Patents by Inventor Rika Mizuta

Rika Mizuta 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).

  • Patent number: 6476714
    Abstract: A pseudo creature may be used to increase the user's feeling that the pseudo creature expressed in the vehicle and the vehicle are one, to allow information generated by the pseudo creature to be recognized with ease and to allow the user to communicate with a plurality of other users through the pseudo creature. A CPU employed in a display panel is capable of communicating with external apparatuses such as a PC, a hand phone and a game machine through a connection interface and a transmission & reception unit. The CPU is capable of transmitting information regarding the vehicle to an external apparatus such a PC and acquiring a character of a game or the like as a pseudo creature from electronic media or an electronic information-processing apparatus such as a PC. Thus, in addition to a pseudo creature set in advance, pseudo creatures matching hobbies of a broad range of users can also be expressed in the vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 2001
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2002
    Assignee: Honda Giken Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Rika Mizuta
  • Publication number: 20010035817
    Abstract: A pseudo creature may be used to increase the user's feeling that the pseudo creature expressed in the vehicle and the vehicle are one, to allow information generated by the pseudo creature to be recognized with ease and to allow the user to communicate with a plurality of other users through the pseudo creature. A CPU employed in a display panel is capable of communicating with external apparatuses such as a PC, a hand phone and a game machine through a connection interface and a transmission & reception unit. The CPU is capable of transmitting information regarding the vehicle to an external apparatus such a PC and acquiring a character of a game or the like as a pseudo creature from electronic media or an electronic information-processing apparatus such as a PC. Thus, in addition to a pseudo creature set in advance, pseudo creatures matching hobbies of a broad range of users can also be expressed in the vehicle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 8, 2001
    Publication date: November 1, 2001
    Inventor: Rika Mizuta
  • Patent number: D537386
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 2005
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2007
    Assignee: Honda Motor Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Rika Mizuta, Jun Tanaka