Patents by Inventor Akinori Iwase

Akinori Iwase 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: 7529618
    Abstract: An image forming system and apparatus are provided which utilizes a portable terminal such as a cellular phone when printing and outputting map data, etc. On a network by separating the operation through the cellular phones from the operation through a terminal printer. The system includes a portable terminal that is connected to a network via a gateway through radio communication and provides a desired map destination data to a server. The server receives the destination data via the network and stores the destination data in a prescribed area. A printer that is connected to the server provides its position data to the server and receives a map data comprising the position data of the printer as a starting point and the destination data as an ending point and prints this map data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 1, 2004
    Date of Patent: May 5, 2009
    Assignees: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba, Toshiba Tec Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Akinori Iwase, Tatsuya Haraguchi, Kazuhiro Ogura
  • Patent number: 7272647
    Abstract: There is disclosed a print system in which BD acquires a printing ID (hereinafter referred to as the PID) issued by PODS through CS, BD transmits PID to PC, PC receives printing data from PCDB via PODS, and the data is printed through PD.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2001
    Date of Patent: September 18, 2007
    Assignees: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba, Toshiba Tec Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Tatsuya Haraguchi, Kazuhiro Ogura, Akinori Iwase
  • Patent number: 7259886
    Abstract: In this printing system, in case of carrying out printing from a personal computer, PDA (personal digital assistants), and portable telephone, the printing data are transmitted through internet to a server by using the printing data as a mail, temporarily stored in a server, and then transferred to a digital copying machine to print. In the server, at the time of receiving the mail as the printing data, control is made of the action to store the printing data in a memory or a hard disk drive.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 7, 2006
    Date of Patent: August 21, 2007
    Assignees: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba, Toshiba Tec Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Akinori Iwase, Tatsuya Haraguchi, Kazuhiro Ogura
  • Publication number: 20060200388
    Abstract: When a commodity has been purchased, display on a display section of a mobile phone is returned to a commodity purchase screen at a cash register, and “Total” is chosen and determined. When “Total” has been determined, a control section of the mobile phone causes the display section to display a totaling screen. The totaling screen displays a sum price of the purchased commodity, as well as choices of payment methods, “Cash” and “Credit card”, and choices of reception of the commodity, “Take out” and “Delivery”. The cash or credit card is chosen as a method of payment by the mobile phone, and whether the purchased commodity is to be taken out or delivered is chosen.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 23, 2006
    Publication date: September 7, 2006
    Inventors: Akinori Iwase, Kazuhiro Ogura, Tatsuya Haraguchi
  • Publication number: 20060158689
    Abstract: In this printing system, in case of carrying out printing from a personal computer, PDA (personal digital assistants), and portable telephone, the printing data are transmitted through internet to a server by using the printing data as a mail, temporarily stored in a server, and then transferred to a digital copying machine to print. In the server, at the time of receiving the mail as the printing data, control is made of the action to store the printing data in a memory or a hard disk drive.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 7, 2006
    Publication date: July 20, 2006
    Inventors: Akinori Iwase, Tatsuya Haraguchi, Kazuhiro Ogura
  • Patent number: 6993526
    Abstract: An electronic catalog system sends catalog address information to a mobile phone through a wireless communication, sends catalog data adaptable to address information selected by the mobile phone to a storage server, and prints and outputs catalog data stored in the storage server.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 24, 2002
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2006
    Assignee: Toshiba Tec Kabushika Kaisha
    Inventors: Hiroshi Yamaguchi, Hirofumi Harada, Hiroshi Shintani, Aya Inokuchi, Akinori Iwase, Kazuhiro Ogura, Miho Inahara
  • Patent number: 6990408
    Abstract: An image forming system and apparatus are provided which utilizes a portable terminal such as a cellular phone when printing and outputting map data, etc. on a network by separating the operation through the cellular phones from the operation through a terminal printer. The system includes a portable terminal that is connected to a network via a gateway through radio communication and provides a desired map destination data to a server. The server receives the destination data via the network and stores the destination data in a prescribed area. A printer that is connected to the server provides its position data to the server and receives a map data comprising the position data of the printer as a starting point and the destination data as an ending point and prints this map data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 2002
    Date of Patent: January 24, 2006
    Assignees: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba, Toshiba Tec Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Akinori Iwase, Tatsuya Haraguchi, Kazuhiro Ogura
