Patents by Inventor Seiya Yamakawa

Seiya Yamakawa 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: 11510256
    Abstract: Provided is a setting method of a Wi-Fi doorbell (2), in which a Wi-Fi doorbell (2) comprising a camera capable of reading a two-dimensional code and a mobile communication terminal (4) comprising a display unit (6) capable of displaying the two-dimensional code are used. The setting method comprises steps of causing the display unit (6) to display a two-dimensional code in which password information for enabling the Wi-Fi doorbell (2) to connect to a network (5) via a Wi-Fi router (20) is embedded reading the two-dimensional code by the camera (9) of the Wi-Fi doorbell (2); and setting the Wi-Fi doorbell (2) to a state where the Wi-Fi doorbell (2) can perform communication with a remotely disposed server (3) via the Wi-Fi router (20), based on the read two-dimensional code.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 6, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2022
    Assignee: AIPHONE CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Seiya Yamakawa, Tetsuya Sumida
  • Publication number: 20210406820
    Abstract: A doorbell (2) includes an operation unit (22) capable of performing a calling operation, a camera (26), a microphone (23), a speaker (24), and a control unit (21) connected to the operation unit (22), the camera (26), the microphone (23) and the speaker (24) and capable of performing direct or indirect communication with an external device in which delivery item information relating to a delivery item is recorded. The control unit (21) is configured to acquire the delivery item information from the external device, and based on the delivery item information, to transmit a delivery notification of the delivery item to an information terminal (3) associated with a resident of a residence to which the doorbell (2) is attached.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 6, 2018
    Publication date: December 30, 2021
    Inventors: Seiya YAMAKAWA, Mie DEN, Takashi FURUYA, Hiroyuki MIYAO, Shinichiro SOMURA
  • Publication number: 20210264755
    Abstract: A doorbell system (1) includes a plurality of doorbells (2-1 to 2-n) each of which is attached to each residence and includes an operation unit (22) and a camera (26), and a control unit (4) capable of performing communication with the plurality of doorbells (2-1 to 2-n). The control unit (4) is configured to acquire position information of each of the plurality of doorbells (2-1 to 2-n) and an image captured by the camera (26), to generate target information about a target, based on the position information and the image, and to transmit the target information to an external device (3-1 to 30n) associated with a specific user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 4, 2021
    Publication date: August 26, 2021
    Inventors: Seiya Yamakawa, Kazuma Wakabayashi
  • Patent number: 11100775
    Abstract: A doorbell system (1) includes a plurality of doorbells (2-1 to 2-n) each of which is attached to each residence and includes an operation unit (22) and a camera (26), and a control unit (4) capable of performing communication with the plurality of doorbells (2-1 to 2-n). The control unit (4) is configured to acquire position information of each of the plurality of doorbells (2-1 to 2-n) and an image captured by the camera (26), to generate target information about a target, based on the position information and the image, and to transmit the target information to an external device (3-1 to 30n) associated with a specific user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 6, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 24, 2021
    Assignee: AIPHONE CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Seiya Yamakawa, Kazuma Wakabayashi
  • Publication number: 20210127435
    Abstract: Provided is a setting method of a Wi-Fi doorbell (2), in which a Wi-Fi doorbell (2) comprising a camera capable of reading a two-dimensional code and a mobile communication terminal (4) comprising a display unit (6) capable of displaying the two-dimensional code are used. The setting method comprises steps of causing the display unit (6) to display a two-dimensional code in which password information for enabling the Wi-Fi doorbell (2) to connect to a network (5) via a Wi-Fi router (20) is embedded reading the two-dimensional code by the camera (9) of the Wi-Fi doorbell (2); and setting the Wi-Fi doorbell (2) to a state where the Wi-Fi doorbell (2) can perform communication with a remotely disposed server (3) via the Wi-Fi router (20), based on the read two-dimensional code.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 6, 2018
    Publication date: April 29, 2021
    Inventors: Seiya YAMAKAWA, Tetsuya SUMIDA
  • Publication number: 20210035424
    Abstract: A doorbell system (1) includes a plurality of doorbells (2-1 to 2-n) each of which is attached to each residence and includes an operation unit (22) and a camera (26), and a control unit (4) capable of performing communication with the plurality of doorbells (2-1 to 2-n). The control unit (4) is configured to acquire position information of each of the plurality of doorbells (2-1 to 2-n) and an image captured by the camera (26), to generate target information about a target, based on the position information and the image, and to transmit the target information to an external device (3-1 to 30n) associated with a specific user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 6, 2018
    Publication date: February 4, 2021
    Inventors: Seiya YAMAKAWA, Kazuma WAKABAYASHI
  • Patent number: 10841430
    Abstract: An intercom system for use in a housing complex constituted by dwelling buildings is provided in which each of the dwelling buildings is provided with a dwelling parent device installed in each dwelling, a collective foyer device with which a calling operation may be performed for calling the dwelling parent devices, and a building control unit configured to communicatively interconnect the dwelling parent device in each dwelling of the host building and the collective foyer device via an intercom line, the collective foyer device includes a storage unit in which terminal information of the collective foyer device is stored, the collective foyer device or the building control unit is capable of performing communication with an external device connected to an external network, and data on the external network is transferred to the collective foyer device or the building control unit by using the external device as a communication medium.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 17, 2020
    Assignee: AIPHONE CO., LTD
    Inventor: Seiya Yamakawa
  • Patent number: 10757266
