Patents by Inventor Eriko Takahashi

Eriko Takahashi 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: 11989402
    Abstract: A first information processing device is configured to customize a first screen to be displayed by an image processing device and a second screen to be displayed by a second information processing device. The first information processing device displays a customizing screen including multiple icon areas similar to the first screen and a second screen. The first information processing device sets an icon designated by a user to an icon area targeted to be customized. The first information processing device generates first screen data and second screen data reflecting the results of customization on the customizing screen.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2024
    Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Eriko Takahashi
  • Patent number: 11797242
    Abstract: A non-transitory computer readable storage medium storing computer readable instructions that are executable by a computer in an administration system, is provided. The administration system has a client device, an administration device including the computer, a device configured to operate based on commands from the client device, and a storage configured to store a plurality of units of user information concerning a user of the client device. The computer readable instructions, when executed by the computer, cause the computer to acquire device designating information being a designated one of units of device information set to the device from the device, acquire user designating information being a designated one of the units of user information set to the user from the storage, and reflect the acquired device designating information and the acquired user designating information in a distributing file to be delivered to the client device of the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 4, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2023
    Assignee: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Eriko Takahashi
  • Publication number: 20230004634
    Abstract: A management system includes a device and a management device. The device receives user information and transmits the user information device information to the management device. The management device receives the user information and the device information transmitted from the device and transmits one of device-related data and location information to an information processing device. The device-related data includes data used to control the device indicated by the device information received from the information processing device. The location information indicates a location of the device-related data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 24, 2022
    Publication date: January 5, 2023
    Applicant: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Eriko TAKAHASHI
  • Publication number: 20220413777
    Abstract: A non-transitory computer readable storage medium storing computer readable instructions that are executable by a computer in an administration system, is provided. The administration system has a client device, an administration device including the computer, a device configured to operate based on commands from the client device, and a storage configured to store a plurality of units of user information concerning a user of the client device. The computer readable instructions, when executed by the computer, cause the computer to acquire device designating information being a designated one of units of device information set to the device from the device, acquire user designating information being a designated one of the units of user information set to the user from the storage, and reflect the acquired device designating information and the acquired user designating information in a distributing file to be delivered to the client device of the user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 4, 2022
    Publication date: December 29, 2022
    Applicant: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Eriko Takahashi
  • Patent number: 11513747
    Abstract: In an information processing device, a computer executes a device list download process to download a device list from a storage server. The device list includes a plurality of pieces of identification information corresponding to respective ones of a plurality of management target devices. The computer executes a connection determination process to determine for each management target device whether or not the management target device identified by the piece of identification information is connected to the information processing device via the communication interface. The computer executes a content data download process to download content data from the storage server via the communication interface. The computer executes a transmission process to transmit, to the device that is determined to be connected to the information processing device in the connection determination process, the content data which is downloaded in the content data download process and corresponds to the target management device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2022
    Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Eriko Takahashi, Naoki Yoshida, Takashi Nishizaki, Shintaro Kunimoto
  • Publication number: 20210303144
    Abstract: A first information processing device is configured to customize a first screen to be displayed by an image processing device and a second screen to be displayed by a second information processing device. The first information processing device displays a customizing screen including multiple icon areas similar to the first screen and a second screen. The first information processing device sets an icon designated by a user to an icon area targeted to be customized. The first information processing device generates first screen data and second screen data reflecting the results of customization on the customizing screen.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 26, 2021
    Publication date: September 30, 2021
    Inventor: Eriko TAKAHASHI
  • Publication number: 20210224006
    Abstract: In an information processing device, a computer executes a device list download process to download a device list from a storage server. The device list includes a plurality of pieces of identification information corresponding to respective ones of a plurality of management target devices. The computer executes a connection determination process to determine for each management target device whether or not the management target device identified by the piece of identification information is connected to the information processing device via the communication interface. The computer executes a content data download process to download content data from the storage server via the communication interface. The computer executes a transmission process to transmit, to the device that is determined to be connected to the information processing device in the connection determination process, the content data which is downloaded in the content data download process and corresponds to the target management device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 24, 2021
    Publication date: July 22, 2021
    Applicant: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Eriko TAKAHASHI, Naoki Yoshida, Takashi Nishizaki, Shintaro Kunimoto
  • Patent number: 11029899
    Abstract: In a maintenance system, a controller of an information processing device is configured to perform receiving; storing; determining; and transmitting. The receiving receives a set of input information including device information, time information, and setting information via an input interface. The device information specifies a target image forming device. The time information specifies access time to access the target image forming device. The setting information relates to control data to be set in the target image forming device. The storing stores correlation information correlating the device information with the time information and setting information in a memory. The determining determines whether the access time has come. The transmitting transmits, in response to determining that the access time has come, the control data to the target image forming device via a network interface. The target image forming device is specified by the device information correlated by the correlation information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 23, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 8, 2021
    Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Naoki Yoshida, Eriko Takahashi, Shintaro Kunimoto, Takashi Nishizaki
  • Patent number: 10705770
