Patents by Inventor Kaitaku Ozawa

Kaitaku Ozawa 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: 8749487
    Abstract: A remote control system includes a PC and a MFP capable of remotely controlling an external device. PC includes a browsing portion to receive an operation screen from the MFP, a display control portion to allow a projector to project the received operation screen onto a projection plane, and a position detection portion to detect a position pointed to by a user in the projected operation screen. The browsing portion transmits to the MFP a command which is included in the operation screen and is related to the detected position in the operation screen. The MFP includes an operation screen transmission portion to transmit to the PC the operation screen, including a command for specifying control, for accepting an operation, a command reception portion to receive a command transmitted from the PC, and a process control portion to control the external device or the device itself in accordance with the received command.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2010
    Date of Patent: June 10, 2014
    Assignee: Konica Minolta, Inc.
    Inventors: Nobuhiro Mishima, Hidetaka Iwai, Kazuo Inui, Kaitaku Ozawa
  • Patent number: 8676747
    Abstract: A document management apparatus includes a document storing portion to store a document, a designated part accepting portion to accept any part designated by a user within the stored document as a designated part, an associating portion to associate the accepted designated part with a notification destination, an altering portion to alter the stored document, and a notifying portion to notify the notification destination associated with the designated part when at least a portion of an altered part altered within the stored document by the altering portion is included in the designated part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 18, 2014
    Assignee: Konica Minolta Business Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Kaitaku Ozawa, Hiroaki Kubo, Jun Kunioka, Ayumi Itoh
  • Patent number: 8654359
    Abstract: A selector selects one or more than one document files among those recorded in a memory, according to an instruction issued by a user, and a judgment portion judges whether by the simplified mode or the detailed mode the selected document file data should be outputted, according to an output condition that is determined in advance. And then, according to the judgment result, an output portion is controlled so that the selected document file could be outputted by the simplified mode or the detailed mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 2, 2009
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2014
    Assignee: Konica Minolta Business Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Kaitaku Ozawa, Kei Shigehisa, Takeshi Morikawa, Toshimichi Iwai
  • Publication number: 20140043635
    Abstract: A portable information device includes a shooting portion to shoot a subject, and a notice portion to notify an image forming apparatus that an image is shot, in response to an operation screen of the image forming apparatus being shot. The image forming apparatus includes a display control portion to display an operation screen, a data decision portion to decide related data related to an operation screen displayed at a point of time when the notice is received, from among data held by the image forming apparatus at that point of time, and a related data transmission portion to transmit the related data to the portable information device. The portable information device further includes a related data reception portion to receive the related data from the image forming apparatus and a related data storage portion to store the related data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 7, 2013
    Publication date: February 13, 2014
    Applicant: Konica Minolta, Inc.
    Inventors: Kaitaku OZAWA, Shoji IMAIZUMI, Hiroaki KUBO, Takeshi MINAMI
  • Patent number: 8570558
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes: a data memory that stores in itself voice guide data pieces; a voice output portion that outputs the voice guide data pieces stored in the data memory; and a controller. The controller prohibits a first voice guide data piece from being outputted according to a job by the voice output portion, while a second voice guide data piece is being outputted according to another job thereby.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 2, 2009
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2013
    Assignee: Konica Minolta Business Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Toshimichi Iwai, Takeshi Morikawa, Kaitaku Ozawa, Kei Shigehisa
  • Patent number: 8533290
    Abstract: An installation support method that supports an installation of an application, comprising: a searching step of searching installed applications for an application which is of the same type as a new application to be installed; and a setting step of obtaining configuration values of the application found by the search, and setting initial configuration values of the new application to be the obtained configuration values.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 2005
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2013
    Assignee: Konica Minolta Business Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Toshiya Shozaki, Kaitaku Ozawa, Kenichi Takahashi
  • Patent number: 8533298
    Abstract: A box data management apparatus extracts box data from a plurality of devices, connected to a network, to enable display of a list of the box data. An operational parameter collection part in the box data management apparatus collects operational parameters as information for processing the box data in the devices. A box data processing part in the box data management apparatus extracts and displays a device and an operational parameter which are capable of processing each of the box data based upon the operational parameters. Therefore, after display of the box data in a list without division by the devices, operational parameters capable of processing selected box data are displayed, thereby enabling improvement in operability and convenience for the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2005
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2013
    Assignee: Konica Minolta Business Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Kenichi Takahashi, Kaitaku Ozawa, Toshiya Shozaki
  • Publication number: 20130208007
    Abstract: A position-related information registration and display system can register position-related information in a position-related information management server using a first terminal, and display an air tag based on the position-related information on a second data terminal including an imaging unit. The first data terminal extracts a search keyword from content displayed on a first display unit, accesses a keyword information storage unit, acquires a corresponding position information piece that is a position information piece corresponding to the search keyword extracted from the content, and transmits a registration request in addition to the content and the corresponding position information piece to the position-related information management server.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 7, 2013
