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Hideki Wanami — 10 Patents

Sony: 10 patents #4,425 of 25,231Top 20%
Saitama, JP: #1,483 of 10,685 inventorsTop 15%
Overall (All Time): #481,000 of 4,157,543Top 15%
10 Patents All Time
Hideki Wanami has been granted 10 US patents while listed as an inventor at Sony. The first was granted in 1990 and the most recent in May 2005. Hideki Wanami ranks #481,000 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 11.6%). Patent records list Hideki Wanami in Saitama, JP.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 1990 to 2005Bar chart with a peak of 2 patents in 1999.peak 21990: 1 patents19901993: 1 patents19931995: 1 patents19951999: 2 patents19992000: 2 patents20002001: 1 patents20012004: 1 patents20042005: 1 patents2005

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–10 of 10 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
6891539 Picture editing apparatus Masahide Maruyama, Mitsuyoshi Shindo, Kiyosuke Suzuki 2005-05-10 $711,000
6693665 System and apparatus for facilitating printing of images from an electronic camera Mitsuyoshi Shindo, Hikaru Kobayashi, Kiyotaka Dochi 2004-02-17 $1,230,000
6323968 Picture reading apparatus Makoto Goto, Fumihiko Kaise 2001-11-27 $963,000
6118116 Image reading apparatus having a memory with compressed image data Koichi Sawada, Makoto Goto 2000-09-12 $2,783,000
6118477 Picture reading apparatus Masahide Maruyama, Mitsuyoshi Shindo, Kiyosuke Suzuki, Tomohiro Maekawa 2000-09-12 $2,783,000
5986773 Picture reading apparatus Makoto Goto, Fumihiko Kaise 1999-11-16 $901,000
5949479 Film scanning apparatus using plural film feed speeds and sampling rates Masahide Maruyama, Mitsuyoshi Shindo, Kiyosuke Suzuki, Tomohiro Maekawa 1999-09-07 $722,000
5398119 Photoelectric conversion device's shading correction circuit Kiyosuke Suzuki 1995-03-14 $190,000
5191441 Image reading device Kiyosuke Suzuki, Atsushi Shirata, Noboru Koyama, Tatsuru Sato 1993-03-02 $110,000
4930008 Scanner for reading color image Kiyosuke Suzuki 1990-05-29 $378,000