Patents by Inventor Miwa Takagi

Miwa Takagi 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).

  • Merchandise sales system for selling merchandise produced by printing image data on a printing medium
    Patent number: 7437315
    Abstract: This disclosure relates to a method and apparatus for implementing online sales in an environment on a network, which is provided by a creator, without putting any load on the creator. A creator-side apparatus transmits a content that forms merchandise and merchandise information about its output medium to a support-side apparatus. The support-side apparatus makes the merchandise information correspond to an address that indicates a location on the network and transmits the address to the creator-side apparatus as an address where an order for the merchandise should be received. The creator-side apparatus sends data containing the address to the network to which an orderer-side apparatus is connected such that the orderer-side apparatus accepts connection to the location. The support-side apparatus executes merchandise order reception processing when the orderer-side apparatus is connected to the location and requests an output system to execute output processing based on the merchandise information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 3, 2004
    Date of Patent: October 14, 2008
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Yutaka Myoki, Shinichi Suzuki, Kikuo Naito, Miwa Takagi, Masanori Saito, Tomoko Eguchi
  • Method and apparatus for supplying, managing, or selling merchandise
    Publication number: 20040254852
    Abstract: This disclosure relates to a method and apparatus for implementing online sales in an environment on a network, which is provided by a creator, without putting any load on the creator. A creator-side apparatus transmits a content that forms merchandise and merchandise information about its output medium to a support-side apparatus. The support-side apparatus makes the merchandise information correspond to an address that indicates a location on the network and transmits the address to the creator-side apparatus as an address where an order for the merchandise should be received. The creator-side apparatus sends data containing the address to the network to which an orderer-side apparatus is connected such that the orderer-side apparatus accepts connection to the location. The support-side apparatus executes merchandise order reception processing when the orderer-side apparatus is connected to the location and requests an output system to execute output processing based on the merchandise information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 3, 2004
    Publication date: December 16, 2004
    Applicant: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Yutaka Myoki, Shinichi Suzuki, Kikuo Naito, Miwa Takagi, Masanori Saito, Tomoko Eguchi