Patents by Inventor Kazunari Fukaya

Kazunari Fukaya 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).

  • Portable telephone and music reproducing method
    Patent number: 6999752
    Abstract: A portable telephone having music playback functions has a first storage for storing music data of plural musical tunes and a second storage (namely, a cache memory) for storing at least one musical tune to be reproduced. A musical tune that may be likely to be reproduced is selected from among plural musical tunes in accordance with prescribed rules, so that the music data of the selected musical tune are precedently transferred from the first storage to the second storage to enable smooth reproduction in response to an incoming call whose telephone number specifies the selected musical tune.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 9, 2001
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2006
    Assignee: Yamaha Corporation
    Inventor: Kazunari Fukaya
  • Portable telephone and music reproducing method
    Publication number: 20030013432
    Abstract: A portable telephone having music playback functions has a first storage for storing music data of plural musical tunes and a second storage (namely, a cache memory) for storing at least one musical tune to be reproduced. A musical tune that may be likely to be reproduced is selected from among plural musical tunes in accordance with prescribed rules, so that the music data of the selected musical tune are precedently transferred from the first storage to the second storage to enable smooth reproduction in response to an incoming call whose telephone number specifies the selected musical tune.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 7, 2002
    Publication date: January 16, 2003
    Inventor: Kazunari Fukaya