Patents by Inventor Ayumi Itoh

Ayumi 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).

  • Patent number: 10587765
    Abstract: A communication system includes: an image forming apparatus including a browser function and being configured to set permission/non-permission for access according to a website being a communication destination; and a setting change apparatus configured to communicate with the image forming apparatus and be capable of changing a setting of the image forming apparatus in accordance with an operation of an administrator, wherein the image forming apparatus includes a detection unit configured to detect that the image forming apparatus is not allowed to access a specific website, an acquisition unit configured to automatically acquire access destination information, identification information, and contact information, and a change request unit configured to transmit a request to change the setting to a setting that permits the image forming apparatus to access the specific website, to the administrator via a network, the identification information, and the contact information, which are acquired by the acquisiti
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 10, 2020
    Assignee: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.
    Inventor: Ayumi Itoh
  • Patent number: 9979775
    Abstract: An MFP includes a processor following a user instruction to execute a browser and cause a display device to display a designated web page. In doing so, the processor obtains user information and stores it to a memory. The processor determines that the user information stored in the memory is deleted at a point of time at which the processor determines that the MFP presents a predefined state allowing the MFP to end displaying a web page or at a point of time at which the processor determines that a user operation is done that is predefined to cause the MFP to end displaying the web page. At the earlier one of these points of time, the processor deletes the user information stored in the memory.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 13, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 22, 2018
    Assignee: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.
    Inventor: Ayumi Itoh
  • Publication number: 20160373460
    Abstract: A communication system includes: an image forming apparatus including a browser function and being configured to set permission/non-permission for access according to a website being a communication destination; and a setting change apparatus configured to communicate with the image forming apparatus and be capable of changing a setting of the image forming apparatus in accordance with an operation of an administrator, wherein the image forming apparatus includes a detection unit configured to detect that the image forming apparatus is not allowed to access a specific website, an acquisition unit configured to automatically acquire access destination information, identification information, and contact information, and a change request unit configured to transmit a request to change the setting to a setting that permits the image forming apparatus to access the specific website, to the administrator via a network, the identification information, and the contact information, which are acquired by the acquisiti
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 20, 2016
    Publication date: December 22, 2016
    Applicant: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.
    Inventor: Ayumi ITOH
  • Publication number: 20160112532
    Abstract: An MFP includes a processor following a user instruction to execute a browser and cause a display device to display a designated web page. In doing so, the processor obtains user information and stores it to a memory. The processor determines that the user information stored in the memory is deleted at a point of time at which the processor determines that the MFP presents a predefined state allowing the MFP to end displaying a web page or at a point of time at which the processor determines that a user operation is done that is predefined to cause the MFP to end displaying the web page. At the earlier one of these points of time, the processor deletes the user information stored in the memory.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 13, 2015
    Publication date: April 21, 2016
    Applicant: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.
    Inventor: Ayumi ITOH
  • Patent number: 9100519
    Abstract: A data processing apparatus includes a browsing portion to display a display area of content on a display portion, and a gesture event determining portion to determine a gesture event on the basis of position(s) designated by a user on a display surface of the display portion. The browsing portion includes a display area determining portion to determine a display area on the basis of the gesture event, a capture area determining portion to determine a capture area including the display area, a captured image generating portion to generate a captured image corresponding to the capture area on the basis of the content, a temporary memory control portion to temporarily store the captured image, a display image generating portion to generate a display image corresponding to the display area on the basis of the captured image, and a display control portion to display the display image on the display portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 26, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 4, 2015
    Assignee: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.
    Inventors: Masayuki Kawamoto, Ayumi Itoh
  • Patent number: 9069464
    Abstract: A data processing apparatus includes a browsing portion to execute a process of the type corresponding to a gesture event, a mouse event generating portion to generate a mouse event including positional information indicating the position detected by a position detecting portion, and a gesture event determining portion to determine one of gesture events on the basis of the mouse event(s). The browsing portion includes a display image generating portion operable, when content includes a description for displaying an embedded image generated as an application program is executed, to generate a display image with the embedded image arranged in an embedded area, and a selecting portion operable, when the position indicated by one of the mouse event(s) from which the gesture event has been determined falls within the embedded area, to select either the gesture event or the mouse event(s) on the basis of the type of the gesture event.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 26, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 30, 2015
    Assignee: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.
    Inventors: Ayumi Itoh, Masayuki Kawamoto
  • Patent number: 9049323
    Abstract: A data processing apparatus includes a position detecting portion capable of detecting a position designated by a user, and a control portion which includes a content displaying portion to display a display area of content and a gesture event determining portion to determine a gesture event. The content displaying portion includes a display image generating portion, and a display control portion to display the display image. The display image generating portion includes a state storing portion to store state information for specifying the display area at a time point of start of a gesture period, and a prioritized displaying portion operable, when a first gesture event changing the display area and a second gesture event not changing the display area are determined during the gesture period, to generate a display image for displaying the display area specified by the state information, on the basis of the second gesture event.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 10, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 2, 2015
    Assignee: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.
