Patents by Inventor Hiroya Uruta
Hiroya Uruta 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: 10917369Abstract: An information processing system includes circuitry that acquires input information input to a terminal apparatus, the terminal apparatus operating a message exchange program, determines, based on the input information being acquired, whether or not a condition as a trigger for calling an information processing service is satisfied, changes, based on the determination that the condition as the trigger for calling the information processing service is satisfied, a status of the message exchange program into a status that exchanges a message with the information processing service, acquires, based on the message to the information processing service, electronic information used for information processing, and requests an information apparatus to execute the information processing using the electronic information being acquired.Type: GrantFiled: April 23, 2020Date of Patent: February 9, 2021Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.Inventors: Naoki Takishima, Yoshiharu Tojo, Daisuke Koya, Kiriko Chosokabe, Hiroya Uruta
-
Publication number: 20200252357Abstract: An information processing system includes circuitry that acquires input information input to a terminal apparatus, the terminal apparatus operating a message exchange program, determines, based on the input information being acquired, whether or not a condition as a trigger for calling an information processing service is satisfied, changes, based on the determination that the condition as the trigger for calling the information processing service is satisfied, a status of the message exchange program into a status that exchanges a message with the information processing service, acquires, based on the message to the information processing service, electronic information used for information processing, and requests an information apparatus to execute the information processing using the electronic information being acquired.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 23, 2020Publication date: August 6, 2020Inventors: Naoki TAKISHIMA, Yoshiharu TOJO, Daisuke KOYA, Kiriko CHOSOKABE, Hiroya URUTA
-
Patent number: 10652178Abstract: An information processing system includes circuitry that acquires input information input to a terminal apparatus, the terminal apparatus operating a message exchange program, determines, based on the input information being acquired, whether or not a condition as a trigger for calling an information processing service is satisfied, changes, based on the determination that the condition as the trigger for calling the information processing service is satisfied, a status of the message exchange program into a status that exchanges a message with the information processing service, acquires, based on the message to the information processing service, electronic information used for information processing, and requests an information apparatus to execute the information processing using the electronic information being acquired.Type: GrantFiled: December 19, 2017Date of Patent: May 12, 2020Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.Inventors: Naoki Takishima, Yoshiharu Tojo, Daisuke Koya, Kiriko Chosokabe, Hiroya Uruta
-
Publication number: 20180227251Abstract: An information processing system includes circuitry that acquires input information input to a terminal apparatus, the terminal apparatus operating a message exchange program, determines, based on the input information being acquired, whether or not a condition as a trigger for calling an information processing service is satisfied, changes, based on the determination that the condition as the trigger for calling the information processing service is satisfied, a status of the message exchange program into a status that exchanges a message with the information processing service, acquires, based on the message to the information processing service, electronic information used for information processing, and requests an information apparatus to execute the information processing using the electronic information being acquired.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 19, 2017Publication date: August 9, 2018Inventors: Naoki Takishima, Yoshiharu Tojo, Daisuke Koya, Kiriko Chosokabe, Hiroya Uruta
-
Publication number: 20170163826Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes circuitry configured to: acquire process history data indicating a setting of one or more setting items, as a history of process executed based on the setting of the one or more setting items that are set on a setting screen in which one or more display parts to enable setting of the one or more setting items are arranged; calculate a use frequency of each of the one or more setting items based on the acquired process history data; and display a setting screen in which the one or more display parts are rearranged based on the use frequency of each of the one or more setting items, on a display.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 5, 2016Publication date: June 8, 2017Applicant: Ricoh Company, Ltd.Inventors: Keisuke Nakazawa, Miki Hashimoto, Hiroya Uruta, Yuto Shibata, Tomoki Shibukawa
-