  • Patent number: 6871243
    Abstract: User information is acquired from a portable device and setting information of the user is acquired from a server based on the user information from the portable device to customize settings for each user. As a result, a digital copying machine having a user interface which is set to be easily customized for a user is provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2000
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2005
    Assignees: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba, Toshiba Tec Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Akinori Iwase, Kazuhiro Ogura, Tatsuya Haraguchi
  • Patent number: 6862597
    Abstract: When a recording medium is set in a slot of a CD-ROM drive, a DVD drive or a smart media drive, a system control section of a printing apparatus controls a display control section to cause a display panel to display selection items. When one of the selection items displayed on the display panel is selected by pushing, and a “PRINT” button is also pushed, the system control section acquires information on the selected item associated with the recording medium from a server apparatus and controls a print control section to execute a printing control.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2001
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2005
    Assignees: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba, Toshiba Tec Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Takeshi Ogaki, Kazuhiro Ogura, Akinori Iwase, Tatsuya Haraguchi
  • Publication number: 20050043883
    Abstract: An image forming system and apparatus are provided which utilizes a portable terminal such as a cellular phone when printing and outputting map data, etc. on a network by separating the operation through the cellular phones from the operation through a terminal printer. The system includes a portable terminal that is connected to a network via a gateway through radio communication and provides a desired map destination data to a server. The server receives the destination data via the network and stores the destination data in a prescribed area. A printer that is connected to the server provides its position data to the server and receives a map data comprising the position data of the printer as a starting point and the destination data as an ending point and prints this map data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 1, 2004
    Publication date: February 24, 2005
    Inventors: Akinori Iwase, Tatsuya Haraguchi, Kazuhiro Ogura
  • Publication number: 20050027792
    Abstract: In a network system, only text data is displayed on a portable telephone when access is made to a page which is made public on the Internet by use of the portable telephone. An image of the page and information indicating a URL of the page are stored into a predetermined folder according to an instruction for storage of the page from the portable telephone based on the operation by the user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 31, 2004
    Publication date: February 3, 2005
    Inventors: Akinori Iwase, Tatsuya Haraguchi, Kazuhiro Ogura
  • Publication number: 20040199432
    Abstract: When a commodity has been purchased, display on a display section of a mobile phone is returned to a commodity purchase screen at a cash register, and “Total” is chosen and determined. When “Total” has been determined, a control section of the mobile phone causes the display section to display a totaling screen. The totaling screen displays a sum price of the purchased commodity, as well as choices of payment methods, “Cash” and “Credit card”, and choices of reception of the commodity, “Take out” and “Delivery”. The cash or credit card is chosen as a method of payment by the mobile phone, and whether the purchased commodity is to be taken out or delivered is chosen.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 27, 2004
    Publication date: October 7, 2004
    Applicants: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA, TOSHIBA TEC KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Akinori Iwase, Kazuhiro Ogura, Tatsuya Haraguchi
  • Patent number: 6799178
    Abstract: In a network system, only text data is displayed on a portable telephone when access is made to a page which is made public on the Internet by use of the portable telephone. An image of the page and information indicating a URL of the page are stored into a predetermined folder according to an instruction for storage of the page from the portable telephone based on the operation by the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2001
    Date of Patent: September 28, 2004
    Assignees: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba, Toshiba Tec Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Akinori Iwase, Tatsuya Haraguchi, Kazuhiro Ogura
  • Publication number: 20040179223
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus having a receipt interface I/F, a hard disk, and a printer section. The receipt interface I/F receives pages of image data transmitted and a partial print request signal requesting that only a part of the image data be printed, both transmitted through a communication line. The hard disk stores both the image data and the partial print request signal. The printer section prints a part of the image data stored in the hard disk, in response to the partial print request signal that the receipt interface I/F has received.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 25, 2004
    Publication date: September 16, 2004
    Applicants: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA, TOSHIBA TEC KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Akinori Iwase, Yoshiko Takeda, Kazuhiro Ogura, Takeshi Ogaki
  • Patent number: 6778288
