Patents by Inventor Hidetaka Iwai

Hidetaka Iwai 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: 11419797
    Abstract: Methods for producing a composition containing a hardly water-soluble aromatic compound are described which involve Step (1), including Step (1-1) for preparing a material comprising: (A) a hardly water-soluble aromatic compound, (B) a polyol, and (C) an aqueous medium, where a content of the (A) hardly water-soluble aromatic compound in the material for heating is below a saturation solubility of the (A) hardly water-soluble aromatic compound in a solvent having the same composition at 25° C. The obtained solution is then heated in Step (1-2) at normal pressure at a temperature of less than 100° C., to obtain a hardly water-soluble aromatic compound solution 1. Step (2) includes adding water to the hardly water-soluble aromatic compound solution 1 such that the resulting hardly water-soluble aromatic compound solution 2 has a concentration of the (A) hardly water-soluble aromatic compound above a saturation solubility at 25° C.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2022
    Assignee: KAO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takashi Suzuki, Tetsuya Abe, Rui Takahashi, Koji Endo, Toyoki Hagura, Hidetaka Iwai, Teruo Horizumi, Taisuke Aosaki, Akihiro Uda, Masato Nakamichi
  • Patent number: 11167949
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus that assists classification of printed sheets of documents of print jobs includes: a correspondence table showing correspondence between sticky note attributes and keywords; and a hardware processor. The attributes represent appearance features of sticky notes to be attached to edges of the sheets so as to protrude from the edges. The keywords are extracted from the documents and denote topics of the documents. In response to execution request of a new print job, the hardware processor extracts a keyword from a document of the new job, judges whether the extracted keyword partially matches any keyword in the correspondence table, and when judging positively, creates a new sticky note attribute partially having an appearance feature represented by the sticky note attribute corresponding to the partially matching keyword in the correspondence table, and adds the new sticky note attribute to the correspondence table together with the extracted keyword.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 19, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 9, 2021
    Assignee: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.
    Inventor: Hidetaka Iwai
  • Publication number: 20210059909
    Abstract: To provide a new method for producing a composition containing a hardly water-soluble aromatic compound, the composition having outstanding hardly water-soluble aromatic compound. A method for producing a composition containing a hardly water-soluble aromatic compound, comprising: Step (1) of obtaining a hardly water-soluble aromatic compound solution Step (1) comprising Step (1-1) of preparing a material for heating comprising (A) a hardly water-soluble aromatic compound, (B) a polyol, and (C) an aqueous medium, and Step (1-2) of obtaining a heated solution containing a hardly water-soluble aromatic compound by heating the material for heating at normal pressure at a temperature of less than 100° C.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 27, 2018
    Publication date: March 4, 2021
    Applicant: KAO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takashi SUZUKI, Tetsuya ABE, Rui TAKAHASHI, Koji ENDO, Toyoki HAGURA, Hidetaka IWAI, Teruo HORIZUMI, Taisuke AOSAKI, Akihiro UDA, Masato NAKAMICHI
  • Patent number: 10871928
    Abstract: An information terminal includes: a communication unit; and a control unit configured to control the communication unit, wherein the control unit is configured to establish a communication channel with another terminal by using the communication unit, and the communication unit is configured to receive device information containing an address of an image processing device positioned on the periphery of the another terminal, and transmit the device information of the image processing device positioned on the periphery of the another terminal to an image processing device positioned on the periphery of the information terminal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 15, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 22, 2020
    Assignee: Konica Minolta, Inc.
    Inventors: Toshihiko Otake, Kazumi Sawayanagi, Hisashi Uchida, Hidetaka Iwai, Yosuke Taniguchi, Toshikazu Kawaguchi, Hideaki Soejima
  • Patent number: 10791228
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes: an image processing part; a storage part including a nonvolatile region that stores data in a nonvolatile manner; and a hardware processor that controls the image processing part, wherein the nonvolatile region includes a plurality of storage regions, the storage part stores setting information indicating whether each of the plurality of storage regions is a target of malicious code detection processing, and the hardware processor performs the malicious code detection processing only on a storage region that is the target of the malicious code detection processing based on the setting information among the plurality of storage regions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 29, 2020
    Assignee: Konica Minolta, Inc.
