Patents by Inventor Shumpei Zouda

Shumpei Zouda 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: 9470922
    Abstract: A display device is equipped with a proximity touch panel that detects coming into proximity or contact of a detection target; a position detection unit that detects position coordinates of the detection target whose coming into proximity or contact has been detected, the position coordinates consisting of coordinates in the X and Y directions and a coordinate in the Z direction; a display unit on which the touch panel is placed; a direction judgment unit that judges a direction of the detection target on the basis of the detected position coordinates; and a display control unit for controlling the display unit to perform a display so that a part of display contents of the display unit which would otherwise be hidden by the detection target is prevented from being hidden, on the basis of the direction of the direction-judged detection target.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 16, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2016
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICA
    Inventors: Naoto Otake, Shumpei Zouda, Noboru Obana, Tatsuro Igarashi
  • Patent number: 9229573
    Abstract: An input device includes a touch panel which detects proximity or contact of a detection target, a coordinates extraction unit which extracts coordinates information including at least a z coordinate, in a direction perpendicular to a surface of the touch panel, of the proximity or contact-detected detection target, and a control unit which determines a contact threshold value for detection of contact of the detection target to the touch panel on the basis of coordinates information of the detection target extracted with an initial manipulation on the surface of the touch panel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 11, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 5, 2016
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICA
    Inventors: Tatsuro Igarashi, Noboru Obana, Shumpei Zouda
  • Publication number: 20140184551
    Abstract: An input device includes a touch panel which detects proximity or contact of a detection target, a coordinates extraction unit which extracts coordinates information including at least a z coordinate, in a direction perpendicular to a surface of the touch panel, of the proximity or contact-detected detection target, and a control unit which determines a contact threshold value for detection of contact of the detection target to the touch panel on the basis of coordinates information of the detection target extracted with an initial manipulation on the surface of the touch panel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 11, 2013
    Publication date: July 3, 2014
    Applicant: PANASONIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tatsuro Igarashi, Noboru Obana, Shumpei Zouda
  • Publication number: 20140028557
    Abstract: A display device is equipped with a proximity touch panel that detects coming into proximity or contact of a detection target; a position detection unit that detects position coordinates of the detection target whose coming into proximity or contact has been detected, the position coordinates consisting of coordinates in the X and Y directions and a coordinate in the Z direction; a display unit on which the touch panel is placed; a direction judgment unit that judges a direction of the detection target on the basis of the detected position coordinates; and a display control unit for controlling the display unit to perform a display so that a part of display contents of the display unit which would otherwise be hidden by the detection target is prevented from being hidden, on the basis of the direction of the direction-judged detection target.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 16, 2012
    Publication date: January 30, 2014
    Applicant: PANASONIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Naoto Otake, Shumpei Zouda, Noboru Obana, Tatsuro Igarashi
  • Publication number: 20130293682
    Abstract: Disclosed is an image capture device in which, in an image capture possibility determination unit 19, when determining whether or not image capturing is possible on the basis of a motion vector of an input image, if an amount of movement after image capturing of a first image corresponds to a possible image capturing position of a second image capturing location where a predetermined parallax is obtained, and the motion vector of the input image is equal to or smaller than a threshold value T1 for detecting a stationary state of the image capture device, the stationary state of the image capture device is determined to determine whether or not image capturing of the second image is possible.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 5, 2012
    Publication date: November 7, 2013
    Applicant: PANASONIC CORPORATION
    Inventor: Shumpei Zouda