    Abstract: A terminal device configured to communicate with room parent devices installed in respective rooms is equipped with an input unit enabling input of a dweller name as a call manipulation for calling a room parent device; a storage unit stored with a call table in which a room number, a dweller name, and room parent device identification information assigned to each of the room parent devices are correlated; and a control unit determining a call target room parent device based on an input content of the call manipulation and the call table and performing call control for calling the determined room parent device. In adding a new dweller name for an existing room number to the call table stored in the storage unit, the control unit automatically registers, as room parent device identification information of the new dweller name, the room parent device identification information assigned to the room number.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 25, 2020
    Assignee: AIPHONE CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Seiya Yamakawa, Akira Kai, Kenji Yasukawa
  • Patent number: 10721361
    Abstract: The present invention provides a distributed interphone system capable of simplifying registration of settings of individual devices, for example, when new ones are installed. An interphone system includes apartment parent devices having setting files containing control contents for control of the apartment parent devices, registered therein, terminal devices, and building control units. A setting apparatus includes accessing units for accessing at least one registered setting file and at least one unregistered setting file of the devices, a display unit for displaying the control contents of the plurality of accessed device setting files, and a control unit configured to be able to copy the control contents of the registered setting file displayed on the display unit into the unregistered setting file.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 21, 2020
    Assignee: AIPHONE CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Seiya Yamakawa, Yuta Shimomura
  • Patent number: 10652378
    Abstract: The intercommunication system according to the invention is an intercommunication system used in an apartment complex comprising plural residential buildings. Each of the plural residential buildings is equipped with room parent devices installed in respective rooms; a collective entrance device which enables a call manipulation for calling one of the room parent devices; and a building control unit which connects, by an intercom line, the collective entrance device and the room parent devices of the respective rooms of the residential building. The collective entrance device has a storage unit which is stored with terminal information of the collective entrance device. The building control units of the plural respective residential buildings are connected to each other by a network in which a communication is performed according to a general-purpose protocol and can communicate, over the network, with an external apparatus that is connected to an external network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2020
    Assignee: AIPHONE CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Seiya Yamakawa, Akira Kai, Yuta Shimomura
  • Patent number: 10616420
    Abstract: An intercom system includes a dwelling parent device installed in each dwelling, a collective foyer device configured to communicate with the dwelling parent device, and a control device configured to control the collective foyer device, which includes name plates on each of which a resident name for specifying a dwelling parent device of a resident is displayed so a visitor may call the resident, and dedicated buttons correlated with the name plates and capable of receiving an operation for calling the dwelling parent device corresponding to the resident name displayed on each name plate. The collective foyer device or the control device includes a calling table in which location numbers for specifying locations of dedicated buttons in a region of the collective foyer device are assigned. The respective resident names are assigned to the location numbers of the dedicated buttons visually recognizable to the visitor, on the calling table.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 7, 2020
    Assignee: AIPHONE CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Seiya Yamakawa, Kenji Yasukawa, Hayato Takeya
  • Patent number: 10469669
    Abstract: An intercommunication system in an apartment complex comprises residential buildings, each including room parent devices installed in respective rooms; a collective entrance device having a call unit enabling a call manipulation for calling a visit destination room parent device; a storage unit stored with a call table having room numbers correlated with pieces of room parent device IDs for identification of the room parent devices, respectively; a processing unit performing processing of converting a signal input to the call unit into the room parent device ID of a call target room parent device based on the call table; and a transmission unit transmitting the room parent device ID to the room parent devices in the building of the terminal device; and a building control unit connecting the collective entrance device to the room parent devices of the rooms of the building of the building control unit, by an intercom line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2019
    Assignee: AIPHONE CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Seiya Yamakawa, Syu Kumagai, Akira Kai
  • Publication number: 20190281161
    Abstract: An intercom system for use in a housing complex constituted by dwelling buildings is provided in which each of the dwelling buildings is provided with a dwelling parent device installed in each dwelling, a collective foyer device with which a calling operation may be performed for calling the dwelling parent devices, and a building control unit configured to communicatively interconnect the dwelling parent device in each dwelling of the host building and the collective foyer device via an intercom line, the collective foyer device includes a storage unit in which terminal information of the collective foyer device is stored, the collective foyer device or the building control unit is capable of performing communication with an external device connected to an external network, and data on the external network is transferred to the collective foyer device or the building control unit by using the external device as a communication medium.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 23, 2017
    Publication date: September 12, 2019
    Inventor: Seiya YAMAKAWA
  • Publication number: 20190281164
