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).

  • Publication number: 20110063215
    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: Application
    Filed: September 14, 2010
    Publication date: March 17, 2011
    Applicant: Konica Minolta Business Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Nobuhiro MISHIMA, Hidetaka Iwai, Kazuo Inui, Kaitaku Ozawa
  • Publication number: 20110035671
    Abstract: The present invention is intended to share information as to voice operation in an image processing device with a voice operation function with another image processing device, thereby improving operability for using another one. An image processing device allowed to be connected to a network comprising: an operational panel for displaying a menu screen and receiving a manual operation to the menu screen; a speech input part for inputting speech; an operation item specifying part for specifying an operation item to be a target of operation based on a voice word; a voice operation control part for executing a processing corresponding to the specified operation item; a history information generation part for generating a voice operation history information in which the voice word and the specified operation item are associated; and a transmission part for transmitting the generated voice operation history information to another image processing device through the network.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 23, 2010
    Publication date: February 10, 2011
    Applicant: KONICA MINOLTA BUSINESS TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
    Inventors: Hidetaka IWAI, Kazuo Inui, Nobuhiro Mishima, Kaitaku Ozawa
  • Publication number: 20110032556
    Abstract: A document processing device comprises: a document data acquiring part for acquiring document data; a character string extracting part for extracting character strings satisfying a predetermined condition for character string extraction from the document data acquired by the document data acquiring part; a format creating part for deriving the respective features of the character strings extracted by the character string extracting part, and for creating a format containing the derived features in the form of data; a display part on which the character strings extracted by the character string extracting part are displayed in a list form, and on which the format created by the format creating part is displayed; and a format correcting part for correcting the format displayed on the display part. The character string extracting part extracts character strings again to conform to the format corrected by the format correcting part.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 23, 2010
    Publication date: February 10, 2011
    Applicant: KONICA MINOLTA BUSINESS TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
    Inventors: Nobuhiro Mishima, Hidetaka Iwai, Kazuo Inui, Kaitaku Ozawa
  • Publication number: 20100332464
    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: Application
    Filed: June 23, 2010
    Publication date: December 30, 2010
    Applicant: Konica Minolta Business Tecchnologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Hidetaka Iwai, Kazuo Inui, Nobuhiro Mishima, Kaitaku Ozawa
  • Publication number: 20100149575
    Abstract: An image displaying system has a projector, an MFP and a client terminal device that are connected to one another via a LAN. In a setting screen of a printer driver installed in the client terminal device, a print job or a projection job is selected, and an image file for execution of the selected job is specified, and job data having header information and image data of the specified image file is generated and transmitted to the MFP. When the received job is an image displaying job, the MFP transmits image data pertaining to the image displaying job to the projector for displaying an image. Accordingly, convenience of the MFP having the projector connected thereto is enhanced.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 3, 2009
    Publication date: June 17, 2010
    Applicant: KONICA MINOLTA BUSINESS TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
    Inventors: Kaitaku Ozawa, Kei Shigehisa, Takeshi Morikawa, Toshimichi Iwai
  • Patent number: 7733511
    Abstract: The invention provides an image processing system which can give different securities to data of respective receivers with a simple operation and, in this case, which can realize shortening of time for communication to a destination and suppression of use of memory resources. A plurality of regions preset in image data are related to destinations, code data constituting one of regions corresponding to the destinations or the other regions is replaced with code data which make pieces of information included in the regions invisible in the JPEG2000 file transmitted to the destinations, and the JPEG2000 file after the replacing process is transmitted to the destinations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2004
    Date of Patent: June 8, 2010
    Assignee: Konica Minolta Business Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Kenichi Takahashi, Kaitaku Ozawa, Munehiro Nakatani
  • Patent number: 7701601
    Abstract: A portable terminal user uses a portable terminal so as to select data to be printed among data in a server as well as an MFP from which the data is to be printed out. The server creates authentication data and transmits the authentication data to the selected MFP. The MFP displays the authentication data. The portable terminal acquires the authentication data through picture taking, and transmits the acquired data to the server. The server compares the created authentication data with the data transmitted from the portable terminal. If they match, print data corresponding to the authentication data is transmitted to the MFP, whereby the MFP performs printing. With such a configuration, an image output system attaining excellent usability for the user and improved security can be provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 19, 2004
