Patents by Inventor Shinichirou Sugiura

Shinichirou Sugiura 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 display system for electronically reading a book
    Patent number: 6297812
    Abstract: An information display system having a housing with a location for receiving a document such as a book is provided. A location detection circuit is mounted on the housing adjacent the document and can determine any subjective selection of a location on the document. The document can have a plurality of indicia. When such indicia is selected, a control circuit can retrieve the information from a read only memory and appropriately display the information in an audible or visual manner.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 1999
    Date of Patent: October 2, 2001
    Assignee: Sega Enterprises, Ltd.
    Inventors: Makoto Ohara, Hirotsugu Tomizawa, Shinichirou Sugiura
  • Information display system for electronically reading a book
    Patent number: 6052117
    Abstract: An information display system having a housing with a location for receiving a document such as a book is provided. A location detection circuit is mounted on the housing adjacent the document and can determine any subjective selection of a location on the document. The document can have a plurality of indicia. When such indicia is selected, a control circuit can retrieve the information from a read only memory and appropriately display the information in an audible or visual manner.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 1995
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2000
    Assignee: Sega Enterprises, Ltd.
    Inventors: Makoto Ohara, Hirotsugu Tomizawa, Shinichirou Sugiura
  • Information storage system and book device for providing information in response to the user specification
    Patent number: 5739814
    Abstract: An electronic book which can store, in a ROM, a computer program, is integrated with graphic and textual material on a series of pages. Various input devices such as a finger, a light pen, a touch pen, etc. can be utilized with a sensing circuit combined with the page for inputting data into the computer system. The computer system can display this information in both an audio and visual manner.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 1992
    Date of Patent: April 14, 1998
    Assignee: Sega Enterprises
    Inventors: Makoto Ohara, Shinichirou Sugiura
  • Information display system for electronically reading a book
    Patent number: 5485176
    Abstract: An information display system having a housing with a location for receiving a document such as a book is provided. A location detection circuit is mounted on the housing adjacent the document and can determine any subjective selection of a location on the document. The document can have a plurality of indicia. When such indicia is selected, a control circuit can retrieve the information from a read only memory and appropriately display the information in an audible or visual manner.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 1994
    Date of Patent: January 16, 1996
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Sega Enterprises
    Inventors: Makoto Ohara, Hirotsugu Tomizawa, Shinichirou Sugiura