Patents by Inventor Masafumi Sato

Masafumi Sato 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: 10565895
    Abstract: A motion analysis apparatus includes a swing width analysis unit that specifies a swing width from a first position to a second position on a swing trajectory on the basis of coordinates of a swing position of an exercise appliance which are acquired by using an output signal from an inertial sensor in a calculation processing circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 10, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2020
    Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masafumi Sato, Toshihiko Kano, Kenya Kodaira, Kazuo Nomura
  • Patent number: 10560447
    Abstract: Provided is an authentication system that achieves simple single sign-on used by an MFP. A management application includes a first authentication-request unit that transmits an authentication request to a management server and delivers a token to an execution platform. The other application includes a second authentication-request unit that sends an authentication request together with the token to another server. The application-execution platform includes a token-delivery unit that delivers the token to the other application. The management server includes a first authentication unit that returns a token to the first authentication-request unit, a token-creation unit, and a second authentication unit that performs authentication for an inquiry from the other server that uses a token. The other server includes a third authentication-request unit that transfers an authentication request, and transfers an authentication OK message to the second authentication-request unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 10, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2020
    Assignee: KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc.
    Inventors: Takashi Oguma, Masafumi Sato, Zhenyu Sun
  • Patent number: 10512833
    Abstract: A presentation method includes performing analysis on a swing by using output data from an inertial sensor measuring the swing of an exercise appliance, finishing the analysis, and presenting analysis information based on at least one preset index regarding the swing, on the basis of finishing of the analysis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 12, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2019
    Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tsuyoshi Ito, Masafumi Sato, Kenya Hayashi
  • Patent number: 10478707
    Abstract: A motion analysis device includes a calculation unit which specifies a first imaginary plane, that is, a shaft plane formed by a first line segment representing a direction in which a shaft part of a sporting gear in a static posture extends and a second line segment representing a ball hitting direction, with the use of an output from an inertial sensor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2019
    Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventor: Masafumi Sato
  • Patent number: 10459002
    Abstract: A motion analysis method includes calculating a change in an amount of inertia of a region attached with an inertial sensor during a swing using an output of the inertial sensor, and identifying a maximum value of the amount of inertia during the swing to compare the maximum value and the amount of inertia at an impact with each other. A deceleration timing during the swing of the region (the grip of the sporting equipment) attached with the inertial sensor is identified, and the quality of the swing can be evaluated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2019
    Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kazuhiro Shibuya, Kazuo Nomura, Kenya Kodaira, Masafumi Sato
  • Publication number: 20190305333
    Abstract: A fuel cell vehicle capable of generating electric power in an optimum wet state is provided. A fuel cell vehicle including a fuel cell, a radiator configured to cool a coolant which has been warmed by cooling the fuel cell and send it back to the fuel cell, a grille shutter configured to adjust a flow rate of air taken into the radiator from an air intake, a sensor configured to measure an impedance of the fuel battery, and a control unit configured to control the grille shutter to open and close. The control unit controls the grille shutter to open when a measured value of the impedance becomes greater than or equal to a predetermined threshold.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 27, 2019
    Publication date: October 3, 2019
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Masafumi SATO, Keita YAMAUE
  • Publication number: 20190291668
    Abstract: A vehicle frame structure that includes a bumper reinforcement that includes a middle constituent portion that is positioned further toward a vehicle lower side than an upper wall portion configuring an upper surface of a upper constituent member, that is positioned further toward the vehicle lower side than a lower wall portion configuring a lower surface of a lower constituent member, and that is provided with load transmission inhibitors that inhibit load transmission from the middle constituent portion to a shock absorbing components in a case in which a load has been input to the bumper reinforcement from an opposite side from a shock absorbing components side.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 31, 2019
    Publication date: September 26, 2019
    Inventor: Masafumi SATO
  • Patent number: 10419417
    Abstract: The management server authenticates the user on the basis of the authentication request using the user name and the password received from the image forming apparatus, generates user session information obtained in a process of the user authentication process, stores the user session information in association with the IP address of the image forming apparatus in the third memory, and supplies the user session information in response to an inquiry using the IP address from the third party server. The third party server receives the authentication request using the IP address from the image forming apparatus, makes an inquiry to the management server by using the IP address, and authenticates the user on the basis of the returned user session information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2019
    Assignee: KYOCERA DOCUMENT SOLUTIONS INC.
