Patents by Inventor Yuko Hokari

Yuko Hokari 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: 11436776
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a designation unit configured to designate at least a part of a plurality of frame areas in each of which an image provided on a screen is arrangeable; an acquisition unit configured to acquire a frame area that satisfies a predetermined condition from the designated frame area; a first determination unit configured to automatically determine an image to be arranged in the frame area that satisfies the predetermined condition; and a display control unit configured to arrange and display the determined image in the frame area that satisfies the predetermined condition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 3, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2022
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Kazuhiro Watanabe, Yuko Hokari, Akane Sakamoto, Takeshi Nakata
  • Patent number: 10983686
    Abstract: A display control apparatus that is capable of making a user feel a fact that a user's operation is received and of notifying the user that an end of a scrolling range has come. A display unit displays a displaying object. An operation detection unit detects a user's operation to the display unit. A display control unit scrolls the displaying object when the operation detection unit detects an instructing operation of scrolling, and displays a shadow of the displaying object and moves the shadow in a direction opposite to a direction of scrolling by the instructing operation when the instructing operation is not completed even if the displaying object has been scrolled to an end of a scrolling range.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 20, 2021
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Kazuhiro Watanabe, Hideki Narushima, Kazuya Horikirikawa, Shingo Yamazaki, Wataru Kaku, Soushi Takita, Yuko Hokari
  • Publication number: 20200294295
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a designation unit configured to designate at least a part of a plurality of frame areas in each of which an image provided on a screen is arrangeable; an acquisition unit configured to acquire a frame area that satisfies a predetermined condition from the designated frame area; a first determination unit configured to automatically determine an image to be arranged in the frame area that satisfies the predetermined condition; and a display control unit configured to arrange and display the determined image in the frame area that satisfies the predetermined condition.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 3, 2020
    Publication date: September 17, 2020
    Inventors: Kazuhiro Watanabe, Yuko Hokari, Akane Sakamoto, Takeshi Nakata
  • Publication number: 20200225823
    Abstract: A display control apparatus that is capable of making a user feel a fact that a user's operation is received and of notifying the user that an end of a scrolling range has come. A display unit displays a displaying object. An operation detection unit detects a user's operation to the display unit. A display control unit scrolls the displaying object when the operation detection unit detects an instructing operation of scrolling, and displays a shadow of the displaying object and moves the shadow in a direction opposite to a direction of scrolling by the instructing operation when the instructing operation is not completed even if the displaying object has been scrolled to an end of a scrolling range.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 26, 2020
    Publication date: July 16, 2020
    Inventors: Kazuhiro Watanabe, Hideki Narushima, Kazuya Horikirikawa, Shingo Yamazaki, Wataru Kaku, Soushi Takita, Yuko Hokari
  • Patent number: 10642472
    Abstract: A display control apparatus that is capable of making a user feel a fact that a user's operation is received and of notifying the user that an end of a scrolling range has come. A display unit displays a displaying object. An operation detection unit detects a user's operation to the display unit. A display control unit scrolls the displaying object when the operation detection unit detects an instructing operation of scrolling, and displays a shadow of the displaying object and moves the shadow in a direction opposite to a direction of scrolling by the instructing operation when the instructing operation is not completed even if the displaying object has been scrolled to an end of a scrolling range.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 7, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 5, 2020
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Kazuhiro Watanabe, Hideki Narushima, Kazuya Horikirikawa, Shingo Yamazaki, Wataru Kaku, Soushi Takita, Yuko Hokari
  • Publication number: 20190212891
    Abstract: An electronic apparatus includes a specifying unit configured to specify a position on a display unit, a selection unit configured to select a candidate item displayed on the display unit, and a control unit configured to perform control in such a manner that, if the specifying unit specifies a position of a first item corresponding to a first function that is displayed on the display unit after the candidate item is selected, the selected candidate item is moved from a position different from the first item to the position of the first item while spending a predetermined time or longer, and the first function is executed when the selected candidate item is moved to the position of the first item.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 9, 2019
    Publication date: July 11, 2019
    Inventors: Kazuhiro Watanabe, Yuko Hokari, Tomoki Wada, Akane Sakamoto, Takeshi Nakata
  • Publication number: 20180074628
    Abstract: A display control apparatus that is capable of making a user feel a fact that a user's operation is received and of notifying the user that an end of a scrolling range has come. A display unit displays a displaying object. An operation detection unit detects a user's operation to the display unit. A display control unit scrolls the displaying object when the operation detection unit detects an instructing operation of scrolling, and displays a shadow of the displaying object and moves the shadow in a direction opposite to a direction of scrolling by the instructing operation when the instructing operation is not completed even if the displaying object has been scrolled to an end of a scrolling range.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 7, 2017
    Publication date: March 15, 2018
    Inventors: Kazuhiro Watanabe, Hideki Narushima, Kazuya Horikirikawa, Shingo Yamazaki, Wataru Kaku, Soushi Takita, Yuko Hokari