Patents by Inventor Tetsuya Kitamura

Tetsuya Kitamura 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: 12039228
    Abstract: The present application relates to an electronic device and a non-transitory storage medium. The electronic device of the embodiments includes a display processing unit and a voice operation processing unit. The display processing unit is configured to display on the display unit a first operation image including presentation of an operation item for operation input; if a predetermined condition is satisfied in the presentation of the first operation image, a second operation image is displayed on the display, the second operation image being an operation image in which text information corresponding to the operation item in the first operation image is highlighted. In the presentation of the second operation image, the voice operation processing unit is configured to receive the voice operation input corresponding to the text information highlighted in the second operation image as an operation on the video apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2024
    Assignees: Hisense Visual Technology Co., Ltd., TVS REGZA Corporation
    Inventors: Shuichi Hisatomi, Yu Onodera, Gen Omura, Hayato Nishimura, Toshihiro Sawaoka, Tetsuya Kitamura
  • Publication number: 20220107781
    Abstract: The present application relates to an electronic device and a non-transitory storage medium. The electronic device of the embodiments includes a display processing unit and a voice operation processing unit. The display processing unit is configured to display on the display unit a first operation image including presentation of an operation item for operation input; if a predetermined condition is satisfied in the presentation of the first operation image, a second operation image is displayed on the display, the second operation image being an operation image in which text information corresponding to the operation item in the first operation image is highlighted. In the presentation of the second operation image, the voice operation processing unit is configured to receive the voice operation input corresponding to the text information highlighted in the second operation image as an operation on the video apparatus.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 15, 2021
    Publication date: April 7, 2022
    Inventors: Shuichi HISATOMI, Yu ONODERA, Gen OMURA, Hayato NISHIMURA, Toshihiro SAWAOKA, Tetsuya KITAMURA
  • Patent number: 9686583
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a genre classification unit is provided to classify a plurality of programs based on genres with reference to program information. Further, a day classification unit is provided to classify the classified programs based on broadcast days. A display form controller sorts program information description cells of the programs classified based on days into display areas based on days on a display device. When a program information description cell of a display area of a specified day is scrolled, the display form controller controls data so as to display program information description cells of display areas of days other than the specified day in a still state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 20, 2017
    Assignees: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba, Toshiba Visual Solutions Corporation
    Inventors: Hiroaki Ito, Tetsuya Kitamura, Masami Tanaka
  • Publication number: 20160212477
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a genre classification unit is provided to classify a plurality of programs based on genres with reference to program information. Further, a day classification unit is provided to classify the classified programs based on broadcast days. A display form controller sorts program information description cells of the programs classified based on days into display areas based on days on a display device. When a program information description cell of a display area of a specified day is scrolled, the display form controller controls data so as to display program information description cells of display areas of days other than the specified day in a still state.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 20, 2015
    Publication date: July 21, 2016
    Inventors: Hiroaki Ito, Tetsuya Kitamura, Masami Tanaka
  • Patent number: 7651284
    Abstract: A development apparatus has a holder which horizontally holds a substrate, a nozzle which supplies a developer to a resist film on the substrate held by the holder, a liquid flow suppressing member whose size in a two-dimensional plane viewing field is equal to or larger than that of the substrate and which has a mesh having many openings and hydrophilic properties with respect to the developer and transmits the developer supplied from the nozzle through the openings of the mesh to form a liquid film of the developer between the mesh and the substrate, and a moving mechanism which movably supports this liquid flow suppressing member, sets the mesh to face the resist film on the substrate and brings the mesh into contact with a surface of the liquid film of the developer or immerges the mesh in the liquid film.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 2006
    Date of Patent: January 26, 2010
    Assignee: Tokyo Electron Limited
    Inventor: Tetsuya Kitamura
  • Patent number: 7419316
    Abstract: A developing treatment apparatus for performing a developing treatment for a substrate, includes a substrate holding member for holding the substrate; an outer peripheral plate surrounding an outer peripheral portion of the substrate to form a gap between the plate and the outer peripheral portion of the substrate; and gas blowout ports for forming a gas flow which flows on a rear face of the substrate from a central portion side of the substrate to the outer peripheral portion side of the substrate, and passes by a lower end portion side of the gap.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 5, 2005
    Date of Patent: September 2, 2008
    Assignee: Tokyo Electron Limited
    Inventors: Tetsuya Kitamura, Shuuichi Nishikido
  • Publication number: 20070065145
    Abstract: A development apparatus has a holder which horizontally holds a substrate, a nozzle which supplies a developer to a resist film on the substrate held by the holder, a liquid flow suppressing member whose size in a two-dimensional plane viewing field is equal to or larger than that of the substrate and which has a mesh having many openings and hydrophilic properties with respect to the developer and transmits the developer supplied from the nozzle through the openings of the mesh to form a liquid film of the developer between the mesh and the substrate, and a moving mechanism which movably supports this liquid flow suppressing member, sets the mesh to face the resist film on the substrate and brings the mesh into contact with a surface of the liquid film of the developer or immerges the mesh in the liquid film.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 13, 2006
    Publication date: March 22, 2007
    Inventor: Tetsuya KITAMURA
  • Publication number: 20060086460
