Tomio Echigo — 19 Patents at IBM

Tomio Echigo has been granted 19 US patents while listed as an inventor at IBM. The first was granted in 1996 and the most recent in December 2025. Tomio Echigo ranks #229,345 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 5.5%). Patent records list Tomio Echigo in Yokohama, JP.

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Patent #	Title	Co-Inventors	Date	Approx Value ⓘ
12492945	Temperature distribution learning apparatus	Seiichi Tagawa	2025-12-09
8005279	Capsule endoscope image display controller	Yasushi Yagi, Ryusuke Sagawa, Hai Vu	2011-08-23
7971217	Content digest system, video digest system, user terminal, video digest generation method, video digest reception method and program therefor	Ken Masumitsu, Takaaki Murao, Masayoshi Teraguchi	2011-06-28	$4,369,000
7922652	Endoscope system	Yasushi Yagi, Ryusuke Sagawa	2011-04-12
7796781	Content generation, extraction and distribution of image region segments from video images	Ken Masumitsu, Masayoshi Teraguchi, Takaaki Murao	2010-09-14	$5,460,000
7492944	Extraction and tracking of image regions arranged in time series	Ajith Narayanan, Alberto Tomita, Takaaki Murao	2009-02-17	$3,763,000
7490342	Content provisioning system and method	Ken Masumitsu, Masayoshi Teraguchi	2009-02-10	$5,620,000
7313278	Content generation, extraction and distribution of image region segments from video images	Ken Masumitsu, Masayoshi Teraguchi, Takaaki Murao	2007-12-25
7251364	Image processing method, image processing system and storage medium therefor	Alberto Tomita, Takaaki Murao	2007-07-31	$9,877,000
7231088	Method for team play analysis	Ken Masumitsu, Takaaki Murao, Masayoshi Teraguchi	2007-06-12	$7,786,000
7199798	Method and device for describing video contents	Masato Kurokawa, Junji Maeda, Alberto Tomita	2007-04-03	$7,379,000
7072901	Index generation method, index generation apparatus, index addition system, and program and storage medium thereof	Masayoshi Teraguchi, Takaaki Murao, Ken Masumitsu	2006-07-04
6833849	Video contents access method that uses trajectories of objects and apparatus therefor	Masato Kurokawa	2004-12-21	$10,287,000
6606412	Method for classifying an object in a moving picture	Junji Maeda, Hiroki Nakano	2003-08-12	$22,104,000
5960119	Method of and system for encoding digital images	Junji Maeda, Jung-Kook Hong, Mikihiro Ioka	1999-09-28	$25,907,000
5915046	System for and method of processing digital images	Junji Maeda, Jung-Kook Hong, Mikihiro Ioka	1999-06-22	$63,354,000
5771485	Apparatus and method for detecting a velocity of a moving object	—	1998-06-23	$13,396,000
5748868	Two-dimensional management pattern, information display tag, and image processing method and device	Shunichi Asaka	1998-05-05	$15,329,000
5525882	Method and system for maneuvering a mobile robot	Shunichi Asaka, Shinichiro Hazeki, Shigeki Ishikawa	1996-06-11	$10,629,000

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