Patents by Inventor Yutaro Nishimura

Yutaro Nishimura 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: 9648041
    Abstract: A security management system managing security of plural types of client apparatuses which are mutually connected to each other via a network, includes an acquisition unit acquiring or receiving information which is used to change a security level of any of the client apparatuses; a determination unit determining a specific client apparatus whose security setting value is to be changed and a security setting value to be applied to the specific client apparatus, in response to the acquired or received information to change the security level of any of the client apparatuses, based on a definition table defining the security levels of the plural types of client apparatuses; and a notification unit notifying the specific client apparatus of the security setting value to be applied to the specific client apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 10, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2017
    Assignee: RICOH COMPANY, LTD.
    Inventors: Yutaro Nishimura, Susumu Fujioka
  • Publication number: 20140310767
    Abstract: A security management system managing security of plural types of client apparatuses which are mutually connected to each other via a network, includes an acquisition unit acquiring or receiving information which is used to change a security level of any of the client apparatuses; a determination unit determining a specific client apparatus whose security setting value is to be changed and a security setting value to be applied to the specific client apparatus, in response to the acquired or received information to change the security level of any of the client apparatuses, based on a definition table defining the security levels of the plural types of client apparatuses; and a notification unit notifying the specific client apparatus of the security setting value to be applied to the specific client apparatus.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 10, 2014
    Publication date: October 16, 2014
    Inventors: Yutaro Nishimura, Susumu Fujioka
  • Patent number: 7729012
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus is disclosed that controls a user interface according to image properties. The image processing apparatus includes a document data acquiring unit to acquire document data, an image recognizing unit to determine the image properties of the document data including a color and a gray level of the document data so as to generate recognition data, and a user interface providing unit to receive the recognition data so as to provide the user interface. Operations that can be performed on the document data by the image processing apparatus through the user interface vary according to the recognition data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 6, 2006
    Date of Patent: June 1, 2010
    Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventor: Yutaro Nishimura
  • Publication number: 20060232852
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus is disclosed that controls a user interface according to image properties. The image processing apparatus includes a document data acquiring unit to acquire document data, an image recognizing unit to determine the image properties of the document data including a color and a gray level of the document data so as to generate recognition data, and a user interface providing unit to receive the recognition data so as to provide the user interface. Operations that can be performed on the document data by the image processing apparatus through the user interface vary according to the recognition data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 6, 2006
    Publication date: October 19, 2006
    Inventor: Yutaro Nishimura