Patents by Inventor Hirotoshi Ohkubo

Hirotoshi Ohkubo 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: 20230315873
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes: an authenticator that authenticates a user according to a setting value; an acquirer that acquires the setting value; a determiner that determines whether a setting value of an administrator satisfies a rule with respect to authentication information included in the setting value acquired by the acquirer; and a processor that imports the setting value of a user other than the administrator as it is, when importing the setting value acquired by the acquirer, and performs processing of suspending importing, in a case where the determiner determines that the setting value of the administrator does not satisfy the rule.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 27, 2023
    Publication date: October 5, 2023
    Applicant: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: HIROTOSHI OHKUBO, HARUNOBU MORI
  • Patent number: 11588817
    Abstract: Provided is a user authentication management device including a login request receiver that receives a login request from a user from a plurality of inputters via a path corresponding to each of the plurality of inputters, an authentication scheme selector that selects any one of a plurality of authentication schemes and provides identification information of a user related to the received login request to the selected authentication scheme to perform user authentication, and a user information storage that stores a user authentication result received from the selected authentication scheme as user information related to the user, in which the authentication scheme selector selects an authentication scheme predetermined corresponding to a path through which the login request is received.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2023
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Hirotoshi Ohkubo
  • Publication number: 20210029118
    Abstract: Provided is a user authentication management device including a login request receiver that receives a login request from a user from a plurality of inputters via a path corresponding to each of the plurality of inputters, an authentication scheme selector that selects any one of a plurality of authentication schemes and provides identification information of a user related to the received login request to the selected authentication scheme to perform user authentication, and a user information storage that stores a user authentication result received from the selected authentication scheme as user information related to the user, in which the authentication scheme selector selects an authentication scheme predetermined corresponding to a path through which the login request is received.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 22, 2020
    Publication date: January 28, 2021
    Inventor: HIROTOSHI OHKUBO
  • Patent number: 10834277
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus including: an image processor that executes a job; a setting receiver that receives a setting relating to the job; a job controller that receives an execution request relating to a job predetermined for execution of a job relating to one function and causes the image processor to execute the job relating to the one function; a notifier that notifies a user of an end of each of the plurality of jobs; and a notification controller that determines whether to cause the notifier to notify the end of each of the plurality of jobs on the basis of at least one of a setting relating to each of the plurality of jobs and an attribute of an image to be processed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 10, 2020
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Harunobu Mori, Hirotoshi Ohkubo, Yoshikazu Kondoh, Sho Kamihisa
  • Publication number: 20200260017
    Abstract: An image processing device includes a first storage, a second storage, and a combiner. The first storage stores first image data indicating a first image of a user. The second storage stores real video data indicating a real video of the user. The combiner generates second image data indicating a second image of the user obtained by combining the first image and the real video, based on the first image data and the real video data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 7, 2020
    Publication date: August 13, 2020
    Inventor: HIROTOSHI OHKUBO
  • Publication number: 20200092431
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus including: an image processor that executes a job; a setting receiver that receives a setting relating to the job; a job controller that receives an execution request relating to a job predetermined for execution of a job relating to one function and causes the image processor to execute the job relating to the one function; a notifier that notifies a user of an end of each of the plurality of jobs; and a notification controller that determines whether to cause the notifier to notify the end of each of the plurality of jobs on the basis of at least one of a setting relating to each of the plurality of jobs and an attribute of an image to be processed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 12, 2019
    Publication date: March 19, 2020
    Inventors: Harunobu MORI, Hirotoshi OHKUBO, Yoshikazu KONDOH, Sho KAMIHISA
  • Patent number: 8976946
    Abstract: A communication apparatus includes a communication portion for communicating with an external device, a transmitter information acquiring portion for acquiring predetermined transmitter information for identifying the transmitter at a time of an incoming call of communication, a storage portion for storing a registered name in association with the transmitter information in advance, a registered name retrieval portion for, retrieving the registered name stored in the storage portion so as to be associated with the acquired transmitter information, a common part extraction portion for, in a case where a plurality of registered names are retrieved with respect to the acquired transmitter information when the registered name is retrieved by the registered name retrieval portion, extracting a common part among the plurality of registered names, and an output portion for outputting the common part of the registered names which is extracted by the common part extraction portion, in a predetermined system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 10, 2015
