Patents by Inventor Ryo Yokoyama

Ryo Yokoyama 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: 20170024101
    Abstract: This information processing device enables a user to easily move objects between applications simultaneously displayed on touch panels. The information processing device (100) is provided with touch panels (10, 20) on which applications (6,7) are simultaneously displayed. A touch panel coordinate management unit (50) detects that an application (7) object (4) has existed for a prescribed time in a defined area (5) of the touch panel (20) when the object (4) is being dragged. An application control unit (60) and a display control unit (70) move the display of the application (6) to a position that allows the object (4) to be dropped as a trigger for detecting the existence of the object (4) in the defined area (5).
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 5, 2016
    Publication date: January 26, 2017
    Inventors: Yasuo KOHASHI, Kazushige YAMADA, Hirokazu KOBAYASHI, Kohei YAMAGUCHI, Ryo YOKOYAMA
  • Patent number: 9529518
    Abstract: This information processing device enables a user to easily move objects between applications simultaneously displayed on touch panels. The information processing device is provided with touch panels on which applications are simultaneously displayed. A touch panel coordinate management unit detects that an application object has existed for a prescribed time in a defined area of the touch panel when the object is being dragged. An application control unit and a display control unit move the display of the application to a position that allows the object to be dropped as a trigger for detecting the existence of the object in the defined area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 21, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2016
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICA
    Inventors: Yasuo Kohashi, Kazushige Yamada, Hirokazu Kobayashi, Kohei Yamaguchi, Ryo Yokoyama
  • Patent number: 9489120
    Abstract: This information processing device enables a user to easily move objects between applications simultaneously displayed on touch panels. The information processing device is provided with touch panels on which applications are simultaneously displayed. A touch panel coordinate management unit detects that an application object has existed for a prescribed time in a defined area of the touch panel when the object is being dragged. An application control unit and a display control unit move the display of the application to a position that allows the object to be dropped as a trigger for detecting the existence of the object in the defined area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 21, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2016
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICA
    Inventors: Yasuo Kohashi, Kazushige Yamada, Hirokazu Kobayashi, Kohei Yamaguchi, Ryo Yokoyama
  • Patent number: 9377944
    Abstract: Disclosed is an information processing apparatus that allows the user to operate a plurality of applications simultaneously displayed on touch panels, using a hand that holds the terminal. Information processing apparatus includes touch panels that simultaneously displays a plurality of applications. Touch panel coordinate management section determines whether or not an enabling operation to enable a display control for applications is received. Tilt detection section detects whether or not information processing apparatus is tilted, when the enabling operation is received. Application control section and display control section move application displayed on touch panel positioned higher than touch panel toward application displayed on touch panel positioned lower than touch panel, when information processing apparatus is tilted.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 23, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 28, 2016
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICA
    Inventors: Ryo Yokoyama, Yuji Kunitake, Yasuo Kohashi
  • Patent number: 9348445
    Abstract: Provided are an information processing device, an information processing method, and an information processing program, which simply switch to a display method which a user desires. When an information processing device (100) in which two touch panels (40, 50) are rotatably connected by a hinge (30) is in a two-screen state, the current screen mode is switched to another screen mode by carrying out a re-fold operation which, via a prescribed angle within a prescribed time, returns the information processing device (100) to an original state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2016
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICA
    Inventors: Yuji Kunitake, Ryo Yokoyama, Kenji Shimizu
  • Patent number: 9240076
    Abstract: Disclosed is an information processing apparatus including virtual object management section (104) that manages virtual object management information of the information processing apparatus thereof on a virtual object disposed in an augmented real space shared by a group to which this information processing apparatus belongs. Communication section (107) receives virtual object management information of another information processing apparatus from this other information processing apparatus belonging to another group, the information regarding a virtual object disposed in an augmented real space shared in the other group. Reference point setting section (103) sets a common reference point based on the virtual object management information of the information processing apparatus and the virtual object management information of the other information processing apparatus, the common reference point being commonly used by the other group and the group to which the information processing apparatus belongs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 19, 2016
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Takayuki Nishikawa, Ryo Yokoyama, Keisuke Hayata, Masaki Takahashi
  • Publication number: 20150276954
    Abstract: A device has a storage and an information processor. The storage stores presentation information received from a server apparatus. The information processor reads the presentation information from the storage, and controls screen display on a notifier, based on the read presentation information. The screen display on the notifier includes map information of a predetermined region, information about at least one unit representing an occupied part in a unit ownership building that exists in the predetermined region or a building that exists in the predetermined region and that is a building other than a unit ownership building, and shaking-intensity information for each unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 19, 2015
    Publication date: October 1, 2015
    Inventors: RYO YOKOYAMA, AKIKO TAKAMIYA, HAYASHI ITO, HITOSHI NOMURA
  • Publication number: 20150277611
