Patents by Inventor Hirokazu Sato

Hirokazu Sato 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: 9578191
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes: an image forming device forming an image; an input device; a beacon receiver; a storage storing definition information for defining a common standby screen, an individual standby screen and a transition destination screen; a display configured to display screens defined by the definition information; and a controller. The controller executes: display control processing of displaying the standby screen and the standby screen on the display when the input device is not operated for a time period; storage control processing of, when receiving the beacon signal, storing beacon information; reception processing of receiving a user's operation of selecting the screen transition object; screen transition processing of, when the operation is received, displaying the transition destination screen; and switching processing of displaying the individual standby screen associated with target identification information only when the standby screen is displayed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2017
    Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Hirokazu Sato
  • Patent number: 9454334
    Abstract: A non-transitory computer readable storage medium stores a set of program instructions executed by an information processing device. The program instructions, when executed by the information processing device, causes the information processing device to perform a data listing to display a list of first identifiers and second identifiers on the display unit in a manner selectable through the operation unit, when the operation unit receives a user's operation to select a combination of a first device and a second device among the plurality of devices. The program instructions include transmitting a first recording instruction information to the second device via the communication unit when the operation unit receives a user's operation to select one first identifier. The program instructions include transmitting a second recording instruction information to the second device via the communication unit when the operation unit receives a user's operation to select one second identifier.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 27, 2016
    Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Hirokazu Sato
  • Patent number: 9423993
    Abstract: There is provided a non-transitory computer-readable medium storing a communication program. The communication program is configured to cause a communication device to perform: judging a type of the external device based on information received from the external device by the near field communication protocol; generating the printing data, in a case that it is judged that the type of the external device is a first external device configured to execute printing; transmitting the generated printing data to the first external device by a communication protocol; and transmitting, in a case that it is judged that the type of the external device is a second external device to which the to-be processed data or an image data corresponding to the to-be processed data is transmitted, the to-be processed data or the image data corresponding to the to-be processed data to the second external device by the communication protocol.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2016
    Assignee: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Hirokazu Sato
  • Publication number: 20160212283
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes: an image forming device forming an image; an input device; a beacon receiver; a storage storing definition information for defining a common standby screen, an individual standby screen and a transition destination screen; a display configured to display screens defined by the definition information; and a controller. The controller executes: display control processing of displaying the standby screen and the standby screen on the display when the input device is not operated for a time period; storage control processing of, when receiving the beacon signal, storing beacon information; reception processing of receiving a user's operation of selecting the screen transition object; screen transition processing of, when the operation is received, displaying the transition destination screen; and switching processing of displaying the individual standby screen associated with target identification information only when the standby screen is displayed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 28, 2015
    Publication date: July 21, 2016
    Inventor: Hirokazu SATO
  • Publication number: 20160198050
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus is provided that includes a controller configured to control a communication device to transmit, to an information processing terminal device, image processing information indicating a specific one of image processing operations that has been selected at a time when the controller starts establishment of communication with the information processing terminal device, control the communication device to receive execution instructing information from the information processing terminal device, and control a specific one of image processing executing devices that corresponds to the received execution instructing information to execute the specific image processing operation in accordance with the received execution instructing information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 11, 2016
    Publication date: July 7, 2016
    Applicant: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Hirokazu SATO
  • Patent number: 9323479
    Abstract: A medium stores instructions that are executable by a computer. The instructions cause a controller of an information processing apparatus to receive a selection of a moving-image file from a plurality of moving-image files stored in a storage unit, to receive a selection of a print target frame image from a plurality of frame images composing the moving-file that has been selected, to output print data based on the print target frame image to a print unit, to store a thumbnail composing image based on the print target frame image upon associating with the moving-image file that has been selected, and to display one thumbnail image based on the thumbnail composing image that has been stored in the storage unit upon associating with that moving-image file, for each of the plurality of moving-image files that has been stored in the storage unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2016
    Assignee: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Hirokazu Sato
  • Patent number: 9294632
