Patents by Inventor Yuhji Okamoto

Yuhji Okamoto 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).

  • Image forming system having display sections with different formats
    Patent number: 7173724
    Abstract: A display section of a scanner is connected to a printer controller of a printer via a bus line, so that detailed information regarding the scanner the printer and so on is controlled by the printer controller. Both display contents respectively regarding the printer or the scanner are stored in a VRAM of the printer controller. Because of this, the detailed information regarding the printer is displayed on the display section of the scanner, which is a large LCD. This provides an image forming system, which notifies a user of the detailed information of the printer in a such manner that the user can easily understand the detailed information, when the scanner and the printer, each of which can be used independently, are combined as a system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2001
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2007
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Tatsuo Nomura, Yuhji Okamoto, Syoichiro Yoshiura, Kohki Fukuda, Keiichi Hasegawa, Seiji Takeda
  • Image forming system
    Publication number: 20020105674
    Abstract: A display section of a scanner is connected to a printer controller of a printer via a bus line, so that detailed information regarding the scanner the printer and so on is controlled by the printer controller. Both display contents respectively regarding the printer or the scanner are stored in a VRAM of the printer controller. Because of this, the detailed information regarding the printer is displayed on the display section of the scanner, which is a large LCD. This provides an image forming system, which notifies a user of the detailed information of the printer in a such manner that the user can easily understand the detailed information, when the scanner and the printer, each of which can be used independently, are combined as a system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 20, 2001
    Publication date: August 8, 2002
    Inventors: Tatsuo Nomura, Yuhji Okamoto, Syoichiro Yoshiura, Kohki Fukuda, Keiichi Hasegawa, Seiji Takeda