Patent number: 9628665Abstract: An information processing system includes a first information processing apparatus and a second information processing apparatus. The first information processing apparatus includes an acquisition part creating a first information request, a first transmitter transmitting the first information request to the second information processing apparatus, a first receiver receiving the first information from the second information processing apparatus, a display controller controlling displaying the first information, and a first storage storing second information, the display controller controlling displaying the second information when the second information is stored in the first storage.Type: GrantFiled: November 16, 2015Date of Patent: April 18, 2017Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.Inventors: Daisuke Okada, Hiroya Uruta, Yuka Saito, Akiko Kitayama, Yuto Shibata, Chan Gu, Keisuke Nakazawa
-
Publication number: 20160155093Abstract: A main body of the image forming apparatus includes a first user-information storage unit configured to store user information. An information processing terminal includes: a data processing unit configured to acquire attendance information; a user-information processing unit configured to acquire, from the main body of the image forming apparatus, user information of a user who has clocked in determined based on the attendance information and acquire user information read in by the reader from the user-information recording medium for user authentication; and, a second user-information storage unit configured to store the user information of the user who has clocked in. The user-information processing unit being configured to perform user authentication by using the user information stored by the second user-information storage unit and the user information read in by the reader from the user-information recording medium for user authentication.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 1, 2015Publication date: June 2, 2016Applicant: Ricoh Company, LimitedInventors: Yuto SHIBATA, Daisuke OKADA, Chan GU, Keisuke NAKAZAWA, Hiroya URUTA, Akiko KITAYAMA, Yuka SAITO
-
Publication number: 20160150123Abstract: An information processing system includes a first information processing apparatus and a second information processing apparatus. The first information processing apparatus includes an acquisition part creating a first information request, a first transmitter transmitting the first information request to the second information processing apparatus, a first receiver receiving the first information from the second information processing apparatus, a display controller controlling displaying the first information, and a first storage storing second information, the display controller controlling displaying the second information when the second information is stored in the first storage.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 16, 2015Publication date: May 26, 2016Applicant: Ricoh Company, Ltd.Inventors: Daisuke OKADA, Hiroya URUTA, Yuka SAITO, Akiko KITAYAMA, Yuto SHIBATA, Chan GU, Keisuke NAKAZAWA
-
Publication number: 20160072977Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes an address information storage storing recipient information relating to a recipient and the recipient's address with an address identifier as address information; a program storage storing setting information in association with a program identifier as program information, the setting information including program identification information specifying a program and the address identifier; a program execution unit executing the program associated with the program identifier based on the setting information; an address information change unit changing the address information in the address information storage, and changing the address identifier along with the change in the address information; and an information change adjusting unit adjusting, upon detecting a change in one of the address identifier and the address information, the address identifier of the program information including the address identifier in the program storage in response to the change in theType: ApplicationFiled: September 1, 2015Publication date: March 10, 2016Applicant: Ricoh Company, Ltd.Inventors: Kazuki SASAYAMA, Daisuke OKADA, Chan GU, Yuto SHIBATA, Akiko KITAYAMA, Daisuke MASUI, Masashi TANIGUCHI, Noboru TAMURA, Naoya TAMURA, Yuka SAITO, Hiroya URUTA
-
Patent number: 9235788Abstract: Disclosed is an image forming apparatus including a command receiving unit that receives a print command, a detector that detects a state of the operation unit, and a controller. When the detector detects that the state of the operation unit is a predetermined state subsequent to receiving the print command by the command receiving unit and prior to completion of printing based on the print command, the controller causes the printing to be terminated. When the detector detects that the state of the operation unit is not the predetermined state subsequent to receiving the print command by the command receiving unit and prior to the completion of the printing based on the print command, the controller causes the printing to be executed.Type: GrantFiled: May 28, 2013Date of Patent: January 12, 2016Assignee: RICOH COMPANY, LTD.Inventors: Daisuke Masui, Hiroya Uruta, Tomoyuki Takahira, Yuka Saito, Naohiko Kubo, Naoya Tamura
