Patents by Inventor Yukimi Kawaguchi

Yukimi Kawaguchi 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: 8918815
    Abstract: The television (1) includes: an infrared radiation receiver (119) which receives from a user an instruction to select a program cell; and a CPU (118) which generates a user interface screen of an electronic program table to be displayed on an LCD (110). The CPU (118) generates the user interface screen of the electronic program table such that a time zone item column located in a left direction of a selected program cell and a time zone item column located in a right direction of the selected program cell are indicated with deep blue, and other time zone item columns are indicated with light blue.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 23, 2014
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Aya Minehara, Ai Terashima, Yoshinori Oonishi, Kinya Fujimoto, Kazunori Yoshizawa, Yoshinori Ohmura, Yukimi Kawaguchi, Yuhji Ohi, Keiichiro Sato, Yumiko Saimen, Akihiko Ito
  • Patent number: 8881200
    Abstract: A television set (100) includes a determination section (330) and a notification section (340). The determination section (330) determines, as program information to be notified to a user, a plurality of pieces of program information each of which matches a search condition set beforehand, from among a plurality of pieces of program information. The notification section (340) notifies the user of the television set (100) of the plurality of pieces of program information thus determined by the determination section (330).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 4, 2014
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Ryuhsuke Watanabe, Yukimi Kawaguchi, Yoshiyasu Ogasawara, Aya Minehara, Shunsuke Uesugi
  • Publication number: 20130318554
    Abstract: The television (1) includes: an infrared radiation receiver (119) which receives from a user an instruction to select a program cell; and a CPU (118) which generates a user interface screen of an electronic program table to be displayed on an LCD (110). The CPU (118) generates the user interface screen of the electronic program table such that a time zone item column located in a left direction of a selected program cell and a time zone item column located in a right direction of the selected program cell are indicated with deep blue, and other time zone item columns are indicated with light blue.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 28, 2011
    Publication date: November 28, 2013
    Applicant: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Aya Minehara, Ai Terashima, Yoshinori Oonishi, Kinya Fujimoto, Kazunori Yoshizawa, Yoshinori Ohmura, Yukimi Kawaguchi, Yuhji Ohi, Keiichiro Sato, Yumiko Saimen, Akihiko Ito
  • Publication number: 20130305293
    Abstract: A television set (100) includes a determination section (330) and a notification section (340). The determination section (330) determines, as program information to be notified to a user, a plurality of pieces of program information each of which matches a search condition set beforehand, from among a plurality of pieces of program information. The notification section (340) notifies the user of the television set (100) of the plurality of pieces of program information thus determined by the determination section (330).
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 28, 2011
    Publication date: November 14, 2013
    Applicant: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Ryuhsuke Watanabe, Yukimi Kawaguchi, Yoshiyasu Ogasawara, Aya Minehara, Shunsuke Uesugi
  • Publication number: 20120246680
    Abstract: Provided is a program-information displaying device characterized by including: a program-information acquiring unit configured to acquire program information pieces; a full-program-display processing unit configured to respectively display the program information pieces in a plurality of program cells in a full-program display region, the program cells being defined by a temporal axis and a channel axis crossing the temporal axis; a recommended-program-information selecting unit configured to select particular program information pieces from the program information pieces acquired by the program-information acquiring unit; a recommended-program storage unit configured to store therein program information pieces of selected recommended programs in a manner associable the program information pieces for displaying the full-program display region; and a recommended-program-display processing unit configured to display the program information pieces of the recommended programs stored in the recommended program st
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 8, 2010
    Publication date: September 27, 2012
    Inventors: Toru Hirota, Noriyuki Kudoh, Yukimi Kawaguchi, Yuhji Ohi, Yoshiyasu Ogasawara, Ryuhsuke Watanabe, Hajime Yamada, Nario Okuda, Takahiro Ogasawara
  • Publication number: 20120121231
    Abstract: Provided is a digital broadcast receiver having a recording function, which is capable of automatically selecting a recording destination of reserved recording.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 24, 2010
    Publication date: May 17, 2012
    Inventors: Hiroaki Saitoh, Yukimi Kawaguchi, Nobuyuki Murashima, Tadamichi Atsumi, Toru Hirota