    Abstract: In the present invention, an outer peripheral plate is provided in a manner to surround a held substrate. A small gap exists between the outer peripheral plate and the outer peripheral portion of the substrate. Gas blowout ports are formed on the upper surface of an inner cup on the rear face side of the substrate. During cleaning of the substrate by a cleaning solution supplied onto the substrate, a gas is blown out from the gas blowout ports to form a gas flow that flows from the rear face side of the substrate and passes by the lower side of the gap outward to the outer peripheral plate side. The liquid such as the cleaning solution leaking through the gap is swept outward by the gas flow and flows along the rear face of the outer peripheral plate to be drained. According to the present invention, the liquid can be prevented from running around to the rear face side of the substrate during developing treatment.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 5, 2005
    Publication date: April 27, 2006
    Inventors: Tetsuya Kitamura, Shuuichi Nishikido
  • Publication number: 20040170396
    Abstract: There is disclosed a data reproducing apparatus which reproduces AV digital data. A CPU of the data reproducing apparatus compares an object data pattern prepared from digital data which is a reproduction object with a data pattern for determining included in data for determining stored in a database. The CPU determines that the object data pattern is a reproduction prohibition object data pattern according to a comparison result when both the patterns are identical or similar to each other. The CPU executes reproduction processing including processing to remove data corresponding to the reproduction prohibition object data pattern with respect to the AV digital data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 19, 2004
    Publication date: September 2, 2004
    Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA
    Inventors: Tetsuya Kitamura, Shinichi Matsuki
  • Patent number: 6471421
    Abstract: The present invention is a developing method for performing developing treatment for a substrate, having the steps of moving a developing solution supply nozzle from one end of the substrate to the other end along a horizontal direction and a predetermined direction above the rotating substrate, and supplying a developing solution to the substrate from the aforementioned developing solution supply nozzle during the movement, and when the developing solution supply nozzle moves from one end of the substrate to the other end, a rotational speed of the substrate is changed. According to the present invention, the amount of the developing solution supplied to the center area of the substrate is decreased, and thereby evenness of the developing solution within the substrate surface can be improved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 7, 2001
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2002
    Assignee: Tokyo Electron Limited
    Inventor: Tetsuya Kitamura
  • Patent number: 6382770
    Abstract: The coat liquid 34 is applied all over the under surface 2b of the insulation sheet 2. At this time, the coat liquid 31 is also applied into the apertures 7. Excessive coat liquid 35 is absorbed by the absorption sheet 32 places over the upper surface 2a of the insulation sheet 2. As a result, the preferable amount of the coat liquid 34 is coated over the under surface 2b and the aperture side walls 7b defining the apertures 7. When the coat liquid 34 is dried and hardened the slide facilitating layer 20 and the charge prevention layer 70 are formed on the under surface 2b and the aperture side walls 7b.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 1, 1998
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2002
    Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Tetsuya Kitamura
  • Patent number: 6332670
    Abstract: A film 33 is adhered using an adhesive layer 32 to the lower surface of an insulation sheet 31 that contacts the peripheral surface of atoner bearing roller. Apertures 34 are formed through the insulation sheet 31, the adhesive layer 32 and the film 33. An indentation portion 37 is formed around each aperture 34 in an upper surface 39 of the insulation sheet 31. Because the insulation sheet 31 and the film 33 are not attached into an integral unit using baking, the resultant member will not warp by differences in thermal expansion of the insulation sheet 31 and the film 33, as would occur if the two were baked together. Because the film 33 is extremely hard and smooth, toner will not pierce into the film 33 .
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 22, 1999
    Date of Patent: December 25, 2001
    Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Shigeru Kagayama, Tetsuya Kitamura
  • Publication number: 20010043813
    Abstract: The present invention is a developing method for performing developing treatment for a substrate, having the steps of moving a developing solution supply nozzle from one end of the substrate to the other end along a horizontal direction and a predetermined direction above the rotating substrate, and supplying a developing solution to the substrate from the aforementioned developing solution supply nozzle during the movement, and when the developing solution supply nozzle moves from one end of the substrate to the other end, a rotational speed of the substrate is changed. According to the present invention, the amount of the developing solution supplied to the center area of the substrate is decreased, and thereby evenness of the developing solution within the substrate surface can be improved.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 7, 2001
    Publication date: November 22, 2001
    Applicant: Tokyo Electron Limited
    Inventor: Tetsuya Kitamura
  • Patent number: 6253025
    Abstract: A sub-picture packet is encoded using a packet header containing a time stamp, sub-picture data containing compressed pixel data, one or more display control sequences, and a sub-picture unit header. The time stamp indicates the playback start time of the sub-picture packet. The display control sequence defines the order of display of the sub-picture data. The sub-picture unit header indicates the size of the sub-picture packet and the location of the display control sequence. The encoded sub-picture packet is decoded, and displayed based on the display control sequence.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 19, 1997
    Date of Patent: June 26, 2001
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Tetsuya Kitamura, Tae Aoki, Toshiaki Shirasuna, Hideki Mimura
  • Patent number: 6219043
    Abstract: A method and system in which a section of a previously encoded digital bit stream is replaced with another section of encoded video. In order to remove a section of encoded video, it is necessary to determine the beginning and ending points of the encoded video in the digitally encoded bit stream. The addresses of the beginning and ending points of the encoded data cannot be simply looked up but are calculated by summing the bits consumed by each picture, the number of bits of the sequence header of each picture, the number of bits of each Group of Pictures (GOP) header, and all stuff bits. In order to encode the video which is to be inserted in place of the removed video, a process is performed which prevents decoding artifacts from appearing. This is accomplished by determining the last P-picture before the edit point and using it as a reference frame for frames after the edit point.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 15, 2000
    Date of Patent: April 17, 2001
    Assignees: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba, Time Warner Entertainment Co., L.P.