    Inventors: Atsushi Tamura, Yuji Okamoto, Hidetaka Iwai, Takehisa Yamaguchi, Nobuhiro Mishima, Katsuyuki Sugita
  • Publication number: 20200270092
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus that assists classification of printed sheets of documents of print jobs includes: a correspondence table showing correspondence between sticky note attributes and keywords; and a hardware processor. The attributes represent appearance features of sticky notes to be attached to edges of the sheets so as to protrude from the edges. The keywords are extracted from the documents and denote topics of the documents. In response to execution request of a new print job, the hardware processor extracts a keyword from a document of the new job, judges whether the extracted keyword partially matches any keyword in the correspondence table, and when judging positively, creates a new sticky note attribute partially having an appearance feature represented by the sticky note attribute corresponding to the partially matching keyword in the correspondence table, and adds the new sticky note attribute to the correspondence table together with the extracted keyword.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 19, 2020
    Publication date: August 27, 2020
    Applicant: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.
    Inventor: Hidetaka IWAI
  • Patent number: 10701237
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes: a non-volatile memory; and a hardware processor that controls the non-volatile memory, wherein the hardware processor determines whether communication speed of a communication path to the non-volatile memory is equal to or less than a threshold value and encrypts the data transmitted to the non-volatile memory when the communication speed is determined to be equal to or less than the threshold value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 4, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 30, 2020
    Assignee: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.
    Inventors: Takehisa Yamaguchi, Yuji Okamoto, Hidetaka Iwai, Nobuhiro Mishima, Atsushi Tamura, Katsuyuki Sugita
  • Publication number: 20190394352
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes: a non-volatile memory; and a hardware processor that controls the non-volatile memory, wherein the hardware processor determines whether communication speed of a communication path to the non-volatile memory is equal to or less than a threshold value and encrypts the data transmitted to the non-volatile memory when the communication speed is determined to be equal to or less than the threshold value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 4, 2019
    Publication date: December 26, 2019
    Applicant: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.
    Inventors: Takehisa YAMAGUCHI, Yuji OKAMOTO, Hidetaka IWAI, Nobuhiro MISHIMA, Atsushi TAMURA, Katsuyuki SUGITA
  • Publication number: 20190342460
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes: an image processing part; a storage part including a nonvolatile region that stores data in a nonvolatile manner; and a hardware processor that controls the image processing part, wherein the nonvolatile region includes a plurality of storage regions, the storage part stores setting information indicating whether each of the plurality of storage regions is a target of malicious code detection processing, and the hardware processor performs the malicious code detection processing only on a storage region that is the target of the malicious code detection processing based on the setting information among the plurality of storage regions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 11, 2019
    Publication date: November 7, 2019
    Applicant: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.
    Inventors: Atsushi Tamura, Yuji Okamoto, Hidetaka Iwai, Takehisa Yamaguchi, Nobuhiro Mishima, Katsuyuki Sugita
  • Publication number: 20190235802
    Abstract: A printing system includes: a printer; and a terminal device, wherein an inquirer that inquires of the printer a predicted time to be taken for printing a document to be printed is provided in the terminal device, a calculator that calculates a predicted time to be taken for the printer to print the document under each of a plurality of conditions and a responder that responds to the terminal device about the predicted time for each of the conditions are provided in the printer, a presenter that displays the conditions and the predicted time for each of the conditions on a display and an instructor that instructs the printer to print the document under a condition selected from the conditions are also provided in the terminal device, and a printing part that prints the document under the condition selected from the conditions is also provided in the printer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 29, 2019
    Publication date: August 1, 2019
    Applicant: Konica Minolta, Inc.
