Patents by Inventor Hiroshi Nogawa

Hiroshi Nogawa 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: 10091377
    Abstract: Provided is an image forming apparatus, a control method, and a non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing a control program. An image forming apparatus includes a flash memory, where a recording area of the flash memory can be regionally switched between a multilevel recording mode and a binary recording mode. The image forming apparatus further includes a history information creating section which creates use history information; a determining section which determines high frequently used data piece or pieces among data pieces stored in the flash memory, while referring to the use history information; and a recording area changing section which changes a size ratio of a region or regions operating in the binary recording mode and a region or regions operating in the multi-level recording mode in the recording area so that at least the determined data piece or pieces can be recorded in the binary recording mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 29, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 2, 2018
    Assignee: Konica Minolta, Inc.
    Inventor: Hiroshi Nogawa
  • Patent number: 10057433
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a control section and a hardware device controlled by execution of a job execution program. The control section includes a CPU and a non-volatile memory which stores the job execution program and working data created by execution of the job execution program. The control section includes a program monitoring section that, in accordance with a status of execution of the job execution program, determines a job execution status at power-off of the apparatus; and a matching section that, on the basis of a result of determining the job execution status, determines whether an execution status of the job execution program and an operation status of the hardware device match at start-up of the apparatus. On determining that the execution status and the operation status do not match at the start-up, the matching section deletes the working data in the non-volatile memory.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 21, 2018
    Assignee: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.
    Inventor: Hiroshi Nogawa
  • Patent number: 9875069
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a selection section. When the information processing apparatus makes an image forming apparatus perform image formation on a presentation file including first information on a first output image and second information on a second target output image associated with the first output image based on the first information and the second information, the selection section selects a target output image on which the image formation is performed from among the second output image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 2012
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2018
    Assignee: Konica Minolta, Inc.
    Inventors: Tetsuren Ri, Toyoshige Nounishi, Fumihito Akiyama, Masahiro Ozawa, Takahisa Matsunaga, Hiroshi Nogawa, Yasufumi Aoyama, Kunikazu Satou, Shunsuke Araki
  • Patent number: 9639317
    Abstract: An image output apparatus includes an image output unit, a presumption unit, a comparison unit and an output control unit. The image output unit outputs, in a predetermined format, an image of a content of a document file. The presumption unit presumes a first region/language setting of a document file created environment where the document file is created. The comparison unit compares the first region/language setting with a second region/language setting of the image output apparatus. The output control unit makes the image output unit output the image of the content of the document file by using a region/language setting selected from the region/language settings, which are compared with each other by the comparison unit, on the basis of a result of the comparison by the comparison unit in accordance with a predetermined selection condition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 13, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 2, 2017
    Assignee: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.
    Inventors: Yasufumi Aoyama, Masahiro Ozawa, Hiroshi Nogawa, Kunikazu Satou, Takahisa Matsunaga, Tetsuren Ri
  • Patent number: 9547625
    Abstract: An electronic document display apparatus includes a display unit and an analysis-and-setting unit including a determination unit and a first correction unit. The display unit displays an electronic document in display layout set by the analysis-and-setting unit. If the determination unit determines that an image related to a display-range text of a display range to be displayed by the display unit is not included in the display range, the first correction unit adds an image display region where the image is displayed to the display range so as to correct the display layout in such a way that the image and at least a portion of an image text related to the image are included in the display range. The analysis-and-setting unit changes a display state of the image displayed in the image display region on the basis of a predetermined condition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2012
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2017
    Assignee: Konica Minolta, Inc.
    Inventors: Tetsuren Ri, Toyoshige Nounishi, Masahiro Ozawa, Takahisa Matsunaga, Hiroshi Nogawa, Yasufumi Aoyama, Kunikazu Satou
  • Patent number: 9524528
    Abstract: A management apparatus receives image data corresponding to item numbers of the JGAP criteria or foods from each training support apparatus. The management apparatus generates, for each item number, an image data group of image data having been rearranged based on their priorities. The management apparatus notifies the image data groups to each training support apparatus. The training support apparatus performs display control of respective image data associated with each item number, based on the image data groups notified from the management apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 9, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 20, 2016
    Assignee: FUJITSU FSAS INC.
