Patents by Inventor Yoshinobu Katae

Yoshinobu Katae 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).

  • Patent number: 5448377
    Abstract: A film image editor for editing plural photographic film images. The editor includes: a scanner for reading images in any one of a plurality of different picture sizes from a developed photographic film; a picture size detecting circuit for detecting a picture size of each of the images based on a density variation information of each of the images; an editing interface for editing the image in the detected picture size according to an input operation by an operator; and an output device for outputting the image which is edited by the editing interface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 1993
    Date of Patent: September 5, 1995
    Assignee: Konica Corporation
    Inventors: Katsuyoshi Kinoshita, Kenichiro Hiramoto, Yoshinobu Katae, Takashi Tsutsumi, Kenzo Nakanishi
  • Patent number: 4932828
    Abstract: An automatic article feeding system which includes a conveyor for conveying pallets each of which contains an article or articles such as parts to be assembled and has a mark indicating the kind of article or articles contained therein, having a feeder for feeding each of the conveyed pallets into one of the shelves of the stocker according to empty shelf information supplied by an information processing unit; a memory for storing the address of the shelf in which the pallet has been stocked and further storing information of the kinds of articles on the pallet; a searcher for searching the memory according to the instruction received from the automatic assembling machine to detect the existence or non-existence of the article required by the automatic assembling machine and, if in existence, detect the address of the shelf in which the required article is stocked; a system for withdrawing the pallet from the stocker according to such detection; a feeder for feeding the pallet to a position for supplying the
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 3, 1989
    Date of Patent: June 12, 1990
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Yoshinobu Katae, Yusaku Azuma