    Inventors: Atsushi TAMURA, Yuji OKAMOTO, Hidetaka IWAI, Takehisa YAMAGUCHI, Nobuhiro MISHIMA, Katsuyuki SUGITA
  • Publication number: 20190199886
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus that performs a job of converting an image of a document into data and transmitting the generated image data includes: a display that displays a screen on which a user designates a transmission destination; a calculator that calculates a predicted time taken to perform the job under each of a plurality of conditions having mutually different setting values in converting the image into image data; a display controller that controls to display the predicted times individually calculated for the plurality of conditions on the display; and a job execution controller that controls to execute the job under a selected condition out of the plurality of conditions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 21, 2018
    Publication date: June 27, 2019
    Applicant: Konica Minolta, Inc.
    Inventors: Hidetaka IWAI, Yuji OKAMATO, Atsushi TAMURA
  • Patent number: 10306083
    Abstract: An image processing system includes a first image processing device including a first processor. The first processor executes a process including: detecting a change in a load status at the first image processing device; sending a request for information relating to a load status at the second image processing device to the second image processing device when the change in the load status at the first image processing device is detected; analyzing the information relating to the load status at the second image processing device, and determining whether or not the first image processing device establishes wireless communication with a portable terminal; and adjusting to relatively lower a radio field strength from the first image processing device below the radio field strength from the second image processing device when the first image processing device determines not to establish wireless communication with the portable terminal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 2, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2019
    Assignee: Konica Minolta, Inc.
    Inventors: Yuji Okamoto, Junichi Hase, Nobuhiro Mishima, Hidetaka Iwai, Daisuke Nakano, Hirokazu Kubota, Hideaki Soejima
  • Patent number: 10237427
    Abstract: An image forming system comprises an image forming apparatus and a remote operation apparatus. The image forming apparatus comprises a detection part for detecting a state change of a hardware operating member in an operation part of the image forming apparatus and a transmitting part for transmitting screen control information in accordance with the state change detected by the detection part to the remote operation apparatus. The remote operation apparatus comprises a display part for displaying a simulated image representing the detection part of the image forming apparatus, a receiving part for receiving the screen control information, and a display control part for changing a first image which is the simulated image displayed on the display part before the state change into a second image which is the simulated image in which the state change is reflected, in response to a receipt of the screen control information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2019
    Assignee: KONICA MINOLTA BUSINESS TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
    Inventors: Kazuya Anezaki, Hiroaki Sugimoto, Shuji Yoneda, Hidetaka Iwai, Takeshi Maekawa, Junichi Hase
  • Patent number: 10171691
    Abstract: A document generation system which generates, from a first document in which a plurality of text groups constituted by a plurality of lines arranged in a first direction is arranged in a second direction different from the first direction, a second document includes: a ranking unit configured to rank each of the plurality of text groups according to an order in which a person reads the first document; and a generating unit configured to generate, as the second document, a document in which each of the plurality of text groups is arranged one by one in the first direction in ascending order ranked by the ranking unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 1, 2019
    Assignee: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.
    Inventors: Hisashi Uchida, Kazumi Sawayanagi, Hidetaka Iwai, Yosuke Taniguchi, Toshikazu Kawaguchi, Toshihiko Otake, Hideaki Soejima
  • Patent number: 9955043
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus comprises: an accepting portion that accepts a request for a temporary use permission to use a function of the image processing apparatus from a second portable terminal apparatus in place of a first portable terminal apparatus having a proper use permission to use the function, an obtaining portion that obtains application information of an application installed on the second portable terminal apparatus; a determining portion that determines a scope of the temporary use permission with reference to reference data stored on a management apparatus and on the basis of the application information; a judgment portion that judges whether or not the requested process falls within the determined scope when a request for a process requiring the function is received from or transferred to the second portable terminal apparatus; and an executor portion that executes the requested process if it falls within the determined scope.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 24, 2018
    Assignee: Konica Minolta, Inc.
