Patents by Inventor Akihisa Kozakura

Akihisa Kozakura 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: 8699097
    Abstract: A scanner device includes a keyboard, a display, a control unit, and a storage unit, wherein the keyboard and the display are disposed so as to cover the top of the body of the scanner device, and the control unit includes an image reading unit that controls to read image data from original documents, an image storing unit that stores the image data read by the image reading unit in the storage unit, and a display control unit that controls to display the image data of any of the original documents on the display based on the image data stored by the image storing unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 20, 2008
    Date of Patent: April 15, 2014
    Assignee: PFU Limited
    Inventors: Akihisa Kozakura, Kosuke Ikegami
  • Publication number: 20090179781
    Abstract: A sheet or overlay has plasticity and covers a keyboard including a plurality of keys, provided with a standard key indication based on a given language environment. The sheet has regions facing the keys on the keyboard, and an optional key indication based on a language environment different from the given language environment is provided in the regions so as to be visible by an operator when the sheet covers the keyboard. If the operator's use language is different from a language of the standard key indication on the keyboard, the keyboard is covered by the sheet supporting the operator's use language. In this way, an electronic apparatus coupled to the keyboard is set to support the language environment of the operator.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 9, 2008
    Publication date: July 16, 2009
    Applicant: PFU LIMITED
    Inventors: Satoshi SAKAI, Yoshiaki Fujimoto, Motoshi Shibuya, Akihisa Kozakura
  • Publication number: 20080252943
    Abstract: A scanner device includes a keyboard, a display, a control unit, and a storage unit, wherein the keyboard and the display are disposed so as to cover the top of the body of the scanner device, and the control unit includes an image reading unit that controls to read image data from original documents, an image storing unit that stores the image data read by the image reading unit in the storage unit, and a display control unit that controls to display the image data of any of the original documents on the display based on the image data stored by the image storing unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 20, 2008
    Publication date: October 16, 2008
    Applicant: PFU LIMITED
    Inventors: Akihisa KOZAKURA, Kosuke Ikegami
  • Publication number: 20080252922
    Abstract: An image-data management system that includes an authentication server device and a network scanner connected to each other via a network, wherein the network scanner device includes a keyboard, a display, a control unit, and a storage unit, the keyboard and the display are disposed so as to cover the top of the body of the network scanner device. The control unit includes a user-authentication requesting unit that sends a user ID and password to the authentication server device to request an user authentication when the user ID and the password are input by a user, an image reading unit that reads an image data from an original document when the user authentication requested by the user-authentication requesting unit is approved by the authentication server device, and an image storing unit that stores the image data read by the image reading unit in the storage unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 14, 2008
    Publication date: October 16, 2008
    Applicant: PFU LIMITED
    Inventors: Kosuke Ikegami, Akihisa Kozakura