Patents by Inventor Yasunobu Hashimoto

Yasunobu Hashimoto 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: 20240146992
    Abstract: A digital broadcast receiving apparatus capable of executing a function with a higher added value is provided. A broadcast receiving apparatus configured to receive contents includes: a receiving unit configured to receive the contents; an interface via which the contents received by the receiving unit is outputted; a control unit configured to control an output state of the contents from the interface. In this case, the control unit is configured to determine the output state of the contents from the interface in accordance with a combination of control information indicating a copy control state of the contents, control information for specifying necessity or not of protection when to output the contents, information indicating resolution of video of the contents, and information indicating transmission characteristics of video of the contents, which are received by the receiving unit together with the contents.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 19, 2023
    Publication date: May 2, 2024
    Inventors: Kazuhiko YOSHIZAWA, Takuya SHIMIZU, Yasunobu HASHIMOTO, Nobuo MASUOKA, Nobuaki KABUTO
  • Publication number: 20240143066
    Abstract: Provided are a head-mounted information processing apparatus capable of improving user's convenience, and its controlling method. Therefore, it includes a main body device 2 used in a state of being worn on a user's head, and a controller used in a state of being worn on a user's wrist or hand and controlling the main body device. For example, a directional detector 91 in the main body device 2 detects a controller's direction by calculation based on a detected result of a position/attitude sensor of the controller. A rotational detector 92 detects controller's rotation, which uses the direction of the controller as a rotational axis, by calculation based on the detected result of the position/attitude sensor of the controller. An operation instruction converter 87 converts detected results of the directional detector 91 and the rotational detector 92 into instructions for the main body device 2.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 22, 2023
    Publication date: May 2, 2024
    Inventors: Yasunobu HASHIMOTO, Naohisa TAKAMIZAWA
  • Patent number: 11972532
    Abstract: A display terminal having a display includes a color image camera and a distance image camera for acquiring a color image and a distance image of a predetermined photographing range, respectively, and a display control unit for displaying a virtual object on the display. The display control unit includes a space recognition unit for using the color image and the distance image to generate a three-dimensional map of a structural object, a display data generation unit for generating display data in which a rear region of the virtual object behind the structural object in a line-of-sight direction is specified, based on the three-dimensional map and real space placement position data of the virtual object, and the display correction unit for correcting the display data to display operation points of the rear region, which accept an operation instruction to the virtual object, and displaying it on the display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: MAXELL, LTD.
    Inventors: Junji Shiokawa, Yasunobu Hashimoto, Mitsunobu Watanabe
  • Patent number: 11974009
    Abstract: A broadcast reception device includes: a program recording execution unit that stores, into a recording-content storage area, program identification information for identifying a broadcast program, and storage-destination information for specifying a server device storing the broadcast program; a reception function execution unit that transmits the program identification information and the program storage-destination information to the server device specified from the program storage-destination information; and an output unit that outputs sound information and image information on the broadcast program transmitted from the server device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: MAXELL, LTD.
    Inventors: Kazuhiko Yoshizawa, Nobuo Masuoka, Hiroshi Shimizu, Yasunobu Hashimoto
  • Publication number: 20240137607
    Abstract: A technique for transmitting or receiving an advanced digital broadcasting service more preferably is provided. One or a plurality of receivers detect a 2K broadcasting service that transmits a 2K broadcasting program by performing a frequency scan for a received broadcast wave and create a service list of the 2K broadcasting service by using information related to the detected 2K broadcasting service, the one or plurality of receivers detect, after the detection of the 2K broadcasting service, a 4K broadcasting service that transmits a 4K broadcasting program by performing a frequency scan for the broadcast wave and create a service list of the 4K broadcasting service by using information related to the detected 4K broadcasting service, and a memory stores a service list obtained by composing the created service list of the 2K broadcasting service and the created service list of the 4K broadcasting service.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 6, 2022
    Publication date: April 25, 2024
    Inventors: Nobuo MASUOKA, Takuya SHIMIZU, Yasunobu HASHIMOTO, Kazuhiko YOSHIZAWA, Hitoshi AKIYAMA
  • Patent number: 11962843
    Abstract: A broadcast receiving apparatus includes: a digital broadcast receiver configured to receive digital broadcasting in which contents are transmitted; a network transceiver configured to execute network communication; a data string converter configured to perform a mixing process for creating a new coded data string based on a coded data string of the received contents and a coded data string acquired by the network transceiver; a digital interface configured to output the contents to external equipment; and a controller configured to determine a state of the network communication of the external equipment. The state of the network communication of the external equipment includes a first state in which the network communication is in a communicable state and a second state in which the network communication is in an uncommunicable state. In accordance with the determined state of the network communication, the digital interface performs three types of output operations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 9, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: MAXELL, LTD.
