Patents by Inventor PFU LIMITED

PFU LIMITED 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: 20130215480
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus including, an input unit for inputting image data including a document region, a storage for storing the brightness of each pixel on a first main scan line outside the document region, a corrector for correcting the brightness of each pixel on the first main scan line in accordance with the brightness of pixels in a first part and the brightness of pixels in a second part on a second main scan line following the first main scan line, and an edge point detector for detecting an edge point of the document region situated on the second main scan line in accordance with the difference between the brightness of each pixel on the first main scan line corrected and the brightness of each pixel on the second main scan line respectively corresponding to each pixel on the first main scan line.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 13, 2012
    Publication date: August 22, 2013
    Applicant: PFU LIMITED
    Inventor: PFU LIMITED
  • Publication number: 20130204926
    Abstract: There is provided an information processing system including: a client terminal; and a management server that manages the client terminal, wherein: the client terminal includes a transmission section that transmits notification data containing information denoting an operation state of at least an own machine; and the management server includes: a reply section that sends back reply information in return for notification data from the client terminal; and an information insertion section that inserts task information about a task of the client terminal into the reply information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 31, 2012
    Publication date: August 8, 2013
    Applicant: PFU LIMITED
    Inventor: PFU Limited
  • Publication number: 20130194625
    Abstract: Provided are an image capturing device having an image capturing unit which captures an image, a storage unit which stores the captured image, a wireless communication unit which communicates with a wireless communication terminal via a wireless line, and a detection unit which detects a predetermined condition. Further, the image capturing device has a control unit which restricts access from a wireless communication terminal while maintaining communication between the wireless communication unit and the wireless communication terminal when the detection unit detects the predetermined condition.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 21, 2012
    Publication date: August 1, 2013
    Applicant: PFU LIMITED
    Inventor: PFU Limited
  • Publication number: 20130194298
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus is configured to extract contour information of a medium area from readout image data, and correct distortion of the medium area based on the contour information. The medium area is an area for image data corresponding to a medium serving as a reading target. The image processing apparatus includes an acquiring unit that acquires the readout image data, an extracting unit that extracts the contour information of the medium area from the readout image data, a displaying unit that displays the contour information so as to superpose the contour information on the readout image data, a detecting unit that detects an instruction of changing a position of the contour information. The extracting unit extracts again the contour information by reflecting the instruction of changing, and the displaying unit redisplays the contour information extracted again by the extracting unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 20, 2012
    Publication date: August 1, 2013
    Applicant: PFU Limited
    Inventor: PFU Limited
  • Publication number: 20130186952
    Abstract: An image reading apparatus includes an RFID (radio frequency identification) detection unit that detects a reading RFID (radio frequency identification) tag disposed to a reading target; an image reading unit that reads an image of the reading target; a diagnosing RFID (radio frequency identification) tag capable of being detected by the RFID detection unit; and an abnormality determination unit that determines abnormality based on a state of detection of the RFID detection unit. When the diagnosing RFID tag is detected at the time the reading RFID tag is not detected by the RFID detection unit, the abnormality determination unit determines abnormality of the reading RFID tag, and when the diagnosing RFID tag is not detected, the abnormality determination unit determines abnormality of the RFID detection unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 7, 2012
    Publication date: July 25, 2013
    Applicant: PFU LIMITED
    Inventor: PFU LIMITED
  • Publication number: 20130155473
    Abstract: An image correction apparatus includes a read image acquiring unit that acquires read image data generated by an imaging device that moves in a sub-scanning direction with respect to a reading medium irradiated with an environmental light to read the reading medium; a selecting unit that selects a correction filter for correcting a pixel of interest in the acquired read image data based on brightness or luminance component of a pixel in a determination filter including the pixel of interest; and a correction unit that corrects tone data of the pixel of interest based on the correction filter selected by the selecting unit. The determination filter includes a plurality of determination filters in which a number of pixels to be used in the sub-scanning direction differs.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 20, 2012
    Publication date: June 20, 2013
    Applicant: PFU LIMITED
    Inventor: PFU Limited
  • Publication number: 20130088758
    Abstract: There is provided an image reading device including: a manuscript table on which a manuscript is placed; an image reading section that optically reads an image from the manuscript placed on the manuscript table; an information acquisition section that acquires information in wireless communication from an IC chip attached to the manuscript placed on the manuscript table; and a control section that controls a timing of image reading by the image reading section in accordance with a timing of information acquisition by the information acquisition section.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 5, 2012
    Publication date: April 11, 2013
    Applicant: PFU LIMITED
    Inventor: PFU LIMITED
  • Publication number: 20130088759
    Abstract: There is provided an information input device including: a chassis made of a non-metallic material; an antenna mounted to an upper portion of the chassis; and a fluctuation easing member which is mounted to a lower portion of the chassis to ease fluctuations in magnetic field intensity caused by a surface on which the information input device is mounted.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 5, 2012
    Publication date: April 11, 2013
    Applicant: PFU LIMITED
    Inventor: PFU LIMITED
  • Publication number: 20130083176
    Abstract: An overhead scanner device includes an image photographing unit, and a control unit, wherein the control unit includes an image acquiring unit that controls the image photographing unit to acquire an image of a document including at least an indicator provided by a user, a specific-point detecting unit that detects two specific points each determined based on the distance from the gravity center of an indicator to the end of the indicator, from the image acquired by the image acquiring unit, and an image cropping unit that crops the image acquired by the image acquiring unit into a rectangle with opposing corners at the two points detected by the specific-point detecting unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 29, 2012
    Publication date: April 4, 2013
    Applicant: PFU LIMITED
    Inventor: PFU LIMITED