Patents by Inventor Hiroyuki Sakuyama

Hiroyuki Sakuyama 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: 20230196711
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes circuitry. The circuitry generates a binary image having area gradation or a scaled image having area gradation from an image read by a scanner. The circuitry outputs classification of the binary image or the scaled image according to a neural network model learned in advance.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 29, 2022
    Publication date: June 22, 2023
    Applicant: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Shinya Itoh, Hiroyuki Sakuyama
  • Publication number: 20230027065
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes circuitry to set first upper limit values for vertical and horizontal sizes of a character included in image data for erecting direction determination, segment the image data in units of character into a plurality of rectangular areas, determine, in the image data, a plurality of first rectangular areas each of which satisfies the first upper limit values, perform character recognition on characters in the plurality of first rectangular areas in four directions of a +X direction, a ?X direction, a +Y direction, and a ?Y direction, calculate degrees of certainty of the four directions, determine whether a direction having a highest degree of certainty among the calculated degrees of certainty of the four directions is an erecting direction of the image data to output a determination result, and perform, along the erecting direction, character recognition on characters in a plurality of second rectangular areas of the image data, the plurality of second rectangular areas s
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 13, 2022
    Publication date: January 26, 2023
    Applicant: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventor: Hiroyuki Sakuyama
  • Publication number: 20220019833
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes circuitry to: recognize a plurality of characters in image data; generate one or more words from a string of the plurality of characters; determine, for each word that is generated, a character color to be used for each of one or more characters in the word; and output a file of text data containing the one or more words, each word consisting of the one or more characters having the character color that is determined.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 7, 2021
    Publication date: January 20, 2022
    Applicant: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventor: Hiroyuki Sakuyama
  • Patent number: 10142498
    Abstract: An image forming system includes one or more image forming apparatuses and an information processing apparatus connected to the one or more image forming apparatuses through a network. The information processing apparatus includes circuitry that registers an image forming job that is received from one of the image forming apparatuses in association with information on a user who has authority to execute the image forming job, acquires information on a location of the user, determines whether or not the user is located at a first area based on the information on the location of the first user to generate a first determination result, and determines an operation to be performed on the image forming job based on the first determination result.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 27, 2018
    Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Koichiro Maemura, Tomohiro Kuroyanagi, Hiroyuki Sakuyama, Fumiyoshi Kittaka, Tohru Sasaki, Makoto Sasaki, Atsushi Okazato, Junki Aoki, Takuya Mori
  • Patent number: 10129433
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a provider identification information acquiring unit that acquires a piece of provider identification information for each of a plurality of devices that cooperatively execute a plurality of functions, based on device identification information of the device, the piece of provider identification information allowing identification of whether a provider of the device is a predetermined provider as a provider of a cooperating function; a determining unit that determines whether a non predetermined-provider device provided by a provider other than the predetermined provider exists among the devices based on pieces of the provider identification information; a charge processing unit that performs charge processing to profit the predetermined provider when the non predetermined-provider device exists; and a cooperation controlling unit that controls the devices to cooperatively execute the functions based on the cooperating function.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 13, 2018
    Assignee: RICOH COMPANY, LIMITED
    Inventors: Takuya Mori, Junki Aoki, Yukinori Ishii, Atsushi Okazato, Fumiyoshi Kittaka, Tomohiro Kuroyanagi, Hiroyuki Sakuyama, Tohru Sasaki, Makoto Sasaki, Koichiro Maemura
  • Publication number: 20180197215
    Abstract: A billing system includes an operation unit, a determination unit, an extraction unit, a first calculator, and a second calculator. The operation unit receives an operation for executing a function provided by one device of a plurality of devices. The determination unit determines whether the one device is available for the function associated with the operation received by the operation unit. The extraction unit extracts another device that is available for the function as a substitute for the one device when the determination unit determines that the one device is not available for the function. The first calculator calculates a fee for the function to be executed by the other device. The second calculator calculates a total billed amount based on the fee calculated by the first calculator and content executed by the other device when the function is executed by the other device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 11, 2016
    Publication date: July 12, 2018
    Applicant: RICOH COMPANY, LTD.
