Patents by Inventor SHIN KAWAZOE

SHIN KAWAZOE 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).

  • Input control method and electronic device
    Patent number: 10353519
    Abstract: An electronic device includes a touch operation part that enables information to be input by touch operation to a predetermined input region, and a controller that controls validation and invalidation of an input function of the touch operation part. The controller invalidates the input function to a partial region in the input region of the touch operation part, validates the input function to the partial region in a predetermined period, when predetermined touch operation is performed to a specific region where the input function in the input region is valid, while the input function to the partial region is invalidated, and invalidates the input function to the partial region after the predetermined period has passed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 17, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2019
    Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Shin Kawazoe, Noriyuki Hidaka
  • INPUT CONTROL METHOD AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE
    Publication number: 20170192615
    Abstract: An electronic device includes a touch operation part that enables information to be input by touch operation to a predetermined input region, and a controller that controls validation and invalidation of an input function of the touch operation part. The controller invalidates the input function to a partial region in the input region of the touch operation part, validates the input function to the partial region in a predetermined period, when predetermined touch operation is performed to a specific region where the input function in the input region is valid, while the input function to the partial region is invalidated, and invalidates the input function to the partial region after the predetermined period has passed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 17, 2017
    Publication date: July 6, 2017
    Inventors: SHIN KAWAZOE, NORIYUKI HIDAKA