Patents by Inventor Kunihiko Kobayashi

Kunihiko Kobayashi 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: 11163992
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a first designation unit, a second designation unit, a position acquisition unit, a memory, and an extraction unit. The first designation unit designates an extensive area from a first read image, the extensive area including an output area and an object area. The second designation unit designates the output area from the designated extensive area. The position acquisition unit acquires positional information regarding the extensive area with respect to the first read image and positional information regarding the output area with respect to the extensive area. The memory stores the positional information regarding the extensive area and the positional information regarding the output area. The extraction unit identifies a position of the extensive area in a second read image in a format identical to a format of the first read image on a basis of the positional information regarding the extensive area stored by the memory.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 6, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 2, 2021
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
    Inventors: Kunihiko Kobayashi, Shintaro Adachi, Shigeru Okada, Akinobu Yamaguchi, Junichi Shimizu, Kazuhiro Oya, Shinya Nakamura, Akane Abe
  • Publication number: 20210329135
    Abstract: An information processing device includes a processor configured to obtain a document image which shows a document; and switch a display destination of a correction screen which receives an operation of correcting a result of character recognition performed on the document image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 5, 2020
    Publication date: October 21, 2021
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
    Inventors: Kunihiko KOBAYASHI, Shintaro ADACHI, Shusaku KUBO, Shigeru OKADA, Yusuke SUZUKI
  • Patent number: 11153447
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes a layout analyzing part that executes layout analysis for image data, an extraction part that extracts a diagrammatic representation from the image data by using a result of the layout analysis, a character recognizing part that executes character recognition for a partial area having a high probability of presence of a character string in a relationship with the extracted diagrammatic representation, and an erecting direction deciding part that decides an erecting direction of the image data by using a result of the character recognition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 14, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 19, 2021
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
    Inventors: Kazuhiro Oya, Akane Abe, Akinobu Yamaguchi, Kunihiko Kobayashi, Junichi Shimizu, Shigeru Okada, Shintaro Adachi, Shinya Nakamura
  • Publication number: 20210303842
    Abstract: An information processing device is provided with a processor configured to acquire a document image illustrating a document, and extract target information with respect to a target character string from a region set with reference to a position of a specific type of impression included in the document image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 16, 2020
    Publication date: September 30, 2021
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
    Inventors: Shintaro ADACHI, Shusaku KUBO, Shigeru OKADA, Kunihiko KOBAYASHI, Yusuke SUZUKI
  • Publication number: 20210303790
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a processor configured to acquire an image showing a document, recognize characters from the acquired image, generate a connected character string by connecting sequences of the recognized characters at line breaks in a text, and extract a portion corresponding to specified information from the generated connected character string.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 16, 2020
    Publication date: September 30, 2021
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
    Inventors: Shusaku Kubo, Kunihiko Kobayashi, Shigeru Okada, Yusuke Suzuki, Shintaro Adachi
  • Publication number: 20210303843
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a processor configured to acquire an image showing a document of a closed contract, recognize characters from the acquired image, calculate positions of the recognized characters in the image, determine, based on the calculated positions, whether any other characters are present in a region anterior or posterior to a date represented by the recognized characters, and output the date as an execution date of the contract if determining that no other characters are present in the anterior region and the posterior region.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 16, 2020
    Publication date: September 30, 2021
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
    Inventors: Shusaku Kubo, Kunihiko Kobayashi, Shigeru Okada, Yusuke Suzuki, Shintaro Adachi
  • Publication number: 20210281696
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a processor. The processor is configured to acquire a first image read from a sheet with multiple first regions that include respectively writing locations of multiple choices that are unselected, acquire a second image read from a sheet with one of the choices selected and with information indicating that the one of the choices has been selected, the information being written at the writing location of the selected choice, output a selection result of the selected choice, the selection result determined in accordance with an arithmetic result of an arithmetic operation performed between a first value determined from the first region in the first image and a second value determined from a region in the second image corresponding to the first region, and exclude from the selection result the choice having the arithmetic result having a value equal to or above a specific value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 1, 2020
    Publication date: September 9, 2021
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
    Inventors: Shigeru OKADA, Shusaku KUBO, Shintaro ADACHI, Kunihiko KOBAYASHI, Yusuke SUZUKI
