Patents by Inventor Noriyuki Koyama

Noriyuki Koyama 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: 10353578
    Abstract: A touch operation input device that allows input by a touch operation to a display screen, has a touch operation detector for detecting a touch operation; an operation processor for performing a process by determining operated content based on a detection result of the touch operation detector; a menu processor for performing a menu displaying process and a process of a menu item, based on a determination result of the operation processor; an image processor for performing a process of generating a drawn image on a touched portion when in a drawing mode; and a display controller for performing control of display on a display screen. When the operation processor has determined the touch operation as an operation for a menu process, the image processor performs a process of erasing the drawn image drawn by the touch operation even in the drawing mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 9, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2019
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Noriyuki Koyama, Kenji Akitomo
  • Publication number: 20190102530
    Abstract: An identification device that stores identification information authenticates a user by using biometrics authentication information, and transmits the identification information to a server device. The server device receives speech data from a speech input and output device, recognizes speech identification information from the speech data, and permits the user corresponding to the identification information to log in when the received identification information and the speech identification information match each other.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 29, 2018
    Publication date: April 4, 2019
    Inventors: YOSHIAKI TANAKA, NORIYUKI KOYAMA, HIROKI MUNETOMO
  • Publication number: 20190000810
    Abstract: An ointment is provided. The ointment stably comprises an oxazole compound that has specific inhibitory activity against PDE4 and that is represented by the following formula (11). The ointment can be efficiently absorbed into the skin.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 27, 2016
    Publication date: January 3, 2019
    Applicant: OTSUKA PHARMACEUTICAL CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yoshihiro MURAKAMI, Hitoshi MATSUSHITA, Kengo MATSUMOTO, Minoru OKADA, Yohei YUKI, Noriyuki KOYAMA, Naohiko KANAI
  • Publication number: 20180367643
    Abstract: An image created based on content is displayed on a display screen. A selected image is selected from the image. A move operation is detected on the selected image. It is determined whether or not the selected image has been moved to a predetermined specified area on the display screen. The display form of the selected image is changed when the selected image has been moved to the specified area. Content corresponding to the selected image is transmitted to a transmission destination associated with the specified area.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 15, 2018
    Publication date: December 20, 2018
    Inventors: Kiho SAKAMOTO, Hiroki MUNETOMO, Noriyuki KOYAMA
  • Publication number: 20180364896
    Abstract: A content transmission apparatus displays, on the display screen, an image created based on content. The content transmission apparatus detects a move operation on a selected image. The content transmission apparatus determines whether or not the selected image has been moved to a predetermined transmission-side specified area on the display screen. When the selected image has been moved to the transmission-side specified area, the content transmission apparatus changes the display form of the image, and transmits the content corresponding to the selected image, to a storage area associated with the transmission-side specified area. A content reception apparatus obtains the content from the storage area for display.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 15, 2018
    Publication date: December 20, 2018
    Inventors: Kiho SAKAMOTO, Hiroki MUNETOMO, Noriyuki KOYAMA
  • Publication number: 20170336968
    Abstract: A touch operation input device that allows input by a touch operation to a display screen, has a touch operation detector for detecting a touch operation; an operation processor for performing a process by determining operated content based on a detection result of the touch operation detector; a menu processor for performing a menu displaying process and a process of a menu item, based on a determination result of the operation processor; an image processor for performing a process of generating a drawn image on a touched portion when in a drawing mode; and a display controller for performing control of display on a display screen. When the operation processor has determined the touch operation as an operation for a menu process, the image processor performs a process of erasing the drawn image drawn by the touch operation even in the drawing mode.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 9, 2017
    Publication date: November 23, 2017
    Inventors: Noriyuki KOYAMA, Kenji AKITOMO
  • Publication number: 20170315634
    Abstract: An input display device includes a display unit that displays a screen for handwriting input on an input screen including a plurality of input fields, a stroke data processing unit that groups stroke data which is input to a capture screen by handwriting into stroke data representing characters to generate grouped stroke data as grouping stroke data, a character recognition unit that conducts character recognition on the grouping stroke data to convert the grouping stroke data into at least one recognized character, and a control processing unit that displays the at least one recognized character at the plurality of input fields of the input screen correlated with positions, at which handwriting input was performed, in the screen for handwriting input.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 26, 2017
    Publication date: November 2, 2017
    Inventors: Noriyuki KOYAMA, Satoshi TERADA
  • Patent number: 9760279
