Itsuro Yoshimoto New Business Strategist Aug 14 2014 FIO Technology Inc. Founder, Itsuro Yoshimoto [email protected]Phone: 1(408)315-4187 HMI Solution : FIO-PAD in IoT era FIO offers F lexible I ndoor and O utdoor New UI/UX experience for small IoT devices
New HMI (Human Machine Interface) FIO-PAD for mobile devices such as IoT, accessory for tablet/smart phone, IPTV / STB remote controllers, new Car Key command controller, etc. FIO-PAD requires ONLY 35x35mm footprint to achieve full QWERTY keyboard by a single Thumb control.
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FIO-KeyBO patent has been filed to US, JP, KR, CN, IN & EU
The invention of this application is concerned with how one can emulate thelayout of a QWERTY keyboard, i.e. one with a conventional keyboard layoutdesigned for use with ten fingers, using a telephone keypad or remotecontroller having three columns and four rows. It has previously beenproposed to use one key to select more than one character but even if eachkey can select three alphanumeric characters, that still only allows for ninecharacters per row, whereas a QWERTY keyboard requires eleven.
The solution offered by the invention is to place characters between keys and torequire two adjacent keys to be depressed simultaneously in order to recorda keystroke. Nowhere in the prior art has it been suggested to use the tip ofone finger to press two keys simultaneously. Shift, Alt and Ctrl keys on akeyboard are actuated at the same time as other keys but not using the tipof the same finger, indeed not even using two fingers of the same hand.
The invention offers for the first time, the possibility of one finger text entryusing a keypad having the layout of a conventional telephone while allowingthe operator to find all the characters intuitively in the same relativepositions as they would occupy on a conventional ten-finger keyboard.Neither this objective, nor the method by which it has been achieved, issuggested by the prior art. .
Patent Application
Comments from European Patent Attorney, Alec Messulam:
Other Potential Market
New Remote for (IPTV + STB)… 360 million units / 2013
The global IPTV subscriber base totaled around 92.7 million in the end of 2013, up 23.7% year-on-year. Asia Pacific has become the largest IPTV subscriber market in the world, boasting 45.6 million subscribers, which translates into 49.2% of the global market.(Researchmoz.US)
266M digital set-top boxes will be shipped in 2013, up 5.8 per cent on the 252M STBs shipped in 2012(IHS Technology)
1. BT external keyboard for touch-panel devices such as ipad or tabletPC
2. BT PC mouse controll
3. BT Presentation controller with LED pointer and unique realtime text adding feature
Hardware development & IP licensing, and aim exit through M&A
Goal…Make FIO-PAD as a de-facto HMI solution for small IoT devices
Initially create BT accessory HMI device
Business Model
Licensing to ;
a). Car manufacturers & Tier-1 players
b). Tier-1 remote controller supplier
for IPTV ($0.05~$0.10)/device
Initially, develop 10K units
Revenue... ($79~$99)/device
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Initially, develop 10K units
Revenue... ($79~$99)/device
$200mil+
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Itsuro Yoshimoto founded FIO Technology Inc in 2006, formerly Yoshimoto Inc. He filed FIO-
KeyBO related patents to PCT and 6 regions (US, JP, KR, CN, IN, EU). Prior to Yoshimoto
Inc, he led a web and mobile content division in US operations at Namco. He established a
profitable wireless game business foundation in North America for Namco by managing five
Independent Software Vendors. Most recently, He worked at the Pioneer Advanced Solution
Inc. as a consultant & VP, Product and Business Planning .
Yoshimoto started his career at CASIO. He designed software for the Digital Audio Tape recorder
(DAT). He mainly worked as an embedded software engineer for 11 years and developed
many new products. He also worked as a product planner for an additional 2 years. Then,
he moved to CASIO US R&D center in San Jose for an additional 5 years to develop multi-
application CD-ROMs for Windows CE based handheld PC and Pocket PC, and researched
new technology trends. He invented many patents. .
Yoshimoto majored in acoustic design at Kyusyu Institute of Design, Japan.
MBA from Kenichi Ohmae graduate school of business.
FounderAbout Me
Tsuyoshi Taira is the CEO of Tazan International Inc, a Venture Capital and ManagementConsultancy Firm. Mr. Taira has been involved with a number of Silicon Valley startup companiesas founding investor/director including Atmel Semiconductor (NASDAQ: ATML), Pico PowerTechnology Inc (acquired by Cirrus Logic), Junglee Corporation (acquired by Amazon.com,NASDAQ: AMZN), Armedia (acquired by Broadcom, NASDAQ: BRCM), Apptivity (acquired byProgress Software, NASDAQ: PRGS) and many others. He has been instrumental in providingseed stage financing, management and marketing advice, especially f or the Far Eastern marketto the startup companies. Currently he serves on the boards of Silicon Storage Technology Inc.(flash memory company), Nayna Networks, Inc. (networking products and services),Ureach.Com (unified e-mail and voice mail messaging company), Asia-Links Media(Semiconductor components e-commerce) and Teleweb (Call Center in China). In addition, he ison the advisory board of Silicon Motion (Graphic Controller IC), CLCEO (Polarizer), Reveo(Revolutionary Electro Optics Technology Company) and several other companies.
Previously, Mr. Taira was Chairman of Sanyo Semiconductor directingSanyo’s US marketing strategy. Most of his career was spent at SanyoCorporation except for five years when he worked at FairchildSemiconductor. Mr. Taira graduated from Tokyo Metropolitan Universitywith a BSEE. He also received an Honorary Doctor of Humanities fromNewport Asia Pacific University in March 2000. He has published anumber of books including “Audio Amplifier”, “Transistor physics Andapplication” as a Co-author and most recently a book on entrepreneurship,“My fellow engineer, let’s challenge” from Nikkei BP .