    Abstract: In the use of a touch panel which vibrates in synchronization with a touch operation, discomfort caused by a panel vibration sound is reduced while an operational feeling of a touch operation on the touch panel being maintained. A vibration control device used for an electronic apparatus which includes a touch panel that vibrates in synchronization with a touch operation and a vibrating source that is different from the touch panel, includes a predominant frequency acquirer that acquires a main component of a vibrational frequency of the vibrating source as a predominant frequency of vibrations of the vibrating source; a consonant sound determiner that determines a consonant sound frequency based on the acquired predominant frequency, the consonant sound frequency being a frequency of a sound which is in consonant with a sound having the acquired predominant frequency; and a vibrational frequency setter that sets a vibrational frequency of the touch panel to the determined consonant sound frequency.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 12, 2015
    Publication date: October 1, 2015
    Inventors: Masashi SUGIYAMA, Takayuki NISHIKAWA, Yoichi NISHIDA, Ryo YOKOYAMA, Toyoharu KURODA
  • Publication number: 20150277612
    Abstract: In the use of a touch panel which vibrates in synchronization with a touch operation, discomfort caused by a panel vibration sound is reduced while an operational feeling of a touch operation on the touch panel being maintained. A vibration control device that is used for a touch panel which vibrates in synchronization with a touch operation, includes a sound data acquirer that acquires sound data of a surrounding sound of the touch panel; a predominant frequency acquirer that extracts a predominant frequency of the surrounding sound from the acquired sound data; a consonant sound determiner that determines a consonant sound frequency based on the extracted predominant frequency, the consonant sound frequency being a frequency of a sound which is in consonant with a sound having the extracted predominant frequency; and a vibrational frequency setter that sets a vibrational frequency of the touch panel to the determined consonant sound frequency.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 12, 2015
    Publication date: October 1, 2015
    Inventors: MASASHI SUGIYAMA, TAKAYUKI NISHIKAWA, YOICHI NISHIDA, RYO YOKOYAMA
  • Patent number: 9049492
    Abstract: A portable terminal wherein the amount of processing and power consumption when performing repair is reduced and video data can be reliably repaired, and video data repair method and program of the same. The portable terminal is provided with a video data repairer that repairs video data in which video is poor by replacing it with a portion of video data acquired from an external source, said video data repairer saving, without deleting at the time of repairing, all of partial video data necessary to decode subsequent video data continuing after the video data to be repaired, and performing control so that only the portion of the video data that is repaired is re-encoded.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2009
    Date of Patent: June 2, 2015
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICA
    Inventors: Masaki Takahashi, Toshio Oka, Ryo Yokoyama, Satoshi Senga
  • Publication number: 20140344750
    Abstract: Provided is a display device with which it is possible for a plurality of users to comfortably carry out different window manipulations without a screen being partitioned. This device (100), which displays a plurality of windows on one screen, comprises: an active window administration unit (260) which administers an association between at least an active window among a plurality of windows, and a user who is manipulating the active window; and a window control unit (270) which controls the display state of the active window on the basis of the association. When there is a plurality of users present, the window control unit (270) controls the display locations of a plurality of active windows corresponding to the plurality of users such that the plurality of active windows are not superpositioned.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 26, 2012
    Publication date: November 20, 2014
    Inventors: Masaki Takahashi, Ryo Yokoyama
  • Publication number: 20140298276
    Abstract: This display control device can effectively reduce power consumption while assuring visibility of a display area. A display control device (400) carries out display control for a display panel with an integrated touch panel and has: a touch operation information acquisition unit (410) that acquires touch operation information from the touch panel; a user operation information estimation unit (420) that estimates a region of interest, which is a region that a user is giving attention to, from the display region on the display panel on the basis of the touch operation information that is acquired; and a display control indication unit (440) that sets the brightness level for regions of non-interest, which is a region other than the region of interest estimated within the display region, lower than the set brightness level.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 6, 2012
    Publication date: October 2, 2014
    Inventors: Ryo Yokoyama, Toshio Oka
  • Publication number: 20140195935
    Abstract: Disclosed is an information processing apparatus that allows the user to operate a plurality of applications simultaneously displayed on touch panels, using a hand that holds the terminal. Information processing apparatus (100) includes touch panels (10, 20) that simultaneously displays a plurality of applications (6, 7). Touch panel coordinate management section (50) determines whether or not an enabling operation to enable a display control for applications (6, 7) is received. Tilt detection section (30) detects whether or not information processing apparatus (100) is tilted, when the enabling operation is received. Application control section (60) and display control section (70) move application (6) displayed on touch panel (10) positioned higher than touch panel (20) toward application (7) displayed on touch panel (20) positioned lower than touch panel (10), when information processing apparatus (100) is tilted.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 23, 2013
    Publication date: July 10, 2014
    Inventors: Ryo Yokoyama, Yuji Kunitake, Yasuo Kohashi
  • Publication number: 20140173470
    Abstract: This information processing device enables a user to easily move objects between applications simultaneously displayed on touch panels. The information processing device (100) is provided with touch panels (10, 20) on which applications (6, 7) are simultaneously displayed. A touch panel coordinate management unit (50) detects that an application (7) object (4) has existed for a prescribed time in a defined area (5) of the touch panel (20) when the object (4) is being dragged. An application control unit (60) and a display control unit (70) move the display of the application (6) to a position that allows the object (4) to be dropped as a trigger for detecting the existence of the object (4) in the defined area (5).
