Patents by Inventor Masanori YOSHIZUKA

Masanori YOSHIZUKA 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: 11961318
    Abstract: An information processing device includes a processor configured to acquire a document image illustrating a document, acquire a related character string associated with a target character string included in the document image, and extract target information corresponding to the target character string from a region set with reference to a position of the related character string in the document image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
    Inventors: Fumi Kosaka, Akinobu Yamaguchi, Junichi Shimizu, Shinya Nakamura, Jun Ando, Masanori Yoshizuka, Akane Abe
  • Publication number: 20230306773
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a processor configured to: separate a header part and a body part from a read image obtained by reading a facsimile document which is a document received by facsimile; and switch preprocessing in accordance with a header recognition result which is a recognition result obtained through character recognition on the header part, the preprocessing being performed before character recognition on the body part.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 15, 2022
    Publication date: September 28, 2023
    Applicant: FUJIFILM BUSINESS INNOVATION CORP.
    Inventors: Masanori YOSHIZUKA, Junichi SHIMIZU, Shintaro ADACHI, Akinobu YAMAGUCHI, Akane ABE, Naomi TAKAHASHI, Kunihiko KOBAYASHI
  • Patent number: 11743411
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a processor configured to acquire a manuscript image and an additional image added to the manuscript image, and reduce an image area other than a blank area in the manuscript image so that the additional image fits in the blank area of the manuscript image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 5, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2023
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
    Inventors: Akane Abe, Akinobu Yamaguchi, Junichi Shimizu, Fumi Kosaka, Shinya Nakamura, Jun Ando, Masanori Yoshizuka
  • Publication number: 20230118845
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a processor configured to acquire a plurality of scanned images obtained by scanning a bundle of paper media having a plurality of pages, extract feature information indicating a feature of a scanned image including at least a type of a corresponding document of each scanned image among the plurality of scanned images, derive, on the basis of the feature information of each of the plurality of scanned images, information that indicates relevance and increases as the relevance related to the feature information between a first scanned image and a second scanned image scanned later than the first scanned image among the plurality of scanned images, increases, correlate the information indicating the relevance with the second scanned image, and generate scanned image group information indicating the plurality of scanned images including the scanned image with which the information indicating the relevance is correlated.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 12, 2022
    Publication date: April 20, 2023
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
    Inventors: Junichi SHIMIZU, Akinobu YAMAGUCHI, Kunihiko KOBAYASHI, Shintaro ADACHI, Shinya NAKAMURA, Masanori YOSHIZUKA, Akane ABE, Naomi TAKAHASHI
  • Patent number: 11631268
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a processor programmed to: extract from a document a proper noun that is likely to represent a provider of the document or a receiver of the document; and determine whether an attribute of the proper noun is the provider or the receiver by referring to information obtained from the proper noun or information obtained from a vicinity of the proper noun on the document.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2023
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
    Inventors: Masanori Yoshizuka, Junichi Shimizu, Shigeru Okada
  • Publication number: 20230108505
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a processor configured to: extract a table group including a first table and at least one second table from plural tables formed as images, the first table and the at least one second table having a common characteristic in terms of a table structure, the first table including a heading row representing attributes of attribute values included in the first table and the at least one second table, the at least one second table not including the heading row; relate the first table and the at least one second table included in the table group to each other so that the first table and the at least one second table are arranged in consecutive order, by using attribute values of an attribute which is included in the heading row and which represents consecutiveness of the first table and the at least one second table; and obtain attribute values corresponding to each of the attributes included in the heading row from a table sequence, the table sequence including the first
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 23, 2022
    Publication date: April 6, 2023
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
    Inventors: Naomi TAKAHASHI, Junichi SHIMIZU, Shintaro ADACHI, Akinobu YAMAGUCHI, Kunihiko KOBAYASHI, Shinya NAKAMURA, Masanori YOSHIZUKA, Akane ABE
  • Publication number: 20230102476
