Patents by Inventor Satoshi Kawakami

Satoshi Kawakami 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: 9344599
    Abstract: An image forming system includes an image forming apparatus and a portable terminal. The image forming apparatus includes: a preview-image-data generating circuit that generates preview image data from image data; and a preview-image-data transmitting circuit that transmits the preview image data to the portable terminal. The portable terminal includes: a preview-image-data receiving circuit that receives the preview image data from the image forming apparatus via wireless communication; a preview-image display circuit that displays an image of the preview image data; and a rotation detecting circuit that detects rotation of a main body of the portable terminal with a predetermined rotation procedure. When the rotation detecting circuit detects rotation of the main body of the portable terminal while the image of the preview image data is displayed, the portable terminal displays an image of the preview image data corresponding to a back side of the displayed image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2016
    Assignee: KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc.
    Inventors: Masaya Okuda, Satoshi Kawakami, Yoshitaka Matsuki, Yuri Moritani
  • Publication number: 20160134669
    Abstract: An information sharing system includes a group management server and at least one terminal. The group management server includes a mark generating circuit that generates a group ID for uniquely identifying a group. The terminal includes a mark analysis circuit that analyzes the imaged mark; and a second communication control circuit that controls the second communication circuit to communicate with the group management server and the file server, and sends a request for the user ID stored in the second storage circuit based on the analysis results to join the group indicated by the group ID. The shared folder management circuit of the group management server set an access right for the received user ID on the shared folder when receiving the request from the terminal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 1, 2015
    Publication date: May 12, 2016
    Inventors: Akira Yuki, Takahiro Minami, Daisuke Yoshida, Satoshi Kawakami
  • Publication number: 20160062289
    Abstract: Provided is an image forming apparatus that controls a user authentication and a switching action for switching into a specific operation mode (either one of first and second power saving modes, and emergency stop), depending an alarm level of disaster information. A user authentication function circuit is for performing the user authentication. An operation mode switching circuit is for switching a current operation mode into the specific operation mode. A disaster information acquire circuit is for receiving disaster information representing the alarm level. A system control circuit controls, depending on the alarm level, the user authentication operation by the user authentication function circuit and a switching of one of the operation modes by the operation mode switching circuit. The aforementioned specified operation mode is either one of the user authentication mode, the first power saving mode, the second power saving mode, and the emergency stop.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 29, 2015
    Publication date: March 3, 2016
    Applicant: KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc.
    Inventors: Satoshi KAWAKAMI, Masaya OKUDA, Yoshitaka MATSUKI, Yuri MORITANI, Tsuyoshi NITTA
  • Patent number: 9262103
    Abstract: Provided is an image forming apparatus that performs appropriately changing to the power-saving mode according to environment (luminosity) of a place that user exists, without increasing in a cost. When there is access from a portable terminal, communication circuit requests to the portable terminal for transmission of illuminance information detected by an illuminance sensor in a side of the portable terminal. Then, based on the illuminance information, mode switching circuit changes to the power-saving mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 3, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 16, 2016
    Assignee: KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc.
    Inventors: Tsuyoshi Nitta, Satoshi Kawakami, Yuri Moritani, Yoshitaka Matsuki, Masaya Okuda
  • Patent number: 9235694
    Abstract: An electronic device includes a touch panel, a time information obtaining section, and an authentication section. The time information obtaining section obtains time information for user authentication. The authentication section executes user authentication based on the time information obtained by the time information obtaining section. The time information obtaining section changes the time information according to a user's touch duration on the touch panel and changes an amount of change in time that the time information indicates according to a user's manner of touching the touch panel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 12, 2016
    Assignee: KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc.
    Inventors: Satoshi Kawakami, Yoshitaka Matsuki, Masato Tanba, Yosuke Nakazato, Wataru Endo
  • Patent number: 9197785
    Abstract: An operation device which displays a document preview image on a paper sheet preview image, includes: a changing unit which changes a size of document image data corresponding to the document preview image in accordance with a movement amount and a movement direction when a user touches a part of the document preview image and moves the touched part; a determining unit which determines whether or not a vertical size and a horizontal size of the document preview image after the change are larger than a vertical size and a horizontal size of a largest paper sheet preview image; and an enlargement continuous shooting setting unit sets an enlargement continuous shooting mode if it is determined that the vertical size and the horizontal size of the document preview image are larger than the vertical size and the horizontal size of the largest paper sheet preview image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 14, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 24, 2015
    Assignee: Kyocera Document Solutions Inc.
    Inventors: Takashi Tamura, Satoshi Kawakami, Yoshifumi Okabayashi, Emi Tennichi
  • Publication number: 20150286448
    Abstract: Provided is an image forming apparatus that performs appropriately changing to the power-saving mode according to environment (luminosity) of a place that user exists, without increasing in a cost. When there is access from a portable terminal, communication circuit requests to the portable terminal for transmission of illuminance information detected by an illuminance sensor in a side of the portable terminal. Then, based on the illuminance information, mode switching circuit changes to the power-saving mode.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 3, 2015
    Publication date: October 8, 2015
    Applicant: KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc.