    Date of Patent: April 20, 2010
    Assignee: Konica Minolta Business Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Toshiya Shozaki, Kenichi Takahashi, Kaitaku Ozawa
  • Publication number: 20100067064
    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: Application
    Filed: September 11, 2009
    Publication date: March 18, 2010
    Applicant: Konica Minolta Business Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Kei Shigehisa, Takeshi Morikawa, Toshimichi Iwai, Kaitaku Ozawa
  • Publication number: 20090310174
    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: Application
    Filed: April 2, 2009
    Publication date: December 17, 2009
    Applicant: Konica Minolta Business Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Kaitaku OZAWA, Kei Shigehisa, Takeshi Morikawa, Toshimichi Iwai
  • Publication number: 20090310173
    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: Application
    Filed: April 2, 2009
    Publication date: December 17, 2009
    Applicant: Konica Minolta Business Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Toshimichi IWAI, Takeshi Morikawa, Kaitaku Ozawa, Kei Shigehisa
  • Patent number: 7623514
    Abstract: When an MFP determines that text data is transmitted to a plurality of addresses as destinations set by a user, an address group including set addresses is searched from a one-touch key registration and the transmission history of the user (or a group such as a department or a section associated with the user). Thus, the addresses input earlier and the address groups including the addresses yet to be input are displayed as destination candidates. The user selects a desired address group from those displayed, and thus can designate the data transmission to a plurality of addresses constituting the particular address group.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 2005
    Date of Patent: November 24, 2009
    Assignee: Konica Minolta Business Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Kaitaku Ozawa, Kenichi Takahashi, Toshiya Shozaki
  • Publication number: 20090204411
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus comprises: a voice input portion; a memory that stores in itself as voice data, voice of a plurality of users for voice assistance, which is inputted by the voice input portion; a selection portion that selects voice data applied for a login user among the voice data stored in the memory, if information should be given by voice; and a voice output portion that outputs voice corresponding to the selected voice data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 11, 2009
    Publication date: August 13, 2009
    Applicant: Konica Minolta Business Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Takeshi Morikawa, Toshimichi Iwai, Kei Shigehisa, Kaitaku Ozawa
  • Publication number: 20090187665
    Abstract: In order to allow the communication method for receiving data to be set at the side receiving the data, among a plurality of data communication apparatuses, a data transmission apparatus includes a destination designation portion for accepting designation of user identification information, a data accepting portion for accepting data, a data transmission portion for transmitting the data based on a communication method and destination information stored in association with the user identification information, a comparing portion for comparing the communication method stored in association with user identification information included in reply data with a communication method by which the reply data was received when the reply data for the transmitted data is received, and an update portion for updating the communication method and the destination information stored in association with the user identification information included in the reply data with the communication method by which the reply data was recei
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 22, 2008
    Publication date: July 23, 2009
    Applicant: Konica Minolta Business Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Kaitaku Ozawa, Toshiya Shozaki, Junichi Hase, Ryuichi Kitaoka
  • Patent number: 7528845
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus, which transmits image data to a plurality of addresses via a network, includes a transmission device which transmits the image data to an address in the plurality of addresses, an address setting device which sets at least one of the plurality of addresses, a determining device which determines, with respect to each of the at least one of the plurality of addresses, whether or not to transmit the image data thereto on the basis of an attribute thereof, and a display device which displays a first address among the plurality of addresses to which the determining device determines to transmit the image data, and a second address among them to which the determining device determines not to transmit the image data on the same screen, in different manners from each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2004
    Date of Patent: May 5, 2009
    Assignee: Konica Minolta Business Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Kaitaku Ozawa, Yoshikazu Ikenoue
  • Patent number: 7522315
