Inventor

Kouichirou Hirao

Inventor

Tokyo, JP

Overview

1999–2011

Patent span

Physics

Primary field (CPC G)

Patents· 10 as inventor

Public. Assignee & technology derived from the patent record. Each patent links to its LexDana page.

G06Tprimary

G06TImage data processing or generation, in general42%

H04NPictorial communication, e.g. television42%

G06VImage or video recognition or understanding17%

PatentTitleYear

7,945,095'Line segment detector and line segment detecting method'2011 7,664,334'Image encoder, image encoding method, recording medium and computer data signal embodied in a carrier wave'2010 7,139,428'Image encoder, image encoding method, recording medium and computer data signal embodied in a carrier wave'2006 6,574,367'Method and apparatus for pattern matching encoding'2003 6,553,144'Coding method and coding apparatus for bi-level document image'2003 6,327,384'Character recognition apparatus and method for recognizing characters'2001 6,185,330'Device and record medium for pattern matching encoding/decoding of binary still images'2001 6,122,402'Pattern encoding and decoding method and encoder and decoder using the method'2000 6,016,361'Method and apparatus for compressing binary data using pattern matching encoding'2000 5,999,704'Image output apparatus'1999

Career & activity timeline

Assembled from patent assignee/location history and declaration credentials.

1999–2011Patents assigned to NEC CORP (10)· patent assignee history

1999–2010Based in Tokyo, JP· patent location history

2011Based in Kakegawa, JP· patent location history

Inventor activity

Assignee and location history derived from the patent record.

Assignees

Assignee	Patents	Span
NEC CORP	10	1999–2011

Locations

Location	Patents	Span
Tokyo, JP	9	1999–2010
Kakegawa, JP	1	2011