Patents by Inventor Toru Owai

Toru Owai 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).

  • Publication number: 20080242261
    Abstract: Disclosed is an emergency rescue system comprising a mobile terminal device and a control center. The mobile terminal device includes: a sender unit capable of sending an electrical mail; an abnormality sensor which detects an abnormality in an outer environment; a GPS receiver which generates GPS positional information; and a control unit which judges whether a level of sensing of the abnormality sensed by the abnormality sensor is not smaller than a predetermined threshold value. The control center judges a state of accident based on both a satellite image and the GPS positional information attached to the template mail sentence received from the mobile terminal device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 26, 2008
    Publication date: October 2, 2008
    Inventors: MASAHIRO SHIMANUKI, Naoyuki Amano, Toru Owai
  • Patent number: 6146011
    Abstract: To provide a self-correcting watch wherein a high precision self-correction of the watch circuit can be realized without any troublesome operation, a self-correcting watch of the invention having a zero second set button comprises: a time interval counter circuit for counting a time interval from a first pressing of the zero second set button for time setting until each following pressing of the zero second set button for manually correcting time indication; a correction value memory for storing correction information including the time interval and an accumulation of correction values of the time indication performed both manually and automatically from the first pressing of the zero second set button; and a correction value calculator circuit for calculating an absolute time interval at which the time indication is to be corrected automatically by one second, from the time interval of a concerning pressing of the zero second set button counted by the time interval counter, a correction value of the time ind
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 1997
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2000
    Assignee: NEC Corporation
    Inventor: Toru Owai