Patents by Inventor Toshiichirou Sasaki

Toshiichirou Sasaki 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: 6922630
    Abstract: A portable terminal with the function of walking navigation. The portable terminal displays information on its narrow screen so as to make it easy for the user (walker) to understand and realize an interface that enables the user to understand inputs of retrieving conditions intuitively, thereby saving the input labor. Assume now that a user (walker) 10 is lost while walking towards a destination 11. In such a case, the present invention enables necessary information to be compressed, for example, so as to display both direction and distance to the destination from a present place with an orientation and a length of an arrow on a small screen and further so as to match the orientation of the arrow with the direction of the destination in the actual space.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 2004
    Date of Patent: July 26, 2005
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Kishiko Maruyama, Shigeru Shimada, Toshiichirou Sasaki
  • Publication number: 20040204825
    Abstract: A portable terminal with the function of walking navigation. The portable terminal displays information on its narrow screen so as to make it easy for the user (walker) to understand and realize an interface that enables the user to understand inputs of retrieving conditions intuitively, thereby saving the input labor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 29, 2004
    Publication date: October 14, 2004
    Applicant: HITACHI, LTD.
    Inventors: Kishiko Maruyama, Shigeru Shimada, Toshiichirou Sasaki
  • Patent number: 6748317
    Abstract: A portable terminal has a function of walking navigation. The direction of a destination is displayed by an indicating arrow that always points in the direction of the destination. In the navigation processing, the user enters data to select a menu and/or set retrieving conditions on the setup screen. At first, the user gets the location information of the portable terminal, represented by a latitude/longitude or coordinates and an altitude, for example. Then, the user gets the direction information of the portable terminal, which is the direction of the tip of the portable terminal as determined by a compass, a gyro, or a clinometer. The location information and the direction information are set as terminal information for the retrieving conditions. The system controls retrieving of the database and retrieves the information corresponding to the selected menu, such as route guidance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 5, 2003
    Date of Patent: June 8, 2004
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Kishiko Maruyama, Shigeru Shimada, Toshiichirou Sasaki
  • Publication number: 20040107126
    Abstract: A key of a building and a tool may be required for responding to various incidents that occur in targets to be processed. The maintenance engineer closest to the target mat not carry the key and tool. Optimum selection of the maintenance engineer cannot be achieved with current locations of the maintenance engineer candidates and of the target. Location information on a key and tool required for processing an incident that occurs in a target to be processed is managed. Additionally, when at least one maintenance engineer who processes the incident is selected, in accordance with a predetermined rule that location information on the maintenance engineer candidates, on the target, and on the key and tool required for the process request should be considered to select at least one maintenance engineer who processes the incident, the maintenance engineer is selected.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 1, 2003
    Publication date: June 3, 2004
    Applicant: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Kenji Kataoka, Toshiichirou Sasaki, Tomoichi Ebata, Minoru Koizumi
  • Publication number: 20030195695
    Abstract: A portable terminal with the function of walking navigation. The portable terminal displays information on its narrow screen so as to make it easy for the user (walker) to understand and realize an interface that enables the user to understand inputs of retrieving conditions intuitively, thereby saving the input labor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 5, 2003
    Publication date: October 16, 2003
    Applicant: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Kishiko Maruyama, Shigeru Shimada, Toshiichirou Sasaki
  • Patent number: 6580999
    Abstract: A portable terminal with the function of walking navigation. The portable terminal displays information on its narrow screen so as to make it easy for the user (walker) to understand and realize an interface that enables the user to understand inputs of retrieving conditions intuitively, thereby saving the input labor. Assume now that a user (walker) 10 is lost while walking towards a destination 11. In such a case, the present invention enables necessary information to be compressed, for example, so as to display both direction and distance to the destination from a present place with an orientation and a length of an arrow on a small screen and further so as to match the orientation of the arrow with the direction of the destination in the actual space.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 2002
    Date of Patent: June 17, 2003
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Kishiko Maruyama, Shigeru Shimada, Toshiichirou Sasaki
  • Publication number: 20020165662
    Abstract: A portable terminal with the function of walking navigation. The portable terminal displays information on its narrow screen so as to make it easy for the user (walker) to understand and realize an interface that enables the user to understand inputs of retrieving conditions intuitively, thereby saving the input labor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 18, 2002
    Publication date: November 7, 2002
    Applicant: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Kishiko Maruyama, Shigeru Shimada, Toshiichirou Sasaki
  • Patent number: 6430498
    Abstract: A portable terminal has a function of walking navigation. The direction of the destination is displayed by an indicating arrow that always points in the direction of the destination. In the navigation processing, the user enters data to select a menu and/or set retrieving conditions on the setup screen. At first, the user gets the location information of the portable terminal, represented by a latitude/longitude or coordinates and an altitude, for example. Then, the user gets the direction information of the portable terminal, which is the direction of the tip of the portable terminal as determined by a compass, a gyro, or a clinometer. The location information and the direction information are set as terminal information for the retrieving conditions. The system controls retrieving of the database and retrieves the information corresponding to the selected menu, such as route guidance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 11, 2000
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2002
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Kishiko Maruyama, Shigeru Shimada, Toshiichirou Sasaki
  • Publication number: 20020090953
    Abstract: Position information on a mobile communication device is acquired in the form of latitude and longitude or of latitude, longitude and altitude. Usage information is held in a communication control device in the form of limits of latitude and longitude or of latitude, longitude and altitude. The communication control device control the mobile communication device to put in a prohibited mode corresponding to the usage information. When the mobile communication device corresponds to the usage limit, the communication control device prompts a bearer of the mobile communication device to put its prohibited mode, and then transmits a prohibited mode control signal to the mobile communication device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 2, 2001
    Publication date: July 11, 2002
    Inventors: Maki Aburai, Mitsuru Hirasawa, Kazuko Hamaguchi, Toshiichirou Sasaki
  • Publication number: 20020026319
    Abstract: The present invention provides a system in which a service providing apparatus on the Internet efficiently provides service including provision of information corresponding to a voice input. The system is configured as follows.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 9, 2001
    Publication date: February 28, 2002
    Applicant: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Manabu Niie, Makoto Shioya, Seiji Ukai, Toshihiro Kujirai, Yoshito Nejime, Tadashi Kamiwaki, Toshiichirou Sasaki, Naoyuki Koga