Patents by Inventor Hanae Takahashi

Hanae Takahashi 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: 20060047425
    Abstract: An item search device of the present invention includes, for an improvement of the usability of the item search device by facilitating an item search for a user, an electronic map data storage function for storing map data including a facility name and an area name as an object of an item search, a search function for searching a search item, a start point setting function for setting a start point in the map data, a distance calculation function for calculating a distance from the start point to a location of the search item, a rank function for ranking the search item based on the distance from the start point, a representation function for determining a representation of the search item according to a rank of the search item and a display function for displaying the representation of the search item.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 9, 2005
    Publication date: March 2, 2006
    Inventors: Makoto Fukumi, Masatoshi Abo, Hanae Takahashi