Patents by Inventor Hirokazu Kubota
Hirokazu Kubota 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).
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Patent number: 9762756Abstract: A communication system includes a plurality of communication relay apparatuses relaying communication between the plurality of devices provided inside a LAN and an external server provided outside the LAN. A first communication relay apparatus performs a device search process of searching the LAN for a device, acquires information on a first management target device which is a device whose communication relay process is managed by a second communication relay apparatus, and determines a second management target device which is a device whose communication relay process is managed by the first communication relay apparatus. The first communication relay apparatus determines the second management target device after removing at least partial duplication of the second management target device and the first management target device, by excluding at least some of the first management target device from two or more devices which are retrieved in the device search process.Type: GrantFiled: June 14, 2016Date of Patent: September 12, 2017Assignee: Konica Minolta, Inc.Inventors: Kazuya Anezaki, Hirokazu Kubota, Kenji Matsuhara, Satoshi Masuda, Daisuke Sakiyama, Yuki Asai
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Patent number: 9686431Abstract: A communication system includes a cloud server, a management server, a gateway-enabled device, and a printing apparatus, and these are connected to each other. The gateway-enabled device includes a mode switch that wakes up the device from power saving mode when a HTTP tunneling request is received from the cloud server via a second requesting portion of the management server, a tunneling portion that accesses the cloud server by HTTP tunneling if the request is received via a first requesting portion of the management server during normal operation mode or that does the same after back to normal operation mode if the request is received via the second requesting portion by a method allowing waking up from power saving mode, a receiver that receives a print job from the cloud server having being accessed by HTTP tunneling, and a transfer portion that transfers the print job to the printing apparatus.Type: GrantFiled: November 20, 2015Date of Patent: June 20, 2017Assignee: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.Inventors: Kazuya Anezaki, Hirokazu Kubota, Kenji Matsuhara, Satoshi Masuda, Yuki Asai
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Publication number: 20170171402Abstract: An information processing apparatus that has an electronic mail function and is capable of operating in cooperation with a portable terminal includes: a communication unit configured to perform a communication with the portable terminal; a terminal control unit configured to transmit a command of activating an address book application to the portable terminal, and to acquire a transmission destination address and a user address from the portable terminal; a mail creating unit configured to create an electronic mail in which the transmission destination address is set to a transmission destination of the electronic mail, and the user address to a transmission source of the electronic mail; an image acquiring unit configured to acquire an image to be transmitted with the electronic mail; and a mail transmitting unit configured to attach the image acquired by the image acquiring unit to the electronic mail, and to transmit the electronic mail.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 12, 2016Publication date: June 15, 2017Applicant: Konica Minolta, Inc.Inventors: Takehisa YAMAGUCHI, Hirokazu KUBOTA, Toshimichi IWAI, Masaya HASHIMOTO, Kazusei TAKAHASHI, Hiroaki KUBO, Atsushi TAMURA
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Patent number: 9621743Abstract: A terminal device performs communication with a MFP (Multifunction Peripheral), and each of cloud servers. Terminal device executes transmitting and receiving process for image data with the MFP and the cloud servers via a cooperation application program. The terminal device switches a working application in the terminal device to another application, during the transmitting and receiving process via the cooperation application program. In this instance, the terminal device suspends the transmitting and receiving process. The terminal device executes transmitting and receiving process via the another application for a part of the image data for which the transmitting and receiving process is not executed.Type: GrantFiled: July 7, 2015Date of Patent: April 11, 2017Assignee: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.Inventors: Daisuke Nakano, Junichi Hase, Hirokazu Kubota, Nobuhiro Mishima, Hidetaka Iwai, Yuji Okamoto, Hideaki Soejima
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Patent number: 9544460Abstract: A workflow executing device executes the steps of: specifying a workflow; executing processes defined by the specified workflow; specifying an external process to be processed by a first external device from among the processes; specifying a device that stores account information requested by the first external device as a second external device in order to allow the first external device to execute the external process; generating a sub-workflow that defines a login process of logging into the first external device, a request process of allowing the first external device to execute the external process, and an execution result output process of transmitting the execution result to the workflow executing device; and changing the external process in the workflow to a workflow transmitting process of transmitting the sub-workflow to the second external device and an execution result receiving process of receiving the execution result from the second external device.Type: GrantFiled: July 14, 2015Date of Patent: January 10, 2017Assignee: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.Inventors: Hidetaka Iwai, Junichi Hase, Nobuhiro Mishima, Hirokazu Kubota, Daisuke Nakano, Yuji Okamoto, Hideaki Soejima
