Patents by Inventor Kazushi Ozawa

Kazushi 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: 10747809
    Abstract: A color information display device includes an extracting unit that extracts a reference color combination corresponding to reference color vision characteristics; an output unit that outputs the reference color combination as it is or after conversion in accordance with a degree of sharing of an impression of the reference color combination between the reference color vision characteristics and other color vision characteristics; and an assigning unit that assigns information indicative of the degree of sharing of the impression to the output reference color combination.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 18, 2020
    Assignee: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Kazushi Ozawa
  • Publication number: 20180260394
    Abstract: A color information display device includes an extracting unit that extracts a reference color combination corresponding to reference color vision characteristics; an output unit that outputs the reference color combination as it is or after conversion in accordance with a degree of sharing of an impression of the reference color combination between the reference color vision characteristics and other color vision characteristics; and an assigning unit that assigns information indicative of the degree of sharing of the impression to the output reference color combination.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 31, 2017
    Publication date: September 13, 2018
    Applicant: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Kazushi OZAWA
  • Patent number: 8140374
    Abstract: A commodity-information provision evaluation method for visualizing information contributing to evaluating of commodity information provided by a commodity provider, includes performing, according to an operator's selection operation, process display processing that includes superimposing and displaying at least two of intention information, expectation information and practical information on a screen in a matrix format, to visualize a gap between the commodity information provision media, or image display processing that includes superimposing at least two of target image information, design image information and user image information on an image map screen in which information regarding image is allocated to each of regions into which a display screen is divided so that the at least two are displayed in regions to which the at least two are allocated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 6, 2007
    Date of Patent: March 20, 2012
    Assignee: Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kazushi Ozawa, Koushi Kawamoto, Kazuo Shibuta, Yutaka Andoh, Yoshitsugu Hirose
  • Patent number: 7913904
    Abstract: A medium evaluation method for evaluating a commodity information provision medium that commodity consumers expect to use as an acquisition unit of commodity information provided by a commodity provider at each step of a purchase process wherein: expectation information is associated with kinds of commodity information provision media that commodity consumers expect to use at each step of the purchase process, and access information is used to access the consumers from whom the expectation information is acquired, the method includes: in response to specifying a certain commodity information provision medium at a certain step of the purchase process in the expectation information, specifying access information of a consumer who expects to use the specified commodity information provision medium at the specified step of the purchase process from the access information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 6, 2007
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2011
    Assignee: Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kazushi Ozawa, Koushi Kawamoto, Kazuo Shibuta, Yutaka Andoh, Yoshitsugu Hirose
  • Publication number: 20080016024
    Abstract: A questionnaire apparatus includes: a question storage unit that holds plural questions; a selection condition reception unit that receives a selection condition for selecting a question; and a question selection unit that selects a next question from among the questions stored in the question storage unit, based on a question, an answer to the question and a selection condition received by the selection condition reception unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 25, 2007
    Publication date: January 17, 2008
    Applicant: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yutaka Andoh, Kazushi Ozawa, Koushi Kawamoto, Kazuo Shibuta
  • Publication number: 20070288305
    Abstract: A commodity-information provision evaluation method for visualizing information contributing to evaluating of commodity information provided by a commodity provider, includes: performing process display processing that includes superimposing and displaying, for each consumer cluster, at least two of intention information, expectation information and practical information on a screen in a matrix format of kinds of commodity information provision media and respective steps of a purchase process, to visualize a gap between the commodity information provision media, or image display processing that includes superimposing at least two of target image information, design image information and user image information on an image map screen in which information regarding image is allocated to each of regions into which a display screen is divided so that the at least two are displayed for each cluster in regions to which the at least two are allocated.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 6, 2007
    Publication date: December 13, 2007
    Applicant: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kazushi Ozawa, Koushi Kawamoto, Kazuo Shibuta, Yutaka Andoh, Yoshitsugu Hirose
  • Publication number: 20070250376
