Patents by Inventor Yasutaka Machida

Yasutaka Machida 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