Patents by Inventor Atsushi Itoh

Atsushi Itoh 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).

  • Publication number: 20240124244
    Abstract: A conveying roller, a conveyor device, and an inclined conveyor for objects. A conveying roller comes into contact with an object and moves the object, the conveying roller including: a core member and a plurality of blade-shaped pieces, the blade-shaped piece being elastically deformable and being provided around the core member.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 7, 2022
    Publication date: April 18, 2024
    Inventors: Kazuo ITOH, Tatsuhiko NAKAMURA, Koji UEDA, Atsushi NISHIMURA
  • Patent number: 11936829
    Abstract: An illuminating device, an image reading device, and an image forming apparatus. The illuminating device includes a plurality of first light sources arrayed on a circuit board, the first light sources having a plurality of first light emitting surfaces through which light is emitted, and a second light source disposed on an upstream side of the first light sources in an irradiation direction of the light. In the illuminating device, the second light source has a second light emitting surface through which light is emitted, and the second light source has a directivity angle different from a directivity angle of each one of the first light sources. The image reading device includes the illuminating device, and an imaging device to receive the light reflected by a document to capture an image of the document.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Atsushi Sugai, Masamoto Nakazawa, Masahiro Itoh
  • Publication number: 20220343571
    Abstract: A system, apparatus, and method of information processing, each of which determines an additional component to be added to a material image drawn on a medium, determines an advertisement component according to the additional component, and adds the additional component and the advertisement component to the material image to generate a modified image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 4, 2022
    Publication date: October 27, 2022
    Applicant: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Mana AKAIKE, Atsushi ITOH
  • Publication number: 20220124288
    Abstract: An output control apparatus is communicable with a communication apparatus through a communication network. The communication apparatus includes a first image capturing device configured to capture a subject at a remote site to acquire a first image and a second image capturing device configure to capture a part of the subject to acquire a second image. The output control apparatus includes circuitry to: receive the first image transmitted from the communication apparatus; output the received first image so as to be displayed on a display; receive, from the communication apparatus, the second image acquired by capturing a part of the subject corresponding to a display position of the first image displayed on the display; output the received second image so as to be displayed on the display; and control the display to display the first image and the second image that are output.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 28, 2021
    Publication date: April 21, 2022
    Applicant: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventor: Atsushi ITOH
  • Publication number: 20220078344
    Abstract: A communication terminal is communicable with another communication terminal mounted on a mobile apparatus or with a communication device of the mobile apparatus via a network. The communication terminal transmits operation instruction information for controlling the mobile apparatus to the another communication terminal or the communication device. The communication terminal includes circuitry configured to: receive a first video transmitted by one of the another communication terminal and the communication device and a second video having a wide-angle of view captured by a wide-angle image capturing apparatus; display, on a display device, at least one of the first video and the second video that are received; and display, on the display device, a controller for controlling an operation of the mobile apparatus as being superimposed on the at least one of the first video and the second video.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 19, 2021
    Publication date: March 10, 2022
    Applicant: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: YUICHI ARAUMI, ATSUSHI ITOH, RYOTA YAMASHINA
  • Patent number: 11228737
    Abstract: An output control apparatus is communicable with a communication apparatus through a communication network. The communication apparatus includes a first image capturing device configured to capture a subject at a remote site to acquire a first image and a second image capturing device configure to capture a part of the subject to acquire a second image. The output control apparatus includes circuitry to: receive the first image transmitted from the communication apparatus; output the received first image so as to be displayed on a display; receive, from the communication apparatus, the second image acquired by capturing a part of the subject corresponding to a display position of the first image displayed on the display; output the received second image so as to be displayed on the display; and control the display to display the first image and the second image that are output.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 18, 2022
    Assignee: RICOH COMPANY, LTD.
