Patents by Inventor Masayuki Hirabayashi
Masayuki Hirabayashi 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).
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Patent number: 11388593Abstract: There is provided a mobile terminal capable of being protected against unauthorized use by a third party without using a dedicated key device. A plurality of mobile terminals are previously registered mutually. When unlocked among them, one mobile terminal communicates with another mobile terminal in a communication range of short-range wireless communications, unlocks the above another mobile terminal, and when out of the communication range, locks it again.Type: GrantFiled: August 29, 2018Date of Patent: July 12, 2022Assignee: MAXELL, LTD.Inventors: Masayuki Hirabayashi, Hideo Nishijima
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Publication number: 20220046167Abstract: There is provided an imaging device including: an image processing unit; a face recognition processing unit; a storage unit; and a composition processing unit for generating composite data by a composition process so that persons photographed in each of a plurality of image data are included in one image data. The face recognition processing unit recognizes a first person by performing a face recognition process on first image data. When second image data obtained by photographing a second person at the different photographing timing of the first image data, with the same background as the first image data, is recorded in the storage unit, the composition processing unit generates composite data in which the first person and the second person are superimposed on the same background.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 12, 2021Publication date: February 10, 2022Inventors: Masayuki HIRABAYASHI, Yasunobu HASHIMOTO, Hiroshi SHIMIZU
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Publication number: 20220030318Abstract: A mobile terminal has a communication processing unit that transmits, to a video display apparatus for displaying a broadcasted video content, a request for setting a viewing schedule of the video content. A storage unit stores a starting time of the video content for which the setting of the viewing schedule has been requested; and an information provision unit provides information to a user of the mobile terminal. A control unit determines whether the video display apparatus is existent around the mobile terminal. At a first predetermined time before the starting time, the information provision unit notifies the user of the first predetermined time. If the video display apparatus is not existent around the mobile terminal at a second predetermined time before the starting time, the information provision unit then notifies the user that it is the second predetermined time before the starting time.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 8, 2021Publication date: January 27, 2022Inventors: Masayuki HIRABAYASHI, Motoyuki SUZUKI, Hideo NISHIJIMA
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Publication number: 20210382589Abstract: The present invention provides a Portable information terminal provided with a method for recommending application software and/or a method for controlling screen display capable of granting ideal ease of use to a user. A screen for executing application software recommended by the portable information terminal and an icon correlated with application software arbitrarily selected by the user of the portable information terminal are displayed at the same time in separate areas on the same screen. An icon correlated with the application software recommended by the portable information terminal and the icon correlated with the application software arbitrarily selected by the user of the portable information terminal are displayed at the same time in separate areas on the same screen.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 25, 2021Publication date: December 9, 2021Inventors: Kazuhiko YOSHIZAWA, Nobuo MASUOKA, Masayuki HIRABAYASHI, Hideo NISHIJIMA
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Publication number: 20210377733Abstract: There is provided a mobile terminal capable of being protected against unauthorized use by a third party without using a dedicated key device. A plurality of mobile terminals are previously registered mutually. When unlocked among them, one mobile terminal communicates with another mobile terminal in a communication range of short-range wireless communications, unlocks the above another mobile terminal, and when out of the communication range, locks it again.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 11, 2021Publication date: December 2, 2021Inventors: Masayuki HIRABAYASHI, Hideo NISHIJIMA
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Patent number: 11159853Abstract: A mobile terminal has a communication processing unit that transmits, to a video display apparatus for displaying a broadcasted video content, a request for setting a viewing schedule of the video content. A storage unit stores a starting time of the video content for which the setting of the viewing schedule has been requested; and an information provision unit provides information to a user of the mobile terminal. A control unit determines whether the video display apparatus is existent around the mobile terminal. At a first predetermined time before the starting time, the information provision unit notifies the user of the first predetermined time. If the video display apparatus is not existent around the mobile terminal at a second predetermined time before the starting time, the information provision unit then notifies the user that it is the second predetermined time before the starting time.Type: GrantFiled: February 20, 2018Date of Patent: October 26, 2021Assignee: Maxell, Ltd.Inventors: Masayuki Hirabayashi, Motoyuki Suzuki, Hideo Nishijima
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Patent number: 11159714Abstract: There is provided an imaging device including: an image processing unit; a face recognition processing unit; a storage unit; and a composition processing unit for generating composite data by a composition process so that persons photographed in each of a plurality of image data are included in one image data. The face recognition processing unit recognizes a first person by performing a face recognition process on first image data. When second image data obtained by photographing a second person at the different photographing timing of the first image data, with the same background as the first image data, is recorded in the storage unit, the composition processing unit generates composite data in which the first person and the second person are superimposed on the same background.Type: GrantFiled: December 10, 2019Date of Patent: October 26, 2021Assignee: MAXELL, LTD.Inventors: Masayuki Hirabayashi, Yasunobu Hashimoto, Hiroshi Shimizu
