Patents by Inventor Chieko MURAI

Chieko MURAI 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).

  • Information processing apparatus, method, and recording medium
    Patent number: 9300831
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus is provided with a book data acquisition unit which acquires a book data item including a plurality of image data items related to covers and individual pages of a book, a length acquisition unit which acquires a longitudinal length and a lateral length of the book based on lengths of two sides of the plurality of image data items included in the book data item, and an image data determination unit which compares the longitudinal and lateral lengths of the book to the lengths of the two sides of each of the image data items to determine the image data item determined to include neither one page nor two facing pages as the image data item including a spine image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 17, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2016
    Assignee: PFU LIMITED
    Inventors: Chieko Murai, Mitsuhiro Iwase, Masato Izumi
  • INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, METHOD, AND RECORDING MEDIUM
    Publication number: 20140320935
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus is provided with a book data acquisition unit which acquires a book data item including a plurality of image data items related to covers and individual pages of a book, a length acquisition unit which acquires a longitudinal length and a lateral length of the book based on lengths of two sides of the plurality of image data items included in the book data item, and an image data determination unit which compares the longitudinal and lateral lengths of the book to the lengths of the two sides of each of the image data items to determine the image data item determined to include neither one page nor two facing pages as the image data item including a spine image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 17, 2014
    Publication date: October 30, 2014
    Applicant: PFU LIMITED
    Inventors: Chieko Murai, Mitsuhiro Iwase, Masato Izumi
  • INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, EVENT CONTROL METHOD, AND COMPUTER-READABLE NON-TRANSITORY RECORDING MEDIUM
    Publication number: 20130073625
    Abstract: The event control module acquires user information including any of a user attribution, user position information, and a user association state, determines whether or not the user attribution, the user position information, and the user association state satisfy an event generation condition, and allows or instructs the generation of an event when the event generation condition is determined to be satisfied.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 23, 2012
    Publication date: March 21, 2013
    Applicant: PFU LIMITED
    Inventors: Yoshiaki UMETSU, Chieko MURAI, Takashi KUBOTA