    Abstract: An intercom system includes a dwelling parent device installed in each dwelling, a collective foyer device configured to communicate with the dwelling parent device, and a control device configured to control the collective foyer device, which includes name plates on each of which a resident name for specifying a dwelling parent device of a resident is displayed so a visitor may call the resident, and dedicated buttons correlated with the name plates and capable of receiving an operation for calling the dwelling parent device corresponding to the resident name displayed on each name plate. The collective foyer device or the control device includes a calling table in which location numbers for specifying locations of dedicated buttons in a region of the collective foyer device are assigned. The respective resident names are assigned to the location numbers of the dedicated buttons visually recognizable to the visitor, on the calling table.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 23, 2017
    Publication date: September 12, 2019
    Inventors: Seiya YAMAKAWA, Kenji YASUKAWA, Hayato TAKEYA
  • Publication number: 20190253562
    Abstract: The present invention provides a distributed interphone system capable of simplifying registration of settings of individual devices, for example, when new ones are installed. An interphone system (1) includes apartment parent devices (30A) having setting files containing control contents for control of the apartment parent devices, registered therein, terminal devices, and building control units (40A) (devices). A setting apparatus (8) includes accessing units (81A, 82A) for accessing at least one registered setting file and at least one unregistered setting file of the devices, a display unit (84A) for displaying the control contents of the plurality of accessed device setting files, and a control unit (85A) configured to be able to copy the control contents of the registered setting file displayed on the display unit (84A) into the unregistered setting file.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 28, 2016
    Publication date: August 15, 2019
    Inventors: Seiya YAMAKAWA, Yuta SHIMOMURA
  • Patent number: 10334114
    Abstract: An intercom system according to the invention is configured to be communicable with dwelling unit devices installed in individual dwelling units, and includes: an input section (11) which can input, in order for a visitor to call a resident, dwelling-unit specifying information that specifies the dwelling unit device of the resident on a character-by-character basis and can call the specified dwelling unit device; a name display section (13) which displays a name that is allocated to at least one of the individual dwelling unit devices; and a dedicated call section (14) which is provided correlated with the name display section (13) and can call the dwelling unit device to which the name is allocated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2019
    Assignee: AIPHONE CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Seiya Yamakawa, Kenji Yasukawa
  • Patent number: 10298771
    Abstract: Each of a plurality of dwelling buildings includes a dwelling parent device, a management office parent device, and a building control unit communicatively connected to each dwelling parent device in the host building and the management office parent device in the host building via an intercom line. The building control units are interconnected via a network that is connected with a management center that includes a centralized management office parent device and a centralized control unit connected to the centralized management office parent device via the intercom line. The building control unit in each dwelling building can set a calling time zone in which it is possible to call the centralized management office parent device or the management office parent device of other building, in addition to the management office parent device in the host building.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2019
    Assignee: AIPHONE CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Seiya Yamakawa, Akira Kai, Yuuta Shimomura
  • Patent number: 10298772
    Abstract: An intercom system according to the invention is configured to be communicable with dwelling unit devices installed in individual dwelling units, and includes: an input section (11) which can input, in order for a visitor to call a resident, dwelling-unit specifying information that specifies the dwelling unit device of the resident on a character-by-character basis and can call the specified dwelling unit device; a name display section (13) which displays a name that is allocated to at least one of the individual dwelling unit devices; and a dedicated call section (14) which is provided correlated with the name display section (13) and can call the dwelling unit device to which the name is allocated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2019
    Assignee: AIPHONE CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Seiya Yamakawa, Kenji Yasukawa
  • Publication number: 20190141194
    Abstract: Each of a plurality of dwelling buildings includes a dwelling parent device, a management office parent device, and a building control unit communicatively connected to each dwelling parent device in the host building and the management office parent device in the host building via an intercom line. The building control units are interconnected via a network that is connected with a management center that includes a centralized management office parent device and a centralized control unit connected to the centralized management office parent device via the intercom line. The building control unit in each dwelling building can set a calling time zone in which it is possible to call the centralized management office parent device or the management office parent device of other building, in addition to the management office parent device in the host building.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 28, 2016
    Publication date: May 9, 2019
    Inventors: Seiya YAMAKAWA, Akira KAI, Yuuta SHIMOMURA
  • Publication number: 20190132433
    Abstract: The intercommunication system according to the invention is an intercommunication system used in an apartment complex comprising plural residential buildings. Each of the plural residential buildings is equipped with room parent devices installed in respective rooms; a collective entrance device which enables a call manipulation for calling one of the room parent devices; and a building control unit which connects, by an intercom line, the collective entrance device and the room parent devices of the respective rooms of the residential building. The collective entrance device has a storage unit which is stored with terminal information of the collective entrance device. The building control units of the plural respective residential buildings are connected to each other by a network in which a communication is performed according to a general-purpose protocol and can communicate, over the network, with an external apparatus that is connected to an external network.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 22, 2017
    Publication date: May 2, 2019
    Inventors: Seiya YAMAKAWA, Akira KAI, Yuta SHIMOMURA