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a processor configured to: receive an electronic document generated while maintaining text information by an application program or an electronic document generated by reading an image with a document reading apparatus; perform type determination as to whether the received electronic document including a portion representing a text is generated by the application program or generated by the document reading apparatus; and determine based on a result of the type determination whether an optical character recognition process is to be performed on the electronic document.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 22, 2022
    Publication date: March 30, 2023
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
    Inventors: Kunihiko KOBAYASHI, Shintaro ADACHI, Junichi SHIMIZU, Akane ABE, Shinya NAKAMURA, Akinobu YAMAGUCHI, Masanori YOSHIZUKA, Naomi TAKAHASHI
  • Publication number: 20230099764
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a processor configured to: extract attribute values for plural attributes from an optical character recognition (OCR) result for an image in accordance with an extraction rule determined in advance, and generate an extraction result in which the extracted attribute values and the respective attributes are correlated with each other; and perform control so as to associate, in accordance with an association rule for associating an attribute value for a sub attribute with a different attribute, the attribute value for the sub attribute with the different attribute included in the extraction result, the sub attribute being an attribute for which an attribute value is extracted from the image and which supplements a content for the different attribute.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 25, 2022
    Publication date: March 30, 2023
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
    Inventors: Akinobu YAMAGUCHI, Junichi SHIMIZU, Kunihiko KOBAYASHI, Shintaro ADACHI, Shinya NAKAMURA, Masanori YOSHIZUKA, Akane ABE, Naomi TAKAHASHI
  • Publication number: 20230095652
    Abstract: An information processing device includes a processor configured to perform a character recognition process on a form image containing data in a table format, and thereby acquire character strings of item names expressing items of the data in a table format and character strings of attribute values for the items, and change, in a case where a correspondence relationship between the attribute values for multiple items is undetermined, the correspondence relationship between the attribute values for the multiple items by using a height in the form image of the character string of the attribute value for which the correspondence relationship with the attribute value of another item is undetermined.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 20, 2022
    Publication date: March 30, 2023
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
    Inventors: Shinya NAKAMURA, Shintaro ADACHI, Akinobu YAMAGUCHI, Masanori YOSHIZUKA, Junichi SHIMIZU, Naomi TAKAHASHI, Kunihiko KOBAYASHI, Akane ABE
  • Patent number: 11521404
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a processor. The processor is configured to: determine a document type of a document by using a title of the document, the document being classified as the determined document type, the title representing a category of the document and being extracted from a read image of the document; and extract a field value from the document by using an item of definition information prepared in accordance with the determined document type from among items of definition information. The definition information is prepared for each document type and defines a rule for extracting a field value from a document.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 2, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2022
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
    Inventors: Junichi Shimizu, Shigeru Okada, Masanori Yoshizuka
  • Patent number: 11481447
    Abstract: An information processing device includes a processor programmed to: determine whether a character string indicating a reference to target information is recorded in a range within a document, the target information corresponding to a keyword in the document, the range being determined based on a position of the keyword in the document; and extract the target information upon a determination that the character string is recorded in the range.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2022
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
    Inventors: Shigeru Okada, Junichi Shimizu, Masanori Yoshizuka
  • Publication number: 20220309272
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a processor configured to acquire each recognition result output by each of plural different recognition processes for the same image, and execute, in relation to the recognition result selected from among the recognition results output by each of the plural recognition processes, a postprocess corresponding to the recognition process from which the selected recognition result is output.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 11, 2021
    Publication date: September 29, 2022
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
    Inventors: Tadao MICHIMURA, Shigeru OKADA, Fumi KOSAKA, Masanori YOSHIZUKA
  • Publication number: 20220292553
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a processor configured to specify a design element of a product, which affects cost of the product, from three-dimensional shape data of the product and a production requirement for the product and output a cost reduction measure for the product related to the design element of the product and an amount of reduced cost of the product that is obtained in a case where the cost reduction measure for the product is executed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 27, 2021
    Publication date: September 15, 2022
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