    Inventors: Tsuyoshi NITTA, Satoshi KAWAKAMI, Yuri MORITANI, Yoshitaka MATSUKI, Masaya OKUDA
  • Publication number: 20150281510
    Abstract: An image forming system includes an image forming apparatus and a portable terminal. The image forming apparatus includes: a preview-image-data generating circuit that generates preview image data from image data; and a preview-image-data transmitting circuit that transmits the preview image data to the portable terminal. The portable terminal includes: a preview-image-data receiving circuit that receives the preview image data from the image forming apparatus via wireless communication; a preview-image display circuit that displays an image of the preview image data; and a rotation detecting circuit that detects rotation of a main body of the portable terminal with a predetermined rotation procedure. When the rotation detecting circuit detects rotation of the main body of the portable terminal while the image of the preview image data is displayed, the portable terminal displays an image of the preview image data corresponding to a back side of the displayed image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 24, 2015
    Publication date: October 1, 2015
    Applicant: KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc.
    Inventors: Masaya OKUDA, Satoshi KAWAKAMI, Yoshitaka MATSUKI, Yuri MORITANI
  • Publication number: 20150277828
    Abstract: An image forming system includes an image forming apparatus and a portable terminal. The image forming apparatus includes: a preview image creating circuit that creates preview image data from image data; and a preview image transmitting circuit that transmits the preview image data to the portable terminal. The portable terminal includes: a preview image data receiving circuit that receives the preview image data from the image forming apparatus; a preview image display circuit that displays an image of the preview image data; and a page orientation setting circuit that sets the page orientation whether a top side of the original document is an upper side, or a top side of the original document is a left side corresponding to a direction of the image of the preview image data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 26, 2015
    Publication date: October 1, 2015
    Inventors: Masaya Okuda, Satoshi Kawakami, Yuri Moritani, Yoshitaka Matsuki
  • Publication number: 20150277834
    Abstract: Provided is an image forming system that has a portable terminal and an image forming apparatus. The portable terminal includes a preview image data request notice transmitting circuit, a preview image data receiving circuit, a preview image display circuit, a preview image confirmation input circuit, and a preview image data deletion notice transmitting circuit. The image forming apparatus includes a preview image data request notice receiving circuit, a preview image data generating circuit, a preview image data transmission circuit, a preview image data deletion notice receiving circuit, and an image forming apparatus preview image data deletion circuit. The portable terminal transmits a preview image data deletion notice to an image forming apparatus, when it inputs that the preview image is confirmed. Then, the image forming apparatus deletes preview image data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 26, 2015
    Publication date: October 1, 2015
    Applicant: KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc.
    Inventors: Satoshi KAWAKAMI, Akira YUKI, Takahiro MINAMI, Daisuke YOSHIDA, Masaya OKUDA, Yoshitaka MATSUKI, Yuri MORITANI, Tsuyoshi NITTA
  • Patent number: 9137401
    Abstract: An electronic apparatus includes: a touch panel, a content storage unit that stores content to be displayed on the touch panel in different languages; a selected language storage unit that stores a selected language; a content display unit that displays, on the touch panel, content in the selected language stored in the selected language storage unit, from pieces of content stored in the content storage unit in the languages; and a language setting unit that displays a language selection screen on the touch panel if a particular operation is accepted in a non-explicit area, which is not explicitly indicated as being ready for accepting an operation, the language selection screen being one of screens displayed on the touch panel, and also stores, in the selected language storage unit, a language selected by an operation accepted on the language selection screen.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 15, 2015
    Assignee: Kyocera Document Solutions Inc.
    Inventors: Satoshi Kawakami, Wataru Endo
  • Patent number: 9124840
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes an image region determining unit, an image color determining unit, and a change processor. The image region determining unit is configured to determine a colored region where an inside of an outline is filled with a single color from color image data. The image color determining unit is configured to determine a color of the colored region determined by the image region determining unit. The change processor is configured to change the colored region determined by the image region determining unit to a patterned region with a pattern different in each of the colors determined by the image color determining unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 16, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 1, 2015
    Assignee: Kyocera Document Solutions Inc.
    Inventors: Yoshitaka Matsuki, Satoshi Kawakami, Wataru Endo, Masato Tanba, Yosuke Nakazato
  • Publication number: 20150066392
    Abstract: A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium has stored therein a material evaluating program. The material evaluating program includes a first program code and a second program code. The first program code causes a computer to evaluate, in units of pages included in a material, an object impression degree for each of all objects included in each of the pages, the object impression degree indicating the strength of an impression made by the object included in the page. The second program code causes the computer to display an evaluation result about the object impression degrees obtained by executing the first program code.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 27, 2014
    Publication date: March 5, 2015
    Applicant: KYOCERA DOCUMENT SOLUTIONS INC.