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Publication number: 20210297724Abstract: A broadcast receiving device is provided with: a broadcast receiving unit which receives a digital broadcast signal including broadcast program video and application-related information; a storage unit which stores the received broadcast program video and application-related information; a video decoding unit which decodes the video; an application acquisition unit which acquires an application on the basis of location information included in the application-related information; an application execution unit which executes the acquired application; an output unit which is able to output the video; and a control unit for reproducing and decoding the broadcast program video from the storage unit, reproducing the application-related information from the storage unit, acquiring the application on the basis of the location information included in the reproduced application-related information, and executing the acquired application.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 9, 2021Publication date: September 23, 2021Inventors: Masayuki HIRABAYASHI, Kazuhiko YOSHIZAWA, Yasunobu HASHIMOTO, Motoyuki SUZUKI, Tomonori NOMURA
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Patent number: 11057668Abstract: A broadcast receiving device is provided with: a broadcast receiving unit which receives a digital broadcast signal including broadcast program video and application-related information; a storage unit which stores the received broadcast program video and application-related information; a video decoding unit which decodes the video; an application acquisition unit which acquires an application on the basis of location information included in the application-related information; an application execution unit which executes the acquired application; an output unit which is able to output the video; and a control unit for reproducing and decoding the broadcast program video from the storage unit, reproducing the application-related information from the storage unit, acquiring the application on the basis of the location information included in the reproduced application-related information, and executing the acquired application.Type: GrantFiled: August 8, 2019Date of Patent: July 6, 2021Assignee: MAXELL, LTD.Inventors: Masayuki Hirabayashi, Kazuhiko Yoshizawa, Yasunobu Hashimoto, Motoyuki Suzuki, Tomonori Nomura
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Publication number: 20200394293Abstract: The purpose of the present invention is to provide a portable terminal and an application software start-up system whereby the application software that is started up is limited depending on the state of a user, thereby providing an improved ease of use. For this purpose, an application software start-up method for an information processing device comprises: performing identity authentication based on static biological information; determining the state of the user by comparing dynamic biological information acquired from the body of the user with previously measured dynamic biological information; and limiting the application software that is started up in accordance with the determined state of the user and on the basis of a permission level that is set in advance for each application software item.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 1, 2020Publication date: December 17, 2020Inventors: Masayuki HIRABAYASHI, Yasunobu HASHIMOTO, Kazuhiko YOSHIZAWA
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Publication number: 20200322672Abstract: A digital broadcast receiving apparatus executing a function with a higher added value can include: a broadcast receiving unit configured to receive broadcasting data of broadcasting program contents and location information from a broadcast transmission path, a reference destination for obtaining data related to the broadcasting data being described in the location information; a communication unit configured to receive communication data of the program contents from the reference destination described in the location information via a communication line; a recording/reproducing unit configured to record and reproduce the broadcasting data of the broadcasting program contents received by the broadcast receiving unit; an outputting unit configured to output the broadcasting data of the broadcasting program contents reproduced from the recording/reproducing unit to external equipment; and a server function unit for external equipment.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 24, 2020Publication date: October 8, 2020Inventors: Kazuhiko YOSHIZAWA, Takuya SHIMIZU, Yasunobu HASHIMOTO, Mitsunobu WATANABE, Nobuo MASUOKA, Masayuki HIRABAYASHI
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Patent number: 10783228Abstract: The purpose of the present invention is to provide a portable terminal and an application software start-up system whereby the application software that is started up is limited depending on the state of a user, thereby providing an improved ease of use. For this purpose, an application software start-up method for an information processing device comprises: performing identity authentication based on static biological information; determining the state of the user by comparing dynamic biological information acquired from the body of the user with previously measured dynamic biological information; and limiting the application software that is started up in accordance with the determined state of the user and on the basis of a permission level that is set in advance for each application software item.Type: GrantFiled: August 8, 2019Date of Patent: September 22, 2020Assignee: Maxell, Ltd.Inventors: Masayuki Hirabayashi, Yasunobu Hashimoto, Kazuhiko Yoshizawa
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Patent number: 10735801Abstract: A digital broadcast receiving apparatus executing a function with a higher added value can include: a broadcast receiving unit configured to receive broadcasting data of broadcasting program contents and location information from a broadcast transmission path, a reference destination for obtaining data related to the broadcasting data being described in the location information; a communication unit configured to receive communication data of the program contents from the reference destination described in the location information via a communication line; a recording/reproducing unit configured to record and reproduce the broadcasting data of the broadcasting program contents received by the broadcast receiving unit; an outputting unit configured to output the broadcasting data of the broadcasting program contents reproduced from the recording/reproducing unit to external equipment; and a server function unit for external equipment.Type: GrantFiled: April 9, 2019Date of Patent: August 4, 2020Assignee: MAXELL, LTD.Inventors: Kazuhiko Yoshizawa, Takuya Shimizu, Yasunobu Hashimoto, Mitsunobu Watanabe, Nobuo Masuoka, Masayuki Hirabayashi
