Patents by Inventor Tomonori Nomura

Tomonori Nomura 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: 20240121517
    Abstract: The present invention makes it possible to perform good illumination and obtain a good captured image when a plurality of users each having a camera-equipped portable information terminal device gather in the same place. A camera-equipped portable information terminal device is provided with: an imaging unit that captures an image of a subject; a first illumination means for illuminating the subject; a first communication unit that communicates with other portable information terminal devices; and a first control unit that controls the imaging unit and the first communication unit. The first control unit transmits a light emission instruction signal to the other portable information terminal devices via the first communication unit, and causes a second illumination means of each of the other portable information terminal devices to emit light in tandem with an imaging operation of the imaging unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 14, 2023
    Publication date: April 11, 2024
    Inventors: Hiroshi SHIMIZU, Motoyuki SUZUKI, Yasunobu HASHIMOTO, Tomonori NOMURA, Kazuhiko YOSHIZAWA
  • Publication number: 20240048812
    Abstract: There is provided a portable terminal device 2 that notifies a television receiver 1 of a received phone call or mail. The portable terminal device 2 includes a communication unit 210 that receives a phone call or mail and communicates with the television receiver, a notification execution unit 203c that performs control in a case where information of the phone call or the mail received by the communication unit is notified to the television receiver, and a posture detection execution unit 203e that detects a posture of the portable terminal device. In a case where the communication unit receives a phone call or mail, the notification execution unit changes content of the information of the received phone call or mail according to a detection result of the posture detection execution unit and notifies the television receiver of the changed content.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 18, 2023
    Publication date: February 8, 2024
    Inventors: Motoyuki Suzuki, Hiroshi Shimizu, Yasunobu Hashimoto, Kazuhiko Yoshizawa, Mitsunobu Watanabe, Tomonori Nomura
  • Publication number: 20240031639
    Abstract: A broadcast receiving device is provided with: a broadcast receiving unit which receives a digital broadcast signal including broadcast program video and application-related information; a storage unit which stores the received broadcast program video and application-related information; a video decoding unit which decodes the video; an application acquisition unit which acquires an application on the basis of location information included in the application-related information; an application execution unit which executes the acquired application; an output unit which is able to output the video; and a control unit for reproducing and decoding the broadcast program video from the storage unit, reproducing the application-related information from the storage unit, acquiring the application on the basis of the location information included in the reproduced application-related information, and executing the acquired application.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 4, 2023
    Publication date: January 25, 2024
    Inventors: Masayuki HIRABAYASHI, Kazuhiko YOSHIZAWA, Yasunobu HASHIMOTO, Motoyuki SUZUKI, Tomonori NOMURA
  • Patent number: 11882233
    Abstract: The purpose is to provide a mobile terminal device that can limit the use of the application by detecting the user position of the mobile terminal device and the speed of the vehicle by itself. To this end, provided is a function limitation method of a mobile terminal device with function limitation capable of limiting a use of an application, including, a step of determining whether or not a limitation target application of the mobile terminal device is in activation, a usage position check step of determining, by the mobile terminal device, a user of the mobile terminal device is on a driver seat, and a speed check step of calculating, by the mobile terminal device, a vehicle in which the user of the mobile terminal device is riding is traveling, in which the use of the application is limited or terminated when the user of the mobile terminal device is on the driver seat, and the vehicle is traveling.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2024
    Assignee: MAXELL, LTD.
    Inventors: Tomonori Nomura, Yasunobu Hashimoto, Mitsunobu Watanabe, Kazuhiko Yoshizawa, Hiroshi Shimizu, Hirokazu Ishii
  • Patent number: 11871120
    Abstract: The present invention makes it possible to perform good illumination and obtain a good captured image when a plurality of users each having a camera-equipped portable information terminal device gather in the same place. A camera-equipped portable information terminal device is provided with: an imaging unit that captures an image of a subject; a first illumination means for illuminating the subject; a first communication unit that communicates with other portable information terminal devices; and a first control unit that controls the imaging unit and the first communication unit. The first control unit transmits a light emission instruction signal to the other portable information terminal devices via the first communication unit, and causes a second illumination means of each of the other portable information terminal devices to emit light in tandem with an imaging operation of the imaging unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 4, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: MAXELL, LTD.
