Patents by Inventor Masayoshi Kanbara

Masayoshi Kanbara 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: 20200353614
    Abstract: A teaching device for a robot, which includes a microphone, voice recognition circuity, specific-word extraction circuitry configured to extract a specific word matching with a word recognized by the voice recognition circuitry, and operation command generation circuitry configured to generate an operation command for the robot based on operational information associated with the specific word extracted by the specific-word extraction circuitry. The specific word includes a first word for specifying a pitch corresponding to a moving distance when the robot is moved in a given direction from a specified location, and a second word for specifying a moving direction of the robot, When the pitch specified by the first word is not updated and the moving direction of the robot is specified by the second word, the operation command generation circuitry generates the operation command so that the robot is moved in the specified direction at the specified pitch.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 27, 2020
    Publication date: November 12, 2020
    Applicant: KAWASAKI JUKOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Takayuki YOSHIMURA, Masayoshi KANBARA
  • Patent number: 9307294
    Abstract: In response to a user's operation, a menu screen generating section (12) changes a menu screen to be generated (i) from a first menu screen (M1) in which thumbnail images (Ta through Tg) corresponding to respective plurality of pieces of content are linearly arranged (ii) to a second menu screen (M2) in which the thumbnail images (Ta through Tg) are circularly arranged.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2016
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Masayuki Hiyoshi, Takahiro Tsugi, Bin Wu, Keiichi Hasegawa, Masayoshi Kanbara, Shinya Nishina
  • Publication number: 20150033263
    Abstract: In response to a user's operation, a menu screen generating section (12) changes a menu screen to be generated (i) from a first menu screen (M1) in which thumbnail images (Ta through Tg) corresponding to respective plurality of pieces of content are linearly arranged (ii) to a second menu screen (M2) in which the thumbnail images (Ta through Tg) are circularly arranged.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 27, 2012
    Publication date: January 29, 2015
    Applicant: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Masayuki Hiyoshi, Takahiro Tsugi, Bin Wu, Keiichi Hasegawa, Masayoshi Kanbara, Shinya Nishina
  • Publication number: 20140258903
    Abstract: Visibility of an icon which is on the edge of a display area which is hidden by a finger is enhanced. When a distance between the movement base position and the movement destination position of the icon is short, the icon is displayed to be moved via a detour.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 26, 2012
    Publication date: September 11, 2014
    Inventors: Masayoshi Kanbara, Megumi Itoh, Masaki Tabata, Shuhei Nakamoto, Kentaro Uekane
  • Publication number: 20100229078
    Abstract: The content display control apparatus (1) reproduces moving image content in which captions and video images are correlated with each other by time stamps, thereby causing a display apparatus (5) to display the captions and the video images. In the reproduction, a caption display section (3) causes the display apparatus (5) to display the captions contained in the moving image content. On the other hand, a video image display section (4) causes the display apparatus (5) to display, in sync with that timing when the captions are displayed which is determined by the caption display section (3), the video images correlated with the captions. The content display control apparatus (1) thus reproduces the moving image content on the basis of the captions, thereby allowing a user to efficiently grasp contents of the moving image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 2, 2008
    Publication date: September 9, 2010
    Inventors: Yutaka Otsubo, Shinsuke Segawa, Masayoshi Kanbara, Tetsuo Kobayashi