    Inventors: Masato TANBA, Yoshitaka MATSUKI, Yosuke NAKAZATO, Satoshi KAWAKAMI, Wataru ENDO
  • Publication number: 20150067826
    Abstract: An electronic device includes a touch panel, a time information obtaining section, and an authentication section. The time information obtaining section obtains time information for user authentication. The authentication section executes user authentication based on the time information obtained by the time information obtaining section. The time information obtaining section changes the time information according to a user's touch duration on the touch panel and changes an amount of change in time that the time information indicates according to a user's manner of touching the touch panel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 27, 2014
    Publication date: March 5, 2015
    Applicant: KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc.
    Inventors: Satoshi KAWAKAMI, Yoshitaka MATSUKI, Masato TANBA, Yosuke NAKAZATO, Wataru ENDO
  • Publication number: 20150066480
    Abstract: An acronym-management program causes a computer to extracts an acronym from a list-updating reference for updating an acronym list; extracts, from the list-updating reference, a candidate for an expanded form corresponding to the extracted acronym; and, when the likelihood of the extracted acronym being used in the list-updating reference to refer to the extracted expanded-form candidate reaches or exceeds a specific level, increase, in the acronym list, the frequency corresponding to the acronym and the expanded form.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 25, 2014
    Publication date: March 5, 2015
    Applicant: KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc.
    Inventors: Wataru ENDO, Satoshi KAWAKAMI, Yosuke NAKAZATO, Yoshitaka MATSUKI, Masato TANBA
  • Publication number: 20150066868
    Abstract: A non-transitory computer-readable recording medium that stores a document evaluation program executable by a computer in a document evaluation apparatus includes first program code that causes the computer to determine that a plurality of pages from each of which the same type of object has been detected are in the same group and to detect the plurality of pages in the same group from the document, second program code that causes the computer to evaluate consistency in the plurality of pages, in the same group, that have been detected by the first program code, and third program code that causes the computer to display an evaluation result obtained by the second program code.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 28, 2014
    Publication date: March 5, 2015
    Inventors: Masato Tanba, Yoshitaka Matsuki, Satoshi Kawakami, Yosuke Nakazato, Wataru Endo
  • Publication number: 20150036152
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes an image region determining unit, an image color determining unit, and a change processor. The image region determining unit is configured to determine a colored region where an inside of an outline is filled with a single color from color image data. The image color determining unit is configured to determine a color of the colored region determined by the image region determining unit. The change processor is configured to change the colored region determined by the image region determining unit to a patterned region with a pattern different in each of the colors determined by the image color determining unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 16, 2014
    Publication date: February 5, 2015
    Inventors: Yoshitaka Matsuki, Satoshi Kawakami, Wataru Endo, Masato Tanba, Yosuke Nakazato
  • Publication number: 20150033186
    Abstract: A retrieval device includes: a touch panel that displays a list that arranges a data specific information piece, a retrieval character reception section that receives one or more characters of the data specific information piece for identifying data of a data group via an handwritten input to the list on the touch panel, an information retrieval section that retrieves the data specific information piece with the one or more retrieval characters, and a retrieval result display section that displays a retrieval result of the information retrieval section on the touch panel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 18, 2014
    Publication date: January 29, 2015
    Inventors: Wataru ENDO, Yoshitaka MATSUKI, Satoshi KAWAKAMI
  • Publication number: 20140372879
    Abstract: A non-transitory computer readable recording medium stores a document processing program executed by a computer. The document processing program includes: a first program code configured to cause the computer to register a term with it bearing corresponding recognizability information indicative of a reader type to which readers capable of recognizing the term belong and a reader type to which readers incapable of recognizing the term belong; a second program code configured to cause the computer to receive specification of a reader type to which a reader belongs; a third program code configured to cause the computer to detect any term non-recognizable to the readers belonging to the reader type based on the specification from an output target document based on the recognizability information; and a fourth program code configured to cause the computer to issue a warning when the term is detected through the third program code.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 12, 2014
    Publication date: December 18, 2014
    Applicant: KYOCERA DOCUMENT SOLUTIONS, INC.
    Inventors: Satoshi KAWAKAMI, Wataru ENDO, Masato TANBA, Yosuke NAKAZATO, Yoshitaka MATSUKI
  • Publication number: 20140359451
    Abstract: An image processing device includes: an indication point acquiring section that acquires an indication point on a presentation material, which a presenter is pointing out with a pointer, through image processing on the presentation material taken by an image pickup device; an element layout changed material acquiring section that acquires an element layout changed material in which an layout of elements contained in the presentation material is changed; a changed indication point determining section that determines as a changed indication point a point on the element layout changed material corresponding to the indication point acquired by the indication point acquiring section; and a display image generating section generates an image in which an image of the element layout changed material is synthesized with a changed indication point indicating image showing the changed indication point and allows a display device to display the generated image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 29, 2014
    Publication date: December 4, 2014
    Applicant: KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc.
    Inventors: Satoshi Kawakami, Wataru Endo, Yoshitaka Matsuki, Masato Tanba, Yosuke Nakazato