Patents Assigned to Fuji Xerox
  • Patent number: 10771983
    Abstract: A novel solution to generate an optimal spatial placement map of Radio Frequency (RF) beacons, such as Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) beacons, which can be used for indoor localization. A described embodiment solves for both generating optimal number of beacons required in a given environment and optimizing their location. The solution also incorporates behavior of RF signal due to various environmental factors such as signal reflection and absorption due to static and dynamic obstacles. In one embodiment, the framework is built upon Genetic Algorithm (GA) for optimization of beacon placement. The experimental results achieved using one implementation of the described method reduced the number of beacons by 50% as compared to beacons placed using expert knowledge. Furthermore, the overall localization error increased by ˜0.4 m when the results using the RF/BLE map generated by the described system were compared with the RF/BLE map generated using expert knowledge.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 1, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 8, 2020
    Assignee: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Raphael Guenot-Falque, Miteshkumar Patel, Jacob Biehl
  • Patent number: 10771641
    Abstract: An information processing device includes a creating unit, a state informing unit, and a setting unit. The creating unit creates an application for implementing a specific object by using at least one basic processing function. The state informing unit provides information concerning a processing state of the at least one basic processing function and a processing state of the application. The setting unit receives information for determining a display mode of a setting screen for setting settings information or a checking screen for checking the processing state of the application, and sets a determined display mode. The display mode is used for executing the application.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 8, 2020
    Assignee: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Nobumi Kusano, Ichiro Shiozaki, Tadao Michimura
  • Patent number: 10769462
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a position specifying unit that specifies a position of each member of an assembly, a biometric information acquiring unit that acquires biometric information from members of which the number is smaller than the number of all members, an activeness degree specifying unit that specifies, from the biometric information acquired by the biometric information acquiring unit, an activeness degree of the member from which the biometric information is acquired by the biometric information acquiring unit, and specifies, from the activeness degree and the position specified by the position specifying unit, an activeness degree of a member other than the member from which the biometric information is acquired by the biometric information acquiring unit among the members, and a determination unit that determines a state of the assembly from the activeness degree specified by the activeness degree specifying unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 13, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 8, 2020
    Assignee: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Shoko Chiba
  • Publication number: 20200278989
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a receiving unit receiving a query, an acquisition unit acquiring, on each content unit serving as a search target, multiple nodes corresponding to the query from data representing a relationship between the nodes and includes information on each node representing a concept of the content unit serving as a search target, a search unit searching for a path including mutually related nodes from the nodes acquired by the acquisition unit, and a calculating unit calculating a score of the path of at least one of the content units, the path searched and found by the search unit, by using at least one of a hop count representing a number of nodes included between a node representing the concept included in the query and the content unit, degree of importance of the concept of the content unit, and type of the relationship of the concepts.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 10, 2019
    Publication date: September 3, 2020
    Applicant: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Takayuki YAMAMOTO, Yuki TAGAWA
  • Publication number: 20200278819
    Abstract: A management apparatus includes a storage unit that, if plural individual processing targets are grouped in accordance with predetermined conditions, stores the predetermined conditions and processing target groups generated by grouping the plural individual processing targets in accordance with the predetermined conditions while associating the predetermined conditions and the processing target groups with each other and a display control unit that, if one of the processing target groups stored in the storage unit is selected, displays another processing target group that shares at least one of the predetermined conditions with the selected processing target group.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 28, 2019
    Publication date: September 3, 2020
    Applicant: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Naoto YAMASAKI
  • Publication number: 20200279418
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a setting unit and a display unit. The setting unit sets additional information to each of components constituting a relation diagram on the relation diagram expressing a structure between events. The display unit distinguishably displays each of the components having the additional information set thereto in accordance with the additional information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 29, 2019
    Publication date: September 3, 2020
    Applicant: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Masato ANDO, Hirokazu MUKAI
  • Publication number: 20200279000
