Patents by Inventor Satoshi Odakura

Satoshi Odakura 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: 20240154446
    Abstract: In an electric power device and a method for controlling the same, a first circuit is electrically connected to a first battery tray and a second battery tray, a second circuit is electrically connected to the first battery tray, and a third circuit is electrically connected to the second battery tray. Between the first circuit and the second circuit, a first resistor unit is connected in series with the first battery tray, and a first interrupting unit is connected in parallel with the first resistor unit. Between the first circuit and the third circuit, a second resistor unit is connected in series with the second battery tray, and a second interrupting unit is connected in parallel with the second resistor unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 9, 2022
    Publication date: May 9, 2024
    Inventors: Atsushi Nakajima, Satoshi Odakura, Keita Yagi, Takumi Shiiyama, Tatsuya Uchimoto, Makoto Ogawa, Koichiro Takemasa, Hiroshi Miyazaki
  • Publication number: 20240046782
    Abstract: A vehicle control device mountable on a vehicle includes a warning device that warns a current driver of the vehicle, and a control system including a processor and a memory that are communicably coupled. The control system obtains, a numerical value indicating an acceleration operation and/or a deceleration operation for each past driver of the vehicle, and the numerical value as past operation data. When an occupant other than the current driver matches any past driver, the control system sets the past operation data of the any past driver as reference data. The control system obtains a numerical value indicating an acceleration operation and/or a deceleration operation by the current driver as current operation data, and controls the warning device to warn the current driver when the current operation data deviates from the reference data by an amount more than a warning threshold.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 3, 2023
    Publication date: February 8, 2024
    Inventor: Satoshi ODAKURA
  • Patent number: 11505081
    Abstract: A charge/discharge management apparatus for executing charge/discharge of a battery of a vehicle electrically connected to a facility, comprising an obtaining unit for obtaining use histories of a plurality of batteries corresponding to a plurality of vehicles electrically connected to the facility, and a selection unit for selecting a battery subjected to execution of charge/discharge from the plurality of batteries based on priority decided from the use histories.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2022
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hirofumi Suzuki, Makoto Ogawa, Satoshi Odakura, Daisuke Tsutsumi
  • Publication number: 20210061123
    Abstract: A charge/discharge management apparatus for executing charge/discharge of a battery of a vehicle electrically connected to a facility, comprising an obtaining unit for obtaining use histories of a plurality of batteries corresponding to a plurality of vehicles electrically connected to the facility, and a selection unit for selecting a battery subjected to execution of charge/discharge from the plurality of batteries based on priority decided from the use histories.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 26, 2020
    Publication date: March 4, 2021
    Inventors: Hirofumi Suzuki, Makoto Ogawa, Satoshi Odakura, Daisuke Tsutsumi
  • Publication number: 20150218745
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, an electronic device includes a receiver and a display controller. The receiver is configured to receive information indicating an operation course and information indicating a process currently performed by a washer dryer from the washer dryer. The washer dryer is configured to operate in accordance with the operation course including one or more processes out of at least four processes. The display controller is configured to display a screen including at least four display areas corresponding to the at least four processes on a display. The screen is configured to display one or more processes included in the operation course in the display areas in such a manner that the process currently performed by the washer dryer, a process to be performed hereafter by the washer dryer, and a process previously performed by the washer dryer are discriminable from each other.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 28, 2014
    Publication date: August 6, 2015
    Inventors: Satoshi Odakura, Noriyuki Hirayama
  • Publication number: 20150220072
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, an information processing device includes to a receiver, a display controller, an acquisition module, a storage module, and a setting module. The receiver receives a selection of a control target device and an input of control information to be set for the control target device. The display controller controls display of a first screen for inputting the control information on a display. The acquisition module detects an activated external device and acquires a unique identifier after the receiver receives the input of the control information completely. The storage module stores the unique identifier for each registered device for which the control information is already set. The setting module sets the received control information for the external device when a first device of the registered device is selected as the control target device and the identifier of the external device coincides with the identifier of the first device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 17, 2014
    Publication date: August 6, 2015
    Inventors: Noriyuki HIRAYAMA, Satoshi ODAKURA
  • Publication number: 20150061539
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, an electronic device includes an input display controller, a converter, a transmitter. The input display controller displays a setting area for setting one or more control parameters with respect to lighting control of a lighting device on a display and to accept a touch operation on the setting area. The converter converts position coordinates of the touch operation on the setting area into the one or more control parameters corresponding to the position coordinates. The transmitter transmits a control command indicative of the one or more control parameters to the lighting device and to transmit, when the touch operation is continuously performed for a first duration, a first control command indicative of one or more first control parameters corresponding to the position coordinates of the touch operation continuously performed for the first duration to the lighting device at a first transmission interval.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 25, 2014
    Publication date: March 5, 2015
