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: 8452796
    Abstract: A search site on a network performs information search by a keyword. When a Web page is selected among those detected by the information search, the keyword, a text in the selected Web page and the Web page's address are interconnected and recorded as one search record in a recording device. And then, it is judged whether or not there exist in one or more then one document, any words that match any keywords included in the search records recorded in the recording device. If there exists a word that matches a keyword, the display data to display the document with just a part of the text as least and/or the Web page's address included in the same search record as the keyword, is created, and a job is executed using the display data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 2010
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2013
    Assignee: Konica Minolta Business Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Hidetaka Iwai, Kazuo Inui, Nobuhiro Mishima, Kaitaku Ozawa
  • Publication number: 20130082960
    Abstract: An image display apparatus includes a storage portion to store application data and reduced image data thereof, in association with each other, a position detection portion to detect a position designated by the user on a display surface of a display portion, an enlargement operation detection portion to detect an enlargement operation, a first image display portion to display a first display image generated from the reduced image data as a preview image, a process target determination portion to determine process target data from the reduced image data and the application data, based on a magnification set based on the amount of operation in the enlargement operation, a second display image generation portion to generate a second display image based on the process target data, in response to the enlargement operation being detected, and a second image display portion to display the second display image as a preview image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 28, 2012
    Publication date: April 4, 2013
    Inventors: Toshihiko OTAKE, Hidetaka IWAI, Kazumi SAWAYANAGI, Toshikazu KAWAGUCHI, Masayuki KAWAMOTO
  • Publication number: 20130057684
    Abstract: When an image of content reproduced by a first reproduction device is shot, a content display support device obtains the shot image and positional information that specifies the position and orientation of a shooting device. The content display support device generates combination content by visualizing and embedding the positional information in the shot image and transmits the combination content to a second reproduction device. A portable terminal obtains the positional information from an image obtained by shooting the combination content reproduced by the second reproduction device. The portable terminal requests supplementary information by transmitting the positional information to the content display support device. The supplementary information associated with the positional information is transmitted from the content display support device to the portable terminal and displayed at the portable terminal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 27, 2012
    Publication date: March 7, 2013
    Applicant: KONICA MINOLTA BUSINESS TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
    Inventors: Hidetaka IWAI, Kazumi Sawayanagi, Toshihiko Otake, Toshikazu Kawaguchi, Masayuki Kawamoto
  • Patent number: 8370903
    Abstract: An MFP stores information of a web service for permitting use with respect to each user, and information for limiting a use of its function. When there is a web service allowed to be used by the logged in user, its list is displayed. When a linked function with the selected web service is not allowed to be used, a massage to the effect that is displayed and when the use of the function is limited, limited contents are displayed to confirm the use of the web service.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 2008
    Date of Patent: February 5, 2013
    Assignee: Konica Minolta Business Technologies, Inc
    Inventors: Keisuke Teramoto, Ayumi Itoh, Hisashi Uchida, Hidetaka Iwai, Yoichi Kawabuchi, Yoshikazu Ikenoue
  • Publication number: 20130031516
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes an operation panel as an example of a touch panel and a display device, as well as CPU as an example of a processing unit for performing processing based on a contact. CPU includes a first identifying unit for identifying a file to be processed, a second identifying unit for identifying an operation to be executed, a determination unit for determining whether or not the combination of the file and operation as identified is appropriate, and a display unit for displaying a determination result. In the case where one of the identifying units previously detects a corresponding gesture to identify the file or the operation, and when a gesture corresponding to the other identifying unit is detected next, then the determination result is displayed on the display device before identification of the file or the operation is completed by the gesture.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 20, 2012
    Publication date: January 31, 2013
    Applicant: Konica Minolta Business Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Kazumi SAWAYANAGI, Toshihiko OTAKE, Hidetaka IWAI, Toshikazu KAWAGUCHI, Masayuki KAWAMOTO
  • Publication number: 20120268610
    Abstract: An information terminal capable of transmitting a file to another device includes a display unit; a storage unit for storing a relationship between an image and a transmission destination; a designation unit for designating the image as a standby image of the display unit; an operation unit for receiving an operation to instruct transmission of the file; and a processing unit for performing a process of transmitting the file to another device in accordance with the operation. The processing unit performs a process of specifying, as a transmission destination of the file, the transmission destination related to the image set as the standby image in the display unit at a time when the operation unit receives the operation, for transmitting the file.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 10, 2012
    Publication date: October 25, 2012
    Applicant: Konica Minolta Business Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Kazuo INUI, Hidetaka Iwai, Toshikazu Kawaguchi, Toshihiko Otake, Masayuki Kawamoto
  • Patent number: 8274689
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes a display; a memory for storing first information indicating an acquisition source of image data, second information indicating an editing process of the image data and third information indicating an output destination of the image data associated with one another as a setting information group; an accepting unit for accepting the first information to the third information; a display control unit for displaying images used for accepting the first information to the third information on a first area to a third area, respectively, of the display; and a registration unit for, when the accepting unit accepts at least two pieces of information of the first information to the third information, registering the at least two pieces of information of the first information to the third information as the setting information group in the memory.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 2009
