Patents by Inventor Hideki Nogawa

Hideki Nogawa 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: 20180129538
    Abstract: An electronic apparatus performs: acquiring an input file name from a removable memory connected to an interface; determining whether the input file name includes a first character string and whether the input file name includes a second character string; when the input file name includes the first character string, changing current setting information into specified setting information, the current setting information being among a plurality of setting information stored in the internal memory and corresponding to a first setting item specified by first input information, the specified setting information being included in the first input information and corresponding to the first setting item; and when the input file name includes the second character string, acquiring current setting information corresponding to a second setting item specified by second input information; and storing, in the removable memory, a file including output information indicating the acquired current setting information, as an out
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 24, 2017
    Publication date: May 10, 2018
    Inventors: Tetsuya OKUNO, Katsunori ENOMOTO, Fumitake TAJIRI, Yoshihiro ITOGAWA, Sho OGURA, Hideki NOGAWA
  • Publication number: 20180091628
    Abstract: A communication apparatus may cause a display to display a first inquiry message in a case where an apparatus search signal is received from an external apparatus, the apparatus search signal being for searching a target apparatus which is to establish a wireless connection with the external apparatus, and the first inquiry message being for inquiring a user whether a particular wireless connection is to be established between the communication apparatus and the external apparatus. The communication apparatus may establish the particular wireless connection between the communication apparatus and the external apparatus in a case where it is selected by the user, in response to the first inquiry message, that the particular wireless connection is to be established.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 27, 2017
    Publication date: March 29, 2018
    Inventor: Hideki Nogawa
  • Patent number: 9848062
    Abstract: A communication apparatus may cause a display to display a first inquiry message in a case where an apparatus search signal is received from an external apparatus, the apparatus search signal being for searching a target apparatus which is to establish a wireless connection with the external apparatus, and the first inquiry message being for inquiring a user whether a particular wireless connection is to be established between the communication apparatus and the external apparatus. The communication apparatus may establish the particular wireless connection between the communication apparatus and the external apparatus in a case where it is selected by the user, in response to the first inquiry message, that the particular wireless connection is to be established.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 2, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 19, 2017
    Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Hideki Nogawa
  • Patent number: 9781765
    Abstract: A first communication apparatus may comprise a memory configured to store a wireless profile being used in a first wireless network in a case where the first communication apparatus operates as a child station of the first wireless network. The first communication apparatus may determine, after the first wireless network in which each of the first communication apparatus and a second communication apparatus operates as a child station and a third communication apparatus operates as a parent station has been formed, whether a wireless connection between the first and third communication apparatuses is disconnected, and form a second wireless network in which the wireless profile is used in a case where it is determined that the wireless connection is disconnected, the second wireless network being a network in which the first communication apparatus operates as a parent station and the second communication apparatus operates as a child station.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 24, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2017
    Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Hideki Nogawa
  • Publication number: 20170265244
    Abstract: A communication apparatus may perform: establishing a first wireless connection with the external apparatus while a wireless interface is operating in a capable state; attempting a predetermined process including a receiving process and an establishing process in a case where the first wireless connection is established, the receiving process being for receiving setting information from the external apparatus, and the establishing process being for establishing a second wireless connection with an access point; controlling wireless interface to: in a case where the second wireless connection is established, operate in an incapable state, and in a case where the second wireless connection is not established, operate in the capable state, in a case where the second wireless connection is not established; re-establishing the first wireless connection with the external apparatus; and re-attempting the predetermined process.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 10, 2017
    Publication date: September 14, 2017
    Inventor: Hideki Nogawa
  • Patent number: 9674379
    Abstract: A relay apparatus to be connected through a network to a server apparatus configured to store image data and a communication apparatus configured to acquire the image data from the server and output an image based on the acquired image data, the relay apparatus includes: a first receiving unit configured to receive a request for acquiring location information from the communication apparatus; an acquiring unit configured to acquire the location information for acquiring the image data from the server apparatus upon receipt of the request; and a transmitting unit configured to transmit the acquired location information to the communication apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 2011
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2017
    Assignee: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Hideki Nogawa, Masafumi Miyazawa, Yusuke Shimada, Takeshi Nagasaki, Satoshi Watanabe, Katsuaki Ito, Hirokazu Banno, Kazutaka Yamamoto
  • Patent number: 9535639
    Abstract: A communication apparatus includes a display, a processor and a memory storing instructions which, when executed by the processor, cause the communication apparatus to perform receiving a first request for acquiring acquisition target information included in the communication apparatus, determining whether the first request is received from a server apparatus outside of a local area network or a terminal apparatus belonging to the local area network, displaying a transmission selection screen for receiving a user's selection when the first request is determined to be received from the server apparatus, transmitting the acquisition target information to the server apparatus in response to receiving the user's selection to transmit the acquisition target information through the transmission selection screen, and transmitting the acquisition target information to the terminal apparatus when the first request is determined to be received from the terminal apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2017
    Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Hideki Nogawa
  • Publication number: 20160295567
    Abstract: A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium may store computer-readable instructions for a communication device, wherein the computer-readable instructions, when executed by a processor of the communication device, cause the communication device to perform: accepting a setting operation performed; establishing a communication session with a first device without accepting a further operation; sending the plurality of setting values to the first device by using the communication session with the first device; disconnecting the communication session with the first device after the plurality of setting values has been sent to the first device; establishing a communication session with a second device without accepting a further operation; sending the plurality of setting values to the second device by using the communication session with the second device; and disconnecting the communication session with the second device after the plurality of the setting values has been sent to the second device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 24, 2016
    Publication date: October 6, 2016
    Inventor: Hideki NOGAWA
  • Publication number: 20160224288
    Abstract: A communication apparatus includes a display, a processor and a memory storing instructions which, when executed by the processor, cause the communication apparatus to perform receiving a first request for acquiring acquisition target information included in the communication apparatus, determining whether the first request is received from a server apparatus outside of a local area network or a terminal apparatus belonging to the local area network, displaying a transmission selection screen for receiving a user's selection when the first request is determined to be received from the server apparatus, transmitting the acquisition target information to the server apparatus in response to receiving the user's selection to transmit the acquisition target information through the transmission selection screen, and transmitting the acquisition target information to the terminal apparatus when the first request is determined to be received from the terminal apparatus.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 28, 2016
    Publication date: August 4, 2016
    Inventor: Hideki NOGAWA
  • Publication number: 20160192429
    Abstract: A first communication apparatus may comprise a memory configured to store a wireless profile being used in a first wireless network in a case where the first communication apparatus operates as a child station of the first wireless network. The first communication apparatus may determine, after the first wireless network in which each of the first communication apparatus and a second communication apparatus operates as a child station and a third communication apparatus operates as a parent station has been formed, whether a wireless connection between the first and third communication apparatuses is disconnected, and form a second wireless network in which the wireless profile is used in a case where it is determined that the wireless connection is disconnected, the second wireless network being a network in which the first communication apparatus operates as a parent station and the second communication apparatus operates as a child station.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 24, 2015
    Publication date: June 30, 2016
    Inventor: Hideki Nogawa
  • Patent number: 9338818
    Abstract: A wireless communication apparatus may operate selectively as a master station or as a remote station in a wireless network. When the apparatus operates as the master station, the apparatus may manage one or more remote devices that operate as remote stations. The apparatus continues operating as the master station until a continuation period elapses when the number of remote devices to be managed is zero. The continuation period begins when the number of remote devices becomes zero. If the number of remote devices becomes one or more before the continuation period elapses, the apparatus continues operating as the master station, even after a lapse of the continuation period. If the number of remote devices remains zero until the continuation period elapses, the apparatus stops operating as the master station after the lapse of the continuation period.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 1, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2016
    Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Hideki Nogawa
  • Patent number: 9307574
    Abstract: There is provided a wireless communication system including a first wireless communication apparatus and a second wireless communication apparatus. In a specific case, the first wireless communication apparatus changes a state from a first state of being a master station of a first wireless network to a second state of being a slave station of a second wireless network in which the second wireless communication apparatus is a master station, and transmits target data to the second wireless communication apparatus using the second wireless network in which the first wireless communication apparatus is the slave station and the second wireless communication apparatus is the master station. The second wireless communication apparatus receives the target data from the first wireless communication apparatus using the second wireless network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 7, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2016
    Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Hideki Nogawa
  • Publication number: 20160066359
    Abstract: A communication apparatus may cause a display to display a first inquiry message in a case where an apparatus search signal is received from an external apparatus, the apparatus search signal being for searching a target apparatus which is to establish a wireless connection with the external apparatus, and the first inquiry message being for inquiring a user whether a particular wireless connection is to be established between the communication apparatus and the external apparatus. The communication apparatus may establish the particular wireless connection between the communication apparatus and the external apparatus in a case where it is selected by the user, in response to the first inquiry message, that the particular wireless connection is to be established.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 2, 2015
    Publication date: March 3, 2016
    Inventor: Hideki Nogawa
  • Patent number: 9143939
