Patents by Inventor Yoshitsugu Fukunaga

Yoshitsugu Fukunaga 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: 7634065
    Abstract: A service server comprising: a database for registering a voice message; an access information issuing device which issues access information required for inputting the voice message from a user terminal through a network; a print instructing device which sends the access information to a printer along with a given picture to cause the printer to print the access information and the picture on the same print medium; an access information input device in which access information obtained on a user terminal is inputted from the user terminal through the network on the basis of the print medium; a voice message input device in which a voice message is inputted through the network from a user terminal sending the access information; a voice message registration device which registers the voice message inputted from the user terminal sending the access information in the database in association with the access information; and a voice message output device which outputs the voice message registered in the data
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2005
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2009
    Assignee: Fujifilm Corporation
    Inventors: Yoshitsugu Fukunaga, Ryo Suzuki, Takuya Shimomura, Tadashi Suzuki
  • Patent number: 7502133
    Abstract: An image uploaded from a camera-equipped cellular phone, and additional information attached to the image such as voice information and the like are managed in a database in a service server. Then, an URL for accessing the additional information is issued and converted into a QR code. Order information including the image and the QR code are sent to the print device, and a photo print having the image and the QR code printed on a print paper is produced. When the camera-equipped cellular phone reads the QR code on the photo print and accesses by use of the URL acquired by decrypting the above described QR code, the managed additional information on the image is read from the database correspondingly to the URL, and sent to the camera-equipped cellular phone which has accessed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 2004
    Date of Patent: March 10, 2009
    Assignee: Fujifilm Corporation
    Inventors: Yoshitsugu Fukunaga, Takuya Shimomura, Tadashi Suzuki
  • Publication number: 20050190894
    Abstract: A service server comprising: a database for registering a voice message; an access information issuing device which issues access information required for inputting the voice message from a user terminal through a network; a print instructing device which sends the access information to a printer along with a given picture to cause the printer to print the access information and the picture on the same print medium; an access information input device in which access information obtained on a user terminal is inputted from the user terminal through the network on the basis of the print medium; a voice message input device in which a voice message is inputted through the network from a user terminal sending the access information; a voice message registration device which registers the voice message inputted from the user terminal sending the access information in the database in association with the access information; and a voice message output device which outputs the voice message registered in the data bas
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 22, 2005
    Publication date: September 1, 2005
    Applicant: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yoshitsugu Fukunaga, Ryo Suzuki, Takuya Shimomura, Tadashi Suzuki
  • Publication number: 20050162699
    Abstract: According to the present invention, a taken picture or additional information on the picture can be easily accessed from any user's user terminal on the basis of an index print or an instant film and users can easily enjoy the picture or additional information. Moreover, the present invention makes the best of a marginal frame section on an instant film to please a user with services other than just decorating the space.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 19, 2005
    Publication date: July 28, 2005
    Inventors: Yoshitsugu Fukunaga, Ryo Suzuki, Takuya Shimomura, Tadashi Suzuki
  • Publication number: 20050149399
    Abstract: A service server for communicating with a user terminal via a network and delivering a voice message about a picture the server has received an order to print from the user to the user terminal, comprising: a database for managing a voice message to be provided for a user and a playing condition for the voice message; an inputting device for inputting a voice message and a playing condition to be managed in the database; an access information issuing device for issuing access information to obtain the voice message via a network for the database to manage in association with the voice message and playing condition; a print instruction device for sending the picture for which the server has received an order to print with access information to a printer to record the picture and access information on the same print medium; a determination device for determining whether the current condition matches a playing condition managed in the database when the service server accessed from a user terminal by using access
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 16, 2004
    Publication date: July 7, 2005
    Inventors: Yoshitsugu Fukunaga, Ryo Suzuki, Takuya Shimomura, Tadashi Suzuki
  • Publication number: 20050052695
    Abstract: An image uploaded from a camera-equipped cellular phone, and additional information attached to the image such as voice information and the like are managed in a database in a service server. Then, an URL for accessing the additional information is issued and converted into a QR code. Order information including the image and the QR code are sent to the print device, and a photo print having the image and the QR code printed on a print paper is produced. When the camera-equipped cellular phone reads the QR code on the photo print and accesses by means of the URL acquired by decrypting the above described QR code, the managed additional information on the image is read from the database correspondingly to the URL, and sent to the camera-equipped cellular phone which has accessed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 9, 2004
    Publication date: March 10, 2005
    Inventors: Yoshitsugu Fukunaga, Takuya Shimomura, Tadashi Suzuki