    Abstract: A non-transitory computer-readable recording medium for a mobile terminal configured to communicate with first and second scanning devices which exist within a communicatable range of an NFC (near field wireless communication), the recording medium storing instructions which cause the mobile device to, when the NFC is established between the mobile terminal and a particular scanning device, which is one of the first and second scanning devices, transmit to the particular scanning device a scan command to instruct to generate scan data, execute a determination process to determine which of the first and second scanning devices is the particular scanning device, and only when the first scanning device is the particular scanning device, execute a first process to store the scan data in a first storage server which corresponds to the first scanning device, the scan data being generated in the particular scanner device based on the scan command.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2016
    Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Hirokazu Sato
  • Patent number: 9286019
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus is provided that includes a controller configured to control a communication device to transmit, to an information processing terminal device, image processing information indicating a specific one of image processing operations that has been selected at a time when the controller starts establishment of communication with the information processing terminal device, control the communication device to receive execution instructing information from the information processing terminal device, and control a specific one of image processing executing devices that corresponds to the received execution instructing information to execute the specific image processing operation in accordance with the received execution instructing information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 15, 2016
    Assignee: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Hirokazu Sato
  • Patent number: 9278879
    Abstract: A method of drawing an optical fiber in which a glass optical fiber is drawn while fusing by heating and pulling by a pulling mechanism one end of an optical fiber preform made of glass, includes drawing the glass optical fiber from the one end of the optical fiber preform while controlling a drawing speed to make an external diameter of the glass optical fiber larger than an external diameter of a product-to-be glass-optical fiber to be used to manufacture a product. The method includes adjusting an external diameter of the glass optical fiber to an external diameter passable through a die for forming a coating. The method also includes arranging the die around the glass optical fiber having the external diameter passable through the die.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 12, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2016
    Assignee: FURUKAWA ELECTRIC CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yuta Aoki, Katsuhiko Watanabe, Kiyoshi Arima, Hirokazu Sato, Yoshiharu Taga, Takashi Suzuki
  • Patent number: 9189189
    Abstract: A mobile terminal establishes a long distance wireless communication with a printing device in accordance with identification information communicated between the mobile terminal and the printing device using the near field communication. The mobile terminal transmits a print command to the printing device using one of the near field communication unit and the long distance communication unit. The mobile terminal determines, after the print command was transmitted, and transmits, to the printing device, using the long distance communication unit, a print termination command, when the mobile terminal is spaced from the printing device by the first distance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 17, 2015
    Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Hirokazu Sato
  • Publication number: 20150317542
    Abstract: A non-transitory computer readable storage medium stores a set of program instructions executed by an information processing device. The program instructions, when executed by the information processing device, causes the information processing device to perform a data listing to display a list of first identifiers and second identifiers on the display unit in a manner selectable through the operation unit, when the operation unit receives a user's operation to select a combination of a first device and a second device among the plurality of devices. The program instructions include transmitting a first recording instruction information to the second device via the communication unit when the operation unit receives a user's operation to select one first identifier. The program instructions include transmitting a second recording instruction information to the second device via the communication unit when the operation unit receives a user's operation to select one second identifier.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 30, 2015
    Publication date: November 5, 2015
    Inventor: Hirokazu Sato
  • Publication number: 20150242728
    Abstract: A medium stores instructions that are executable by a computer. The instructions cause a controller of an information processing apparatus to receive a selection of a moving-image file from a plurality of moving-image files stored in a storage unit, to receive a selection of a print target frame image from a plurality of frame images composing the moving-file that has been selected, to output print data based on the print target frame image to a print unit, to store a thumbnail composing image based on the print target frame image upon associating with the moving-image file that has been selected, and to display one thumbnail image based on the thumbnail composing image that has been stored in the storage unit upon associating with that moving-image file, for each of the plurality of moving-image files that has been stored in the storage unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 25, 2015
    Publication date: August 27, 2015
    Applicant: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Hirokazu SATO
  • Patent number: 9063675
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a communication unit communicable with a device via an access point which relays communication data and a controller. The controller is configured to store, in a first storage portion, setting information set for a processing in association with identification information of an access point to which the communication unit is connected. The controller is further configured to acquire the identification information of the access point to which the communication unit is connected. The controller is further configured to read the setting information stored in association with the identification information acquired from the first storage portion and to set the processing by using the read setting information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2012