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Sho Kobayashi, Hirotoshi Ohkubo
  • Publication number: 20140355747
    Abstract: A communication apparatus includes a communication portion for communicating with an external device, a transmitter information acquiring portion for acquiring predetermined transmitter information for identifying the transmitter at a time of an incoming call of communication, a storage portion for storing a registered name in association with the transmitter information in advance, a registered name retrieval portion for, retrieving the registered name stored in the storage portion so as to be associated with the acquired transmitter information, a common part extraction portion for, in a case where a plurality of registered names are retrieved with respect to the acquired transmitter information when the registered name is retrieved by the registered name retrieval portion, extracting a common part among the plurality of registered names, and an output portion for outputting the common part of the registered names which is extracted by the common part extraction portion, in a predetermined system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 31, 2014
    Publication date: December 4, 2014
    Applicant: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Sho KOBAYASHI, Hirotoshi OHKUBO
  • Patent number: 7405846
    Abstract: In the transfer and entry of one-touch dial data or speed dial data from a facsimile apparatus 1 to a facsimile apparatus 10, the respective sizes of one-touch dial memory and speed dial memory in the facsimile apparatus 10 are detected. The one-touch dial data are transferred and entered in the facsimile apparatus 10 (P1). The speed dial data are transferred and entered in the facsimile apparatus 10 (P2). Any remaining speed dial data are entered in the one-touch memory (P3). This reduces or eliminates overflow of the one-touch dial data or speed dial data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2004
    Date of Patent: July 29, 2008
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Yasushi Yamamoto, Hiroaki Nakamura, Hirotoshi Ohkubo
  • Publication number: 20040190077
    Abstract: In the transfer and entry of one-touch dial data or speed dial data from a facsimile apparatus 1 to a facsimile apparatus 10, the respective sizes of one-touch dial memory and speed dial memory in the facsimile apparatus are detected. The one-touch dial data are transferred entered in the facsimile apparatus 10 (P1). The speed dial data are transferred and entered in the facsimile apparatus 10 (P2). Any remaining speed dial data are entered in the one-touch memory (P3). This reduces or eliminates overflow of the one-touch dial data or speed dial data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 30, 2004
    Publication date: September 30, 2004
    Inventors: Yasushi Yamamoto, Hiroaki Nakamura, Hirotoshi Ohkubo
  • Publication number: 20020186423
    Abstract: When a request for retrieving digital content of a broadcast program, etc., recorded in a record section 5 is made through an operation section 11, information of an electronic program guide, etc., supplementary to the digital content is read from the record section 5 and is supplied to a video signal generation section 6. The video signal generation section 6 performs predetermined encode processing for the information of the electronic program guide, etc., and supplies to a monitor 8 for producing scroll display in the bottom portion of a display screen of the monitor 8 for use of retrieval, etc.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 5, 2002
    Publication date: December 12, 2002
    Applicant: PIONEER CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takahiro Okajima, Tsuneki Yasukura, Hirotoshi Ohkubo, Hiroya Inoue, Akihide Hasegawa, Kenji Azuma
  • Publication number: 20020180894
    Abstract: A remote control apparatus is made up of a transceiver 1 for remotely controlling an electronic machine such as a television receiver 3 or a recorder 4 and a portable remote controller 2 for giving a remote control command to the transceiver 1. The transceiver 1 has section for extracting supplementary information of an electronic program guide, etc., from television broadcasts and the remote controller 2 has storage section for storing control information to remotely control electronic machines in such a manner that the control information can be updated and storage section for storing the supplementary information of an electronic program guide, etc., supplied from the transceiver 1 in such a manner that the supplementary information can be updated.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 28, 2002
    Publication date: December 5, 2002
    Applicant: PIONEER CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takahiro Okajima, Tsuneki Yasukura, Hirotoshi Ohkubo, Hiroya Inoue, Akihide Hasegawa, Kenji Azuma
  • Patent number: 5992597
    Abstract: A multiple disk clutch includes a clutch drum having an interior surface with a plurality of spline grooves, a servo piston, a clutch plate with splines engaged within the spline grooves, and a cushion plate, with splines engaged within the spline grooves, arranged between the clutch plate and the servo piston. The splines of the clutch plate and those of the cushion plate are engaged within different spline grooves so that the splines of the clutch plates and those of the cushion plate do not contact each other when the clutch is engaged by a load imposed by operation of the piston.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 19, 1998
    Date of Patent: November 30, 1999
    Assignee: Aisin Aw Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hideyuki Nagai, Noah Utsumi, Yasuhito Ogasawara, Hirotoshi Ohkubo