Patents by Inventor Shigehiro Tomita

Shigehiro Tomita 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: 5859624
    Abstract: An information display apparatus comprising goggles and a terminal and having a dot density so high as to be capable of reproducing textual information is disclosed, in which the goggles include light sources, a fixed mirror and a rotary mirror arranged in such a manner as to satisfy predetermined conditions, and the data transmitted from the terminal are reproduced as an image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 1, 1995
    Date of Patent: January 12, 1999
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Takashi Matsumoto, Tatsuhiro Nozue, Shigehiro Tomita, Hiromi Harada
  • Patent number: 5708960
    Abstract: In order to dispatch a newspaper to subscriber households through satellite communication, a newspaper edit/dispatch system in the head office of a newspaper publishing company electronically creates each paper sheet of national news section as first newspaper data, and transmits the first newspaper data to the branch offices of the company through a communication satellite. In a newspaper edit/broadcast system installed in each of the branch offices, the received first newspaper data and second newspaper data of a local news section are combined and edited into third newspaper data, the third newspaper data are encrypted, and the sort of newspaper and the date of issue thereof are affixed to the encrypted newspaper data. Such newspaper data are broadcast through the communication satellite.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 16, 1995
    Date of Patent: January 13, 1998
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Tadayuki Kamisaka, Satoshi Ikehama, Shigehiro Tomita
  • Patent number: 5372340
    Abstract: A plurality of spacecrafts having their own functions are each provided with a communication controller and its own mission, and communicate with each other to perform specific operations. In addition, a plurality of units having particular functions are housed in a system dock, and arbitrary ones of these units are combined to constitute a spacecraft according to the use. Units responsible for performing the specific operations are interchangeably connected, so as to be separable from the individual spacecraft.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 5, 1992
    Date of Patent: December 13, 1994
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Hirokazu Ihara, Masaya Yamamoto, Kouhei Kato, Shigehiro Tomita, Masaharu Tadauchi