Patents by Inventor Shigeko Ohtani

Shigeko Ohtani 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: 4803477
    Abstract: A graphic data management system including a segment table in which several kinds of graphic data placed in a multi-dimensional space are stored correspondingly to graphic element numbers, and an index table in which, for each of the cell numbers provided when the multi-dimensional coordinate system is partitioned into predetermined cells, and all the graphic element numbers at least a part of which included in a cell are stored. The graphic data management system carries out the search, addition and deletion referring to a segment table and the index table. The index table includes a cell pointer table in which pointers indicative of the addresses where the graphic element numbers are stored are listed for each cell number, a cell table in which the graphic element number and concatenation pointers which indicate the storing addresses of the subsequent graphic element numbers are listed as pairs, and a space management pointer indicative of the address of a free space area in the cell table.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 1986
    Date of Patent: February 7, 1989
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Takafumi Miyatake, Hitoshi Matsushima, Shigeko Ohtani, Junichi Higashino