Patents by Inventor Tsuyoshi NITTA

Tsuyoshi NITTA 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: 11736634
    Abstract: An image scanning device scans one or plural document images of one or plural predetermined head pages, and a preview processing unit performs preview display of the document image(s) of the head page(s). After detecting a user operation to accept the document image on the preview display, the image scanning device scans a document image of a subsequent page to the head page(s), and the image processing unit performs the image process for the document image of the subsequent page. Further, the image processing unit performs a part or whole of the image process for the document image(s) of the head page(s) before the preview display. If a part of the image process is displayed before the preview display, the image processing unit performs a remaining part of the image process after detecting a user operation to accept the document image on the preview display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 22, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2023
    Inventors: Tsuyoshi Nitta, Toshiaki Mutsuo
  • Publication number: 20220357899
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a memory, a control device, and an image forming device. The control device includes a processor and functions as a memory manager and a controller through the processor executing a control program. The memory manager allocates amounts of the memory depending on different types of processing constituting a job to create a plurality of memory regions. The controller executes the job using at least one of the plurality of memory regions. The image forming device executes an image forming job of forming an image on a sheet under control of the controller.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 18, 2022
    Publication date: November 10, 2022
    Applicant: KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc.
    Inventors: Shinya OGAWA, Tsuyoshi NITTA, Yasuyuki YABUUCHI, Satoshi HAYAMA, Shinichi HASHIMOTO
  • Publication number: 20220360675
    Abstract: An image scanning device scans one or plural document images of one or plural predetermined head pages, and a preview processing unit performs preview display of the document image(s) of the head page(s). After detecting a user operation to accept the document image on the preview display, the image scanning device scans a document image of a subsequent page to the head page(s), and the image processing unit performs the image process for the document image of the subsequent page. Further, the image processing unit performs a part or whole of the image process for the document image(s) of the head page(s) before the preview display. If a part of the image process is displayed before the preview display, the image processing unit performs a remaining part of the image process after detecting a user operation to accept the document image on the preview display.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 22, 2022
    Publication date: November 10, 2022
    Inventors: Tsuyoshi Nitta, Toshiaki Mutsuo
  • Patent number: 11477339
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a controller that causes an image reading device to suspend reading a source document, when a decider decides that a shortage value of a source image is equal to or larger than a first threshold, causes a display device to display a message that the first threshold is changed to a predetermined second threshold larger than the first threshold, stores the source image, or causes the image forming device to form the source image, when a reading resuming instruction, to resume reading the source document at least including the source document the reading of which has been suspended, is received by an operation device, and when the decider decides that the shortage value of the source image is smaller than the second threshold, and causes, when there is a next source document, the image reading device to read the next source document.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2022
    Assignee: KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc.
    Inventor: Tsuyoshi Nitta
  • Publication number: 20220283765
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus (100) has an operation panel (5), a storage portion (2), an image reading portion (3), and a controller (1). On recognizing a job executed after a job is canceled as a result of a cancellation instruction being accepted to be a retried job, the controller (1), based on job information on the canceled job and job information on the retried job, detects as an error-prone item a setting item for which a set value differs between the canceled job and the retried job, and makes the storage portion (2) store improper setting information including information indicating the error-prone item.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 4, 2020
    Publication date: September 8, 2022
    Applicant: KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc.
    Inventors: Yoshiaki YASUI, Masahiro NISHIYAMA, Narihiko SUESE, Tsuyoshi NITTA, Ikuya OHARA, Ryota DOI, Shunsuke SASAKI
  • Publication number: 20220038593
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a controller that causes an image reading device to suspend reading a source document, when a decider decides that a shortage value of a source image is equal to or larger than a first threshold, causes a display device to display a message that the first threshold is changed to a predetermined second threshold larger than the first threshold, stores the source image, or causes the image forming device to form the source image, when a reading resuming instruction, to resume reading the source document at least including the source document the reading of which has been suspended, is received by an operation device, and when the decider decides that the shortage value of the source image is smaller than the second threshold, and causes, when there is a next source document, the image reading device to read the next source document.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 29, 2021
    Publication date: February 3, 2022
    Applicant: KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc.
    Inventor: Tsuyoshi NITTA
  • Patent number: 10015327
    Abstract: A portable apparatus includes an image capturing device, a display device, an indoor image acquisition unit, an apparatus position acquisition unit, an apparatus information acquisition unit, and a display control unit. The indoor image acquisition unit acquires an indoor image of a building having a plurality of floors. The apparatus position acquisition unit acquires a position of an electronic apparatus in real space. The apparatus information acquisition unit acquires apparatus information on the electronic apparatus. The display control unit causes the display device to display a composite image formed by combining additional information based on the apparatus information with a to-be-combined image, while linking the additional information to a position of the electronic apparatus in the to-be-combined image, this position corresponding to a relationship between the position of the electronic apparatus in real space and a position of the portable apparatus in real space.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 2, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 3, 2018
    Assignee: Kyocera Document Solutions Inc.
    Inventors: Tsuyoshi Nitta, Yoshitaka Matsuki, Wataru Endo, Satoshi Kawakami, Masato Tanba, Yuri Moritani
  • Patent number: 9800759
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus according to the present disclosure includes: one or more image processing modules; a first work memory disposed in a previous position to the one or more image processing modules; a second work memory disposed in a next position to the one or more image processing modules; a decompression-rotation processing module configured to (a) read out and decompress plural pieces of compressed sub-band data of plural sub-bands which locate in plural bands at an identical position in a primary scanning direction, (b) rotate respective pieces of decompressed sub-band data, and store the pieces of rotated sub-band data in the first work memory; and a rotation-compression processing module configured to (c) read out the plural pieces of image-processed sub-band data stored in the second work memory and rotate the respective pieces of sub-band data, and (d) compress the respective pieces of rotated sub-band data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2017
    Assignee: Kyocera Document Solutions, Inc.
