Patents by Inventor Yoshiaki Kuorsawa

Yoshiaki Kuorsawa 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).

  • Electronic dictionary system with automatic extraction and recognition of letter pattern series to speed up the dictionary lookup operation
    Patent number: 5241674
    Abstract: An electronic dictionary apparatus which is capable of actively supporting the thinking of the user during its use, and which has the improved maneuverability and the wider utility. In the apparatus, each letter pattern series in the entered input document is automatically extracted and recognized in order to obtain a corresponding letter code series; then the entered input document superposed with an enclosure image enclosing each letter pattern series for each of the extracted and recognized letter pattern series is displayed; then a user specifies a desired one of the displayed letter pattern series enclosed by the enclosure image; and then information on the letter code series corresponding to the specified letter pattern series is looked up in the data-base containing prepared information on a number of letter patterns in terms of letter codes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 1991
    Date of Patent: August 31, 1993
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Yoshiaki Kuorsawa, Kaoru Suzuki