    Publication date: August 15, 2013
    Applicant: Konica Minolta Buisness Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Hiroaki KUBO, Kaitaku OZAWA, Shoji IMAIZUMI, Takeshi MINAMI
  • Publication number: 20130194603
    Abstract: An apparatus for outputting an image is provided. The apparatus includes a printer; a storage to store screen data on a screen in which a plurality of objects are provided and on which settings regarding a process for printing an image onto paper with the printer are made; an obtaining portion to obtain image data on a target image to be outputted; a display device to display, if a medium to which the target image is outputted is electronic paper, the screen based on the screen data in a manner to hide or not to place an unrelated object which is included in the objects and is not related to the electronic paper; and an output portion to output the image data to the electronic paper based on conditions designated on the screen displayed in such a manner that the unrelated object is hidden or not placed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 30, 2013
    Publication date: August 1, 2013
    Applicant: Konica Minolta Business Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Shoji Imaizumi, Kaitaku Ozawa, Takeshi Minami, Hiroaki Kubo
  • Patent number: 8482808
    Abstract: An image processing system includes a client apparatus and a server apparatus. The server apparatus includes an item extraction unit, an item classification unit, and an image selection processing unit. The item extraction unit extracts a prescribed item from a document. The item classification unit classifies the extracted item into any of a plurality of groups. The image selection processing unit generates a display screen displaying each item included in read data in a manner different for each group. A display of the client apparatus displays the generated display screen.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 11, 2009
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2013
    Assignee: Konica Minolta Business Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Kei Shigehisa, Takeshi Morikawa, Toshimichi Iwai, Kaitaku Ozawa
  • Patent number: 8477332
    Abstract: In user management for a device, when information on a user who wants to use a device is received, settings for the user to use the device based on the information are generated on the user. Then, the information on the user and the generated settings for the user are registered.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2004
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2013
    Assignee: Konica Minolta Business Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Toshiya Shozaki, Kenichi Takahashi, Kaitaku Ozawa
  • Patent number: 8471914
    Abstract: When a shot is taken by a portable terminal, the position and orientation at the time of shooting is transmitted to an information processing apparatus. The information processing apparatus, which stores information including the position of equipment, detects the equipment included in the shot image by the portable terminal, based on the position and orientation of the portable terminal and the position of the equipment, and transmits information about the equipment to the portable terminal. The portable terminal obtains an operation history on an image processing apparatus in the equipment based on the received information, and displays an operation screen presenting the operation history in a selectable manner on a display unit. Then, when a selection of operation history is accepted, a control signal for allowing the image processing apparatus to execute image processing indicated by the operation history is transmitted to the image processing apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 2011
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2013
    Assignee: Konica Minolta Business Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Daisuke Sakiyama, Takeshi Morikawa, Takeshi Minami, Kaitaku Ozawa, Kazuya Anezaki
  • Patent number: 8452796
    Abstract: A search site on a network performs information search by a keyword. When a Web page is selected among those detected by the information search, the keyword, a text in the selected Web page and the Web page's address are interconnected and recorded as one search record in a recording device. And then, it is judged whether or not there exist in one or more then one document, any words that match any keywords included in the search records recorded in the recording device. If there exists a word that matches a keyword, the display data to display the document with just a part of the text as least and/or the Web page's address included in the same search record as the keyword, is created, and a job is executed using the display data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 2010
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2013
    Assignee: Konica Minolta Business Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Hidetaka Iwai, Kazuo Inui, Nobuhiro Mishima, Kaitaku Ozawa
  • Publication number: 20130019178
    Abstract: A presentation system includes the following: a reception unit that receives a start instruction to start a presentation, a detection unit that starts detecting a gesture of a presenter in response to the start instruction, and a control unit that controls an operation for distributing presentation material, based on a detail of detection of the gesture.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 22, 2012
    Publication date: January 17, 2013
    Applicant: Konica Minolta Business Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Takeshi MORIKAWA, Kaitaku OZAWA, Takeshi MINAMI, Daisuke SAKIYAMA, Kazuya ANEZAKI
  • Publication number: 20120120259
    Abstract: When a shot is taken by a portable terminal, the position and orientation at the time of shooting is transmitted to an information processing apparatus. The information processing apparatus, which stores information including the position of equipment, detects the equipment included in the shot image by the portable terminal, based on the position and orientation of the portable terminal and the position of the equipment, and transmits information about the equipment to the portable terminal. The portable terminal obtains an operation history on an image processing apparatus in the equipment based on the received information, and displays an operation screen presenting the operation history in a selectable manner on a display unit. Then, when a selection of operation history is accepted, a control signal for allowing the image processing apparatus to execute image processing indicated by the operation history is transmitted to the image processing apparatus.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 15, 2011
    Publication date: May 17, 2012
    Applicant: Konica Minolta Business Technologies, lnc.