    Inventors: Toshikazu Kawaguchi, Junichi Hase, Yosuke Taniguchi, Nobuhiro Mishima, Hidetaka Iwai, Hideaki Soejima
  • Patent number: 9883071
    Abstract: A processor of an MFP generates a first additional image based on an image in a designated region of a document. Furthermore, the processor of the MFP generates a second additional image showing a difference between the document and a document before revision of the document. Then, the processor of the MFP registers the first additional image and the second additional image on a server in association with a marker image showing the revised edition number of the document.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2018
    Assignee: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.
    Inventors: Yosuke Taniguchi, Junichi Hase, Nobuhiro Mishima, Hidetaka Iwai, Toshikazu Kawaguchi, Hideaki Soejima
  • Patent number: 9876939
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes: an information obtaining portion that obtains association information indicating an association between a first and second portable terminal apparatus from an association information storage, the first portable terminal apparatus having a proper permission to use a function of the image processing apparatus from the first portable terminal apparatus, the second portable terminal apparatus having a temporary permission to use the function from the second portable terminal apparatus in place of the first portable terminal apparatus; a data storage that stores data caused by a process between the image processing apparatus and the second portable terminal apparatus; an online terminal detector that detects the first portable terminal apparatus as being online; and a data provider that provides the data to the first portable terminal apparatus from the data storage when the online terminal detector detects the first portable terminal apparatus as being online.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2018
    Assignee: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.
    Inventors: Hideaki Soejima, Junichi Hase, Hidetaka Iwai, Nobuhiro Mishima, Yosuke Taniguchi, Toshikazu Kawaguchi
  • Patent number: 9854132
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes: an imaging unit configured to capture an image of a subject; an image extraction unit configured to extract an image of a predetermined shape from a captured image being the image of the subject captured and output by the imaging unit; and a registration unit configured to, upon the image extraction unit extracting a first image identifying input data and a second image identifying a storage area, store the input data identified by the first image in the storage area identified by the second image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2017
    Assignee: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.
    Inventors: Nobuhiro Mishima, Junichi Hase, Toshikazu Kawaguchi, Hidetaka Iwai, Yosuke Taniguchi, Hideaki Soejima
  • Publication number: 20170249114
    Abstract: An information terminal includes: a communication unit; and a control unit configured to control the communication unit, wherein the control unit is configured to establish a communication channel with another terminal by using the communication unit, and the communication unit is configured to receive device information containing an address of an image processing device positioned on the periphery of the another terminal, and transmit the device information of the image processing device positioned on the periphery of the another terminal to an image processing device positioned on the periphery of the information terminal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 15, 2017
    Publication date: August 31, 2017
    Applicant: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.
    Inventors: Toshihiko OTAKE, Kazumi SAWAYANAGI, Hisashi UCHIDA, Hidetaka IWAI, Yosuke TANIGUCHI, Toshikazu KAWAGUCHI, Hideaki SOEJIMA
  • Publication number: 20170230541
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes an operation accepter that accepts an operation of a user, and a hardware processor, wherein the hardware processor includes a user authenticator configured to authenticate the user who operates the operation accepter, a job executor configured to execute a job having an activation condition in response to satisfaction of the activation condition, a job receiver configured to receive a job, a state detector configured to, in the case where the job receiver receives the job having the activation condition from an information processing apparatus, detect a state of the authenticated user, and an activation condition changer configured to, in response to detection of a predetermined state by the state detector, change the activation condition.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 5, 2017
    Publication date: August 10, 2017
    Applicant: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.
    Inventors: Toshikazu KAWAGUCHI, Hidetaka IWAI, Kazumi SAWAYANAGI, Toshihiko OTAKE, Hisashi UCHIDA, Yosuke TANIGUCHI, Hideaki SOEJIMA