    Inventors: Kazuhiko Yoshizawa, Takuya Shimizu, Nobuo Masuoka, Yusuke Uchiyama, Yasunobu Hashimoto
  • Patent number: 11960635
    Abstract: A virtual object display device comprises a display and a display control device configured to perform display control of the display. The display control device includes: a coordinate system calculation unit configured to detect movement and rotation of the virtual object display device in a real world, and use an inertial coordinate system in which a coordinate origin thereof follows the movement of the virtual object display device and an effective field of view of the display is rotated therein in accordance with the rotation of the virtual object display device so as to define an arrangement position of an inertial coordinate system virtual object; and a display control unit configured to, when the inertial coordinate system virtual object is included in the effective field of view of the display, display the inertial coordinate system virtual object within the effective field of view.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 1, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: MAXELL, LTD.
    Inventors: Yasunobu Hashimoto, Naohisa Takamizawa, Hiroshi Shimizu
  • 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
  • Patent number: 11954247
    Abstract: Provided regarding a technique of an HMD is a technique capable of realizing high functionality and weight reduction in a well-balanced manner and improving usability for a user. An HMD of an embodiment is a head mounted display apparatus, includes: a head attached part that is attached to a user's head and has a display screen for displaying an image; and a body trunk attached part communicating with the head attached part and attached to a portion of the user's body trunk, measures a relatively positional relationship between the head attached part and the body trunk attached part and grasps states including a position and a direction of the head attached part states including a position and a direction of the body trunk attached part based on the positional relationship.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: MAXELL, LTD.
    Inventors: Yasunobu Hashimoto, Kazuhiko Yoshizawa, Mayumi Nakade, Hitoshi Akiyama
  • Patent number: 11947609
    Abstract: The purpose of the present invention is to provide a suitable user-friendliness to a user regarding a recommendation of application software on a portable information terminal. In order to accomplish the purpose, this portable information terminal is configured to set an application as a recommendation candidate when the status of the portable information terminal matches a condition corresponding to the application, and recommend the application when the application further matches a pre-set recommendation permitting condition. Hence, the portable information terminal and the application recommending method thereof capable of providing a preferable user-friendliness to the user can be provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: MAXELL, LTD.
    Inventors: Yasunobu Hashimoto, Kazuhiko Yoshizawa, Nobuo Masuoka, Motoyuki Suzuki, Hiroshi Shimizu, Hideyuki Kuwajima
  • Patent number: 11949940
    Abstract: A technique of transmitting or receiving an advanced digital broadcasting service more suitably is provided. As the means, a broadcast receiving apparatus for receiving a broadcasting wave, a 2K broadcasting service and a 4K broadcasting service being transmitted by the broadcasting wave, includes: a receiver configured to receive the broadcasting wave; a display; and a controller. The controller is configured to identify whether simultaneous broadcasting of a 2K broadcasting service and a 4K broadcasting service in the broadcasting wave is executed or not on a basis of control information, the control information being contained in the broadcasting wave received by the receiver.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: MAXELL, LTD.
    Inventors: Kazuhiko Yoshizawa, Yasunobu Hashimoto, Takuya Shimizu, Hitoshi Akiyama
  • Patent number: 11947757
    Abstract: A personal digital assistant includes a display control unit that causes an object as a target of the touch operation to be displayed in the image display unit, an image input unit that acquires a video of an operation instruction object that performs the touch operation on the touch screen, and a shaking detection unit that analyzes the video of the operation instruction object, which is acquired by the image input unit, and calculates a relative shaking amount of the operation instruction object to a position of the personal digital assistant as a reference. The display control unit causes the object to be displayed in the image display unit to be displayed, based on the relative shaking amount of the operation instruction object, which is calculated by the shaking detection unit, such that the object is shifted in accordance with the relative shaking amount.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 11, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: MAXELL, LTD.
