Patents by Inventor Yasuo Masaki
Yasuo Masaki 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: 10921451Abstract: A laser device includes a light source that emits light; a first reflector that reflects the light toward a predetermined range; a second reflector that reflects the light reflected from the predetermined range; a light receiver that receives the light reflected by the second reflector; a driver that swings the first and the second reflector in an angular range corresponding to the predetermined range; and a calculator that: stores first information about the light reflected by the first reflector toward the predetermined range and second information about the light received by the light receiver; and measures movement speed and movement direction of a target reflecting the light from the first reflector based on the first and the second information.Type: GrantFiled: October 17, 2017Date of Patent: February 16, 2021Assignee: Funai Electric Co., LTD.Inventors: Yuichiro Masuda, Yasuo Masaki, Manabu Murayama
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Patent number: 10212473Abstract: A portable information processing device (1) is provided with a communication portion (12) capable of communication according to a prescribed network standard allowing sharing of media data between corresponding apparatuses connected to a network, a built-in display portion (10) capable of replaying/displaying the media data, a control unit (18a) capable of controlling a display on the built-in display portion and acquiring the media data, and a first external display (15) noncorresponding to the prescribed network standard.Type: GrantFiled: May 27, 2016Date of Patent: February 19, 2019Assignee: Funai Electric Co., Ltd.Inventors: Yasuo Masaki, Sei Kohno
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Publication number: 20180136333Abstract: A laser device includes a light source that emits light; a first reflector that reflects the light toward a predetermined range; a second reflector that reflects the light reflected from the predetermined range; a light receiver that receives the light reflected by the second reflector; a driver that swings the first and the second reflector in an angular range corresponding to the predetermined range; and a calculator that: stores first information about the light reflected by the first reflector toward the predetermined range and second information about the light received by the light receiver; and measures movement speed and movement direction of a target reflecting the light from the first reflector based on the first and the second information.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 17, 2017Publication date: May 17, 2018Applicant: Funai Electric Co., Ltd.Inventors: Yuichiro Masuda, Yasuo Masaki, Manabu Murayama
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Publication number: 20160277789Abstract: A portable information processing device (1) is provided with a communication portion (12) capable of communication according to a prescribed network standard allowing sharing of media data between corresponding apparatuses connected to a network, a built-in display portion (10) capable of replaying/displaying the media data, a control unit (18a) capable of controlling a display on the built-in display portion and acquiring the media data, and a first external display (15) noncorresponding to the prescribed network standard.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 27, 2016Publication date: September 22, 2016Inventors: Yasuo MASAKI, Sei KOHNO
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Patent number: 9381933Abstract: A manually propelled vehicle includes a main body part comprising a wheel and a motor that drives the wheel when a user pushes the main body part in an advancing direction, and a mounting unit to be carried by the user and that communicates with the main body part. The mounting unit comprises a first motion sensor comprising an acceleration sensor in three orthogonal directions, and the main body part controls a drive of the motor based on a detection result of the first motion sensor.Type: GrantFiled: May 23, 2014Date of Patent: July 5, 2016Assignee: Funai Electric Co., Ltd.Inventor: Yasuo Masaki
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Patent number: 9357257Abstract: A portable information processing device (1) is provided with a communication portion (12) capable of communication according to a prescribed network standard allowing sharing of media data between corresponding apparatuses connected to a network, a built-in display portion (10) capable of replaying/displaying the media data, a control unit (18a) capable of controlling a display on the built-in display portion and acquiring the media data, and a first external display (15) noncorresponding to the prescribed network standard.Type: GrantFiled: December 27, 2010Date of Patent: May 31, 2016Assignee: Funai Electric Co., Ltd.Inventors: Yasuo Masaki, Sei Kohno
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Patent number: 9237375Abstract: Disclosed is a portable information processing device which can improve convenience by reducing an operational burden resulting from a selecting operation of the user. A control portion (18a) of the portable information processing device (1) selects, at least on the basis of that an external display device (5) is connected and a prescribed application is being started, a second mode from a first mode causing an external display device to display the same data as the data displayed on an built-in display portion (10) and the second mode causing the built-in display portion to display data different from the data displayed on the external display device.Type: GrantFiled: March 31, 2011Date of Patent: January 12, 2016Assignee: Funai Electric Co., Ltd.Inventors: Yasuo Masaki, Sei Kohno
