Patents by Inventor Nobuhiko Matsukuma

Nobuhiko Matsukuma 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: 20110022310
    Abstract: An information terminal device having a user interface high operationality is provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 24, 2008
    Publication date: January 27, 2011
    Inventors: Takaaki Ishii, Shotaro Tamayama, Nobuhiko Matsukuma, Masayoshi Yoshimoto, Naoya Koga
  • Publication number: 20100082437
    Abstract: An advertisement information providing server and its terminals are provided in which landmarks along a route and high advertisement effects are supplied to users. Map information is displayed on the display apparatus of a mobile terminal, a route to a destination and picture information existing along the route are displayed on the map, and advertisement information compatible with the picture information is displayed. Access information of the mobile terminal is displayed together with the advertisement information, and adjusted in accordance with running of the mobile terminal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 18, 2009
    Publication date: April 1, 2010
    Applicant: HITACHI AUTOMOTIVE SYSTEMS, LTD.
    Inventors: Shotaro TAMAYAMA, Nobuhiko MATSUKUMA, Takaaki ISHII, Kyoko OKOSHI
  • Publication number: 20040152060
    Abstract: A program and a system for judging the learning conditions of each user from behavior information or living body information of the user, and for evaluating contents or lesson details used for learning. A change of concentration during learning is judged from a result of a blood flow rate measured in time series by a near infrared measuring device. Further, the result of the judgment and a result of analysis of user's behavior (image recognition, voice recognition and instrument input operation event) are analyzed synthetically. Thus, the change of attention of the user is extracted, and the learning conditions of the user are judged. True learning conditions of the user can be grasped in real time, and the learning contents or the lesson details can be evaluated. Further, the result of the evaluation can be reflected on the next lesson so as to enhance the learning effect.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 30, 2003
    Publication date: August 5, 2004
    Inventors: Haru Ando, Takeshi Hoshino, Nobuhiko Matsukuma
  • Publication number: 20030075599
    Abstract: A personal work environment of a personal computer (PC) can be automatically set based on information stored in an IC card and information stored in a server. Personal authentication information of an individual who performs some work by using the PC is stored in the IC card and sets of the personal authentication information of the user, AP (application) related information, a data file, OS (operating system), and an AP are stored in the server in correspondence to an individual. When the user sets the IC card into the PC, the PC automatically starts up, reads out the personal authentication information in the IC card, downloads information necessary to start the work from the server, and automatically reproduces the work environment at the time when the user interrupted the previous work on the basis of environment information at the end of the previous work included in the above information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 4, 2002
    Publication date: April 24, 2003
    Inventors: Hiroaki Takatsuki, Takashi Yoshimaru, Nobuhiko Matsukuma
  • Patent number: 6431989
    Abstract: In order to display distortion-free and high-precision images which give a three-dimensional appearance to many crews in a ride simulation system, there is provided a ride simulation system comprising a ride casing which is in shape of a capsule and can accept one or more people and a driving mechanism for driving this ride casing, wherein a horizontally long, curve screen is provided at the front of the interior of the ride casing, a plurality of projectors are provided at the rear of the interior of the ride casing, and because of projection on each corresponding divided area of the curve screen by means of the plurality of projectors, one picture is displayed on the curve screen.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 1999
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2002
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Atsushi Katayama, Nobuhiko Matsukuma, Yoshihiro Iwama, Atsuhiko Nishikawa, Douglas Trumbull, Eric A. Wilson, Brahm Rhodes, Steven D. Bronson, Joshua D. Minges, Erich A. Greenebaum
  • Patent number: 5966129
    Abstract: An image producing/displaying apparatus capable of inputting a command for changing a state of an object regardless of a form of the object includes a virtual world expressing system for constructing a virtual world including at least one object and environment in which the object exists and producing an image for visually displaying at least part of the virtual world, an output system for visualizing the image produced by the virtual world expressing system and outputting the image, and a command input system for inputting a command to the virtual world expressing system. The command input system detects a movement state of a specific pixel pattern contained in an image formed by an imaging device and extracts feature quantity from the movement state to recognize the command so that the command is notified to the virtual world expressing system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 10, 1996
    Date of Patent: October 12, 1999
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Nobuhiko Matsukuma, Manabu Yanagimoto, Hiroaki Takatsuki, Narihiro Munemasa, Toshio Moriya, Nobuhiro Sekimoto, Tsuneya Kurihara, Masanori Miyoshi