-
Publication number: 20150339548Abstract: A processing function proposing apparatus includes a status detector that detects a current status of a resource, a request acquisition unit that acquires a composite function requested to be executed from multiple composite functions, each composite function combining multiple unit functions, a function selecting unit to select at least one unit function combined that executes the requested composite function based on the current status of the resource, and a proposing unit that proposes the unit function selected by the function selecting unit.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 21, 2015Publication date: November 26, 2015Inventors: Akiko KITAYAMA, Yasuyuki Igarashi, Daisuke Masui, Daisuke Okada, Yuka Saito, Yuto Shibata, Hiroya Uruta, Naoya Tamura, Noboru Tamura, Kazuki Sasayama, Masashi Taniguchi, Chan Gu
-
Publication number: 20150073935Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes: a storage control unit that stores, in a storage medium, device number information for identifying the information processing apparatus and a consumables list of consumables available in the information processing apparatus identified by the device number information; and a processing unit that acquires the consumables list from an order receiving server via a network, causes the consumables list to be displayed, and send order information received from the user to the order receiving server when being connected to the network, causes the consumables list to be displayed and causes the storage control unit to store order information received from the user when being not connected to the network, and sends the order information stored to the order receiving server when the information processing apparatus is recovered from a state of being not connected to the network to a state of being connected to the network.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 10, 2014Publication date: March 12, 2015Inventors: Yuto SHIBATA, Noboru Tamura, Yuka Saito, Hiroya Uruta, Yasuyuki Igarashi, Daisuke Masui, Masashi Taniguchi, Naoya Tamura, Chan Gu
-
Patent number: 8755072Abstract: An image forming apparatus stores billing information depending on a formation and output of an image. The apparatus includes a page information acquiring unit that acquires page information written in PDL, a page information analysis unit that analyzes the page information and outputs a drawing command for performing the formation and output of the image for each of a plurality of regions divided from a unit page, a drawing information generating unit that generates drawing information for performing the formation and output of the image on the basis of the drawing command, a billing amount determining unit that judges whether an image to be drawn is contained in each of the divided regions and determines a billing amount for each divided region on the basis of the judgment result, and a billing information storage unit that stores information of the determined billing amount.Type: GrantFiled: January 18, 2012Date of Patent: June 17, 2014Assignee: Ricoh Company, LimitedInventors: Tetsuro Kutsuwada, Hiroya Uruta, Akira Masuda, Daisuke Masui, Takayuki Inoue, Hiroaki Kobayashi, Hajime Kubota, Yusuke Kawatsu
-
Publication number: 20130321849Abstract: Disclosed is an image forming apparatus including a command receiving unit that receives a print command, a detector that detects a state of the operation unit, and a controller. When the detector detects that the state of the operation unit is a predetermined state subsequent to receiving the print command by the command receiving unit and prior to completion of printing based on the print command, the controller causes the printing to be terminated. When the detector detects that the state of the operation unit is not the predetermined state subsequent to receiving the print command by the command receiving unit and prior to the completion of the printing based on the print command, the controller causes the printing to be executed.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 28, 2013Publication date: December 5, 2013Applicant: RICOH COMPANY, LTD.Inventors: Daisuke MASUI, Hiroya URUTA, Tomoyuki TAKAHIRA, Yuka SAITO, Naohiko KUBO, Naoya TAMURA
-
Patent number: 8370768Abstract: An image forming apparatus is disclosed. The image forming apparatus includes a displaying unit which displays a predetermined number of menu items in plural menu items on a screen, an inputting unit which selects a menu item from the menu items displayed on the screen by the displaying unit, and a storing unit which registers the menu item selected by the input unit in a user custom menu table for each user having registration regions where a predetermined number of menu items are stored.Type: GrantFiled: October 9, 2007Date of Patent: February 5, 2013Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.Inventors: Naohiko Kubo, Naruhiko Ogasawara, Nobuyuki Iwata, Hiroya Uruta, Takahiro Hirakawa
-
