Patents by Inventor Satoshi Terada

Satoshi Terada 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: 20240110574
    Abstract: A fan includes a first blower and a second blower each having an impeller. The first blower includes a first motor and a first motor drive controller to control driving of the first motor and communicate with the second blower. The second blower includes a second motor and a second motor drive controller to control driving of the second motor and communicate with the first blower. The first motor drive controller controls the driving of the first motor based on a result of communication with the second blower.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 12, 2023
    Publication date: April 4, 2024
    Inventors: Hiroyuki KAIDU, Satoshi MASUO, Shinichi UCHIKAWA, Xiao ZHOU, Mitsunari TERADA
  • Publication number: 20230325074
    Abstract: An information processing system includes a display controller that causes a display device to display a first input field in which predetermined information can be input, and an input information acquirer that acquires the predetermined information input by a user terminal when the user terminal becomes communicable. The display controller displays the predetermined information acquired by the input information acquirer in the first input field.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 16, 2023
    Publication date: October 12, 2023
    Applicant: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: YOSUKE OSAKI, SATOSHI TERADA
  • Patent number: 11720246
    Abstract: An information processing system includes a display controller that causes a display device to display a first input field in which predetermined information can be input, and an input information acquirer that acquires the predetermined information input by a user terminal when the user terminal becomes communicable. The display controller displays the predetermined information acquired by the input information acquirer in the first input field.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 8, 2023
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yosuke Osaki, Satoshi Terada
  • Patent number: 11695754
    Abstract: An information processing system includes a file acquirer that acquires a file used in a meeting, an authentication processor that selects, if a password is set to the file acquired by the file acquirer, an authentication scheme of the password, based on meeting information about the meeting, and executes a process of authenticating the password by the selected authentication scheme, and a file executer that executes the file if the password is authenticated by the authentication processor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2023
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yosuke Osaki, Jin Gao, Keiko Hirukawa, Satoshi Terada
  • Patent number: 11670296
    Abstract: A voice processing system includes a command specifier that specifies a command based on a first voice; a command processor that causes the specified command to be executed for a control target; a command determiner that determines whether or not the specified command is a repeated command; and an instruction determiner that determines whether or not a second voice, which corresponds to an execution instruction word indicating an instruction for executing the repeated command, has been received, after the repeated command corresponding to the first voice is executed, when the specified command is the repeated command, wherein when the second voice is received after the repeated command is executed, the command processor causes the repeated command to be repeatedly executed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2023
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Keiko Hirukawa, Yuuki Iwamoto, Satoshi Terada
  • Patent number: 11568866
    Abstract: An audio processing system includes: an audio receiver that receives audio; a speaker specifier that specifies a speaker on the basis of the received audio; an audio determinator that determines, on the basis of the received audio, whether or not a specified word for starting the reception of a predetermined command is included in the audio; a command specifier that specifies, when the specified word is included in the audio, a command on the basis of a command keyword which is included in the audio and follows the specified word; a target user specifier that specifies, on the basis of the content of the command, a target user with respect to which the command is to be executed; and a command executor that executes the command with respect to the target user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2023
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Kazuo Makijima, Satoshi Terada
  • Patent number: 11322145
    Abstract: A voice processing device includes a voice receiver that receives a voice, an imager, an image acquirer that acquires a captured image captured by the imager, an utterer identifier that identifies an utterer based on the voice received by the voice receiver and the captured image acquired by the image acquirer, a voice determiner that determines whether the voice is a specific word based on the voice received by the voice receiver and an image of the utterer identified by the utterer identifier, the image being included in the captured image, and a voice transmitter that switches a transmission destination of the voice received by the voice receiver based on a determination result by the voice determiner.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2022
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Keiko Hirukawa, Satoshi Terada
  • Patent number: 11262977
    Abstract: A display control apparatus includes a message storage section configured to store input messages, an attribute information applying section configured to apply attribute information to the messages, and a display control section configured to control displaying of a first display screen having a first display region for displaying the messages in chronological order and a second display region for displaying a message extracted from the messages based on the attribute information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2022
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Keiko Hirukawa, Satoshi Terada, Tomonobu Tomaru, Kazuki Sato
  • Publication number: 20210287672
    Abstract: A voice processing system includes a command specifier that specifies a command based on a first voice; a command processor that causes the specified command to be executed for a control target; a command determiner that determines whether or not the specified command is a repeated command; and an instruction determiner that determines whether or not a second voice, which corresponds to an execution instruction word indicating an instruction for executing the repeated command, has been received, after the repeated command corresponding to the first voice is executed, when the specified command is the repeated command, wherein when the second voice is received after the repeated command is executed, the command processor causes the repeated command to be repeatedly executed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 19, 2021
    Publication date: September 16, 2021
    Inventors: KEIKO HIRUKAWA, YUUKI IWAMOTO, SATOSHI TERADA
  • Publication number: 20210279340
    Abstract: An information processing system includes a display controller that causes a display device to display a first input field in which predetermined information can be input, and an input information acquirer that acquires the predetermined information input by a user terminal when the user terminal becomes communicable. The display controller displays the predetermined information acquired by the input information acquirer in the first input field.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 19, 2021