    Inventors: Hiroshi Shimizu, Motoyuki Suzuki, Yasunobu Hashimoto, Tomonori Nomura, Kazuhiko Yoshizawa
  • Patent number: 11831976
    Abstract: A display apparatus that includes a first imaging unit that images a user, a first distance detector that identifies an eye of the user and measure a first distance that is a distance from the identified eye to the first imaging unit, a second imaging unit that images an object, a second distance detector that measures a second distance that is a distance from the second imaging unit to the object, an image processor that processes the images, and a display unit, the image processor calculating a display imaging range, extracting the calculated display imaging range from the image imaged by the second imaging unit, and causing the display unit to display it, and the display imaging range being such a range that the object displayed and an external scenery not interrupted by the display unit seen from a viewpoint of the user have the same size.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2023
    Assignee: MAXELL, LTD.
    Inventors: Hiroshi Shimizu, Ikuya Arai, Yasunobu Hashimoto, Tomonori Nomura, Osamu Kawamae, Kazuhiko Yoshizawa, Naohisa Takamizawa
  • Patent number: 11812109
    Abstract: There is provided a portable terminal device 2 that notifies a television receiver 1 of a received phone call or mail. The portable terminal device 2 includes a communication unit 210 that receives a phone call or mail and communicates with the television receiver, a notification execution unit 203c that performs control in a case where information of the phone call or the mail received by the communication unit is notified to the television receiver, and a posture detection execution unit 203e that detects a posture of the portable terminal device. In a case where the communication unit receives a phone call or mail, the notification execution unit changes content of the information of the received phone call or mail according to a detection result of the posture detection execution unit and notifies the television receiver of the changed content.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 15, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2023
    Assignee: MAXELL, LTD.
    Inventors: Motoyuki Suzuki, Hiroshi Shimizu, Yasunobu Hashimoto, Kazuhiko Yoshizawa, Mitsunobu Watanabe, Tomonori Nomura
  • Patent number: 11800182
    Abstract: A broadcast receiving device is provided with: a broadcast receiving unit which receives a digital broadcast signal including broadcast program video and application-related information; a storage unit which stores the received broadcast program video and application-related information; a video decoding unit which decodes the video; an application acquisition unit which acquires an application on the basis of location information included in the application-related information; an application execution unit which executes the acquired application; an output unit which is able to output the video; and a control unit for reproducing and decoding the broadcast program video from the storage unit, reproducing the application-related information from the storage unit, acquiring the application on the basis of the location information included in the reproduced application-related information, and executing the acquired application.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2023
    Assignee: MAXELL, LTD.
    Inventors: Masayuki Hirabayashi, Kazuhiko Yoshizawa, Yasunobu Hashimoto, Motoyuki Suzuki, Tomonori Nomura
  • Publication number: 20230059108
    Abstract: The present invention makes it possible to perform good illumination and obtain a good captured image when a plurality of users each having a camera-equipped portable information terminal device gather in the same place. A camera-equipped portable information terminal device is provided with: an imaging unit that captures an image of a subject; a first illumination means for illuminating the subject; a first communication unit that communicates with other portable information terminal devices; and a first control unit that controls the imaging unit and the first communication unit. The first control unit transmits a light emission instruction signal to the other portable information terminal devices via the first communication unit, and causes a second illumination means of each of the other portable information terminal devices to emit light in tandem with an imaging operation of the imaging unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 4, 2022
    Publication date: February 23, 2023
    Inventors: Hiroshi SHIMIZU, Motoyuki SUZUKI, Yasunobu HASHIMOTO, Tomonori NOMURA, Kazuhiko YOSHIZAWA
  • Publication number: 20230027771
    Abstract: The purpose is to provide a mobile terminal device that can limit the use of the application by detecting the user position of the mobile terminal device and the speed of the vehicle by itself. To this end, provided is a function limitation method of a mobile terminal device with function limitation capable of limiting a use of an application, including, a step of determining whether or not a limitation target application of the mobile terminal device is in activation, a usage position check step of determining, by the mobile terminal device, a user of the mobile terminal device is on a driver seat, and a speed check step of calculating, by the mobile terminal device, a vehicle in which the user of the mobile terminal device is riding is traveling, in which the use of the application is limited or terminated when the user of the mobile terminal device is on the driver seat, and the vehicle is traveling.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 30, 2022
    Publication date: January 26, 2023
    Inventors: Tomonori NOMURA, Yasunobu HASHIMOTO, Mitsunobu WATANABE, Kazuhiko YOSHIZAWA, Hiroshi SHIMIZU, Hirokazu ISHII
  • Publication number: 20230017875
    Abstract: A display apparatus that includes a first imaging unit that images a user, a first distance detector that identifies an eye of the user and measure a first distance that is a distance from the identified eye to the first imaging unit, a second imaging unit that images an object, a second distance detector that measures a second distance that is a distance from the second imaging unit to the object, an image processor that processes the images, and a display unit, the image processor calculating a display imaging range, extracting the calculated display imaging range from the image imaged by the second imaging unit, and causing the display unit to display it, and the display imaging range being such a range that the object displayed and an external scenery not interrupted by the display unit seen from a viewpoint of the user have the same size.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 21, 2022
    Publication date: January 19, 2023
    Applicant: Maxell, Ltd.