    Inventors: Hiroshi Nogawa, Hirofumi Izumi, Motoki Dai, Shinichi Kawahara, Shuichiro Suetsugu, Shinichi Egashira
  • Publication number: 20160224298
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a control section and a hardware device controlled by execution of a job execution program. The control section includes a CPU and a non-volatile memory which stores the job execution program and working data created by execution of the job execution program. The control section includes a program monitoring section that, in accordance with a status of execution of the job execution program, determines a job execution status at power-off of the apparatus; and a matching section that, on the basis of a result of determining the job execution status, determines whether an execution status of the job execution program and an operation status of the hardware device match at start-up of the apparatus. On determining that the execution status and the operation status do not match at the start-up, the matching section deletes the working data in the non-volatile memory.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 25, 2016
    Publication date: August 4, 2016
    Applicant: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.
    Inventor: Hiroshi NOGAWA
  • Patent number: 9400554
    Abstract: Provided are an information display system, a non-transitory computer-readable storage medium, and a display control method. The information display system includes a transmission type head-mounted display and a control section. The control section includes a gaze point detecting section configured to detect a point of gaze of a user, a first judgment section configured to judge whether the user gazes at a certain area on a virtual screen or on the background beyond the virtual screen, a second judgment section configured to judge whether a sight-line region around the intersection of the virtual screen and a sight line of the user overlaps with an object displayed on the virtual screen, and a display control section configured to, in response to a movement of the point of gaze, change at least one of a display position and a display mode of the object on the basis of judgment results.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 4, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 26, 2016
    Assignee: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.
    Inventors: Mitsuharu Hayasaka, Masahiro Ozawa, Takahisa Matsunaga, Hiroshi Nogawa, Yasufumi Aoyama, Kunikazu Satou, Tetsuren Nogawa
  • Patent number: 9251444
    Abstract: Provided are an image forming apparatus, a non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing a control program, and a print control method. An image forming apparatus which can directly print printing data described in a page description language. The image forming apparatus includes a display section, a data receiving section, an analyzing section and a rasterizing section. The analyzing section is configured to analyze printing data to determine a file format of the printing data, and operate the display section to display a print setup screen thereon, where the print setup screen depends on the file format of the printing data. The analyzing section is further configured to define a layout of objects in each page to be printed and convert the printing data into descriptions of an intermediate language. The rasterizing section is configured to rasterize the descriptions of the intermediate language to create an image to be printed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 16, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 2, 2016
    Assignee: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.
    Inventors: Masahiro Ozawa, Mitsuharu Hayasaka, Takahisa Matsunaga, Hiroshi Nogawa, Yasufumi Aoyama, Kunikazu Satou, Tetsuren Ri
  • Publication number: 20150350479
    Abstract: Provided is an image forming apparatus, a control method, and a non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing a control program. An image forming apparatus includes a flash memory, where a recording area of the flash memory can be regionally switched between a multilevel recording mode and a binary recording mode. The image forming apparatus further includes a history information creating section which creates use history information; a determining section which determines high frequently used data piece or pieces among data pieces stored in the flash memory, while referring to the use history information; and a recording area changing section which changes a size ratio of a region or regions operating in the binary recording mode and a region or regions operating in the multi-level recording mode in the recording area so that at least the determined data piece or pieces can be recorded in the binary recording mode.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 29, 2015
    Publication date: December 3, 2015
    Applicant: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.
    Inventor: Hiroshi NOGAWA
  • Publication number: 20150261738
    Abstract: An inspection supporting apparatus includes a storage unit and a generating unit, for example. The storage unit stores therein different types of templates for each check item that is an inspection object for which it is determined whether a predetermined criterion for a site to handle agricultural crops or foods is satisfied, and stores a master in which the types of the templates and an order of arrangement of the templates are defined for each inspection object. The generating unit, upon receiving a selection of the inspection object, generates a frame in which the templates are arranged based on the selected inspection object and the master.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 10, 2015
    Publication date: September 17, 2015
    Applicant: FUJITSU FSAS INC.