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Publication number: 20200120303Abstract: A terminal apparatus having a function of remotely controlling a video display apparatus includes a communication unit that transmits a command related to setting of the video display apparatus and receives status information, a signal receiving unit that receives a signal output from a broadcast station and decodes a video content, a memory unit that stores a content of a command including a channel of the video content, and a display unit that displays the video content and various types of information. In this terminal apparatus, the communication unit transmits an identification code specific to the terminal apparatus when transmitting the command, and when the status information is received after a channel of the video display apparatus is set by remote control, the video content of the channel stored in the memory unit is decoded by the signal receiving unit and is displayed on the display unit.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 5, 2019Publication date: April 16, 2020Inventor: Masayuki HIRABAYASHI
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Publication number: 20200112694Abstract: There is provided an imaging device including: an image processing unit; a face recognition processing unit; a storage unit; and a composition processing unit for generating composite data by a composition process so that persons photographed in each of a plurality of image data are included in one image data. The face recognition processing unit recognizes a first person by performing a face recognition process on first image data. When second image data obtained by photographing a second person at the different photographing timing of the first image data, with the same background as the first image data, is recorded in the storage unit, the composition processing unit generates composite data in which the first person and the second person are superimposed on the same background.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 10, 2019Publication date: April 9, 2020Inventors: Masayuki HIRABAYASHI, Yasunobu HASHIMOTO, Hiroshi SHIMIZU
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Patent number: 10555042Abstract: A mobile terminal has a communication processing unit that transmits, to a video display apparatus for displaying a broadcasted video content, a request for setting a viewing schedule of the video content. A storage unit stores a starting time of the video content for which the setting of the viewing schedule has been requested; and an information provision unit provides information to a user of the mobile terminal. A control unit determines whether the video display apparatus is existent around the mobile terminal. At a first predetermined time before the starting time, the information provision unit notifies the user of the first predetermined time. If the video display apparatus is not existent around the mobile terminal at a second predetermined time before the starting time, the information provision unit then notifies the user that it is the second predetermined time before the starting time.Type: GrantFiled: July 31, 2013Date of Patent: February 4, 2020Assignee: Maxell, Ltd.Inventors: Masayuki Hirabayashi, Motoyuki Suzuki, Hideo Nishijima
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Patent number: 10542232Abstract: A terminal apparatus having a function of remotely controlling a video display apparatus includes a communication unit that transmits a command related to setting of the video display apparatus and receives status information, a signal receiving unit that receives a signal output from a broadcast station and decodes a video content, a memory unit that stores a content of a command including a channel of the video content, and a display unit that displays the video content and various types of information. In this terminal apparatus, the communication unit transmits an identification code specific to the terminal apparatus when transmitting the command, and when the status information is received after a channel of the video display apparatus is set by remote control, the video content of the channel stored in the memory unit is decoded by the signal receiving unit and is displayed on the display unit.Type: GrantFiled: June 6, 2019Date of Patent: January 21, 2020Assignee: MAXELL, LTD.Inventor: Masayuki Hirabayashi
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Patent number: 10542224Abstract: There is provided an imaging device including: an image processing unit; a face recognition processing unit; a storage unit; and a composition processing unit for generating composite data by a composition process so that persons photographed in each of a plurality of image data are included in one image data. The face recognition processing unit recognizes a first person by performing a face recognition process on first image data. When second image data obtained by photographing a second person at the different photographing timing of the first image data, with the same background as the first image data, is recorded in the storage unit, the composition processing unit generates composite data in which the first person and the second person are superimposed on the same background.Type: GrantFiled: June 26, 2015Date of Patent: January 21, 2020Assignee: MAXELL, LTD.Inventors: Masayuki Hirabayashi, Yasunobu Hashimoto, Hiroshi Shimizu
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Publication number: 20190362061Abstract: The purpose of the present invention is to provide a portable terminal and an application software start-up system whereby the application software that is started up is limited depending on the state of a user, thereby providing an improved ease of use. For this purpose, an application software start-up method for an information processing device comprises: performing identity authentication based on static biological information; determining the state of the user by comparing dynamic biological information acquired from the body of the user with previously measured dynamic biological information; and limiting the application software that is started up in accordance with the determined state of the user and on the basis of a permission level that is set in advance for each application software item.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 8, 2019Publication date: November 28, 2019Inventors: Masayuki HIRABAYASHI, Yasunobu HASHIMOTO, Kazuhiko YOSHIZAWA
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Publication number: 20190364326Abstract: A broadcast receiving device is provided with: a broadcast receiving unit which receives a digital broadcast signal including broadcast program video and application-related information; a storage unit which stores the received broadcast program video and application-related information; a video decoding unit which decodes the video; an application acquisition unit which acquires an application on the basis of location information included in the application-related information; an application execution unit which executes the acquired application; an output unit which is able to output the video; and a control unit for reproducing and decoding the broadcast program video from the storage unit, reproducing the application-related information from the storage unit, acquiring the application on the basis of the location information included in the reproduced application-related information, and executing the acquired application.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 8, 2019Publication date: November 28, 2019Inventors: Masayuki HIRABAYASHI, Kazuhiko YOSHIZAWA, Yasunobu HASHIMOTO, Motoyuki SUZUKI, Tomonori NOMURA