Patents by Inventor Fumiyoshi Kittaka

Fumiyoshi Kittaka 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: 10965823
    Abstract: An information processing system includes a first display control unit and a second display control unit. The first display control unit displays, on a display unit, a button on which a setting value of a program is displayed. The second display control unit starts up the program when the button is pressed and, in accordance with the started program, displays, on the display unit, a setting screen that corresponds to the button being pressed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 30, 2021
    Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Makoto Sasaki, Tadashi Sato, Fumiyoshi Kittaka
  • Publication number: 20190297202
    Abstract: An information processing system includes a first display control unit and a second display control unit. The first display control unit displays, on a display unit, a button on which a setting value of a program is displayed. The second display control unit starts up the program when the button is pressed and, in accordance with the started program, displays, on the display unit, a setting screen that corresponds to the button being pressed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 11, 2019
    Publication date: September 26, 2019
    Inventors: Makoto SASAKI, Tadashi Sato, Fumiyoshi Kittaka
  • Patent number: 10375256
    Abstract: An information processing system includes a first display control unit and a second display control unit. The first display control unit displays, on a display unit, a button on which a setting value of a program is displayed. The second display control unit starts up the program when the button is pressed and, in accordance with the started program, displays, on the display unit, a setting screen that corresponds to the button being pressed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 18, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2019
    Assignee: RICOH COMPANY, LTD.
    Inventors: Makoto Sasaki, Tadashi Sato, Fumiyoshi Kittaka
  • Patent number: 10142498
    Abstract: An image forming system includes one or more image forming apparatuses and an information processing apparatus connected to the one or more image forming apparatuses through a network. The information processing apparatus includes circuitry that registers an image forming job that is received from one of the image forming apparatuses in association with information on a user who has authority to execute the image forming job, acquires information on a location of the user, determines whether or not the user is located at a first area based on the information on the location of the first user to generate a first determination result, and determines an operation to be performed on the image forming job based on the first determination result.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 27, 2018
    Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Koichiro Maemura, Tomohiro Kuroyanagi, Hiroyuki Sakuyama, Fumiyoshi Kittaka, Tohru Sasaki, Makoto Sasaki, Atsushi Okazato, Junki Aoki, Takuya Mori
  • Patent number: 10129433
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a provider identification information acquiring unit that acquires a piece of provider identification information for each of a plurality of devices that cooperatively execute a plurality of functions, based on device identification information of the device, the piece of provider identification information allowing identification of whether a provider of the device is a predetermined provider as a provider of a cooperating function; a determining unit that determines whether a non predetermined-provider device provided by a provider other than the predetermined provider exists among the devices based on pieces of the provider identification information; a charge processing unit that performs charge processing to profit the predetermined provider when the non predetermined-provider device exists; and a cooperation controlling unit that controls the devices to cooperatively execute the functions based on the cooperating function.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 13, 2018
    Assignee: RICOH COMPANY, LIMITED
    Inventors: Takuya Mori, Junki Aoki, Yukinori Ishii, Atsushi Okazato, Fumiyoshi Kittaka, Tomohiro Kuroyanagi, Hiroyuki Sakuyama, Tohru Sasaki, Makoto Sasaki, Koichiro Maemura
  • Patent number: 10116640
    Abstract: An image processing system includes: a first image processing device including: an input unit that receives an input of first authentication information for authenticating a user based on a first authentication method; an authentication unit that performs authentication on an own device by using the first authentication information; and a cooperating unit that uses a function of one or more second image processing devices. The authentication unit transmits, when the cooperating unit is to be operated, the first authentication information to the one or more second image processing devices, and transmits, when authentication to a second image processing device based on the first authentication information has failed, a transmission request of authentication method information indicating a second authentication method of the second image processing device to the second image processing device, the authentication to which based on the first authentication information has failed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 30, 2018
    Assignee: RICOH COMPANY, LIMITED
    Inventors: Makoto Sasaki, Junki Aoki, Takuya Mori, Itaru Kodaira, Yukinori Ishii, Hiroaki Ikkanzaka, Tomohiro Kuroyanagi, Fumiyoshi Kittaka, Koichiro Maemura
  • Patent number: 9985948
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes: a communicating unit which communicates with a portable terminal device and an external device; a storage control unit which controls to store transfer destination information of the external device to which information from the portable terminal device is allowed to be transferred in a storage unit; a determining unit which determines whether a request from the portable terminal device is the request to the external device indicated by the transfer destination information stored in the storage unit; and a communication control unit which controls the communicating unit to transfer the request from the portable terminal device to the external device indicated by the transfer destination information when the determining unit determines that the request is the request to the external device indicated by the transfer destination information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 8, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 29, 2018
    Assignee: Ricoh Company, Limited
    Inventors: Tomohiro Kuroyanagi, Makoto Sasaki, Junki Aoki, Takuya Mori, Itaru Kodaira, Yukinori Ishii, Hiroaki Ikkanzaka, Fumiyoshi Kittaka, Masaki Tasaka, Koichiro Maemura, Hiroyuki Sakuyama, Tohru Sasaki, Atsushi Okazato
  • Patent number: 9906658
    Abstract: An image processing system includes an image scanner that scans an image on a document into image data, a destination accepting unit that accepts selection of a destination that the image data is transferred by a first user, the destination at least corresponding to a user other than the first user selecting the destination, a blank page detector that detects a blank page in the image data, an image data processor that removes the detected blank page from the image data to generate blank page removed data and blank page data of the detected blank page, a specification unit that specifies a first destination of the first user, and a transmitter that transfers the blank page removed data to the destination corresponding to the user other than the first user and transfers the blank page removed data and the blank page data to the first destination of the first user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 20, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2018
    Assignee: RICOH COMPANY, LTD.