    Inventors: Hirofumi IZUMI, Hiroshi NOGAWA, Motoki DAI, Shinichi KAWAHARA, Syuichiro SUETSUGU, Shinichi EGASHIRA, Yoji MORITA
  • Publication number: 20150199809
    Abstract: A management apparatus receives image data corresponding to item numbers of the JGAP criteria or foods from each training support apparatus. The management apparatus generates, for each item number, an image data group of image data having been rearranged based on their priorities. The management apparatus notifies the image data groups to each training support apparatus. The training support apparatus performs display control of respective image data associated with each item number, based on the image data groups notified from the management apparatus.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 9, 2015
    Publication date: July 16, 2015
    Applicant: FUJITSU FSAS INC.
    Inventors: Hiroshi NOGAWA, Hirofumi IZUMI, Motoki DAI, Shinichi KAWAHARA, Shuichiro SUETSUGU, Shinichi EGASHIRA
  • Publication number: 20150170422
    Abstract: An information display system including a see-through head mount display including a display/projection unit configured to display a drawing object on a virtual screen in a state superimposed on surroundings, and a detection unit configured to detect information determining a position and/or an angle of the virtual screen relative to surroundings, wherein a controller includes: a drawing object generation unit configured to generate a drawing object on the basis of data generated by an application, refer to the information detected by the detection unit, set a drawing position of the drawing object on the virtual screen, and sets a drawing priority for each drawing object; and a drawing processing unit configured to control the display/projection unit to draw the drawing object at the drawing position on the virtual screen, and draws drawing objects overlapping with one another with priority given to a drawing object with a higher drawing priority.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 10, 2014
    Publication date: June 18, 2015
    Inventors: YASUFUMI AOYAMA, MASAHIRO OZAWA, HIROSHI NOGAWA, KUNIKAZU SATOU, TAKAHISA MATSUNAGA, TETSUREN NOGAWA, MITSUHARU HAYASAKA
  • Patent number: 9049324
    Abstract: A data processing device for incorporating one or more scanned data files generated by an image scanning device for storage into a file in a specified format (e.g. an Excel file) equipped with a plurality of display areas (e.g. spreadsheets), which is capable of receiving user's designation of one of the display areas to which each of the scanned data files is allocated to (S101), and modifying configuration data (e.g. part files) of the file so that each of the scanned data files is allocated to one of the display areas according to the user's designation (S112).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 24, 2011
    Date of Patent: June 2, 2015
    Assignee: KONICA MINOLTA BUSINESS TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
    Inventors: Takahisa Matsunaga, Fumihito Akiyama, Masahiro Ozawa, Hiroshi Nogawa, Yasufumi Aoyama, Kunikazu Satou, Yasutaka Shimohara, Tetsuren Ri, Toyoshige Nounishi
  • Publication number: 20150123997
    Abstract: Provided are an information display system, a non-transitory computer-readable storage medium, and a display control method. The information display system includes a transmission type head-mounted display and a control section. The control section includes a gaze point detecting section configured to detect a point of gaze of a user, a first judgment section configured to judge whether the user gazes at a certain area on a virtual screen or on the background beyond the virtual screen, a second judgment section configured to judge whether a sight-line region around the intersection of the virtual screen and a sight line of the user overlaps with an object displayed on the virtual screen, and a display control section configured to, in response to a movement of the point of gaze, change at least one of a display position and a display mode of the object on the basis of judgment results.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 4, 2014
    Publication date: May 7, 2015
    Inventors: Mitsuharu HAYASAKA, Masahiro Ozawa, Takahisa Matsunaga, Hiroshi Nogawa, Yasufumi Aoyama, Kunikazu Satou, Tetsuren Nogawa
  • Publication number: 20150077772
    Abstract: A data generation apparatus includes: a communication section configured to communicate with a print instructing apparatus; and a preview-image generating section configured to analyze a received print job and generate a preview image. The preview-image generating section is further configured to determine whether or not an object having a property not supported by the data generation apparatus exists in each page of the document; in response to determining that the object exists, obtain a possible alternative to the property of the object; generate edit data to be used for highlighting a replaced part in the preview image in which the property of the object is replaced with the possible alternative; and output the edit data to the print instructing apparatus so as to allow a user to recognize the replaced part.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 11, 2014
    Publication date: March 19, 2015
    Applicant: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.