    Applicant: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Noriyuki HIRAYAMA, Satoshi ODAKURA, Hiroko ISHIKAWA, Mayuko YOSHIDA, Toshiaki TAKAMA
  • Publication number: 20150066232
    Abstract: According to at least one embodiment, an information display device includes a receiver and a display. The receiver is configured to receive, from one or more devices, information indicating power consumption of one or more spaces in which electronic devices can be installed and/or one or more electronic devices. The display controller is configured to display animations corresponding to the power consumption of the one or more spaces and/or one or more electronic devices, such that differences in the power consumption among the one or more spaces and/or one or more electronic devices are displayed as differences in animation speeds.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 6, 2014
    Publication date: March 5, 2015
    Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA
    Inventors: Satoshi Odakura, Noriyuki Hirayama, Hiroko Ishikawa, Mayuko Yoshida, Toshiaki Takama
  • Publication number: 20140253301
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, communications device includes receiver, transmitter, and display. The receiver receives, when first information indicating a setting on a target control device is displayed in a first color in a first display area of a display device, an operation for changing information displayed in the first display area from the first information to second information. The transmitter transmits to the target control device, after a first time has elapsed from when the receiver receives the operation, an instruction for changing the setting according to the second information. The display displays, when the receiver receives the operation for changing the information displayed in the first display area and before the transmitter transmits the instruction, the second information in a second color on the first display area, and displays, upon transmission of the instruction, the second information in a third color in the first display area.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 1, 2014
    Publication date: September 11, 2014
    Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA
    Inventors: Noriyuki HIRAYAMA, Satoshi ODAKURA, Keiji SAITO, Mayuko YOSHIDA
  • Publication number: 20140188299
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a display device includes: a setting module configured to set a first ECO mode and a second ECO mode different from the first ECO mode to an electric appliance which is a managed object of HEMS (Home Energy Management System), each of the first and second ECO modes being for reducing an amount of power consumption; and a display configured to display an icon corresponding to the electric appliance differently between the set first ECO mode and the set second ECO mode.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 27, 2013
    Publication date: July 3, 2014
    Applicant: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventor: Satoshi Odakura
  • Publication number: 20140152591
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, an electronic device includes a display device, a touch sensor, an account switching module, and a display controller. The display device includes a display screen. The touch sensor is configured to detect an operation on a display screen side of the display device. The account switching module is configured to switch a logged-in account from a second account which is lower than a first account to the first account when a detection result of the touch sensor corresponds to a pinch-in operation, and to switch the logged-in account from the first account to the second account when the detection result of the touch sensor corresponds to a pinch-out operation. The display controller is configured to control the display device so as to display an image on the display screen.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 26, 2013
    Publication date: June 5, 2014
    Applicant: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventor: Satoshi Odakura
  • Patent number: 8457558
    Abstract: A method of transmitting a capture image for an information processing apparatus comprising a communication module configured to execute close proximity wireless transfer. The method may include establishing connection between the communication module and an external device. The method may also include generating image data for a screen displayed on a display device and transmitting the generated image data to the external device when a “Get default object” command defined in a push protocol class of an object exchange (OBEX) protocol for requesting acquisition of a default object is received from the external device in a state where connection between the communication module and the external device is established, the “Get default object” command comprising a parameter for indicating an attribute of requested data as images.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 25, 2011
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2013
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Ayumi Hashimoto, Hideki Ohkita, Hideyuki Nakagawa, Satoshi Odakura
  • Patent number: 8320831
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, an electronic device includes a communication module, a connection establishment module, a negotiation module, a service execution module, and an execution control module. The communication module executes close proximity wireless transfer. The connection establishment module establishes a connection between the communication module and an external device which are in a close proximity state. The negotiation module determines a service to be executed between the communication module and the external device through a negotiation process when the connection is established. The service execution module executes the service. The execution control module executes the negotiation process again in response to a user's request or a request from the external device if the connection is kept after the completion of the service.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 27, 2012
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Ayumi Hashimoto, Hideki Ohkita, Hideyuki Nakagawa, Satoshi Odakura
  • Patent number: 8233843
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, an information processing apparatus includes a communication module which performs close proximity wireless transfer, a connection establishing module which establishes connection between the communication module and an external device, and a capture image transmission module which transmits screen capture image data to the external device when a command for requesting data transmission is received from the external device in a state where connection between the communication module and external device is established. The command is determined in a protocol for transmitting and receiving data between the communication module and the external device, and is added a parameter for specifying the attribute of requested data as images.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2010
