Patents by Inventor Tomohiro Matsuhashi

Tomohiro Matsuhashi 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).

  • Data medium handling apparatus medium handling method
    Patent number: 6567546
    Abstract: A data medium handling apparatus and a data medium handling method suitable for use for handling of documents, for example, in a financial organ. The data medium handling apparatus (30) for recognizing, based on an image (19) read from a data medium on which information is described in an arbitrary format, the information, is constructed such that it comprises means (2) for extracting characteristics unique to the data medium including the format from the read image data (19) and specifying, from the characteristics, a position at which information to be recognized is present, and image recognition means (3) for recognizing the image (19) at the position specified by the is preceding means (2) to discriminate the information, so that the data medium handling apparatus (30) can handle documents having various formats such as private slips.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 1999
    Date of Patent: May 20, 2003
    Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
    Inventors: Shinichi Eguchi, Yutaka Katsumata, Koichi Chiba, Hideki Matsuno, Yoshihiro Nagano, Kazuhide Ushita, Hideo Kamata, Tomohiro Matsuhashi, Hideyuki Inaoka, Eiichi Watanabe, Satoshi Naoi, Shunji Sakane, Katsutoshi Kobara, Kazunori Yamamoto, Kazuhito Watanabe, Yoshiyuki Kijima, Yoshinori Yamazaki, Yasutaka Machida
  • Data medium handling apparatus and data medium handling method
    Patent number: 6501864
    Abstract: A data medium handling apparatus and a data medium handling method suitable for use for handling of documents, for example, in a financial organ. The data medium handling apparatus (30) for recognizing, based on an image (19) read from a data medium on which information is described in an arbitrary format, the information, is constructed such that it comprises means (2) for extracting characteristics unique to the data medium including the format from the read image data (19) and specifying, from the characteristics, a position at which information to be recognized is present, and image recognition means (3) for recognizing the image (19) at the position specified by the preceding means (2) to discriminate the information, so that the data medium handling apparatus (30) can handle documents having various formats such as private slips.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 1999
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2002
    Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
    Inventors: Shinichi Eguchi, Yutaka Katsumata, Koichi Chiba, Kazuhide Ushita, Hideo Kamata, Tomohiro Matsuhashi, Hideyuki Inaoka, Eiichi Watanabe, Satoshi Naoi, Shunji Sakane, Kazunori Yamamoto
  • Banking apparatus for processing the bill and the check
    Patent number: 5321238
    Abstract: A terminal banking apparatus for processing bills and checks includes an input apparatus for inputting the number of each account and the amount of bills or checks at a front counter of a bank, a tentative paying file for storing the number of each account and the corresponding amount input from the input apparatus, a magnetic ink character reader for reading the number of the account described by magnetic ink characters on each of the bills or checks carried, and an amount reader for reading the amount described on the bills or checks stored in the tentative paying file depending on the number of the account read by the character reader.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 9, 1991
    Date of Patent: June 14, 1994
    Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
    Inventors: Hideo Kamata, Masami Yasuda, Satoshi Kataoka, Hideyuki Inaoka, Tomohiro Matsuhashi, Eiichi Watanabe
  • Magnetic ink character recognition system
    Patent number: 4984281
    Abstract: In a magnetic ink character recognition system provided in a magnetic ink character reader, the system includes; a read unit for detecting magnetic flux generated from each magnetic ink character separately printed in every field in a check or bill, and outputting a digital signal read therefrom; a storage unit operatively connected to the read unit for storing the digital signals output from the read unit; a field sort unit operatively connected to the storage unit for receiving the digital signals from the storage unit in every field and sorting the digital read signals for each field; a decision unit operatively connected to the field sort unit for receiving the digital read signal sorted by the field sort unit, judging the thickness of the magnetic ink character in every field, and determining a representative thickness value in every field; a correction unit operatively connected to the storage unit and the decision unit for receiving the digital signals from the storage unit and correcting the digital s
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 1990
    Date of Patent: January 8, 1991
    Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
    Inventors: Tomohiro Matsuhashi, Hideo Kamata, Masami Yasuda, Satoshi Kataoka, Hideyuki Inaoka, Eiichi Watanabe