Patents by Inventor Mitsuji Hama

Mitsuji Hama 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: 7499538
    Abstract: A telephone enabling a user to search a telephone directory using a simple and trouble-free operation. The telephone has a storage unit for storing names to be called and corresponding telephone numbers, and an operating unit including a plurality of numeric keys that are each assigned different characters. The telephone also includes a control unit. When a key press of at least the predetermined time is received by the operating unit, the control unit searches the storage unit for names that include a character assigned to the pressed numeric key, and displays the found names on a display unit. The user can switch the telephone to telephone directory mode and perform a keyword search simply by pressing a numeric key for at least the predetermined time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 5, 2006
    Date of Patent: March 3, 2009
    Assignee: Sanyo Electric Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Kusaka, Mitsuji Hama, Masahiro Naito, Eiji Kotobuki
  • Patent number: 7443399
    Abstract: A communication terminal apparatus that displays, on a display unit, character data included in e-mail messages, wherein the controlling unit (20) detects, among pieces of character data, pieces of data for delimiters such as spaces. When the controlling unit (20) has detected that delimiters of a same kind are arranged in a sequence longer than a predetermined upper limit, the controlling unit (20) instructs the main display unit (2?) that the excessive pieces of data for the delimiters beyond the upper limit should not be displayed. The main display unit (2?) does not display such pieces of data that are specified in the instruction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 2002
    Date of Patent: October 28, 2008
    Assignee: Sanyo Electric Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Mitsuji Hama
  • Patent number: 7432954
    Abstract: A communications terminal having an image shooting function allows a user to transmit a shot image as an e-mail attachment more easily and conveniently than in a conventional manner. Before being placed into an image shooting mode, the communications terminal first receives an e-mail address specified by the user as a destination of an image to be shot. Then, at a push of a shutter button in the image shooting mode, the communications terminal shoots an image to generate image data, automatically attaches the image data to an e-mail message, and transmits the e-mail message to the e-mail address specified by the user before the image shooting.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 6, 2003
    Date of Patent: October 7, 2008
    Assignee: Sanyo Electric Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Mitsuji Hama
  • Patent number: 7280850
    Abstract: A communication terminal stores items which compose a hierarchical menu. The communication terminal displays items of one hierarchy on a display, and then displays lower level items, which correspond to an item which has been selected from among the displayed items by a user operation, without a display instruction operation by the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2001
    Date of Patent: October 9, 2007
    Assignee: Sanyo Electric Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Mitsuji Hama, Tadahiro Emoto, Kazuaki Nakae, Namika Haraguchi
  • Patent number: 7203522
    Abstract: The folding communication terminal of the present invention is composed of a display device which is visible to the user when the folding communication terminal is in a folded state, and which is capable of multicolor display. The user knows by glancing at the illumination color, without reading characters displayed on the display device and without straining their eyes, whether a caller's telephone number is notified or not. Furthermore, the display is illuminated in a color which is specified and registered in advance in correspondence with the caller's telephone number. The user is thus able to know at a glance who a call is from. Furthermore, the display device is illuminated in a color distinguishing between whether there is notification information which is yet to be displayed or not. The user can judge whether it is necessary to check notification information with a glance at the illumination color.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 2004
    Date of Patent: April 10, 2007
    Assignee: Sanyo Electric Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Mitsuji Hama, Tadahiro Emoto, Kenji Kiyota
  • Patent number: 7162274
    Abstract: The folding communication terminal of the present invention is composed of a display device which is visible to the user when the folding communication terminal is in a folded state, and which is capable of multicolor display. The user knows by glancing at the illumination color, without reading characters displayed on the display device and without straining their eyes, whether a caller's telephone number is notified or not. Furthermore, the display is illuminated in a color which is specified and registered in advance in correspondence with the caller's telephone number. The user is thus able to know at a glance who a call is from. Furthermore, the display device is illuminated in a color distinguishing between whether there is notification information which is yet to be displayed or not. The user can judge whether it is necessary to check notification information with a glance at the illumination color.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2001
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2007
    Assignee: Sanyo Electric Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Mitsuji Hama, Tadahiro Emoto, Kenji Kiyota
  • Patent number: 7116769
    Abstract: A telephone that includes: a storage unit 108; a transmission/reception unit 102 for, when an incoming call is received, acquiring a caller's phone number corresponding to the incoming call; a counting unit 105 for measuring a time period between a start of a reception of the incoming call and a disconnection of the incoming call; and a one-ring-call judgment unit 107 for, if the measured time period is shorter than a predetermined time period, instructing a general control unit 103 to store the acquired phone number into the storage unit 108 as a target for a connection rejection so that if an incoming call is received from a caller having the stored phone number thereafter, a connection thereto is rejected.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2003
