Patents by Inventor Kunio Yoshida
Kunio Yoshida 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).
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Patent number: 4942672Abstract: A simple method of measuring the height of burrs such as formed in the crimped clamping portion of a crimp-style terminal, without cutting the terminal off from a cable fastened thereto, and a simple, inexpensive burr height measuring head to be used in combination with a displacement measuring device available in the market. The burr height measuring head comprises a grip, a measuring bit having a knife-edged tip and formed integrally with the grip so as to project from one end of the grip, and holding means rotatably joined to the other end of the grip and fixedly joined to the movable measuring member of a displacement measuring device.Type: GrantFiled: August 1, 1989Date of Patent: July 24, 1990Assignee: Yazaki CorporationInventor: Kunio Yoshida
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Patent number: 4903014Abstract: A system for converting a character font dot pattern includes a peripheral dot detection circuit for detecting peripheral dots of a font pattern stored in a memory and subjects the detected peripheral dot pattern to a conversion operation for converting the dot pattern to a new orientation. The system further includes a paint over circuit which fills in the interior of the converted peripheral dot pattern to complete the conversion process.Type: GrantFiled: November 6, 1987Date of Patent: February 20, 1990Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Kunio Yoshida
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Patent number: 4733368Abstract: An electronic translator comprises an input device for entering a first word or words, a first memory circuit for storing the first words, a second memory circuit for storing second words equivalent to the first words, an access circuit for addressing the memory circuits to cause retrieval of the first word or words, or alternately the second word or words, and a control circuit for controlling activation of the access circuit. There may be additionally provided a holding circuit for holding one or more of the first words without translation thereof.Type: GrantFiled: July 15, 1986Date of Patent: March 22, 1988Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Masafumi Morimoto, Kunio Yoshida, Tosaku Nakanishi
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Patent number: 4670117Abstract: A solution of material for the desired crystal is filled in a growth tank having two ion-exchange membranes which define a crystal growth vessel between them and two side vessels on opposite sides of the crystal growth vessel, and the growth tank is placed in an outer tank while filling a fluid therebetween. During electrodialysis in the growth tank, the crystal growth vessel solution temperature T.sub.c, the side vessel solution temperature T.sub.o, and the fluid temperature T.sub.w between the tanks are controlled so as to keep the conditions of T.sub.o >T.sub.c >T.sub.w.Type: GrantFiled: February 11, 1986Date of Patent: June 2, 1987Assignee: Osaka UniversityInventors: Kunio Yoshida, Chiyoe Yamanaka, Takatomo Sasaki, Osamu Shimomura
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Patent number: 4630947Abstract: An enlarged pattern generator generates an enlarged dot matrix pattern from an original dot matrix pattern by providing up to four mutually adjacent dots. Presence and absence of neighboring dots are examined regarding each dot in the original dot matrix pattern in order to determine whether less than four dots should be provided in the enlarged pattern corresponding thereto.Type: GrantFiled: January 22, 1985Date of Patent: December 23, 1986Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Kunio Yoshida, Fusao Makino
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Patent number: 4623985Abstract: An electronic translator comprises an input device for entering a first word or words, a first memory circuit for storing the first words, a second memory circuit for storing second words equivalent to the first words, an access circuit for addressing the memory circuits to cause retrieval of the first word or words, or alternately the second word or words, and a control circuit for controlling activation of the access circuit. There may be additionally provided a holding circuit for holding one or more of the first words without translation thereof.Type: GrantFiled: April 13, 1981Date of Patent: November 18, 1986Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Masafumi Morimoto, Kunio Yoshida, Tosaku Nakanishi
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Patent number: 4608665Abstract: A portable electronic dictionary and language interpreter comprises a sentence memory, a word memory, and a control circuit. The sentence memory stores a plurality of incomplete sentences. The word memory contains plenty of words added to the incomplete sentences so that complete sentences are formed. The control circuit is provided for controlling the manner by which each of the words generated from the word memory is added to each of the incomplete sentences developed from the sentence memory. Each of the words to be added is directed by an input device. The input device may comprises alphabetical key switches or a search key switch actuated for addressing the word memory. A display is provided for indicating the complete sentences.Type: GrantFiled: January 15, 1982Date of Patent: August 26, 1986Inventor: Kunio Yoshida