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a reception unit that receives an input of a query, a generation unit that generates a word combination from a plurality of words included in the query, an obtaining unit that obtains a node corresponding to each word combination of the query for each word combination of the query from data representing a first node representing a single concept, a second node representing a compound concept, and a relationship between concepts, and a specifying unit that specifies a content corresponding to the node obtained by the obtaining unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 9, 2019
    Publication date: September 3, 2020
    Applicant: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Takayuki YAMAMOTO, Yuki TAGAWA
  • Publication number: 20200278981
    Abstract: An information processing device includes an acquiring unit, a shaping unit, and an integration unit. The acquiring unit is configured to acquire operation history information from plural systems, respectively. The shaping unit is configured to shape each operation history information acquired by the acquiring unit into operation history information in a unified format. The integration unit is configured to arrange and integrate the operation history information after being shaped by the shaping unit in chronological order.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 6, 2019
    Publication date: September 3, 2020
    Applicant: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Yushi HARADA
  • Publication number: 20200278820
    Abstract: A file management apparatus includes a generation part that generates a coded file having a content processed not to be browsed in a user terminal from a file using key information associated with identification information of the file in a case where the identification information of the file is received from the user terminal before an expiry of the file in a storage device, and a control part that performs control for transmitting the coded file generated by the generation part to the user terminal as a transmission source of the identification information of the file and, in a case where the identification information of the file is received from an information processing apparatus after the expiry of the file, causing the content of the coded file input into the information processing apparatus to be browsed using the key information by transmitting the key information associated with the identification information of the file to the information processing apparatus as a transmission source of the identi
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 9, 2019
    Publication date: September 3, 2020
    Applicant: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Yusaku AWATSU
  • Publication number: 20200278437
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes: an acquisition unit configured to acquire pieces of information on position of the information processing apparatus; a receiving unit configured to receive radio waves from a search target apparatus; a calculation unit configured to calculate the position of the search target apparatus using the pieces of information on position of the information processing apparatus acquired at plural points by the acquisition unit and using a distance between the information processing apparatus and the search target apparatus estimated from an intensity of the radio waves received by the receiving unit at each of the plural points; and a notification unit configured to send notification to guide a searcher to the position of the search target apparatus calculated by the calculation unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 21, 2019
    Publication date: September 3, 2020
    Applicant: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Seishiro KATO, Kazuo HAYASHI, Suguru OUE
  • Publication number: 20200279172
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a segment obtaining section that obtains a segment described in a document designated by a user, an extraction condition obtaining section that obtains an extraction condition for extracting information including a concept related to the segment as knowledge information from a concept structure information storage section storing concept structure information in which concepts representing events and relationships related to knowledge are related to each other in a hierarchical structure, a specifying section that specifies a storage location of the knowledge information in the concept structure information storage section and an extraction method for the concept included in the knowledge information from a designated content of the extraction condition, an extraction section that extracts the knowledge information in accordance with the specified extraction method from the storage location specified by the specifying section, and a presentation section that presen
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 21, 2019
    Publication date: September 3, 2020
    Applicant: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yoko OTA, Kazunari HASHIMOTO, Seiya INAGI, Masao WATANABE
  • Publication number: 20200280176
    Abstract: A semiconductor optical amplifier includes: a substrate; a light source unit that is formed on the substrate; and an optical amplification unit that includes a conductive region extending, from the light source unit, in a predetermined direction along a surface of the substrate, and a nonconductive region around the conductive region. The optical amplification unit amplifies propagation light that propagates, from the light source unit, in the predetermined direction as slow light, and emits the propagation light that is amplified in an emission direction that intersects with the surface. The maximum optical power of the propagation light is larger than the maximum optical power in a vertical oscillation mode.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 28, 2020
    Publication date: September 3, 2020
    Applicants: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD., TOKYO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY
    Inventors: Junichiro HAYAKAWA, Daiki TOMINAGA, Akemi MURAKAMI, Fumio KOYAMA
  • Publication number: 20200278816
