Patents by Inventor Ichiro Sado

Ichiro Sado 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: 5713033
    Abstract: Electronic equipment includes a memory containing first information such as KANA characters and second information such as KANJI characters corresponding to the first information, a key input device for inputting the first information, a display for displaying the second information corresponding to the input first information, and a control for reading out all of the second information corresponding to the input first information, from the memory, displaying it on the display and sequentially erasing the displayed second information which no longer correspond to the input first information subsequently inputted by the input device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 3, 1994
    Date of Patent: January 27, 1998
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Ichiro Sado
  • Patent number: 5249256
    Abstract: An electronic device comprises a first memory for storing a plurality of words which are to be displayed on a display coupled to the first memory and a second memory for storing a plurality of voice information codes each corresponding to a portion of a different one of the plurality of words stored in the first memory. The second memory also stores a specific code for distinguishing each of the plurality of voice information codes and stores each of the plurality of voice information codes and the specific code so that the voice information codes and the specific code are alternatively read out.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 1992
    Date of Patent: September 28, 1993
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Ichiro Sado, Juji Kishimoto, Masayuki Sasaki, Mitsuo Cho
  • Patent number: 4803463
    Abstract: An input device comprises key input means having a plurality of keys, specifying means for specifying functions of the plurality of keys of the key input means and display means for displaying key denominations representing the key functions specified by the specifying means. The key input means includes a transparent keyboard arranged on the display means.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 1986
    Date of Patent: February 7, 1989
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Ichiro Sado
  • Patent number: 4696048
    Abstract: An input device has a matrix input unit having a plurality of switches for inputting a pattern, a signal generator for generating signals identifying the actuation of the switches, and a discriminator responsive to the signals from the signal generator to discriminate the actuated one of the switches. The discriminator discriminates the actuated switch by checking an interval of the signals from the sequentially actuated switches.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 1986
    Date of Patent: September 22, 1987
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Ichiro Sado
  • Patent number: 4611995
    Abstract: An electronic language learning machine is disclosed which comprises a memory having words stored therein, a sub-memory having sub-data relating to the words stored therein, a control circuit connected to the memory and sub-memory to derive the stored words and the related sub-data and a display connected to the deriving control circuit to visualize the words and sub-data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 23, 1985
    Date of Patent: September 16, 1986
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Ichiro Sado
  • Patent number: 4590560
    Abstract: Electronic apparatus with dictionary function which includes information input ports, memory facility for storing words, retrieval facility for retrieving a word related to the information in response to information entered as well as indication of the presence of subsidiary information where such subsidiary information is stored.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 1984
    Date of Patent: May 20, 1986
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Ichiro Sado
  • Patent number: 4551818
    Abstract: An electronic apparatus has a first memory storing therein a plurality of data comprising a first lingual words and a second lingual words corresponding respectively thereto, and a second memory for storing information to freely read out at least one of said plurality of data stored in the first memory. The apparatus further has means for reading out the information stored in the second memory and reading out, on the basis of the information read out, the second lingual word relating thereto from the first memory.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 1, 1984
    Date of Patent: November 5, 1985
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Ichiro Sado, Juji Kishimoto, Masayuki Sasaki, Mitsuo Cho
  • Patent number: 4475164
    Abstract: This electronic apparatus has combined functions of an electronic calculator or the like and a television receiver, and is automatically shifted, at the start of the calculator function, to a vacant television channel for the display of calculator functions on the television screen and returned to the television receiving function at the end of the calculator function.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 18, 1983
    Date of Patent: October 2, 1984
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Ichiro Sado
  • Patent number: 4459036
    Abstract: The electronic instrument includes a memory for storing scheduled time and schedule details, a clock circuit producing time signals, a comparator producing a comparison signal in response to comparison and coincidence of the time signals from the clock circuit with the scheduled time, a discriminating memory with a storage of a signal for decision for and against clear of the scheduled time and details in the memory, and a control unit for discriminating, in response to the comparator producing the comparison signal, the storage of signal in the discriminating memory to control over clear and non-clear of the scheduled time and schedule details in the memory.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 1981
    Date of Patent: July 10, 1984
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Ichiro Sado, Juji Kishimoto, Masayuki Sasaki, Mitsuo Cho
  • Patent number: 4458243
    Abstract: An electronic device for displaying accent is disclosed which is useful for displaying words and sentences by use of a multiple-digit display device. In the respective word display parts of the multiple-digit display device, additional symbols for an accent display are provided. Alphabet characters can be expressed as five-bit codes. In one disclosed embodiment, an additional sixth bit is used to indicate the presence or absence of an accent associated with the character represented by the remaining five bits. In another disclosed embodiment, accented vowels are each represented by five-bit codes that are different from the five-bit codes representing the same vowels without accents, so that no sixth bit is necessary. Words are displayed while discriminating a word with accent from a word with no accent.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 8, 1982