    Inventors: Takashi TORIUMI, Yasunori TSUKIOKA, Shunsuke WATANABE, Yuka KONNO, Katsumi TANAKA, Mie WATANABE, Hirohisa SAITOH, Hiroyuki SAKUYAMA, Tohru SASAKI, Atsushi OKAZATO
  • Patent number: 9985948
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes: a communicating unit which communicates with a portable terminal device and an external device; a storage control unit which controls to store transfer destination information of the external device to which information from the portable terminal device is allowed to be transferred in a storage unit; a determining unit which determines whether a request from the portable terminal device is the request to the external device indicated by the transfer destination information stored in the storage unit; and a communication control unit which controls the communicating unit to transfer the request from the portable terminal device to the external device indicated by the transfer destination information when the determining unit determines that the request is the request to the external device indicated by the transfer destination information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 8, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 29, 2018
    Assignee: Ricoh Company, Limited
    Inventors: Tomohiro Kuroyanagi, Makoto Sasaki, Junki Aoki, Takuya Mori, Itaru Kodaira, Yukinori Ishii, Hiroaki Ikkanzaka, Fumiyoshi Kittaka, Masaki Tasaka, Koichiro Maemura, Hiroyuki Sakuyama, Tohru Sasaki, Atsushi Okazato
  • Patent number: 9912836
    Abstract: An image processing system includes: an image recording unit configured to record an output image corresponding to an input image on a recording medium; an image compression unit configured to compress the input image for transmission; and a determining unit configured to determine whether the input image is a color image or a monochrome image according to a first determination rule if the output image is to be recorded on the recording medium, and determine whether the input image is the color image or the monochrome image according to a second determination rule different from the first determination rule if the input image is to be compressed for transmission.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 17, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 6, 2018
    Assignee: RICOH COMPANY, LTD.
    Inventors: Satoshi Ouchi, Takuji Kamada, Hiroyuki Sakuyama
  • Patent number: 9712694
    Abstract: An operation unit in a child device causes a main unit in the child device to execute a stand-alone job, and causes the main unit and a server device to execute a cooperating job. The main unit executes the stand-alone job every time it is requested, and generates and manages a stand-alone job log including stand-alone job log identification information. The server device controls the execution of stand-alone jobs included in the cooperating job based on a request for executing the cooperating job, and manages cooperating job identification information associated with the stand-alone job log identification information of the stand-alone jobs included in the cooperating job. The server device acquires the stand-alone job logs from the main unit and extracts the stand-alone job logs including the stand-alone job log identification information associated with the cooperating job identification information, to generate a cooperating job log corresponding to the cooperating job.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2017
    Assignee: RICOH COMPANY, LIMITED
    Inventors: Tohru Sasaki, Hirohisa Saitoh, Mie Watanabe, Shunsuke Watanabe, Yuka Konno, Takashi Toriumi, Yasunori Tsukioka, Katsumi Tanaka, Hiroyuki Sakuyama, Atsushi Okazato, Koichiro Maemura, Yukinori Ishii, Tomohiro Kuroyanagi, Fumiyoshi Kittaka, Makoto Sasaki, Junki Aoki, Takuya Mori
  • Patent number: 9692917
    Abstract: An operating information storing system includes a master apparatus and multiple slave apparatuses. The master apparatus and each slave apparatus respectively include a first processor. The master apparatus includes a nonvolatile memory, the first processor that acquires operating information generated by each slave apparatus, stores the acquired operating information, and determines if at least one operating information indicates specific operating information, and a first transmitter. Each slave apparatus includes a volatile memory, a second processor to store generated operating information in the volatile memory sequentially, and a second transmitter that transfers the operating information stored in the volatile memory to the master apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2017
    Assignee: Ricoh Company Ltd.
