Patents by Inventor Mitsuo Hatanaka

Mitsuo Hatanaka 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).

  • Color-designating server, color-designating receiving/ordering system, color-designating method, color-designating receiving/ordering method, and recording medium
    Patent number: 7509271
    Abstract: Disclosed are a color-designating server which can display a screen for designating color at a user terminal, which can be connected to a network, a color-designating method, and a recording medium. A matchable color database stores data required for determining matchable colors in a color-designating server which displays a screen for designating color at a user terminal. A conditions-designating processor transmits a conditions-designating screen for designating conditions data, required for determining the matchable colors, to the user terminal. A color data transmission processor determines colors which can be matched under the conditions specified by the conditions data, designated in the conditions-designating screen, by consulting the matchable color database, and transmits the result to the user terminal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2001
    Date of Patent: March 24, 2009
    Assignee: Dainippon Ink and Chemicals, Inc.
    Inventors: Hideki Uchimi, Yoshiro Tomita, Hiroki Goto, Mitsuo Hatanaka, Masaki Okauchi, Masaaki Nakagawa, Masami Shishikura
  • Color designating server, color ordering system, color designating method, color ordering method and its program
    Publication number: 20030216972
    Abstract: This color designating server 11 displays a screen for designating color on a user terminal capable of connecting to a network. This server 11 includes a database 102 that contains information on dyes and pigments required for determining matchable colors, a conditions specification processing section 104 that transmits a conditions specification screen to the user terminal which prompts specification of condition information required for determining the matchable colors, a color information extraction section 115 that extracts matchable color data within the range of the conditions specified with the condition information from database 102 based on the condition information specified with the conditions specification screen, and a color information transmission section 105 that transmits a color plate that indicates the extracted color data to the user terminal in the form of image data superposed on a prescribed background color.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 16, 2003
    Publication date: November 20, 2003
    Applicant: DAINIPPON INK AND CHEMICALS, INC.
    Inventors: Hiroki Gotou, Yoshiro Tomita, Hideki Uchimi, Masaki Okauchi, Masaaki Nakagawa, Mitsuo Hatanaka, Masami Shishikura, Masao Nakamuro, Yoshio Yuasa
  • Color-designating server, color-designating receiving/ordering system, color-designating method, color-designating receiving/ordering method, and recording medium
    Publication number: 20020082944
    Abstract: Disclosed are a color-designating server which can display a screen for designating color at a user terminal, which can be connected to a network, a color-designating method, and a recording medium. A matchable color database stores data required for determining matchable colors in a color-designating server which displays a screen for designating color at a user terminal. A conditions-designating processor transmits a conditions-designating screen for designating conditions data, required for determining the matchable colors, to the user terminal. A color data transmission processor determines colors which can be matched under the conditions specified by the conditions data, designated in the conditions-designating screen, by consulting the matchable color database, and transmits the result to the user terminal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 27, 2001
    Publication date: June 27, 2002
    Applicant: DAINIPPON INK AND CHEMICALS, INC
    Inventors: Hideki Uchimi, Yoshiro Tomita, Hiroki Goto, Mitsuo Hatanaka, Masaki Okauchi, Masaaki Nakagawa, Masami Shishikura