Patents by Inventor Shunji Harada

Shunji Harada 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: 12019789
    Abstract: A program execution device capable of protecting a program against unauthorized analysis and alteration is provided. The program execution device includes an execution unit, a first protection unit, and a second protection unit. The execution unit executes a first program and a second program, and is connected with an external device that is capable of controlling the execution. The first protection unit disconnects the execution unit from the external device while the execution unit is executing the first program. The second protection unit protects the first program while the execution unit is executing the second program.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 7, 2023
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2024
    Assignee: Panasonic Holdings Corporation
    Inventors: Hideki Matsushima, Teruto Hirota, Yukie Shoda, Shunji Harada
  • Publication number: 20230306145
    Abstract: A program execution device capable of protecting a program against unauthorized analysis and alteration is provided. The program execution device includes an execution unit, a first protection unit, and a second protection unit. The execution unit executes a first program and a second program, and is connected with an external device that is capable of controlling the execution. The first protection unit disconnects the execution unit from the external device while the execution unit is executing the first program. The second protection unit protects the first program while the execution unit is executing the second program.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 7, 2023
    Publication date: September 28, 2023
    Inventors: Hideki MATSUSHIMA, Teruto HIROTA, Yukie SHODA, Shunji HARADA
  • Patent number: 11651113
    Abstract: A program execution device capable of protecting a program against unauthorized analysis and alteration is provided. The program execution device includes an execution unit, a first protection unit, and a second protection unit. The execution unit executes a first program and a second program, and is connected with an external device that is capable of controlling the execution. The first protection unit disconnects the execution unit from the external device while the execution unit is executing the first program. The second protection unit protects the first program while the execution unit is executing the second program.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2023
    Assignee: PANASONIC HOLDINGS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hideki Matsushima, Teruto Hirota, Yukie Shoda, Shunji Harada
  • Patent number: 11093952
    Abstract: An information displaying method includes: obtaining, for each of users, usage history information items on one or more appliances used by the user; calculating a utilization characteristic based on a usage history information item on a predetermined appliance among the one or more appliances used by a predetermined user among the users, the utilization characteristic being of the predetermined user using the predetermined appliance, and the usage history information item on the obtained predetermined appliance; obtaining, for each of the user, a post information item posted by the user; and displaying, in association with each other, (i) a utilization characteristic information item on the utilization characteristic calculated in the calculating and (ii) the post information item posted by the predetermined user, the utilization characteristic being of the predetermined user using the predetermined appliance, and the post information item being obtained in the obtaining of a post information item.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 17, 2021
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICA
    Inventors: Shunji Harada, Kouji Miura, Aki Yoneda, Tomohiko Kitamura, Kozo Nishimura
  • Publication number: 20210192095
    Abstract: A program execution device capable of protecting a program against unauthorized analysis and alteration is provided. The program execution device includes an execution unit, a first protection unit, and a second protection unit. The execution unit executes a first program and a second program, and is connected with an external device that is capable of controlling the execution. The first protection unit disconnects the execution unit from the external device while the execution unit is executing the first program. The second protection unit protects the first program while the execution unit is executing the second program.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 5, 2021
    Publication date: June 24, 2021
    Inventors: Hideki MATSUSHIMA, Teruto HIROTA, Yukie SHODA, Shunji HARADA
  • Patent number: 10970424
    Abstract: A program execution device capable of protecting a program against unauthorized analysis and alteration is provided. The program execution device includes an execution unit, a first protection unit, and a second protection unit. The execution unit executes a first program and a second program, and is connected with an external device that is capable of controlling the execution. The first protection unit disconnects the execution unit from the external device while the execution unit is executing the first program. The second protection unit protects the first program while the execution unit is executing the second program.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 6, 2021
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICA
    Inventors: Hideki Matsushima, Teruto Hirota, Yukie Shoda, Shunji Harada
  • Patent number: 10699300
    Abstract: Disclosed is an information providing method and so on including: obtaining a use history of a device used by a user for processing on a substance; and providing information according to the obtained use history to the user, wherein the processing on the substance includes a movement of the substance or a change in a temperature of the substance. This allows providing the user of the device with information suitable for the user when the user simply uses a device for doing routine housework, without requiring the user to input information such as search words.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 30, 2020