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2006
    Assignee: Sanyo Electric Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Mitsuji Hama
  • Patent number: 7092511
    Abstract: A telephone enabling a user to search a telephone directory using a simple and trouble-free operation. The telephone has a storage unit for storing names to be called and corresponding telephone numbers, and an operating unit including a plurality of numeric keys that are each assigned different characters. The telephone also includes a control unit. When a key press of at least the predetermined time is received by the operating unit, the control unit searches the storage unit for names that include a character assigned to the pressed numeric key, and displays the found names on a display unit. The user can switch the telephone to telephone directory mode and perform a keyword search simply by pressing a numeric key for at least the predetermined time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 1998
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2006
    Assignee: Sanyo Electric Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Kusaka, Mitsuji Hama, Masahiro Naito, Eiji Kotobuki
  • Publication number: 20060171525
    Abstract: A telephone enabling a user to search a telephone directory using a simple and trouble-free operation. The telephone has a storage unit for storing names to be called and corresponding telephone numbers, and an operating unit including a plurality of numeric keys that are each assigned different characters. The telephone also includes a control unit. When a key press of at least the predetermined time is received by the operating unit, the control unit searches the storage unit for names that include a character assigned to the pressed numeric key, and displays the found names on a display unit. The user can switch the telephone to telephone directory mode and perform a keyword search simply by pressing a numeric key for at least the predetermined time.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 5, 2006
    Publication date: August 3, 2006
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Kusaka, Mitsuji Hama, Masahiro Naito, Eiji Kotobuki
  • Publication number: 20060121850
    Abstract: A communications terminal having an image shooting function allows a user to transmit a shot image as an e-mail attachment more easily and conveniently than in a conventional manner. Before being placed into an image shooting mode, the communications terminal first receives an e-mail address specified by the user as a destination of an image to be shot. Then, at a push of a shutter button in the image shooting mode, the communications terminal shoots an image to generate image data, automatically attaches the image data to an e-mail message, and transmits the e-mail message to the e-mail address specified by the user before the image shooting.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 6, 2003
    Publication date: June 8, 2006
    Inventor: Mitsuji Hama
  • Patent number: 6980835
    Abstract: A folding mobile communication device has a storage unit for storing at least one piece of call-destination information, each piece of call-destination information specifying a possible destination of a telephone call; a first display unit for displaying one piece of call-destination information in a position on a main body of the communication device that is exposed when the main body is in a folded state; and a call initiation unit for initiating, following the main body being put into an unfolded state, a telephone call to the destination specified by the piece of call-destination information being displayed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 5, 2001
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2005
    Assignee: Sanyo Electric Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Mitsuji Hama
  • Patent number: 6944481
    Abstract: A folding-type communication terminal includes a first display unit which is positioned so as to be visible when a main body of the communication terminal is in a folded state; a second display unit which is positioned so as to be concealed when the main body is in the folded state; a storage unit for storing at least one set of a piece of first information and a piece of second information, the piece of first information (i) having been generated based on information received accompanying incoming-communication, the incoming-communication being at least one of an unanswered incoming-call and incoming-mail, the incoming-mail being one of electronic mail and a character message and (ii) showing existence of the received information, and the second information showing details of the received information; a detection unit for detecting that the main body has been put into an unfolded state; a first display control unit for having the piece of first information displayed on the first display unit; and second disp
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2001
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2005
    Assignee: Sanyo Electric Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Mitsuji Hama, Tadahiro Emoto, Kenji Kiyota
  • Publication number: 20050090290
    Abstract: The folding communication terminal of the present invention is composed of a display device which is visible to the user when the folding communication terminal is in a folded state, and which is capable of multicolor display. The user knows by glancing at the illumination color, without reading characters displayed on the display device and without straining their eyes, whether a caller's telephone number is notified or not. Furthermore, the display is illuminated in a color which is specified and registered in advance in correspondence with the caller's telephone number. The user is thus able to know at a glance who a call is from. Furthermore, the display device is illuminated in a color distinguishing between whether there is notification information which is yet to be displayed or not. The user can judge whether it is necessary to check notification information with a glance at the illumination color.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 29, 2004
    Publication date: April 28, 2005
    Inventors: Mitsuji Hama, Tadahiro Emoto, Kenji Kiyota