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Patent number: 9227647Abstract: A manually propelled vehicle includes a vehicle body; a wheel for moving the vehicle body; a force sensor that detects an operating force and outputs sensor data; a distance measuring sensor that measures a distance between the manually propelled vehicle and a user and outputs sensor data; and a controller including a processor that receives the sensor data of the force sensor and the sensor data of the distance measuring sensor and a wheel drive controller that controls driving and braking of the wheel based on an output of the processor.Type: GrantFiled: August 28, 2014Date of Patent: January 5, 2016Assignee: Funai Electric Co., Ltd.Inventors: Yasuo Masaki, Atsushi Kojina, Takahiro Katayama
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Publication number: 20150193037Abstract: An input apparatus includes a touch panel and a control portion acquiring at least one of a touch area and the shape of a touched portion and determining whether or not to allow a plurality of touch operations performed simultaneously on the basis of at least one of the touch area which has been acquired, the amount of change of the touch area, and the shape of the touched portion which has been acquired.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 6, 2015Publication date: July 9, 2015Inventor: Yasuo MASAKI
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Publication number: 20150066275Abstract: A manually propelled vehicle includes a vehicle body; a wheel for moving the vehicle body; a force sensor that detects an operating force and outputs sensor data; a distance measuring sensor that measures a distance between the manually propelled vehicle and a user and outputs sensor data; and a controller including a processor that receives the sensor data of the force sensor and the sensor data of the distance measuring sensor and a wheel drive controller that controls driving and braking of the wheel based on an output of the processor.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 28, 2014Publication date: March 5, 2015Inventors: Yasuo Masaki, Atsushi Kojina, Takahiro Katayama
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Publication number: 20150009143Abstract: An operating system includes a coordinate information generating unit configured to, when a touch on a touch panel is detected, deem that a virtual hovering operation that is performed virtually in air above the touch panel surface was performed and shift to a hovering operation mode that generates two-dimensional coordinate information indicating the touched position and height position information having a positive value, and then, when a particular operation is received during the virtual hovering operation, deem that a virtual touch operation was performed and generate two-dimensional coordinates indicating the touched position and height position information with a value of zero, a display control unit configured and programmed to display on a display unit a specified hovering cursor at the display position that corresponds to the two-dimensional position of the virtual hovering operation so as to be superimposed on key images, and a function information output unit configured to output, when the virtualType: ApplicationFiled: July 2, 2014Publication date: January 8, 2015Inventor: Yasuo MASAKI
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Publication number: 20140365033Abstract: A manually propelled vehicle includes a main body part comprising a wheel and a motor that drives the wheel when a user pushes the main body part in an advancing direction, and a mounting unit to be carried by the user and that communicates with the main body part. The mounting unit comprises a first motion sensor comprising an acceleration sensor in three orthogonal directions, and the main body part controls a drive of the motor based on a detection result of the first motion sensor.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 23, 2014Publication date: December 11, 2014Applicant: FUNAI ELECTRIC CO., LTD.Inventor: Yasuo Masaki
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Publication number: 20140327701Abstract: An operation apparatus includes: a touch panel; a coordinate information generation unit which has a plurality of coordinate generation modes including a first coordinate generation mode; a receiving unit which receives an identification operation for switching from a coordinate generation mode to another coordinate generation mode among the coordinate generation modes; and an output unit which outputs the coordinate information generated by the coordinate information generation unit, wherein the coordinate generation unit generates, according to the coordinate generation mode, two-dimensional coordinates on the plane of a touch position in the touch panel screen, and height information in a perpendicular direction with respect to the touch panel screen.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 18, 2014Publication date: November 6, 2014Applicant: FUNAI ELECTRIC CO., LTD.Inventor: Yasuo MASAKI
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Patent number: 8761260Abstract: A cut detection system includes: an extractor configured to extract macroblock type information at least for every B frame from video compressed data including the macroblock type information; a calculator configured to calculate the number of intra-coded macroblocks for every frame from the extracted macroblock type information; and a detector configured to detect the B frame or a group of picture including the B frame to be a replay cut portion, which is a head portion or last portion of a replay shot, by using a frequency characteristic of the intra-coded macroblocks included in the B frame as determination conditions.Type: GrantFiled: March 7, 2008Date of Patent: June 24, 2014Assignees: Funai Electric Co., Ltd., The University of Electro-CommunicationsInventors: Hiroyoshi Morita, Atsunori Sakai, Yasuo Masaki, Hirono Tsubota
