Patents by Inventor Yoshito Katagiri

Yoshito Katagiri 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: 20030095194
    Abstract: There is described an electronic apparatus, such as a digital camera, which accommodates two kinds of accessory devices, for instance, a first memory device and a second memory device, standards of which are different relative to each other. The electronic apparatus has a function of electronically performing a data transaction with the first memory device and the second memory device and is provided with an accommodating section for accommodating either the first memory device or the second memory device, shapes of which are different each other. The electronic apparatus includes a first accommodating region to detachably accommodate the first memory device and a second accommodating region to detachably accommodate the second memory device. The accommodating section includes both the first accommodating region and the second accommodating region, and a part of the first accommodating region overlaps with a part of the second accommodating region.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 15, 2002
    Publication date: May 22, 2003
    Applicant: Konica Corporation
    Inventors: Akihiro Suzuki, Yoshito Katagiri
  • Publication number: 20030071901
    Abstract: A communication apparatus has: a communication unit for performing a wireless communication with an external device; a device for performing a predetermined operation; a drive unit for driving the device; and a control unit for putting restrictions on one of the wireless communication with the external device by the communication unit and the predetermined operation of the device driven by the drive unit, while the other is being performed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 26, 2002
    Publication date: April 17, 2003
    Applicant: KONICA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yoshito Katagiri, Koichiro Murakami
  • Publication number: 20030002874
    Abstract: A photographing device having an operation member to be operated by an external operation, a memory device for memorizing a plurality of control sequences to be conducted according to an operation of the operation member, a setting device for setting a requested control sequence among the plurality of control sequences by correlating the requested control sequence with the control sequence to be controlled by the operation of the operation member, and a control sequence execution device for executing the requested control sequence set by the setting means, according to the operation of the operation member.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 10, 2002
    Publication date: January 2, 2003
    Inventors: Takeshi Uesaka, Yoshito Katagiri, Nobuhiro Yamauchi, Hiroyuki Horiuchi
  • Publication number: 20020103659
    Abstract: An electronic appliance, comprises an input section to input information regarding at least one of a right and a certification given from a predetermined public organization; a memory section to memorize the information inputted by the inputted section; an output section to output the information memorized in the memory section as information concerning the electronic appliance; and a control section to control the input section, the memory section and the output section.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 29, 2001
    Publication date: August 1, 2002
    Applicant: KONICA CORPORATION
    Inventor: Yoshito Katagiri
  • Patent number: 5970260
    Abstract: In a camera equipped with a zoom lens for forming an image of an object onto a film surface, the camera is equipped with a front lens group composed of a first lens group, adjustable aperture blades, a second lens group, and a second lens group-holding member; a back lens group provided; and an actuator to drive the adjustable aperture blade. The actuator is provided on the object-side from a space between the second lens group and the back lens group.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 1, 1998
    Date of Patent: October 19, 1999
    Assignee: Konica Corporation
    Inventors: Haruki Nakayama, Taku Wagatsuma, Tohru Tominami, Yoshito Katagiri, Yuichi Atarashi