Patents by Inventor Satoshi Yokoyama

Satoshi 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).

  • Patent number: 10248435
    Abstract: A computer supports an operation by an operator of a target device. The computer stores a first topology indicating dependency relationship of a plurality of device types including a device type of the target device. The computer generates a second topology indicating dependency relationship of a plurality of devices including the target device, by performing, based on the first topology, a topology discovery for the plurality of devices. Each of the plurality of devices has any one of the plurality of device types. The computer provides an operation sequence of the plurality of devices to the operator. The operation sequence is generated based on the second topology.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2019
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Taku Aratsu, Toshiyuki Komoda, Yohei Umehara, Satoshi Yokoyama
  • Publication number: 20190050127
    Abstract: A contact state of a finger with respect to a first displayed object is detected. In response to detecting a double-click operation on the first displayed object at a first position in a depthwise direction, the first displayed object is moved onto a surface of a display screen of a three-dimensional (3-D) display. In response to detecting that the finger has moved from the contact state to a proximity state with respect to the first displayed object, a display position of the first displayed object is changed from the surface of the display screen to a depth position at which a second object is displayed at a nearest side in the depthwise direction among displayed objects. The second object remains displayed at the depth position beside the first object.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 17, 2018
    Publication date: February 14, 2019
    Inventors: Hayato Uenohara, Satoshi Yokoyama
  • Publication number: 20190042069
    Abstract: An electronic document is obtained as a single unit of display data divided by a display size of a screen into a group of page data sets. A display configured to sense movement of a movable object in a vertical direction relative to the screen is used. The display is configured such that each of the group of page data sets of the electronic document is associated in a sequence with a respective different one of a group of detection levels within a movement detection range of the display. In response to sensing movement using the display, a page data set corresponding to a detection level in the movement detection range is displayed on the screen in accordance with the sensed movement. Display speed changes are automatically adjusted while displaying different ones of the group of page data sets in accordance with a moving speed of the sensed movement.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 9, 2018
    Publication date: February 7, 2019
    Inventors: Satoshi Muto, Satoshi Yokoyama
  • Patent number: 10140010
    Abstract: A contact state of a finger with respect to a first displayed object is detected. In response to detecting a double-click operation on the first displayed object at a first position in a depthwise direction, the first displayed object is moved onto a surface of a display screen of a three-dimensional (3-D) display. In response to detecting that the finger has moved from the contact state to a proximity state with respect to the first displayed object, a display position of the first displayed object is changed from the surface of the display screen to a depth position at which a second object is displayed at a nearest side in the depthwise direction among displayed objects. The second object remains displayed at the depth position beside the first object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 26, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 27, 2018
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hayato Uenohara, Satoshi Yokoyama
  • Patent number: 10114526
    Abstract: An electronic document includes a set of pages. A display is used that is configured to sense movement of a movable object in a vertical direction relative to a screen. In response to sensing movement using the display, a page corresponding to the electronic document is displayed on the screen in accordance with the sensed movement.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 30, 2018
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Satoshi Muto, Satoshi Yokoyama
  • Publication number: 20180150200
    Abstract: A contact state of a finger with respect to a first displayed object is detected. In response to detecting a double-click operation on the first displayed object at a first position in a depthwise direction, the first displayed object is moved onto a surface of a display screen of a three-dimensional (3-D) display. In response to detecting that the finger has moved from the contact state to a proximity state with respect to the first displayed object, a display position of the first displayed object is changed from the surface of the display screen to a depth position at which a second object is displayed at a nearest side in the depthwise direction among displayed objects. The second object remains displayed at the depth position beside the first object.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 26, 2018
    Publication date: May 31, 2018
    Inventors: Hayato Uenohara, Satoshi Yokoyama
  • Patent number: 9898181
    Abstract: A contact state of a finger with respect to a first displayed object is detected. In response to detecting a double-click operation on the first displayed object at a first position in a depthwise direction, the first object is moved onto a surface of a display screen of a 3-D display and the first object is displayed. In response to detecting that the finger has moved from the contact state to a proximity state with respect to the first displayed object, a display position of the first displayed object is changed to a position at which an object nearest in the depthwise direction among displayed objects is displayed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 17, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2018
