Patents by Inventor Tomonobu AOYAMA

Tomonobu AOYAMA 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: 10585974
    Abstract: To improve efficiency of UI production, a UI producing apparatus includes: a UI producing unit configured to allow a user to design UI screens which correspond to contents, respectively; a multi-preview executing unit configured to generate contexts for controlling the UI screens, respectively, and configured to simultaneously display previews corresponding to the UI screens, respectively, based on the contexts; a coordination unit configured to, responding to an event generated on at least one of the UI screens, provide a message, which includes information about the event, to one of the contexts corresponding to another one of the UI screens, in order to cause the UI screens to coordinate with each other; and a screen generating unit configured to modify the one of the contexts, based on the message, so as to generate the UI screens.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 10, 2020
    Assignee: CANDERA JAPAN INC.
    Inventors: Tomonobu Aoyama, Nobuyuki Hitsuji, Tatsuo Sasaki, Shin Ohhara
  • Patent number: 10318009
    Abstract: For the purpose of enhancing accessibility of a user with respect to various applications, the disclosed technique provides a method for controlling a user-interface that provides an instruction to an application through a user-operation which is performed on a display provided on a device. The method includes a process performed by the device. The process includes: acquiring information displayed by the display; extracting at least one feature existing on the acquired information; receiving an action of a user; searching a database to identify a predetermined operation, which corresponds to the received action and the extracted at least one feature; and providing an instruction to the application through applying the identified predetermined operation, not the received action, to the user-interface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2019
    Assignee: HI CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tomonobu Aoyama, Tatsuo Sasaki, Seiichi Kataoka
  • Publication number: 20180101236
    Abstract: For the purpose of enhancing accessibility of a user with respect to various applications, the disclosed technique provides a method for controlling a user-interface that provides an instruction to an application through a user-operation which is performed on a display provided on a device. The method includes a process performed by the device. The process includes: acquiring information displayed by the display; extracting at least one feature existing on the acquired information; receiving an action of a user; searching a database to identify a predetermined operation, which corresponds to the received action and the extracted at least one feature; and providing an instruction to the application through applying the identified predetermined operation, not the received action, to the user-interface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 13, 2017
    Publication date: April 12, 2018
    Inventors: Tomonobu AOYAMA, Tatsuo SASAKI, Seiichi KATAOKA
  • Publication number: 20170185568
    Abstract: To improve efficiency of UI production, a UI producing apparatus includes: a UI producing unit configured to allow a user to design UI screens which correspond to contents, respectively; a multi-preview executing unit configured to generate contexts for controlling the UI screens, respectively, and configured to simultaneously display previews corresponding to the UI screens, respectively, based on the contexts; a coordination unit configured to, responding to an event generated on at least one of the UI screens, provide a message, which includes information about the event, to one of the contexts corresponding to another one of the UI screens, in order to cause the UI screens to coordinate with each other; and a screen generating unit configured to modify the one of the contexts, based on the message, so as to generate the UI screens.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 22, 2016
    Publication date: June 29, 2017
    Inventors: Tomonobu AOYAMA, Nobuyuki HITSUJI, Tatsuo SASAKI, Shin OHHARA