Patents by Inventor Yukio Kanaoka
Yukio Kanaoka 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).
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Patent number: 11818804Abstract: An information processing system includes an information processing device provided with a housing. The information processing device includes: a placement section that is disposed on an upper surface of the housing, the placement section on which a portable communication object is placed; a wireless communicator that wirelessly communicates with the communication object placed on the placement section; and a first protrusion that extends in a left-right direction along a lower end of the placement section. The placement section includes a placement surface sloping downward from a back side toward a front side, the placement surface on which the communication object is placed. A step, forming a gap between the placement surface and the communication object, is disposed in a lower end portion of the placement surface.Type: GrantFiled: July 25, 2022Date of Patent: November 14, 2023Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Masao Saeda, Yukio Kanaoka, Yasuhiro Nakai, Kohji Katamoto, Kohichi Murakami, Yasutomo Hayano
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Publication number: 20220361288Abstract: An information processing system includes an information processing device provided with a housing. The information processing device includes: a placement section that is disposed on an upper surface of the housing, the placement section on which a portable communication object is placed; a wireless communicator that wirelessly communicates with the communication object placed on the placement section; and a first protrusion that extends in a left-right direction along a lower end of the placement section. The placement section includes a placement surface sloping downward from a back side toward a front side, the placement surface on which the communication object is placed. A step, forming a gap between the placement surface and the communication object, is disposed in a lower end portion of the placement surface.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 25, 2022Publication date: November 10, 2022Inventors: MASAO SAEDA, YUKIO KANAOKA, YASUHIRO NAKAI, KOHJI KATAMOTO, KOHICHI MURAKAMI, YASUTOMO HAYANO
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Patent number: 11438967Abstract: An information processing system includes an information processing device provided with a housing. The information processing device includes: a placement section that is disposed on an upper surface of the housing, the placement section on which a portable communication object is placed; a wireless communicator that wirelessly communicates with the communication object placed on the placement section; and a first protrusion that extends in a left-right direction along a lower end of the placement section. The placement section includes a placement surface sloping downward from a back side toward a front side, the placement surface on which the communication object is placed. A step, forming a gap between the placement surface and the communication object, is disposed in a lower end portion of the placement surface.Type: GrantFiled: December 16, 2020Date of Patent: September 6, 2022Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Masao Saeda, Yukio Kanaoka, Yasuhiro Nakai, Kohji Katamoto, Kohichi Murakami, Yasutomo Hayano
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Publication number: 20210227629Abstract: An information processing system includes an information processing device provided with a housing. The information processing device includes: a placement section that is disposed on an upper surface of the housing, the placement section on which a portable communication object is placed; a wireless communicator that wirelessly communicates with the communication object placed on the placement section; and a first protrusion that extends in a left-right direction along a lower end of the placement section. The placement section includes a placement surface sloping downward from a back side toward a front side, the placement surface on which the communication object is placed. A step, forming a gap between the placement surface and the communication object, is disposed in a lower end portion of the placement surface.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 16, 2020Publication date: July 22, 2021Inventors: MASAO SAEDA, YUKIO KANAOKA, YASUHIRO NAKAI, KOHJI KATAMOTO, KOHICHI MURAKAMI, YASUTOMO HAYANO
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Patent number: 10965825Abstract: Problem: To be able to reduce manufacturing cost and achieve downsizing of an apparatus. Solution: An image forming apparatus 10 includes a CPU (82), an image former (14), and a display panel 48. The display panel 48 serves as a display portion 48a which displays an image, an image reader 48b which reads a document placed on a display surface, and an operation portion 48c which receives an input operation by a user. The CPU (82) detects a document area where the document exists on the display surface of the display panel 48, and causes the operation portion 48c to be displayed at a position according to the detected document area on the display panel 48.Type: GrantFiled: February 15, 2018Date of Patent: March 30, 2021Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Yukio Kanaoka, Masaaki Aida, Hidetoshi Fujimoto
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Patent number: 10725413Abstract: To enable the content of a printed material to be easily checked and inconvenience when a user collects the printed material to be avoided. An image forming apparatus 10 includes an image forming part (14) and a display panel 48, and the display panel 48 displays a preview image 110 corresponding to image data for printing an image on a sheet. For example, the preview image 110 is displayed on the display panel 48 from when a print job is started and the first sheet in the print job is fed until the last sheet in the print job is discharged into a sheet discharge part 16.Type: GrantFiled: February 14, 2018Date of Patent: July 28, 2020Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Yukio Kanaoka, Masaaki Aida, Hidetoshi Fujimoto
