Patents by Inventor Naoto Satokata

Naoto Satokata 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: 8581868
    Abstract: To prevent a function assigned to a selection item from being performed by an erroneous operation at the time when both housings are expanded or housed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2009
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2013
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Naoto Satokata
  • Patent number: 8140125
    Abstract: There is provided a mobile communication terminal of which a display area is inhibited from narrowing when a state of a display screen is switched from a vertically long state to a horizontally long state. The mobile communication terminal is configured to include: a connecting state detecting part 18 adapted to determine whether a display screen 2a is in the vertically long state or the horizontally long state; a display object storage part 20 adapted to store first and second display objects to be displayed depending on an operating state; and a display controlling part 16 adapted to display the respective display objects on the display screen 2a.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2007
    Date of Patent: March 20, 2012
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Kei Okuda, Naoto Satokata
  • Publication number: 20110221683
    Abstract: To prevent a function assigned to a selection item from being performed by an erroneous operation at the time when both housings are expanded or housed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 26, 2009
    Publication date: September 15, 2011
    Applicant: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Naoto Satokata
  • Publication number: 20090170565
    Abstract: There is provided a mobile communication terminal of which a display area is inhibited from narrowing when a state of a display screen is switched from a vertically long state to a horizontally long state. The mobile communication terminal is configured to include: a connecting state detecting part 18 adapted to determine whether a display screen 2a is in the vertically long state or the horizontally long state; a display object storage part 20 adapted to store first and second display objects to be displayed depending on an operating state; and a display controlling part 16 adapted to display the respective display objects on the display screen 2a.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 9, 2007
    Publication date: July 2, 2009
    Inventors: Kei Okuda, Naoto Satokata
  • Publication number: 20070242887
    Abstract: A portable terminal that can execute the image matching without any special operation is provided. The portable terminal has an imaging means, and comprises a state detecting means that detects a state of the portable terminal, a matching information storing means that stores image information for matching, and a matching means that matches image information acquired by the imaging means with the image information stored in the matching information storing means. When the state detecting means detects that the state of the portable terminal is a predetermined state, the state detecting means judges that the terminal becomes to be in a checkable state and causes the imaging means to acquire image information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 7, 2005
    Publication date: October 18, 2007
    Applicant: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Yoshiteru Matsushita, Hideyuki Yasuda, Naoto Satokata