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Patent number: 9531892Abstract: An image processing system includes an image processing apparatus and a portable terminal apparatus. The image processing apparatus includes: a first USB connector; and a command transmitter that transmits a file manipulation command. The portable terminal apparatus includes: a second USB connector; a detector that detects that the portable terminal apparatus is connected to the first USB connector via the second USB connector; a memory being capable of storing a plurality of first folders; a register that registers address information of a Web service, the Web service being combined with at least one first folder stored on the memory; a mounting portion that accesses the Web service and mounts at least one second folder of the Web service onto the at least one first folder; and a controller that obtains a file from the Web service to transfer to the image processing apparatus upon the file manipulation command being received.Type: GrantFiled: October 16, 2014Date of Patent: December 27, 2016Assignee: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.Inventors: Hirokazu Kubota, Junichi Hase, Kazusei Takahashi, Kazuya Anezaki, Kenji Matsuhara
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Publication number: 20160366292Abstract: A communication system includes a plurality of communication relay apparatuses relaying communication between the plurality of devices provided inside a LAN and an external server provided outside the LAN. A first communication relay apparatus performs a device search process of searching the LAN for a device, acquires information on a first management target device which is a device whose communication relay process is managed by a second communication relay apparatus, and determines a second management target device which is a device whose communication relay process is managed by the first communication relay apparatus. The first communication relay apparatus determines the second management target device after removing at least partial duplication of the second management target device and the first management target device, by excluding at least some of the first management target device from two or more devices which are retrieved in the device search process.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 14, 2016Publication date: December 15, 2016Applicant: Konica Minolta, Inc.Inventors: Kazuya Anezaki, Hirokazu Kubota, Kenji Matsuhara, Satoshi Masuda, Daisuke Sakiyama, Yuki Asai
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Publication number: 20160156484Abstract: A cloud server acquires a stop period indicating a period during which a management server refrains from providing services; transmits connection requests to said management server if not in the stop period; establishes first communication session when establishment requests including the same address information as address information of connection destination included in the connection request are received from a relay device receiving connection requests forwarded from the management server after transmission of connection requests; transmits jobs to a control target device via first communication session; after first communication session is established, in response to acquisition of result of jobs executed by the control target device, if in the stop period, disconnects first communication session after the stop period finished; and if jobs are generated in the stop period, transmits to the control target device jobs generated in the stop period, via first communication session established before the stoType: ApplicationFiled: November 30, 2015Publication date: June 2, 2016Applicant: Konica Minolta, Inc.Inventors: Kenji MATSUHARA, Hirokazu KUBOTA, Kazuya ANEZAKI, Daisuke SAKIYAMA, Yuki ASAI, Satoshi MASUDA
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Publication number: 20160150112Abstract: A communication system includes a cloud server, a management server, a gateway-enabled device, and a printing apparatus, and these are connected to each other. The gateway-enabled device includes a mode switch that wakes up the device from power saving mode when a HTTP tunneling request is received from the cloud server via a second requesting portion of the management server, a tunneling portion that accesses the cloud server by HTTP tunneling if the request is received via a first requesting portion of the management server during normal operation mode or that does the same after back to normal operation mode if the request is received via the second requesting portion by a method allowing waking up from power saving mode, a receiver that receives a print job from the cloud server having being accessed by HTTP tunneling, and a transfer portion that transfers the print job to the printing apparatus.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 20, 2015Publication date: May 26, 2016Inventors: Kazuya ANEZAKI, Hirokazu KUBOTA, Kenji MATSUHARA, Satoshi MASUDA, Yuki ASAI
