Patents by Inventor Satoshi Okuma

Satoshi Okuma 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: 9793072
    Abstract: Provided are a switch module and a push switch that have a soft sensation when pressed. A push switch and a switch module have a substrate, a first fixed contact point disposed on the substrate surface, a second fixed contact point disposed around the first fixed contact point on the substrate surface, a convex dome-shaped upper spring disposed on the substrate surface so that an end part is in contact with the second fixed contact point, the upper spring being pressed so as to invert the dome shape and to establish conduction between the first fixed contact point and the second fixed contact point, and a lower spring disposed below the upper spring, the lower spring adjusting the operation load applied to the upper spring during inversion of the dome shape.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2017
    Assignees: CITIZEN ELECTRONICS CO., LTD., CITIZEN WATCH CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shinsuke Watanabe, Satoshi Okuma
  • Patent number: 9720635
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus comprises: an editing unit that accepts editing of a workflow formed by a plurality of jobs which are to be processed in one or a plurality of job processing apparatuses; an obtaining unit that obtains pieces of history information from the processed jobs; an extraction unit that extracts, from the obtained pieces of history information, a series of jobs having a job type arrangement in common with a job of interest out of the plurality of jobs forming the edited workflow and at least one of the jobs preceding or succeeding the job of interest; and a setting unit that sets a setting, selected by a user out of the displayed settings, as the setting of the job of interest.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 20, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2017
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Satoshi Okuma
  • Publication number: 20170201637
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes at least one memory device that stores a set of instructions, and at least one processor that executes the instructions to generate an operation instruction object related to a workflow based a generation instruction for the operation instruction object, display the operation instruction object on a display unit, and perform control to not display the operation instruction object on the display unit based on a received deletion instruction far the operation instruction object.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 11, 2017
    Publication date: July 13, 2017
    Inventor: Satoshi Okuma
  • Publication number: 20160343523
    Abstract: A low travel switch assembly and systems and methods for using the same are disclosed. The low travel dome may include a domed surface having upper and lower portions, and a set of tuning members integrated within the domed surface between the upper and lower portions. The tuning members may be operative to control a force-displacement curve characteristic of the low travel dome.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 8, 2016
    Publication date: November 24, 2016
    Inventors: Keith J. Hendren, Thomas W. Wilson, JR., John M. Brock, Craig C. Leong, James J. Niu, Satoshi Okuma, Shinsuke Watanabe
  • Patent number: 9448707
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus having a display unit and an input device capable of detecting a plurality of designated points designated on a screen, and its method of controlling the same. The apparatus detects, on a plurality of coordinates a plurality of designated points that a user designates on the input device, a movement of the coordinates, and a change in a distance between two designated points accompanying the movement, and performs enlargement or reduction of a whole image displayed on the display unit in a case where an operation of the user is a predetermined operation designating at least two points and a first condition is satisfied, and performs enlargement or reduction of a character displayed on the display unit in a case where an operation of the user detected the predetermined operation and a second condition is satisfied.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2016
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Satoshi Okuma
  • Patent number: 9412533
    Abstract: A low travel switch assembly and systems and methods for using the same are disclosed. The low travel dome may include a domed surface having upper and lower portions, and a set of tuning members integrated within the domed surface between the upper and lower portions. The tuning members may be operative to control a force-displacement curve characteristic of the low travel dome.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2016
    Assignee: APPLE INC.
    Inventors: Keith J. Hendren, Thomas W. Wilson, Jr., John M. Brock, Craig C. Leong, James J. Niu, Satoshi Okuma, Shinsuke Watanabe
  • Publication number: 20160124693
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus comprises: an editing unit that accepts editing of a workflow formed by a plurality of jobs which are to be processed in one or a plurality of job processing apparatuses; an obtaining unit that obtains pieces of history information from the processed jobs; an extraction unit that extracts, from the obtained pieces of history information, a series of jobs having a job type arrangement in common with a job of interest out of the plurality of jobs forming the edited workflow and at least one of the jobs preceding or succeeding the job of interest; and a setting unit that sets a setting, selected by a user out of the displayed settings, as the setting of the job of interest.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 20, 2015
    Publication date: May 5, 2016
    Inventor: Satoshi Okuma
  • Publication number: 20160071665
    Abstract: Provided are a switch module and a push switch that have a soft sensation when pressed. A push switch and a switch module have a substrate, a first fixed contact point disposed on the substrate surface, a second fixed contact point disposed around the first fixed contact point on the substrate surface, a convex dome-shaped upper spring disposed on the substrate surface so that an end part is in contact with the second fixed contact point, the upper spring being pressed so as to invert the dome shape and to establish conduction between the first fixed contact point and the second fixed contact point, and a lower spring disposed below the upper spring, the lower spring adjusting the operation load applied to the upper spring during inversion of the dome shape.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 25, 2014
    Publication date: March 10, 2016
    Inventors: Shinsuke WATANABE, Satoshi OKUMA
  • Publication number: 20140376046
    Abstract: There is provided a display controlling method by which list displaying is not updated irrespective of an operation of a user. An information processing apparatus displays, on a display, a predetermined number of job data included in a printing job list of the job data of which the number increases and decreases irrespective of the direct operation of the user, in the order of the list. A CPU does not change the job data to be displayed on the display, in a case where new job data is added between job data not displayed on the display and in a case where job data not displayed on the display is deleted.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 17, 2014
    Publication date: December 25, 2014
    Inventor: Satoshi Okuma
  • Publication number: 20140346025
    Abstract: A low travel switch assembly and systems and methods for using the same are disclosed. The low travel dome may include a domed surface having upper and lower portions, and a set of tuning members integrated within the domed surface between the upper and lower portions. The tuning members may be operative to control a force-displacement curve characteristic of the low travel dome.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 27, 2014
    Publication date: November 27, 2014
    Applicant: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Keith J. Hendren, Thomas W. Wilson, JR., John M. Brock, Craig C. Leong, James J. Niu, Satoshi Okuma, Shinsuke Watanabe
  • Publication number: 20140089828
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus having a display unit and an input device capable of detecting a plurality of designated points designated on a screen, and its method of controlling the same. The apparatus detects, on a plurality of coordinates a plurality of designated points that a user designates on the input device, a movement of the coordinates, and a change in a distance between two designated points accompanying the movement, and performs enlargement or reduction of a whole image displayed on the display unit in a case where an operation of the user is a predetermined operation designating at least two points and a first condition is satisfied, and performs enlargement or reduction of a character displayed on the display unit in a case where an operation of the user detected the predetermined operation and a second condition is satisfied.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 29, 2013
    Publication date: March 27, 2014
    Applicant: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Satoshi Okuma
  • Patent number: 6167218
    Abstract: An operator depresses a voice registration key to set a voice registration mode, and registers the copy mode having been set at memory, and inputs the voice input for the copy mode registered through a microphone while depressing a voice input key, and registers the voice for the copy mode, so that a desired copy mode can be called at any time. When an operator inputs voice to call the registered copy mode while depressing the voice input key, the registered voice similar to the input voice is retrieved, and the copy mode corresponding to the voice is called from the memory and set.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 8, 1999
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2000
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Toshiya Kanazawa, Kaori Yamada, Akio Suzuki, Yuka Nagai, Hiroshi Matsuda, Satoshi Okuma