    Date of Patent: July 31, 2012
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Ayumi Hashimoto, Hideki Ohkita, Hideyuki Nakagawa, Satoshi Odakura
  • Publication number: 20120083214
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, an electronic device includes a communication module, a connection establishment module, a negotiation module, a service execution module, and an execution control module. The communication module executes close proximity wireless transfer. The connection establishment module establishes a connection between the communication module and an external device which are in a close proximity state. The negotiation module determines a service to be executed between the communication module and the external device through a negotiation process when the connection is established. The service execution module executes the service. The execution control module executes the negotiation process again in response to a user's request or a request from the external device if the connection is kept after the completion of the service.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 8, 2011
    Publication date: April 5, 2012
    Applicant: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Ayumi HASHIMOTO, Hideki OHKITA, Hideyuki NAKAGAWA, Satoshi ODAKURA
  • Patent number: 8117318
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a session control module is configured to temporarily release a first session between a first communication program and the external device by stopping a first conversion module corresponding to a an application protocol of the first communication without informing the first communication program of releasing of the first session, and to establish a second session between a second communication program and the external device by activating a second conversion module corresponding to an application protocol of the second communication program. A session restoring module is configured to restore the first session to a data transferable state by activating the first conversion when the second session is finished.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 2009
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2012
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventor: Satoshi Odakura
  • Publication number: 20110228108
    Abstract: A method of transmitting a capture image for an information processing apparatus comprising a communication module configured to execute close proximity wireless transfer. The method may include establishing connection between the communication module and an external device. The method may also include generating image data for a screen displayed on a display device and transmitting the generated image data to the external device when a “Get default object” command defined in a push protocol class of an object exchange (OBEX) protocol for requesting acquisition of a default object is received from the external device in a state where connection between the communication module and the external device is established, the “Get default object” command comprising a parameter for indicating an attribute of requested data as images.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 25, 2011
    Publication date: September 22, 2011
    Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA
    Inventors: Ayumi HASHIMOTO, Hideki OHKITA, Hideyuki NAKAGAWA, Satoshi ODAKURA
  • Publication number: 20110111698
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, an electronic apparatus includes a storage device, a communication module, a connection establishing module, and a storage area information transmitter. The communication module executes close proximity wireless transfer. The connection establishing module exchanges a unique identifier of the communication module and a unique identifier of an external device between the communication module and the external device which are in a close proximity state, and establishes connection between the communication module and the external device. The storage area information transmitter specifies a storage area in the storage device which can be provided to the external device based on the unique identifier of the external device, and transmits storage area information, which includes information of a logical hierarchical structure set in the specified storage area, to the external device by the close proximity wireless transfer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 20, 2010
    Publication date: May 12, 2011
    Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA
    Inventor: Satoshi Odakura
  • Publication number: 20100328469
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, an information processing apparatus includes a communication module which performs close proximity wireless transfer, a connection establishing module which establishes connection between the communication module and an external device, and a capture image transmission module which transmits screen capture image data to the external device when a command for requesting data transmission is received from the external device in a state where connection between the communication module and external device is established. The command is determined in a protocol for transmitting and receiving data between the communication module and the external device, and is added a parameter for specifying the attribute of requested data as images.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 30, 2010
    Publication date: December 30, 2010
    Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA
    Inventors: Ayumi HASHIMOTO, Hideki OHKITA, Hideyuki NAKAGAWA, Satoshi ODAKURA
  • Publication number: 20100267334
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, an electronic device includes a communication module, a connection establishment module, a negotiation module, a service execution module, and an execution control module. The communication module executes close proximity wireless transfer. The connection establishment module establishes a connection between the communication module and an external device which are in a close proximity state. The negotiation module determines a service to be executed between the communication module and the external device through a negotiation process when the connection is established. The service execution module executes the service. The execution control module executes the negotiation process again in response to a user's request or a request from the external device if the connection is kept after the completion of the service.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 12, 2010
    Publication date: October 21, 2010
    Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA
    Inventors: Ayumi HASHIMOTO, Hideki OHKITA, Hideyuki NAKAGAWA, Satoshi ODAKURA