Inventor · Yokohama, JP

Yoshiyuki Akiba

25Patents
11h-index
22Co-inventors
75Inventor score

Filing activity: Oct 9, 1991 → Jan 16, 2015

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US5247126A Image reproducing apparatus, image information recording medium, and musical accompaniment playing apparatus Electricity 116 Expired
US5194682A Musical accompaniment playing apparatus Physics 81 Expired
US6525761B2 Apparatus and method for controlling a camera connected to a network Electricity 60 Expired
US5235124A Musical accompaniment playing apparatus having phoneme memory for chorus voices Physics 32 Expired
US7219365B2 Apparatus and method for controlling a camera connected to a network Electricity 29 Expired
US5286907A Apparatus for reproducing musical accompaniment information Physics 29 Expired
US5506370A Display controlling apparatus for music accompaniment playing system, and the music accompaniment playing system Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 28 Expired
US5494443A Karaoke system and method of managing playing time of karaoke songs Physics 22 Expired
US7684079B2 Image forming apparatus and its control method Electricity 20 Active
US5484291A Apparatus and method of playing karaoke accompaniment Physics 18 Expired
US5574243A Melody controlling apparatus for music accompaniment playing system the music accompaniment playing system and melody controlling method for controlling and changing the tonality of the melody using the MIDI standard Physics 14 Expired
US7619775B2 Image forming system with density conversion based on image characteristics and amount of color shift Physics 11 Active
US5848422A Data management device in a karaoke communications system Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 11 Expired
US5218580A User management system for musical accompaniment playing apparatus Physics 11 Expired
US7630100B2 Color image forming apparatus Electricity 9 Active
US7344217B2 Image forming apparatus and its control method, and computer program and computer readable storage medium Electricity 7 Active
US7598971B2 Color image forming apparatus Electricity 5 Active
US5679912A Music production and control apparatus with pitch/tempo control Physics 5 Expired
US7770994B2 Image forming apparatus and its control method, and computer program and computer-readable storage medium Electricity 4 Active
US9760815B2 Image processing apparatus and an image processing method for performing a correction process of a tone value of a pixel for smoothing a jaggy Electricity 4 Active
US8068259B2 Color image forming apparatus Electricity 3 Active
US5587547A Musical sound producing device with pitch change circuit for changing only pitch variable data of pitch variable/invariable data Physics 3 Expired
US8570594B2 Image forming apparatus and its control method of correction amount based on selected rotational speed Electricity 1 Active
US8964253B2 Image processing using derived correction amount Electricity 0 Active
US7298399B2 Apparatus and method for controlling a camera connected to a network Electricity 0 Expired

Source: USPTO / EPO open patent data. Inventor disambiguation is heuristic; counts are objective bibliographic measures.