Patents by Inventor Toru Kamiwada
Toru Kamiwada 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).
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Patent number: 11134356Abstract: A speech providing device includes a memory that stores instructions, and a processor that executes the instructions. The instructions cause the processor to perform acquiring a position of a user and a direction that the user is facing, and providing a speech corresponding to an area existing in a direction that the user is facing on the basis of the position of the user, to the user.Type: GrantFiled: April 30, 2019Date of Patent: September 28, 2021Assignees: Yamaha Corporation, Fujitsu LimitedInventors: Jun Usui, Yukio Tada, Takahiro Asano, Toru Kamiwada, Hiroki Uchida, Tomomi Yokoyama
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Publication number: 20200012847Abstract: An object detection apparatus includes: a camera configured to capture an image of an object; one or more of sensor devices each of which is configured to detect an environmental change; and a processor configured to (a): execute a determining process that includes, when any one of the one or more of sensor devices detects an environmental change, detecting a search starting point of the object based on at least one of a time corresponding to the detection and detection information from the sensor device, (b): execute an entry registering process that includes registering an entry with reference information when the object is detected, the entry including at least one of the time and the detection information and a direction in which the object is detected, wherein the determining process is configured to determine the direction toward which the camera is to be turned based on the reference information.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 17, 2019Publication date: January 9, 2020Applicant: Fujitsu LimitedInventors: Akihito Yoshii, Toshikazu Kanaoka, Toru Kamiwada
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Publication number: 20190261123Abstract: A speech providing device includes a memory that stores instructions, and a processor that executes the instructions. The instructions cause the processor to perform acquiring a position of a user and a direction that the user is facing, and providing a speech corresponding to an area existing in a direction that the user is facing on the basis of the position of the user, to the user.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 30, 2019Publication date: August 22, 2019Inventors: Jun USUI, Yukio TADA, Takahiro ASANO, Toru KAMIWADA, Hiroki UCHIDA, Tomomi YOKOYAMA
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Patent number: 10193996Abstract: A load balancing method executed by an information processing apparatus, the load balancing method includes identifying, in first determination processing for determining circumstances based on an event acquired by a sensor included in the information processing apparatus, a type of an event that another information processing apparatus coupled to the information processing apparatus is able to acquire by using a sensor included in the another information processing apparatus; determining whether a logic tree representing the first determination processing is able to change to another logic tree that includes a partial logic tree determined based on an event of the identified type and is equivalent in condition to the logic tree; and assigning second determination processing represented by the partial logic tree included in the another logic tree to the another information processing apparatus, when determining that the logic tree is able to change to the another logic tree.Type: GrantFiled: April 20, 2016Date of Patent: January 29, 2019Assignee: FUJITSU LIMITEDInventors: Hisatoshi Yamaoka, Takashi Imai, Toru Kamiwada
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Patent number: 9921886Abstract: A mobile terminal device receives a request for a sensing operation from an application program, specifies candidate processors that are to perform condition determination to determine whether an event output from a sensor performing the sensing operation of the received request satisfies conditions for notification, the conditions being designated by the application program, calculates an evaluation value of electricity consumed by each of the candidate processors in the condition determination, using frequency of the event of the sensing operation of the received request in frequency data, the frequency data linking an event output from a sensor to frequency of generation of the event, and selects a candidate processor having an optimal evaluation value.Type: GrantFiled: September 28, 2015Date of Patent: March 20, 2018Assignee: FUJITSU LIMITEDInventors: Eiji Hasegawa, Manabu Nakao, Toru Kamiwada
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Patent number: 9749423Abstract: A function extension method is executed by a terminal device. The function extension method includes connecting a first plug-in, which is common to one or more peripheral devices, to an execution environment of an application for controlling the one or more peripheral devices; arranging a second plug-in, which corresponds to each of the one or more peripheral devices, to be connected to the execution environment of the application via the first plug-in; and connecting the second plug-in corresponding to another peripheral device to the execution environment of the application via the first plug-in while maintaining the connection relationship between the execution environment of the application and the first plug-in, when the another peripheral device controlled by the terminal device is to be added.Type: GrantFiled: March 24, 2015Date of Patent: August 29, 2017Assignee: FUJITSU LIMITEDInventors: Miwa Okabayashi, Hisatoshi Yamaoka, Takashi Ohno, Toru Kamiwada, Junichi Yura, Takuya Sakamoto