    Inventors: Ayumi Itoh, Masayuki Kawamoto
  • Patent number: 9001368
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes a display portion, a touch panel, and a control portion. The control portion includes a touch event generating portion to output a touch event indicating a position detected by the touch panel, a gesture event determining portion to determine a gesture event on the basis of a set of touch events continuously output from the touch event generating portion, an application portion operable, when receiving process identification information, to perform a process corresponding to the process identification information, an association portion operable, at the stage when an application program is installed, to associate each of a plurality of types of processes determined by the application program with one of gesture events, a process specifying portion to specify the process associated with the gesture event determined, and an operation notification portion to output the process identification information of the specified process to the application portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 5, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 7, 2015
    Assignee: Konica Minolta, Inc.
    Inventors: Ayumi Itoh, Masayuki Kawamoto
  • Patent number: 8843823
    Abstract: A document display system is provided which includes a first document display device, and a second document display device. The first document display device includes a display processing portion configured to display an electronic document, a settings update portion configured to update display settings information indicating latest display settings in response to operation for modifying settings by a user during a period in which the electronic document is displayed, and a document transmission portion configured to send out the electronic document and the display settings information. The second document display device includes a document obtaining portion configured to obtain the electronic document and the display settings information sent out from the first document display device, and a display setting portion configured to incorporate settings for display settings indicated in the display settings information into display settings to be applied at a start of display of the electronic document.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 23, 2014
    Assignee: Konica Minolta, Inc.
    Inventors: Junichi Hase, Hisashi Uchida, Daisuke Nakano, Ayumi Itoh, Tomoaki Nakajima
  • Publication number: 20140233059
    Abstract: A data processing apparatus includes a position detecting portion capable of detecting a position designated by a user, and a control portion which includes a content displaying portion to display a display area of content and a gesture event determining portion to determine a gesture event. The content displaying portion includes a display image generating portion, and a display control portion to display the display image. The display image generating portion includes a state storing portion to store state information for specifying the display area at a time point of start of a gesture period, and a prioritized displaying portion operable, when a first gesture event changing the display area and a second gesture event not changing the display area are determined during the gesture period, to generate a display image for displaying the display area specified by the state information, on the basis of the second gesture event.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 10, 2014
    Publication date: August 21, 2014
    Applicant: Konica Minolta, Inc.
    Inventors: Ayumi ITOH, Masayuki KAWAMOTO
  • Patent number: 8797570
    Abstract: A transmission-side MFP receives a user name, checks whether the user name is registered in a destination user list, and if so, transmits image data to a reception-side MFP. If an ACK is received, the transmission-side MFP displays that transmission was successful. When a NACK is received or a time out occurs, the transmission-side MFP checks whether the user name is registered in an individual address book, and if so, transmits the image data using a corresponding transmission method. If an ACK is received, the transmission-side MFP displays that transmission was successful. If a timeout occurs, the transmission-side MFP displays that transmission failed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2007
    Date of Patent: August 5, 2014
    Assignee: Konica Minolta Business Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Hisashi Uchida, Kazuo Inui, Tomo Tsuboi, Hideki Hino, Ayumi Itoh
  • Publication number: 20140160046
    Abstract: A data processing apparatus includes a browsing portion to display a display area of content on a display portion, and a gesture event determining portion to determine a gesture event on the basis of position(s) designated by a user on a display surface of the display portion. The browsing portion includes a display area determining portion to determine a display area on the basis of the gesture event, a capture area determining portion to determine a capture area including the display area, a captured image generating portion to generate a captured image corresponding to the capture area on the basis of the content, a temporary memory control portion to temporarily store the captured image, a display image generating portion to generate a display image corresponding to the display area on the basis of the captured image, and a display control portion to display the display image on the display portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 26, 2013
    Publication date: June 12, 2014
    Applicant: Konica Minolta, Inc.
    Inventors: Masayuki KAWAMOTO, Ayumi ITOH
  • Publication number: 20140145956
    Abstract: A data processing apparatus includes a browsing portion to execute a process of the type corresponding to a gesture event, a mouse event generating portion to generate a mouse event including positional information indicating the position detected by a position detecting portion, and a gesture event determining portion to determine one of gesture events on the basis of the mouse event(s). The browsing portion includes a display image generating portion operable, when content includes a description for displaying an embedded image generated as an application program is executed, to generate a display image with the embedded image arranged in an embedded area, and a selecting portion operable, when the position indicated by one of the mouse event(s) from which the gesture event has been determined falls within the embedded area, to select either the gesture event or the mouse event(s) on the basis of the type of the gesture event.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 26, 2013
    Publication date: May 29, 2014
    Applicant: Konica Minolta, Inc.