    Inventors: Fumiyoshi Kittaka, Junki Aoki, Takuya Mori, Itaru Kodaira, Yukinori Ishii, Tomohiro Kuroyanagi, Koichiro Maemura, Masaki Tasaka
  • Patent number: 9891868
    Abstract: A charging processing system includes: a receiving unit configured to receive a request to execute a first function which a first device has, from a second device that does not have the first function; a function executing unit configured to execute the first function; and a charging processing unit configured to perform charging processing such that an amount of charge for execution of the first function is larger as there is a larger difference between a performance with regard to the first function and a performance of the second device or a performance with regard to a second function which has a lower performance than the first function and which the second device does not have.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2018
    Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Yukinori Ishii, Makoto Sasaki, Junki Aoki, Takuya Mori, Itaru Kodaira, Hiroaki Ikkanzaka, Tomohiro Kuroyanagi, Fumiyoshi Kittaka, Koichiro Maemura
  • Publication number: 20170346965
    Abstract: An information processing system includes a first display control unit and a second display control unit. The first display control unit displays, on a display unit, a button on which a setting value of a program is displayed. The second display control unit starts up the program when the button is pressed and, in accordance with the started program, displays, on the display unit, a setting screen that corresponds to the button being pressed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 18, 2017
    Publication date: November 30, 2017
    Inventors: Makoto SASAKI, Tadashi SATO, Fumiyoshi KITTAKA
  • Patent number: 9774751
    Abstract: An information processing system includes a first display control unit and a second display control unit. The first display control unit displays, on a display unit, a button on which a setting value of a program is displayed. The second display control unit starts up the program when the button is pressed and, in accordance with the started program, displays, on the display unit, a setting screen that corresponds to the button being pressed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 26, 2017
    Assignee: RICOH COMPANY, LTD.
    Inventors: Makoto Sasaki, Tadashi Sato, Fumiyoshi Kittaka
  • Patent number: 9760330
    Abstract: An information processing device includes: an identification information acquiring unit that acquires, from a mobile terminal having acquired, from a machine, first machine identification information for identifying the machine, mobile terminal identification information for identifying the mobile terminal and the first machine identification information; a job information acquiring unit that acquires, on a basis of the mobile terminal identification information, job information including at least job identification information for identifying a job being executed in another machine according to an instruction from the mobile terminal; an executability determining unit that determines, on a basis of used function information indicating a function to be used in the job, and first capacity information indicating a function executable by the machine, whether the machine can execute the job; and a job control unit that causes, when the job can be executed, the job to be distributed to and executed by the machine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 7, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2017
    Assignee: Ricoh Company, Limited
    Inventors: Tomohiro Kuroyanagi, Makoto Sasaki, Junki Aoki, Takuya Mori, Itaru Kodaira, Yukinori Ishii, Hiroaki Ikkanzaka, Fumiyoshi Kittaka, Koichiro Maemura
  • Patent number: 9712694
    Abstract: An operation unit in a child device causes a main unit in the child device to execute a stand-alone job, and causes the main unit and a server device to execute a cooperating job. The main unit executes the stand-alone job every time it is requested, and generates and manages a stand-alone job log including stand-alone job log identification information. The server device controls the execution of stand-alone jobs included in the cooperating job based on a request for executing the cooperating job, and manages cooperating job identification information associated with the stand-alone job log identification information of the stand-alone jobs included in the cooperating job. The server device acquires the stand-alone job logs from the main unit and extracts the stand-alone job logs including the stand-alone job log identification information associated with the cooperating job identification information, to generate a cooperating job log corresponding to the cooperating job.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2017
    Assignee: RICOH COMPANY, LIMITED
    Inventors: Tohru Sasaki, Hirohisa Saitoh, Mie Watanabe, Shunsuke Watanabe, Yuka Konno, Takashi Toriumi, Yasunori Tsukioka, Katsumi Tanaka, Hiroyuki Sakuyama, Atsushi Okazato, Koichiro Maemura, Yukinori Ishii, Tomohiro Kuroyanagi, Fumiyoshi Kittaka, Makoto Sasaki, Junki Aoki, Takuya Mori
  • Patent number: 9692917
    Abstract: An operating information storing system includes a master apparatus and multiple slave apparatuses. The master apparatus and each slave apparatus respectively include a first processor. The master apparatus includes a nonvolatile memory, the first processor that acquires operating information generated by each slave apparatus, stores the acquired operating information, and determines if at least one operating information indicates specific operating information, and a first transmitter. Each slave apparatus includes a volatile memory, a second processor to store generated operating information in the volatile memory sequentially, and a second transmitter that transfers the operating information stored in the volatile memory to the master apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2017
    Assignee: Ricoh Company Ltd.