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Publication number: 20200028981Abstract: Problem: To be able to reduce manufacturing cost and achieve downsizing of an apparatus. Solution: An image forming apparatus 10 includes a CPU (82), an image former (14), and a display panel 48. The display panel 48 serves as a display portion 48a which displays an image, an image reader 48b which reads a document placed on a display surface, and an operation portion 48c which receives an input operation by a user. The CPU (82) detects a document area where the document exists on the display surface of the display panel 48, and causes the operation portion 48c to be displayed at a position according to the detected document area on the display panel 48.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 15, 2018Publication date: January 23, 2020Inventors: YUKIO KANAOKA, MASAAKI AIDA, HIDETOSHI FUJIMOTO
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Patent number: 10523828Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a housing in which an image forming section is contained and a paper output section into which a sheet of paper on which an image has been formed is ejected. The paper output section includes a paper output tray that supports the front side or back side of the sheet of paper, a back-end supporting member that supports a back end of the sheet of paper in a paper ejection direction, and a paper takeout slot through which the sheet of paper is taken out. The paper output section is provided at the outer edge of the interior of the housing. The housing has an external wall whose inner face side is used as the paper output tray. The paper takeout slot opens upward.Type: GrantFiled: January 10, 2018Date of Patent: December 31, 2019Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Yukio Kanaoka, Masaaki Aida, Hidetoshi Fujimoto
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Publication number: 20190377294Abstract: To enable the content of a printed material to be easily checked and inconvenience when a user collects the printed material to be avoided. An image forming apparatus 10 includes an image forming part (14) and a display panel 48, and the display panel 48 displays a preview image 110 corresponding to image data for printing an image on a sheet. For example, the preview image 110 is displayed on the display panel 48 from when a print job is started and the first sheet in the print job is fed until the last sheet in the print job is discharged into a sheet discharge part 16.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 14, 2018Publication date: December 12, 2019Inventors: YUKIO KANAOKA, MASAAKI AIDA, HIDETOSHI FUJIMOTO
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Publication number: 20180205842Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a housing in which an image forming section is contained and a paper output section into which a sheet of paper on which an image has been formed is ejected. The paper output section includes a paper output tray that supports the front side or back side of the sheet of paper, a back-end supporting member that supports a back end of the sheet of paper in a paper ejection direction, and a paper takeout slot through which the sheet of paper is taken out. The paper output section is provided at the outer edge of the interior of the housing. The housing has an external wall whose inner face side is used as the paper output tray. The paper takeout slot opens upward.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 10, 2018Publication date: July 19, 2018Inventors: YUKIO KANAOKA, MASAAKI AIDA, HIDETOSHI FUJIMOTO
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Publication number: 20170048398Abstract: An image forming apparatus allowing a user to easily access an operating section even in a large-size apparatus can be provided. An image forming apparatus 100 includes a main machine 110 including an operating section 113 and capable of functioning as a multifunction machine by itself, and at least one option machine 120 to 190 added to a side-face side of an enclosure 111 of the main machine. The apparatus 100 includes the operating section 113 at a fixed position in the width direction of the enclosure. The enclosure has a unified first color of a same tone at a front face thereof, and an operating position line 101 is formed at a part of the front face of the enclosure and has a second color that is clearly different from the first color so as to be a guide indicating a position of the operating section 113.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 27, 2016Publication date: February 16, 2017Inventors: Yukio KANAOKA, Takashi MATSUDA, Kanji MIZUSUGI, Naoki SAITO, Atsushi KASENO
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Patent number: 9061488Abstract: An image forming apparatus allowing a user to easily access an operating section even in a large-size apparatus can be provided. An image forming apparatus 100 includes a main machine 110 including an operating section 113 and capable of functioning as a multifunction machine by itself, and at least one option machine 120 to 190 added to a side-face side of an enclosure 111 of the main machine. The apparatus 100 includes the operating section 113 at a fixed position in the width direction of the enclosure. The enclosure has a unified first color of a same tone at a front face thereof, and an operating position line 101 is formed at a part of the front face of the enclosure and has a second color that is clearly different from the first color so as to be a guide indicating a position of the operating section 113.Type: GrantFiled: June 26, 2012Date of Patent: June 23, 2015Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Yukio Kanaoka, Takashi Matsuda, Kanji Mizusugi, Naoki Saito, Atsushi Kaseno