  • Patent number: 11111877
    Abstract: A piston in which a solid lubricant resin layer made of a resin containing a solid lubricant is formed at a skirt portion. A guide groove absent area where no guide groove is formed, which is provided in a predetermined range of the solid lubricant resin layer at a center portion in a width direction. The guide grooves directing from the both ends in the width direction of the guide groove absent area to both ends in the width direction of the skirt portion. The end portions of the guide grooves extended to end edges of the solid lubricant resin layer to form open ends. The solid lubricant resin layer and the guide grooves are formed at least at a thrust side skirt portion. The guide grooves are formed in a shape inclined upward from the guide groove absent area toward the end edges of the solid lubricant resin layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 7, 2021
    Assignee: ART METAL MFG. CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Chiaki Taresawa, Nobuyuki Fujiwara, Naoki Yamakawa, Kunihiko Kobayashi
  • Patent number: 11113558
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes an extraction unit that extracts a character string corresponding to a keyword from a character string including the keyword described across plural lines, in accordance with an extraction condition of the character string corresponding to the keyword, a combining unit that combines character strings extracted by the extraction unit in accordance with a line sequence, and an output unit that the character strings combined by the combining unit as a character string corresponding to the keyword.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 1, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 7, 2021
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
    Inventors: Kunihiko Kobayashi, Junichi Shimizu, Daigo Horie
  • Patent number: 11032436
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes an execution unit that executes a first job and a second job in response to reception of the first job and the second job, and a control unit that controls state of the first job and the second job, in which in a case where the first job includes transferring first data as a processing target to an external apparatus and receiving second data as a processing result from the external apparatus, the control unit sets the first job to a stoppage state in response to completion of the transfer of the first data and sets the second job which uses a transfer protocol used in the first job to an execution available state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 8, 2021
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
    Inventors: Daigo Horie, Junichi Shimizu, Kunihiko Kobayashi
  • Patent number: 11006015
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a setting unit that, in a case where plural keyword candidates representing information on an acquisition target are included in a document, sets a target keyword from the keyword candidates in accordance with priority information of defining a keyword to be preferentially used as the target keyword representing an item of the information on the acquisition target among the keyword candidates, an extraction unit that extracts a character string corresponding to the target keyword set by the setting unit, from the document, and an output unit that outputs the character string corresponding to the target keyword, which is extracted by the extraction unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 4, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 11, 2021
    Assignee: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kunihiko Kobayashi, Junichi Shimizu, Daigo Horie
  • Patent number: 10970483
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a first extraction part that extracts a value corresponding to a first item, which is an item indicative of a deadline, from a result of character recognition with respect to an image acquired by reading a document which includes an item and a value corresponding to the item; a generation part that generates a second character string of a date format indicative of a date of the deadline based on the result of the character recognition in a case where the value extracted by the first extraction part is a first character string other than the date format; and an output part that outputs the generated second character string as the value corresponding to the first item.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 1, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 6, 2021
    Assignee: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Junichi Shimizu, Kunihiko Kobayashi, Daigo Horie
  • Publication number: 20210067640
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a processor. The processor is configured to identify a type of a target document to be processed from a read image obtained by reading the target document; refer to specific-character information, the specific-character information being information on a specific character set for each type of document in association with a specific image that is to be contained in the document, to obtain a specific character corresponding to the type of the target document and associated with a specific image that is to be contained in the target document; and determine whether an image that matches a search condition set in advance for the obtained specific character is extractable from the read image, to determine a presence or absence of a specific image that is to be contained in the target document in association with the obtained specific character.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 16, 2020
    Publication date: March 4, 2021
    Applicant: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shusaku KUBO, Kunihiko KOBAYASHI, Kunikazu UENO
  • Publication number: 20200342169