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Patent number: 9722693Abstract: A method of controlling a communication device executed by a processor included in the communication device, the method includes intermittently receiving, via a receiver of the communication device, at least two radio signals intermittently sent from a sending device; specifying a sending interval between the at least two radio signals, based on the at least two radio signals; and controlling the receiver so as to cause the receiver to be set, at each of timings at which a plurality of radio signals intermittently sent after the at least two radio signals from the sending device are received, to be in an operating state where the receiver is capable of receiving the plurality of radio signals, based on the specified sending interval.Type: GrantFiled: October 23, 2015Date of Patent: August 1, 2017Assignee: FUJITSU LIMITEDInventors: Takuya Sato, Eiji Hasegawa, Manabu Nakao, Toru Kamiwada
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Publication number: 20160330124Abstract: A load balancing method executed by an information processing apparatus, the load balancing method includes identifying, in first determination processing for determining circumstances based on an event acquired by a sensor included in the information processing apparatus, a type of an event that another information processing apparatus coupled to the information processing apparatus is able to acquire by using a sensor included in the another information processing apparatus; determining whether a logic tree representing the first determination processing is able to change to another logic tree that includes a partial logic tree determined based on an event of the identified type and is equivalent in condition to the logic tree; and assigning second determination processing represented by the partial logic tree included in the another logic tree to the another information processing apparatus, when determining that the logic tree is able to change to the another logic tree.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 20, 2016Publication date: November 10, 2016Applicant: FUJITSU LIMITEDInventors: Hisatoshi Yamaoka, Takashi Imai, Toru Kamiwada
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Publication number: 20160191150Abstract: A method of controlling a communication device executed by a processor included in the communication device, the method includes intermittently receiving, via a receiver of the communication device, at least two radio signals intermittently sent from a sending device; specifying a sending interval between the at least two radio signals, based on the at least two radio signals; and controlling the receiver so as to cause the receiver to be set, at each of timings at which a plurality of radio signals intermittently sent after the at least two radio signals from the sending device are received, to be in an operating state where the receiver is capable of receiving the plurality of radio signals, based on the specified sending interval.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 23, 2015Publication date: June 30, 2016Applicant: FUJITSU LIMITEDInventors: Takuya Sato, Eiji Hasegawa, Manabu Nakao, Toru Kamiwada
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Publication number: 20160109927Abstract: A mobile terminal device receives a request for a sensing operation from an application program, specifies candidate processors that are to perform condition determination to determine whether an event output from a sensor performing the sensing operation of the received request satisfies conditions for notification, the conditions being designated by the application program, calculates an evaluation value of electricity consumed by each of the candidate processors in the condition determination, using frequency of the event of the sensing operation of the received request in frequency data, the frequency data linking an event output from a sensor to frequency of generation of the event, and selects a candidate processor having an optimal evaluation value.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 28, 2015Publication date: April 21, 2016Inventors: Eiji Hasegawa, Manabu NAKAO, Toru Kamiwada
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Publication number: 20150296025Abstract: A function extension method is executed by a terminal device. The function extension method includes connecting a first plug-in, which is common to one or more peripheral devices, to an execution environment of an application for controlling the one or more peripheral devices; arranging a second plug-in, which corresponds to each of the one or more peripheral devices, to be connected to the execution environment of the application via the first plug-in; and connecting the second plug-in corresponding to another peripheral device to the execution environment of the application via the first plug-in while maintaining the connection relationship between the execution environment of the application and the first plug-in, when the another peripheral device controlled by the terminal device is to be added.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 24, 2015Publication date: October 15, 2015Inventors: Miwa Okabayashi, HISATOSHI YAMAOKA, Takashi Ohno, Toru Kamiwada, Junichi Yura, Takuya SAKAMOTO
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Patent number: 8996313Abstract: An apparatus includes an obtaining unit configured to obtain an atmospheric-pressure value measured by each of a plurality of electronic devices, the plurality of electronic devices being located at corresponding floors in a building and having atmospheric-pressure sensors, respectively, a setting unit configured to perform processing, the processing including calculating a frequency of an atmospheric-pressure value having a same value on the basis of the obtained plurality of atmospheric-pressure values and, classifying the atmospheric-pressure values on the basis of the frequencies, and generating association information associating the classified atmospheric-pressure value with a floor of the building; and a transmission unit configured to transmit information on a floor of the building associated with the atmospheric-pressure value on the basis of the generated association information when an atmospheric-pressure value is received together with identification information identifying the electronic deviceType: GrantFiled: February 23, 2012Date of Patent: March 31, 2015Assignee: Fujitsu LimitedInventor: Toru Kamiwada
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Patent number: 8712213Abstract: A first video-recording reservation management apparatus which communicates with a second apparatus and can receive the same channels.Type: GrantFiled: May 16, 2012Date of Patent: April 29, 2014Assignee: Fujitsu LimitedInventors: Toru Kamiwada, Noboru Iwamatsu, Yousuke Nakamura