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICA
    Inventors: Aki Yoneda, Shunji Harada, Kouji Miura, Tomohiko Kitamura, Kozo Nishimura
  • Publication number: 20200167509
    Abstract: A program execution device capable of protecting a program against unauthorized analysis and alteration is provided. The program execution device includes an execution unit, a first protection unit, and a second protection unit. The execution unit executes a first program and a second program, and is connected with an external device that is capable of controlling the execution. The first protection unit disconnects the execution unit from the external device while the execution unit is executing the first program. The second protection unit protects the first program while the execution unit is executing the second program.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 30, 2020
    Publication date: May 28, 2020
    Inventors: Hideki MATSUSHIMA, Teruto HIROTA, Yukie SHODA, Shunji HARADA
  • Patent number: 10607036
    Abstract: A program execution device capable of protecting a program against unauthorized analysis and alteration is provided. The program execution device includes an execution unit, a first protection unit, and a second protection unit. The execution unit executes a first program and a second program, and is connected with an external device that is capable of controlling the execution. The first protection unit disconnects the execution unit from the external device while the execution unit is executing the first program. The second protection unit protects the first program while the execution unit is executing the second program.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 24, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 31, 2020
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICA
    Inventors: Hideki Matsushima, Teruto Hirota, Yukie Shoda, Shunji Harada
  • Publication number: 20190251300
    Abstract: A program execution device capable of protecting a program against unauthorized analysis and alteration is provided. The program execution device includes an execution unit, a first protection unit, and a second protection unit. The execution unit executes a first program and a second program, and is connected with an external device that is capable of controlling the execution. The first protection unit disconnects the execution unit from the external device while the execution unit is executing the first program. The second protection unit protects the first program while the execution unit is executing the second program.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 24, 2019
    Publication date: August 15, 2019
    Inventors: Hideki MATSUSHIMA, Teruto HIROTA, Yukie SHODA, Shunji HARADA
  • Patent number: 10318768
    Abstract: A program execution device capable of protecting a program against unauthorized analysis and alteration is provided. The program execution device includes an execution unit, a first protection unit, and a second protection unit. The execution unit executes a first program and a second program, and is connected with an external device that is capable of controlling the execution. The first protection unit disconnects the execution unit from the external device while the execution unit is executing the first program. The second protection unit protects the first program while the execution unit is executing the second program.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2019
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICA
    Inventors: Hideki Matsushima, Teruto Hirota, Yukie Shoda, Shunji Harada
  • Patent number: 10139793
    Abstract: Acquiring correspondence among a plurality of time zones and target upper limit temperatures and target lower limit temperatures of the air conditioner that correspond to the respective plurality of time zones. A display allows a user to set the preset temperatures of the air conditioner in the respective plurality of time zones. The display includes a graph region having a first axis corresponding to the plurality of time zones and a second axis corresponding to the preset temperatures of the air conditioner. The graph region includes, in each of the plurality of time zones, a first temperature region having a first appearance and a second temperature region displayed having a second appearance. A symbol indicative of a corresponding preset temperature is displayed in the first temperature region in a corresponding one of the plurality of time zones in the graph region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 25, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 27, 2018
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICA
    Inventors: Kazushige Yamada, Taiji Sasaki, Masashi Sugiyama, Yoichi Nishida, Tetsuji Fuchikami, Shunji Harada
  • Publication number: 20180308127
    Abstract: Disclosed is an information providing method and so on including: obtaining a use history of a device used by a user for processing on a substance; and providing information according to the obtained use history to the user, wherein the processing on the substance includes a movement of the substance or a change in a temperature of the substance. This allows providing the user of the device with information suitable for the user when the user simply uses a device for doing routine housework, without requiring the user to input information such as search words.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 29, 2018
    Publication date: October 25, 2018
    Inventors: Aki YONEDA, Shunji HARADA, Kouji MIURA, Tomohiko KITAMURA, Kozo NISHIMURA
  • Patent number: 10108821
    Abstract: A program execution device capable of protecting a program against unauthorized analysis and alteration is provided. The program execution device includes an execution unit, a first protection unit, and a second protection unit. The execution unit executes a first program and a second program, and is connected with an external device that is capable of controlling the execution. The first protection unit disconnects the execution unit from the external device while the execution unit is executing the first program. The second protection unit protects the first program while the execution unit is executing the second program.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 23, 2018
