Patents Assigned to Fuji Xerox
  • INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM
    Publication number: 20210099416
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes: a notification unit that performs notification to a first person when the first person differs from a second person and refrains from performing the notification when the first person is the same as the second person, wherein the first person is one who instructs execution of an application for transmitting data to a preset transmission destination, the second person is one who has changed information on the transmission destination included in an address book, and the notification indicates that the information on the transmission destination has been changed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 22, 2020
    Publication date: April 1, 2021
    Applicant: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Satoshi YOSHIKAWA
  • INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM STORING INFORMATION PROCESSING PROGRAM
    Publication number: 20210096875
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a processor configured to execute a reset process for resetting a watchdog timer, execute a recovery process of the information processing apparatus, in a case where the watchdog timer is not able to be reset within a time limit, and sets the time limit to a longer time, in a case where an apparatus load which is at least one of a current processing load per unit time of the information processing apparatus or a processing amount of a processing request which is input to the information processing apparatus is large, as compared to a case where the apparatus load is small.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 20, 2020
    Publication date: April 1, 2021
    Applicant: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Masato SAITO, Masayoshi MIKI, Teiju SATO, Yasuhiro NAKATANI
  • INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, LIGHT EMITTING DEVICE, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM STORING PROGRAM
    Publication number: 20210097708
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a processor configured to acquire an image obtained by imaging a space by one imaging device fixed in the space, specify, in the image, a two-dimensional coordinate of a bright spot indicating light emission of a light emitting device moving in the space, acquire output information output by the light emitting device, and specify a three-dimensional coordinate in the space of the light emitting device based on the output information and the two-dimensional coordinate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 28, 2020
    Publication date: April 1, 2021
    Applicant: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shuhei KOBAYAKAWA, Kiyofumi AIKAWA, Daisuke MATSUMOTO, Kei SHIMOTANI
  • INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, DEVICE CONTROL APPARATUS, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM
    Publication number: 20210096735
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes: an operation execution receiver that receives an execution of an operation of a device; and an operation prohibition canceler that, when in a state where the device is prohibited from performing the operation, cancels prohibition of the operation of the device upon the execution of the operation being received by the operation execution receiver.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 9, 2020
    Publication date: April 1, 2021
    Applicant: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Eri HIRAKAWA
  • OBJECT TEXTURE MEASUREMENT DEVICE
    Publication number: 20210097705
    Abstract: An object texture measurement device includes a visual detection unit that detects a visual texture of an object, a tactile detection unit that detects a tactile texture of the object, and an acquisition unit that acquires a detection result of each of the visual detection unit and the tactile detection unit while relatively moving each of the visual detection unit and the tactile detection unit with respect to the object.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 28, 2020
    Publication date: April 1, 2021
    Applicant: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Takashi HIRAMATSU, Yoshitaka KUWADA
  • DEVELOPING DEVICE AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS
    Publication number: 20210096482
    Abstract: A developing device includes a developing housing, a developing unit, and a transport unit. The developing housing includes a container chamber containing a developer. The developing unit rotates around a first rotation axis while carrying the developer on a surface thereof to deliver the developer. At least a partial region of the developing unit is exposed from the developing housing in a developing region below the first rotation axis such that the developing unit faces an image carrier. The developing unit develops an electrostatic latent image. The transport unit is disposed in the container chamber. The transport unit rotates around a second rotation axis to transport the developer. A part of an inner wall surface of the container chamber on a developer lifting side in which the surface of the developing unit moves toward the transport unit is located between a first plane and a second plane.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 3, 2020
    Publication date: April 1, 2021
    Applicant: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Taichiro OKUNO
  • IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS
    Publication number: 20210096495
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a density detector, a determination unit, and a change unit. The density detector detects a density of a patch image formed on an image carrier over plural places. The determination unit determines whether plural detection results of the density detector are within a threshold. When the number of determination results, by the determination unit, that the density of the patch image is not within the threshold exceeds a predetermined number, the change unit changes (i) a detection timing at which the patch image is detected by the density detector or (ii) a formation position of the patch image on the image carrier.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 9, 2020
    Publication date: April 1, 2021
    Applicant: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kazuya TAKAHIRA, Shoji YAMAGUCHI
  • INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM
    Publication number: 20210099607
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a memory and a processor. The processor is configured to: when an extension device that extends functions of the information processing apparatus by being connected to the information processing apparatus is connected to the information processing apparatus, display (i) information representing a basic function provided in the information processing apparatus and (ii) information representing an extended function added by the extension device on one screen together; and when the connection with the extension device is released, display the information representing the extended function so as to indicate that the extended function becomes available when the extension device is connected to the information processing apparatus.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 1, 2020
    Publication date: April 1, 2021
    Applicant: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Nobukazu MIYOSHI, Shunji TSUNASHIMA, Terutake HAYASHI
  • HEATING MEMBER FOR FIXING DEVICE AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS
    Publication number: 20210096487
    Abstract: A fixing device includes a heat source, a support portion, at least one adhesive layer, and a heat transfer member. The support portion supports the heat source. The at least one adhesive layer fixes the heat source and the support portion to each other. The heat transfer member is disposed at a portion other than a portion between the adhesive layer and the heat source to conduct heat of a portion of the heat source to another portion of the heat source.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 4, 2020
    Publication date: April 1, 2021
    Applicant: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kiyoshi KOYANAGI, Takaaki SATO, Toru INOUE
  • ROUTINE PROCESSING DEVICE AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM
    Publication number: 20210099589
