Patents by Inventor Ikuko Tachikawa

Ikuko Tachikawa 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).

  • Scrapbooking image print apparatus, method, program, and computer readable media
    Patent number: 7839534
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is an image print apparatus configured to print an image for use in scrapbooking, including, an image data acquisition block configured to acquire image data of an image subject to processing, a template hold block configured to hold a plurality of templates each indicative of a clipping shape of the image for scrapbooking with a border line of the clipping shape, a template select block configured to select at least one of the plurality of templates held in the template hold block, an image display block configured to display the template selected by the select block by arranging the selected template on the image based on the image data acquired by the image data acquisition block, an operator block configured to enter a user-specified change in a relative position between the image and the template displayed on the image display block and in a size of at least one of the image and the template displayed on the image display block, and a print block configured to print the image displayed o
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 3, 2006
    Date of Patent: November 23, 2010
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Michitada Ueda, Yumi Yamane, Masato Nakamura, Ikuko Tachikawa, Yasushi Hirumi, Atsushi Nakayama
  • IMAGE PRINT APPARATUS, IMAGE PRINT METHOD, PROGRAM FOR IMAGE PRINT METHOD, AND RECORDING MEDIA RECORDING PROGRAM FOR IMAGE PRINT METHOD
    Publication number: 20070153331
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is an image print apparatus configured to print an image for use in scrapbooking, including, an image data acquisition block configured to acquire image data of an image subject to processing, a template hold block configured to hold a plurality of templates each indicative of a clipping shape of the image for scrapbooking with a border line of the clipping shape, a template select block configured to select at least one of the plurality of templates held in the template hold block, an image display block configured to display the template selected by the select block by arranging the selected template on the image based on the image data acquired by the image data acquisition block, an operator block configured to enter a user-specified change in a relative position between the image and the template displayed on the image display block and in a size of at least one of the image and the template displayed on the image display block, and a print block configured to print the image displayed o
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 3, 2006
    Publication date: July 5, 2007
    Inventors: Michitada Ueda, Yumi Yamane, Masato Nakamura, Ikuko Tachikawa, Yasushi Hirumi, Atsushi Nakayama