Patents by Inventor Akio Furuhata

Akio Furuhata 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: 10902278
    Abstract: In an image processing system, an image processing apparatus configured to recognize images of documents is connected through a network to terminal apparatuses each including an input unit and a display unit. The image processing apparatus includes: a recognition unit configured to perform character recognition processing on an image; a confidential information detecting unit configured to detect confidential information from a result of the character recognition processing; and a manipulation unit configured to generate, based on the confidential information in the image, a first manipulated image obtained by fragmenting the confidential information. Each of the terminal apparatuses includes: a display unit configured to display the first manipulated image; and an input unit configured to input corrected data for the first manipulated image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 26, 2021
    Assignees: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA, TOSHIBA SOLUTIONS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Soichiro Ono, Tomohisa Suzuki, Akio Furuhata, Atsuhiro Yoshida
  • Publication number: 20170286795
    Abstract: In an image processing system, an image processing apparatus configured to recognize images of documents is connected through a network to terminal apparatuses each including an input unit and a display unit. The image processing apparatus includes: a recognition unit configured to perform character recognition processing on an image; a confidential information detecting unit configured to detect confidential information from a result of the character recognition processing; and a manipulation unit configured to generate, based on the confidential information in the image, a first manipulated image obtained by fragmenting the confidential information. Each of the terminal apparatuses includes: a display unit configured to display the first manipulated image; and an input unit configured to input corrected data for the first manipulated image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 16, 2017
    Publication date: October 5, 2017
    Inventors: Soichiro Ono, Tomohisa Suzuki, Akio Furuhata, Atsuhiro Yoshida
  • Patent number: 8411957
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a character recognition result verification apparatus has a group generation section and a verification image generation section. The group generation section generates a group including a plurality of character images recognized as the same character from a document image including a plurality of character images. The verification image generation section generates a verification image including a first region and a second region by superimposing the plurality of character images included in the generated group. The first region corresponds to a pixel having the same pixel value in all of the plurality of character images. The second region corresponds to a pixel having the same pixel value in a part of the plurality of character images.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 2010
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2013
    Assignees: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba, Toshiba Solutions Corporation
    Inventor: Akio Furuhata
  • Publication number: 20110280452
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a character recognition result verification apparatus has a group generation section and a verification image generation section. The group generation section generates a group including a plurality of character images recognized as the same character from a document image including a plurality of character images. The verification image generation section generates a verification image including a first region and a second region by superimposing the plurality of character images included in the generated group. The first region corresponds to a pixel having the same pixel value in all of the plurality of character images. The second region corresponds to a pixel having the same pixel value in a part of the plurality of character images.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 6, 2010
    Publication date: November 17, 2011
    Inventor: Akio FURUHATA
  • Patent number: 7926732
    Abstract: An inputting device which includes an image input section for inputting an image of a containing areas in which information to be inputted is filled in and patterns representing at least reference positions to define the positions of corresponding areas and size information of corresponding areas; a memory section for storing the image of the input by the image input section; a pattern recognizing section for detecting the reference positions from the patterns in the image which is stored in the memory section and recognizing size information of the areas; an area specifying section for specifying the positions of the areas from the reference positions detected by the pattern recognizing section and the size information of the areas; and an area inputting section for inputting images in the areas defined by the area specifying section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2007
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2011
    Assignees: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba, Toshiba Soluitons Corporation
    Inventors: Tomohisa Suzuki, Hiroyuki Mizutani, Akihiro Uda, Naoaki Kodaira, Toshimasa Dobashi, Akio Furuhata
  • Patent number: 7570878
    Abstract: A cellular phone body 10 includes a memory 12, a CPU 18, a camera 15, and a display 17. The CPU 18 displays on the display 17 a pointer P in a manner to overlap an image of an photographic subject photographed by the camera 15, and judges whether or not to save in an image data saving area 12f of the memory 12 the image of the photographic subject imaged by the camera 15 and buffered in a first buffer 12c of the memory 12, based on information of a move locus of the pointer P moving on the image of the photographic subject along a movement of the cellular phone body at a time of imaging the photographic subject with the camera 15.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2006
    Date of Patent: August 4, 2009
    Assignees: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba, Toshiba Solutions Corporation
    Inventors: Naoaki Kodaira, Hiroyuki Mizutani, Toshimasa Dobashi, Akio Furuhata
  • Publication number: 20070228168
    Abstract: An inputting device which includes an image input section for inputting an image of a containing areas in which information to be inputted is filled in and patterns representing at least reference positions to define the positions of corresponding areas and size information of corresponding areas; a memory section for storing the image of the input by the image input section; a pattern recognizing section for detecting the reference positions from the patterns in the image which is stored in the memory section and recognizing size information of the areas; an area specifying section for specifying the positions of the areas from the reference positions detected by the pattern recognizing section and the size information of the areas; and an area inputting section for inputting images in the areas defined by the area specifying section.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 29, 2007
    Publication date: October 4, 2007
    Inventors: Tomohisa Suzuki, Hiroyuki Mizutani, Akihiro Uda, Naoaki Kodaira, Toshimasa Dobashi, Akio Furuhata
  • Publication number: 20060221207
    Abstract: A cellular phone body 10 includes a memory 12, a CPU 18, a camera 15, and a display 17. The CPU 18 displays on the display 17 a pointer P in a manner to overlap an image of an photographic subject photographed by the camera 15, and judges whether or not to save in an image data saving area 12f of the memory 12 the image of the photographic subject imaged by the camera 15 and buffered in a first buffer 12c of the memory 12, based on information of a move locus of the pointer P moving on the image of the photographic subject along a movement of the cellular phone body at a time of imaging the photographic subject with the camera 15.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 27, 2006
    Publication date: October 5, 2006
    Applicants: TOSHIBA SOLUTIONS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Naoaki Kodaira, Hiroyuki Mizutani, Toshimasa Dobashi, Akio Furuhata