    Abstract: A routine processing device includes a processor. In routine processing, an application parameter that defines an operation of an application and a system parameter that defines an operation of a system that is an environment where the application is executed are registered. The processor is configured to, if the system parameter at a time of the registration and a system parameter set in the system at a time when the routine processing is to be executed do not match, change the system parameter at the time of the registration in the routine processing to the system parameter set in the system at the time when the routine processing is to be executed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 1, 2020
    Publication date: April 1, 2021
    Applicant: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Masahiro IWATA
  • INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM
    Publication number: 20210097272
    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: Application
    Filed: April 2, 2020
    Publication date: April 1, 2021
    Applicant: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Junichi SHIMIZU, Shigeru OKADA, Masanori YOSHIZUKA
  • INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, DEVICE CONTROL APPARATUS, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM
    Publication number: 20210096706
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes: a receiver that receives an instruction to return to a home screen from a device settings screen; and a display controller that performs control in such a way that the returning to the home screen is prohibited in a case where the instruction is received by the receiver between commencement of processing to transition to a setting mode of a device and completion of the processing to transition to the setting mode, or between commencement of processing to end the setting mode of the device and completion of the processing to end the setting mode.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 5, 2020
    Publication date: April 1, 2021
    Applicant: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Eri HIRAKAWA
  • IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS
    Publication number: 20210094783
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a drawer unit, a sheet inverting unit, a sheet guide plate, and a projection. The drawer unit is drawable from an apparatus body. The sheet inverting unit is disposed in the apparatus body, and pulls a sheet into a lower portion of the drawer unit to invert the sheet. The sheet guide plate is disposed on the sheet inverting unit to face the drawer unit, and includes a recess extending in a pull-out direction of the drawer unit that crosses a direction in which the sheet is transported. The projection protrudes toward the recess from a portion of a lower surface of the drawer unit facing the sheet guide plate near a pull-out start point in the pull-out direction and on a rear of a transport area of the sheet.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 1, 2020
    Publication date: April 1, 2021
    Applicant: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yasunobu GOTO, Ryuga OISHI, Takuyoshi KIMURA, Takehiko KOIZUMI, Natsumi NAKATA
  • Authentication device and authentication method
    Patent number: 10965837
    Abstract: An authentication device includes: an image capturing unit that captures an image of a person around an apparatus including the authentication device; an authentication unit that performs authentication by a facial image captured by the image capturing unit; and a selection unit, when the image capturing unit captures facial images of plural persons, that selects a facial image of a person who is determined to have a high possibility of using the apparatus from the facial images of the plural persons.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 2, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 30, 2021
    Assignee: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Naoya Nobutani, Masafumi Ono, Manabu Hayashi, Kunitoshi Yamamoto, Toru Suzuki
  • Connection management apparatus and non-transitory computer readable medium
    Patent number: 10966273
    Abstract: A connection management apparatus includes an accepting section, a transmitting section, a connecting section, and a control section. The accepting section accepts an information transmission request from a requesting terminal that is a terminal requesting a wireless LAN connection. The transmitting section transmits, to the requesting terminal, connection information for establishing a wireless LAN connection in response to the information transmission request. The connecting section has a capability of establishing a wireless LAN connection with a predetermined upper limit number of terminals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 30, 2021
    Assignee: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Hiroyuki Mitsuhashi
  • Wireless LAN connection device and non-transitory computer readable medium storing program
    Patent number: 10966272
    Abstract: A wireless LAN connection device includes a transmission unit that transmits connection information for a wireless LAN connection to a terminal in response to an information transmission request from the terminal; a connection unit that establishes the wireless LAN connection with the terminal in response to a wireless LAN connection request from the terminal using the connection information; and a change unit that changes valid connection information for which connection by the connection unit is recognized, in which the transmission unit transmits, to the terminal, the connection information that is currently valid connection information changed by the change unit and that is different from connection information that is valid in a previous wireless LAN connection.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 23, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 30, 2021
    Assignee: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Tomoya Shibata
  • Information processing apparatus and non-transitory computer readable medium
    Patent number: 10963919
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a transmitting unit, a receiving unit, and a converting unit. The transmitting unit transmits advertisement information to an apparatus provided for presenting an advertisement. The receiving unit receives operation information from the apparatus. The converting unit performs conversion after the receiving unit receives the operation information, the conversion leading to reduction of an amount of the advertisement information. The transmitting unit transmits, to the apparatus, the advertisement information having undergone the conversion performed by the converting unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 30, 2021
    Assignee: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Takanari Ishimura
  • Information processing apparatus and non-transitory computer readable medium
    Patent number: 10966148
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a selection unit and a communication unit. If there exist plural access points capable of conducting a communication using a predetermined transmission method among transmission methods by which the information processing apparatus is capable of conducting a wireless communication, the selection unit selects an access point having a high communication quality. The communication unit is configured to conduct a communication with the access point selected by the selection unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 30, 2021
    Assignee: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Toshiaki Koue
  • Information processing apparatus and system and non-transitory computer readable medium
    Patent number: 10965821
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes first and second estimators and a determining unit. The first estimator estimates a quality of each individual part to be used for a product, based on error information concerning a manufactured product. The second estimator estimates a degree of an influence of each portion of a product on a quality of the product, based on the error information. The determining unit determines, for each portion of the product, which part will be used for a corresponding portion of the product, based on the estimated quality and the estimated degree of an influence.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 6, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 30, 2021
    Assignee: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Motoharu Hirata
  • Information processing apparatus
    Patent number: 10964225
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a question output controller that selects and outputs an easier question to respond from plural questions as a time difference between a time associated with an event and an expected response time that is a time at which a respondent of a question about the event is likely to respond is larger.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 30, 2021
    Assignee: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Yuhei Shimada