Patents by Inventor Akihiro Youda

Akihiro Youda 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).

  • Information search method and system for registering and searching for associated multimedia data using embedded information
    Patent number: 6611830
    Abstract: A mark management server embeds a mark ID and so on in a specified mark image in response to a mark request from a WWW server, registers information related to a Web page corresponding to this mark ID in a mark management DB, and sends the mark embedded with the information to the server. The server attaches this mark to a created Web page, and registers the Web page in a Web page DB. A client terminal acquires a Web page from the server, reads information embedded in a mark, and issues a request for a search according to the mark to the server. The server references the DB, and sends information associated with a Web page corresponding to a specified mark ID to the terminal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 1999
    Date of Patent: August 26, 2003
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Takashi Shinoda, Akihiro Youda, Tsutomo Kato, Atsushi Kikuta
  • INFORMATION SEARCH METHOD AND SYSTEM THEREFOR
    Publication number: 20020059162
    Abstract: A mark management server embeds a mark ID and so on in a specified mark image in response to a mark request from a WWW server, registers information related to a Web page corresponding to this mark ID in a mark management DB, and sends the mark embedded with the information to the server. The server attaches this mark to a created Web page, and registers the Web page in a Web page DB. A client terminal acquires a Web page from the server, reads information embedded in a mark, and issues a request for a search according to the mark to the server. The server references the DB, and sends information associated with a Web page corresponding to a specified mark ID to the terminal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 8, 1999
    Publication date: May 16, 2002
    Inventors: TAKASHI SHINODA, AKIHIRO YOUDA, TSUTOMO KATO, ATSUSHI KIKUTA