Patents by Inventor Hideaki Sugimoto

Hideaki Sugimoto 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).

  • Publication number: 20190288962
    Abstract: A message providing device includes a receiving section that receives a registration request for setting information regarding an operation of a software robot program for each user, the software robot program operating on a message service in which a message is transmitted and received between users, to transmit and receive the message to and from a user, a registration section that registers setting information for a first user in association with identification information of the first user, in response to the registration request from the first user, and a control section that performs control such that at least a portion of the registered setting information for the first user is registered as setting information for a second user in association with identification information of the second user, corresponding to transmission and reception of a message between the first user or the second user, and the software robot program.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 4, 2018
    Publication date: September 19, 2019
    Applicant: FUJI XEROX CO.,LTD.
    Inventors: Shigeo MIYATA, Hiroyuki MITSUHASHI, Xiaojing ZHANG, Shiori OIKAWA, Yu MISHIMA, Hideaki SUGIMOTO
  • Patent number: 10097706
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus, includes a transmission unit that transmits information; a first display control unit that controls, when a plurality of recipients to transmit the information are designated, a display unit to display a first list including the plurality of recipients; and a second display control unit that controls the display unit to display recipient-related information related to the recipient included in the first list, in a case where the first list is unable to be fitted within a single screen of the display unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 6, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 9, 2018
    Assignee: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hideaki Sugimoto, Nozomi Noguchi, Shinichi Nakamura, Ayaka Ishihara
  • Patent number: 9965144
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes an image display unit, an arrangement unit, and a marker display unit. The image display unit displays images. Upon acceptance of an instruction to rearrange an image selected from among the images in an arrangement area including one of the images, the arrangement unit rearranges the selected image at a rearrangement position in the arrangement area on the image display unit. The marker display unit displays a marker image between an image at the rearrangement position and an image arranged lower in rank than the image at the rearrangement position when the rearrangement position is lower than the position of the selected image, or displays the marker image between the image at the rearrangement position and an image arranged higher in rank than the image at the rearrangement position when the rearrangement position is higher than the position of the selected image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 8, 2018
    Assignee: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shinichi Nakamura, Nozomi Noguchi, Hideaki Sugimoto
  • Patent number: 9785333
    Abstract: A display device includes a display controller. The display controller performs control such that an image that is being partially displayed is fully displayed without any missing portion on a display screen, when arrangement of plural displayed images is changed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2017
    Assignee: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hideaki Sugimoto, Nozomi Noguchi, Shinichi Nakamura, Tsuyoshi Toda, Takafumi Haruta
  • Publication number: 20170279984
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus, includes a transmission unit that transmits information; a first display control unit that controls, when a plurality of recipients to transmit the information are designated, a display unit to display a first list including the plurality of recipients; and a second display control unit that controls the display unit to display recipient-related information related to the recipient included in the first list, in a case where the first list is unable to be fitted within a single screen of the display unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 6, 2016
    Publication date: September 28, 2017
    Applicant: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hideaki SUGIMOTO, Nozomi NOGUCHI, Shinichi NAKAMURA, Ayaka ISHIHARA
  • Patent number: 9639247
    Abstract: An information processing device includes a first output unit and a second output unit. The first output unit displays a start screen including a first image for giving an instruction for switching to a screen corresponding to a user, and a second image for giving an instruction for switching to an edit screen. If the second image is selected, the second output unit outputs an edit screen including, in the same arrangement as the first image, a third image for switching to a screen for editing the screen corresponding to a user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 2, 2017
    Assignee: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hideaki Sugimoto, Nozomi Noguchi, Shinichi Nakamura
  • Publication number: 20160328123
    Abstract: Provided is a non-transitory computer readable medium storing a program causing a computer to execute a process, the process including receiving an addition instruction operation to instruct addition of a new display element to a screen in which plural display elements are arranged, and displaying, when the addition instruction operation is received, the screen in which the new display element is added in a position adjacent to a predetermined side of a reference display element, the reference display element being a display element which is a reference among the plural display elements.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 28, 2015
    Publication date: November 10, 2016
    Applicant: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Tsuyoshi TODA, Hideaki SUGIMOTO, Takafumi HARUTA, Shinichi NAKAMURA, Nozomi NOGUCHI
  • Publication number: 20160266703
    Abstract: A display device includes a display controller. The display controller performs control such that an image that is being partially displayed is fully displayed without any missing portion on a display screen, when arrangement of plural displayed images is changed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 31, 2015
    Publication date: September 15, 2016
    Applicant: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hideaki SUGIMOTO, Nozomi NOGUCHI, Shinichi NAKAMURA, Tsuyoshi TODA, Takafumi HARUTA
  • Publication number: 20150026633
    Abstract: An information processing device includes a first output unit and a second output unit. The first output unit displays a start screen including a first image for giving an instruction for switching to a screen corresponding to a user, and a second image for giving an instruction for switching to an edit screen. If the second image is selected, the second output unit outputs an edit screen including, in the same arrangement as the first image, a third image for switching to a screen for editing the screen corresponding to a user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 25, 2014
    Publication date: January 22, 2015
    Applicant: FUJI XEROX Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hideaki SUGIMOTO, Nozomi NOGUCHI, Shinichi NAKAMURA