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Publication number: 20160014283Abstract: A terminal device performs communication with a MFP (Multifunction Peripheral), and each of cloud servers. Terminal device executes transmitting and receiving process for image data with the MFP and the cloud servers via a cooperation application program. The terminal device switches a working application in the terminal device to another application, during the transmitting and receiving process via the cooperation application program. In this instance, the terminal device suspends the transmitting and receiving process. The terminal device executes transmitting and receiving process via the another application for a part of the image data for which the transmitting and receiving process is not executed.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 7, 2015Publication date: January 14, 2016Applicant: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.Inventors: Daisuke NAKANO, Junichi HASE, Hirokazu KUBOTA, Nobuhiro MISHIMA, Hidetaka IWAI, Yuji OKAMOTO, Hideaki SOEJIMA
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Publication number: 20160014293Abstract: A workflow executing device executes the steps of: specifying a workflow; executing processes defined by the specified workflow; specifying an external process to be processed by a first external device from among the processes; specifying a device that stores account information requested by the first external device as a second external device in order to allow the first external device to execute the external process; generating a sub-workflow that defines a login process of logging into the first external device, a request process of allowing the first external device to execute the external process, and an execution result output process of transmitting the execution result to the workflow executing device; and changing the external process in the workflow to a workflow transmitting process of transmitting the sub-workflow to the second external device and an execution result receiving process of receiving the execution result from the second external device.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 14, 2015Publication date: January 14, 2016Applicant: Konica Minolta, Inc.Inventors: Hidetaka IWAI, Junichi HASE, Nobuhiro MISHIMA, Hirokazu KUBOTA, Daisuke NAKANO, Yuji OKAMOTO, Hideaki SOEJIMA
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Publication number: 20160006902Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: July 2, 2015Publication date: January 7, 2016Applicant: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.Inventors: Yuji Okamoto, Junichi Hase, Nobuhiro Mishima, Hidetaka Iwai, Daisuke Nakano, Hirokazu Kubota, Hideaki Soejima
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Publication number: 20150116765Abstract: An image processing system includes an image processing apparatus and a portable terminal apparatus. The image processing apparatus includes: a first USB connector; and a command transmitter that transmits a file manipulation command. The portable terminal apparatus includes: a second USB connector; a detector that detects that the portable terminal apparatus is connected to the first USB connector via the second USB connector; a memory being capable of storing a plurality of first folders; a register that registers address information of a Web service, the Web service being combined with at least one first folder stored on the memory; a mounting portion that accesses the Web service and mounts at least one second folder of the Web service onto the at least one first folder; and a controller that obtains a file from the Web service to transfer to the image processing apparatus upon the file manipulation command being received.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 16, 2014Publication date: April 30, 2015Applicant: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.Inventors: Hirokazu KUBOTA, Junichi HASE, Kazusei TAKAHASHI, Kazuya ANEZAKI, Kenji MATSUHARA
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Publication number: 20140365655Abstract: An information system performing communication with a plurality of cloud servers is provided. The information system includes an information management portion configured to manage account information indicating accounts of a user of the information system, the accounts being set up for the cloud servers; an obtaining portion configured to, in response to operation of logging into the information system by the user, gain access to the cloud servers with the account information to obtain, from each of the cloud servers, usage information indicating use by the user; and a user interface portion configured to cause a display provided in a device operated by the user in order to log into the information system to display a list of the use of each of the cloud servers by the user.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 9, 2014Publication date: December 11, 2014Inventors: Kazusei Takahashi, Junichi Hase, Kenji Matsuhara, Kazuya Anezaki, Hirokazu Kubota
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Publication number: 20140355058Abstract: An information processing apparatus remotely controls an image forming apparatus having an operating state changeable. The information processing apparatus includes a remote operation accepting portion to accept a user operation, and a remote control portion to remotely control the image forming apparatus on the basis of a remote operation accepted by the remote operation accepting portion. The remote control portion includes a motion detecting portion to detect a motion of the user, and a state maintaining portion to control the image forming apparatus not to change the operating state while a remote-operation motion for inputting a remote operation is detected by the motion detecting portion after a communication with the image forming apparatus has been established.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 28, 2014Publication date: December 4, 2014Applicant: Konica Minolta, Inc.Inventors: Kenji MATSUHARA, Junichi HASE, Kazusei TAKAHASHI, Kazuya ANEZAKI, Hirokazu KUBOTA