    Inventors: Kazuhiko Yoshizawa, Yasunobu Hashimoto, Sadao Tsuruga, Susumu Yoshida
  • Publication number: 20240104883
    Abstract: A display apparatus includes a display device and a processor, and the display device displays at least the virtual object among the individual real object cut out from the external real body as an object and the virtual object to be arranged in three dimensions, the object for which the user wants to view is determined as the target object, the object to be interfered when the user views the target object is detected as the interfering object, and when there is an interfering object, the display mode of at least one of the target object and the interfering object is changed so as to eliminate or reduce the interfering caused by the interfering object for viewing the target object.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 10, 2020
    Publication date: March 28, 2024
    Inventors: Yasunobu HASHIMOTO, Yoshinori OKADA, Kazuhiko YOSHIZAWA, Hitoshi AKIYAMA, Mayumi NAKADE
  • Publication number: 20240103621
    Abstract: Provided is a technique in which, in arranging a virtual object with respect to a real space, a user has less trouble, usability is good, and the object is suitably placeable. A head mounted display apparatus (HMD apparatus) according to one embodiment has a function of arranging and displaying the virtual object in a space based on an operation by a user. The HMD apparatus displays, on a display surface, a grid including a plurality of points for supporting an operation of the virtual object, and disposes and displays, according to an operation includes designation of a target virtual object and designation of a first point at an arrangement destination, the target virtual object at the position of the first point.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 6, 2023
    Publication date: March 28, 2024
    Inventors: Yasunobu HASHIMOTO, Hitoshi AKIYAMA, Megumi KURACHI
  • Publication number: 20240106972
    Abstract: There is provided an imaging device including: an image processing unit; a face recognition processing unit; a storage unit; and a composition processing unit for generating composite data by a composition process so that persons photographed in each of a plurality of image data are included in one image data. The face recognition processing unit recognizes a first person by performing a face recognition process on first image data. When second image data obtained by photographing a second person at the different photographing timing of the first image data, with the same background as the first image data, is recorded in the storage unit, the composition processing unit generates composite data in which the first person and the second person are superimposed on the same background.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 4, 2023
    Publication date: March 28, 2024
    Inventors: Masayuki HIRABAYASHI, Yasunobu HASHIMOTO, Hiroshi SHIMIZU
  • Publication number: 20240089527
    Abstract: A broadcast receiving includes a broadcast receiver that receives a broadcast wave of a digital broadcasting service; a separator that separates coded program video data, program-cooperation data, and screen layout control information, from the broadcast wave; a video decoder that decodes the coded program video data to reproduce program video information; a cooperation information generator that interprets the program-cooperation data to generate program-cooperation information; and a control unit that, when an instruction to display a given screen is input while the presentation processor divides video display region into sub-regions based on the screen layout control information, places the program video information in one of the sub-regions, places the program-cooperation information in another sub-region, and outputs the data of the video display region as the video information, outputs information of the given screen as the video information without dividing the video display region based on the screen
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 21, 2023
    Publication date: March 14, 2024
    Inventors: Kazuhiko YOSHIZAWA, Takuya SHIMIZU, Nobuo MASUOKA, Yusuke UCHIYAMA, Yasunobu HASHIMOTO
  • Publication number: 20240086514
    Abstract: The purpose of the present invention is to provide a portable terminal and an application software start-up system whereby the application software that is started up is limited depending on the state of a user, thereby providing an improved ease of use. For this purpose, an application software start-up method for an information processing device comprises: performing identity authentication based on static biological information; determining the state of the user by comparing dynamic biological information acquired from the body of the user with previously measured dynamic biological information; and limiting the application software that is started up in accordance with the determined state of the user and on the basis of a permission level that is set in advance for each application software item.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 20, 2023
    Publication date: March 14, 2024
    Inventors: Masayuki HIRABAYASHI, Yasunobu HASHIMOTO, Kazuhiko YOSHIZAWA
  • Publication number: 20240077553
    Abstract: According to an embodiment, a cooling device for cooling a constituent element housed in a housing of a unit subjected to an influence of a generated magnetic field includes a water cooling mechanism and at least one air cooling mechanism. The water cooling mechanism cools the constituent element by cooling a cooling plate with a flow of water flowing through a pipe passing through the cooling plate arranged in the housing. The air cooling mechanism is arranged on an outgoing side where the flow of water flowing through the pipe is outgoing from the housing and cools the constituent element by discharging air in the housing along with the water flow in accordance with the water flow.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 14, 2023
    Publication date: March 7, 2024
    Applicant: CANON MEDICAL SYSTEMS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yasunobu SHINDEN, Teruo HASHIMOTO, Toshikazu SHIMMEI, Shintaro INOUE, Kenichi MURATA, Hajime TANAKA
  • Publication number: 20240077722
    Abstract: In a linked display system in which wireless communication connection between a first information device and a second information device has been established, when the first information device transmits text data to the second information device in a state of displaying content containing the text data and image data, the second information device displays the text data while the first information device stops displaying the text data and enlarges and displays the image data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 14, 2023
    Publication date: March 7, 2024
    Inventors: Megumi KURACHI, Masuo OKU, Hirokazu ISHII, Osamu KAWAMAE, Yasunobu HASHIMOTO, Kazuhiko YOSHIZAWA
  • Patent number: 11921293
    Abstract: A head-mounted display comprises: a wearing body; a display; a communication module configured to perform communication connection with a mobile information terminal; a field of view (FOV) sensor configured to output status data used for determining whether the mobile information terminal is included in a user's FOV through the wearing body; and a controller connected to each of the display, the communication module, and the FOV detection sensor. The controller determines whether the mobile information terminal is included in the user's FOV based on the status data, and performs display control with respect to the display so as to display an application screen of the mobile information terminal on the display when determining that the mobile information terminal is not included in the FOV, and not to display the application screen on the display when determining that the mobile information terminal is included in the FOV.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: MAXELL, LTD.
    Inventors: Mitsunobu Watanabe, Yasunobu Hashimoto, Osamu Kawamae, Nobuo Masuoka, Kazuhiko Yoshizawa, Hiroshi Shimizu