Patents by Inventor Saigo Kotani

Saigo Kotani 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).

  • Information processing apparatus and start-up method
    Publication number: 20090249079
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a chip that is implemented therein to independently perform a predetermined process. The chip includes a storage unit that stores biometric information of a user allowed to operate the information processing apparatus as biometric authentication information, and a biometric determining unit that obtains, when obtaining a request for starting up the information processing apparatus, biometric information of the user and determines whether the information processing apparatus is allowed to start up, based on the biometric information and the biometric authentication information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 20, 2009
    Publication date: October 1, 2009
    Applicant: FUJITSU LIMITED
    Inventors: Masato Suzuki, Saigo Kotani