    Inventors: Masafumi Sato, Zhenyu Sun, Takashi Oguma
  • Patent number: 10409528
    Abstract: A printing system includes a data processing device and an image forming apparatus. The data processing device includes a data managing unit, a data transmitting unit, and a partial-data generating unit. The image forming apparatus includes a data reporting unit and a data request unit. The data reporting unit reports interrupted print data as the print data for which the image forming apparatus has terminated performance of a printing at a page in a middle. The partial-data generating unit generates unprinted-page print data as the partial-page print data, the unprinted-page print data being the print data of the pages the printing of which has been un-performed by the image forming apparatus in the interrupted print data. The data transmitting unit transmits the unprinted-page print data generated by the partial-data generating unit to the image forming apparatus when the interrupted print data is requested from the image forming apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 15, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2019
    Assignee: Kyocera Document Solutions Inc.
    Inventors: Zhenyu Sun, Masafumi Sato
  • Publication number: 20190235798
    Abstract: Provided is an image forming system that reduces time and effort of setting in a printer driver of a user terminal. The managing server includes a common queue that stores the print job transmitted from each user terminal, temporarily, a plurality of individual queues that is associated with the plurality of image forming apparatuses by one to one, an individual queue setting accepting part that accepts a setting of the individual queue for each user, a print job distributing part that distributes the print job to the accepted individual queue, a print job transmitting part that transmits the print job to the image forming apparatus associated with the individual queue. Each user terminal includes a print job generating part that generates the print job based on the printer driver set output destination of the print job to the common queue.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 31, 2019
    Publication date: August 1, 2019
    Applicant: KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc.
    Inventors: Tatsuya HIWATARI, Masafumi SATO, Zhenyu SUN, Keiji TSUDA
  • Publication number: 20190235806
    Abstract: Provided is a server that is capable of directly sending a notification of an error to a non-registered user who is not authenticated and permitted to use an image forming apparatus. An authenticating unit performs authentication permission according to authentication information of a user. A notification-event-setting unit sets to send a notification of a server error as a recognizable event to a non-registered user, who is not registered to perform authentication permission by the authenticating unit. An event-notifying unit notifies about the event set by the notification-event-setting unit when the error actually occurs.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 31, 2019
    Publication date: August 1, 2019
    Applicant: KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc.
    Inventors: Zhenyu SUN, Masafumi SATO, Tatsuya HIWATARI, Keiji TSUDA
  • Publication number: 20190238707
    Abstract: Provided is an image forming system capable of updating internal data of an external device according to an instruction from a server. An app-installing unit installs an application for updating internal data of card reader in an image forming apparatus. An internal-data-updating unit causes the image forming apparatus to execute the application installed by the app-installing unit. An app-acquiring unit acquires the application from the server according to an instruction from the server. An app-executing unit executes the app acquired by the app-acquiring unit and updates the external device to the internal data. As a result, the internal data of the card reader is updated.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 31, 2019
    Publication date: August 1, 2019
    Applicant: KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc.
    Inventors: Keiji TSUDA, Masafumi SATO, Zhenyu SUN, Tatsuya HIWATARI
  • Publication number: 20190235810
    Abstract: Provided is an image forming system that reduces the time and labor of setting the printer driver of a user terminal. A common queue temporarily stores printing jobs transmitted from each user terminal. A plurality of individual queues is associated one-to-one with a plurality of image forming apparatuses. A printing-job-distributing unit distributes the printing jobs stored in the common queues to any of the plurality of individual queues. A printing-job-creation unit, based on the printer driver in which the output destination of the printing job is commonly set in the common queue, creates a printing job that includes a user name. The printing-job-distributing unit distributes the printing job to an individual queue based on the user name.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 31, 2019
    Publication date: August 1, 2019
    Applicant: KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc.
    Inventors: Tatsuya HIWATARI, Masafumi SATO, Zhenyu SUN, Keiji TSUDA
  • Publication number: 20190238693
    Abstract: Provided is a management server that flexibly filters report items under various conditions according to a customer environment. The management server manages a plurality of image forming apparatuses 3 via a network. The management server includes a management information database (management information DB), a filtering-setting-receiving unit, and a report-generating unit. The management information database registers job histories of the plurality of image forming apparatuses. The filtering-setting-receiving unit receives a filtering setting for the management information database by SQL. The report-generating unit executes the SQL received by the filtering-setting-receiving unit for the management information database and generates a report based on the job histories.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 31, 2019
    Publication date: August 1, 2019
    Applicant: KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc.
