Patents Assigned to PFU Limited
  • Patent number: 9787554
    Abstract: The present invention accumulates received information in a buffer, monitors a buffer accumulation amount, which is an amount of information accumulated in the buffer, adjusts a clock frequency used to output the information from the buffer based on the monitored buffer accumulation amount, and outputs the information from the buffer in accordance with the adjusted clock frequency.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2017
    Assignee: PFU LIMITED
    Inventors: Kenji Kohzeki, Keisuke Kidoguchi
  • Patent number: 9787708
    Abstract: An inspection server is provided with a related-information acquisition unit which acquires program-related information related to a program installed in a node connected to a network segment, a condition determination unit which determines whether or not the program-related information satisfies a security condition, and a measure information acquisition unit which acquires, when it is determined that the program-related information does not satisfy the security condition, measure information for allowing the node to satisfy the security condition in accordance with an attribute of the program.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2017
    Assignee: PFU LIMITED
    Inventors: Kazuhiro Koide, Hiroshi Okuda, Shoko Ando
  • Patent number: 9769040
    Abstract: There is provided a monitoring apparatus including a monitoring unit that monitors an operating situation of nodes over a network based on a predetermined monitoring parameter, a memory that records the operating situation monitored by the monitoring unit, and a changing unit that changes the monitoring parameters based on a past operating situation recorded by the memory.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2010
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2017
    Assignee: PFU LIMITED
    Inventors: Naoki Saitou, Toshitaka Kawahigashi, Tomoharu Nakamura
  • Patent number: 9769353
    Abstract: An image reading apparatus includes a light source and a movable light reflecting surface provided to be capable to move to a first position to reflect light from the light source. The image reading apparatus includes a cam to move the light reflecting surface and having a first portion, a driving module for providing a driving force, and a transmission member for rotating the cam with the driving force provided by the driving module, the transmission member having a second portion, wherein the transmission member moves the light reflecting surface to a predetermined position by rotating the cam, and by bringing the second portion into contact with the first portion to hold the light reflecting surface at the predetermined position when there is no driving force.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2017
    Assignee: PFU Limited
    Inventor: Shogo Yoshita
  • Patent number: 9745160
    Abstract: Provided is a paper transporting device and the like capable of suppressing errors in determining jam occurrences. A paper transporting device has: a transport mechanism; an audio signal output unit that outputs an audio signal according to the sound generated during paper transport; an audio jam determination unit that determines, on the basis of the audio signal, whether a jam has occurred; and a control unit that stops paper transport when the audio jam determination unit determines that a jam has occurred. The control unit controls, in the case of card stock or paperboard being transported by the transport mechanism, so that the audio jam determination unit determines whether a jam has occurred at predetermined times using a determination method that is different than the method at other times or so that the audio jam determination unit does not determine whether a jam has occurred.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 26, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2017
    Assignee: PFU Limited
    Inventors: Masanobu Hongo, Takayuki Umi, Shuichi Morikawa
  • Patent number: 9716598
    Abstract: An information processing device according to one aspect of the present invention has a plurality of data transfer units and includes a data transfer monitoring unit to monitor whether or not a data transfer is executable by a first data transfer unit in the plurality of data transfer units and a data transfer inhibiting unit to inhibit, based on monitoring of the data transfer monitoring unit, the data transfer of a second data transfer unit different from the first data transfer unit in the plurality of data transfer units while the data transfer is executable by the first data transfer unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 25, 2017
    Assignee: PFU LIMITED
    Inventors: Akira Kubota, Yuuichi Komuro
  • Patent number: 9712717
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes a presumed background region extractor for extracting a presumed background region presumed to include an image of a background from an input image, a threshold value determination module for determining a threshold value based on pixels in the presumed background region, an edge pixel extractor for using the threshold value to extract edge pixels from the input image, and a document region detector for detecting a document region from the edge pixels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 20, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2017
    Assignee: PFU Limited
    Inventors: Ryo Hayashi, Kiyoto Kosaka, Masayoshi Hayashi
  • Patent number: 9712709
    Abstract: A document image capturing device includes an image capturing module for capturing an image of a document, and a first aperture portion, an illumination module movable between the image capturing module and a document conveying path and including a light source for illuminating the document and a second aperture portion, and a sealer for sealing between the first aperture portion and the second aperture portion regardless of movement of the illumination module. The sealer includes a first film attached to cover an entire periphery of the first aperture portion and a second film attached to cover an entire periphery of the second aperture portion, and the first aperture portion and the second aperture portion are arranged so that a reflection light from the document illuminated by the light source passes through the first aperture portion and the second aperture portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2017
    Assignee: PFU Limited
    Inventor: Keisuke Kokuma
  • Patent number: 9710287
    Abstract: There is provided an information processing device having: a distribution portion that distributes an update data to a client terminal updating, on the client terminal, a first manual information constituted as a structured document; a PDF generation portion that generates a PDF file having a second manual information updated with the update data; and a file storage portion that stores the PDF file generated by the PDF generation portion in a state allowing the client terminal which is a distribution destination of the update data to download the PDF file.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2017
    Assignee: PFU LIMITED
    Inventor: Ichiro Fujioka
  • Patent number: 9686434
    Abstract: Provided are a scanner demonstrator, a method of scanner demonstration, and a computer program product that can easily perform a demonstration having high reproducibility and presence even without a scanner device. The scanner demonstrator outputs image data read by a scanner device in an environment not connected to the scanner device, based on device status information of the scanner device at image reading.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 19, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 20, 2017
    Assignee: PFU LIMITED
    Inventor: Yukihiro Kageta
  • Patent number: 9674389
