Patents by Inventor Akito OTA

Akito OTA 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: 11099959
    Abstract: An image processing device capable of repeatedly sending internal data stored inside the device to a server at a predetermined timing, comprises: a hardware processor that: obtains the internal data from the inside the device at every data transmission timing; determines whether or not to send the latest internal data obtained at the current data transmission timing to the server based on a change in an operation status during a period from the previous data transmission timing to the current data transmission timing; and sends the latest internal data to the server when determining to send the latest internal data to the server.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 24, 2021
    Assignee: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.
    Inventor: Akito Ota
  • Publication number: 20200252520
    Abstract: An image forming system includes: a first image forming device; a second image forming device; a third image forming device; and an information processing device, wherein the first image forming device saves document data, the second image forming device acquires a document list indicating document data to present and acquires the document data specified from the document list from the first image forming device to output, the third image forming device manages the first image forming device, the second image forming device, and the third image forming device as a group, and the information processing device selects the image forming device allowed to belong to a group from a floor map in which installation positions and device information of a plurality of image forming devices are registered, and associates the information on the selected image forming device with the group to register in the third image forming device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 7, 2020
    Publication date: August 6, 2020
    Applicant: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.
    Inventor: Akito OTA
  • Patent number: 10674217
    Abstract: A device for reproducing guidance on a task including a plurality of steps is provided. The device includes an input device with which a user selects from which position of the guidance is to be reproduced; and a player configured to, where a designated step corresponding to the position selected by the user from among the steps is a particular step, jump a playback progress to the position selected to play the guidance, the particular step being an initial step of steps having not yet been performed completely, and, where the designated step is not the particular step, jump the playback progress to a position of the particular step to play the guidance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 6, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 2, 2020
    Assignee: Konica Minolta, Inc.
    Inventors: Kenichi Komaba, Atsushi Tomita, Hiroshi Sugiura, Hiroaki Sugimoto, Tatsunori Okada, Akito Ota, Yu Sonoda
  • Patent number: 10652417
    Abstract: There is provided an image processing apparatus that transmits data relating to an internal component to a server, and the image processing apparatus includes a hardware processor that: acquires from the server a failure prediction list in which a plurality of image processing apparatuses is ranked; detects that the internal component has reached a warning state; specifies a data transmission stop apparatus that is to be caused to stop data transmission to the server from among other image processing apparatuses by referring the failure prediction list in a case where it is detected that the internal component has reached the warning state; transmits a stop command for causing the data transmission to the server to be stopped to the data transmission stop apparatus specified; and transmits, to the server, data relating to the internal component detected as being in the warning state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2020
    Assignee: Konica Minolta, Inc.
    Inventors: Yu Sonoda, Akito Ota, Eisaku Owada
  • Publication number: 20200081671
    Abstract: An image forming device, including: an image former that forms an image on a sheet; an image reader that reads an image of a document; and a hardware processor that sends an email with attached document data that is obtained using the image reader, that causes a display to display a seat table in which a seat position of a person is associated with an email address of the person, and that sets, as a destination of the email, an email address of a person that corresponds to a seat that is selected by a user from the seat table.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 10, 2019
    Publication date: March 12, 2020
    Applicant: Konica Minolta, Inc.
    Inventor: Akito Ota
  • Publication number: 20200059565
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes means for storing data, means for dividing data into a plurality of pieces of element data, and means for performing virus check onto each of the plurality of pieces of element data in a designated order.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 14, 2019
    Publication date: February 20, 2020
    Applicant: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.
    Inventors: Masayuki ITO, Kazuhiro TOMIYASU, Takatsugu KUNO, Hiroshi SUGIURA, Shin OHBA, Akito OTA
  • Patent number: 10514643
    Abstract: A system for reproducing guidance on a task including a plurality of steps is provided. The system includes a hardware processor; and an output device configured to output an image or audio; wherein the hardware processor determines a completed step of the steps based on a change in state of a target on which the task is to be performed, the completed step being a step which has been completed, and the hardware processor causes the output device to reproduce an unfinished part in a first form where a predetermined condition is not satisfied, and causes the output device to reproduce the unfinished part in a second form different from the first form where the predetermined condition is satisfied, the unfinished part being a part corresponding to an unfinished step which is not determined to have been completed among the steps.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2019
    Assignee: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.
