Patents by Inventor Hajime Sugino

Hajime Sugino 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: 8015318
    Abstract: An electronic file processor includes an acquisition unit that acquires, through a communication network, a first electronic file having a first file format and a second electronic file having a second file format which differs from the first file format, by reference to a linkage relationship between the first electronic file and the second electronic file; a conversion unit that converts at least one of the first electronic file and the second electronic file so that the first electronic file and the second electronic file have a same file format; and a generation unit that combines the first electronic file and the second electronic file to generate a combined electronic file.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2008
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2011
    Assignee: Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Fumi Kosaka, Takahiko Shimizu, Mitsuhiro Kajitani, Hajime Sugino, Michiko Muramoto
  • Patent number: 7664290
    Abstract: An image processor for combining a computer-readable coded image into a print image of a document including a document data main body and at least one associated data piece, has a print image generator that generates a print image of a document including an image of at least a part of the associated data, a coded image generator that generates a coded image to be combined into the print image, and a controller that determines whether or not the generated coded image can be combined into the image portion of the associated data by comparing a size of the generated coded image with a size of an image portion of the associated data, and combines the generated coded image into the image portion of the associated data on the generated print image, if it is determined that combining is possible.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2005
    Date of Patent: February 16, 2010
    Assignee: Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Shinichi Yada, Hirofumi Komatsubara, Junichi Matsunoshita, Takeshi Noguchi, Hajime Sugino
  • Patent number: 7630559
    Abstract: An article confirmation method has reading irreproducible fine characteristics from a genuine article, reading irreproducible fine characteristics from an article to be confirmed, comparing the irreproducible fine characteristics between the genuine article and the article to be confirmed, and determining authenticity of the article to be confirmed based on a comparison result.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 2005
    Date of Patent: December 8, 2009
    Assignee: Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kensuke Ito, Tadashi Shimizu, Hajime Sugino
  • Patent number: 7627161
    Abstract: An authenticity determination method and an apparatus for determining the authenticity of solid object having a random and readable intrinsic characteristic distributed on the surface thereof are disclosed. In this method and apparatus, reference data expressing the characteristic distributed on the genuine solid object are acquired, and cross-checking data expressing the characteristic distributed on the solid object to be determined for authenticity are derived.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 28, 2005
    Date of Patent: December 1, 2009
    Assignee: Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Tadashi Shimizu, Hajime Sugino, Kensuke Ito
  • Patent number: 7444036
    Abstract: An image processing device processes a document including a document data body and at least one set of related data, and includes a display that displays an image of the document data body and an image of the related data overlaid on the image of the document data body at overlay positions determined for each set of related data and an image data generator that generates printing image data of the document data body of the overlay position when an instruction to print the document is received, regardless of whether or not the related data is displayed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 16, 2005
    Date of Patent: October 28, 2008
    Assignee: Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Junichi Matsunoshita, Hirofumi Komatsubara, Shinichi Yada, Hajime Sugino, Takeshi Noguchi
  • Publication number: 20080244092
    Abstract: An electronic file processor includes an acquisition unit that acquires, through a communication network, a first electronic file having a first file format and a second electronic file having a second file format which differs from the first file format, by reference to a linkage relationship between the first electronic file and the second electronic file; a conversion unit that converts at least one of the first electronic file and the second electronic file so that the first electronic file and the second electronic file have a same file format; and a generation unit that combines the first electronic file and the second electronic file to generate a combined electronic file.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 26, 2008
    Publication date: October 2, 2008
    Applicant: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Fumi Kosaka, Takahiko Shimizu, Mitsuhiro Kajitani, Hajime Sugino, Michiko Muramoto
  • Publication number: 20070122022
    Abstract: An authenticity determination method and an apparatus for determining the authenticity of solid object having a random and readable intrinsic characteristic distributed on the surface thereof are disclosed. In this method and apparatus, reference data expressing the characteristic distributed on the genuine solid object are acquired, and cross-checking data expressing the characteristic distributed on the solid object to be determined for authenticity are derived.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 28, 2005
