Patents by Inventor Masayuki Kawamoto

Masayuki Kawamoto 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: 20240105054
    Abstract: An information processing device according to an embodiment of the present disclosure includes a memory and a processor coupled to the memory. The processor is configured to: notify a user of survey demand information for indicating a survey demand point included in a survey demand region that has a survey demand regarding the traffic volume; receive a captured image captured at the survey demand point by the user in accordance with the survey demand information; and estimate a traffic volume in the survey demand region based on the captured image that has been received.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 6, 2023
    Publication date: March 28, 2024
    Applicant: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hirokazu KAWAMOTO, Masayuki KIKKAWA, Takumi TANABE, Takayasu BABA
  • Publication number: 20230053101
    Abstract: A puzzle game that enhances a degree of freedom of movement of a puzzle element includes selecting a first puzzle element; moving the first puzzle element; generating a coupled puzzle element when a puzzle element with a same appearance comes into contact with the first puzzle element; causing, when a second puzzle element of a different type comes into contact with the first puzzle element or the coupled puzzle element, the second puzzle element to execute a predetermined operation; and when at least a condition in that an operation of a player with respect to the first puzzle element is no longer performed or a condition in that a predetermined time has elapsed from a time point at which the selection of the first puzzle element is satisfied, erasing the first puzzle element or the coupled puzzle element from the game area.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 28, 2022
    Publication date: February 16, 2023
    Applicant: The Pokémon Company
    Inventors: Manabu YAMANA, Masayuki KAWAMOTO
  • Patent number: 11501390
    Abstract: An energy saving support system according to an embodiment is configured to provide a consumer, who has an electric load to which electric energy is supplied from an electric power supply system within a house, with energy consumption-related information through a photo frame or the like. The information providing apparatus is configured to acquire an acceptability level, which stepwise indicates a degree of interest of the consumer in the energy consumption-related information, and to determine the energy consumption-related information to be newly provided to the consumer based on the acceptability level.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2022
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Tetsuya Hirata, Masayuki Kawamoto, Jun Koreishi, Tatsuya Morii, Hiroaki Sugiyama, Daisuke Takanohashi, Koshi Ito, Kengo Matsunaga, Takahiro Yamada
  • Patent number: 11151670
    Abstract: An energy saving support system according to an embodiment is configured to provide a consumer, who has an electric load to which electric energy is supplied from an electric power supply system within a house, with energy consumption-related information through a photo frame or the like. The information providing apparatus is configured to acquire an acceptability level, which stepwise indicates a degree of interest of the consumer in the energy consumption-related information, and to determine the energy consumption-related information to be newly provided to the consumer based on the acceptability level.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 7, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 19, 2021
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Tetsuya Hirata, Masayuki Kawamoto, Jun Koreishi, Tatsuya Morii, Hiroaki Sugiyama, Daisuke Takanohashi, Koshi Ito, Kengo Matsunaga, Takahiro Yamada
  • Patent number: 10713413
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus determines a type of a display target content of a browser and acquires information on a size of a display part of the image processing apparatus. Further, the image processing apparatus displays the display target content on the display part by using the browser, on the basis of a determination result on the type of the display target content. When the display target content is determined to be a specific type of content, the apparatus enlarges the display target content in conformity with the size of the display part and displays the display target content, regardless of whether or not there is a size specification in the display target content, and when the display target content is determined not to be the specific type of content, the apparatus displays the display target content in accordance with a specification content included in the display target content.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 14, 2020
    Assignee: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.
    Inventor: Masayuki Kawamoto
  • Patent number: 10694055
    Abstract: An information processing device in which a first browser is installed, includes a hardware processor that determines whether or not displaying of a web page by the first browser conforms to predetermined criteria, and when the displaying does not conform to the criteria, remotely operates a second browser installed in an information terminal, and remotely operates the second browser to cause the second browser to display the web page.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 23, 2020
    Assignee: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.
