Patents by Inventor Eiji Shimoichi

Eiji Shimoichi 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: 9172835
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes: an information storage that stores information; a request accepting section that accepts a predetermined request for the information; a setting section that, for each of the information, sets whether the predetermined request is allowed; a setting storage that stores a setting by the setting section; a determining section that, with respect to the information corresponding to a request accepted by the request accepting section, reads out a corresponding setting from the setting storage, and that determines allowance/non-allowance of the predetermined request; and a process executing section that, in a case where the determining section determines allowance of the predetermined request, executes a process corresponding to the predetermined request on the information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 13, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 27, 2015
    Assignee: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Masaki Kurokawa, Eiji Shimoichi, Yuriko Inakawa, Eiji Nishi, Noriyuki Tatsuma, Akira Okamoto, Takanari Ishimura, Yoshiyuki Yoda, Akihide Oshima, Atsuhiro Itoh, Fumio Harada
  • Publication number: 20140347698
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes: an information storage that stores information; a request accepting section that accepts a predetermined request for the information; a setting section that, for each of the information, sets whether the predetermined request is allowed; a setting storage that stores a setting by the setting section; a determining section that, with respect to the information corresponding to a request accepted by the request accepting section, reads out a corresponding setting from the setting storage, and that determines allowance/non-allowance of the predetermined request; and a process executing section that, in a case where the determining section determines allowance of the predetermined request, executes a process corresponding to the predetermined request on the information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 13, 2014
    Publication date: November 27, 2014
    Applicant: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Masaki KUROKAWA, Eiji SHIMOICHI, Yuriko INAKAWA, Eiji NISHI, Noriyuki TATSUMA, Akira OKAMOTO, Takanari ISHIMURA, Yoshiyuki YODA, Akihide OSHIMA, Atsuhiro ITOH, Fumio HARADA
  • Patent number: 8830499
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes: an information storage that stores information; a request accepting section that accepts a predetermined request for the information; a setting section that, for each of the information, sets whether the predetermined request is allowed; a setting storage that stores a setting by the setting section; a determining section that, with respect to the information corresponding to a request accepted by the request accepting section, reads out a corresponding setting from the setting storage, and that determines allowance/non-allowance of the predetermined request; and a process executing section that, in a case where the determining section determines allowance of the predetermined request, executes a process corresponding to the predetermined request on the information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 10, 2008
    Date of Patent: September 9, 2014
    Assignee: Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Masaki Kurokawa, Eiji Shimoichi, Yuriko Inakawa, Eiji Nishi, Noriyuki Tatsuma, Akira Okamoto, Takanari Ishimura, Yoshiyuki Yoda, Akihide Oshima, Atsuhiro Itoh, Fumio Harada
  • Patent number: 8659770
    Abstract: An image forming device includes an image forming section, a connection section, a request receiving section, an illegality detection section, a notice section and a web page creation section. The image forming section performs image formation on a medium. The connection section communicates with an information processing device. The request receiving section receives a request from the information processing device through the connection section. The illegality detection section detects an illegal access to the request receiving section through the connection section. The notice section notifies, to the information processing device, a detection result by the illegality detection section through the connection section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 2008
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2014
    Assignee: Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Akira Okamoto, Akihide Oshima, Eiji Shimoichi, Yuriko Inakawa, Eiji Nishi, Noriyuki Tatsuma, Takanari Ishimura, Yoshiyuki Yoda, Masaki Kurokawa, Atsuhiro Itoh, Fumio Harada
  • Patent number: 8479277
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes: a connecting section; an information storage; a request accepting section; a searching section; a setting information storage; a determining section; and a process executing section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2008
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2013
    Assignee: Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yoshiyuki Yoda, Masaki Kurokawa, Eiji Shimoichi, Yuriko Inakawa, Eiji Nishi, Noriyuki Tatsuma, Akira Okamoto, Takanari Ishimura, Akihide Oshima, Atsuhiro Itoh, Fumio Harada
  • Patent number: 8004704
    Abstract: A scanner which is connected via network or locally connected to a printer for realizing a copying function by outputting a scanned image to the printer as a copy job, the scanner, comprises a menu display that displays an operation menu of the copying function on a display portion; a capability information reception unit that receives capability information from the printer; an available setting item determination unit that determines print setting items relating to the copying function that can be provided, based on the capability information; and a display controller that selectively displays display contents of the operation menu displayed by the menu display, based on the setting items determined by the available setting item determination unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 2006
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2011
    Assignee: Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Eiji Shimoichi
  • Patent number: 7979467
