Patents by Inventor Takashi Taneyama

Takashi Taneyama 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).

  • Publication number: 20110128248
    Abstract: An input detection device (1) of the present invention includes: a display (2); a touch panel (3); an input section (4) for detecting a touch made by a user with respect to the touch panel (3); a display section (5) for, while the input section (4) is detecting the touch, (i) causing the display (2) to simultaneously display a plurality of predetermined items (ii) causing the display to simultaneously display one of the plurality of predetermined items in a different display state from those of the other one(s) of the plurality of predetermined items, and (iii) sequentially switching over the one of the plurality of predetermined items, which is displayed in the display state, to another one of the plurality of predetermined items at predetermined intervals so that the another one of the plurality of predetermined items is displayed in the display state; and an item switching section (11) for selecting the one of the plurality of predetermined items, which is displayed in the display state, when the input det
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 24, 2009
    Publication date: June 2, 2011
    Applicant: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Jun Nakata, Takashi Taneyama, Kozo Takahashi, Kazuki Takahashi, Shigenori Tanaka, Kensuke Miyamura
  • Publication number: 20110102335
    Abstract: An input device includes a display unit and a touch panel provided to the display unit. In at least one embodiment, the input device further includes: a finger image generation section which generates respective images of, among a plurality of fingers pressing on the touch panel, a first finger and a second finger adjacent to the first finger; and a display process section which displays on the display unit a plurality of input images corresponding to a distance between two images generated by the finger image generation section and respective sizes of the two images. This allows the input device including the touch panel to adjust, as a result of a single setting, the input images to be appropriate for sizes of fingers and a size of a hand of the user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 17, 2009
    Publication date: May 5, 2011
    Inventors: Kensuke Miyamura, Kozo Takahashi, Masaki Uehata, Shigenori Tanaka, Jun Nakata, Kazuki Takahashi, Takashi Taneyama