    Inventors: Tatsunori Okada, Kenichi Komaba, Akito Ota, Hiroshi Sugiura, Hiroaki Sugimoto, Atsushi Tomita
  • Publication number: 20190297214
    Abstract: There is provided an image processing apparatus that transmits data relating to an internal component to a server, and the image processing apparatus includes a hardware processor that: acquires from the server a failure prediction list in which a plurality of image processing apparatuses is ranked; detects that the internal component has reached a warning state; specifies a data transmission stop apparatus that is to be caused to stop data transmission to the server from among other image processing apparatuses by referring the failure prediction list in a case where it is detected that the internal component has reached the warning state; transmits a stop command for causing the data transmission to the server to be stopped to the data transmission stop apparatus specified; and transmits, to the server, data relating to the internal component detected as being in the warning state.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 26, 2019
    Publication date: September 26, 2019
    Applicant: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.
    Inventors: Yu SONODA, Akito OTA, Eisaku OWADA
  • Publication number: 20190294518
    Abstract: An image processing device capable of repeatedly sending internal data stored inside the device to a server at a predetermined timing, comprises: a hardware processor that: obtains the internal data from the inside the device at every data transmission timing; determines whether or not to send the latest internal data obtained at the current data transmission timing to the server based on a change in an operation status during a period from the previous data transmission timing to the current data transmission timing; and sends the latest internal data to the server when determining to send the latest internal data to the server.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 29, 2019
    Publication date: September 26, 2019
    Applicant: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.
    Inventor: Akito OTA
  • Publication number: 20190297198
    Abstract: There is provided an image processing apparatus that transmits data relating to an internal component to a server via a network, and the image processing apparatus includes a hardware processor that: acquires the data relating to the internal component; judges whether or not it is a transmission timing at which the data acquired is to be transmitted to the server; confirms an operation state of another image processing apparatus connected to the network in a case where it is judged that it is the transmission timing; decides whether or not to transmit the data acquired to the server based on a confirmation result; and transmits the data acquired to the server in a case where it is decided to perform data transmission.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 18, 2019
    Publication date: September 26, 2019
    Applicant: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.
    Inventors: Eisaku OWADA, Akito OTA, Yu SONODA
  • Publication number: 20180136597
    Abstract: A system for reproducing guidance on a task including a plurality of steps is provided. The system includes a hardware processor; and an output device configured to output an image or audio; wherein the hardware processor determines a completed step of the steps based on a change in state of a target on which the task is to be performed, the completed step being a step which has been completed, and the hardware processor causes the output device to reproduce an unfinished part in a first form where a predetermined condition is not satisfied, and causes the output device to reproduce the unfinished part in a second form different from the first form where the predetermined condition is satisfied, the unfinished part being a part corresponding to an unfinished step which is not determined to have been completed among the steps.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 13, 2017
    Publication date: May 17, 2018
    Inventors: Tatsunori OKADA, Kenichi KOMABA, Akito OTA, Hiroshi SUGIURA, Hiroaki SUGIMOTO, Atsushi TOMITA
  • Publication number: 20180103297
    Abstract: A device for reproducing guidance on a task including a plurality of steps is provided. The device includes an input device with which a user selects from which position of the guidance is to be reproduced; and a player configured to, where a designated step corresponding to the position selected by the user from among the steps is a particular step, jump a playback progress to the position selected to play the guidance, the particular step being an initial step of steps having not yet been performed completely, and, where the designated step is not the particular step, jump the playback progress to a position of the particular step to play the guidance.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 6, 2017
    Publication date: April 12, 2018
    Inventors: Kenichi KOMABA, Atsushi TOMITA, Hiroshi SUGIURA, Hiroaki SUGIMOTO, Tatsunori OKADA, Akito OTA, Yu SONODA