    Abstract: A controlling device may acquire setting information regarding a wireless setting for a wireless communication currently being set in a wireless communication device. The controlling device may determine, using the setting information, whether the wireless setting indicates a first authentication method in which an authentication is performed by an authentication server or a second authentication method in which an authentication is performed by a device with which the wireless communication performing unit performs a wireless communication directly. The controlling device may provide a first screen to a displaying unit in a first case where a determination is made that the wireless setting indicates the first authentication method. The controlling device may provide a second screen which is different from the first screen to the displaying unit in a second case where a determination is made that the wireless setting indicates the second authentication method.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 14, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 22, 2015
    Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Takeshi Nagasaki, Hideki Nogawa
  • Publication number: 20150250012
    Abstract: A wireless communication apparatus may perform receiving, from a terminal device, a signal for forming a specific wireless network including the wireless communication apparatus and the terminal device. The wireless communication apparatus may perform determining whether the related information is related to a first frequency band. The wireless communication apparatus may perform determining, by comparing the terminal index value and an apparatus index value being set in advance in the wireless communication apparatus, whether the terminal device is more likely to become a parent station than the wireless communication apparatus. The wireless communication apparatus may perform forming a second wireless network in which a second frequency band is to be used, in a case where it is determined that the related information is related to the first frequency band and it is determined that the terminal device is more likely to become the parent station than the wireless communication apparatus.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 27, 2015
    Publication date: September 3, 2015
    Inventors: Hiroshi Shibata, Hideki Nogawa
  • Patent number: 9106308
    Abstract: A wireless communication device may obtain, from each of one or more access points, access point information including network identification information corresponding to the access point. The wireless communication device may determine, in a case where specific network identification information corresponding to a specific access point is selected by a user from among one or more network identification information, whether specific access point information obtained from the specific access point includes support information indicating that the specific access point is supporting an automatic wireless setting mode. The wireless communication device may perform a wireless setting in accordance with the automatic wireless setting mode in a first case where a determination is made that the specific access point information includes the support information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 9, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 11, 2015
    Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Hideki Nogawa
  • Patent number: 9071706
    Abstract: An image reading device allows an image transmission destination terminal to be designated from a console. The communication unit of the image reading device receives verification data from terminals via a network. The storage unit stores each of the received verification data in association with the terminal which had transmitted the verification data. The user inputs authentication data to the console after setting the document in place. When the authentication data is input, a list of terminals associated with the verification data matching the authentication data is displayed. The user may select from the displayed list, via the console, the transmission destination terminal to which the image is to be transmitted. When the user selects the transmission destination terminal, the reading control unit reads out an image and transmits the image to the selected terminal. The number of terminals displayed as candidates for the image transmission destination can be limited.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 2008
    Date of Patent: June 30, 2015
    Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Hideki Nogawa
  • Patent number: 8976771
    Abstract: A wireless communication device communicable with a first type and a second type of networks based on a first type and a second type wireless setting data respectively, includes: an obtaining section obtaining an identifier of an access point when a detection section detects the disconnection with the second type network through a certain access point; and a trial section trying to connect with the second type network through the certain access point if at least one second type wireless setting data stored in the second storage includes the obtained identifier, and the trial section trying to connect with the first type network through the certain access point any of the second type wireless setting data stored in the second storage does not includes the obtained identifier but the first type wireless setting data stored in the first storage includes the obtained identifier.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 10, 2015
    Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Hideki Nogawa
  • Publication number: 20140342765
    Abstract: A wireless communication apparatus may operate selectively as a master station or as a remote station in a wireless network. When the apparatus operates as the master station, the apparatus may manage one or more remote devices that operate as remote stations. The apparatus continues operating as the master station until a continuation period elapses when the number of remote devices to be managed is zero. The continuation period begins when the number of remote devices becomes zero. If the number of remote devices becomes one or more before the continuation period elapses, the apparatus continues operating as the master station, even after a lapse of the continuation period. If the number of remote devices remains zero until the continuation period elapses, the apparatus stops operating as the master station after the lapse of the continuation period.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 1, 2014
    Publication date: November 20, 2014
    Applicant: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Hideki NOGAWA
  • Patent number: 8892030
    Abstract: A wireless communication apparatus may operate selectively as a master station or as a remote station in a wireless network. When the apparatus operates as the master station, the apparatus may manage one or more remote devices that operate as remote stations. The apparatus continues operating as the master station until a continuation period elapses when the number of remote devices to be managed is zero. The continuation period begins when the number of remote devices becomes zero. If the number of remote devices becomes one or more before the continuation period elapses, the apparatus continues operating as the master station, even after a lapse of the continuation period. If the number of remote devices remains zero until the continuation period elapses, the apparatus stops operating as the master station after the lapse of the continuation period.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 18, 2014
    Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Hideki Nogawa