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a storage unit that stores a first keyword obtained by combining a plurality of words, an extraction unit that extracts a text string indicating a value corresponding to the first keyword, from a result of text recognition on a document image, a detection unit that detects an identical or similar word, as a reference word being a reference of a combination, from a plurality of words included in the first keyword and a second keyword in response to reception of an instruction to newly register the second keyword having a meaning which is not identical but similar to a meaning of the first keyword, and an output unit that outputs a new third keyword obtained by combining the reference word and at least one of a first target word or a second target word while maintaining a context with the reference word, the first target word being connected before or after the reference word in the first keyword, and being a target of a combination, the second target word being conn
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 20, 2019
    Publication date: October 29, 2020
    Applicant: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Junichi SHIMIZU, Kunihiko KOBAYASHI, Daigo HORIE
  • Publication number: 20200336609
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes an execution unit that executes a first job and a second job in response to reception of the first job and the second job, and a control unit that controls state of the first job and the second job, in which in a case where the first job includes transferring first data as a processing target to an external apparatus and receiving second data as a processing result from the external apparatus, the control unit sets the first job to a stoppage state in response to completion of the transfer of the first data and sets the second job which uses a transfer protocol used in the first job to an execution available state.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 16, 2019
    Publication date: October 22, 2020
    Applicant: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Daigo HORIE, Junichi SHIMIZU, Kunihiko KOBAYASHI
  • Publication number: 20200250266
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a first extraction part that extracts a value corresponding to a first item, which is an item indicative of a deadline, from a result of character recognition with respect to an image acquired by reading a document which includes an item and a value corresponding to the item; a generation part that generates a second character string of a date format indicative of a date of the deadline based on the result of the character recognition in a case where the value extracted by the first extraction part is a first character string other than the date format; and an output part that outputs the generated second character string as the value corresponding to the first item.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 1, 2019
    Publication date: August 6, 2020
    Applicant: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Junichi SHIMIZU, Kunihiko KOBAYASHI, Daigo HORIE
  • Publication number: 20200234073
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes an extraction unit that extracts a character string corresponding to a keyword from a character string including the keyword described across plural lines, in accordance with an extraction condition of the character string corresponding to the keyword, a combining unit that combines character strings extracted by the extraction unit in accordance with a line sequence, and an output unit that the character strings combined by the combining unit as a character string corresponding to the keyword.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 1, 2019
    Publication date: July 23, 2020
    Applicant: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kunihiko KOBAYASHI, Junichi SHIMIZU, Daigo HORIE
  • Publication number: 20200236243
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a setting unit that, in a case where plural keyword candidates representing information on an acquisition target are included in a document, sets a target keyword from the keyword candidates in accordance with priority information of defining a keyword to be preferentially used as the target keyword representing an item of the information on the acquisition target among the keyword candidates, an extraction unit that extracts a character string corresponding to the target keyword set by the setting unit, from the document, and an output unit that outputs the character string corresponding to the target keyword, which is extracted by the extraction unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 4, 2019
    Publication date: July 23, 2020
    Applicant: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kunihiko KOBAYASHI, Junichi SHIMIZU, Daigo HORIE
  • Patent number: 10643097
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes a generation unit that generates, in a case where a small-sheet image in a first image is unsuccessfully extracted and results in multiple small-sheet images, a second image including the small-sheet images that are combined.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 5, 2020
    Assignee: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kunihiko Kobayashi, Kazuhiro Oya, Shigeru Okada, Shintaro Adachi, Hiroyuki Kishimoto, Akane Abe
  • Publication number: 20190362143
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a processing unit, an extraction unit, a memory unit, a determination unit, and an assignment unit. The processing unit executes a character recognition process. The extraction unit extracts at least one area located within a predetermined range from a first area that is included in a designated image and that is designated to undergo the character recognition process. The at least one area is a second area. The memory unit stores an attribute on a per character string basis. The determination unit determines, on a basis of the attribute stored by the memory unit, an attribute corresponding to a character string recognized as one or more characters from the first area by the processing unit and a character string recognized as one or more characters from the second area by the processing unit. The assignment unit assigns the determined attribute to the designated image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 13, 2019
    Publication date: November 28, 2019
    Applicant: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shinya NAKAMURA, Akane ABE, Shintaro ADACHI, Kunihiko KOBAYASHI, Kazuhiro OYA, Shigeru OKADA, Junichi SHIMIZU, Akinobu YAMAGUCHI