  • Publication number: 20040242280
    Abstract: A communication terminal apparatus that displays, on a display unit, character data included in e-mail messages, wherein the controlling unit (20) detects, among pieces of character data, pieces of data for delimiters such as spaces. When the controlling unit (20) has detected that delimiters of a same kind are arranged in a sequence longer than a predetermined upper limit, the controlling unit (20) instructs the main display unit (2′) that the excessive pieces of data for the delimiters beyond the upper limit should not be displayed. The main display unit (2′) does not display such pieces of data that are specified in the instruction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 12, 2004
    Publication date: December 2, 2004
    Inventor: Mitsuji Hama
  • Publication number: 20030220099
    Abstract: A telephone that includes: a storage unit 108; a transmission/reception unit 102 for, when an incoming call is received, acquiring a caller's phone number corresponding to the incoming call; a counting unit 105 for measuring a time period between a start of a reception of the incoming call and a disconnection of the incoming call; and a one-ring-call judgment unit 107 for, if the measured time period is shorter than a predetermined time period, instructing a general control unit 103 to store the acquired phone number into the storage unit 108 as a target for a connection rejection so that if an incoming call is received from a caller having the stored phone number thereafter, a connection thereto is rejected.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 25, 2003
    Publication date: November 27, 2003
    Inventor: Mitsuji Hama
  • Publication number: 20020045467
    Abstract: A folding mobile communication device has a storage unit for storing at least one piece of call-destination information, each piece of call-destination information specifying a possible destination of a telephone call; a first display unit for displaying one piece of call-destination information in a position on a main body of the communication device that is exposed when the main body is in a folded state; and a call initiation unit for initiating, following the main body being put into an unfolded state, a telephone call to the destination specified by the piece of call-destination information being displayed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 5, 2001
    Publication date: April 18, 2002
    Inventor: Mitsuji Hama
  • Publication number: 20020039915
    Abstract: A communication terminal stores items which compose a hierarchical menu. The communication terminal displays items of one hierarchy on a display, and then displays lower level items, which correspond to an item which has been selected from among the displayed items by a user operation, without a display instruction operation by the user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 27, 2001
    Publication date: April 4, 2002
    Inventors: Mitsuji Hama, Tadahiro Emoto, Kazuaki Nakae, Namika Haraguchi
  • Publication number: 20020039914
    Abstract: The folding communication terminal of the present invention is composed of a display device which is visible to the user when the folding communication terminal is in a folded state, and which is capable of multicolor display. The user knows by glancing at the illumination color, without reading characters displayed on the display device and without straining their eyes, whether a caller's telephone number is notified or not. Furthermore, the display is illuminated in a color which is specified and registered in advance in correspondence with the caller's telephone number. The user is thus able to know at a glance who a call is from. Furthermore, the display device is illuminated in a color distinguishing between whether there is notification information which is yet to be displayed or not. The user can judge whether it is necessary to check notification information with a glance at the illumination color.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 24, 2001
    Publication date: April 4, 2002
    Inventors: Mitsuji Hama, Tadahiro Emoto, Kenji Kiyota
  • Publication number: 20020037754
    Abstract: The present invention is a folding-type communication terminal which includes first display means which is positioned so as to be visible when a main body of the communication terminal is in a folded state, second display means which is positioned so as to be concealed when the main body is in the folded state, storage means for storing at least one set of a piece of first information and a piece of second information, detection means for detecting that the main body has been put into an unfolded state, first display control means for having the piece of first information displayed on the first display means; and second display control means for having the piece of second information displayed on the second display means, when the detection means detects that the main body has been put into the unfolded state while the piece of first information is being displayed on the first display means, wherein the piece of second information belongs to a same set as the piece of first information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 25, 2001
    Publication date: March 28, 2002
    Inventors: Mitsuji Hama, Tadahiro Emoto, Kenji Kiyota
  • Patent number: 5379322
    Abstract: A baseband signal generator according to the present invention performs differential encoding and mapping processings for a digital baseband signal and limits bandwidths of the obtained symbol mapping data of an I phase and a Q phase by digital filters. Each digital filter includes a circuit for accumulating symbol mapping data corresponding to a plurality of symbol sections, a plurality of ROMs provided corresponding to the plurality of symbol sections for storing symbol data corresponding to a predetermined filter waveform, and an adder for adding symbol data output from there ROMs. The adder outputs a digital baseband signal whose bandwidth is limited, which signal is converted into an analog baseband signal by a D/A converter and supplied to an analog modulation unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 1992
    Date of Patent: January 3, 1995
    Assignees: Sanyo Electric Co., Ltd., Tottori Sanyo Electric Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Akio Kosaka, Mitsufumi Yoshimoto, Mitsuji Hama, Toshinori Iinuma