    Inventors: Masayuki Kawamoto, Hikaru Muto
  • Patent number: 10559046
    Abstract: A power supply management system according to an embodiment of the present invention includes a fee setting unit configured to set power fee unit prices (first power fee unit price and second power fee unit price) for each time slot, and a notification unit configured to notify a consumer of information on the set power fee unit prices. The first power fee unit price is a power unit price for a household electrical load, and the second power fee unit price is a power unit price in a case of using a charge/discharge device to charge a vehicle-mounted storage battery. The fee setting unit is configured to set, by predicting a load factor of a transformer, a discount rate of the second power fee unit price to become higher (second power fee unit price to become lower) as the predicted load factor becomes lower. The second power fee unit price is determined on the basis of the first power fee unit price and the discount rate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 7, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2020
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Tetsuya Hirata, Masayuki Kawamoto, Jun Koreishi, Tatsuya Morii, Koshi Ito, Kengo Matsunaga, Takahiro Yamada
  • Publication number: 20190228485
    Abstract: An energy saving support system according to an embodiment is configured to provide a consumer, who has an electric load to which electric energy is supplied from an electric power supply system within a house, with energy consumption-related information through a photo frame or the like. The information providing apparatus is configured to acquire an acceptability level, which stepwise indicates a degree of interest of the consumer in the energy consumption-related information, and to determine the energy consumption-related information to be newly provided to the consumer based on the acceptability level.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 14, 2019
    Publication date: July 25, 2019
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Tetsuya HIRATA, Masayuki KAWAMOTO, Jun KOREISHI, Tatsuya MORII, Hiroaki SUGIYAMA, Daisuke TAKANOHASHI, Koshi ITO, Kengo MATSUNAGA, Takahiro YAMADA
  • Patent number: 10180944
    Abstract: An information processing device, comprises: a link information obtaining part that obtains link information to a file corresponding to a selected web content in response to detecting a select of at least one of web contents from a first contents screen on which the web contents obtained from a first storage server are laid out; a storage information obtaining part that obtains storage information of a second storage server corresponding to a designated display area in response to detecting a designating operation of the display area of the web content on a second contents screen after the link information is obtained; a file obtaining part that obtains the file corresponding to the selected web content from the first storage server based on the link information; and a file transmitting part that sends the file obtained by the file obtaining part to the second storage server based on the storage information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 15, 2019
    Assignee: Konica Minolta, Inc.
    Inventor: Masayuki Kawamoto
  • Publication number: 20180069972
    Abstract: An information processing device in which a first browser is installed, includes a hardware processor that determines whether or not displaying of a web page by the first browser conforms to predetermined criteria, and when the displaying does not conform to the criteria, remotely operates a second browser installed in an information terminal, and remotely operates the second browser to cause the second browser to display the web page.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 30, 2017
    Publication date: March 8, 2018
    Inventors: Masayuki KAWAMOTO, Hikaru MUTO
  • Patent number: 9836974
    Abstract: An operation management center divides an operation area in which an on-demand bus operates into a plurality of predetermined sub-areas, and searches for candidate routes on which the on-demand bus travels for each divided sub-area. The center sets one of the retrieved routes as a basic route, and sets, as adjustment time for each divided sub-area, time required when the bus passes through a location separated from the basic route. Thus, by setting such adjustment time for each sub-area, and by using the adjustment time set for each sub-area, the center can determine an operation plan that takes into account an additional request while reducing an impact on the determined operation plan.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2017
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Masayuki Kawamoto, Hiroko Mori, Hironobu Kitaoka
  • Publication number: 20170345107
    Abstract: A power supply management system according to an embodiment of the present invention includes a fee setting unit configured to set power fee unit prices (first power fee unit price and second power fee unit price for each time slot, and a notification unit configured to notify a consumer of information on the set power fee unit prices. The first power fee unit price is a power unit price for a household electrical load, and the second power fee unit price is a power unit price in a case of using a charge/discharge device to charge a vehicle-mounted storage battery. The fee setting unit is configured to set, by predicting a load factor of a transformer, a discount rate of the second power fee unit price to become higher (second power fee unit price to become lower) as the predicted load factor becomes lower. The second power fee unit price is determined on the basis of the first power fee unit price and the discount rate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 7, 2015
    Publication date: November 30, 2017
    Inventors: Tetsuya HIRATA, Masayuki KAWAMOTO, Jun KOREISHI, Tatsuya MORII, Koshi ITO, Kengo MATSUNAGA, Takahiro YAMADA
  • Publication number: 20170308973
    Abstract: An energy saving support system according to an embodiment is configured to provide a consumer, who has an electric load to which electric energy is supplied from an electric power supply system within a house, with energy consumption-related information through a photo frame or the like. The information providing apparatus is configured to acquire an acceptability level, which stepwise indicates a degree of interest of the consumer in the energy consumption-related information, and to determine the energy consumption-related information to be newly provided to the consumer based on the acceptability level.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 7, 2015
    Publication date: October 26, 2017
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Tetsuya HIRATA, Masayuki KAWAMOTO, Jun KOREISHI, Tatsuya MORII, Hiroaki SUGIYAMA, Daisuke TAKANOHASHI, Koshi ITO, Kengo MATSUNAGA, Takahiro YAMADA
  • Publication number: 20170286367
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus determines a type of a display target content of a browser and acquires information on a size of a display part of the image processing apparatus. Further, the image processing apparatus displays the display target content on the display part by using the browser, on the basis of a determination result on the type of the display target content. When the display target content is determined to be a specific type of content, the apparatus enlarges the display target content in conformity with the size of the display part and displays the display target content, regardless of whether or not there is a size specification in the display target content, and when the display target content is determined not to be the specific type of content, the apparatus displays the display target content in accordance with a specification content included in the display target content.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 28, 2017
    Publication date: October 5, 2017
    Applicant: Konica Minolta, Inc.