    Date of Patent: July 3, 1984
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Ichiro Sado, Juji Kishimoto
  • Patent number: 4445027
    Abstract: An electronic apparatus is disclosed which comprises numeral input keys, plural unit input keys, a device for judging whether a combination of actuations of the numeral input keys and the unit input keys has a meaning as a figure, a device of forbidding the entry of the key signals of said combination in case said combination does not represent a meaning as a figure, and a device for generating an alarm signal simultaneously with the forbidding of said key signal entry.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 11, 1983
    Date of Patent: April 24, 1984
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Ichiro Sado
  • Patent number: 4402056
    Abstract: A memorandum calculator is disclosed for performing arithmetic calculations on entered numeral information and generating information relating to the calculation, for storing data items consisting of address information entered as memory addresses and numerical information associated with the address information, and means for effecting performance of the arithmetic operation with respect to the numerical stored information according to input instructions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 8, 1981
    Date of Patent: August 30, 1983
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Ichiro Sado, Juji Kishimoto, Hiroshi Murata
  • Patent number: 4395704
    Abstract: An input device for electronic apparatus includes key signal output lines each having plural key switches connected thereto and circuitry for separating the key signals into specific key signals thereby identifying the plural key switches.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 1981
    Date of Patent: July 26, 1983
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Juji Kishimoto, Ichiro Sado, Mitsuo Cho
  • Patent number: 4380726
    Abstract: The electronic apparatus is provided with a device for informing the operator of information on the service life of the battery employed for driving the electronic apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 18, 1978
    Date of Patent: April 19, 1983
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Ichiro Sado, Toshiaki Ozawa
  • Patent number: 4344147
    Abstract: An electronic calculator having a printer detects the key entry by one of arithmetic keys following the numerical key entry and prints one of arithmetic symbols and entered number respectively at the left-hand side and right-hand side of the print sheet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 24, 1979
    Date of Patent: August 10, 1982
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Ichiro Sado, Mitsuo Cho, Juji Kishimoto, Masayuki Sasaki
  • Patent number: 4321688
    Abstract: In an electronic equipment capable of statistic processing of the type wherein numeric data of a plurality of variables are entered in a predetermined sequence and then statistically processed (for instance, a numeric data X.sub.1 is entered first and then a numeric data Y.sub.1 is entered and thereafter the data X.sub.1 and Y.sub.1 are statistically processed. Thereafter, in like manner a numeric data X.sub.2 is entered and then Y.sub.2 is entered, and so on.), an arrangement whereby one may easily check a numeric data to be entered next; that is, whether a numeric data to be entered next is a data X.sub.n or Y.sub.n.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 1979
    Date of Patent: March 23, 1982
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Ichiro Sado, Shigeru Matsuyama
  • Patent number: 4320396
    Abstract: In a numerical value input display, by an operating unit input device for entering the unit of a first entered numerical value, the numerical value being displayed on a display unit is taken up in a column corresponding to the unit and, at the same time, the columns less significant than that unit are rendered into a particular condition so that a second numerical value can be displayed at the position of that particular condition. The portion of the display unit rendered into the particular condition produces a display different from the display of the first numerical value or is made blank. The display is provided with a memory for storing the first entered numerical value and the unit of the first numerical value correspondingly to the columns or place in the display unit where it is to be displayed, and a particular code is displayed in the portion representing the unit stored in the memory so that a newly entered numerical value can be stored at the places of the particular code.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 15, 1980
    Date of Patent: March 16, 1982
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Ichiro Sado
  • Patent number: 4288792
    Abstract: An electronic apparatus comprises a phase signal generator for generating mutually different phase signals, one of which is selectively supplied to plurality means driven by a time-division drive.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 1978
    Date of Patent: September 8, 1981
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Ichiro Sado, Juji Kishimoto, Hiroshi Murata
  • Patent number: 4253088
    Abstract: An electronic scheduler includes a comparator for comparing schedule information to be newly stored with schedule information already stored in the memory. Circuitry is provided for determining whether the output of comparison from the comparator falls within a predetermined range, and an alarming circuit for giving an alarm in response to the output present within said range.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 1979
    Date of Patent: February 24, 1981
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Ichiro Sado, Juji Kishimoto, Mitsuo Cho
  • Patent number: 4247902
    Abstract: A display device for use in electronic calculators capable of displaying determinants. The display device is able to display data of positions in row and in column of elements in a determinant together with numbers associated with the elements. The data of positions in row and column is displayed as selective segments of a figure "8" pattern.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 1979
    Date of Patent: January 27, 1981
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Ichiro Sado