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hayato Uenohara, Satoshi Yokoyama
  • Patent number: 9886188
    Abstract: An embodiment of the disclosure displays a plurality of icons for files and a plurality of icons for folders within a graphical user interface. A set of two or more icons can be selected via user input for inclusion within a group object. The group object can be moved within the graphical user interface responsive to user input to within a predetermined range of one of the icons for one of the folders. Responsive to moving, a subset of files of the group object can be determined. Selection of the files within the subset can be based on whether attributes of the folder match attributes of the files. Additionally, responsive to moving the group object, the subset of files can be moved or copied to the one of the folders to which the group object was moved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 25, 2011
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2018
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Akira Saito, Takeyuki Shimura, Shigeki Takeuchi, Hayato Uenohara, Satoshi Yokoyama
  • Patent number: 9875011
    Abstract: A contact state of a finger with respect to an object displayed on a first layer is detected. The object is moved onto a second layer and displayed on the second layer in response to detecting that the finger has moved from the contact state to a proximity state with respect to the object and in response to the finger reaching a second layer displayed nearer than the first layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 17, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2018
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hayato Uenohara, Satoshi Yokoyama
  • Publication number: 20170256094
    Abstract: An embodiment of the present invention provides a computer-implemented method for displaying one or more augmented reality (AR) objects on a transparent display device, comprising: associating data of one or more transparent areas corresponding to one or more real objects with a first layer for seeing one or more real objects on the transparent display device, wherein the data has information on a location and shape of the one or more real objects on the transparent display device, associating one or more AR objects with a second layer for displaying one or more AR objects on the transparent display device; and overlaying the first layer with the second layer to display the one or more AR objects on the transparent display device, wherein the one or more real objects are seen through the one or more transparent areas on the transparent display device by transparent area the transparent display device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 1, 2016
    Publication date: September 7, 2017
    Inventors: Taku Aratsu, Toshiyuki Komoda, Yohei Umehara, Satoshi Yokoyama
  • Patent number: 9747021
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention relate to dividing and merging documents on a touch panel. A method includes dividing a document displayed on a touch panel having a display function using an information processing device connected to the touch panel. Positions of two different points on the touch panel are identified in response to a user indicating the two different points in the document. The document is divided, by a computer processor, based on a line segment extending from a starting point to an end point of a traced line traced by the user. The line segment is used as a dividing line in response to the user tracing the traced line on the touch panel so as to traverse the two different points.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2017
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Satoshi Muto, Satoshi Yokoyama
  • Patent number: 9630539
    Abstract: A tiltable vehicle seat has a seat frame, a pad formed in a mold associated with the seat frame and a bracket attaching a seatback to the seat frame. The pad is formed through foaming to expand and engulf the seat frame and is integrated with the seat frame. The bracket allows for the seat frame and the pad contained therein to be tilted relative to the seatback to provide multiple vehicle seat modes. The bracket is formed separately from the seat frame and attached to the seat frame thus allowing for the pad to be formed from a relatively compact mold.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2017
    Assignees: TOYOTA BOSHOKU KABUSHIKI KAISHA, TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Satoshi Yokoyama, Keisuke Yamamoto, Tomohiro Muramatsu, Kazuyuki Shiga
  • Publication number: 20170060603
    Abstract: A computer supports an operation by an operator of a target device. The computer stores a first topology indicating dependency relationship of a plurality of device types including a device type of the target device. The computer generates a second topology indicating dependency relationship of a plurality of devices including the target device, by performing, based on the first topology, a topology discovery for the plurality of devices. Each of the plurality of devices has any one of the plurality of device types. The computer provides an operation sequence of the plurality of devices to the operator. The operation sequence is generated based on the second topology.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 27, 2015
    Publication date: March 2, 2017
    Inventors: Taku Aratsu, Toshiyuki Komoda, Yohei Umehara, Satoshi Yokoyama
  • Patent number: 9481329