    Inventor: Masayuki KAWAMOTO
  • Publication number: 20160173940
    Abstract: An image information provision device as an information terminal, for providing information relating to an image, the image information provision device including: a control section for specifying, when a predetermined object is selected on a screen in a state, in which an image of the predetermined object having an outer surface, onto which a plurality of display information pieces are added, is displayed on a display section, a display information piece that presents in a region that matches a selected position in the selection among the plurality of display information pieces added to the selected predetermined object, and outputting at least one of the specified display information piece or link information for link to the specified display information piece.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 29, 2012
    Publication date: June 16, 2016
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Masayuki KAWAMOTO, Masato ENDO, Kenji MORI, Ryota OSUMI, Ryuta TERASHIMA
  • Publication number: 20160042004
    Abstract: An information processing device, comprises: a link information obtaining part that obtains link information to a file corresponding to a selected web content in response to detecting a select of at least one of web contents from a first contents screen on which the web contents obtained from a first storage server are laid out; a storage information obtaining part that obtains storage information of a second storage server corresponding to a designated display area in response to detecting a designating operation of the display area of the web content on a second contents screen after the link information is obtained; a file obtaining part that obtains the file corresponding to the selected web content from the first storage server based on the link information; and a file transmitting part that sends the file obtained by the file obtaining part to the second storage server based on the storage information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 5, 2015
    Publication date: February 11, 2016
    Applicant: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.
    Inventor: Masayuki KAWAMOTO
  • Patent number: 9256180
    Abstract: An image display apparatus includes a storage portion to store application data and reduced image data thereof, in association with each other, a position detection portion to detect a position designated by the user on a display surface of a display portion, an enlargement operation detection portion to detect an enlargement operation, a first image display portion to display a first display image generated from the reduced image data as a preview image, a process target determination portion to determine process target data from the reduced image data and the application data, based on a magnification set based on the amount of operation in the enlargement operation, a second display image generation portion to generate a second display image based on the process target data, in response to the enlargement operation being detected, and a second image display portion to display the second display image as a preview image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2012
    Date of Patent: February 9, 2016
    Assignee: Konica Minolta Business Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Toshihiko Otake, Hidetaka Iwai, Kazumi Sawayanagi, Toshikazu Kawaguchi, Masayuki Kawamoto
  • Patent number: 9183541
    Abstract: When an image of content reproduced by a first reproduction device is shot, a content display support device obtains the shot image and positional information that specifies the position and orientation of a shooting device. The content display support device generates combination content by visualizing and embedding the positional information in the shot image and transmits the combination content to a second reproduction device. A portable terminal obtains the positional information from an image obtained by shooting the combination content reproduced by the second reproduction device. The portable terminal requests supplementary information by transmitting the positional information to the content display support device. The supplementary information associated with the positional information is transmitted from the content display support device to the portable terminal and displayed at the portable terminal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 10, 2015
    Assignee: KONICA MINOLTA BUSINESS TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
    Inventors: Hidetaka Iwai, Kazumi Sawayanagi, Toshihiko Otake, Toshikazu Kawaguchi, Masayuki Kawamoto
  • Patent number: 9110617
    Abstract: A cooperative image processing system comprises an image processing apparatus and a portable information apparatus; the image processing apparatus comprises: a file creator that creates a file; a transmitter that transmits the file to the portable information apparatus; and a log information generator that generates log information of the image processing apparatus which includes a transmission history; the portable information apparatus comprises: a display; one or more processors; a cooperation portion that shows on the display an operation screen; transmits user instructions entered through the operation screen, to the image processing apparatus; receives the file in exchange for the user instructions; and transfers the file to any one of the one or more processors; a log information obtaining portion that obtains: the log information of the image processing apparatus and that of the portable information apparatus; and a log information manager that consolidates the log information of both of them.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 18, 2015
    Assignee: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.
    Inventors: Hideyuki Matsuda, Takeshi Hibino, Toshihiko Otake, Toshikazu Kawaguchi, Masayuki Kawamoto
  • Publication number: 20150228192
    Abstract: An operation management center divides an operation area in which an on-demand bus operates into a plurality of predetermined sub-areas, and searches for candidate routes on which the on-demand bus travels for each divided sub-area. The center sets one of the retrieved routes as a basic route, and sets, as adjustment time for each divided sub-area, time required when the bus passes through a location separated from the basic route. Thus, by setting such adjustment time for each sub-area, and by using the adjustment time set for each sub-area, the center can determine an operation plan that takes into account an additional request while reducing an impact on the determined operation plan.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 20, 2012
    Publication date: August 13, 2015
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Masayuki KAWAMOTO, Hiroko MORI, Hironobu KITAOKA