Patents by Inventor Yuko Sasahara

Yuko Sasahara 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: 20140059492
    Abstract: A display apparatus includes: a display having a screen in which an image is displayed; an input unit having a surface on which a user's touch is sensed; a display controller that displays a plurality of individual icons and one or more category icons each of which represents a category of one or more individual icons; and a motion recognition unit that detects a pinching-out motion to widen a distance between two points of touch on the surface based on a motion sensed by the input unit, wherein the display controller changes a state of one or more individual icons associated with at least one category from an enfolded state in which the one or more individual icons are not displayed to an unfolded state in which the one or more individual icons are displayed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 11, 2012
    Publication date: February 27, 2014
    Applicant: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Naoki Hashida, Yuki Tsuge, Natsuko Kawano, Kousei Shimoo, Fukiko Takayama, Yuko Sasahara, Keiichi Murakami, Makoto Hamatsu
  • Publication number: 20130305186
    Abstract: A display device includes a display and a display controller that controls the display to display any of a plurality of screens and an input unit that receives a user's operation. The display controller displays one or more images corresponding to one or more software programs at positions, which correspond to the operation received by the input unit, in a customized area scrollable in the horizontal direction and adjacent to the left or right side of the initial screen, and displays a predetermined type of information at a predetermined position in a non-customized area scrollable in the vertical direction and adjacent to the initial screen at a position other than the customized area. The display controller scrolls the customized area using the size of the screen as the unit of scrolling.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 19, 2013
    Publication date: November 14, 2013
    Applicant: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Natsuko Kawano, Naoki Hashida, Yuki Tsuge, Kousei Shimoo, Fukiko Takayama, Yuko Sasahara, Keiichi Murakami, Makoto Hamatsu