    Abstract: When image data are sent through a network, bit streams of hierarchically encoded JPEG 2000 data of a plurality of pages of a document are formed by prioritizing resolution, and the bit streams of the plurality of pages are divided in a plurality of files based on the unit of hierarchical encoding such as resolution or layer level. Then, the plurality of files of all the pages are arranged into a plurality of combinations thereof based on resolution or layer level. Then, an electronic mail is written and sent to the same destination for each of the combinations by attaching all the files included therein.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 25, 2003
    Date of Patent: April 21, 2009
    Assignee: Konica Minolta Business Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Kenichi Takahashi, Munehiro Nakatani, Kaitaku Ozawa, Toshiya Shozaki
  • Patent number: 7483582
    Abstract: On JPEG2000 coding apparatus, the coding process is performed by discriminating an area defined by each object contained in image data and specifying type of the object, performing character recognition processing on the area discriminated as that containing a character to produce a text data and producing an XML data corresponding to said text data, adding an XML box that can store a specific data into a bit stream constructing said JPEG2000 file so as to be positioned in back of a predetermined level of wavelet decomposition and causing said XML box to store said XML data. On the other hand, on JPEG2000 decoding apparatus, the decoding process is performed by causing user to select whether to read an XML box added into a bit stream of JPEG2000 file in the middle of JPEG2000 decoding process, and processing the XML data stored in the XML box to acquire a text data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2004
    Date of Patent: January 27, 2009
    Assignee: Konica Minolta Business Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Kaitaku Ozawa, Kenichi Takahashi, Munehiro Nakatani
  • Publication number: 20080225335
    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: Application
    Filed: March 7, 2008
    Publication date: September 18, 2008
    Applicant: Konica Minolta Business Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Toshiya Shozaki, Kaitaku Ozawa, Ryuichi Kitaoka, Junichi Hase
  • Publication number: 20080123155
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus executes a multicast transmission of image data to a computer and other devices. Concurrently, the image forming apparatus stores history information on the multicast transmission, and the history information includes destinations of the multicast transmission. The computer receives the image data from the image forming apparatus by the multicast transmission. Then, when the computer is to execute a reply multicast transmission in reply to the multicast transmission, the computer, by using a printing driver for the image forming apparatus, sends the data name of the image data and data to be sent by the reply multicast transmission to the image forming apparatus. The image forming apparatus receives the data name and the data to be sent by the reply multicast transmission, and the image forming apparatus designates other computers and/or devices as destinations of the reply multicast transmission, based on the history information and the data name.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 2, 2007
    Publication date: May 29, 2008
    Applicant: Konica Minolta Business Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Junichi Hase, Kaitaku Ozawa, Ryuichi Kitaoka, Toshiya Shozaki
  • Patent number: 7373000
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus for performing at least one of JPEG 2000 encoding and decoding processes, including: a JPEG 2000 hardware encoder-decoder including a memory that performs wavelet transform and inverse transform of image information up to a specific tile size using only hardware components; an acquirer for acquiring a tile size information of image data to be encoded or decoded; a determiner for determining whether the acquired tile size can be processed using only said JPEG 2000 hardware encoder-decoder or not; a selector for selecting one of a first and second process based on result of a decision by said determiner, the first process being wavelet transform and inverse transform process performed using only components constituting said JPEG 2000 hardware encoder-decoder and the second process being wavelet transform and inverse transform process performed using components other than components constituting said JPEG 2000 hardware encoder-decoder.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2003
    Date of Patent: May 13, 2008
    Assignee: Konica Minolta Business Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Kaitaku Ozawa, Kenichi Takahashi, Munehiro Nakatani
  • Publication number: 20080084579
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus wherein a plural number of optional ways of processing image data are stored in connection with each user, and one of the ways is designated as an initial setting for the user's way of processing image data. The image data are data sent from an exterior device to a specified user or data which a scanning section generated by reading a document image. Each user can change his/her initial setting arbitrarily. Depending on the device which a user logs in and/or the attributes of data, the way of processing data is changed from the initial setting to another of the stored optional ways or to a new way which is different from the initial setting in at least one item. Thereby, each user can receive data in a more convenient way.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 2, 2007
    Publication date: April 10, 2008
    Applicant: Konica Minolta Business Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Kaitaku Ozawa, Toshiya Shozaki, Junichi Hase, Ryuichi Kitaoka