Patents by Inventor Futoshi Tachibana

Futoshi Tachibana 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).

  • Image information reproducing apparatus
    Patent number: 6381399
    Abstract: An image information reproducing apparatus generates a video signal carrying an original image from a read signal acquired from an image information recording medium, prepares a manually-input image to be superimposed on the original image in accordance with an operational input, thereby generating a manually-input image signal, generates a mixed image signal carrying a mixed image having the manually-input image superimposed on the original image, based on the video signal and the manually-input image signal, and stores the manually-input image signal in association with address information in the recording medium of a video signal corresponding to the original image on which the manually-input image is superimposed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 6, 1999
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2002
    Assignee: Pioneer Electronic Corporation
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Motohashi, Nobuo Matsue, Shoichi Katagiri, Shigeru Watanabe, Hirohide Kobori, Naoto Arifuku, Futoshi Tachibana, Masakazu Furukawa, Kazuhiko Umehara, Ryo Takeuchi, Kazuhiko Moriya, Satoru Joraku