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Patent number: 8656337Abstract: A method, device, and article for assisting in the design of a logic circuit. The method can be such that: logic circuit description data is acquired, a first netlist is generated which is logically integrated with a first frequency based on the acquired logic circuit description data, and a second netlist is generated which is logically integrated with a second frequency higher than the first frequency based on the acquired logic circuit description data, logical operation elements and the wiring for the logical operation elements are arranged based on the first netlist, and a timing report is outputted which is related to the execution timing for each block divided into a predetermined wiring unit, and any block not satisfying the desired operational speed based on the outputted timing report is extracted, the first netlist is replaced with the second netlist for any extracted block, and placement and routing is performed.Type: GrantFiled: July 11, 2013Date of Patent: February 18, 2014Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Tadaaki Akimoto, Hirokazu Kubota, Masahiro Murakami
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Publication number: 20140019922Abstract: A method, device, and article for assisting in the design of a logic circuit. The method can be such that: logic circuit description data is acquired, a first netlist is generated which is logically integrated with a first frequency based on the acquired logic circuit description data, and a second netlist is generated which is logically integrated with a second frequency higher than the first frequency based on the acquired logic circuit description data, logical operation elements and the wiring for the logical operation elements are arranged based on the first netlist, and a timing report is outputted which is related to the execution timing for each block divided into a predetermined wiring unit, and any block not satisfying the desired operational speed based on the outputted timing report is extracted, the first netlist is replaced with the second netlist for any extracted block, and placement and routing is performed.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 11, 2013Publication date: January 16, 2014Inventors: Tadaaki Akimoto, Hirokazu Kubota, Masahiro Murakami
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Publication number: 20130310373Abstract: [Problems] Provided is a novel and excellent method for preventing and/or treating diseases related to a cannabinoid type 2 receptor, based on an agonistic action on a cannabinoid type 2 receptor. [Means for Solution] It was found that a hetero ring derivative mainly having two substituents, for example, a pyrimidine-5-carboxamide derivative having a substituent amino group at the 2-position, exhibits a potent agonistic action on a cannabinoid type 2 receptor, and can be an agent for preventing and/or treating diseases related to a cannabinoid type 2 receptor such as inflammatory diseases, pain, and the like, thereby the present invention was completed.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 24, 2013Publication date: November 21, 2013Applicant: Astellas Pharma Inc.Inventors: Yuji MATSUSHIMA, Hirokazu Kubota, Hisao Hamaguchi, Yoshinori Okamoto, Takeshi Hondo, Fusako Nishigaki
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Patent number: 8524727Abstract: A novel and excellent method for preventing and/or treating diseases related to a cannabinoid type 2 receptor, based on an agonistic action on a cannabinoid type 2 receptor. It was found that a hetero ring derivative mainly having two substituents, for example, a pyrimidine-5-carboxamide derivative having a substituent amino group at the 2-position, exhibits a potent agonistic action on a cannabinoid type 2 receptor, and can be an agent for preventing and/or treating diseases related to a cannabinoid type 2 receptor such as inflammatory diseases, pain, and the like.Type: GrantFiled: March 29, 2010Date of Patent: September 3, 2013Assignee: Astellas Pharma Inc.Inventors: Yuji Matsushima, Hirokazu Kubota, Hisao Hamaguchi, Yoshinori Okamoto, Takeshi Hondo, Fusako Nishigaki
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Patent number: 8014645Abstract: A 1.55 ?m band dispersion shifted optical fiber is provided which has a low loss and low dispersion slope. A core region “a” is heavily doped with GeO2 . A core region “b” is composed of pure SiO2 glass. A cladding section is arranged around the core region. The cladding section has a lot of holes extending in the longitudinal direction of the optical fiber. The holes of the cladding section are not located at random, but have a honeycomb structure composed of regular hexagons which have a side length of ?, and serve as a primitive lattice. The center of the core section has a region having a refractive index higher than that of the periphery of the core section. The core section has the refractive index distribution in which the group velocity dispersion at the operation wavelength of the region becomes the normal dispersion.Type: GrantFiled: May 16, 2003Date of Patent: September 6, 2011Assignees: Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation, Mitsubishi Cable Industries, Ltd.Inventors: Kazunori Suzuki, Satoki Kawanishi, Hirokazu Kubota, Masatoshi Tanaka, Moriyuki Fujita