    Abstract: A non-transitory computer-readable medium stores computer-readable instructions executable by a processor coupled with an information processing device including a display, an input interface, and a communication interface, the instructions causing the processor to control the display to display a first customizing screen, in response to a particular type of object on the first customizing screen being selected via the input interface, control the display to display a second customizing screen that is associated with the particular type of object and in a layer one-level lower than the first customizing screen in a screen hierarchy, accept, via the input interface, an operation of moving a target object between the first customizing screen and the second customizing screen, and transmit, to a display apparatus via the communication interface, screen data representing the first customizing apparatus and the second customizing apparatus between which the target object has been moved by the accepted operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 7, 2020
    Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Tomoki Nakamura, Eriko Takahashi
  • Patent number: 10681231
    Abstract: A non-transitory computer-readable medium stores computer-readable instructions that are executable by a processor coupled with an information processing device, the instructions being configured to, when executed by the processor, display a new-icon setting screen including a setting frame, one or more screen setting parts, and one or more operation setting parts, the setting frame having a screen setting area and an operation setting area that extend along a time axis sectioned into a plurality of time frames, accept an operation of setting each screen setting part into a corresponding one of the time frames within the screen setting area, accept an operation of setting each operation setting part into a corresponding one of the time frames within the operation setting area, generate processing data associated with a new icon, in accordance with each setting part set in the setting frame, and transmit the generated processing data to a display apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 9, 2020
    Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Tomoki Nakamura, Eriko Takahashi
  • Publication number: 20190332332
    Abstract: In a maintenance system, a controller of an information processing device is configured to perform receiving; storing; determining; and transmitting. The receiving receives a set of input information including device information, time information, and setting information via an input interface. The device information specifies a target image forming device. The time information specifies access time to access the target image forming device. The setting information relates to control data to be set in the target image forming device. The storing stores correlation information correlating the device information with the time information and setting information in a memory. The determining determines whether the access time has come. The transmitting transmits, in response to determining that the access time has come, the control data to the target image forming device via a network interface. The target image forming device is specified by the device information correlated by the correlation information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 23, 2019
    Publication date: October 31, 2019
    Inventors: Naoki YOSHIDA, Eriko TAKAHASHI, Shintaro KUNIMOTO, Takashi NISHIZAKI
  • Publication number: 20190303052
    Abstract: A non-transitory computer-readable medium stores computer-readable instructions executable by a processor coupled with an information processing device including a display, an input interface, and a communication interface, the instructions causing the processor to control the display to display a first customizing screen, in response to a particular type of object on the first customizing screen being selected via the input interface, control the display to display a second customizing screen that is associated with the particular type of object and in a layer one-level lower than the first customizing screen in a screen hierarchy, accept, via the input interface, an operation of moving a target object between the first customizing screen and the second customizing screen, and transmit, to a display apparatus via the communication interface, screen data representing the first customizing apparatus and the second customizing apparatus between which the target object has been moved by the accepted operation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 25, 2019
    Publication date: October 3, 2019
    Inventors: Tomoki NAKAMURA, Eriko TAKAHASHI
  • Publication number: 20190306346
    Abstract: A non-transitory computer-readable medium stores computer-readable instructions that are executable by a processor coupled with an information processing device, the instructions being configured to, when executed by the processor, display a new-icon setting screen including a setting frame, one or more screen setting parts, and one or more operation setting parts, the setting frame having a screen setting area and an operation setting area that extend along a time axis sectioned into a plurality of time frames, accept an operation of setting each screen setting part into a corresponding one of the time frames within the screen setting area, accept an operation of setting each operation setting part into a corresponding one of the time frames within the operation setting area, generate processing data associated with a new icon, in accordance with each setting part set in the setting frame, and transmit the generated processing data to a display apparatus.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 25, 2019
    Publication date: October 3, 2019
    Inventors: Tomoki NAKAMURA, Eriko TAKAHASHI
  • Patent number: 9176683
    Abstract: An image information processing device has a controller which is configured to display images represented by the image files included in a target image group selected by a user on the display unit sequentially at particular switching intervals. The controller detects whether one of a plurality of specific flick operations is performed during execution of the switching-displaying process. When it is determined that one of a plurality of specific flick operations is performed, one of the plurality of associated processes to be applied to an image which is currently displayed on the display unit is executed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 26, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 3, 2015
    Assignee: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Tomoki Nakamura, Kodai Mizuno, Eriko Takahashi
  • Publication number: 20150212762
    Abstract: An image information processing device has a controller which is configured to display images represented by the image files included in a target image group selected by a user on the display unit sequentially at particular switching intervals. The controller detects whether one of a plurality of specific flick operations is performed during execution of the switching-displaying process. When it is determined that one of a plurality of specific flick operations is performed, one of the plurality of associated processes to be applied to an image which is currently displayed on the display unit is executed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 26, 2015
    Publication date: July 30, 2015
    Applicant: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Tomoki NAKAMURA, Kodai MIZUNO, Eriko TAKAHASHI
  • Publication number: 20140335354
    Abstract: To provide a polyester composite fiber having a heat-shielding property due to high reflectance in an infrared wavelength range (800 to 3000 nm) easy to be changed into thermal energy, and having color development property comparable to that of conventional polyester fibers. The composite fiber is a core-sheath type composite fiber including a core component and a sheath component of 10:90 to 30:70 (mass ratio). The core component includes a thermoplastic polymer including a sunlight shielding material having an average particle size of 0.5 ?m or smaller in 8-70 wt %. The sheath component includes a polyester-type polymer including heat-shielding fine particles in 0.5-10 wt %, the heat-shielding fine particles capable of maintaining color development property and having an average particle size of 0.1 ?m or smaller which is smaller than that of the sunlight shielding material.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 28, 2014
    Publication date: November 13, 2014
    Applicant: KURARAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: DAISUKE OHGA, Hitoshi Nakatsuka, Shinya Kawakado, Eriko Takahashi, Shoji Sueyoshi