    Inventors: Atsushi Okazato, Hirohisa Saitoh, Mie Watanabe, Shunsuke Watanabe, Yuka Konno, Takashi Toriumi, Yasunori Tsukioka, Hiroyuki Sakuyama, Tohru Sasaki, Katsumi Tanaka, Koichiro Maemura, Yukinori Ishii, Tomohiro Kuroyanagi, Fumiyoshi Kittaka, Makoto Sasaki, Junki Aoki, Takuya Mori
  • Patent number: 9674388
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes an acceptance unit that accepts a configuration of a cooperative operation to be performed by multiple apparatuses cooperating with each other, an execution order determination unit that determines an executing order of processes included in the cooperative operation, an apparatus determination unit that identifies, for each of the processes included in the cooperative operation, an apparatus that performs the process, and a controller that instructs the identified apparatus to execute the processes included in the cooperative operation in the determined executing order.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2017
    Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Tadashi Sato, Hiroyuki Sakuyama, Takayasu Oe, Naoki Shimizu, Genki Umeizumi, Takuya Mori, Junki Aoki
  • Publication number: 20170075635
    Abstract: An image forming system includes one or more image forming apparatuses and an information processing apparatus connected to the one or more image forming apparatuses through a network. The information processing apparatus includes circuitry that registers an image forming job that is received from one of the image forming apparatuses in association with information on a user who has authority to execute the image forming job, acquires information on a location of the user, determines whether or not the user is located at a first area based on the information on the location of the first user to generate a first determination result, and determines an operation to be performed on the image forming job based on the first determination result.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 29, 2016
    Publication date: March 16, 2017
    Applicant: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Koichiro MAEMURA, Tomohiro KUROYANAGI, Hiroyuki SAKUYAMA, Fumiyoshi KITTAKA, Tohru SASAKI, Makoto SASAKI, Atsushi OKAZATO, Junki AOKI, Takuya MORI
  • Publication number: 20170054873
    Abstract: An image processing system includes: an image recording unit configured to record an output image corresponding to an input image on a recording medium; an image compression unit configured to compress the input image for transmission; and a determining unit configured to determine whether the input image is a color image or a monochrome image according to a first determination rule if the output image is to be recorded on the recording medium, and determine whether the input image is the color image or the monochrome image according to a second determination rule different from the first determination rule if the input image is to be compressed for transmission.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 17, 2016
    Publication date: February 23, 2017
    Applicant: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Satoshi OUCHI, Takuji KAMADA, Hiroyuki SAKUYAMA
  • Publication number: 20170019550
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes circuitry that receives multiple output commands from one or more inputting image processing apparatuses, each command instructing to output image data through an outputting information processing apparatus, acquires a status of the outputting image processing apparatus, determines priorities of the multiple output commands to be transferred to the outputting image processing apparatus based on the acquired status of the outputting image processing apparatus, and modifies an order of processing the output commands in accordance with the determined priorities of the output commands.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 5, 2016
    Publication date: January 19, 2017
    Inventors: Makoto SASAKI, Tomohiro KUROYANAGI, Hiroyuki SAKUYAMA, Koichiro MAEMURA, Fumiyoshi KITTAKA, Tohru SASAKI, Atsushi OKAZATO, Junki AOKI, Takuya MORI
  • Publication number: 20160277604
    Abstract: An operating information storing system includes a master apparatus and multiple slave apparatuses. The master apparatus and each slave apparatus respectively include a first processor. The master apparatus includes a nonvolatile memory, the first processor that acquires operating information generated by each slave apparatus, stores the acquired operating information, and determines if at least one operating information indicates specific operating information, and a first transmitter. Each slave apparatus includes a volatile memory, a second processor to store generated operating information in the volatile memory sequentially, and a second transmitter that transfers the operating information stored in the volatile memory to the master apparatus.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 15, 2016
    Publication date: September 22, 2016
    Applicant: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Atsushi OKAZATO, Hirohisa SAITOH, Mie WATANABE, Shunsuke WATANABE, Yuka KONNO, Takashi TORIUMI, Yasunori TSUKIOKA, Hiroyuki SAKUYAMA, Tohru SASAKI, Katsumi TANAKA, Koichiro MAEMURA, Yukinori ISHII, Tomohiro KUROYANAGI, Fumiyoshi KITTAKA, Makoto SASAKI, Junki AOKI, Takuya MORI
  • Publication number: 20160277630
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a provider identification information acquiring unit that acquires a piece of provider identification information for each of a plurality of devices that cooperatively execute a plurality of functions, based on device identification information of the device, the piece of provider identification information allowing identification of whether a provider of the device is a predetermined provider as a provider of a cooperating function; a determining unit that determines whether a non predetermined-provider device provided by a provider other than the predetermined provider exists among the devices based on pieces of the provider identification information; a charge processing unit that performs charge processing to profit the predetermined provider when the non predetermined-provider device exists; and a cooperation controlling unit that controls the devices to cooperatively execute the functions based on the cooperating function.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 9, 2016
