Patents by Inventor Shoichi Osawa

Shoichi Osawa 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: 6622174
    Abstract: An information communication system includes a server device and information communication terminals connected by a network, in which the server device provides data communication services according to requests from the information communication terminals. The server device stores information relating to users of the information communication terminals including the identification information thereof, and provides advertisement information to the information communication terminals via the network, this advertisement information corresponds with the information relating to the user of the requesting party stored in server, according to requests from the information communication terminal including the identification information of the user. The information communication terminal generates and sends requests to be sent to the server device, including user identification information, and obtains the advertisement information from the server device and outputs this obtained advertisement information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 6, 1998
    Date of Patent: September 16, 2003
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Yoshitaka Ukita, Shoichi Osawa, Koichi Hayasaka
  • Patent number: 5307326
    Abstract: A cassette adapter has a cassette which is inserted into a cassette insertion portion of a signal playback device. The cassette is provided with an operation state detection means and a control signal output means. An acoustic device is controlled corresponding to an operation state on the basis of the signal detected with the control signal output means, thereby controlling the operation of the acoustic device in synchronization with the playback device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 21, 1992
    Date of Patent: April 26, 1994
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventor: Shoichi Osawa