    Abstract: An information processing device includes a lock section, a creation section, a transmission section, a reception section, and a release section. The lock section disables an authorization function of the information processing device under a given condition. The creation section creates a first lock release file that is capable of releasing the authorization function disabled by the lock section. The transmission section transmits the first lock release file to an information management device. The reception section receives a second lock release file, which is based on the first lock release file, from the information management device. The release section tries to enable the authorization function of the information processing device when the second lock release file is determined to be valid.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 15, 2008
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2011
    Assignee: Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Akihide Oshima, Eiji Shimoichi, Yuriko Inakawa, Masaki Kurokawa, Eiji Nishi, Noriyuki Tatsuma, Akira Okamoto, Takanari Ishimura, Yoshiyuki Yoda, Atsuhiro Itoh, Fumio Harada
  • Patent number: 7791743
    Abstract: An image reader, which is connected to a printer to issue a print instruction to the printer by directly transmitting image data read by the image reader to the printer, comprises a paper feed direction information acquisition unit that acquires paper feed direction information from the printer according to the print instruction; a paper information acquisition unit that acquires paper information containing size and orientation of paper from the printer according to the print instruction; and a display that displays paper state information containing an orientation of paper consistent with the direction in which the paper is discharged by the printer based on the paper feed direction information and the paper information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 9, 2005
    Date of Patent: September 7, 2010
    Assignee: Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hideaki Sugimoto, Eiji Shimoichi
  • Patent number: 7738128
    Abstract: In a device link system for connecting a first device and a second device through a communication interface, the first device comprises a network connection unit that connects the first device to a network; a web server that delivers a web page describing first device information relating to the first device via the network connection unit; an acquisition unit that acquires second device information relating to the second device from the second device via the communication interface; and a web page processor that generates a page describing the second device information acquired by the acquisition unit and adds the generated page to the web page, and the second device comprises a provision unit that provides the second device information to the first device via the communication interface upon receiving a request for the second device information from the first device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 17, 2006
    Date of Patent: June 15, 2010
    Assignee: Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Atsuhiro Itoh, Hideaki Sugimoto, Eiji Shimoichi
  • Patent number: 7692823
    Abstract: An image reading apparatus having an automatic original document feeding apparatus that sequentially feeds plural original documents, which includes an original document reading section that reads an original document fed by the automatic original document feeding apparatus, an image data generation section that, on the basis of a reading output from the original document reading section, generates real image data and preview image data corresponding to the original document, and a display that, on the basis of the preview image data generated by the image data generation section, displays a preview image corresponding to the original document.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 2006
    Date of Patent: April 6, 2010
    Assignee: Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kazuhiko Minowa, Eiji Shimoichi, Kouji Yorimoto, Hideaki Sugimoto
  • Publication number: 20090091782
    Abstract: An image forming device includes an image forming section, a connection section, a request receiving section, an illegality detection section, a notice section and a web page creation section. The image forming section performs image formation on a medium. The connection section communicates with an information processing device. The request receiving section receives a request from the information processing device through the connection section. The illegality detection section detects an illegal access to the request receiving section through the connection section. The notice section notifies, to the information processing device, a detection result by the illegality detection section through the connection section.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 6, 2008
    Publication date: April 9, 2009
    Applicant: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Akira OKAMOTO, Akihide OSHIMA, Eiji SHIMOICHI, Yuriko INAKAWA, Eiji NISHI, Noriyuki TATSUMA, Takanari ISHIMURA, Yoshiyuki YODA, Masaki KUROKAWA, Atsuhiro ITOH, Fumio HARADA
  • Publication number: 20090094241
    Abstract: An information processing device includes a lock section, a creation section, a transmission section, a reception section, and a release section. The lock section disables an authorization function of the information processing device under a given condition. The creation section creates a first lock release file so that releasing the function due to the lock section. The transmission section transmits the first lock release file created by the creation section to the information management device. The reception section receives a second lock release file which is transmitted as a reply from the information management device based on the first lock release file. The release section tries to enable the authorization function of the information processing device when the second lock release file is judged to be valid.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 15, 2008
    Publication date: April 9, 2009
    Applicant: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Akihide OSHIMA, Eiji SHIMOICHI, Yuriko INAKAWA, Masaki KUROKAWA, Eiji NISHI, Noriyuki TATSUMA, Akira OKAMOTO, Takanari ISHIMURA, Yoshiyuki YODA, Atsuhiro ITOH, Fumio HARADA
  • Publication number: 20090080014