    Abstract: Processes from the scanning of a document in a preset scan mode to a process executed for the scanned image are set as scan jobs. When an icon associated with the scan job is selected, the scan job is executed. Thereby, the processes from the scanning of the document to the process executed for the scanned image can be automatically executed by selecting the associated icons, and the user operations are simplified and made easier.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 1999
    Date of Patent: August 17, 2004
    Assignees: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba, Toshiba Tec Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Takeshi Ogaki, Akinori Iwase, Akihiko Fujiwara, Kazuhiro Ogura, Nobuhisa Yoda
  • Patent number: 6771383
    Abstract: The present invention is adapted to create multi-page data consisting of image data of a plurality of pages that constitute one document, and to manage the multi-page data in the same stage as single-page data that consists of image data of each page belonging to the document. As a result, an image processing system is realized which can make use of both a single-page file suitable for management or updating of image data performed in units of one page, and a multi-page file suitable for processing of image data performed in units of one document.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 1999
    Date of Patent: August 3, 2004
    Assignees: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba, Toshiba Tec Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Takeshi Ogaki, Akinori Iwase, Yoshiko Takeda, Kazuhiro Ogura
  • Patent number: 6724492
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus having a receipt interface I/F, a hard disk, and a printer section. The receipt interface I/F receives pages of image data transmitted and a partial print request signal requesting that only a part of the image data be printed, both transmitted through a communication line. The hard disk stores both the image data and the partial print request signal. The printer section prints a part of the image data stored in the hard disk, in response to the partial print request signal that the receipt interface I/F has received.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 1999
    Date of Patent: April 20, 2004
    Assignees: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba, Toshiba Tec Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Akinori Iwase, Yoshiko Takeda, Kazuhiro Ogura, Takeshi Ogaki
  • Patent number: 6643028
    Abstract: In this invention, a digital copying machine to be connected to a network feeds originals in each document unit for each sheet by use of an ADF to read the images of the originals and prints the read images in each document unit for each page in a printing form selected by the user. Therefore, a plurality of original images read in each document unit can be effectively confirmed in accordance with the purpose of the user on the spot where the reading operation is effected. Further, the actual concentration can be adjusted while observing reduced images on the confirmation sheet and inputting of an actual image and inputting for correction can be easily attained. In a case where a specified page among a plurality of originals is scanned again, all of the originals are set on the original table of the ADF without extracting the specified page from the originals and the specified page can be scanned again. Therefore, the pages of the originals can be kept in order.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 1999
    Date of Patent: November 4, 2003
    Assignees: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba, Toshiba Tec Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Takeshi Ogaki, Akinori Iwase, Akihiko Fujiwara, Kazuhiro Ogura, Yoshiko Takeda
  • Publication number: 20030058746
    Abstract: When a recording medium is set in a slot of a CD-ROM drive, a DVD drive or a smart media drive, a system control section of a printing apparatus controls a display control section to cause a display panel to display selection items. When one of the selection items displayed on the display panel is selected by pushing, and a “PRINT” button is also pushed, the system control section acquires information on the selected item associated with the recording medium from a server apparatus and controls a print control section to execute a printing control.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 10, 2001
    Publication date: March 27, 2003
    Applicant: TOSHIBA TEC KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Takeshi Ogaki, Kazuhiro Ogura, Akinori Iwase, Tatsuya Haraguchi
  • Patent number: 6498964
    Abstract: A job processing system using job designation sheets includes a printer unit to prepare job designation sheets including the description of specified job designation contents and print Sheet Version Number indicating the version of the job designation sheets when editing, a sheet management database to manage versions of job designation sheets based on Version Number printed on the job designation sheets, an image input unit to read job designation sheets with the job designation contents described and Sheet Version Number printed, a sheet recognition unit to recognize the contents of description and Version Number of the job designation sheets that are read by the image input unit and a judging unit to judge whether the Version Number of the sheet recognized by the sheet recognition unit is the latest one based on the version of the job designation sheet managed by the sheet processing management database.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 1999
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2002
    Assignees: Toshiba Tec Kabushiki Kaisha, Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Kazuhiro Ogura, Takeshi Ogaki, Yoshiko Takeda, Akinori Iwase