    Abstract: A medium evaluation method for evaluating a commodity information provision medium that commodity consumers expect to use as an acquisition unit of commodity information provided by a commodity provider at each step of a purchase process wherein: expectation information is associated with kinds of commodity information provision media that commodity consumers expect to use at each step of the purchase process, and access information is used to access the consumers from whom the expectation information is acquired, the method includes: in response to specifying a certain commodity information provision medium at a certain step of the purchase process in the expectation information, specifying access information of a consumer who expects to use the specified commodity information provision medium at the specified step of the purchase process from the access information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 6, 2007
    Publication date: October 25, 2007
    Applicant: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kazushi Ozawa, Koushi Kawamoto, Kazuo Shibuta, Yutaka Andoh, Yoshitsugu Hirose
  • Publication number: 20070240059
    Abstract: A commodity-information provision evaluation method for visualizing information contributing to evaluating of commodity information provided by a commodity provider, includes performing, according to an operator's selection operation, process display processing that includes superimposing and displaying at least two of intention information, expectation information and practical information on a screen in a matrix format, to visualize a gap between the commodity information provision media, or image display processing that includes superimposing at least two of target image information, design image information and user image information on an image map screen in which information regarding image is allocated to each of regions into which a display screen is divided so that the at least two are displayed in regions to which the at least two are allocated.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 6, 2007
    Publication date: October 11, 2007
    Applicant: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kazushi Ozawa, Koushi Kawamoto, Kazuo Shibuta, Yutaka Andoh, Yoshitsugu Hirose
  • Publication number: 20070233619
    Abstract: The process extracts an amount of feature from the design of the actual document, extracts impression information and its weighting factor that are associated with the extracted amount of feature, and presents information representing an evaluation value calculated based on impression information extracted from the plural design evaluation databases and the weighting factor for each item of impression information extracted for the plural design evaluation databases.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 2, 2007
    Publication date: October 4, 2007
    Applicant: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yoshitsugu Hirose, Kazushi Ozawa
  • Publication number: 20070233618
    Abstract: A user is caused to select an option matching an impression desired for design creation of a document. Impression information associated with the selected option is extracted, and an evaluation value obtained with respect to the impression information that is extracted is stored in association with the extracted impression information in the form of a desired impression information database. The user is caused to select an option matching an impression given by a design of an actual document. Impression information associated with the selected option is extracted, and an evaluation value obtained with respect to the impression information that is extracted is stored in association with the extracted impression information in the form of a user impression information database.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 2, 2007
    Publication date: October 4, 2007
    Applicant: Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yoshitsugu Hirose, Kazushi Ozawa
  • Publication number: 20070233620
    Abstract: The process cause a user to select and acquire at least one option matching an impression that is the target of the design creation of the document from plural impression expression databases, and extracts impression information associated with the option selected from the plural impression expression databases by referencing the impression evaluation database, and makes at least one item of the extracted impression information as the desired impression information that represents an impression that is a target of the design creation of the document.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 3, 2007
    Publication date: October 4, 2007
    Applicant: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yoshitsugu Hirose, Kazushi Ozawa
  • Publication number: 20040004741
    Abstract: In an information processing system, common image display management means of a management apparatus transmits image data in a web site to information processing apparatuses in response to requests received from the information processing apparatuses, and causes image display sections to display a common image. Relation giving means first executes user recognition, and relates an input command to an input section concerning a first position in the common image displayed on the image display section and an input command to an input section concerning a second position in the common image displayed on the image display section to each other. Correlation stimulus presentation means causes stimulus presentation sections each to present a touch stimulus responsive to the correlation between the first position and the second position in the common images displayed on the image display sections.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 10, 2003
    Publication date: January 8, 2004
    Applicant: Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kazushi Ozawa, Kazuyuki Tsukamoto, Shin Takeuchi, Katsumi Sakamaki