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).

  • Patent number: 9930397
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 27, 2018
    Assignee: Hitachi Maxell, Ltd.
    Inventors: Masayuki Hirabayashi, Kazuhiko Yoshizawa, Yasunobu Hashimoto, Motoyuki Suzuki, Tomonori Nomura
  • Patent number: 9924124
    Abstract: The present invention provides user-friendly video display apparatus and terminal apparatus. In the present invention, 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.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 20, 2018
    Assignee: HITACHI MAXELL, LTD.
    Inventor: Masayuki Hirabayashi
  • Patent number: 9815502
    Abstract: A support member has a first wing plate and a second wing plate coupled to the first wing plate to be pivotable relative to the first wing plate. A fixing member fixes the first wing plate to an opening member from an external space external to an operator's compartment and is also removed from the first wing plate to allow the first wing plate and the opening member to be unfixed. A fixing member fixes the second wing plate to a panel from an internal space of the operator's compartment and is also removed from the panel to allow the second wing plate and the panel to be unfixed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 25, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2017
    Assignee: KOMATSU LTD.
    Inventors: Yuuki Uratani, Masayuki Hirabayashi, Kuniharu Shimada
  • Publication number: 20170313366
    Abstract: A support member has a first wing plate and a second wing plate coupled to the first wing plate to be pivotable relative to the first wing plate. A fixing member fixes the first wing plate to an opening member from an external space external to an operator's compartment and is also removed from the first wing plate to allow the first wing plate and the opening member to be unfixed. A fixing member fixes the second wing plate to a panel from an internal space of the operator's compartment and is also removed from the panel to allow the second wing plate and the panel to be unfixed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 25, 2016
    Publication date: November 2, 2017
    Inventors: Yuuki URATANI, Masayuki HIRABAYASHI, Kuniharu SHIMADA
  • Patent number: 9721462
    Abstract: A terminal device and a remote control method having high usability are provided. In a terminal device having a function for remote control of electric equipments, the current position and the current height of the terminal device are detected. In addition, an azimuth and an inclination toward which the terminal device is placed are detected. Furthermore, position information and height information of electric equipments to be controlled are stored, an electric equipment having the azimuth and the inclination toward which the terminal device is placed within predetermined ranges is selected by referring to information of the position, the height, the azimuth, and the inclination of the terminal device and information of the position and the height of the electric equipments, and the selected electric equipment is remotely controlled.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2017
    Assignee: Hitachi Maxell, Ltd.
    Inventors: Masayuki Hirabayashi, Hideo Nishijima, Yasunobu Hashimoto
  • Patent number: 9704389
    Abstract: An objective of the present invention is to provide an easy to use terminal device and remote control method. Provided is a terminal device having electric equipment remote control function, comprising a location information detection means for acquiring the present location of the terminal device, a near field communication means, and an information storage means. Upon acquiring identification information of electric equipment by the near field communication means, the location information is detected by the location information detection means, linked with the identification information of the electric equipment, and stored in the storage means. To carry out the remote control of the electric equipment, the location information is detected by the location information detection means, the distance between the location information and the location information stored in the storage means is computed, and the control is switched according to the distance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 11, 2017
    Assignee: HITACHI MAXELL, LTD.
    Inventor: Masayuki Hirabayashi
  • Publication number: 20170116402
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: June 12, 2014
    Publication date: April 27, 2017
    Inventors: Masayuki HIRABAYASHI, Yasunobu HASHIMOTO, Kazuhiko YOSHIZAWA
  • Publication number: 20160345050
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: November 19, 2014
    Publication date: November 24, 2016
    Inventors: Masayuki HIRABAYASHI, Kazuhiko YOSHIZAWA, Yasunobu HASHIMOTO, Motoyuki SUZUKI, Tomonori NOMURA
  • Publication number: 20160306051
    Abstract: A terminal receives a GPS signal and a GPS correction signal, and a first elevation value calculation unit calculates an elevation value from the GPS signal and the GPS correction signal. The terminal includes an atmospheric pressure information detection unit that detects ambient atmospheric pressure information, and a second elevation value calculation unit for calculating an elevation value from the atmospheric pressure information. If a GPS correction signal can be received, the elevation value calculated by the first elevation value calculation unit is used as the elevation value of the current position and the calculated elevation value is used to calibrate the second elevation value calculation unit. If a GPS correction signal cannot be received, the elevation value calculated by the calibrated second elevation value calculation unit is used as the elevation value of the current position to acquire an accurate elevation value even when inside a building or tunnel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 15, 2014
    Publication date: October 20, 2016
    Applicant: HITACHI MAXELL, LTD.
