Patents by Inventor Shigeru Hoyashita

Shigeru Hoyashita 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: 7043194
    Abstract: A learning system including a server and a user terminal is provided for providing a lecture to a user and for evaluating the user. The present systems has the server and the user terminal, the server has a storage unit for storing at least one educational material and a transmitting unit for transmitting said educational material to the user terminal, the user terminal has a receiving unit for receiving said educational material from the server; display unit for presenting the received educational material to a user; a recognizing unit for recognizing movement of the user; and a transmitting unit for transmitting said recognized movement, wherein the server further has a receiving unit for receiving the movement from the user terminal; and an evaluating part for evaluating learning behavior of the user based on the movement.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 17, 2003
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2006
    Assignee: Saga University
    Inventors: Shigeru Hoyashita, Yasuyuki Ikegami, Kazuhiro Sumi
  • Patent number: 6865368
    Abstract: A system for producing an educational material for students. The system has a storing part for storing raw educational materials into a database, an input part for inputting both student-related data and educational environment-related data, and an educational material producing unit for selecting at least one raw educational material from said the database based on predetermined selecting criteria and the inputted student-related data and educational environment-related data to produce educational material from the selected at least one raw educational material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 2002
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2005
    Assignee: Saga University
    Inventors: Shigeru Hoyashita, Yasuyuki Ikegami, Kazuhiro Sumi
  • Publication number: 20040248074
    Abstract: A distance education system for providing an educational service to a user via a network is provided, the system includes: education providing part for providing the educational service utilizing at least one educational material to the user via the network, wherein the educational material includes a plurality of elements; test transmission part for transmitting a test to the user by each predetermined stage and for prompting the user to send an answer to the test, wherein the test is associated with the educational material; evaluation part for receiving the answer from the user via the network to evaluate it; and evaluation transmission means for transmitting the evaluation result by the evaluation part to the user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 12, 2004
    Publication date: December 9, 2004
    Applicant: SAGA UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Shigeru Hoyashita, Yasuyuki Ikegami, Kazuhiro Sumi
  • Publication number: 20040214152
    Abstract: A learning system including a server and a user terminal is provided for providing a lecture to a user and for evaluating the user. The present systems has the server and the user terminal, the server has a storage unit for storing at least one educational material and a transmitting unit for transmitting said educational material to the user terminal, the user terminal has a receiving unit for receiving said educational material from the server; display unit for presenting the received educational material to a user; a recognizing unit for recognizing movement of the user; and a transmitting unit for transmitting said recognized movement, wherein the server further has a receiving unit for receiving the movement from the user terminal; and an evaluating part for evaluating learning behavior of the user based on the movement.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 17, 2003
    Publication date: October 28, 2004
    Applicant: SAGA UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Shigeru Hoyashita, Yasuyuki Ikegami, Kazuhiro Sumi
  • Publication number: 20030013070
    Abstract: A system is provided for producing an educational material to students. The present systems has storing part for storing raw educational materials into a database, input part for inputting both student-related data and educational environment-related data and educational material producing unit for selecting at least one raw educational material from said database based on predetermined selecting criteria and said inputted both student-related data and educational environment-related data to produce an educational material from said selected at least one raw educational material.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 1, 2002
    Publication date: January 16, 2003
    Applicant: Saga University
    Inventors: Shigeru Hoyashita, Yasuyuki Ikegami, Kazuhiro Sumi
  • Publication number: 20020197595
    Abstract: A system is provided for utilizing educational materials. The system has a registration part for prompting to input at least one code (such as a subject code for expressing a subject of an educational material) to store said educational material with said inputted code in an educational material database, a code receiving part for receiving code inputted by a developer or a user, and an educational material transmitting part for reading out an educational material corresponding to said received code from a database in accordance with the received code to transmit the educational material to the developer or the user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 21, 2002
    Publication date: December 26, 2002
    Applicant: Saga University
    Inventors: Shigeru Hoyashita, Yasuyuki Ikegami, Kazuhiro Sumi
  • Patent number: 6315646
    Abstract: A processing system for increasing the quality of a gear having a shot peening apparatus for subjecting, to shot peening, a gear after tooth-forming and surface hardening; a barreling apparatus positioned adjacently to the shot peening apparatus, for subjecting, to barreling, the gear which has been subject to shot peening by the shot peening apparatus; and a gear feeding apparatus positioned adjacently to the shot peening apparatus and the barreling apparatus, for feeding, to the barreling apparatus, the gear which has been subjected to the shot peening by the shot peening apparatus. Thus, a gear of high quality can be efficiently produced, and the working environment can be cleaned at low cost by a dust collecting apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 1999
    Date of Patent: November 13, 2001
    Assignee: Saga University
    Inventor: Shigeru Hoyashita