    Inventor: Tsuyoshi Nitta
  • Patent number: 9696889
    Abstract: Provided is an electronic device, including: a display unit that displays, on one screen, a plurality of objects to be selected by a user; a line-of-sight detection unit that detects visually-recognized coordinates on the display unit to which the user's line-of-sight is directed; an object visually-recognized time period calculation unit that calculates a time period during which the visually-recognized coordinates detected by the line-of-sight detection unit fall within a range of the object; and a selection exclusion unit that excludes the object from candidates to be selected by the user if the time period calculated by the object visually-recognized time period calculation unit is longer than a time period threshold value and a frequency at which the object is selected is higher than a frequency threshold value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 21, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2017
    Assignee: KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc.
    Inventors: Ryosuke Ogishi, Tsuyoshi Nitta, Minoru Takahashi, Masato Tanba
  • Patent number: 9674385
    Abstract: There is provided a further saving in power consumption which is achieved by establishing an optimal transition from an ordinary operation mode to a power consumption saving mode. A mode switching management part (11c) as a mode switching part, while a communication of a managing part (11a) as a communication part to a mobile terminal (20) is being established, maintains an ordinary operation mode and when the communication of the management part (11a) to the mobile terminal (20) terminates, switches from the ordinary operation mode to a power consumption saving mode before an elapse of a specified power consumption saving time period.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 8, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2017
    Assignee: KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc.
    Inventors: Masaya Okuda, Tsuyoshi Nitta, Satoshi Kawakami, Yuri Moritani, Yoshitaka Matsuki
  • Publication number: 20170149987
    Abstract: A portable apparatus includes an image capturing device, a display device, an indoor image acquisition unit, an apparatus position acquisition unit, an apparatus information acquisition unit, and a display control unit. The indoor image acquisition unit acquires an indoor image of a building having a plurality of floors. The apparatus position acquisition unit acquires a position of an electronic apparatus in real space. The apparatus information acquisition unit acquires apparatus information on the electronic apparatus. The display control unit causes the display device to display a composite image formed by combining additional information based on the apparatus information with a to-be-combined image, while linking the additional information to a position of the electronic apparatus in the to-be-combined image, this position corresponding to a relationship between the position of the electronic apparatus in real space and a position of the portable apparatus in real space.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 2, 2017
    Publication date: May 25, 2017
    Inventors: Tsuyoshi Nitta, Yoshitaka Matsuki, Wataru Endo, Satoshi Kawakami, Masato Tanba, Yuri Moritani
  • Patent number: 9600217
    Abstract: A portable apparatus includes an image capturing device, a display device, an indoor image acquisition unit, an apparatus position acquisition unit, an apparatus information acquisition unit, and a display control unit. The indoor image acquisition unit acquires an indoor image of a building having a plurality of floors. The apparatus position acquisition unit acquires a position of an electronic apparatus in real space. The apparatus information acquisition unit acquires apparatus information on the electronic apparatus. The display control unit causes the display device to display a composite image formed by combining additional information based on the apparatus information with a to-be-combined image, while linking the additional information to a position of the electronic apparatus in the to-be-combined image, this position corresponding to a relationship between the position of the electronic apparatus in real space and a position of the portable apparatus in real space.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 21, 2017
    Assignee: Kyocera Document Solutions Inc.
    Inventors: Tsuyoshi Nitta, Yoshitaka Matsuki, Wataru Endo, Satoshi Kawakami, Masato Tanba, Yuri Moritani
  • Patent number: 9471178
    Abstract: An electronic device includes a touch panel that detects operation point coordinates of touch input by a user and a line-of-sight detection section that calculates the coordinates of a gaze point on the touch panel at which a line of sight of the user is directed in a specific time range from a time point of the touch input on the touch panel by the user. The electronic device further includes a line-of-sight correction area calculation section that calculates a line-of-sight correction area in a specific range from the coordinates of the gaze point on the touch panel. The electronic device also includes an operation coordinate line-of-sight correction section that a) changes the operation point coordinates to the coordinates of the gaze point if the operation point coordinates are within the line-of-sight correction area; and b) does not change the operation point coordinates if the operation point coordinates are not within the line-of-sight correction area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 20, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2016
    Assignee: KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc.
    Inventors: Minoru Takahashi, Ryosuke Ogishi, Tsuyoshi Nitta, Masato Tanba
  • Patent number: 9442446
    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: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2016
    Assignee: KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc.
    Inventors: Satoshi Kawakami, Masaya Okuda, Yoshitaka Matsuki, Yuri Moritani, Tsuyoshi Nitta
  • Publication number: 20160165087
    Abstract: There is provided a further saving in power consumption which is achieved by establishing an optimal transition from an ordinary operation mode to a power consumption saving mode. A mode switching management part (11c) as a mode switching part, while a communication of a managing part (11a) as a communication part to a mobile terminal (20) is being established, maintains an ordinary operation mode and when the communication of the management part (11a) to the mobile terminal (20) terminates, switches from the ordinary operation mode to a power consumption saving mode before an elapse of a specified power consumption saving time period.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 8, 2015
    Publication date: June 9, 2016
    Applicant: KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc.
    Inventors: Masaya OKUDA, Tsuyoshi NITTA, Satoshi KAWAKAMI, Yuri MORITANI, Yoshitaka MATSUKI
  • Patent number: 9354836
    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: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 31, 2016
    Assignee: KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc.
    Inventors: Satoshi Kawakami, Akira Yuki, Takahiro Minami, Daisuke Yoshida, Masaya Okuda, Yoshitaka Matsuki, Yuri Moritani, Tsuyoshi Nitta
  • 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
  • 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: 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