Patent number: 8300260Abstract: An image forming apparatus and a print control method prevents a disadvantageous effect to a user due to print failure, before an image forming operation is started. The image forming apparatus includes an interface for connecting an external storage device to the image forming apparatus. Data stored in the external storage device is read via the interface and printed by the image forming apparatus. A memory usage at the time of printing the data is calculated based on a parameter obtained from various information about the data. The calculated memory usage and a memory capacity that is available in the image forming apparatus during printing are compared. An image forming operation for printing the data is controlled depending on a comparison result.Type: GrantFiled: January 22, 2009Date of Patent: October 30, 2012Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.Inventors: Hiroya Uruta, Takanori Fujii, Tetsuo Asakawa, Eijiro Inoue, Akihiro Kakoi, Yoshinori Furuichi, Kazuya Ezura, Yoshihiro Ogura, Yoshiaki Satoh
-
Patent number: 8300248Abstract: A printing control system includes a host interface, a user interface, a printing unit, and a controller. The host interface communicates with a host device that submits a print job. The user interface communicates with a user. The printing unit executes the print job. The controller suspends operation at the printing unit in response to a suspend request received at one of the host interface and user interface. The controller measures an elapsed time since the suspension, and transmits one of first and second commands upon determining that the elapsed time exceeds a given reference time. The first command causes the printing unit to automatically resume the suspended operation. The second command causes the host interface to send a notification of the suspension.Type: GrantFiled: January 30, 2008Date of Patent: October 30, 2012Assignee: Ricoh Company, LimitedInventors: Hiroya Uruta, Toshio Kitazawa, Tsuyoshi Sakuma, Yuka Saito
-
Patent number: 8294932Abstract: In an image forming apparatus that receives print data from an external device and prints out the print data in response to a print command, a searching unit that searches, when new print data is received from the external device, a storage unit storing therein the print data that includes user information for previous print data that includes user information same as that of the new print data; and a notifying unit that sends, when the searching unit finds the previous print data, a notice to the external device saying that the previous print data is still present in the storage unit.Type: GrantFiled: March 4, 2009Date of Patent: October 23, 2012Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.Inventors: Yoshiaki Satoh, Yoshinori Furuichi, Akihiro Kakoi, Takanori Fujii, Eijiro Inoue, Tetsuo Asakawa, Hiroya Uruta, Kazuya Ezura, Yoshihiro Ogura
-
Publication number: 20120188601Abstract: An image forming apparatus stores billing information depending on a formation and output of an image. The apparatus includes a page information acquiring unit that acquires page information written in PDL, a page information analysis unit that analyzes the page information and outputs a drawing command for performing the formation and output of the image for each of a plurality of regions divided from a unit page, a drawing information generating unit that generates drawing information for performing the formation and output of the image on the basis of the drawing command, a billing amount determining unit that judges whether an image to be drawn is contained in each of the divided regions and determines a billing amount for each divided region on the basis of the judgment result, and a billing information storage unit that stores information of the determined billing amount.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 18, 2012Publication date: July 26, 2012Applicant: RICOH COMPANY, LIMITEDInventors: Tetsuro Kutsuwada, Hiroya Uruta, Akira Masuda, Daisuke Masui, Takayuki Inoue, Hiroaki Kobayashi, Hajime Kubota, Yusuke Kawatsu
-
Image forming apparatus capable of allowing easy operation of data while maintaining confidentiality
Patent number: 8185948Abstract: An image forming apparatus which requests authentication for login processing based on user information when a user requests specific processing includes a communication interface for receiving data, a print mechanism for performing printing processing on data, a registration mechanism for registering a plurality of user information, a storage mechanism for storing an access control list and an administration mechanism. The administration mechanism administers login processing of a plurality of users based on hierarchy information of the registered users and registered contents of the access control list, and to administer permission of the operation processing requested by the user. When the user instructs specific processing of data which is a guest job having no authentication information, the processing of the data is carried out.Type: GrantFiled: March 13, 2007Date of Patent: May 22, 2012Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.Inventors: Hiroya Uruta, Nobuyuki Iwata, Naruhiko Ogasawara, Takahiro Hirakawa, Naohiko Kubo