Patents by Inventor Naoki Shiobara

Naoki Shiobara 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: 10726216
    Abstract: A user is guided with a simple configuration so that near field communication is performed. An information processing device (1) includes an NFC antenna (520) configured to perform near field communication with an NFC terminal (100), and a display unit (53) configured to display a guide region (Ai). The guide region (Ai) serves as a guide for a communication-enabling region. The display unit (53) displays the guide region (Ai) such that the guide region (Ai) is included in the communication-enabling region (B) and the guide region (Ai) is smaller than the communication-enabling region (B).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 28, 2020
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Naoki Shiobara, Masafumi Ueno, Masaaki Moriya
  • Publication number: 20200136678
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus more reliably performs communications with an information communication terminal. The information processing apparatus includes NFC antennas that perform near field communication with an NFC tag and an NFC control unit that controls a sequential order in accordance with which the NFC antennas are scanned.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 12, 2018
    Publication date: April 30, 2020
    Inventors: NAOKI SHIOBARA, MASAFUMI UENO, MASAAKI MORIYA
  • Patent number: 10634313
    Abstract: Provided is a light-emitting device and the like in which a light source emits light on the basis of information obtained through communications and the light thus emitted is easy for a user to visually recognize. A light-emitting device includes an LED, a light guide plate, a transparent NFC antenna sheet, and an NFC antenna. The transparent NFC antenna sheet and the NFC antenna are disposed on a principal surface or a backside surface of the light guide plate. At least some part of the light guided by the light guide plate exits out through the principal surface. The LED emits light on the basis of identification information obtained through communications via the NFC antenna sheet and the NFC antenna.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 28, 2020
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Masaaki Moriya, Masafumi Ueno, Naoki Shiobara, Mitsuru Hineno, Tomohiro Omatsu, Hiroyuki Furukawa, Yasuhiro Sugita, Shinji Yamagishi, Jean Mugiraneza
  • Publication number: 20200104552
    Abstract: A user is guided with a simple configuration so that near field communication is performed. An information processing device (1) includes an NFC antenna (520) configured to perform near field communication with an NFC terminal (100), and a display unit (53) configured to display a guide region (Ai). The guide region (Ai) serves as a guide for a communication-enabling region. The display unit (53) displays the guide region (Ai) such that the guide region (Ai) is included in the communication-enabling region (B) and the guide region (Ai) is smaller than the communication-enabling region (B).
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 4, 2017
    Publication date: April 2, 2020
    Applicant: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: NAOKI SHIOBARA, MASAFUMI UENO, MASAAKI MORIYA
  • Publication number: 20200021023
    Abstract: The present disclosure improves the speed at which communication is started by an antenna that is to carry out communication from among a plurality of antennas for near field communication. An information processing device (10) is provided with a touch panel (120), a plurality of NFC antennas (110), and a control unit (130) for controlling the NFC antennas, and starts driving a drive target antenna which is one or more NFC antennas that correspond to a contact position or proximity position of an object detected by the touch panel, from among the plurality of NFC antennas.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 8, 2017
    Publication date: January 16, 2020
    Inventors: MASAFUMI UENO, NAOKI SHIOBARA, MASAAKI MORIYA
  • Patent number: 10525342
    Abstract: A process is performed by linking communication information acquired by Near field radio communication from a client device with position information of the client device. An information processing device (1) includes an association unit (211) configured to: acquire via an NFC unit (112) configured to perform Near field radio communication, terminal information held by an NFC terminal; acquire touch information including information on a position on the touch panel (111), the NFC terminal coming into contact with the position; and associate the terminal information and the touch information and store a result of the association.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2020
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Masafumi Ueno, Naoki Shiobara
  • Publication number: 20190372625