    Inventors: Ayumi ITOH, Masayuki KAWAMOTO
  • Publication number: 20140078546
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes a display portion, a touch panel, and a control portion. The control portion includes a touch event generating portion to output a touch event indicating a position detected by the touch panel, a gesture event determining portion to determine a gesture event on the basis of a set of touch events continuously output from the touch event generating portion, an application portion operable, when receiving process identification information, to perform a process corresponding to the process identification information, an association portion operable, at the stage when an application program is installed, to associate each of a plurality of types of processes determined by the application program with one of gesture events, a process specifying portion to specify the process associated with the gesture event determined, and an operation notification portion to output the process identification information of the specified process to the application portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 5, 2013
    Publication date: March 20, 2014
    Applicant: Konica Minolta, Inc.
    Inventors: Ayumi ITOH, Masayuki KAWAMOTO
  • Patent number: 8676747
    Abstract: A document management apparatus includes a document storing portion to store a document, a designated part accepting portion to accept any part designated by a user within the stored document as a designated part, an associating portion to associate the accepted designated part with a notification destination, an altering portion to alter the stored document, and a notifying portion to notify the notification destination associated with the designated part when at least a portion of an altered part altered within the stored document by the altering portion is included in the designated part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 18, 2014
    Assignee: Konica Minolta Business Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Kaitaku Ozawa, Hiroaki Kubo, Jun Kunioka, Ayumi Itoh
  • Patent number: 8630852
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes a speech input portion that receives an input of speech from a user, a dictionary storage portion that stores a dictionary configured by phrase information pieces for recognizing the speech, a compound phrase generation portion that generates a plurality of compound phrases formed by all combinations of a plurality of predetermined phrases in different orders, a compound phrase registration portion that registers the plurality of compound phrases that have been generated in the dictionary as the phrase information pieces, a speech recognition portion that, in a case where speech including a speech phrase formed by the plurality of predetermined phrases said in an arbitrary order has been input, performs speech recognition on the speech by searching the dictionary for a compound phrase that matches the speech phrase.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 2010
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2014
    Assignee: Konica Minolta Business Technologies, Inc.
    Inventor: Ayumi Itoh
  • Patent number: 8477344
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes a display, an obtaining unit obtaining second data containing information for identifying the link information having no image data in a corresponding storage position among the plural pieces of link information contained in the first data, a display control unit making the display selectively display first link information having image data in a corresponding storage position and second link information having no image data in the corresponding storage position in different formats based on the second data, and a transmission unit transmitting image data generated by a scanning unit to the corresponding storage position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2009
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2013
    Assignee: Konica Minolta Business Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Yoichi Kawabuchi, Ayumi Itoh, Hisashi Uchida, Hidetaka Iwai
  • Publication number: 20130067541
    Abstract: An image processing device, comprises: a display part on which various types of information are displayed; a storage part for storing therein a variety of data; a first browser for accessing an external server and acquiring a web page from the external server, thereby causing the display part to display the acquired web page; a second browser for accessing the external server and acquiring the web page from the external server, thereby causing the display part to display the acquired web page, and that is permitted to access a predetermined storage region in the storage part; a browser boot part for starting up any one of the first and second browsers; and a controller for permitting an access request for the predetermined storage region in response to receipt of the access request from the running browser only when the browser running by the browser boot part is the second browser.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 6, 2012
    Publication date: March 14, 2013
    Applicant: Konica Minolta Business Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Ayumi ITOH, Junichi HASE, Hisashi UCHIDA, Daisuke NAKANO, Tomoaki NAKAJIMA
  • Patent number: 8370903
    Abstract: An MFP stores information of a web service for permitting use with respect to each user, and information for limiting a use of its function. When there is a web service allowed to be used by the logged in user, its list is displayed. When a linked function with the selected web service is not allowed to be used, a massage to the effect that is displayed and when the use of the function is limited, limited contents are displayed to confirm the use of the web service.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 2008
    Date of Patent: February 5, 2013
    Assignee: Konica Minolta Business Technologies, Inc
    Inventors: Keisuke Teramoto, Ayumi Itoh, Hisashi Uchida, Hidetaka Iwai, Yoichi Kawabuchi, Yoshikazu Ikenoue
  • Patent number: 8274689
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes a display; a memory for storing first information indicating an acquisition source of image data, second information indicating an editing process of the image data and third information indicating an output destination of the image data associated with one another as a setting information group; an accepting unit for accepting the first information to the third information; a display control unit for displaying images used for accepting the first information to the third information on a first area to a third area, respectively, of the display; and a registration unit for, when the accepting unit accepts at least two pieces of information of the first information to the third information, registering the at least two pieces of information of the first information to the third information as the setting information group in the memory.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 2009
    Date of Patent: September 25, 2012
    Assignee: Konica Minolta Business Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Ayumi Itoh, Jun Kunioka, Hidetaka Iwai, Mitsuharu Nagai