Patents by Inventor Eiji Kemmochi

Eiji Kemmochi 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: 10694066
    Abstract: An electronic whiteboard includes a power button, a display device, and circuitry that implements processes of detecting an operation of the power button being turned off, storing at least a part of visible information displayed on the display device from a time the power button was turned on until a time the power button was turned off in a first storage device upon detecting that the power button has been turned off, determining whether to display the visible information stored in the first storage device on the display device based on a first time corresponding to a power-on time recorded when the power button was turned on and a second time corresponding to the power-off time recorded immediately before the first time when the power button was turned off, and controlling the display device to display the stored visible information upon determining to display the stored visible information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 11, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 23, 2020
    Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Ayako Watanabe, Yoshiko Aono, Yasuhiro Kuba, Eiji Kemmochi
  • Patent number: 10645234
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes an event acquisition unit that acquires a pen event based on an operation on a screen; a drawing-click determining unit that determines whether the pen event is an event concerning a stroke of a dot image or concerning a click operation; and a countdown timer that starts clocking when the drawing-click determining unit receives a determination-target pen event to determine, wherein the drawing-click determining unit determines that the determination-target pen event is an event concerning a stroke of a dot image when the clocking has ended and the event acquisition unit has acquired a pen event concerning another stroke, or when an elapsed time from an end of a pen event concerning another stroke acquired prior to the determination-target pen event is within a certain period of time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 5, 2020
    Assignee: RICOH COMPANY, LTD.
    Inventors: Eiji Kemmochi, Kiyoshi Kasatani
  • Patent number: 10572779
    Abstract: An electronic information board apparatus includes: a guide generating unit configured to display a handwriting region on a screen; a coordinate detecting unit configured to detect coordinates of an indication body moving in the handwriting region on the screen; an image drawing unit configured to generate a stroke image based on the coordinates and display the generated stroke image in the handwriting region on a first layer of the screen; a character recognizing unit configured to execute character recognition based on a hand-written image that is hand-written inside the handwriting region and outputs text data; and a display superimposing unit configured to display the text data acquired from the character recognizing unit at a position that is approximately the same as that of the hand-written image that is hand-written inside the handwriting region on the screen, and on a second layer of the screen different from the first layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2020
    Assignee: RICOH COMPANY, LTD.
    Inventors: Eiji Kemmochi, Kiyoshi Kasatani
  • Publication number: 20180234579
    Abstract: An electronic whiteboard includes a power button, a display device, and circuitry that implements processes of detecting an operation of the power button being turned off, storing at least a part of visible information displayed on the display device from a time the power button was turned on until a time the power button was turned off in a first storage device upon detecting that the power button has been turned off, determining whether to display the visible information stored in the first storage device on the display device based on a first time corresponding to a power-on time recorded when the power button was turned on and a second time corresponding to the power-off time recorded immediately before the first time when the power button was turned off, and controlling the display device to display the stored visible information upon determining to display the stored visible information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 11, 2018
    Publication date: August 16, 2018
    Applicant: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Ayako WATANABE, Yoshiko AONO, Yasuhiro KUBA, Eiji KEMMOCHI
  • Publication number: 20180082663
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus for displaying objects on a display device includes: a designating unit configured to enclose one or more objects in a frame to designate the one or more objects; an operation accepting unit configured to display an operation item for selecting an operation directed to the designated one or more objects and accept the selected operation; a coordinate changing unit configured to change coordinates of constituting points of the one or more objects, in a case where the operation is a scaling operation; and an object displaying unit configured to display the one or more objects whose coordinates of the constituting points have been changed. The operation item displayed by the operation accepting unit differs, corresponding to which one of an inside or an outside the frame is indicated. A base point for scaling coordinates of the constituting points is a corner of the frame.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 29, 2017
    Publication date: March 22, 2018
    Inventors: Eiji KEMMOCHI, Kiyoshi KASATANI
  • Publication number: 20170310830
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes an event acquisition unit that acquires a pen event based on an operation on a screen; a drawing-click determining unit that determines whether the pen event is an event concerning a stroke of a dot image or concerning a click operation; and a countdown timer that starts clocking when the drawing-click determining unit receives a determination-target pen event to determine, wherein the drawing-click determining unit determines that the determination-target pen event is an event concerning a stroke of a dot image when the clocking has ended and the event acquisition unit has acquired a pen event concerning another stroke, or when an elapsed time from an end of a pen event concerning another stroke acquired prior to the determination-target pen event is within a certain period of time.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 12, 2017
    Publication date: October 26, 2017
    Inventors: Eiji KEMMOCHI, Kiyoshi KASATANI
