to correct the reserved process in accordance with the terminal status up to a predetermined point of time.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 31, 2005
    Publication date: January 31, 2008
    Applicant: MATSUSHITA ELECTRIC INDUSTRIAL CO. LTD.
    Inventors: Masatoshi Nakao, Kouji Hatano, Toshio Yagi
  • Publication number: 20070253556
    Abstract: The present invention is to provide an information terminal which does not deteriorate reproduction quality of audio contents and enable clear hearing of a call sound. The information terminal includes: sound reproducing means 11 for reproducing audio contents, reproducing means 14 for reproducing a call sound, sound image location control means 15 for varying sound image locations of the audio contents and the call sound, and sound mixing means 16 for mixing the audio contents and the call sound of which the sound locations have been varied and outputting the mixture.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 1, 2005
    Publication date: November 1, 2007
    Applicant: MATSUSHITA ELECTRIC INDUSTRIAL CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Masatoshi Nakao, Toshio Yagi
  • Publication number: 20050225190
    Abstract: The invention provides a means which can securely prevent an idle running and a scattering of a magnet while restricting a manufacturing cost as low as possible, in a rotor used in a brushless motor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 6, 2005
    Publication date: October 13, 2005
    Applicant: ICHINOMIYA DENKI CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yoshikazu Kinashi, Masatoshi Nakao
  • Patent number: 6778557
    Abstract: A point-to-multipoint communication system that is well operative for transmitting megabytes of information in the form of a signal burst. Each slave unit temporarily stores a signal and measures the amount of the signal information before transmitting the signal. A master unit requests that slave units report the measured amounts of information, and they give reports to the master unit. On the basis of the reports from the slave units, the master unit determines an allowable amount of information for each slave unit and permits the slave units to transmit the stored signals according to the request from the master unit. The interval between the reports from the slave units to the master unit can be varied.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 1999
    Date of Patent: August 17, 2004
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Yoshinori Yuki, Masatoshi Nakao, Hiroyuki Ibe, Yoshio Hatate
  • Publication number: 20030157944
    Abstract: A switch enables a first circuit and a second circuit to be connected to an antenna and a port. A first detecting unit detects whether the external apparatus is connected to the port and detect the type of the external apparatus connected to the port. A second detecting unit detects whether the first circuit or the second circuit is activated. A control section controls the switch, when the first detecting unit detects that the external apparatus is not connected to the port or when the detected type of the external apparatus is inadaptable for the circuit to be activated, the circuit to be activated is connected to the antenna and that, when the detected type of the external apparatus is adaptable for the circuit to be activated, the circuit to be activated is connected to the port.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 19, 2003
    Publication date: August 21, 2003
    Applicant: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Masatoshi Nakao, Satoshi Funayama
  • Patent number: 6230195
    Abstract: A user apparatus periodically detects the mount state of any terminal interface card, and transmits, to a center apparatus, configuration information indicative of the configuration of the user apparatus and including the detection result, when responding to a request for delay time measurement. The center apparatus recognizes and manages the configuration of the user apparatus on the basis of the configuration information. When newly mounting or removing of a terminal interface card has been recognized, the center apparatus performs newly setting releasing of a destination identifier corresponding to the mounted or removed terminal interface card, and notifies the user apparatus of the newly set destination identifier. The user apparatus, in turn, manages identification information sent from the center apparatus, in relation to the terminal interface unit corresponding to the information. As a result, exchange, addition or cancel of communication services which the user uses can be performed easily.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 6, 1999
    Date of Patent: May 8, 2001
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Mitsuru Sugawara, Masatoshi Nakao, Hiroyuki Ibe