    Abstract: An information processing system includes an image processing apparatus and an information processing apparatus. The image processing apparatus includes a printing unit that prints a document selected by a user and a transmitting unit that transmits, to the information processing apparatus, identification information on a storage location having stored the document and billing information on billing related to printing the document. The information processing apparatus includes a receiving unit that receiving from the image processing apparatus the identification information and the billing information and a bill processing unit that performs by using the billing information a billing process on each billing destination corresponding to the identification information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 13, 2019
    Publication date: September 3, 2020
    Applicant: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Masanori AOKI
  • Publication number: 20200278998
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a display section that displays a branch perspective which is stored in advance in association with an event in a case of creating a relationship diagram representing a structure between plural events.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 5, 2019
    Publication date: September 3, 2020
    Applicant: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Masato ANDO, Hirokazu MUKAI, Tomoyuki ITO, Minoru KASAMA
  • Publication number: 20200280563
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a reception unit that receives command information related to an operation by a temporary user, and a control unit that performs a control to execute an operation corresponding to the command information received by the reception unit in a case where the operation corresponding to the command information is included in authority of the user by switching authority of the user to authority of a user who is not a temporary user after the command information from the user is received by the reception unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 8, 2019
    Publication date: September 3, 2020
    Applicant: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Yoshihiro FUJIMAKI
  • Publication number: 20200278803
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a securing section that secures a storage area in a shared server and a control section that changes a secured capacity of the storage area according to a storage status of the storage area after the storage area is secured by the securing section.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 7, 2019
    Publication date: September 3, 2020
    Applicant: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Ken ICHIKAWA
  • Publication number: 20200279024
    Abstract: A non-transitory computer readable medium stores a program causing a computer to execute a process for learning. The process includes: generating, from an input text, an output text related to content of the input text and different from the input text by using a generation model that generates the output text from the input text; reconstructing the input text from the output text by using a reconstruction model that reconstructs the input text from the output text; and updating at least one of the generation model and the reconstruction model by causing the at least one of the generation model and the reconstruction model to perform learning by using a difference between the input text and a reconstructed text reconstructed in the reconstructing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 3, 2019
    Publication date: September 3, 2020
    Applicant: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shotaro MISAWA, Tomoki TANIGUCHI, Yasuhide MIURA, Tomoko OKUMA
  • Publication number: 20200279642
    Abstract: To prevent the spread of hospital-acquired infections, embodiments described herein monitor mobile device usage in clinical settings (by a physician, nurse, etc.) to characterize potential pathogenic contamination of the mobile device, the user's hands, and the surfaces in contact with the device. Our method considers the physical properties of how the device is handled and held during use, as well as the location and setting before, during, and after use to estimate potential contamination and transmission of pathogens. A system can use the estimation, along with knowledge (e.g., of the user's upcoming schedule) to alert them of potential contamination hazards and suggest when to avoid mobile device use as well as when to sanitize the device and user's hands.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 28, 2019
    Publication date: September 3, 2020
    Applicant: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Matthew Len Lee, Daniel Avrahami, Jacob Biehl, Scott Carter, Kandha Sankarapandian
  • Patent number: 10761449
    Abstract: A charging device includes: a charging member that charges an image holding member according to a contact charging method, and includes a conductive substrate and a surface layer provided on the conductive substrate; and a clean member that cleans the charging member while contacting the charging member, and includes a shaft and a foamed elastic layer provided on the shaft, wherein a ratio of a distance between irregularities in an axial direction of the surface layer in the charging member (Sm) to a width of a nodal section of a foam cell wall surface protruding from a surface of the foamed elastic layer in the clean member (W) satisfies 2.4?Sm/W?5.9.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 1, 2020
    Assignee: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kosuke Narita, Akihiro Nonaka, Hiroko Kobayashi, Yasuhiko Kinuta, Fuyuki Kano, Yuki Tagawa
  • Patent number: 10762670
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a controller that controls texture and feel for depicting an image in which an original image is reflected on a target object. The controller controls the texture and the feel in accordance with an attribute of the original image and an attribute of the target object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 9, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 1, 2020
    Assignee: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Kengo Tokuchi