    Inventors: Jay Yogeshwar, Sheau-Bao Ng, Teiichi Ichikawa, Hiroaki Unno, Hideki Mimura, Tetsuya Kitamura, Christopher J. Cookson, Greg B. Thagard, Andrew Drusin Rosen
  • Patent number: 6196666
    Abstract: An aperture electrode assembly having an insulating sheet, made of polyimide, in which a plurality of apertures having a diameter of 80 &mgr;m are formed in a line. A control electrode, made of copper leaf having a thickness of 8 &mgr;m, surrounds each of the apertures on the insulating sheet. A coating layer containing carbon particles as a conductive material is formed so as to cover both the control electrodes and the surface of the insulating sheet. As the material of the coating layer, the coating liquid is prepared by mixing the carbon particles in an insulating binder made of an organic synthetic resin, preferably, of polyimide resin. The coating liquid is applied onto the insulating sheet and the control electrodes, and baked at a temperature lower than 300° C., preferably between 200° C. and 280° C., for several minutes. A back coating layer is provided to the back surface of the insulating sheet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 4, 1998
    Date of Patent: March 6, 2001
    Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Tetsuya Kitamura, Shigeru Kagayama
  • Patent number: 6167002
    Abstract: A table of a management region on the disc contains a disc identifier that represents the type of the data recording format of the disc, a number-of-disc-sides identifier that represents whether the disc is a single-sided disc or a double-sided disc, and a disc side identifier that represents whether the reproducing disc is side A or side B of a double-sided disc. A disc identifier 4 that represents the type of the data recording format of the file is recorded in a file (n) table including management information of the file. A reproducing apparatus reads the disc identifiers from the PVD table and the file (n) table and determines whether or not the disc and the file are reproducible. In addition, the reproducing apparatus reads the number-of-disc-sides identifier 2 from the PVD table and determines whether or not the disc is a double-sided disc or a single-sided disc. When the disc is a double-sided disc, the reproducing apparatus determines whether the reproducing side is side A or side B.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 1998
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2000
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Kazuhiko Taira, Hideki Mimura, Shinichi Kikuchi, Tetsuya Kitamura
  • Patent number: 6118927
    Abstract: In a super density optical disk for storing video data, wherein video data is compressed to packs defined in MPEG and trains of the packs are stored in a video object unit. The video object unit includes a navigation pack which is placed at the head of the pack train. In a data cell, a plurality of video object units, each being reproduced within a predetermined period, are arranged and a cell playback information table describes a cell playback information which defines a playback order of the cells. The navigation pack has an area storing playback information for reproducing each video object unit and search information for indicating the relationship with other video object units. The data cells and the cell playback information table are stored in the optical disk.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 25, 1998
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2000
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Shinichi Kikuchi, Takeo Arafune, Tetsuya Kitamura, Hideki Mimura, Kazuhiko Taira, Yuzo Tamada
  • Patent number: 6094414
    Abstract: A table a management region on the disc contains a disc identifier that represents the type of the data recording format of the disc, a number-of-disc-sides identifier that represents whether the disc is a single-sided disc or a double-sided disc, and a disc side identifier that represents whether the reproducing disc is side A or side B of a double-sided disc. A disc identifier that represents the type of the data recording format of the file is recorded in a file (n) table including management information of the file. A reproducing apparatus reads the disc identifiers the PVD table and the file (n) table and determines whether or not the disc and the file are reproducible. In addition, the reproducing apparatus reads the number-of-disc-sides identifier from the PVD table and determines whether or not the disc is a double-sided disc or a single-sided disc. When the disc is a double-sided disc, the reproducing apparatus determines whether the reproducing side is side A or side B.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 1999
    Date of Patent: July 25, 2000
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Kazuhiko Taira, Hideki Mimura, Shinichi Kikuchi, Tetsuya Kitamura
  • Patent number: 6081208
    Abstract: A bit train of a plurality of continuous pixels is compressed according to a new run-length compression scheme. In this run-length compression scheme, the run information of one unit of compression includes run-length information indicating the continuous number of the same pixel data blocks, or the number of pixels followed, and pixel data having a two-bit configuration for discriminating three or more colors of the pixels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 1997
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2000
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Shinichi Kikuchi, Tetsuya Kitamura, Hideki Mimura, Kazuhiko Taira