    Publication date: May 31, 2007
    Applicant: Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Tadashi Shimizu, Hajime Sugino, Kensuke Ito
  • Publication number: 20070118822
    Abstract: An article confirmation method has reading irreproducible fine characteristics from a genuine article, reading irreproducible fine characteristics from an article to be confirmed, comparing the irreproducible fine characteristics between the genuine article and the article to be confirmed, and determining authenticity of the article to be confirmed based on a comparison result.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 21, 2005
    Publication date: May 24, 2007
    Applicant: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kensuke Ito, Tadashi Shimizu, Hajime Sugino
  • Publication number: 20060017989
    Abstract: An image processing device processes a document including a document data body and at least one set of related data, and includes a display that displays an image of the document data body and an image of the related data overlaid on the image of the document data body at overlay positions determined for each set of related data and an image data generator that generates printing image data of the document data body of the overlay position when an instruction to print the document is received, regardless of whether or not the related data is displayed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 16, 2005
    Publication date: January 26, 2006
    Applicant: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Junichi Matsunoshita, Hirofumi Komatsubara, Shinichi Yada, Hajime Sugino, Takeshi Noguchi
  • Publication number: 20060017949
    Abstract: An image processor for combining a computer-readable coded image into a print image of a document including a document data main body and at least one associated data piece, has a print image generator that generates a print image of a document including an image of at least a part of the associated data, a coded image generator that generates a coded image to be combined into the print image, and a controller that determines whether or not the generated coded image can be combined into the image portion of the associated data by comparing a size of the generated coded image with a size of an image portion of the associated data, and combines the generated coded image into the image portion of the associated data on the generated print image, if it is determined that combining is possible.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 28, 2005
    Publication date: January 26, 2006
    Applicant: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shinichi Yada, Hirofumi Komatsubara, Junichi Matsunoshita, Takeshi Noguchi, Hajime Sugino
  • Patent number: 6948657
    Abstract: The present invention provides a document verification system capable of verifying whether a document is an original at low cost and with ease. A terminal device acquires, as a registered feature vector feature information indicating a feature of a nonreproducible disorder portion in a printing region on a document serving as the original, and stores the registered feature vector on a hard disk via the Internet. A server acquires, as a calculated feature vector the same information as the registered feature vector in a document to be verified as to whether the document is the original, reads out the registered feature vector from the hard disk, compares the acquired calculated feature vector with the read out registered feature vector, and verifies whether the document to be verified is the original on the basis of a result of the comparison.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 9, 2003
    Date of Patent: September 27, 2005
    Assignee: Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hajime Sugino, Kensuke Ito, Tadashi Shimizu
  • Publication number: 20040079800
    Abstract: The present invention provides a document verification system capable of verifying whether a document is an original at low cost and with ease. A terminal device acquires, as a registered feature vector feature information indicating a feature of a nonreproducible disorder portion in a printing region on a document serving as the original, and stores the registered feature vector on a hard disk via the Internet. A server acquires, as a calculated feature vector the same information as the registered feature vector in a document to be verified as to whether the document is the original, reads out the registered feature vector from the hard disk, compares the acquired calculated feature vector with the read out registered feature vector, and verifies whether the document to be verified is the original on the basis of a result of the comparison.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 9, 2003
    Publication date: April 29, 2004
    Applicant: Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hajime Sugino, Kensuke Ito, Tadashi Shimizu
  • Patent number: 6657614
    Abstract: The present invention provides a detection apparatus, an input apparatus, an individual identification apparatus, and a recording medium that utilize information about users' bodies which disables the fraud of impersonating authorized users and is extremely difficult to forge and is obtained without giving the users a sense of inhibitions, without restraining their bodies during use, and independent of their mental states and health. A FIFO memory outputs, as one set of features, a total of 60 voltage values, which are broken down as 20 voltage values sampled every 12.5 ms (80 Hz) before the instant when timing is inputted at the peak position of an amplitude waveform signal generated by one click operation, 39 voltage values sampled every 12.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 18, 2000