  • Publication number: 20170293826
    Abstract: An electronic information board apparatus includes: a guide generating unit configured to display a handwriting region on a screen; a coordinate detecting unit configured to detect coordinates of an indication body moving in the handwriting region on the screen; an image drawing unit configured to generate a stroke image based on the coordinates and display the generated stroke image in the handwriting region on a first layer of the screen; a character recognizing unit configured to execute character recognition based on a hand-written image that is hand-written inside the handwriting region and outputs text data; and a display superimposing unit configured to display the text data acquired from the character recognizing unit at a position that is approximately the same as that of the hand-written image that is hand-written inside the handwriting region on the screen, and on a second layer of the screen different from the first layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 26, 2017
    Publication date: October 12, 2017
    Inventors: Eiji KEMMOCHI, Kiyoshi KASATANI
  • Publication number: 20160315935
    Abstract: An image processing system includes an electronic blackboard and a data server connected via a network. The electronic blackboard is configured to generate a code including identification information of a request and identification information of data to be processed specified on the electronic blackboard, and display the code on a display device. The data server includes a transmitter configured to transmit an uploading request to the electronic blackboard when the identification information of the request included in an image of the code captured by a communication device indicates the request as being the uploading request. The uploading request includes the identification information of the data to be processed. The electronic blackboard includes a transmitter configured to transmit data identified by the identification information of the data to be processed to the data server, in response to the uploading request received from the data server.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 7, 2016
    Publication date: October 27, 2016
    Applicant: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Tomoyuki TSUKUDA, Kiyoshi KASATANI, Eiji KEMMOCHI, Mototsugu EMORI
  • Publication number: 20160308979
    Abstract: A non-transitory computer-readable recording medium has a program stored therein for causing a processor of an information processing apparatus to execute a process. The information processing apparatus is configured to provide an image, and has an image processing apparatus display the image. The process includes displaying a screen for confirming whether to continue communication with the image processing apparatus, on a display of the information processing apparatus, after a time specified by a user has elapsed since the communication with the image processing apparatus has been established; and disconnecting the communication in a case where a command to continue the communication is not received from the user after the screen has been displayed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 28, 2016
    Publication date: October 20, 2016
    Applicant: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Eiji KEMMOCHI, Kiyoshi KASATANI
  • Patent number: 9395828
    Abstract: An electronic information board apparatus includes an extraction part configured to extract an operation area from an image input to the electronic information board; a display part configured to reconfigure the extracted operation area and display the reconfigured operation area at a predetermined position of a display screen; a correlation part configured to correlate the coordinates of the operation area and the coordinates of the reconfigured operation area; and a conversion part configured to convert an operation on the coordinates of the reconfigured operation area into an operation on the coordinates of the operation area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2016
    Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Yoshifumi Sakuramata, Masaaki Kagawa, Eiji Kemmochi, Kuangyi Zhu, Hiroko Mano
  • Patent number: 9237246
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes a first display unit that displays a video input on an operation and display unit, a second display unit that displays an input image that is superimposed on the video input displayed on the operation and display unit, and a captured image recording unit that records a captured image of the video input and the input image that are displayed on the operation and display unit. The second display unit erases the input image that is recorded when the captured image recording unit records the captured image of the input image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 12, 2016
    Assignee: RICOH COMPANY, LTD.
    Inventors: Eiji Kemmochi, Atsuo Shimada
  • Patent number: 9098947
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes a synthesizing unit which synthesizes a drawn image drawn on a displayed image on a display device with the displayed image; a content data receiving unit which receives content data; a content data conversion unit which converts the received content data to image data; an external snapshot generation unit which generates an external snapshot to be displayed on the display unit based on the converted image data and stores the external snapshot in a storage unit; and a display control unit which displays the synthesized image by the synthesizing unit on the display device and also displays an object corresponding to the external snapshot in a selectable manner so that the external snapshot is displayed on the display device when the object is selected.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 4, 2015
    Assignee: RICOH COMPANY, LTD.
    Inventor: Eiji Kemmochi
  • Publication number: 20140247463
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes a first display unit that displays a video input on an operation and display unit, a second display unit that displays an input image that is superimposed on the video input displayed on the operation and display unit, and a captured image recording unit that records a captured image of the video input and the input image that are displayed on the operation and display unit. The second display unit erases the input image that is recorded when the captured image recording unit records the captured image of the input image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 26, 2014
    Publication date: September 4, 2014
    Applicant: RICOH COMPANY, LTD.