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 21, 2013
    Publication date: June 19, 2014
    Inventors: Yasuo Kohashi, Kazushige Yamada, Hirokazu Kobayashi, Kohei Yamaguchi, Ryo Yokoyama
  • Publication number: 20140152606
    Abstract: Provided are an information processing device, an information processing method, and an information processing program, which simply switch to a display method which a user desires. When an information processing device (100) in which two touch panels (40, 50) are rotatably connected by a hinge (30) is in a two-screen state, the current screen mode is switched to another screen mode by carrying out a re-fold operation which, via a prescribed angle within a prescribed time, returns the information processing device (100) to an original state.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 20, 2013
    Publication date: June 5, 2014
    Applicant: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Yuji Kunitake, Ryo Yokoyama, Kenji Shimizu
  • Patent number: 8726056
    Abstract: An instruction detecting section (235) detects whether or not there is any succeeding instruction executable regardless of an order based on a data dependency relationship between a presently executed instruction and a succeeding instruction following the presently executed instruction. A clock switch judging section (236) receives notification of the start and end of a memory stall, determines whether or not a memory stall is occurring, and judges whether to switch a clock signal to be supplied to a CPU (200) to a low clock signal (239) or to stop the clock signal based on a detection result of the instruction detecting section (235) if it is judged that the memory stall is occurring. A clock switching section (237) switches the clock signal based on judgment by the clock switch judging section (236). By this construction, power consumption can be reduced without reducing performance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 9, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 13, 2014
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Ryo Yokoyama, Tadao Tanikawa
  • Publication number: 20140063065
    Abstract: Disclosed is an information processing apparatus including virtual object management section (104) that manages virtual object management information of the information processing apparatus thereof on a virtual object disposed in an augmented real space shared by a group to which this information processing apparatus belongs. Communication section (107) receives virtual object management information of another information processing apparatus from this other information processing apparatus belonging to another group, the information regarding a virtual object disposed in an augmented real space shared in the other group. Reference point setting section (103) sets a common reference point based on the virtual object management information of the information processing apparatus and the virtual object management information of the other information processing apparatus, the common reference point being commonly used by the other group and the group to which the information processing apparatus belongs.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 15, 2013
    Publication date: March 6, 2014
    Applicant: PANASONIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takayuki Nishikawa, Ryo Yokoyama, Keisuke Hayata, Masaki Takahashi
  • Publication number: 20120110366
    Abstract: An instruction detecting section (235) detects whether or not there is any succeeding instruction executable regardless of an order based on a data dependency relationship between a presently executed instruction and a succeeding instruction following the presently executed instruction. A clock switch judging section (236) receives notification of the start and end of a memory stall, determines whether or not a memory stall is occurring, and judges whether to switch a clock signal to be supplied to a CPU (200) to a low clock signal (239) or to stop the clock signal based on a detection result of the instruction detecting section (235) if it is judged that the memory stall is occurring. A clock switching section (237) switches the clock signal based on judgment by the clock switch judging section (236). By this construction, power consumption can be reduced without reducing performance.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 9, 2012
    Publication date: May 3, 2012
    Inventors: Ryo YOKOYAMA, Tadao TANIKAWA
  • Publication number: 20120090002
    Abstract: Disclosed are a digital broadcast reception device and digital broadcast reception method which can quickly present a data broadcast presentation screen once a user instructs that data broadcast be presented. The digital broadcast reception device (100) is provided with a screen holding unit (114) which stores pictures (bitmaps) of data broadcast presentation screens created by a browser unit (112), and a video position information holding unit (115) which stores position information for displaying TV video on the data broadcast presentation screen generated by the browser unit (112).
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 23, 2010
    Publication date: April 12, 2012
    Applicant: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Ryo Yokoyama, Toshio Oka, Masaki Takahashi
  • Publication number: 20120055692
    Abstract: The present invention provides a flat-panel display member comprising a barrier rib on a glass substrate, wherein the barrier rib contains a low softening point glass as a main component, the barrier rib contains a low softening point glass and the barrier rib is composed of at least two layers, and also a low softening point glass, which is a main component of the uppermost layer of the barrier rib, has an elastic modulus of 80 GPa or less. According to the present invention, the destruction of the barrier rib, which may cause non-lighting or abnormal lighting of discharge cells, has been suppressed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 3, 2010
    Publication date: March 8, 2012
    Applicant: TORAY INDUSTRIES, INC.
    Inventors: Takahiro Tanino, Ryo Yokoyama, Rumi Yokoyama