    Date of Patent: September 25, 2012
    Assignee: Konica Minolta Business Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Ayumi Itoh, Jun Kunioka, Hidetaka Iwai, Mitsuharu Nagai
  • Patent number: 8223372
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus is provided with: a job data reception processing portion that receives a command to print a web page and a conditional expression used to search for that web page from a terminal; a print execution processing portion that causes a printing device to print a web page based on the received command; a web browser portion that causes a search engine to search for a web page based on the received conditional expression and receives the results of that search; and a window display processing portion that causes the obtained results to be displayed in a display. The web browser portion furthermore obtains a web page selected by a user from the displayed results, and the print execution processing portion causes the printing device to print the obtained web page.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2009
    Date of Patent: July 17, 2012
    Assignee: Konica Minolta Business Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Jun Kunioka, Ayumi Itoh, Hiroyuki Kawabata, Hidetaka Iwai
  • Patent number: 8208153
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a user set data storage portion for storing user set data indicating contents of processing that a user lets the image forming apparatus perform, the user using the image forming apparatus primarily, a new apparatus detection portion for detecting a new image forming apparatus that has newly joined an intranet, a new apparatus function data obtaining portion for obtaining function data indicating functions that the new image forming apparatus has, a suitable function extraction portion for determining, based on the user set data, a function that is more appropriate for the user than a current function from the functions indicated in the function data, and a change candidate notice processing portion for informing the user of the function determined to be more appropriate than the current function.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 16, 2006
    Date of Patent: June 26, 2012
    Assignee: Konica Minolta Business Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Takeshi Minami, Yoshiyuki Tamai, Kazumi Sawayanagi, Hidetaka Iwai
  • Publication number: 20110279855
    Abstract: A retrieval system comprises an image forming apparatus having a box which is a data storage area and a terminal device for retrieval, which is connected to the image forming apparatus via a network, and retrieves information stored in the image forming apparatus. The image forming apparatus has a storage part for storing bookmark information including list information of item names of items in an electronic document file stored in the box and a transmission part for transmitting the bookmark information to the terminal device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 5, 2011
    Publication date: November 17, 2011
    Applicant: Konica Minolta Business Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Mitsuharu NAGAI, Hidetaka Iwai, Kazuo Inui, Nobuhiro Mishima
  • Publication number: 20110154176
    Abstract: An electronic document managing apparatus includes a link information acquiring unit, an integration unit, and an addition unit. The link information acquiring unit acquires link information relating to link destinations inside each of a plurality of electronic documents. The integration unit integrates the respective pieces of link information relating to the plurality of electronic documents to generate integrated link information. The addition unit adds the integrated link information to the plurality of electronic documents, respectively.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 14, 2010
    Publication date: June 23, 2011
    Applicant: Konica Minolta Business Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Kazuo INUI, Nobuhiro MISHIMA, Hidetaka IWAI, Kaitaku OZAWA
  • Patent number: 7952738
    Abstract: Provided is an image processing apparatus, comprising a first function-judging unit of judging the function used by an installed application, a second function-judging unit of judging the functions available in the device, and a control unit of terminating and/or eliminating the function unused by the installed application, based on the results obtained in the first function-judging unit and the second function-judging unit when the application is installed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 2006
    Date of Patent: May 31, 2011
    Assignee: Konica Minolta Business Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Yoshiyuki Tamai, Kazumi Sawayanagi, Takeshi Minami, Hidetaka Iwai
  • Publication number: 20110063215
    Abstract: A remote control system includes a PC and a MFP capable of remotely controlling an external device. PC includes a browsing portion to receive an operation screen from the MFP, a display control portion to allow a projector to project the received operation screen onto a projection plane, and a position detection portion to detect a position pointed to by a user in the projected operation screen. The browsing portion transmits to the MFP a command which is included in the operation screen and is related to the detected position in the operation screen. The MFP includes an operation screen transmission portion to transmit to the PC the operation screen, including a command for specifying control, for accepting an operation, a command reception portion to receive a command transmitted from the PC, and a process control portion to control the external device or the device itself in accordance with the received command.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 14, 2010
    Publication date: March 17, 2011
    Applicant: Konica Minolta Business Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Nobuhiro MISHIMA, Hidetaka Iwai, Kazuo Inui, Kaitaku Ozawa
  • Publication number: 20110032556
    Abstract: A document processing device comprises: a document data acquiring part for acquiring document data; a character string extracting part for extracting character strings satisfying a predetermined condition for character string extraction from the document data acquired by the document data acquiring part; a format creating part for deriving the respective features of the character strings extracted by the character string extracting part, and for creating a format containing the derived features in the form of data; a display part on which the character strings extracted by the character string extracting part are displayed in a list form, and on which the format created by the format creating part is displayed; and a format correcting part for correcting the format displayed on the display part. The character string extracting part extracts character strings again to conform to the format corrected by the format correcting part.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 23, 2010
