Patents by Inventor Hiroyuki Funo

Hiroyuki Funo 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: 11609728
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a changing unit. The changing unit changes a setting of wireless communication in a location in accordance with a user who has made a reservation for the location.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 21, 2023
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Funo, Satoru Tsuto, Nobuyuki Yamazoe
  • Patent number: 11182994
    Abstract: A system includes an operation receiving unit and an operation control apparatus. The operation receiving unit is operated by a user. The operation control apparatus controls a first device at a facility to enter into an operating state in response to a user operation being performed at the operation receiving unit during a first time period determined by reservation information. The operation control apparatus also controls a second device at the facility to enter into an operating state at a start time associated with the first time period, regardless of presence of a user operation at the operation receiving unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 23, 2021
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Funo, Satoru Tsuto, Naoyasu Terao
  • Publication number: 20210241558
    Abstract: A system includes an operation receiving unit and an operation control apparatus. The operation receiving unit is operated by a user. The operation control apparatus controls a first device at a facility to enter an operating state in response to a user operation being performed at the operation receiving unit during a first time period determined by reservation information. The operation control apparatus also controls a second device at the facility to enter an operating state in response to arrival of a time determined by the first time period, regardless of presence of a user operation at the operation receiving unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 26, 2020
    Publication date: August 5, 2021
    Applicant: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hiroyuki FUNO, Satoru TSUTO, Naoyasu TERAO
  • Publication number: 20200364011
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a changing unit. The changing unit changes a setting of wireless communication in a location in accordance with a user who has made a reservation for the location.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 27, 2019
    Publication date: November 19, 2020
    Applicant: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hiroyuki FUNO, Satoru TSUTO, Nobuyuki YAMAZOE
  • Patent number: 8773398
    Abstract: A data input system including electronic paper and a stylus writing device is disclosed. The electronic paper includes a transparent display substrate on which a number of optically readable code patterns have been formed, the optically readable code patterns representing positional information on a display surface, a rear surface substrate opposing the display substrate, and coloring particles that are enclosed between the display substrate and the rear surface substrate and that are movable by applying an electric or a magnetic field. The electronic paper displays an image due to motion of the particle. The stylus writing device includes a writing head provided at the end of the stylus for writing the image by applying an electric or a magnetic field to the electronic paper by contact and includes an optical reading device for optically reading the code patterns formed on the display surface where the end of the stylus contacts.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2008
    Date of Patent: July 8, 2014
    Assignee: Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Funo, Masao Watanabe, Takayuki Takeuchi, Yoshinori Machida, Kiyoshi Iida, Ryota Mizutani, Yasuaki Konishi
  • Patent number: 8570307
    Abstract: The electronic writing instrument is provided with: a writing unit that writes down on a medium where a code indicating identity information and location information of the medium is formed; an emitting unit that emits light to the medium; a photoelectric conversion unit that includes photoelectric conversion element receiving a reflected light from the medium by the light emitted by the emitting unit and outputting an electronic signal after converting the reflected light by photoelectric conversion; a receiving unit that receives a user operation; and a condition changing unit that changes at least any one of an emitting condition of the emitting unit to the medium and an output condition of the photoelectric conversion unit when the receiving unit receives an operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2013
    Assignee: Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Shin Takeuchi, Eisuke Osakabe, Eigo Nakagawa, Hiroyuki Funo, Tomohito Takagi
  • Publication number: 20120182272
    Abstract: An electronic writing device includes a light source, an image sensor, a detecting unit, table information, and a controller. The light source emits light to a recording medium. The image sensor receives the light reflected from the recording medium as image data. The detecting unit detects a light quantity of the image data received by the image sensor. In the table information, a light-quantity range and a control object for the image sensor or the light source are associated with each other. The light-quantity range is segmented into multiple threshold values. The controller controls the operation of the image sensor or the light source, every time the image sensor receives new image data, on the basis of the light quantity of the image data detected by the detecting unit and the table information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 27, 2011
    Publication date: July 19, 2012
    Applicant: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kazushige OOI, Eisuke Osakabe, Hiroyuki Funo, Tomonari Takahashi
  • Publication number: 20120133620