    Abstract: A touch operation input device that allows input by a touch operation to a display screen, has a touch operation detector for detecting a touch operation; an operation processor for performing a process by determining operated content based on a detection result of the touch operation detector; a menu processor for performing a menu displaying process and a process of a menu item, based on a determination result of the operation processor; an image processor for performing a process of generating a drawn image on a touched portion when in a drawing mode; and a display controller for performing control of display on a display screen. When the operation processor has determined the touch operation as an operation for a menu process, the image processor performs a process of erasing the drawn image drawn by the touch operation even in the drawing mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 1, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2017
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Noriyuki Koyama, Kenji Akitomo
  • Publication number: 20160378290
    Abstract: A content display device includes: a display unit for displaying a content in a displayable area; a position detecting unit for detecting a touch position; a determination unit for determining whether or not the detected touch position is on the displayed content; and, a content movement control unit that, when the determination unit has determined that the detected touch position is on the displayed content while part of the content resides outside the displayable area of the display unit, performs a control so as to move and display the content in such a manner that an entire content is displayed within the displayable area.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 23, 2016
    Publication date: December 29, 2016
    Inventors: Noriyuki KOYAMA, Satoshi TERADA, Kazunori URANO
  • Publication number: 20150331594
    Abstract: A content display device detects a first operation on a displayed content and determine a display magnification ratio based on the operation quantity of the first operation, displays a display image of the content that has been subjected to a first image processing for enlargement or reducing by the display magnification ratio, and, displays a display image of the content that has been subjected to a second image processing when the display magnification ratio falls beyond a first threshold range.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 21, 2015
    Publication date: November 19, 2015
    Inventors: Satoshi TERADA, Noriyuki KOYAMA, Shizuka INOUE
  • Publication number: 20150301737
    Abstract: A touch operation input device that allows input by a touch operation to a display screen, has a touch operation detector for detecting a touch operation; an operation processor for performing a process by determining operated content based on a detection result of the touch operation detector; a menu processor for performing a menu displaying process and a process of a menu item, based on a determination result of the operation processor; an image processor for performing a process of generating a drawn image on a touched portion when in a drawing mode; and a display controller for performing control of display on a display screen. When the operation processor has determined the touch operation as an operation for a menu process, the image processor performs a process of erasing the drawn image drawn by the touch operation even in the drawing mode.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 1, 2015
    Publication date: October 22, 2015
    Inventors: Noriyuki KOYAMA, Kenji AKITOMO
  • Publication number: 20150199036
    Abstract: An image display apparatus includes a display unit displaying an image, a touch detecting unit detecting a touch operation by a touch pen, a control unit executing a process allocated to the detected touch operation, and a communication unit receiving an ID transmitted from a touch pen when the touch pen is detected to be held by a user. In response to the communication unit receiving the ID, the display unit displays a partial image indicating a state of settings related to the process allocated to the touch operation by the touch pen, and in response to a touch to the partial image, the display unit displays a menu allowing a change of settings. Thus, the user can easily confirm the state of settings related to the touch operation, and can easily change the settings.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 4, 2014
    Publication date: July 16, 2015
    Inventors: Kenji AKITOMO, Noriyuki KOYAMA, Katsuyasu FURUKAWA, Kenji KONDOH, Takaaki ISHIDA
  • Publication number: 20100246972
    Abstract: A reduced edge image generating unit divides into blocks an image indicated by image information inputted by an input device which inputs image information for expressing an image, calculates the luminance values of pixels in each of the divided blocks, and generates a 1/N edge image based on a difference between the luminance value of a block of interest and the luminance value of a block adjacent to the block of interest. An inclination detecting unit performs line scanning on the 1/N edge image, which has been generated by the reduced edge image generating unit, for every angle set beforehand, calculates the evaluation value based on the luminance of a pixel for every line on which the line scanning is performed, calculates the statistical value based on the evaluation value calculated for every line, and estimates the inclination of the image from the calculated statistical value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 23, 2010
    Publication date: September 30, 2010
    Inventors: Noriyuki KOYAMA, Mitsuhiro Hakaridani
  • Patent number: 7714879
    Abstract: The size of each of the plurality of characters or graphics is modified while the size of each of the plurality of virtual areas included in the display area is maintained, so that the visual recognizability (ease of reading, or ease of recognition through reading) of characters or graphics is improved without changing the layout thereof. A character/graphic display apparatus of the present invention includes a display device including a display area for displaying a plurality of characters or graphics; and a control section for controlling the display device. The display area includes a plurality of virtual areas. The control section modifies the size of each of the plurality of characters or graphics while maintaining the size of each virtual area included in the display area; and controls the display device to display each of the plurality of characters or graphics having the modified size in the respective virtual area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 2004