    Publication date: February 10, 2011
    Applicant: KONICA MINOLTA BUSINESS TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
    Inventors: Nobuhiro Mishima, Hidetaka Iwai, Kazuo Inui, Kaitaku Ozawa
  • Publication number: 20110035671
    Abstract: The present invention is intended to share information as to voice operation in an image processing device with a voice operation function with another image processing device, thereby improving operability for using another one. An image processing device allowed to be connected to a network comprising: an operational panel for displaying a menu screen and receiving a manual operation to the menu screen; a speech input part for inputting speech; an operation item specifying part for specifying an operation item to be a target of operation based on a voice word; a voice operation control part for executing a processing corresponding to the specified operation item; a history information generation part for generating a voice operation history information in which the voice word and the specified operation item are associated; and a transmission part for transmitting the generated voice operation history information to another image processing device through the network.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 23, 2010
    Publication date: February 10, 2011
    Applicant: KONICA MINOLTA BUSINESS TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
    Inventors: Hidetaka IWAI, Kazuo Inui, Nobuhiro Mishima, Kaitaku Ozawa
  • Publication number: 20100332464
    Abstract: A search site on a network performs information search by a keyword. When a Web page is selected among those detected by the information search, the keyword, a text in the selected Web page and the Web page's address are interconnected and recorded as one search record in a recording device. And then, it is judged whether or not there exist in one or more then one document, any words that match any keywords included in the search records recorded in the recording device. If there exists a word that matches a keyword, the display data to display the document with just a part of the text as least and/or the Web page's address included in the same search record as the keyword, is created, and a job is executed using the display data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 23, 2010
    Publication date: December 30, 2010
    Applicant: Konica Minolta Business Tecchnologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Hidetaka Iwai, Kazuo Inui, Nobuhiro Mishima, Kaitaku Ozawa
  • Publication number: 20100067044
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes a display; a memory for storing first information indicating an acquisition source of image data, second information indicating an editing process of the image data and third information indicating an output destination of the image data associated with one another as a setting information group; an accepting unit for accepting the first information to the third information; a display control unit for displaying images used for accepting the first information to the third information on a first area to a third area, respectively, of the display; and a registration unit for, when the accepting unit accepts at least two pieces of information of the first information to the third information, registering the at least two pieces of information of the first information to the third information as the setting information group in the memory.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 9, 2009
    Publication date: March 18, 2010
    Applicant: Konica Minolta Business Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Ayumi Itoh, Jun Kunioka, Hidetaka Iwai, Mitsuharu Nagai
  • Publication number: 20090310168
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus is provided with: a job data reception processing portion that receives a command to print a web page and a conditional expression used to search for that web page from a terminal; a print execution processing portion that causes a printing device to print a web page based on the received command; a web browser portion that causes a search engine to search for a web page based on the received conditional expression and receives the results of that search; and a window display processing portion that causes the obtained results to be displayed in a display. The web browser portion furthermore obtains a web page selected by a user from the displayed results, and the print execution processing portion causes the printing device to print the obtained web page.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 12, 2009
    Publication date: December 17, 2009
    Applicant: Konica Minolta Business Technologies, lnc.
    Inventors: Jun Kunioka, Ayumi Itoh, Hiroyuki Kawabata, Hidetaka Iwai
  • Publication number: 20090296133
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes a display, an obtaining unit obtaining second data containing information for identifying the link information having no image data in a corresponding storage position among the plural pieces of link information contained in the first data, a display control unit making the display selectively display first link information having image data in a corresponding storage position and second link information having no image data in the corresponding storage position in different formats based on the second data, and a transmission unit transmitting image data generated by a scanning unit to the corresponding storage position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 29, 2009
    Publication date: December 3, 2009
    Applicant: Konica Minolta Business Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Yoichi KAWABUSHI, Ayumi ITOH, Hisashi UCHIDA, Hidetaka IWAI
  • Publication number: 20090040537
    Abstract: The MFP includes an EEPROM storing display screens, and a display control portion to read a display screen for display on a display portion. When a first area in the display screen includes a variable display item for which an arbitrary number of data pieces are displayed, the display control portion acquires the number of data pieces to be displayed therefor, changes the size of a field for the variable display item based on the acquired number of data pieces, determines the size of a second area based on the size of the first area after the size change of the variable display item field and the size of the display area of the display portion, and modifies the read display screen to a display screen having the first area after the size change of the variable display item field and the second area of the determined size arranged therein.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 18, 2008
    Publication date: February 12, 2009
    Applicant: Konica Minolta Business Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Hidetaka Iwai, Hisashi Uchida, Ayumi Itoh, Keisuke Teramoto, Yoichi Kawabuchi