    Inventors: Masayuki HIRABAYASHI, Yasunobu HASHIMOTO
  • Patent number: 9406344
    Abstract: Provided are an optical information recording/reproduction device and an optical information recording/reproduction method with which retry data during verify error detection can be efficiently recorded. In the optical information recording/reproduction device for recording data on an optical information recording media and reproducing data from an optical information recording medium, if verify error data is detected at a first cure unit region on the optical information recording medium, verify error retry data is recorded at a second cure unit region which is different to the first cure unit region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 16, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2016
    Assignee: HITACHI CONSUMER ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Masayuki Hirabayashi
  • Publication number: 20160212318
    Abstract: In an information processing device configured to include an imaging unit, a display unit, and an illumination sensor, to capture image information by the imaging unit, and to perform processing on the captured image information, the display unit and the imaging unit are disposed on the same surface, the capture processing is performed in a normal mode when a detected value of the illumination sensor is a predetermined value or more, and the capture processing is performed in a dark-place mode when the detected value of the illumination sensor is a predetermined value or less.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 30, 2013
    Publication date: July 21, 2016
    Inventors: Nobuo MASUOKA, Masayuki HIRABAYASHI, Hideo NISHIJIMA, Kazuhiko YOSHIZAWA
  • Publication number: 20160163190
    Abstract: A terminal device and a remote control method having high usability are provided. In a terminal device having a function for remote control of electric equipments, the current position and the current height of the terminal device are detected. In addition, an azimuth and an inclination toward which the terminal device is placed are detected. Furthermore, position information and height information of electric equipments to be controlled are stored, an electric equipment having the azimuth and the inclination toward which the terminal device is placed within predetermined ranges is selected by referring to information of the position, the height, the azimuth, and the inclination of the terminal device and information of the position and the height of the electric equipments, and the selected electric equipment is remotely controlled.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 30, 2013
    Publication date: June 9, 2016
    Inventors: Masayuki HIRABAYASHI, Hideo NISHIJIMA, Yasunobu HASHIMOTO
  • Publication number: 20160162139
    Abstract: An information display terminal achieves a suitable display of types of electronic content such as electronic books with a display unit, an operation unit for receiving an operation instruction directed to the information display terminal, and a scroll control unit for controlling the operation for automatic scroll processing of the electronic content displayed on the display unit. An operation instruction instructing initiation of the automatic scroll processing is input to the operation unit, the scroll control unit performs control to initiate automatic scroll processing by which the electronic content displayed on the display unit is displayed in such a manner that the electronic content is moved a predetermined distance per predetermined time period; and when an operation instruction instructing interruption of the automatic scroll processing is input to the operation unit, the scroll control unit performs control to interrupt the automatic scroll processing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 17, 2013
    Publication date: June 9, 2016
    Applicant: Hitachi Maxell, Ltd.
    Inventors: Kazuhiko YOSHIZAWA, Nobuo MASUOKA, Masayuki HIRABAYASHI, Motoyuki SUZUKI
  • Publication number: 20160150282
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: July 31, 2013
    Publication date: May 26, 2016
    Inventors: Masayuki HIRABAYASHI, Motoyuki SUZUKI, Hideo NISHIJIMA
  • Publication number: 20160117919
    Abstract: An objective of the present invention is to provide an easy to use terminal device and remote control method. Provided is a terminal device having electric equipment remote control function, comprising a location information detection means for acquiring the present location of the terminal device, a near field communication means, and an information storage means. Upon acquiring identification information of electric equipment by the near field communication means, the location information is detected by the location information detection means, linked with the identification information of the electric equipment, and stored in the storage means. To carry out the remote control of the electric equipment, the location information is detected by the location information detection means, the distance between the location information and the location information stored in the storage means is computed, and the control is switched according to the distance.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 7, 2013
    Publication date: April 28, 2016
    Inventor: Masayuki HIRABAYASHI
  • Patent number: 9208035
    Abstract: An optical information recording and reproducing apparatus and an optical information recording and reproducing method which make it possible to conduct alternation processing efficiently even if a buffer capacity is limited, in retry processing at time when a verify error is detected are provided. In an optical information recording and reproducing apparatus for recording data onto optical information recording media and reproducing data from the optical information recording media, verify processing is conducted in a predetermined recording quantity unit. Upon detection of a verify error in recorded data, a host computer is requested to retransfer data which has caused the verify error, and received data is intruded in a next scheduled recording quantity unit and recorded onto the optical information recording media.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 1, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 8, 2015
    Assignee: HITACHI CONSUMER ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kenji Akahoshi, Masayuki Hirabayashi
  • Publication number: 20150339007
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: March 27, 2013
    Publication date: November 26, 2015
    Inventors: Kazuhiko YOSHIZAWA, Nobuo MASUOKA, Masayuki HIRABAYASHI, Hideo NISHIJIMA
  • Publication number: 20150304591
    Abstract: The present invention provides user-friendly video display apparatus and terminal apparatus. In the present invention, 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.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 6, 2013
    Publication date: October 22, 2015
    Inventor: Masayuki HIRABAYASHI
  • Publication number: 20150138444
    Abstract: The present invention provides a video display apparatus and a terminal device that are easy to use. The present invention is provided with a display unit for displaying video content, a receiving unit for receiving a command transmitted by the terminal device, and a control unit for executing a process corresponding to the command received from the receiving unit. The control unit executes a process corresponding to a first command when the first command is received from a specific terminal device, but not a process corresponding to the first command when the first command is received from another terminal device; and executes a process corresponding to a second command when the second command is received from the specific terminal device or the other terminal device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 14, 2012
    Publication date: May 21, 2015
    Inventors: Masayuki Hirabayashi, Hideo Nishijima, Nobuo Masuoka
  • Publication number: 20150009788
    Abstract: Provided are an optical information recording/reproduction device and an optical information recording/reproduction method with which retry data during verify error detection can be efficiently recorded. In the optical information recording/reproduction device for recording data on an optical information recording media and reproducing data from an optical information recording medium, if verify error data is detected at a first cure unit region on the optical information recording medium, verify error retry data is recorded at a second cure unit region which is different to the first cure unit region.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 16, 2012
    Publication date: January 8, 2015
    Applicant: Hitachi Consumer Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Masayuki Hirabayashi