    Abstract: The electronic writing instrument is provided with: a writing unit that writes down on a medium where a code indicating identity information and location information of the medium is formed; an emitting unit that emits light to the medium; a photoelectric conversion unit that includes photoelectric conversion element receiving a reflected light from the medium by the light emitted by the emitting unit and outputting an electronic signal after converting the reflected light by photoelectric conversion; a receiving unit that receives a user operation; and a condition changing unit that changes at least any one of an emitting condition of the emitting unit to the medium and an output condition of the photoelectric conversion unit when the receiving unit receives an operation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 27, 2012
    Publication date: May 31, 2012
    Applicant: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shin TAKEUCHI, Eisuke OSAKABE, Eigo NAKAGAWA, Hiroyuki FUNO, Tomohito TAKAGI
  • Patent number: 8169423
    Abstract: The electronic writing instrument is provided with: a writing unit that writes down on a medium where a code indicating identity information and location information of the medium is formed; an emitting unit that emits light to the medium; a photoelectric conversion unit that includes photoelectric conversion element receiving a reflected light from the medium by the light emitted by the emitting unit and outputting an electronic signal after converting the reflected light by photoelectric conversion; a receiving unit that receives a user operation; and a condition changing unit that changes at least any one of an emitting condition of the emitting unit to the medium and an output condition of the photoelectric conversion unit when the receiving unit receives an operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2008
    Date of Patent: May 1, 2012
    Assignee: Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Shin Takeuchi, Eisuke Osakabe, Eigo Nakagawa, Hiroyuki Funo, Tomohito Takagi
  • Patent number: 8059130
    Abstract: A document processing operation system includes: a rewrite unit; and an image display medium for holding display of a document image rewritably and in a substantially no-power supply state, which is attached to the rewrite unit, wherein the rewrite unit performs display image rewrite processing for the image display medium, wherein the image display medium comprises: an operation device that accepts operation input from a user; and an information providing section that transmits operation information entered on the operation device in a wirelessly readable manner, and wherein the rewrite unit comprises: a read section that wirelessly reads the operation information transmitted by the information providing section; a processing section that performs processing relating to document data preset in response to the read operation information; and a write section that writes a document image to the image display medium with the read operation information under a control of the processing section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 4, 2006
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2011
    Assignee: Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yoshitsugu Hirose, Hiroyuki Hotta, Minoru Koshimizu, Naoki Hayashi, Masao Watanabe, Hiroyuki Funo
  • Patent number: 7961077
    Abstract: A responder authenticity determination system, comprising: a responder that sends a response signal in response to a received signal; an interrogation signal generator that generates an interrogation signal having a random waveform; a transceiver that sends the generated interrogation signal to the responder, and receives a response signal from the responder; and an authenticity determination unit that determines authenticity of the responder based on the received response signal and the random waveform of the generated interrogation signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 2007
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2011
    Assignee: Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Masao Watanabe, Hiroyuki Funo, Kiyoshi Iida, Ryota Mizutani, Yasuaki Konishi
  • Patent number: 7817146
    Abstract: The present invention provides a sheet with plural wireless measuring units, each of which, when a radio signal is sent, measures physical quantity surrounding itself by using the radio signal as an energy source, and generates and sends a radio signal having an attribute reflecting the measured physical quantity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 18, 2005
    Date of Patent: October 19, 2010
    Assignee: Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yasunori Saito, Naoki Hayashi, Tsutomu Ishii, Minoru Koshimizu, Hiroyuki Hotta, Masao Watanabe, Hiroyuki Funo, Kiyoshi Iida, Ryota Mizutani
  • Patent number: 7800475
    Abstract: A non-contact signal transmission apparatus transmits electric power and a signal in a non-contact manner via magnetic induction. The apparatus includes: a pair of annular electric power cores provided in opposing relationship to each other; a pair of electric power coils respectively provided in an annular form at one of the pair of electric power cores; and a pair of signal coils respectively provided in an annular form inside one of the pair of electric power cores. Relative permeability inside and around the signal coils is lower than relative permeability of the electric power cores.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2007
    Date of Patent: September 21, 2010
    Assignee: Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Ryota Mizutani, Yasuaki Konishi, Kiyoshi Iida, Hiroyuki Funo, Masao Watanabe
  • Patent number: 7667594
    Abstract: A sensor of this comprises a receiving section that receives a signal that is sent from outside, a circuit whose impedance changes irreversibly in accordance with an environmental change, a measurement section that measures the impedance of the circuit in an event that a signal is received by the receiving section, and a sending section that sends data representing a measurement result of the measurement section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 16, 2006
    Date of Patent: February 23, 2010
    Assignee: Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Funo, Masao Watanabe, Kiyoshi Iida, Ryota Mizutani, Yasuaki Konishi
  • Patent number: 7663290