    Inventors: Daisuke SAKIYAMA, Takeshi MORIKAWA, Takeshi MINAMI, Kaitaku OZAWA, Kazuya ANEZAKI
  • Patent number: 8102553
    Abstract: A data communication system, an image processing apparatus, a program and a data communication method which permit a user to command a reply multicast transmission in reply to a multicast transmission with easy operations. In executing a multicast transmission of first image data, the image processing apparatus sends a job ID together with the first image data to a computer which is one of the receivers of the multicast transmission. Concurrently, the image processing apparatus stores the job ID and the receivers of the multicast transmission in relative to each other as history information. When the computer replies to the multicast transmission, the computer sends a reply e-mail including second image data and the job ID to the image processing apparatus. Then, the image processing apparatus extracts the job ID from the reply e-mail and searches the history information for receivers of the multicast transmission identified by the job ID.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 7, 2008
    Date of Patent: January 24, 2012
    Assignee: Konica Minolta Business Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Toshiya Shozaki, Kaitaku Ozawa, Ryuichi Kitaoka, Junichi Hase
  • Patent number: 8045192
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus disclosed in the present application includes a destination designation receiving unit that receives a designation of a destination to which image data is transmitted; a security information acquiring unit that acquires security information of the destination; and an image data transmitting unit that transmits the image data to the destination, using the security information acquired by the security information acquiring unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 27, 2006
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2011
    Assignee: Konica Minolta Business Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Junichi Hase, Kaitaku Ozawa, Kimie Ando, Toshiya Shozaki
  • Publication number: 20110238617
    Abstract: A document management apparatus includes a document storing portion to store a document, a designated part accepting portion to accept any part designated by a user within the stored document as a designated part, an associating portion to associate the accepted designated part with a notification destination, an altering portion to alter the stored document, and a notifying portion to notify the notification destination associated with the designated part when at least a portion of an altered part altered within the stored document by the altering portion is included in the designated part.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 18, 2011
    Publication date: September 29, 2011
    Applicant: Konica Minolta Business Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Kaitaku OZAWA, Hiroaki KUBO, Jun KUNIOKA, Ayumi ITOH
  • Publication number: 20110227951
    Abstract: A conference system includes a display apparatus and an information processing apparatus communicable with the display apparatus. The information processing apparatus includes a portion to acquire a source content, a display control portion to cause the display apparatus to display the acquired source content, a portion to extract subcontents included in the acquired source content, a portion to determine a target subcontent from among the extracted subcontents, a portion to accept an input content input externally, and a portion to generate a modified content in which an insert area for arranging the input content therein is added at a position in the source content that is determined with reference to a position where the target subcontent is located. The display control portion causes the display apparatus to display an image in which the input content is arranged in the added insert area in the modified content.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 16, 2011
    Publication date: September 22, 2011
    Applicant: Konica Minolta Business Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Hiroaki KUBO, Kaitaku Ozawa, Jun Kunioka, Ayumi Itoh
  • Publication number: 20110154176
    Abstract: An electronic document managing apparatus includes a link information acquiring unit, an integration unit, and an addition unit. The link information acquiring unit acquires link information relating to link destinations inside each of a plurality of electronic documents. The integration unit integrates the respective pieces of link information relating to the plurality of electronic documents to generate integrated link information. The addition unit adds the integrated link information to the plurality of electronic documents, respectively.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 14, 2010
    Publication date: June 23, 2011
    Applicant: Konica Minolta Business Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Kazuo INUI, Nobuhiro MISHIMA, Hidetaka IWAI, Kaitaku OZAWA