Patents by Inventor Takaaki Suyama

Takaaki Suyama 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).

  • Image data processing apparatus for processing and transferring data from memory cards to external devices
    Patent number: 6295139
    Abstract: The invention is based on an electronic still camera for converting a taken optical image of the subject into digital image data, and recording into a memory card incorporating semiconductor memories, in which the digital image data obtained from this electronic still camera is stored in a large-capacity recording medium through an exclusive recording device, or displayed in plural monitors, or stored in a disk or magnetic tape by existing recording devices or even compressed, expanded, edited or processed, so that it may satisfy versatile requests of users sufficiently.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 4, 1994
    Date of Patent: September 25, 2001
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Akira Yamauchi, Hideki Mimura, Tomoko Ono, Fumio Izawa, Mikio Kakizaki, Takaaki Suyama, Shuichi Hisatomi
  • Image data processing apparatus for digitally reproducing optical image data
    Patent number: 6020982
    Abstract: The invention is based on an electronic still camera for converting a taken optical image of the subject into digital image data, and recording into a memory card incorporating semiconductor memories, in which the digital image data obtained from this electronic still camera is stored in a large-capacity recording medium through an exclusive recording device, or displayed in plural monitors, or stored in a disk or magnetic tape by existing recording devices or even compressed, expanded, edited or processed, so that it may satisfy versatile requests of users sufficiently.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 8, 1993
    Date of Patent: February 1, 2000
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Akira Yamauchi, Hideki Mimura, Tomoko Ono, Fumio Izawa, Mikio Kakizaki, Takaaki Suyama, Shuichi Hisatomi
  • Image data processing apparatus that automatically sets a data compression rate
    Patent number: 5661823
    Abstract: The invention is based on an electronic still camera for converting a taken optical image of the subject into digital image data, and recording into a memory card incorporating semiconductor memories, in which the digital image data obtained from this electronic still camera is stored in a large-capacity recording medium through an exclusive recording device, or displayed in plural monitors, or stored in a disk or magnetic tape by existing recording devices or even compressed, expanded, edited or processed, so that it may satisfy versatile requests of users sufficiently.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 1993
    Date of Patent: August 26, 1997
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Akira Yamauchi, Hideki Mimura, Tomoko Ono, Fumio Izawa, Mikio Kakizaki, Takaaki Suyama, Shuichi Hisatomi
  • Memory card apparatus using EEPROMS for storing data and an interface buffer for buffering data transfer between the EEPROMS and an external device
    Patent number: 5579502
    Abstract: A memory card apparatus using EEPROMs as semiconductor memories. Externally input data are temporarily recorded in a buffer memory and are subsequently written in the EEPROMs. Verify processing is automatically performed between the buffer memory and the EEPROMs. Similarly, data read out from the EEPROMs are temporarily recorded in the buffer memory and are subsequently output to an external unit. Even with the EEPROMs, it seems that this memory card can be used in the same manner as a memory card using an SRAM, when viewed from the outside of the card.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 21, 1995
    Date of Patent: November 26, 1996
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Kazuo Konishi, Shimpei Yoshioka, Setsuo Terasaki, Hiroaki Matsubara, Koji Maruyama, Toshiaki Sato, Takaaki Suyama