    Inventors: Atsushi Okazato, Hirohisa Saitoh, Mie Watanabe, Shunsuke Watanabe, Yuka Konno, Takashi Toriumi, Yasunori Tsukioka, Hiroyuki Sakuyama, Tohru Sasaki, Katsumi Tanaka, Koichiro Maemura, Yukinori Ishii, Tomohiro Kuroyanagi, Fumiyoshi Kittaka, Makoto Sasaki, Junki Aoki, Takuya Mori
  • Patent number: 9692916
    Abstract: An information processing device include a facsimile obtaining unit obtaining a facsimile; a specifying unit that specifies a subsidiary unit as a transfer target of the facsimile; an executable notification method information obtaining unit obtaining executable notification method information indicating a facsimile reception notification method that can be executed in the subsidiary unit; a notification priority information obtaining unit obtaining notification priority information in which priority information is associated for each piece of notification method information indicating a facsimile reception notification method; a determining unit determining a facsimile reception notification method to execute based on the executable notification method information and the notification priority information; a notification method information notifier notifying the subsidiary unit of notification method information indicating the determined facsimile reception notification method; and a print instructor instruc
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 18, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2017
    Assignee: RICOH COMPANY, LIMITED
    Inventors: Junki Aoki, Makoto Sasaki, Takuya Mori, Itaru Kodaira, Yukinori Ishii, Hiroaki Ikkanzaka, Tomohiro Kuroyanagi, Fumiyoshi Kittaka, Koichiro Maemura
  • Patent number: 9621748
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus is disclosed. The information processing apparatus includes a display unit which displays a screen in which is performed an operation for controlling another apparatus; and a control unit which manages an error occurring in the other apparatus and controls displaying/non-displaying of error information which indicates an occurrence of the error, wherein the control unit controls the displaying/non-displaying of the error information based on a relationship between the error occurring and the screen displayed by the display unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2017
    Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Fumiyoshi Kittaka, Tadashi Nagata
  • Publication number: 20170075635
    Abstract: An image forming system includes one or more image forming apparatuses and an information processing apparatus connected to the one or more image forming apparatuses through a network. The information processing apparatus includes circuitry that registers an image forming job that is received from one of the image forming apparatuses in association with information on a user who has authority to execute the image forming job, acquires information on a location of the user, determines whether or not the user is located at a first area based on the information on the location of the first user to generate a first determination result, and determines an operation to be performed on the image forming job based on the first determination result.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 29, 2016
    Publication date: March 16, 2017
    Applicant: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Koichiro MAEMURA, Tomohiro KUROYANAGI, Hiroyuki SAKUYAMA, Fumiyoshi KITTAKA, Tohru SASAKI, Makoto SASAKI, Atsushi OKAZATO, Junki AOKI, Takuya MORI
  • Publication number: 20170017442
    Abstract: A charging processing system includes: a receiving unit configured to receive a request to execute a first function which a first device has, from a second device that does not have the first function; a function executing unit configured to execute the first function; and a charging processing unit configured to perform charging processing such that an amount of charge for execution of the first function is larger as there is a larger difference between a performance with regard to the first function and a performance of the second device or a performance with regard to a second function which has a lower performance than the first function and which the second device does not have.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 13, 2016
    Publication date: January 19, 2017
    Applicant: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Yukinori ISHII, Makoto SASAKI, Junki AOKI, Takuya MORI, ltaru KODAIRA, Hiroaki IKKANZAKA, Tomohiro KUROYANAGI, Fumiyoshi KITTAKA, Koichiro MAEMURA
  • Publication number: 20170019550
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes circuitry that receives multiple output commands from one or more inputting image processing apparatuses, each command instructing to output image data through an outputting information processing apparatus, acquires a status of the outputting image processing apparatus, determines priorities of the multiple output commands to be transferred to the outputting image processing apparatus based on the acquired status of the outputting image processing apparatus, and modifies an order of processing the output commands in accordance with the determined priorities of the output commands.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 5, 2016
    Publication date: January 19, 2017
    Inventors: Makoto SASAKI, Tomohiro KUROYANAGI, Hiroyuki SAKUYAMA, Koichiro MAEMURA, Fumiyoshi KITTAKA, Tohru SASAKI, Atsushi OKAZATO, Junki AOKI, Takuya MORI
  • Patent number: 9471261
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes a screen information storage part to store, on a user basis, the screen information of an operating screen containing a shortcut for calling an application; a shortcut creating part to, in response to receiving a request for a job of the application, create a job shortcut for executing the job based on the information of the requested job, and make a request for updating the screen information of a user having requested the job; a screen management part to, in response to receiving the screen information updating request, add information of the created job shortcut to the screen information of the user; a user management part to authenticate and manage the user; a screen creating part to create the operating screen containing the job shortcut based on the screen information of the managed user; and a display part to display the created operating screen.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2016
    Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventor: Fumiyoshi Kittaka