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICA
    Inventors: Hideki Matsushima, Teruto Hirota, Yukie Shoda, Shunji Harada
  • Patent number: 10089620
    Abstract: An audio object (AOB) for which corresponding rights management information (RMI) has been generated by a license management apparatus, and an AOB for which RMI does not exist are written into a recording medium for use in an SDMI system which includes the license management apparatus. Each AOB is put in correspondence with a migration permission flag (MPF). When the corresponding AOB is the AOB for which RMI does not exist, the relevant MPF is set to on so as to show that a migration procedure is permitted. When the corresponding AOB is the AOB for which RMI has been generated by the license management apparatus, the relevant MPF is set to off so as to show that a migration procedure is not permitted.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 30, 2001
    Date of Patent: October 2, 2018
    Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hideki Matsushima, Shunji Harada, Yasushi Uesaka, Teruto Hirota, Masayuki Kozuka, Masataka Nikaido
  • Publication number: 20180247089
    Abstract: A program execution device capable of protecting a program against unauthorized analysis and alteration is provided. The program execution device includes an execution unit, a first protection unit, and a second protection unit. The execution unit executes a first program and a second program, and is connected with an external device that is capable of controlling the execution. The first protection unit disconnects the execution unit from the external device while the execution unit is executing the first program. The second protection unit protects the first program while the execution unit is executing the second program.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 27, 2018
    Publication date: August 30, 2018
    Inventors: Hideki MATSUSHIMA, Teruto HIROTA, Yukie SHODA, Shunji HARADA
  • Patent number: 10043198
    Abstract: Disclosed is an information providing method and so on including: obtaining a use history of a device used by a user for processing on a substance; and providing information according to the obtained use history to the user, wherein the processing on the substance includes a movement of the substance or a change in a temperature of the substance. This allows providing the user of the device with information suitable for the user when the user simply uses a device for doing routine housework, without requiring the user to input information such as search words.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 7, 2018
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICA
    Inventors: Aki Yoneda, Shunji Harada, Kouji Miura, Tomohiko Kitamura, Kozo Nishimura
  • Patent number: 9953094
    Abstract: A matching method includes: accumulating log information indicating histories of operations performed on devices by users; receiving a request for information regarding use of a first device from an information requester being one of the users and using the first device; analyzing log information of the first device from among the log information accumulated in the accumulating; identifying, as an information provider candidate, at least one of the users using a second device by using the log information of the first device analyzed in the analyzing and log information of the second device being of the same type as the first device; notifying the information provider candidate of the request from the information requester; and notifying the information requester of provided information which is information regarding use of the first device and provided by the information provider candidate in response to the request.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 24, 2018
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICA
    Inventors: Kouji Miura, Aki Yoneda, Shunji Harada
  • Patent number: 9924231
    Abstract: An information presenting device (100) presents image information; an operative device (200) accepts a predetermined input operation during the presentation of the image information; a guide information managing device (300) stores date and time information indicating a date and a time at which the input operation is accepted, image specifying information specifying image information presented when the input operation is accepted, and guide destination information indicating a guide destination to which the user is guided is stored in a database in association with one another, the guide destination information being specified by the date and time information, and the image specifying information; and a guide device (400) presents the guide destination information in response to a request from the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 24, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 20, 2018
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICA
    Inventors: Hiroshi Amano, Toshihisa Nakano, Motoji Ohmori, Takako Hirose, Shunji Harada
  • Publication number: 20180025184
    Abstract: A program execution device capable of protecting a program against unauthorized analysis and alteration is provided. The program execution device includes an execution unit, a first protection unit, and a second protection unit. The execution unit executes a first program and a second program, and is connected with an external device that is capable of controlling the execution. The first protection unit disconnects the execution unit from the external device while the execution unit is executing the first program. The second protection unit protects the first program while the execution unit is executing the second program.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 29, 2017
    Publication date: January 25, 2018
    Inventors: Hideki MATSUSHIMA, Teruto HIROTA, Yukie SHODA, Shunji HARADA