    Inventors: Eiji KEMMOCHI, Atsuo Shimada
  • Publication number: 20130283198
    Abstract: A display controlling apparatus includes: a state information initializing section to initialize state information of an application to be displayed for a user; a state information registering section to receive an operation event triggered by an operation of the user for registering a record of the state information into a database to be displayed corresponding to the received operation event; a state information display controlling section to monitor the record of the state information registered in the database for determining the record of the state information to be displayed; and a state information displaying section to display the determined record of the state information on a display screen. The display controlling apparatus has at least one record of the state information to be displayed on the display screen at a predetermined timing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 17, 2013
    Publication date: October 24, 2013
    Applicant: RICOH COMPANY, LTD.
    Inventors: Eiji Kemmochi, Tomoyuki Tsukuda
  • Publication number: 20130257905
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes a synthesizing unit which synthesizes a drawn image drawn on a displayed image on a display device with the displayed image; a content data receiving unit which receives content data; a content data conversion unit which converts the received content data to image data; an external snapshot generation unit which generates an external snapshot to be displayed on the display unit based on the converted image data and stores the external snapshot in a storage unit; and a display control unit which displays the synthesized image by the synthesizing unit on the display device and also displays an object corresponding to the external snapshot in a selectable manner so that the external snapshot is displayed on the display device when the object is selected.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 27, 2013
    Publication date: October 3, 2013
    Applicant: RICOH COMPANY, LTD.
    Inventor: Eiji KEMMOCHI
  • Publication number: 20130147736
    Abstract: An electronic information board apparatus includes an extraction part configured to extract an operation area from an image input to the electronic information board; a display part configured to reconfigure the extracted operation area and display the reconfigured operation area at a predetermined position of a display screen; a correlation part configured to correlate the coordinates of the operation area and the coordinates of the reconfigured operation area; and a conversion part configured to convert an operation on the coordinates of the reconfigured operation area into an operation on the coordinates of the operation area.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 4, 2012
    Publication date: June 13, 2013
    Inventors: Yoshifumi Sakuramata, Masaaki Kagawa, Eiji Kemmochi, Kuangyi Zhu, Hiroko Mano
  • Publication number: 20120050197
    Abstract: An electronic whiteboard system, including a touch panel; a display device that displays information related to writing data by the touch panel; and a control device that is connected to the display device and the touch panel and includes an external or built-in storage device storing the writing data, the control device including a pass code setting processing unit that inputs and sets a storage pass code on created writing data through the touch panel, a writing data storage processing unit that stores the writing data by the touch panel in the storage device in association with the storage pass code provided from the pass code setting processing unit, a pass code input processing unit that inputs a restoration pass code which is the same as the storage pass code through the touch panel, a writing data acquisition processing unit that acquires writing data corresponding to the restoration pass code provided from the pass code input processing unit from the storage device when the writing data is present in
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 26, 2011
    Publication date: March 1, 2012
    Inventor: Eiji KEMMOCHI
  • Patent number: 7958135
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus is disclosed that that acquires image/audio information in response to an operations command and generates predetermined electronic data from the acquired information. The information processing apparatus includes a user information storing unit that stores and manages information for identifying an operator issuing the operations command, a personal information storing unit that stores and manages personal information of the operator, a gathering information storing unit that stores or describes a personal information managing service managing personal information that is subject to processing, and an information extracting unit that analyzes the personal information managing service of the gathering information storing unit and extracts relevant personal information from the personal information of the operator stored in the personal information storing unit corresponding to the personal information managing service.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 6, 2006
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2011
    Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Masayoshi Katoh, Soichiro Iga, Tetsuro Nagatsuka, Eiji Kemmochi
  • Patent number: 7668799
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a storing unit configured to store a past history storing table for storing information indicating operations performed on one or more electronic files.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 22, 2006
    Date of Patent: February 23, 2010
    Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Masashi Nakatomi, Eiji Kemmochi
  • Publication number: 20090231637
    Abstract: An image scanning/accumulating system including an information issuing unit that acquires image data; and an information managing unit that includes an image-data database for storing therein the image data acquired by the information issuing unit, and manages the image data. The information managing unit includes a task-information database, and manages task information stored in the task-information database. The information issuing unit includes an image pickup unit that scans a paper-based document thereby obtaining image data, and registers the image data in the image-data database; an information display unit that acquires task information from the task-information database to be associated with the image data obtained by the image pickup unit, and displays acquired task information on a task-information setting screen; and a notifying unit that notifies a contact address included in the task information that the image data associated with the task information is registered in the image-data database.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 12, 2009
    Publication date: September 17, 2009
    Applicant: RICOH COMPANY, LTD
    Inventors: Eiji KEMMOCHI, Masashi Nakatomi, Soichiro Iga, Tetsuro Nagatsuka, Nahoko Sato