    Abstract: A sensor includes a substrate, a medium on which a surface acoustic wave propagates, a reference electrode, an antenna, a transducer that includes a first electrode connected to the antenna and a second electrode connected to the reference electrode and arranged opposite to the first electrode, and that has a function of converting a signal received by the antenna into a surface acoustic wave propagating on the medium, and a function of converting a surface acoustic wave propagating on the medium and reaching the transducer into a signal and outputting the signal to the antenna, a reflector that throws back a surface acoustic wave generated by the transducer, propagating on the medium, and reaching the reflector, toward the transducer, and an impedance converter connected to the reference electrode, impedance of which changes in response to a change in circumstances surrounding the sensor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 2007
    Date of Patent: February 16, 2010
    Assignee: Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd
    Inventors: Yasuaki Konishi, Masao Watanabe, Hiroyuki Funo, Kiyoshi Iida, Ryota Mizutani
  • Patent number: 7515046
    Abstract: A wireless response device comprises an antenna that receives a question signal, an identification signal generating unit that generates a response signal for a question signal received by the antenna, and that operates passively, and an impedance conversion unit provided between the antenna and the identification signal generating unit, whose impedance changes in response to the state of the environment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 6, 2006
    Date of Patent: April 7, 2009
    Assignee: Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Funo, Masao Watanabe, Kiyoshi Iida, Ryota Mizutani
  • Publication number: 20090003733
    Abstract: An electronic writing instrument is provided with: an electronic writing instrument body portion that captures a code image formed on a medium based on reflected light; and a detachable cap that is attached to the one end side of the electronic writing instrument body portion. The electronic writing instrument body portion has: at one end side thereof, a writing unit that writes down on the medium on which the code image is formed; a light emitting unit that emits light to the medium; and an image capture unit that captures an image from reflected light reflected on the medium by the emitting light. The detachable cap is configured so as to cover the writing unit when attached to the one end side, and to pass emitted light from the light emitting unit and the reflected light from the medium.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 22, 2008
    Publication date: January 1, 2009
    Applicant: Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Eisuke OSAKABE, Tomohito TAKAGI, Shin TAKEUCHI, Eigo NAKAGAWA, Hiroyuki FUNO
  • Publication number: 20080297489
    Abstract: A data input system including electronic paper and a stylus writing device is disclosed. The electronic paper includes a transparent display substrate on which a number of optically readable code patterns have been formed, the optically readable code patterns representing positional information on a display surface, a rear surface substrate opposing the display substrate, and coloring particles that are enclosed between the display substrate and the rear surface substrate and that are movable by applying an electric or a magnetic field. The electronic paper displays an image due to motion of the particle. The stylus writing device includes a writing head provided at the end of the stylus for writing the image by applying an electric or a magnetic field to the electronic paper by contact and includes an optical reading device for optically reading the code patterns formed on the display surface where the end of the stylus contacts.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 28, 2008
    Publication date: December 4, 2008
    Applicant: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hiroyuki FUNO, Masao WATANABE, Takayuki TAKEUCHI, Yoshinori MACHIDA, Kiyoshi IIDA, Ryota MIZUTANI, Yasuaki KONISHI
  • Publication number: 20080285070
    Abstract: The electronic writing instrument is provided with: a writing unit that writes down on a medium where a code indicating identity information and location information of the medium is formed; an emitting unit that emits light to the medium; a photoelectric conversion unit that includes photoelectric conversion element receiving a reflected light from the medium by the light emitted by the emitting unit and outputting an electronic signal after converting the reflected light by photoelectric conversion; a receiving unit that receives a user operation; and a condition changing unit that changes at least any one of an emitting condition of the emitting unit to the medium and an output condition of the photoelectric conversion unit when the receiving unit receives an operation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 28, 2008
    Publication date: November 20, 2008
    Applicant: Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Shin TAKEUCHI, Eisuke OSAKABE, Eigo NAKAGAWA, Hiroyuki FUNO, Tomohito TAKAGI
  • Publication number: 20080266208
    Abstract: An image transmission control system includes: a displaying medium that forms an image so as to be rewritten in accordance with an external writing force and displays the formed image even after the external writing force is removed; a writing device including: a first communication unit that is adaptable to at least two kinds of communication systems selected from a wired communication system and a plural kinds of wireless communication systems having different communication distances; and a writing unit that applies the external writing force based on image information received by the first communication unit to the displaying unit to write the image; and a transmitter including: a second communication unit that is adaptable to the plural kinds of communication systems of the first communication unit; and a selecting unit that selects a communication system transmitting the image information to the writing device in accordance with information for instructing to transmit the image information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 29, 2008
    Publication date: October 30, 2008
    Applicant: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yoshitsugu Hirose, Masao Watanabe, Takayuki Takeuchi, Hiroyuki Funo, Yoshiro Yamaguchi, Eriko Tamaru, Kimitake Hasuike