    Date of Patent: June 23, 2015
    Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Hirokazu Sato
  • Publication number: 20150138600
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus is provided that includes a first communication device, a second communication device, an informing device, and a controller configured to control the first communication device to establish first communication with an information processing terminal device that is within a predetermined communicable distance from the first communication device, and to control the second communication device to transmit, to the information processing terminal device, target data that has been informed of by the informing device at a time when the first communication is established between the first communication device and the information processing terminal device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 23, 2015
    Publication date: May 21, 2015
    Applicant: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Hirokazu SATO
  • Publication number: 20150116753
    Abstract: A mobile terminal establishes a long distance wireless communication with a printing device in accordance with identification information communicated between the mobile terminal and the printing device using the near field communication. The mobile terminal transmits a print command to the printing device using one of the near field communication unit and the long distance communication unit. The mobile terminal determines, after the print command was transmitted, and transmits, to the printing device, using the long distance communication unit, a print termination command, when the mobile terminal is spaced from the printing device by the first distance.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 30, 2014
    Publication date: April 30, 2015
    Inventor: Hirokazu SATO
  • Publication number: 20150116762
    Abstract: A non-transitory computer-readable recording medium for a mobile terminal configured to communicate with first and second scanning devices which exist within a communicatable range of an NFC (near field wireless communication), the recording medium storing instructions which cause the mobile device to, when the NFC is established between the mobile terminal and a particular scanning device, which is one of the first and second scanning devices, transmit to the particular scanning device a scan command to instruct to generate scan data, execute a determination process to determine which of the first and second scanning devices is the particular scanning device, and only when the first scanning device is the particular scanning device, execute a first process to store the scan data in a first storage server which corresponds to the first scanning device, the scan data being generated in the particular scanner device based on the scan command.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 30, 2014
    Publication date: April 30, 2015
    Inventor: Hirokazu SATO
  • Patent number: 9000912
    Abstract: A monitoring apparatus includes a processor that executes a procedure, the procedure including outputting an alert when observation data satisfies a certain condition, the observation data being obtained at a certain time interval, suppressing the outputting of the alert in accordance with control, and performing control the suppressing until the certain time elapses since one of the outputting of the alert and the suppressing is performed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 7, 2015
    Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
    Inventors: Hirokazu Sato, Toshiyuki Ito, Yasuomi Iriyama, Yasumasa Oshiro, Tomohiro Nakamura, Tomonori Ota, Junya Hiramatsu, Yuta Inoue
  • Patent number: 8941850
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus is provided that includes a first communication device, a second communication device, an informing device, and a controller configured to control the first communication device to establish first communication with an information processing terminal device that is within a predetermined communicable distance from the first communication device, and to control the second communication device to transmit, to the information processing terminal device, target data that has been informed of by the informing device at a time when the first communication is established between the first communication device and the information processing terminal device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 27, 2015
    Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Hirokazu Sato
  • Publication number: 20140285826
    Abstract: There is provided a non-transitory computer-readable medium storing a communication program. The communication program is configured to cause a communication device to perform: judging a type of the external device based on information received from the external device by the near field communication protocol; generating the printing data, in a case that it is judged that the type of the external device is a first external device configured to execute printing; transmitting the generated printing data to the first external device by a communication protocol; and transmitting, in a case that it is judged that the type of the external device is a second external device to which the to-be processed data or an image data corresponding to the to-be processed data is transmitted, the to-be processed data or the image data corresponding to the to-be processed data to the second external device by the communication protocol.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 25, 2014
    Publication date: September 25, 2014
    Applicant: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Hirokazu SATO
  • Publication number: 20140242549
    Abstract: An artificial teeth packaging container includes an artificial teeth accommodating portion for fixing a plurality of continuously arranged artificial teeth detachably, and holding an arrangement position relation with an adjacent artificial teeth and an arrangement position relation with an upper or lower artificial molar teeth, in which the artificial teeth accommodating portion covers the plurality of artificial teeth from an occlusal plane in a state exposed around a cervical portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 8, 2014
    Publication date: August 28, 2014
    Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA SHOFU
    Inventors: Hisashi OKADA, Noriyuki NEGORO, Kunihiro FUJII, Hirokazu SATO