Patents by Inventor Junko Kuroiwa

Junko Kuroiwa 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 forming apparatus and method
    Patent number: 4881067
    Abstract: In changing or otherwise handling sequential videotex codes composed of geometric codes representing individual image areas as respective geometric drawings and also characteristic codes representing attributes of the geometric drawings, the order of transmission of the geometric codes and characteristic codes is supervised on an order table and a characteristic code table is provided for supervising the characteristic codes, with correction or rearranging of the videotex code data being effected on these tables.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 26, 1985
    Date of Patent: November 14, 1989
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Osamu Watanabe, Kosuke Komatsu, Masaichi Ishibashi, Mutsumi Kimura, Shinsuke Koyama, Takahiro Fujimori, Tadashi Fujiwara, Junko Kuroiwa
  • Apparatus for encoding image signal
    Patent number: 4646134
    Abstract: An image signal encoding system wherein image signal is directly taken in through video camera, changed to digital data, broken down into PDI basic patterns, and then converted into NAPLPS code automatically. The taken-in image signal is divided into a plurality of areas and the information amount of the image signal is reduced for adequate encoding after taking in the image signal. Usually "POLYGON" command is used as the NAPLPS code.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 1985
    Date of Patent: February 24, 1987
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Kousuke Komatsu, Tsutomu Miyauchi, Ikuo Misao, Mutsumi Kimura, Tadashi Fujiwara, Yoshio Tsuchida, Junko Kuroiwa