    Inventor: Atsushi Itoh
  • Patent number: 11212439
    Abstract: A communication terminal is communicable with another communication terminal mounted on a mobile apparatus or with a communication device of the mobile apparatus via a network. The communication terminal transmits operation instruction information for controlling the mobile apparatus to the another communication terminal or the communication device. The communication terminal includes circuitry configured to: receive a first video transmitted by one of the another communication terminal and the communication device and a second video having a wide-angle of view captured by a wide-angle image capturing apparatus; display, on a display device, at least one of the first video and the second video that are received; and display, on the display device, a controller for controlling an operation of the mobile apparatus as being superimposed on the at least one of the first video and the second video.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 28, 2021
    Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Yuichi Araumi, Atsushi Itoh, Ryota Yamashina
  • Publication number: 20210158595
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus comprising circuitry configured to: determine an additional component to be added to a material image drawn on a medium; generate a modified image in which the determined additional component is added to the material image; and store the generated modified image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 24, 2020
    Publication date: May 27, 2021
    Inventors: Mana AKAIKE, Nobuyuki KISHI, Atsushi ITOH
  • Patent number: 11010424
    Abstract: An information processing system includes an image search system and a customer-side system. The image search system includes a module distributer and a searcher. The module distributer is configured to distribute a search module and module identification information to the customer-side system while associating the search module and module identification information with each other. The search module is used for causing a terminal device to transmit the search request; the module identification information is used for identifying the search module. The searcher is configured to, as a result of causing the search module to run on the terminal device, execute the searching of the databases in accordance with the module identification information. The module distributer distributes, to the customer-side system, the search modules associated with different pieces of module identification information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 19, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 18, 2021
    Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Atsushi Itoh, Hidenobu Kishi, Kunikazu Okajima, Kohichi Sakamoto
  • Patent number: 10917560
    Abstract: A control apparatus for controlling a movable apparatus including a first imaging apparatus for imaging a target to acquire a first image and a second imaging apparatus for imaging a part of the target to acquire a second image includes circuitry configured to acquire, from the movable apparatus, state information indicating a movement state of the movable apparatus, receive the first image and the second image from the movable apparatus based on the acquired state information, and output the first image and the second image selectively based on the acquired state information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 4, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 9, 2021
    Assignee: RICOH COMPANY, LTD.
    Inventors: Atsushi Itoh, Ryota Yamashina
  • Publication number: 20210037214
    Abstract: An output control apparatus is communicable with a communication apparatus through a communication network. The communication apparatus includes a first image capturing device configured to capture a subject at a remote site to acquire a first image and a second image capturing device configure to capture a part of the subject to acquire a second image. The output control apparatus includes circuitry to: receive the first image transmitted from the communication apparatus; output the received first image so as to be displayed on a display; receive, from the communication apparatus, the second image acquired by capturing a part of the subject corresponding to a display position of the first image displayed on the display; output the received second image so as to be displayed on the display; and control the display to display the first image and the second image that are output.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 22, 2020
    Publication date: February 4, 2021
    Inventor: Atsushi Itoh
  • Publication number: 20200036892
    Abstract: A communication terminal is communicable with another communication terminal mounted on a mobile apparatus or with a communication device of the mobile apparatus via a network. The communication terminal transmits operation instruction information for controlling the mobile apparatus to the another communication terminal or the communication device. The communication terminal includes circuitry configured to: receive a first video transmitted by one of the another communication terminal and the communication device and a second video having a wide-angle of view captured by a wide-angle image capturing apparatus; display, on a display device, at least one of the first video and the second video that are received; and display, on the display device, a controller for controlling an operation of the mobile apparatus as being superimposed on the at least one of the first video and the second video.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 17, 2019
    Publication date: January 30, 2020
    Applicant: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: YUICHI ARAUMI, ATSUSHI ITOH, RYOTA YAMASHINA
  • Publication number: 20200007751
    Abstract: A control apparatus for controlling a movable apparatus including a first imaging apparatus for imaging a target to acquire a first image and a second imaging apparatus for imaging a part of the target to acquire a second image includes circuitry configured to acquire, from the movable apparatus, state information indicating a movement state of the movable apparatus, receive the first image and the second image from the movable apparatus based on the acquired state information, and output the first image and the second image selectively based on the acquired state information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 4, 2019
