Patents by Inventor Masami Oshiro

Masami Oshiro 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).

  • Page turning apparatus for use with computer system
    Patent number: 5937419
    Abstract: Symbols of a plurality of page turning buttons and one guide display button are displayed on a screen of a computer system. A page turning apparatus for use with a computer system has a screen data table that stores information of page turning buttons for individual pages to be turned and information of pages displayed by the page turning buttons. When one of the page turning buttons is selected by an input unit such as a mouse, the page turning apparatus obtains page information corresponding to the selected page turning button from the screen data table and replaces the current screen page of the computer system with a page corresponding to the obtained page information. In addition, the page turning apparatus has a screen page hierarchical data table corresponding to functions of pages that can be displayed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 1996
    Date of Patent: August 10, 1999
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Masami Oshiro, Shinichi Teramura, Jiro Tabata