Patents by Inventor Akiko Sugihara

Akiko Sugihara 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).

  • Method of presenting multimedia data in a desired form by comparing and replacing a user template model with analogous portions of a system
    Patent number: 5278946
    Abstract: Multimedia data in an object structure include entity objects and relation objects, wherein each entity object has data representing a media element as internal data, and each relation object represents a relation between the entity objects. A relation object is searched according to information specified by a search command, and a searched relation object and internal data of an entity object related thereto are displayed on the screen of a display unit as a set of display elements. To generate a digest of the multimedia data, a matching between a structure portion of a user model and a structure portion of a system model is examined. The user model is generated according to a request of the user and arranged in layers, while the system model has been previously generated. The multimedia data are arranged in layers according to the importance of respective data elements constituting the multimedia data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 1990
    Date of Patent: January 11, 1994
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Shigeru Shimada, Hitoshi Matsushima, Seiji Kashioka, Akiko Sugihara