    Publication date: January 2, 2020
    Applicant: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Atsushi Itoh, Ryota YAMASHINA
  • Patent number: 10242030
    Abstract: A terminal device stores therein an application program provided by a second provider and including an image search program. An image search system provided by a first provider stores therein image data and identification information identifying the image search program; registers, in association with the identification information, setting information indicating whether a storage area to be searched is a first storage area exclusive to the second provider or a second storage area not exclusive to the second provider; stores the image data specified as a search target by the second provider in the first or second storage area; receives a search request for the image data transmitted from the terminal device; determines, when the search request includes the identification information, a storage area to be searched among the first and second storage areas; and determines, when not, the second storage area to be the storage area to be searched.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 4, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2019
    Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Atsushi Itoh, Hidenobu Kishi, Kunikazu Okajima, Kohichi Sakamoto, Toshiki Yamanishi, Yuki Wakita, Junko Nakano
  • Patent number: 10225480
    Abstract: A terminal device, comprising: a capturing unit capturing a subject; a light emitting unit; a display unit, a processor, and a storage unit containing a program that causes the processor to execute a process of acquiring a drawing target drawn by a user from a captured image of the subject including the drawing target and causing the drawing target to be displayed on a screen of the display unit, the program causes the processor to execute; controlling the light emitting unit to emit the light when the capturing unit captures the subject according to the user's operation, acquiring the captured image that is obtained by capturing the subject irradiated with the light emitted from the light emitting unit, performing image correction corresponding to a brightness distribution of the light emitted from the light emitting unit on the captured image, and extracting the drawing target from the captured image acquired.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 13, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2019
    Assignee: RICOH COMPANY, LIMITED
    Inventors: Atsushi Itoh, Aiko Ohtsuka, Munetake Moroyama
  • Patent number: 10192285
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes an exaggeration unit configured to perform on an original image including a hand-drawn element an exaggeration process that expands the hand-drawn element to generate an exaggerated image; and a reduction unit configured to reduce the exaggerated image to generate a reduced image of a predetermined size smaller than a size of the original image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 29, 2019
    Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Aiko Otsuka, Atsushi Itoh
  • Patent number: 10089909
    Abstract: A display control method includes: inputting user's image including a drawing portion made by hand drawing and being a display target image; and performing image control including causing the input user's image to emerge from any one of a left end and a right end of a predetermined display region, on which the user's image is to be displayed, and moving the user's image that has emerged.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 11, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 2, 2018
    Assignee: Ricoh Company, Limited
    Inventors: Atsushi Itoh, Aiko Ohtsuka, Tetsuya Sakayori, Hidekazu Suzuki, Takanobu Tanaka
  • Publication number: 20170372649
    Abstract: A display control method includes: inputting user's image including a drawing portion made by hand drawing and being a display target image; and performing image control including causing the input user's image to emerge from any one of a left end and a right end of a predetermined display region, on which the user's image is to be displayed, and moving the user's image that has emerged.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 11, 2017
    Publication date: December 28, 2017
    Applicant: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Atsushi Itoh, Aiko Ohtsuka, Tetsuya Sakayori, Hidekazu Suzuki, Takanobu Tanaka
  • Patent number: 9832600
    Abstract: A communication system includes a first communication terminal and a second communication terminal. The first communication terminal provides first terminal identification information read out from a memory to a first mobile terminal. The second communication terminal obtains the first terminal identification information from a second mobile terminal, the second mobile terminal being a mobile terminal that has received the first terminal identification information from the first mobile terminal through a first communication session. The second communication terminal further transmits a request for starting communication with the first communication terminal to establish a second communication session with the first communication terminal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2017
    Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Yoshinaga Kato, Haruomi Higashi, Atsushi Itoh, Kazunori Ide
  • Patent number: 9807812
    Abstract: A communication terminal, installed with a plurality of types of communication application, receives first terminal identification information for identifying the first communication terminal from a second mobile terminal, after the second mobile terminal has received the first terminal identification information from a first mobile terminal, the first mobile terminal being a mobile terminal that has obtained the first terminal identification information from the first communication terminal through a first communication session. The communication terminal activates one of the plurality of types of communication application based on the first terminal identification information, and starts communicating with the first communication terminal through a second communication session using the activated communication application.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2017
    Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Yoshinaga Kato, Haruomi Higashi, Atsushi Itoh, Kazunori Ide