    Publication date: September 22, 2016
    Applicant: Ricoh Company, Limited
    Inventors: Takuya MORI, Junki AOKI, Yukinori ISHII, Atsushi OKAZATO, Fumiyoshi KITTAKA, Tomohiro KUROYANAGI, Hiroyuki SAKUYAMA, Tohru SASAKI, Makoto SASAKI, Koichiro MAEMURA
  • Publication number: 20160274824
    Abstract: An operation unit in a child device causes a main unit in the child device to execute a stand-alone job, and causes the main unit and a server device to execute a cooperating job. The main unit executes the stand-alone job every time it is requested, and generates and manages a stand-alone job log including stand-alone job log identification information. The server device controls the execution of stand-alone jobs included in the cooperating job based on a request for executing the cooperating job, and manages cooperating job identification information associated with the stand-alone job log identification information of the stand-alone jobs included in the cooperating job. The server device acquires the stand-alone job logs from the main unit and extracts the stand-alone job logs including the stand-alone job log identification information associated with the cooperating job identification information, to generate a cooperating job log corresponding to the cooperating job.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 4, 2016
    Publication date: September 22, 2016
    Applicant: Ricoh Company, Limited
    Inventors: Tohru SASAKI, Hirohisa SAITOH, Mie WATANABE, Shunsuke WATANABE, Yuka KONNO, Takashi TORIUMI, Yasunori TSUKIOKA, Katsumi TANAKA, Hiroyuki SAKUYAMA, Atsushi OKAZATO, Koichiro MAEMURA, Yukinori ISHII, Tomohiro KUROYANAGI, Fumiyoshi KITTAKA, Makoto SASAKI, Junki AOKI, Takuya MORI
  • Publication number: 20160212114
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes: a communicating unit which communicates with a portable terminal device and an external device; a storage control unit which controls to store transfer destination information of the external device to which information from the portable terminal device is allowed to be transferred in a storage unit; a determining unit which determines whether a request from the portable terminal device is the request to the external device indicated by the transfer destination information stored in the storage unit; and a communication control unit which controls the communicating unit to transfer the request from the portable terminal device to the external device indicated by the transfer destination information when the determining unit determines that the request is the request to the external device indicated by the transfer destination information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 8, 2016
    Publication date: July 21, 2016
    Applicant: Ricoh Company, Limited
    Inventors: Tomohiro KUROYANAGI, Makoto SASAKI, Junki AOKI, Takuya MORI, ltaru KODAIRA, Yukinori ISHll, Hiroaki IKKANZAKA, Fumiyoshi KITTAKA, Masaki TASAKA, Koichiro MAEMURA, Hiroyuki SAKUYAMA, Tohru SASAKI, Atsushi OKAZATO
  • Publication number: 20160080588
    Abstract: An information processing system includes an execution request unit that requests one or more multiple preregistered apparatuses to execute an operation, an authority information acquisition unit that acquires authority information that indicates user authority on the preregistered apparatus from at least one of the preregistered apparatuses, an authority management information generator that generates authority management information that indicates the user authority applied to the preregistered apparatuses based on the authority information that the authority information acquisition unit acquires, and a controller that controls whether or not to allow the execution request unit to request to execute the operation based on the authority management information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 11, 2015
    Publication date: March 17, 2016
    Inventors: Tohru SASAKI, Tomohiro Kuroyanagi, Atsushi Okazato, Makoto Sasaki, Junki Aoki, Takuya Mori, Hirohisa Saitoh, Mie Watanabe, Tatsuo Nishimura, Yukinori Ishii, Hiroyuki Sakuyama, Fumihiro Umetsu, Itaru Kodaira, Naoki Shimizu, Akira Yokoyama, Hiroaki Ikkanzaka, Tadashi Sato, Takashi Toriumi, Fumiyoshi Kittaka
  • Publication number: 20150341441
    Abstract: An information processing system includes electronic devices each including a display unit, and at least one information processing apparatus including a display unit. The information processing apparatus is able to communicate with the electronic devices via a network. The information processing system includes a first sharing unit configured to cause sharing of display contents of the display unit of a first electronic device of the electronic devices and the display unit of the information processing apparatus; and a second sharing unit configured to acquire, from the first electronic device, information of a second electronic device of the electronic devices that is operating in cooperation with the first electronic device, and cause sharing of display contents of the display unit of the second electronic device and the display unit of the information processing apparatus based on the information of the second electronic device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 20, 2015
    Publication date: November 26, 2015
    Inventors: Hirohisa SAITOH, Tomohiro Kuroyanagi, Tohru Sasaki, Atsushi Okazato, Makoto Sasaki, Junki Aoki, Takuya Mori, Mie Watanabe, Tatsuo Nishimura, Yukinori Ishii, Yasunori Tsukioka, Shunsuke Watanabe, Hiroyuki Sakuyama, Yuka Konno, Katsumi Tanaka, Takashi Toriumi