Patents by Inventor Michinari Shinohara

Michinari Shinohara 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: 20160167514
    Abstract: An information provision device, information provision method, and a non-transitory recording medium storing a program for causing a computer to execute the information provision method. Each of the information provision device and the information provision method includes projecting an image light to a light transmission member to display a for-driver information image indicating for-driver information to be provided to a driver of a mobile object in a prescribed display area, and displaying at a first point where a normal for-driver information image is displayed a priority for-driver information image in place of the normal for-driver information image, where the displaying includes displaying the normal for-driver information image at a second point different from the first point for at least some of a period during which the priority for-driver information image is displayed at the first point.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 7, 2015
    Publication date: June 16, 2016
    Inventors: Yoshiaki NISHIZAKI, Michinari SHINOHARA
  • Patent number: 8327283
    Abstract: An image data taking unit takes image data of an object and stores the image data therein as an image data file. A display unit displays the image data stored in the image data taking unit. A mode-switching unit switches between a close-up mode and a distant-view mode of the image data taking unit. The close-up mode is for the object with a close distance and the distant-view mode is for the object with a long distance. A display control unit, when the close-up mode is on, displays a close-up mode icon on the display unit, and when the distant-view mode is on, displays a distant-mode icon on the display unit. The display control unit, when the mode-switching unit switches the distant-view mode on, replaces the close-up icon displayed on a predetermined position on the display unit by the distant-mode icon on the predetermined position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2007
    Date of Patent: December 4, 2012
    Assignee: Ricoh Company, Limited
    Inventors: Michinari Shinohara, Hiroshi Morikawa
  • Patent number: 7493571
    Abstract: An electronic apparatus with a display unit that can display icons indicating an apparatus state or an operating condition based on an on-screen display function includes an apparatus-condition detecting unit that detects a change of the apparatus state or a change of a setting of the operating condition; an icon assigning unit that assigns an icon indicating the apparatus state or the operating condition for which the change is detected by the apparatus-condition detecting unit; and an on-screen-display controller that displays the icon assigned in a shape different from the icon before being assigned.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2005
    Date of Patent: February 17, 2009
    Assignee: Ricoh Company, Limited
    Inventors: Michinari Shinohara, Hiroshi Morikawa
  • Publication number: 20080072172
    Abstract: An electronic apparatus with a display unit that can display icons indicating an apparatus state or an operating condition based on an on-screen display function includes an apparatus-condition detecting unit that detects a change of the apparatus state or a change of a setting of the operating condition; an icon assigning unit that assigns an icon indicating the apparatus state or the operating condition for which the change is detected by the apparatus-condition detecting unit; and an on-screen-display controller that displays the icon assigned in a shape different from the icon before being assigned.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 31, 2007
    Publication date: March 20, 2008
    Inventors: Michinari SHINOHARA, Hiroshi Morikawa
  • Publication number: 20070206225
    Abstract: An apparatus for printing input image data includes an image obtaining unit that obtains image data stored in a storage unit of an external apparatus and a printing unit that prints obtained image data. The image obtaining unit includes an image-data requesting unit that requests the image data to the external apparatus, and obtains the image data from the external apparatus that responded a request from the image-data requesting unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 2, 2007
    Publication date: September 6, 2007
    Inventors: Michinari Shinohara, Akiko Takatsu
  • Publication number: 20070195386
    Abstract: A display processing unit displays a setting item for an image processing and preview information indicating an overview of a result of the image processing using the setting item on a screen of a displaying unit. A selection receiving unit receives a selection of an arbitrary setting item from among setting items displayed on the screen. The display processing unit changes the preview information based on an overview of a result of the image processing using a setting item changed by a user or a setting item for which the selection is received, and displays changed preview information on the screen.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 8, 2007
    Publication date: August 23, 2007
    Inventors: Michinari Shinohara, Hiroshi Morikawa
  • Publication number: 20050216862
    Abstract: An electronic apparatus with a display unit that can display icons indicating an apparatus state or an operating condition based on an on-screen display function includes an apparatus-condition detecting unit that detects a change of the apparatus state or a change of a setting of the operating condition; an icon assigning unit that assigns an icon indicating the apparatus state or the operating condition for which the change is detected by the apparatus-condition detecting unit; and an on-screen-display controller that displays the icon assigned in a shape different from the icon before being assigned.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 18, 2005
    Publication date: September 29, 2005
    Inventors: Michinari Shinohara, Hiroshi Morikawa