    Date of Patent: December 2, 2003
    Assignee: Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kensuke Ito, Kaoru Yasukawa, Hajime Sugino, Tadashi Shimizu, Katsura Sakai
  • Patent number: 6603867
    Abstract: A three-dimensional object identifying system is disclosed which identifies a three-dimensional shape object optically such as a part of a human body for preventing an information apparatus such as a personal computer from being used by any other illegitimate user than a legitimate user. The three-dimensional object identifying system has a function generating unit which generates modulation signals, light emitting elements which emit lights based on the modulation signals to a three-dimensional object, light receiving elements which receive reflected lights from the three-dimensional object and which produce detection signals, a correlation detecting unit which detects correlation information between each detection signal and modulation signal, and an identifying unit which performs identifying processing for the three-dimensional object on the basis of both pre-cataloged correlation information and the detected correlation information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 1999
    Date of Patent: August 5, 2003
    Assignee: Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hajime Sugino, Kensuke Ito, Tadashi Shimizu, Kaoru Yasukawa, Katsura Sakai
  • Patent number: 5515181
    Abstract: An image reading apparatus for obtaining a digital image having gradation of binary-level or multi level in a computer, a word processor, a digital copying machine, or like apparatus. The image reading apparatus includes an imaging device, an optical unit located for exposing the imaging device and capable of moving in two directions perpendicular to each other, a reading operation control unit for controlling a first reading operation in which whole information of the original image is read, and a second reading operation in which division image information in division areas of the original image is read, a resolution setting unit for setting a resolution in the second reading operation, and a data processing unit for connecting a plurality of division image information sets which are read in a plural number of times of the second reading operations, as a front view image information on the original image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 1993
    Date of Patent: May 7, 1996
    Assignee: Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Tetsuo Iyoda, Naosuke Ino, Hajime Sugino, Kazuhisa Ando
  • Patent number: 5489993
    Abstract: An original image reading device having a plurality of light receiving elements for receiving light reflected from an original document, which are formed on a substrate, and for outputing image data signals. Two light receiving elements arrays are formed on a transparent substrate in association with two optical systems. The first light receiving elements array receives light coming through the upper surface of the transparent substrate. The second light receiving elements array receives light coming through the lower surface of the transparent substrate. With such a construction, the image at a location on an original document can be read with the two optical systems. Further, the construction can realize color original image reading device, high resolution, and different focal depths.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 5, 1994
    Date of Patent: February 6, 1996
    Assignee: Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hisao Ito, Hajime Sugino
  • Patent number: 5440406
    Abstract: An image processing device rearranges image signal output in a different order from a spatial order of photosensitive elements to be in the order of the photosensitive elements. A logical value output of a flip-flop is switched each time a line start signal is input. As a third selector switch is connected to the flip-flop, it is also switched following this behavior, by which region or lower half region of a whole memory region of a RAM for pixel data values is specified each time a pulse is output from a line start signal generator. While the image pixel data values for one line are being written in a half region of the whole memory region of the RAM, the pixel data values for the previous line are read from the other half region of the memory region in accordance with an order predetermined by counted value conversion circuitry.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 14, 1994
    Date of Patent: August 8, 1995
    Assignee: Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Hajime Sugino
  • Patent number: 5070421
    Abstract: A magnetic disk system comprises: a magnetic disk in which servo information is stored deeply in the appropriate fields Es longitudinally separated from the data field ED into which information of each track is stored; a subhead provided at a position ahead of the main head in a direction of data writing through the main head, the subhead being in a unitary construction with the main head and having a wider gap than the main head; a tracking control means for controlling the position of the main head relative to the desired track on the basis of the servo information SD that is read by means of the subhead for erasing information at the data field ED by means of the subhead prior to data writing by the main head in the data field ED; and a switch means for shifting the switch to tracking control means or to information erasing means.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 6, 1991
    Date of Patent: December 3, 1991
    Assignee: Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kazuhiko Sumiya, Hajime Sugino