    Abstract: A grommet includes: a grommet body including a lip portion which contacts a water stopped surface defining an accommodation recess portion in a state in which the grommet body is attached to the accommodation recess portion; an outer which presses the lip portion toward the water stopped surface in a state in which the grommet body is sandwiched between the outer and the water stopped surface; and a rigid body portion which is interposed between the outer and the lip portion with respect to a pressing direction of the outer and which has rigidity higher than that of the lip portion. At least a part of the lip portion is placed in a pressed region pressed by the outer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 15, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2016
    Assignee: YAZAKI CORPORATION
    Inventors: Katsuya Yoshimura, Satoshi Yokoyama, Takaaki Yanagihashi, Hiroki Kawakami
  • Patent number: 9372558
    Abstract: Vibration portions are set in electronic data displayable on a display device. In response to a first portion in the one or more pieces of electronic data being specified on the display device, an embodiment sets the specified first portion as a first vibration portion. The first vibration portion triggers a first vibration in response to the first vibration portion being specified with a movable object. Moreover, in response to a second portion in the one or more pieces of electronic data being specified on the display device, an embodiment sets the specified second portion as a second vibration portion. The second vibration portion triggers the second vibration in response to the second vibration portion being specified with a movable object. The data storing settings for generating the first vibration and the second vibration include an order in which the first vibration and the second vibration are generated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2012
    Date of Patent: June 21, 2016
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Satoshi Muto, Satoshi Yokoyama
  • Patent number: 9298359
    Abstract: A contact state of a finger with respect to an object displayed on a first layer is detected. An angle of inclination of a 2-D touch panel is detected and is configured as zero degrees along a display surface at a point where the contact state of the finger is detected. In response to a positive change of the angle of inclination from zero degrees and a dragging of the finger in a higher direction along the angle of inclination, the object is moved onto a second layer displayed nearer than the first layer. In response to a negative change of the angle of inclination changing from zero degrees and a dragging of the finger to a lower direction along the angle of inclination, the object is moved onto a third layer displayed deeper than the first layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 17, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2016
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hayato Uenohara, Satoshi Yokoyama
  • Publication number: 20150343930
    Abstract: A tiltable vehicle seat has a seat frame, a pad formed in a mold associated with the seat frame and a bracket attaching a seatback to the seat frame. The pad is formed through foaming to expand and engulf the seat frame and is integrated with the seat frame. The bracket allows for the seat frame and the pad contained therein to be tilted relative to the seatback to provide multiple vehicle seat modes. The bracket is formed separately from the seat frame and attached to the seat frame thus allowing for the pad to be formed from a relatively compact mold.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 17, 2013
    Publication date: December 3, 2015
    Applicants: TOYOTA BOSHOKU KABUSHIKI KAISHA, TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Satoshi YOKOYAMA, Keisuke YAMAMOTO, Tomohiro MURAMATSU, Kazuyuki SHIGA
  • Publication number: 20150305174
    Abstract: A grommet includes: a grommet body including a lip portion which contacts a water stopped surface defining an accommodation recess portion in a state in which the grommet body is attached to the accommodation recess portion; an outer which presses the lip portion toward the water stopped surface in a state in which the grommet body is sandwiched between the outer and the water stopped surface; and a rigid body portion which is interposed between the outer and the lip portion with respect to a pressing direction of the outer and which has rigidity higher than that of the lip portion. At least a part of the lip portion is placed in a pressed region pressed by the outer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 15, 2015
    Publication date: October 22, 2015
    Applicant: YAZAKI CORPORATION
    Inventors: Katsuya YOSHIMURA, Satoshi YOKOYAMA, Takaaki YANAGIHASHI, Hiroki KAWAKAMI
  • Publication number: 20150293657
    Abstract: A contact state of a finger with respect to a first displayed object is detected. In response to detecting a double-click operation on the first displayed object at a first position in a depthwise direction, the first object is moved onto a surface of a display screen of a 3-D display and the first object is displayed. In response to detecting that the finger has moved from the contact state to a proximity state with respect to the first displayed object, a display position of the first displayed object is changed to a position at which an object nearest in the depthwise direction among displayed objects is displayed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 17, 2015
    Publication date: October 15, 2015
    Inventors: Hayato Uenohara, Satoshi Yokoyama
  • Publication number: 20150293692
    Abstract: A contact state of a finger with respect to an object displayed on a first layer is detected. The object is moved onto a second layer and displayed on the second layer in response to detecting that the finger has moved from the contact state to a proximity state with respect to the object and in response to the finger reaching a second layer displayed nearer than the first layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 17, 2015
    Publication date: October 15, 2015
    Inventors: Hayato Uenohara, Satoshi Yokoyama