Patents by Inventor Shigeru Okada

Shigeru Okada 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: 20230137859
    Abstract: A flush toilet includes a bowl part, a drainage water trap part that is connected to a bottom part thereof, and a water drainage socket that is connected thereto and includes a back side R part that changes a flow channel so that washing water flowing from an upper side is directed to a front side, a front side R part that is provided on a downstream side of the back side R part and changes a flow channel so that washing water flowing from a back side is directed to a lower side, a water storage part that stores a part of washing water on a flow channel from the back side R part to the front side R part, and a throttle part that is provided on a downstream side of the front side R part and decreases a cross-sectional area of a flow channel thereof.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 10, 2022
    Publication date: May 4, 2023
    Inventors: Yuichi Tsubone, Chisato Sone, Hiroshi Hashimoto, Yuya Miyake, Shigeru Okada, Kenichi Takano
  • Publication number: 20230138880
    Abstract: A flush toilet includes a bowl part, a drainage water trap part that is connected to a bottom part of the bowl part, and a water drainage socket that is connected to the drainage water trap part and includes an upper side water drainage socket that extends downward from the drainage water trap part, a back side R part that is connected to the upper side water drainage socket and changes a flow channel so that a washing water that flows from an upper side is directed to a front side, and a horizontal pipe that extends forward from the back side R part. The back side R part and the horizontal pipe include a water storage part that stores a part of washing water. The water storage part is arranged on a lower side of a back side lower end part of the drainage water trap part.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 15, 2022
    Publication date: May 4, 2023
    Inventors: Chisato Sone, Kenichi Nakamura, Hiroshi Hashimoto, Yuichi Tsubone, Shigeru Okada, Kenichi Takano, Satoshi Yamazaki
  • 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: 20230100206
    Abstract: A flush toilet includes a bowl including a waste receiving surface, a rim and a well portion; a water spouting part that spouts flush water toward the bowl; and a water discharge trap including an inlet connected to a lower part of the well portion, the water discharge trap discharging waste in the bowl, the well portion includes a bottom wall formed above and in front of the inlet of the water discharge trap, a side wall formed to surround a periphery of the bottom wall, and a joining portion that joins an outer edge of the bottom wall and a bottom edge of the side wall with a surface having a curvature, and the bottom wall of the well portion includes a concave portion formed to recess downward on left and right sides with respect to a center axis in a left-right direction in a front sectional view.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 9, 2022
    Publication date: March 30, 2023
    Applicant: TOTO LTD.
    Inventors: Hiroshi HASHIMOTO, Kenichi NAKAMURA, Shinichi URATA, Kazunari YASUI, Isami SAKABA, Yuichi TSUBONE, Shigeru OKADA, Satoshi YAMAZAKI
  • 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: 20220309273
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a processor configured to acquire a form image that is obtained from reading of a form in which form information including at least one of a predetermined item or an item value is written, extract the form information from the acquired form image, identify a reference form corresponding to the form image from the extracted form information, correct a revised position using a difference between a position of form information, of which a corresponding reference position is not revised, of the extracted form information and a reference position corresponding to the position, in a case where the reference position of form information of the reference form is revised to the revised position by user's designation, and extract the form information at the corrected revised position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 7, 2021
    Publication date: September 29, 2022
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
    Inventors: Masayuki YAMAGUCHI, Shusaku KUBO, Jun ANDO, Yusuke SUZUKI, Fumi KOSAKA, Shigeru OKADA
  • Publication number: 20220311889
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a processor configured to acquire plural scanned images obtained by scanning a bundle of paper media including a plural standard document bundles each of which is a set of a standard document and a related document related to the standard document, extract a title from the plural scanned images, extract, from the plural scanned images, an identifier that is assigned to be common within one standard document bundle and to be different between different standard document bundles, and divide the plural scanned images into bundles such that a scanned image from which the title is extracted is set as a bundle head, scanned images having the same identifier are included in the same bundle, and scanned images having different identifiers are included in different bundles.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 12, 2021
    Publication date: September 29, 2022
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
    Inventors: Fumi KOSAKA, Shigeru OKADA, Shusaku KUBO, Yusuke SUZUKI, Masayuki YAMAGUCHI, Jun ANDO
  • Publication number: 20220309227
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a processor configured to acquire specific document data, and in a case where the specific document data includes a text code string, output the text code string included in the specific document data as input data for processing executed by outputting a text code string obtained by text recognition of document data in a predetermined format, in the predetermined format.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 12, 2021
    Publication date: September 29, 2022
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
    Inventors: Shigeru OKADA, Shusaku KUBO, Fumi KOSAKA, Yusuke SUZUKI, Masayuki YAMAGUCHI, Jun ANDO
  • 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: 11361572
    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: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2022
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
    Inventors: Shinya Nakamura, Akane Abe, Shintaro Adachi, Kunihiko Kobayashi, Kazuhiro Oya, Shigeru Okada, Junichi Shimizu, Akinobu 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
  • 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
  • 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: 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