    Inventors: Sho KOHATA, Ryota SUZUKI, Masanori YOSHIZUKA
  • Publication number: 20220269898
    Abstract: An information processing device includes: a processor configured to: execute, as preprocessing prior to character recognition, image conversion processing for a document that is a target of the character recognition, the image conversion processing having been determined in advance for each of attributes in the document or for each of regions in the document, the regions having been determined in advance according to a document type; and execute processing of executing the character recognition for the document that has been subjected to the image conversion processing to output a result of the character recognition.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 12, 2021
    Publication date: August 25, 2022
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
    Inventors: Shusaku KUBO, Kunihiko KOBAYASHI, Shigeru OKADA, Fumi KOSAKA, Jun ANDO, Masanori YOSHIZUKA, Yusuke SUZUKI, Masayuki YAMAGUCHI
  • Patent number: 11328425
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes a search unit that searches a search area, which is a part of a first image extending over two pages included in the first image, for a dividable area, the first image being indicated by first image data and a division unit that generates second image data indicating two second images, each of which corresponds to one of the two pages, by dividing the first image along a dividing line passing through, in a second direction, which is perpendicular to a first direction, the dividable area found by the search unit, the first direction being a direction across the two pages.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 15, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2022
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
    Inventors: Shigeru Okada, Shusaku Kubo, Masanori Yoshizuka
  • Patent number: 11321558
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a processor. The processor is configured to, in response to acquisition of a read image of a second document whose type is identical to a type of a first document, extract a character string included in, in the read image of the second document, a region where information about surroundings that matches first-document surroundings information is acquired, the information about surroundings satisfying a matching condition for determining matching with the first-document surroundings information that is acquired from an image around an item value acquisition region including an item value to be extracted in a read image of the first document, the character string being extracted as an item value to be extracted in the read image of the second document.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2022
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
    Inventors: Shigeru Okada, Junichi Shimizu, Masanori Yoshizuka
  • Publication number: 20220012481
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a processor configured to acquire recognized items obtained by recognizing characters in a first image showing a reading target including one or more first fields in which characters are written and a second field in which a name or a signature is written, if any one of the first fields is inadequate, create a second image having blank fields for the inadequate first field and the second field, if the second field is inadequate, create a second image having a blank field for the second field, and output the created second image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 18, 2021
    Publication date: January 13, 2022
    Applicant: FUJIFILM BUSINESS INNOVATION CORP.
    Inventors: Fumi KOSAKA, Tadao MICHIMURA, Shigeru OKADA, Masanori YOSHIZUKA
  • Publication number: 20210329143
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a processor configured to acquire a manuscript image and an additional image added to the manuscript image, and reduce an image area other than a blank area in the manuscript image so that the additional image fits in the blank area of the manuscript image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 5, 2020
    Publication date: October 21, 2021
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
    Inventors: Akane ABE, Akinobu YAMAGUCHI, Junichi SHIMIZU, Fumi KOSAKA, Shinya NAKAMURA, Jun ANDO, Masanori YOSHIZUKA
  • Patent number: 11151200
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes: an attribute giving unit that specifies a second date, which is a date after a first date corresponding to a date, on which processing is performed with respect to a document, or a date written in the document, based on information written in the document, and that gives the second date as attribute information of the document.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 24, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 19, 2021
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
    Inventors: Shigeru Okada, Shusaku Kubo, Masanori Yoshizuka
  • Publication number: 20210295032
    Abstract: An information processing device includes a processor configured to acquire a document image illustrating a document, acquire a related character string associated with a target character string included in the document image, and extract target information corresponding to the target character string from a region set with reference to a position of the related character string in the document image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 20, 2020
    Publication date: September 23, 2021
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
    Inventors: Fumi KOSAKA, Akinobu YAMAGUCHI, Junichi SHIMIZU, Shinya NAKAMURA, Jun ANDO, Masanori YOSHIZUKA, Akane ABE