    Inventors: Tatsuya HIWATARI, Masafumi SATO, Zhenyu SUN, Keiji TSUDA
  • Publication number: 20190236662
    Abstract: Provided is an image forming apparatus capable of flexible billing. The server manages billing of users that use image forming apparatuses. An authentication-acquiring unit acquires authentication information of users from image forming apparatuses. An authenticating unit authenticates users according to authentication acquired by the authentication-acquiring unit. A billing unit performs billing in which user billing information, which is billing information in units of the users authenticated by the authenticating unit, is applied to apparatus billing information, which is billing information in units of image forming apparatuses. A billing-control-transmitting unit transmits billing control information for controlling functions of the image forming apparatuses in correspondence with billing by the billing unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 31, 2019
    Publication date: August 1, 2019
    Applicant: KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc.
    Inventors: Zhenyu SUN, Masafumi SATO, Keiji TSUDA, Tatsuya HIWATARI
  • Patent number: 10296268
    Abstract: A printing system includes a data processing device and an image forming apparatus. The data processing device processes print data. The data processing device includes a data receiving unit, a data managing unit, a data transmitting unit, and a preview image generating unit. The preview image generating unit generates a preview image based on print data. When the data receiving unit receives print data of a plurality of pages, the preview image generating unit automatically generates the preview image of a part of pages among the plurality of pages. The data managing unit manages the preview image generated by the preview image generating unit. When the data managing unit manages the preview image of a page requested from the image forming apparatus, the data transmitting unit transmits the preview image managed by the data managing unit to the image forming apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 21, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2019
    Assignee: KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc.
    Inventors: Zhenyu Sun, Masafumi Sato
  • Patent number: 10289361
    Abstract: A print management device includes a queue managing unit, a wireless communication unit, a data storage unit, and a data transmitting unit. The queue managing unit manages queues related to image forming apparatuses. The wireless communication unit communicates with a user terminal in a common wireless printing protocol. The wireless printing protocol does not require a driver individually corresponding to the image forming apparatuses. The data storage unit stores print data received by the wireless communication unit from the user terminal over the communications in the queues managed by the queue managing unit. The data transmitting unit takes out the print data from the queue to transmit the print data to the image forming apparatus related to the queue.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 29, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2019
    Assignee: Kyocera Document Solutions Inc.
    Inventors: Zhenyu Sun, Masafumi Sato
  • Publication number: 20190139578
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a display, an operation receiver, a storage, and a controller. The operation receiver receives an instruction indicating a switch of a candidate image from a user. The storage stores movie data. The controller controls the display to display a selection screen via which a frame image to be stored as a still image is selected from the movie data. The selection screen includes the candidate image, first marker information, and second maker information. The controller moves a frame position of the candidate image based on the position indicated by the first marker information or the second marker information in a case where the operation receiver receives the instruction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 6, 2018
    Publication date: May 9, 2019
    Inventors: Wataru OKAMOTO, Masafumi SATO, Hideaki HATANAKA, Yoshikazu SAKAI
  • Patent number: 10252137
    Abstract: A motion analysis apparatus includes an impact analysis unit that specifies a hitting direction of an exercise appliance during impact and a speed of the exercise appliance during the impact by using an output signal from an inertial sensor, and a display unit that displays the hitting direction and the speed in a coordinate system in which a hitting target direction is set.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 10, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2019
    Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masafumi Sato, Toshihiko Kano, Kenya Kodaira, Kazuo Nomura
  • Publication number: 20190011947
    Abstract: An information processing terminal displays a display setting screen on a touch panel on the basis of display setting information acquired from a wearable apparatus. Next, the information processing terminal generates display setting change information on the basis of a user's change operation on the display setting screen displayed on the touch panel. The information processing terminal transmits the display setting change information to the wearable apparatus from the information processing terminal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 28, 2018
    Publication date: January 10, 2019
    Applicant: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hironori NAKAZAWA, Masafumi SATO, Michio NAKADAIRA, Yuki KIMPARA, Masaaki NONOYAMA, Masanori OJIMA