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Patent number: 4597055Abstract: An electronic translator is characterized in that a new translated sentence is prepared by using at least one word contained in a sentence key inputted those cases where no word corresponding to the word is stored in a memory for storing a plurality of translated words. The translator comprises an input circuit for inputting the sentence, an access circuit for accessing a most equivalent translated sentence, and a detection circuit for detecting whether all of the words contained in the sentence are stored in memory and for inserting such unstored words directly into the translated sentence.Type: GrantFiled: July 24, 1981Date of Patent: June 24, 1986Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Shintaro Hashimoto, Masafumi Morimoto, Kunio Yoshida, Hisao Morinaga, Tosaku Nakanishi, Shigenobu Yanagiuchi
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Patent number: 4595998Abstract: An electronic translator has the capability of controlling an access circuit so as to retrieve words or sentences stored in a memory in a forward direction or a backward direction, in order that an access time to the words or sentences is reduced.Type: GrantFiled: November 16, 1984Date of Patent: June 17, 1986Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Shintaro Hashimoto, Masafumi Morimoto, Kunio Yoshida, Hisao Morinaga, Tosaku Nakanishi, Shigenobu Yanagiuchi
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Patent number: 4594686Abstract: An electronic language interpreter is operated such that an uninflected word is entered to obtain at least one inflected form of that word. The interpreter comprises three types of memories. The first contains a plurality of words of the uninflected form inclusive in their uninflected word. The second contains a plurality of words in a second language each of which is equivalent to one of the words within the first memory. The third memory contains digital data reflecting a certain number of inflection principles used to inflect the inflected words stored in the first memory. An alphabetical keyboard is provided for entering the uninflected form of the word. An inflection selection keyboard is provided for entering desired inflection information that is used to select data reflecting the appropriate inflection principles stored digitally in the third memory.Type: GrantFiled: October 25, 1983Date of Patent: June 10, 1986Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Kunio Yoshida
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Patent number: 4593356Abstract: An electronic translator is featured where a particular sentence is accessed from a memory depending on at least one key word entered. The key word is contained in the particular sentence. A subject category may be selected from a plurality of subject categories and only sentences within the selected category may be searched. The translator comprises an input circuit for entering the key word, and subject category an access means for accessing the key word from the subject category within memory so as to specify and access the sentence, and a detection circuit for detecting whether the key word is accessed from the subject category within memory.Type: GrantFiled: July 16, 1981Date of Patent: June 3, 1986Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Shintaro Hashimoto, Masafumi Morimoto, Kunio Yoshida, Hisao Morinaga, Tosaku Nakanishi, Shigenobu Yanagiuchi
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Patent number: 4584667Abstract: An electronic translator is provided wherein a first word or words represented in a first language are entered to obtain a second word or words represented in a second language equivalent to the first word or words. The translator comprises a memory for storing a plurality of words grouped by category, a selection key switch for selecting the category, and an access circuit responsive to the selection key switch for addressing the memory to retrieve and output the plurality of words in the category, each of the plurality of words being outputted by a single operation of the key switch.Type: GrantFiled: March 11, 1982Date of Patent: April 22, 1986Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Shintaro Hashimoto, Kunio Yoshida, Masafumi Morimoto, Hisao Morinaga, Shigenobu Yanagiuchi
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Patent number: 4509137Abstract: An electronic language interpreter, for enabling that a specific word in a first language be entered to obtain an equivalent translated word in a second language includes a memory specifying circuit for specifying each memory of a plurality of first memories for storing words written in the first language and second memories for storing translated words written in the second language. One of the first memories and one of the second memories both specified by the memory specifying circuit generate pairs of words including one of the words and its corresponding one of the translated word, respectively. A mode selector may be provided for selectively placing the language interpreter in an interpreter mode or in a mode wherein it functions as an electronic language learning aid for enabling that the plurality of translated words be sequentially retrieved from one of the second memories selected by the memory specifying circuit.Type: GrantFiled: August 8, 1980Date of Patent: April 2, 1985Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Kunio Yoshida
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Patent number: 4498149Abstract: An input circuit adapted to be connected to an electronic translator is disclosed. The input circuit comprises an alphabetical keyboard for inputting key code information representative of letters in an input word and a single symbol additive key switch for adding any one of several specific symbols to at least one of the letters. The specific symbol represents, for example, an inflection and is needed to completely represent the input word. A circuit for changing the coded input representing the at least one letter by adding thereto coded input representing the specific symbol is provided.Type: GrantFiled: August 8, 1983Date of Patent: February 5, 1985Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Kunio Yoshida