    Abstract: An unwanted process is prevented from being performed due to near field communication based on a process performed via an antenna which is not intended by a user. An information processing apparatus (1) includes a communication antenna determination unit (22) configured to, when a proximity state of an NFC terminal (10) to an NFC antenna (12) continues, determines that the NFC antenna (12) is an NFC antenna (12) that performs near field communication for executing a prescribed process.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 16, 2018
    Publication date: December 5, 2019
    Inventors: MASAFUMI UENO, NAOKI SHIOBARA, MASAAKI MORIYA
  • Publication number: 20190323683
    Abstract: Provided is a light-emitting device and the like in which a light source emits light on the basis of information obtained through communications and the light thus emitted is easy for a user to visually recognize. A light-emitting device includes an LED, a light guide plate, a transparent NFC antenna sheet, and an NFC antenna. The transparent NFC antenna sheet and the NFC antenna are disposed on a principal surface or a backside surface of the light guide plate. At least some part of the light guided by the light guide plate exits out through the principal surface. The LED emits light on the basis of identification information obtained through communications via the NFC antenna sheet and the NFC antenna.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 27, 2017
    Publication date: October 24, 2019
    Inventors: MASAAKI MORIYA, MASAFUMI UENO, NAOKI SHIOBARA, MITSURU HINENO, TOMOHIRO OMATSU, HIROYUKI FURUKAWA, YASUHIRO SUGITA, SHINJI YAMAGISHI, JEAN MUGIRANEZA
  • Publication number: 20190274023
    Abstract: The present disclosure increases the degree of freedom for setting a function region. In an information processing device (1), a communicable region is divided to obtain a plurality of regions that include a function region and a non-function region, or include a plurality of types of function regions. The information processing device is provided with a processing deciding unit (23) that decides the content of transmission or reception processing of information between an NFC terminal (100) and an NFC antenna (13a) in accordance with which region includes the position of the NFC terminal detected by a touch panel (11).
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 7, 2017
    Publication date: September 5, 2019
    Applicant: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: NAOKI SHIOBARA, MASAFUMI UENO, MASAAKI MORIYA
  • Publication number: 20190227762
    Abstract: The present disclosure executes various types of processing by means of simple operations and processing. An information processing device includes a terminal information acquisition circuit acquiring identification information from an NFC terminal via an NFC antenna; a position determination circuit determining whether or not a terminal position corresponds to at least one prescribed position determined in advance; and a processing permission circuit permitting prescribed processing in a case where the identification information satisfies a prescribed condition and the terminal position is determined to correspond to the prescribed position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 28, 2017
    Publication date: July 25, 2019
    Inventors: MASAAKI MORIYA, MASAFUMI UENO, NAOKI SHIOBARA, YASUHIRO SUGITA
  • Publication number: 20190095660
    Abstract: Near field radio communication with a communication device located at or near a housing is enabled in a simple configuration. A housing defining at least part of a space having a prescribed shape includes an NFC antenna. In addition, the NFC antenna is disposed along a surface of the housing for performing the near field radio communication with an NFC card located inside the space having the prescribed shape.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 28, 2017
    Publication date: March 28, 2019
    Applicant: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: MASAFUMI UENO, MASAAKI MORIYA, NAOKI SHIOBARA, MITSURU HINENO, TOMOHIRO OMATSU, HIROYUKI FURUKAWA, YASUHIRO SUGITA, SHINJI YAMAGISHI, JEAN MUGIRANEZA
  • Patent number: 10109077
    Abstract: A purpose of the present invention is to implement, by specifying a process target area, an image generation device which generates an image (video) from which an image quality improving effect can be recognized and a display device which displays the image. An image generation device (1000) includes a screen duplication unit (1), a mask area determination unit (2), a composition unit (3), and an image quality adjustment unit (4). The screen duplication unit (1) extracts and outputs at least a part of an image area of an input image as a process target image. The mask area determination unit (2) determines a mask area of the process target image and generates a mask image specifying the mask area. The image quality adjustment unit (4) performs predetermined image process to the mask area, which is determined by the mask area determination unit (2) in the process target image and outputs the image, to which the image process is performed, as an image after image quality adjustment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 10, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 23, 2018
