Patents by Inventor Satomi Kayano
Satomi Kayano 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).
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Patent number: 9158402Abstract: A method of detecting and interpreting a path of designated positions is disclosed. The method concurrently detects a plurality of designated positions on a touch panel, again detects the plurality of designated positions subsequent to a travel of the designated positions, determines the distances between each of the current designated positions and the respective immediately preceding designated positions, treats an immediately preceding designated position, closest to the current designated position of interest, as the immediately preceding designated position of the current designated position of interest, and acquires the path of each designated position, thereby recognizing the paths of the plurality of designated positions that move concurrently. A combination of the paths of the plurality of designated positions is interpreted to identify a designation input by a user, and an operation thus designated is executed.Type: GrantFiled: August 21, 2013Date of Patent: October 13, 2015Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Masanori Wakai, Satomi Kayano
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Publication number: 20140062924Abstract: A method of detecting and interpreting a path of designated positions is disclosed. The method concurrently detects a plurality of designated positions on a touch panel, again detects the plurality of designated positions subsequent to a travel of the designated positions, determines the distances between each of the current designated positions and the respective immediately preceding designated positions, treats an immediately preceding designated position, closest to the current designated position of interest, as the immediately preceding designated position of the current designated position of interest, and acquires the path of each designated position, thereby recognizing the paths of the plurality of designated positions that move concurrently. A combination of the paths of the plurality of designated positions is interpreted to identify a designation input by a user, and an operation thus designated is executed.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 21, 2013Publication date: March 6, 2014Applicant: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Masanori Wakai, Satomi Kayano
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Patent number: 8531421Abstract: A method of detecting and interpreting a path of designated positions is disclosed. The method concurrently detects a plurality of designated positions on a touch panel, again detects the plurality of designated positions subsequent to a travel of the designated positions, determines the distances between each of the current designated positions and the respective immediately preceding designated positions, treats an immediately preceding designated position, closest to the current designated position of interest, as the immediately preceding designated position of the current designated position of interest, and acquires the path of each designated position, thereby recognizing the paths of the plurality of designated positions that move concurrently. A combination of the paths of the plurality of designated positions is interpreted to identify a designation input by a user, and an operation thus designated is executed.Type: GrantFiled: July 15, 2011Date of Patent: September 10, 2013Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Masanori Wakai, Satomi Kayano
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Publication number: 20110279396Abstract: A method of detecting and interpreting a path of designated positions is disclosed. The method concurrently detects a plurality of designated positions on a touch panel, again detects the plurality of designated positions subsequent to a travel of the designated positions, determines the distances between each of the current designated positions and the respective immediately preceding designated positions, treats an immediately preceding designated position, closest to the current designated position of interest, as the immediately preceding designated position of the current designated position of interest, and acquires the path of each designated position, thereby recognizing the'paths of the plurality of designated positions that move concurrently. A combination of the paths of the plurality of designated positions is interpreted to identify a designation input by a user, and an operation thus designated is executed.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 15, 2011Publication date: November 17, 2011Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Masanori Wakai, Satomi Kayano
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Patent number: 7986308Abstract: A method of detecting and interpreting a path of designated positions is disclosed. The method concurrently detects a plurality of designated positions on a touch panel, again detects the plurality of designated positions subsequent to a travel of the designated positions, determines the distances between each of the current designated positions and the respective immediately preceding designated positions, treats an immediately preceding designated position, closest to the current designated position of interest, as the immediately preceding designated position of the current designated position of interest, and acquires the path of each designated position, thereby recognizing the paths of the plurality of designated positions that move concurrently. A combination of the paths of the plurality of designated positions is interpreted to identify a designation input by a user, and an operation thus designated is executed.Type: GrantFiled: November 1, 2006Date of Patent: July 26, 2011Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Masanori Wakai, Satomi Kayano
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Publication number: 20070103452Abstract: A method of detecting and interpreting a path of designated positions is disclosed. The method concurrently detects a plurality of designated positions on a touch panel, again detects the plurality of designated positions subsequent to a travel of the designated positions, determines the distances between each of the current designated positions and the respective immediately preceding designated positions, treats an immediately preceding designated position, closest to the current designated position of interest, as the immediately preceding designated position of the current designated position of interest, and acquires the path of each designated position, thereby recognizing the paths of the plurality of designated positions that move concurrently. A combination of the paths of the plurality of designated positions is interpreted to identify a designation input by a user, and an operation thus designated is executed.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 1, 2006Publication date: May 10, 2007Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Masanori Wakai, Satomi Kayano
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Patent number: 7138983Abstract: A method of detecting and interpreting a path of designated positions is disclosed. The method concurrently detects a plurality of designated positions on a touch panel, again detects the plurality of designated positions subsequent to a travel of the designated positions, determines the distances between each of the current designated positions and the respective immediately preceding designated positions, treats an immediately preceding designated position, closest to the current designated position of interest, as the immediately preceding designated position of the current designated position of interest, and acquires the path of each designated position, thereby recognizing the paths of the plurality of designated positions that move concurrently. A combination of the paths of the plurality of designated positions is interpreted to identify a designation input by a user, and an operation thus designated is executed.Type: GrantFiled: January 26, 2001Date of Patent: November 21, 2006Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Masanori Wakai, Satomi Kayano
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Patent number: 6768990Abstract: In an information processing apparatus, a SurfaceRule table having surface-layer information, a ConceptRule table having conceptual information, a connection table for correlating the two tables, and a retrieval table storing an ID of a connection table corresponding to a character string are provided in a conceptual database. A conceptual instance corresponding to an input character string is formed by retrieving a retrieval table using the input character string, referring to a connection table using an obtained ID of the connection table, and acquiring information, such as a concept, a part of speech, a tense, a slot and the like, from fields of corresponding SurfaceRule table and ConceptRule table.Type: GrantFiled: July 26, 2001Date of Patent: July 27, 2004Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Masanori Wakai, Satomi Kayano, Suresh Jeyachandran
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Publication number: 20020059249Abstract: In an information processing apparatus, a SurfaceRule table having surface-layer information, a ConceptRule table having conceptual information, a connection table for correlating the two tables, and a retrieval table storing an ID of a connection table corresponding to a character string are provided in a conceptual database. A conceptual instance corresponding to an input character string is formed by retrieving a retrieval table using the input character string, referring to a connection table using an obtained ID of the connection table, and acquiring information, such as a concept, a part of speech, a tense, a slot and the like, from fields of corresponding SurfaceRule table and ConceptRule table.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 26, 2001Publication date: May 16, 2002Inventors: Masanori Wakai, Satomi Kayano, Suresh Jeyachandran
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Publication number: 20020036618Abstract: A method of detecting and interpreting a path of designated positions is disclosed. The method concurrently detects a plurality of designated positions on a touch panel, again detects the plurality of designated positions subsequent to a travel of the designated positions, determines the distances between each of the current designated positions and the respective immediately preceding designated positions, treats an immediately preceding designated position, closest to the current designated position of interest, as the immediately preceding designated position of the current designated position of interest, and acquires the path of each designated position, thereby recognizing the paths of the plurality of designated positions that move concurrently. A combination of the paths of the plurality of designated positions is interpreted to identify a designation input by a user, and an operation thus designated is executed.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 26, 2001Publication date: March 28, 2002Inventors: Masanori Wakai, Satomi Kayano