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Patent number: 4470072Abstract: In a band compression method using an adaptive prediction system preferably applicable to facsimile transmission, a method of selecting picture elements to be referred (hereinafter defined as reference picture elements) for predicting an information value of a picture element wherein the reference picture elements are not selected uniformly and continuously from the neighborhood of the predicted picture element, but a group of picture elements (the first order picture elements) adjacent to the predicted picture element and further a group of picture elements of equal or higher order than the third order are selected as reference picture elements by excluding those shaded picture elements which lie on lines connecting the predicted picture element and the first order picture elements.Type: GrantFiled: September 9, 1982Date of Patent: September 4, 1984Assignees: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Matsushita Graphic Communications Systems, Inc.Inventors: Akiyoshi Tanaka, Kunio Sannomiya, Hiroaki Kotera, Kunio Yoshida, Yoshihiro Uno, Hiroaki Miwa
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Patent number: 4464059Abstract: In a preferred aspect of the present invention, there is provided a speech synthesizer timepiece with an alarm function or a remaining interval counting function. The timepiece is adapted to set advance announcements at different intervals depending upon the length of a remaining time with respect to an intended time, the intervals being increasingly shorter as the intended time is approached. The remaining time is audibly announced each time the advance announcements are to be delivered.Type: GrantFiled: October 29, 1981Date of Patent: August 7, 1984Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Kunio Yoshida, Yutaka Ikemoto
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Patent number: 4458265Abstract: A color image duplicating device comprises a function generator (60) for generating a plurality of functions of n degree wherein elements of color separated data (201, 202, 203) from a color original (1) are variable, a storing device (66) for storing predetermined coefficients, and an arithmetic unit (61, 62, 63) for performing the calculation to find the product and sum of outputs from the function generator (60) and that of the storing device (66). An output from the arithmetic unit (61, 62, 63) is applied to a color recorder (3) to form a color duplicated image.Type: GrantFiled: December 17, 1981Date of Patent: July 3, 1984Assignee: Matsushita Research Institute Tokyo, Inc.Inventors: Kunio Yoshida, Hiroaki Kotera, Yukifumi Tsuda, Yoshimitsu Kanno, Motohiko Naka
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Patent number: 4439836Abstract: An electronic translator comprises a first memory for memorizing a plurality of words represented in a first language, such words comprising one or more first letters which remain unchanged regardless of inflection, and one or more second letters which may change. An input device is provided for entering a first word. A comparison circuit is provided for comparing parts of the first word and the one or more first letters. Upon the occurrence of the equivalency detected by the comparison circuit, it is detected that the first word is identical to one of the words developed by the first memory. A second memory is provided for memorizing a plurality of translated words, represented in a second language, each corresponding to words stored in the first memory. In another form of the present invention, the first memory is provided for memorizing a plurality of words associated with the first word regardless of whether it is a noninflected word or an inflected word.Type: GrantFiled: October 22, 1980Date of Patent: March 27, 1984Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Kunio Yoshida
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Patent number: 4420817Abstract: A control circuit of the present invention comprises a first memory for storing entry words, a second memory for storing a certain number of rule patterns according to which the endings of the entry words may be inflected, and an inflection control device responsive to the first memory and the second memory for inflecting the endings of the words by a particular rule pattern developed from the second memory. In another form of the present invention, an encoder is provided for encoding a word entered into first parts of coded information common to words identified as the same and into second parts of coded information having a difference dependent on the kind of the words. The equivalency between the word entered and one of entry words stored in a memory is determined using only the first parts of coded information.Type: GrantFiled: May 23, 1980Date of Patent: December 13, 1983Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Kunio Yoshida
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Patent number: 4420816Abstract: A word information storage and retrieval apparatus comprises a plurality of character keys for entering first word information where a specific word is represented in a first form, a search circuit for searching second word information, and a display for indicating the first form and one or more modified forms of the word entered, and the second word information representing the same meaning and the same language as a first word with the modified forms. The second word information defines the modified forms of the specific word as well as in the first form. A combination of the first form and the modified forms is selected by sequential selection from the following categories: (noun) singular and plural; (pronoun) subjective, genitive, and objective (verb) present, past, and past particle; (adjective) positive degree, comparative degree, and superlative degree; and adjective and adverb.Type: GrantFiled: October 29, 1979Date of Patent: December 13, 1983Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Kunio Yoshida