    Inventors: Kunikazu SATOU, Masahiro Ozawa, Takahisa Matsunaga, Mitsuharu Hayasaka, Hiroshi Nogawa, Yasufumi Aoyama, Tetsuren Ri
  • Patent number: 8976373
    Abstract: Disclosed is an image processing apparatus includes a plurality of control sections each of which performs analysis processing of analyzing data of page description language form to generate intermediate language data and rendering processing of generating rendering data based on the intermediate language data generated by the analysis processing, the plurality of control sections capable of performing the analysis processing and the rendering processing parallelly with each other; and a storage section which stores the intermediate language data and the rendering data, and at least any one of the plurality of control sections obtains information with regard to a vacant capacity of the storage section, and at least any one of the control sections discontinues the analysis processing being performed by at least any one control section and performs the rendering processing based on the information with regard to the vacant capacity of the storage section and a predetermined set value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 10, 2015
    Assignee: Konica Minolta, Inc.
    Inventors: Hiroshi Nogawa, Fumihito Akiyama, Masahiro Ozawa, Jun Kuroki, Takahisa Matsunaga, Yasufumi Aoyama, Kunikazu Satou, Yasutaka Shimohara
  • Publication number: 20140376019
    Abstract: Provided are an image forming apparatus, a non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing a control program, and a print control method. An image forming apparatus which can directly print printing data described in a page description language. The image forming apparatus includes a display section, a data receiving section, an analyzing section and a rasterizing section. The analyzing section is configured to analyze printing data to determine a file format of the printing data, and operate the display section to display a print setup screen thereon, where the print setup screen depends on the file format of the printing data. The analyzing section is further configured to define a layout of objects in each page to be printed and convert the printing data into descriptions of an intermediate language. The rasterizing section is configured to rasterize the descriptions of the intermediate language to create an image to be printed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 16, 2014
    Publication date: December 25, 2014
    Applicant: Konica Minolta, Inc.
    Inventors: Masahiro OZAWA, Mitsuharu HAYASAKA, Takahisa MATSUNAGA, Hiroshi NOGAWA, Yasufumi AOYAMA, Kunikazu SATOU, Tetsuren RI
  • Patent number: 8767247
    Abstract: Disclosed is a print data generation device comprising: a storage unit including: a region in which there are temporarily stored data in an intermediate language format between data in a page description language format and print data, and the print data to be generated based on the data in the intermediate language format; and a rasterization region for use at a time when rasterization processing in which the print data is to be generated based on the data in the intermediate language format is executed; and a control unit that includes a plurality of arithmetic operation parts, sets arithmetic operation parts which execute the rasterization processing based on a status of use of the arithmetic operation parts and a status of a free region of the storage unit, and executes the rasterization processing for each of the set arithmetic operation parts.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 1, 2011
    Date of Patent: July 1, 2014
    Assignee: Konica Minolta, Inc.
    Inventors: Masahiro Ozawa, Fumihito Akiyama, Jun Kuroki, Takahisa Matsunaga, Hiroshi Nogawa, Yasufumi Aoyama, Kunikazu Satou, Yasutaka Shimohara
  • Patent number: 8675212
    Abstract: Disclosed is an image processing apparatus, comprising: a control section including a plurality of operation units; and a nonvolatile storage section to store a program to execute analysis processing and rendering processing by a control of the control section, the analysis processing analyzing page description language format data to generate intermediate language format data by the band, and the rendering processing generating rendering data based on the generated intermediate language format data, wherein the control section assigns the operation units the analysis and rendering processing to be executed, based on the stored program, wherein at least one of the operation units is capable of executing the analysis and rendering processing, and wherein when the operation unit is executing one of the analysis and rendering processing, and when an event which suspends the processing being executed occurs, the operation unit executes the other processing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 18, 2014
    Assignee: Konica Minolta Business Technologies, Ltd.
    Inventors: Fumihito Akiyama, Masahiro Ozawa, Jun Kuroki, Hiroshi Nogawa, Yasufumi Aoyama, Kunikazu Satou, Yasutaka Shimohara, Takahisa Matsunaga, Tetsuren Ri