    Abstract: A medium conveyance apparatus including a first unit on one side of a conveyance path of a sheet-shaped medium, a second unit on the other side of the conveyance path and facing the first unit, a guide unit that is provided at the second unit and that contacts the medium between the first and second unit to move the second unit in a direction of separating from the conveyance path, an imaging unit provided at one of the first and second unit, a reference plate whose image can be captured by the imaging unit and that is provided at the other of the first and second unit, and a detecting unit for detecting the medium in the conveyance path, the detecting unit being provided in the conveyance path at an upstream position of a reading position where the imaging unit reads the medium.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 12, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2017
    Assignee: PFU Limited
    Inventor: Shingo Kanaya
  • Publication number: 20170155642
    Abstract: A network monitoring device including: a communication acquiring unit which acquires communication before the communication reaches an opposite party's terminal; a protocol analyzing unit which identifies a message for session establishment by analyzing a protocol of the acquired communication, the message being included in the communication and including a digital certificate of a communication partner in a session to be kept confidential; a certificate extracting unit which extracts a digital certificate from the identified message for session establishment; and an inspecting unit which inspects the extracted digital certificate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 24, 2016
    Publication date: June 1, 2017
    Applicant: PFU LIMITED
    Inventors: Takashi Kobayashi, Seigo Terada
  • Patent number: 9667952
    Abstract: An information processing device includes: a detector information acquiring unit to acquire detector information relating to a position of a detector; a display control unit to cause a display device capable of varying contents to be displayed according to display directions to perform display of different contents or display at a different timing, for each display direction; a display direction acquiring unit to acquire a display direction in which display is recognizable from the position where the detector is installed based on contents or a timing of display by the display device as detected by the detector; and an associating unit to associate the acquired detector information and the acquired display direction with each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2017
    Assignee: PFU LIMITED
    Inventor: Yasunari Itoh
  • Patent number: 9659226
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus is configured to extract contour information of a medium area from readout image data, and correct distortion of the medium area based on the contour information. The medium area is an area for image data corresponding to a medium serving as a reading target. The image processing apparatus includes an acquiring unit that acquires the readout image data, an extracting unit that extracts the contour information of the medium area from the readout image data, a displaying unit that displays the contour information so as to superpose the contour information on the readout image data, a detecting unit that detects an instruction of changing a position of the contour information. The extracting unit extracts again the contour information by reflecting the instruction of changing, and the displaying unit redisplays the contour information extracted again by the extracting unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2017
    Assignee: PFU LIMITED
    Inventors: Masanari Takabatake, Yuki Kasahara
  • Patent number: 9661166
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes a color component image generator for extracting a particular color component from an input image to generate a color component image, an expanded-color-component image generator for expanding particular pixels in the color component image to generate an expanded-color-component image, an edge pixel extractor for extracting edge pixels from the expanded-color-component image, and a document region detector for detecting a document region from the edge pixels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 20, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2017
    Assignee: PFU Limited
    Inventors: Ryo Hayashi, Kiyoto Kosaka, Masayoshi Hayashi
  • Patent number: 9646151
    Abstract: Provided is a server including: a user authenticating unit that authenticates, using an access token, a user of a user device; a token receiving unit that receives an access token from the user device; and a determination information transmitting unit which, when the access token is received, transmits determination information that enables a determination as to whether or not a remaining time until a time of expiration of the access token is less than a predetermined threshold, to the user device, wherein the user authenticating unit issues a new access token with an updated time of expiration when an issuance request for an access token which is transmitted by the user device having received the determination information is received.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 15, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2017
    Assignee: PFU LIMITED
    Inventor: Osamu Miyakawa
  • Patent number: 9646218
    Abstract: An image-processing apparatus identifies a numeral recognition target range in an image, extracts, when a circumscribed rectangle of a numeral likelihood portion that is likely to represent a numeral in the numeral recognition target range conforms to a reference size, the circumscribed rectangle, extracts, when a plurality of circumscribed rectangles extracted are arrayed, the arrayed circumscribed rectangles, determines whether the circumscribed rectangles extracted each include one or both of a horizontal line and a vertical line, each of the horizontal line and the vertical line constituting a segment in a multiple-segment character, and extracts, as a target area for numeral identification, the circumscribed rectangle that includes one or both of the horizontal line and the vertical line, and isolates a numeral display area from the numeral recognition target range so as to include the target area in a predetermined direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 8, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2017
    Assignee: PFU LIMITED
    Inventor: Akifumi Takahashi
  • Patent number: 9645612
    Abstract: An image-reading apparatus includes a housing having an opening, an image capturing unit that captures an image of a medium disposed at the opening, a plurality of light sources that are disposed inside the housing and emit light toward the opening, and an angle holding mechanisms. Two inclined cover units of the housing can be switched between an opened state and a folded state. Two coupling cover units of the housing are deformed with respect to the two inclined cover units when the two inclined cover units are in the folded state, and the angle holding mechanisms hold the two inclined cover units so that ends of the two inclined cover units on the opening side are separated away from each other when the two inclined cover units is in the opened state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 19, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2017
    Assignee: PFU LIMITED
    Inventor: Ryo Hayashi
  • Patent number: D788110
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2017
    Assignee: PFU LIMITED
    Inventors: Satoshi Kuroda, Shoya Ishida, Kouji Kawase
  • Patent number: D795254
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2017
    Assignee: PFU LIMITED
    Inventors: Shoya Ishida, Satoshi Kuroda, Toru Mugimoto