    Publication date: September 9, 2021
    Inventors: YOSUKE OSAKI, SATOSHI TERADA
  • Patent number: 11068151
    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: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 20, 2021
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Noriyuki Koyama, Satoshi Terada, Kazunori Urano
  • Patent number: 10996923
    Abstract: A display control device controls a display device. The display device includes two or more input units to which information processing devices are connected. The display control device includes a storage unit, a determination unit, and a command generation unit. The storage unit stores device information and reception status information. The device information indicates a state of each of the information processing devices. The reception status information indicates one of the information processing devices, which outputs a display image displayed by the display device. The determination unit determines a content of an instruction from an user. The command generation unit generates a command to be issued to at least one of the display device and the information processing devices based on a determination result of the determination unit and the information stored in the storage unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 4, 2021
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Go Nakazawa, Satoshi Terada, Keiko Hirukawa
  • Publication number: 20210105262
    Abstract: An information processing system includes a file acquirer that acquires a file used in a meeting, an authentication processor that selects, if a password is set to the file acquired by the file acquirer, an authentication scheme of the password, based on meeting information about the meeting, and executes a process of authenticating the password by the selected authentication scheme, and a file executer that executes the file if the password is authenticated by the authentication processor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 28, 2020
    Publication date: April 8, 2021
    Inventors: YOSUKE OSAKI, JIN GAO, KEIKO HIRUKAWA, SATOSHI TERADA
  • Publication number: 20210105437
    Abstract: An information processing device includes an image acquirer that acquires a captured image captured by an imager, an utterer identifier that identifies an utterer, a display target identifier that identifies a display target corresponding to the utterer identified by the utterer identifier from the captured image acquired by the image acquirer, and a display processor that displays display information corresponding to the display target identified by the display target identifier, on a first display.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 28, 2020
    Publication date: April 8, 2021
    Inventors: SATOSHI TERADA, KEIKO HIRUKAWA, YOSUKE OSAKI
  • Patent number: 10963074
    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: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 30, 2021
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Noriyuki Koyama, Satoshi Terada
  • Publication number: 20210083890
    Abstract: An information processing system according to the present disclosure includes a registration processor that registers, in a storage, location information indicating a location where a meeting is held, identification information of a voice processing device installed at the location, and identification information of a terminal device of a participant participating in the meeting, in a mutually associated manner, a voice acquirer that acquires voice information via the voice processing device in the meeting, a command specifier that specifies a command for executing a predetermined process, based on the voice information; an authority receiver that receives a grant request for an authority to execute the command, and an authority granter that grants the authority to a predetermined terminal device, based on the location information and the identification information of the terminal device, if the grant request is received by the authority receiver.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 11, 2020
    Publication date: March 18, 2021
    Inventors: AKIHIRO KUMATA, KEIKO HIRUKAWA, SATOSHI TERADA, DAISUKE YAMASHITA
  • Patent number: 10949078
    Abstract: An apparatus for display content on a touch panel includes a detecting unit that detects a touchdown to touch the touch panel and a touchup to lift off from the touch panel to cancel touching, and a menu display control unit that performs control to display menu if the touchup is detected after the touchdown is detected within a display region of the content.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 16, 2021
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Kiho Sakamoto, Satoshi Terada
  • Publication number: 20210073356
    Abstract: An information processing system according to the present disclosure includes a registration processor that registers, in a storage, location information indicating a location where a meeting is held, identification information of a device installed at the location where the meeting is held, and license information regarding a license for a function corresponding to the device, in a mutually associated manner, an inquiry acquirer that acquires an inquiry whether the license for the function is present, and a utilization controller that controls a utilization of the function, based on the location information, the identification information of the device, and the license information stored in the storage, if the inquiry is acquired by the inquiry acquirer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 31, 2020
    Publication date: March 11, 2021
    Inventors: KEIKO HIRUKAWA, YUUKI IWAMOTO, SATOSHI TERADA
  • Publication number: 20200388279
    Abstract: An audio processing system includes: an audio receiver that receives audio; a speaker specifier that specifies a speaker on the basis of the received audio; an audio determinator that determines, on the basis of the received audio, whether or not a specified word for starting the reception of a predetermined command is included in the audio; a command specifier that specifies, when the specified word is included in the audio, a command on the basis of a command keyword which is included in the audio and follows the specified word; a target user specifier that specifies, on the basis of the content of the command, a target user with respect to which the command is to be executed; and a command executor that executes the command with respect to the target user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 14, 2020
    Publication date: December 10, 2020
    Inventors: KAZUO MAKIJIMA, SATOSHI TERADA
  • Patent number: 10843551
    Abstract: A vehicle front structure includes a grille opening disposed in a front end of a front compartment of a vehicle, a radiator disposed rearward of the grille opening in the front compartment; and an air guide having a folded wall shape and extending along a length of the vehicle between an outward side of the grille opening in a vehicle width direction and an outward end of the radiator in the vehicle width direction. The air guide includes a protruding part extending from the outward side of the grille opening in the vehicle width direction toward a center in the vehicle width direction and including a tip end portion extending to an outward end of the radiator core in the width direction of the vehicle when viewed in a front view of the vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 24, 2020
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yuji Iwase, Masataka Arimura, Satoshi Terada