Patents by Inventor Yuko Muto

Yuko Muto 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: 7367498
    Abstract: A terminal apparatus and a transaction information management system consisting of the terminal apparatus and a management apparatus that can revise transaction information, which is stored in the management apparatus, connected to a previous transaction when a customer purchases an additional item of merchandise or returns merchandise that has been purchased. By looking up price information stored in the management apparatus each time the transaction information is revised, the revised transaction information can correctly reflect a quantity discount, for example. A new receipt indicating all the merchandise purchased as a result can be printed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2002
    Date of Patent: May 6, 2008
    Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
    Inventors: Yoshihiro Kodaka, Takamasa Kondo, Yuko Muto, Shogo Adachi
  • Patent number: 7320429
    Abstract: A specific-item-information storing unit stores information on a specific item that can be contained in one container together with other item. A specific-item judging unit judges, when the registration for the purchased-item is received, whether the purchased-item is a specific item based on the information stored. A reception control unit controls, when the specific-item judging unit judges that the purchased-item is a specific item, a self-scanning system to continue to receive a registration for other purchased-item and to perform a weight determination according to an instruction for completing the registration from a customer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 6, 2005
    Date of Patent: January 22, 2008
    Assignees: Fujitsu Limited, Fujitsu Frontech Limited
    Inventor: Yuko Muto
  • Publication number: 20070051800
    Abstract: The present invention has been made to allow a user to easily grasp the operation area and thereby to easily and quickly perform the operation even in the case where the operation area extends across the entire system. An operation guidance display unit displays the entire appearance of a system to be operated as well as displays the operation position, in a specific manner, relative to the entire appearance of the system to thereby provide guidance of the operation position in the entire system and further displays, in an enlarged manner, the operation method related to the operation position displayed in a specific manner to thereby provide guidance of the operation method.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 22, 2005
    Publication date: March 8, 2007
    Applicants: FUJITSU LIMITED, FUJITSU FRONTECH LIMITED
    Inventors: Yuko Muto, Makoto Hayamizu
  • Publication number: 20060196935
    Abstract: A specific-item-information storing unit stores information on a specific item that can be contained in one container together with other item. A specific-item judging unit judges, when the registration for the purchased-item is received, whether the purchased-item is a specific item based on the information stored. A reception control unit controls, when the specific-item judging unit judges that the purchased-item is a specific item, a self-scanning system to continue to receive a registration for other purchased-item and to perform a weight determination according to an instruction for completing the registration from a customer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 6, 2005
    Publication date: September 7, 2006
    Applicants: FUJITSU LIMITED, FUJITSU FRONTECH LIMITED
    Inventor: Yuko Muto
  • Publication number: 20030065566
    Abstract: A terminal apparatus and a transaction information management system consisting of the terminal apparatus and a management apparatus that can revise transaction information, which is stored in the management apparatus, connected to a previous transaction when a customer purchases an additional item of merchandise or returns merchandise that has been purchased. By looking up price information stored in the management apparatus each time the transaction information is revised, the revised transaction information can correctly reflect a quantity discount, for example. A new receipt indicating all the merchandise purchased as a result can be printed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 22, 2002
    Publication date: April 3, 2003
    Applicant: FUJITSU LIMITED
    Inventors: Yoshihiro Kodaka, Takamasa Kondo, Yuko Muto, Shogo Adachi
  • Publication number: 20030065568
    Abstract: This terminal apparatus comprises an article registration device, a settlement device, an article registration suspending unit, an article registration resuming unit, a settlement suspending unit, and a settlement resuming unit. The article registration device inputs an article code so as to register a transaction. The settlement device creates transaction information according to the article code input by the article registration device so as to subject the transaction to a settling operation according to the transaction information. The article registration suspending unit suspends the transaction being registered by the article registration device in a suspended state. The article registration resuming unit resumes the transaction suspended in the suspended state into the article registration device. The settlement suspending unit suspends the transaction being subjected to the settling operation by the settlement device in the suspended state.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 12, 2002
    Publication date: April 3, 2003
    Applicant: FUJITSU LIMITED
    Inventors: Takamasa Kondo, Yoshihiro Kodaka, Yuko Muto, Shogo Adachi