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Publication number: 20150022613Abstract: An image forming apparatus allowing a user to easily access an operating section even in a large-size apparatus can be provided. An image forming apparatus 100 includes a main machine 110 including an operating section 113 and capable of functioning as a multifunction machine by itself, and at least one option machine 120 to 190 added to a side-face side of an enclosure 111 of the main machine. The apparatus 100 includes the operating section 113 at a fixed position in the width w direction of the enclosure. The enclosure has a unified first color of a same tone at a front face thereof, and an operating position line 101 is formed at a part of the front face of the enclosure and has a second color that is clearly different from the first color so as to be a guide indicating a position of the operating section 113.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 7, 2014Publication date: January 22, 2015Inventors: Yukio KANAOKA, Takashi MATSUDA, Kanji MIZUSUGI, Naoki SAITO, Atsushi KASENO
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Publication number: 20130047874Abstract: An image forming apparatus allowing a user to easily access an operating section even in a large-size apparatus can be provided. An image forming apparatus 100 includes a main machine 110 including an operating section 113 and capable of functioning as a multifunction machine by itself, and at least one option machine 120 to 190 added to a side-face side of an enclosure 111 of the main machine. The apparatus 100 includes the operating section 113 at a fixed position in the width direction of the enclosure. The enclosure has a unified first color of a same tone at a front face thereof, and an operating position line 101 is formed at a part of the front face of the enclosure and has a second color that is clearly different from the first color so as to be a guide indicating a position of the operating section 113.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 26, 2012Publication date: February 28, 2013Applicant: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Yukio KANAOKA, Takashi MATSUDA, Kanji MIZUSUGI, Naoki SAITO, Atsushi KASENO
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Patent number: 8320608Abstract: An electronic seal apparatus causing an image displaying/reading apparatus to display an electronic document. The electronic seal apparatus includes (i) a storage section for storing a first identification information of a user's first digit and an associated user's first seal image, (ii) a digit identifying section for determining whether a digit indicated on a subject image is the user's first digit, and (iii) a sealing section for sealing onto the electronic document, when the digit indicated on the subject image is the user's first digit, a seal image associated with the first identification information. Thereby, a seal image can be electronically sealed after finger authentication is performed even if a finger authentication scanner solely dedicated for reading an image from a digit is not provided.Type: GrantFiled: December 1, 2008Date of Patent: November 27, 2012Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Naoki Saito, Yukio Kanaoka
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Patent number: 7693449Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a processing unit which performs an image recording process for recording an image on a recording medium based on image data; a movement mechanism which moves the processing unit; a first control section which controls the image recording process performed by the processing unit; and a second control section which acquires a state of progress of the image recording process and controls the movement mechanism so as to move the processing unit to a position according to the progress state.Type: GrantFiled: March 22, 2007Date of Patent: April 6, 2010Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Atsushi Kaseno, Kenzoh Yoshida, Fumikazu Shimanuki, Kenji Shimanuki, legal representative, Seiko Shimanuki, legal representative, Naoki Saito, Takaaki Kuwabara, Kanji Mizusugi, Takashi Matsuda, Yukio Kanaoka
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Publication number: 20090141952Abstract: An electronic seal apparatus causes an image displaying/reading apparatus to display an electronic document. The electronic seal apparatus includes (i) a storage section for storing first identification information to be used for identifying a first digit of a user of the image displaying/reading apparatus and a first seal image of the user in association with each other, (ii) a digit identifying section for determining based on the first identification information whether or not a digit indicated on a subject image that is read by the image displaying/reading apparatus while the electronic document is displayed by the image displaying/reading apparatus is the first digit, and (iii) a sealing section for sealing onto the electronic document, in a case where the digit indicated on the subject image is determined to be the first digit, a seal image associated with the first identification information.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 1, 2008Publication date: June 4, 2009Applicant: Sharp Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Naoki Saito, Yukio Kanaoka
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Patent number: 7505706Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a scanner section, an image forming section, and a functional unit. The scanner section is configured to read image information by scanning an image bearing side of a document sheet. The image forming section is located above or below the scanner section with a space section provided therebetween and is configured to perform image formation processing on a recording medium based on the image information read. The space section has at least one open vertical side. The functional unit is removably fitted into the space section through the open side.Type: GrantFiled: December 13, 2005Date of Patent: March 17, 2009Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Kenzo Yoshida, Yukio Kanaoka, Takahiro Fukunaga, Jinichi Nagata, Hideo Yoshikawa, Takashi Matsuda
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Patent number: D664190Type: GrantFiled: February 15, 2011Date of Patent: July 24, 2012Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Takashi Matsuda, Yukio Kanaoka
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Patent number: D789445Type: GrantFiled: February 18, 2015Date of Patent: June 13, 2017Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Yukio Kanaoka