Patents by Inventor Tetsuya Ushijima

Tetsuya Ushijima 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: 7904188
    Abstract: An output method is changed optimally in response to a difference of a device connected to an output device and a combination of output media streams, and user's convenience is improved. Each of media state sensing unit 15, 25, 35, 45 for sensing a state of a media stream sends out a media state sensing signal to a control portion 90, and each of connection state sensing unit 62, 72, 82 for sensing a connection state between an outputting unit 51 and a providing device, which presents the media stream visually or audibly, sends out a connection state sensing signal to the control portion 90. The control portion 90 decides an output state based on priority output information 931, which specifies a preferential output state of the media stream, the media state sensing signal, and the connection state sensing signal, and then the outputting unit 51 outputs the media stream to the providing device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 2005
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2011
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Kouji Hatano, Tetsuya Ushijima
  • Publication number: 20100187332
    Abstract: A communication terminal not wastefully exuding aroma depending on the situation and not influencing the ambience of the terminal. The communication terminal (100) detects the situation around the portable terminal body (100B) by means of an aroma sensor (151) of a sensing unit (150), a camera (153), a microphone (154), an optical sensor (155), and a position sensor (156). An exudation/deodorization control section (131) of a control unit (130) makes aroma exudation control of an aroma exuding section (141) according to environment information on the environment of the portable terminal body (100B) detected by the sensing unit (150). With this, according to the situation around the portable terminal body (100B), wasteful exudation of aroma and adverse influence on the ambience of the terminal can be prevented wherever possible.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 25, 2007
    Publication date: July 29, 2010
    Applicant: PANASONIC CORPORATION
    Inventor: Tetsuya Ushijima
  • Publication number: 20100178211
    Abstract: A communication terminal device in which a diffusion control of aroma suitable for the situation can be performed. In the communication terminal device (100), according to the diffusion parameter used for diffusing the aroma (or smoke) and predetermined by the user, the state of a mobile terminal body (100B) recognized by a control unit (130) by using the detected information from the sensors of a sensing unit (150), and environment information on the environment around the mobile terminal body (100B), diffusion control of an aroma material (121) from a diffusion apparatus body (100A) is performed by an aroma diffusion section (141) of an indicating unit (140), smoke generation control of a smoke generation material (122) is performed by a smoke generation section (142), and suppression control of the aroma diffusion and the smoke generation is performed by a diffusion suppression unit (110).
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 11, 2007
    Publication date: July 15, 2010
    Applicant: PANASONIC CORPORATION
    Inventor: Tetsuya Ushijima
  • Publication number: 20090143013
    Abstract: A portable telephone terminal which, even in the case where the life scene of the user is not restricted to the location and the time, automatically performs an incoming call operation depending on the life scene is provided. A portable telephone terminal 1 has: short-range wireless communicating means 30 for obtaining a peripheral-device identifier 301 by wireless from a portable telephone terminal existing at a short distance; communicating means 20 for executing a communicating process, and outputting a calling party identifier 201 which identifies a calling party; and communication operation determining means 40 for determining an operation of the communicating means 20. The communication operation determining means 40 determines the operation of the communicating means 20 on the basis of the peripheral-device identifier 301 and the calling party identifier 201.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 19, 2006
    Publication date: June 4, 2009
    Applicant: MATSUSHITA ELECTRIC INDUSTRIAL CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kouji Hatano, Tetsuya Ushijima
  • Publication number: 20080248816
    Abstract: It is an object of the present invention to suppress an increase of a processing load caused due to a cross fade process and implement the cross fade process simply. An information terminal of the present invention includes a contents reproducing portion 40 for reproducing contents data, a ringtone reproducing portion 50 for reproducing a ringtone by detecting an incoming call from an external equipment, a mixer portion 60 for executing a cross fade process to fade out a reproduced output of the contents data and fade in a reproduced output of the ringtone and outputting a superposed output of the contents data and the ringtone, and a controlling portion 30 for detecting the incoming call from the external equipment and instructing to execute the cross fade process.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 28, 2005
    Publication date: October 9, 2008
    Applicant: MATSUSHITA ELECTRIC INDUSTRIAL CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kouji Hatano, Yasuki Yamakawa, Tetsuya Ushijima
  • Publication number: 20070293276
    Abstract: The present invention has an object to provide an information terminal capable of firmly notifying an occurrence of an event without making a user uncomfortable. The information terminal is provided with: reproducing means 11 for reproducing content data; sensing means 12 for sensing an event occurred while the content data is reproduced; and modulating means 20D for modulating said content data; in which when the sensing means senses 12 the occurrence of the event, the modulating means 20D modulates the content data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 1, 2005
    Publication date: December 20, 2007
    Applicant: MATSUSHITA ELECTRIC INDUSTRIAL CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Tetsuya Ushijima
  • Publication number: 20070233905
    Abstract: An output method is changed optimally in response to a difference of a device connected to an output device and a combination of output media streams, and user's convenience is improved. Each of media state sensing unit 15, 25, 35, 45 for sensing a state of a media stream sends out a media state sensing signal to a control portion 90, and each of connection state sensing unit 62, 72, 82 for sensing a connection state between an outputting unit 51 and a providing device, which presents the media stream visually or audibly, sends out a connection state sensing signal to the control portion 90. The control portion 90 decides an output state based on priority output information 931, which specifies a preferential output state of the media stream, the media state sensing signal, and the connection state sensing signal, and then the outputting unit 51 outputs the media stream to the providing device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 8, 2005
    Publication date: October 4, 2007
    Applicant: MATSUSHITA ELECTRIC INDUSTRIAL CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kouji Hatano, Tetsuya Ushijima