    Date of Patent: May 11, 2010
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Yoshimi Asai, Noriyuki Koyama
  • Patent number: 7701467
    Abstract: A character display apparatus of the present invention is a character display apparatus for displaying a character on a screen based on stroke data containing character information, comprising a control section for setting a color element level for a subpixel overlapping a basic portion of the character, based on both or either a distance between a center of the subpixel and at least one dot contained in a stroke or a line width set for the stroke. According to the present invention, the resolution of subpixels can be apparently improved and the line width of a character can be freely changed without a large amount of working memory.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 2004
    Date of Patent: April 20, 2010
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Makoto Sakuta, Noriyuki Koyama
  • Publication number: 20080062180
    Abstract: A character/graphic display apparatus includes a display device for displaying a character or graphic; and a control section for controlling the display device. The control section executes character/graphic display processing, which includes the steps of (a) scaling a character or graphic including reference points along a specific axis so as to generate scaled reference points; (b) quantizing a sum of distances between the scaled reference points by a first method so as to generate a quantized sum; (c) quantizing the distances between the scaled reference points by a second method so as to generate quantized distances; (d) adjusting at least one of the distances quantized by the second method such that a sum of the distances quantized by the second method equals the sum quantized by the first method; and (e) displaying the scaled character or graphic based on the scaled reference points accompanying the at least one adjusted distance.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 14, 2004
    Publication date: March 13, 2008
    Applicant: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Noriyuki Koyama
  • Patent number: 7292253
    Abstract: A display apparatus (1) comprises a display device (10) and a control section (40) for displaying characters by using sub-pixel rendering. Each character is displayed in a frame having a predetermined size. The control section (40) has a skeleton portion shifting section (41a) which shifts a center of a skeleton portion of a character toward a center of the frame using sub-pixel precision.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 3, 2003
    Date of Patent: November 6, 2007
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Yoshimi Asai, Noriyuki Koyama, Satoshi Okada
  • Publication number: 20070122061
    Abstract: With an image processing device, an image processing program and a computer-readable recording medium, the resolution is converted such that a feature of an original image is not spoiled and the image is not blurred. With an image processing device 1 for converting the resolution of a digital image, an interpolation method corresponding to the position of an interpolation pixel is obtained in accordance with interpolation tables 114a and 115a which store interpolation information for selecting an interpolation method corresponding to the position of each of the interpolation pixels, and a luminance value of the interpolation pixel is determined using the interpolation method corresponding to the position of the interpolation pixel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 19, 2004
    Publication date: May 31, 2007
    Applicant: Sharop Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Makoto Sakuta, Noriyuki Koyama
  • Publication number: 20070070089
    Abstract: The size of each of the plurality of characters or graphics is modified while the size of each of the plurality of virtual areas included in the display area is maintained, so that the visual recognizability (ease of reading, or ease of recognition through reading) of characters or graphics is improved without changing the layout thereof. A character/graphic display apparatus of the present invention includes a display device including a display area for displaying a plurality of characters or graphics; and a control section for controlling the display device. The display area includes a plurality of virtual areas. The control section modifies the size of each of the plurality of characters or graphics while maintaining the size of each virtual area included in the display area; and controls the display device to display each of the plurality of characters or graphics having the modified size in the respective virtual area.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 27, 2004
    Publication date: March 29, 2007
    Applicant: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Yoshimi Asai, Noriyuki Koyama
  • Publication number: 20060250400
    Abstract: A character display apparatus of the present invention is a character display apparatus for displaying a character on a screen based on stroke data containing character information, comprising a control section for setting a color element level for a subpixel overlapping a basic portion of the character, based on both or either a distance between a center of the subpixel and at least one dot contained in a stroke or a line width set for the stroke. According to the present invention, the resolution of subpixels can be apparently improved and the line width of a character can be freely changed without a large amount of working memory.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 1, 2004
    Publication date: November 9, 2006
    Applicant: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Makoto Sakuta, Noriyuki Koyama