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Patent number: 8706853Abstract: A content processing apparatus includes an extracting part extracting undownloaded contents from a list of downloadable contents, a providing situation storage part that stores a providing situation of the contents that content processing apparatus provided to other apparatuses, a priority order determining part determining the priority order of download in the extracted undownloaded contents based on the providing situation stored in the providing situation storage part, and a downloading part downloading the contents in accordance with the priority order determined by the priority order determining part.Type: GrantFiled: July 22, 2009Date of Patent: April 22, 2014Assignee: Fujitsu LimitedInventors: Toru Kamiwada, Hironori Sakakihara, Eiji Hasegawa, Takuya Sakamoto
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Patent number: 8489629Abstract: A communication terminal device includes: a communication unit configured to connect to a network to transmit and receive contents among a plurality of nodes; a memory configured to accumulate a history table that stores a search history of a content search; and a processor configured to execute a process comprising: storing the search history of the content search in the history table; comparing metadata attached to a search object content that is a content search object with metadata attached to a content stored in the history table; determining whether the content stored in the history table is similar to the search object content based on the comparing of the metadata; and making the transmission unit transmit information inquiring about possession of the search object content to a node that possesses a content determined to be similar to the search object content.Type: GrantFiled: March 17, 2011Date of Patent: July 16, 2013Assignee: Fujitsu LimitedInventors: Toru Kamiwada, Hironori Sakakihara
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Publication number: 20120281972Abstract: A first video-recording reservation management apparatus which communicates with a second apparatus and can receive the same channels.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 16, 2012Publication date: November 8, 2012Applicant: FUJITSU LIMITEDInventors: Toru Kamiwada, Noboru Iwamatsu, Yousuke Nakamura
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Publication number: 20120253674Abstract: An apparatus includes an obtaining unit configured to obtain an atmospheric-pressure value measured by each of a plurality of electronic devices, the plurality of electronic devices being located at corresponding floors in a building and having atmospheric-pressure sensors, respectively, a setting unit configured to perform processing, the processing including calculating a frequency of an atmospheric-pressure value having a same value on the basis of the obtained plurality of atmospheric-pressure values and, classifying the atmospheric-pressure values on the basis of the frequencies, and generating association information associating the classified atmospheric-pressure value with a floor of the building; and a transmission unit configured to transmit information on a floor of the building associated with the atmospheric-pressure value on the basis of the generated association information when an atmospheric-pressure value is received together with identification information identifying the electronic deviceType: ApplicationFiled: February 23, 2012Publication date: October 4, 2012Applicant: FUJITSU LIMITEDInventor: Toru Kamiwada
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Patent number: 8229282Abstract: A plurality of video-recording devices are connected via a network. A video-recording reservation processing unit registers video-recording reservation information in a video-recording reservation management table of a storage unit and notifies the other devices of the video-recording reservation registration via the network when a video-recording reservation is made with respect to the video-recording function thereof.Type: GrantFiled: September 26, 2007Date of Patent: July 24, 2012Assignee: Fujitsu LimitedInventors: Toru Kamiwada, Noboru Iwamatsu, Yousuke Nakamura
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Publication number: 20120002944Abstract: A replay control method of controlling reply means for replaying video content executed by a computer, the method includes: accepting one or more keywords; retrieving, from pieces of correspondence information each containing fraction part information specifying a piece of video content and a fraction part in the piece of video content, and a word string expressed in the fraction part, each piece of correspondence information whose word string contains at least one of the accepted one or more keywords; and making the replay means replay the fraction part specified by each retrieved piece of correspondence information.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 13, 2011Publication date: January 5, 2012Applicant: FUJITSU LIMITEDInventors: Toru KAMIWADA, Yoshinobu Hotta, Yutaka Katsuyama, Katsuhito Fujimoto, Takashi Terasaki, Masashi Urushihara
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Publication number: 20110231431Abstract: A communication terminal device includes: a communication unit configured to connect to a network to transmit and receive contents among a plurality of nodes; a memory configured to accumulate a history table that stores a search history of a content search; and a processor configured to execute a process comprising: storing the search history of the content search in the history table; comparing metadata attached to a search object content that is a content search object with metadata attached to a content stored in the history table; determining whether the content stored in the history table is similar to the search object content based on the comparing of the metadata; and making the transmission unit transmit information inquiring about possession of the search object content to a node that possesses a content determined to be similar to the search object content.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 17, 2011Publication date: September 22, 2011Applicant: FUJITSU LIMITEDInventors: Toru KAMIWADA, Hironori SAKAKIHARA