    Inventors: Hiroshi SHIMIZU, Ikuya ARAI, Yasunobu HASHIMOTO, Tomonori NOMURA, Osamu KAWAMAE, Kazuhiko YOSHIZAWA, Naohisa TAKAMIZAWA
  • Patent number: 11496692
    Abstract: The present invention makes it possible to perform good illumination and obtain a good captured image when a plurality of users each having a camera-equipped portable information terminal device gather in the same place. A camera-equipped portable information terminal device is provided with: an imaging unit that captures an image of a subject; a first illumination means for illuminating the subject; a first communication unit that communicates with other portable information terminal devices; and a first control unit that controls the imaging unit and the first communication unit. The first control unit transmits a light emission instruction signal to the other portable information terminal devices via the first communication unit, and causes a second illumination means of each of the other portable information terminal devices to emit light in tandem with an imaging operation of the imaging unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 7, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2022
    Assignee: MAXELL, LTD.
    Inventors: Hiroshi Shimizu, Motoyuki Suzuki, Yasunobu Hashimoto, Tomonori Nomura, Kazuhiko Yoshizawa
  • Patent number: 11496618
    Abstract: The purpose is to provide a mobile terminal device that can limit the use of the application by detecting the user position of the mobile terminal device and the speed of the vehicle by itself. To this end, provided is a function limitation method of a mobile terminal device with function limitation capable of limiting a use of an application, including, a step of determining whether or not a limitation target application of the mobile terminal device is in activation, a usage position check step of determining, by the mobile terminal device, a user of the mobile terminal device is on a driver seat, and a speed check step of calculating, by the mobile terminal device, a vehicle in which the user of the mobile terminal device is riding is traveling, in which the use of the application is limited or terminated when the user of the mobile terminal device is on the driver seat, and the vehicle is traveling.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 2, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2022
    Assignee: MAXELL, LTD.
    Inventors: Tomonori Nomura, Yasunobu Hashimoto, Mitsunobu Watanabe, Kazuhiko Yoshizawa, Hiroshi Shimizu, Hirokazu Ishii
  • Patent number: 11483483
    Abstract: A display apparatus that includes a first imaging unit that images a user, a first distance detector that identifies an eye of the user and measure a first distance that is a distance from the identified eye to the first imaging unit, a second imaging unit that images an object, a second distance detector that measures a second distance that is a distance from the second imaging unit to the object, an image processor that processes the images, and a display unit, the image processor calculating a display imaging range, extracting the calculated display imaging range from the image imaged by the second imaging unit, and causing the display unit to display it, and the display imaging range being such a range that the object displayed and an external scenery not interrupted by the display unit seen from a viewpoint of the user have the same size.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2022
    Assignee: MAXELL, LTD.
    Inventors: Hiroshi Shimizu, Ikuya Arai, Yasunobu Hashimoto, Tomonori Nomura, Osamu Kawamae, Kazuhiko Yoshizawa, Naohisa Takamizawa
  • Patent number: 11470377
    Abstract: A display apparatus includes two cameras and detects a second point and a third point with respect to a first point from photographed video, the first point indicating a camera reference position, the second point indicating a user reference position, the third point indicating a position of a finger of the user; sets a virtual plane space to a fourth point in a space, the fourth point being positioned apart from the second point by a predetermined length in a first direction; determines a predetermined operation on a basis of a degree of entrance of the finger with respect to the virtual plane space; controls an operation of the display apparatus on a basis of operational input information; determines an adjusting operation against the virtual plane space by the user; and changes at least one of a position, a size, or inclination of the virtual plane space in real time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 6, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2022
    Assignee: MAXELL, LTD.