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Yoshimitsu Murahashi, Takashi Mine, Naoki Shiobara
  • Publication number: 20180140946
    Abstract: A process is performed by linking communication information acquired by Near field radio communication from a client device with position information of the client device. An information processing device (1) includes an association unit (211) configured to: acquire via an NFC unit (112) configured to perform Near field radio communication, terminal information held by an NFC terminal; acquire touch information including information on a position on the touch panel (111), the NFC terminal coming into contact with the position; and associate the terminal information and the touch information and store a result of the association.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 9, 2016
    Publication date: May 24, 2018
    Inventors: MASAFUMI UENO, NAOKI SHIOBARA
  • Publication number: 20180143755
    Abstract: An information processing device configured to display an image in a display area corresponding to a transparent area, a smaller housing applied thereto. The information processing device includes an application execution unit (211) configured to identify an area of the NFC display (11) corresponding to the transparent area (31) of the NFC terminal (30) based on the position information on the NFC terminal (30) output from the touch panel (14), and a display drive unit (23) configured to display an image in the identified area.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 9, 2016
    Publication date: May 24, 2018
    Inventors: MASAFUMI UENO, NAOKI SHIOBARA
  • Publication number: 20180092136
    Abstract: Near Field Communication is established while a touch panel is in use. In a mobile terminal (1), an NFC antenna (60) is disposed at a position overlapping a touch panel (50). The mobile terminal (1) includes a communication availability determination unit (15) configured to determine whether an NFC tag (160) available for Near Field Communication with the NFC tag (160) is in contact with or in proximity to the touch panel (50), and an antenna control unit (16) configured to bring the NFC antenna (60) the Near Field Communication into a state where the Near Field Communication is enabled in a case that the communication availability determination unit (15) determines that the NFC tag (160) is in contact with or in proximity to the touch panel (50).
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 15, 2016
    Publication date: March 29, 2018
    Inventors: NAOKI SHIOBARA, MASAFUMI UENO
  • Publication number: 20160203617
    Abstract: A purpose of the present invention is to implement, by specifying a process target area, an image generation device which generates an image (video) from which an image quality improving effect can be recognized and a display device which displays the image. An image generation device (1000) includes a screen duplication unit (1), a mask area determination unit (2), a composition unit (3), and an image quality adjustment unit (4). The screen duplication unit (1) extracts and outputs at least a part of an image area of an input image as a process target image. The mask area determination unit (2) determines a mask area of the process target image and generates a mask image specifying the mask area. The image quality adjustment unit (4) performs predetermined image process to the mask area, which is determined by the mask area determination unit (2) in the process target image and outputs the image, to which the image process is performed, as an image after image quality adjustment.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 10, 2014
    Publication date: July 14, 2016
    Inventors: Yoshimitsu MURAHASHI, Takashi MINE, Naoki SHIOBARA
  • Patent number: 9076397
    Abstract: An object is to moderate the occurrence of mura in an oblique view in an image display device that conducts area active driving. An emission luminance calculator (151) computes a luminance (first emission luminance) (32) of LEDs in respective areas on the basis of an input image (31). The emission luminance corrector (152) applies a correction to the first emission luminance (32) on the basis of correction data (33) in an LED filter (155).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 7, 2015
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Naoki Shiobara, Hirofumi Murakami
  • Publication number: 20140225943
    Abstract: An object is to moderate the occurrence of mura in an oblique view in an image display device that conducts area active driving. An emission luminance calculator (151) computes a luminance (first emission luminance) (32) of LEDs in respective areas on the basis of an input image (31). The emission luminance corrector (152) applies a correction to the first emission luminance (32) on the basis of correction data (33) in an LED filter (155).
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 31, 2012
    Publication date: August 14, 2014
    Applicant: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Naoki Shiobara, Hirofumi Murakami