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes: an information storage that stores information; a request accepting section that accepts a predetermined request for the information; a setting section that, for each of the information, sets whether the predetermined request is allowed; a setting storage that stores a setting by the setting section; a determining section that, with respect to the information corresponding to a request accepted by the request accepting section, reads out a corresponding setting from the setting storage, and that determines allowance/non-allowance of the predetermined request; and a process executing section that, in a case where the determining section determines allowance of the predetermined request, executes a process corresponding to the predetermined request on the information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 10, 2008
    Publication date: March 26, 2009
    Applicant: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Masaki KUROKAWA, Eiji SHIMOICHI, Yuriko INAKAWA, Eiji NISHI, Noriyuki TATSUMA, Akira OKAMOTO, Takanari ISHIMURA, Yoshiyuki YODA, Akihide OSHIMA, Atsuhiro ITOH, Fumio HARADA
  • Publication number: 20090077650
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes: a connecting section; an information storage; a request accepting section; a searching section; a setting information storage; a determining section; and a process executing section.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 27, 2008
    Publication date: March 19, 2009
    Applicant: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yoshiyuki YODA, Masaki KUROKAWA, Eiji SHIMOICHI, Yuriko INAKAWA, Eiji NISHI, Noriyuki TATSUMA, Akira OKAMOTO, Takanari ISHIMURA, Akihide OSHIMA, Atsuhiro ITOH, Fumio HARADA
  • Publication number: 20070121127
    Abstract: An image reading apparatus having an automatic original document feeding apparatus that sequentially feeds plural original documents, which includes an original document reading section that reads an original document fed by the automatic original document feeding apparatus, an image data generation section that, on the basis of a reading output from the original document reading section, generates real image data and preview image data corresponding to the original document, and a display that, on the basis of the preview image data generated by the image data generation section, displays a preview image corresponding to the original document.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 5, 2006
    Publication date: May 31, 2007
    Applicant: Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kazuhiko Minowa, Eiji Shimoichi, Kouji Yorimoto, Hideaki Sugimoto
  • Publication number: 20070070397
    Abstract: A scanner which is connected via network or locally connected to a printer for realizing a copying function by outputting a scanned image to the printer as a copy job, the scanner, comprises a menu display that displays an operation menu of the copying function on a display portion; a capability information reception unit that receives capability information from the printer; an available setting item determination unit that determines print setting items relating to the copying function that can be provided, based on the capability information; and a display controller that selectively displays display contents of the operation menu displayed by the menu display, based on the setting items determined by the available setting item determination unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 25, 2006
    Publication date: March 29, 2007
    Applicant: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Eiji Shimoichi
  • Publication number: 20070058194
    Abstract: In a device link system for connecting a first device and a second device through a communication interface, the first device comprises a network connection unit that connects the first device to a network; a web server that delivers a web page describing first device information relating to the first device via the network connection unit; an acquisition unit that acquires second device information relating to the second device from the second device via the communication interface; and a web page processor that generates a page describing the second device information acquired by the acquisition unit and adds the generated page to the web page, and the second device comprises a provision unit that provides the second device information to the first device via the communication interface upon receiving a request for the second device information from the first device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 17, 2006
    Publication date: March 15, 2007
    Applicant: Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Atsuhiro Itoh, Hideaki Sugimoto, Eiji Shimoichi
  • Publication number: 20060215181
    Abstract: An image reader, which is connected to a printer to issue a print instruction to the printer by directly transmitting image data read by the image reader to the printer, comprises a paper feed direction information acquisition unit that acquires paper feed direction information from the printer according to the print instruction; a paper information acquisition unit that acquires paper information containing size and orientation of paper from the printer according to the print instruction; and a display that displays paper state information containing an orientation of paper consistent with the direction in which the paper is discharged by the printer based on the paper feed direction information and the paper information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 9, 2005
    Publication date: September 28, 2006
    Applicant: Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hideaki Sugimoto, Eiji Shimoichi
  • Patent number: 5872899
    Abstract: A ROM stores density conversion tables appropriate for a present apparatus to execute recording and standard density conversion tables. As a command is entered on a control panel, a CPU sets the optimum density conversion table in a RAM and again converts image data of 256 levels of gradation for a density adjustment. Resultant image data undergoes false halftone processing in an error diffusion circuit and is transmitted to the present apparatus or a destination recorder. When the record characteristic of the destination recorder is unknown, the standard density conversion table is used, so that no large difference occurs for recording.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 1996
    Date of Patent: February 16, 1999
    Assignee: Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yasuo Komatsu, Kouji Yorimoto, Eiji Shimoichi, Hajime Sakashita