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Patent number: 8744244Abstract: Disclosed is a reproducing apparatus which reproduces a sound based on audio data, including: an audio data storage unit; an analyzing unit to analyze the audio data; an imaging unit to convert the analysis result into corresponding image data; a generating unit to generate an audio image arrangement diagram in which an audio image is arranged to a relative time axis originating on a current time; and a display control unit to display the audio image arrangement diagram when a sound based on the audio data is output, wherein in the audio image arrangement diagram, an audio image output at a current time point can be recognized, and the audio image arrangement diagram includes an audio image of any one time zones of one from the current time to a past, from the current time to a future, and from a past to a future.Type: GrantFiled: September 27, 2006Date of Patent: June 3, 2014Assignees: The University of Electro-Communications, Funai Electric Co., Ltd.Inventors: Kota Takahashi, Yasuo Masaki
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Patent number: 8665963Abstract: A communication terminal, includes: a communicator, configured to transmit and receive data to and from a server storing video contents; an accumulator, configured to accumulate a plurality of partial streams extracted from different time positions within the video contents received through the communicator as asynchronous streams; a decoder, configured to decode at least one of the asynchronous streams and synchronous streams that are not extracted as the asynchronous streams from the video contents, the synchronous streams being streaming-distributed from the server; and a controller, configured to acquire streams having time position information before and after a reproduction time position of the at least one of the asynchronous streams and the synchronous streams decoded by the decoder while the at least one of the asynchronous streams and the synchronous streams are reproduced on the display, and control the display to display the acquired streams after the reproduction.Type: GrantFiled: February 24, 2009Date of Patent: March 4, 2014Assignees: The University of Electro-Communications, Funai Electric Co., Ltd.Inventors: Hiroyuki Kasai, Naofumi Uchihara, Hirono Tsubota, Yasuo Masaki
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Patent number: 8442385Abstract: The MBT information for each frame is extracted from the moving picture compressed data containing the MBT information, an MBT symbol string is created by obtaining the frequency at which a specific MBT is contained from the extracted MBT information for each frame, appending a predetermined MBT symbol to each frame in accordance with its frequency feature, and arranging the MBT symbols according to the frame order, the cut point of the moving picture is discriminated from an array feature of MBT symbols in the MBT symbol string, and further a shot is identified based on an estimation model using the MBT symbol string.Type: GrantFiled: February 5, 2007Date of Patent: May 14, 2013Assignees: The University of Electro-Communications, Funai Electric Co., Ltd.Inventors: Hiroyoshi Morita, Fumihiro Inoue, Yasuo Masaki, Hirono Tsubota
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Publication number: 20130036430Abstract: Provided is a portable information display terminal capable of automatically starting an appropriate application program according to not only the time but also the use state of the portable information display terminal. The portable information display terminal (1) is provided with a housing (20), a use state detection means (53) for detecting the use state, a time detecting means (51a) for detecting the current time, and a control portion (51, 151, 251) for starting an application program corresponding to the use state detected by the use state detection means and the current time detected by the time detection means.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 6, 2011Publication date: February 7, 2013Applicant: Funai Electric Co., Ltd.Inventors: Yasuo Masaki, Sei Kohno
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Publication number: 20130027375Abstract: Disclosed is a portable information display terminal which inhibits from shifting to a standby mode in a state other than a prescribed state in a case of performing control of automatically shifting the portable information display terminal to the standby mode in response to a state of a housing. The portable information display terminal (1) includes a housing (20), an inclination sensor (53) for detecting that the portable information display terminal has entered a first state or that the portable information display terminal has entered a second state by detecting an inclination of the housing, and a control portions (51, 151) determining and specifying that the portable information display terminal is in the second state and performing control of shifting to a standby mode in a case where it is detected by the inclination sensor that the portable information display terminal is in the second state.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 5, 2011Publication date: January 31, 2013Applicant: Funai Electric Co., Ltd.Inventors: Yasuo Masaki, Sei Kohno
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Publication number: 20130027314Abstract: Disclosed is a portable information processing device which can improve convenience by reducing an operational burden resulting from a selecting operation of the user. A control portion (18a) of the portable information processing device (1) selects, at least on the basis of that an external display device (5) is connected and a prescribed application is being started, a second mode from a first mode causing an external display device to display the same data as the data displayed on an built-in display portion (10) and the second mode causing the built-in display portion to display data different from the data displayed on the external display device.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 31, 2011Publication date: January 31, 2013Applicant: Funai Electric Co., Ltd.Inventors: Yasuo Masaki, Sei Kohno