Patents by Inventor Shoichiro Ishigaki

Shoichiro Ishigaki 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 distributing method, information distributing system, information distributing server, mobile communication network system and communication service providing method
    Patent number: 7346042
    Abstract: An information distributing method etc. are provided. An information providing server comprises a first transmission device for transmitting image data to a communication terminal, a first conversion device for converting attached information attached to the image data into converted information of a format suitable for aural read-out, a second conversion device for converting the converted information into voice information, a second transmission device for transmitting the voice information and/or the converted information to the communication terminal, and a third transmission device for transmitting synchronizing information for synchronizing image data with the voice information on a screen of the communication terminal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 21, 2001
    Date of Patent: March 18, 2008
    Assignee: NTT DoCoMo, Inc.
    Inventors: Shoichi Horiguchi, Hiroshi Uehara, Shoichiro Ishigaki, Sadayuki Hongo, Nobuhiko Shigiya, Katsumi Tanaka, Kazutoshi Sumiya
  • Wireless telecommunications unit attachable to and detachable from an external unit
    Patent number: 7221961
    Abstract: A wireless telecommunications unit is attachable to and detachable from an external unit such as a personal computer, and has a wireless telecommunications apparatus, a microcontroller, and a memory mechanism. The wireless telecommunications apparatus has an identification number for wireless telecommunications, and is for carrying out wireless telecommunications with the outside. The microcontroller is for controlling the wireless telecommunications apparatus and the memory mechanism, it has control functions for the external unit to carry out telecommunications with the outside in accordance with the wireless telecommunications apparatus, to use the memory mechanism as a file system of a designated operating system, when the wireless telecommunications unit is connected to the external unit, and a control function for the wireless telecommunications apparatus to carry out telecommunications using the memory mechanism in accordance with instructions from the external unit or generated in the microcontroller.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 2000
    Date of Patent: May 22, 2007
    Assignee: NTT Docomo, Inc.
    Inventors: Masaaki Fukumoto, Shoichiro Ishigaki, Toshiaki Sugimura, Hirotaka Nakano
  • Information distributing method, information distributing system, information distributing server, mobile communication network system and communication service providing method
    Publication number: 20010015972
    Abstract: An information distributing method etc. are provided. An information providing server comprises a first transmission device for transmitting image data to a communication terminal, a first conversion device for converting attached information attached to the image data into converted information of a format suitable for aural read-out, a second conversion device for converting the converted information into voice information, a second transmission device for transmitting the voice information and/or the converted information to the communication terminal, and a third transmission device for transmitting synchronizing information for synchronizing image data with the voice information on a screen of the communication terminal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 21, 2001
    Publication date: August 23, 2001
    Inventors: Shoichi Horiguchi, Hiroshi Uehara, Shoichiro Ishigaki, Sadayuki Hongo, Nobuhiko Shigiya, Katsumi Tanaka, Kazutoshi Sumiya