  • Publication number: 20150026639
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes an image display unit, an arrangement unit, and a marker display unit. The image display unit displays images. Upon acceptance of an instruction to rearrange an image selected from among the images in an arrangement area including one of the images, the arrangement unit rearranges the selected image at a rearrangement position in the arrangement area on the image display unit. The marker display unit displays a marker image between an image at the rearrangement position and an image arranged lower in rank than the image at the rearrangement position when the rearrangement position is lower than the position of the selected image, or displays the marker image between the image at the rearrangement position and an image arranged higher in rank than the image at the rearrangement position when the rearrangement position is higher than the position of the selected image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 28, 2014
    Publication date: January 22, 2015
    Applicant: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shinichi NAKAMURA, Nozomi NOGUCHI, Hideaki SUGIMOTO
  • Publication number: 20140362399
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a registration unit and a display. The registration unit registers an address that has been inputted. The display displays, in the case where the number of addresses that have been registered is less than a threshold, a first operation image, the first operation image including a first image for operating the image forming apparatus. The display displays, in the case where the number of addresses that have been registered is not less than the threshold, a second operation image, the second operation image including the address that has been registered and a second image for operating the image forming apparatus, the second image being smaller in display size than the first image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 21, 2013
    Publication date: December 11, 2014
    Applicant: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hideaki SUGIMOTO, Nozomi NOGUCHI, Shinichi NAKAMURA
  • Publication number: 20140286668
    Abstract: An electronic apparatus includes a memory unit that stores procedure information that associates a function with a first procedure in accordance with which the electronic apparatus performs a process corresponding to the function in a standalone fashion, and a second procedure in accordance with which the electronic apparatus performs a process corresponding to the function in cooperation with an external apparatus and a display unit that displays one of an operation screen of the electronic apparatus having at least one operation button and an operation screen of the external apparatus having at least one operation button. The display unit displays the button associated with information related to the first procedure corresponding to the function if the operation screen of the electronic apparatus is displayed, and displays the button associated with information related to the second procedure corresponding to the function if the operation screen of the external apparatus is displayed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 5, 2013
    Publication date: September 25, 2014
    Applicant: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Hideaki SUGIMOTO
  • Patent number: 8300241
    Abstract: An image reading device which performs an original reading processing in a push scan mode in which image data read from an original document is output to an output destination terminal through a network, and which includes a judging unit that judges whether or not the image data can be output to the output destination terminal, and an image reading unit that cancels the original reading operation when it is judged by the judging unit that the output is impossible.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 23, 2006
    Date of Patent: October 30, 2012
    Assignee: Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hideaki Sugimoto, Satoshi Okochi
  • Patent number: 7880907
    Abstract: A printing system including a printing device which has a cancel instruction unit that instructs cancellation of a current job being processed from an operation panel, and an image reading device that describes original image data read from an original in a page description language and sends to the printing device, in which the image reading device describes the read original image data in the page description language and sends it as a copy job to the printing device, obtains a job holding state from the printing device and reserves at least the transmission of the copy job to the printing device until the job held by the printing device runs out when it is judged according to the obtained job holding information that the printing device is in a job holding state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 6, 2005
    Date of Patent: February 1, 2011
    Assignee: Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Hideaki Sugimoto
  • Patent number: 7847963
    Abstract: A printing system in which a print job is generated from original image data which have been read by an image reading apparatus, and the print job is transmitted to a printing apparatus to effect printing, wherein the printing apparatus includes a detecting unit that detects the cancellation of processing of the print job, and a job notifying unit that transmits to the image reading apparatus a job cancellation notification that the print job has been canceled, in correspondence with the detection of the cancellation of processing of the print job, and wherein the image reading apparatus aborts the read processing of the original in correspondence with the reception of the job cancellation notification transmitted from the job notifying unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 2005
    Date of Patent: December 7, 2010
    Assignee: Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Hideaki Sugimoto
  • 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
  • Patent number: 7522297
    Abstract: In print instruction apparatus for giving printing apparatus an instruction as to print conditions required for printing print data, a “Print Instruction” folder 61 having folders of respective items of the print conditions below the “Print Instruction” folder, a “Print Status” folder for confirming the print status, and the print data are displayed on a screen of a display portion of the print instruction apparatus. The “Print Status” folder has a “Finished Print Job” folder, an “Ongoing Print Job” folder and a “Reserved Print Job” folder. When print data is moved or copied to any one of these folders, processing is executed in accordance with the contents of the folder to which the print data is moved or copied, while the respective statuses of ongoing print jobs, reserved print jobs and finished print jobs are displayed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2003
    Date of Patent: April 21, 2009
    Assignee: Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Satoshi Egawa, Hideaki Sugimoto, Hideaki Takayama, Kazunobu Uchiyama, Hiroyuki Watanabe
  • Patent number: D633836
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2002
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2011
    Assignees: Honda Giken Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha, Sankei Giken Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Takashi Ogawa, Takeshi Yamamoto, Takashi Yamanaka, Hideaki Sugimoto, Kazunari Iida