    Inventors: Kazuhiko Yoshizawa, Yasunobu Hashimoto, Hiroshi Shimizu, Tomonori Nomura, Kaneyuki Okamoto
  • Publication number: 20220279065
    Abstract: The information processing terminal that performs automatic response, comprises: a database configured to store personal information of a user of the information processing terminal; a receiver configured to receive an access and a message from an access partner; an automatic response unit configured to, after receiving the access, perform a request to the access partner to transmit the message when an operation in response to the access is not input in the information processing terminal, and create a response to the message which has been received in response to the request; and a transmitter configured to transmit the response to the access partner, wherein the automatic response unit includes: an intention recognition unit configured to recognize an intension of the message; and a response creation unit configured to create a response to the message by referring to the intension of the message and the personal information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 19, 2022
    Publication date: September 1, 2022
    Applicant: MAXELL, LTD.
    Inventors: Hirokazu ISHII, Tomonori NOMURA, Akira ISHIYAMA
  • Publication number: 20220239984
    Abstract: There is provided a portable terminal device 2 that notifies a television receiver 1 of a received phone call or mail. The portable terminal device 2 includes a communication unit 210 that receives a phone call or mail and communicates with the television receiver, a notification execution unit 203c that performs control in a case where information of the phone call or the mail received by the communication unit is notified to the television receiver, and a posture detection execution unit 203e that detects a posture of the portable terminal device. In a case where the communication unit receives a phone call or mail, the notification execution unit changes content of the information of the received phone call or mail according to a detection result of the posture detection execution unit and notifies the television receiver of the changed content.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 15, 2022
    Publication date: July 28, 2022
    Inventors: Motoyuki SUZUKI, Hiroshi SHIMIZU, Yasunobu HASHIMOTO, Kazuhiko YOSHIZAWA, Mitsunobu WATANABE, Tomonori NOMURA
  • Patent number: 11363132
    Abstract: The information processing terminal that performs automatic response, comprises: a database configured to store personal information of a user of the information processing terminal; a receiver configured to receive an access and a message from an access partner; an automatic response unit configured to, after receiving the access, perform a request to the access partner to transmit the message when an operation in response to the access is not input in the information processing terminal, and create a response to the message which has been received in response to the request; and a transmitter configured to transmit the response to the access partner, wherein the automatic response unit includes: an intention recognition unit configured to recognize an intension of the message; and a response creation unit configured to create a response to the message by referring to the intension of the message and the personal information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2022
    Assignee: MAXELL, LTD.
    Inventors: Hirokazu Ishii, Tomonori Nomura, Akira Ishiyama
  • Patent number: 11310561
    Abstract: There is provided a portable terminal device 2 that notifies a television receiver 1 of a received phone call or mail. The portable terminal device 2 includes a communication unit 210 that receives a phone call or mail and communicates with the television receiver, a notification execution unit 203c that performs control in a case where information of the phone call or the mail received by the communication unit is notified to the television receiver, and a posture detection execution unit 203e that detects a posture of the portable terminal device. In a case where the communication unit receives a phone call or mail, the notification execution unit changes content of the information of the received phone call or mail according to a detection result of the posture detection execution unit and notifies the television receiver of the changed content.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2022
    Assignee: MAXELL, LTD.
    Inventors: Motoyuki Suzuki, Hiroshi Shimizu, Yasunobu Hashimoto, Kazuhiko Yoshizawa, Mitsunobu Watanabe, Tomonori Nomura
  • Publication number: 20220094857
    Abstract: A display apparatus that includes a first imaging unit that images a user, a first distance detector that identifies an eye of the user and measure a first distance that is a distance from the identified eye to the first imaging unit, a second imaging unit that images an object, a second distance detector that measures a second distance that is a distance from the second imaging unit to the object, an image processor that processes the images, and a display unit, the image processor calculating a display imaging range, extracting the calculated display imaging range from the image imaged by the second imaging unit, and causing the display unit to display it, and the display imaging range being such a range that the object displayed and an external scenery not interrupted by the display unit seen from a viewpoint of the user have the same size.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 30, 2018
    Publication date: March 24, 2022
    Applicant: Maxell, Ltd.
    Inventors: Hiroshi SHIMIZU, Ikuya ARAI, Yasunobu HASHIMOTO, Tomonori NOMURA, Osamu KAWAMAE, Kazuhiko YOSHIZAWA, Naohisa TAKAMIZAWA