Patents by Inventor Joji Tanaka

Joji Tanaka 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: 11183823
    Abstract: An electric junction box unit includes an electric junction box, a bracket holding the electric junction box, and a holder assembled to the bracket. The bracket includes a plate-shaped back face portion facing the electric junction box, a plurality of holding portions which are erected from the back face portion along an assembly direction of the electric junction box and which hold the electric junction box, and an engaging recessed portion engaging with the holder in a state where the back face portion is sandwiched between the electric junction box and the holder. The engaging recessed portion includes a first recessed portion receiving a first engaging piece of the holder along a direction intersecting the assembly direction, and a second recessed portion receiving a second engaging piece of the holder along the assembly direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 23, 2021
    Assignee: Yazaki Corporation
    Inventors: Kimihiro Ishii, Joji Tanaka
  • Publication number: 20210256099
    Abstract: An information processing method includes acquiring image information imaged in such a manner that identification information for identifying a user and a scene related to the user are associated with each other (step S11), and performing a process of associating the identification information registered in advance with the image information including the scene related to a user who is the same as the user identified by the identification information (step S12).
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 3, 2019
    Publication date: August 19, 2021
    Applicant: NEC Corporation
    Inventors: Tomohiro MIWA, Joji TANAKA, Yoshikazu ARAI, Keiji KANAMEDA, Tsuyoshi NAKAMURA, Yuki KOBAYASHI
  • Publication number: 20210098978
    Abstract: An electric junction box unit includes an electric junction box, a bracket holding the electric junction box, and a holder assembled to the bracket. The bracket includes a plate-shaped back face portion facing the electric junction box, a plurality of holding portions which are erected from the back face portion along an assembly direction of the electric junction box and which hold the electric junction box, and an engaging recessed portion engaging with the holder in a state where the back face portion is sandwiched between the electric junction box and the holder. The engaging recessed portion includes a first recessed portion receiving a first engaging piece of the holder along a direction intersecting the assembly direction, and a second recessed portion receiving a second engaging piece of the holder along the assembly direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 29, 2020
    Publication date: April 1, 2021
    Applicant: Yazaki Corporation
    Inventors: Kimihiro Ishii, Joji Tanaka
  • Patent number: 7113297
    Abstract: An image inputting and outputting apparatus which permits registration and fetching of document image data and which is so configured that choices with regard to registration and fetching of document image data can be made in simple procedures. To be specific, when instructions for registration and fetching document image data are received, dialog-type control means 100 inquires of the user about choices with regard to registration or fetching. On the basis of information provided by the user in answer to the inquiry, the means 100 issues instructions to document management means 300. For example, it is so arranged that the document image data just registered or fetched is specified by dialog-type control means 100 as next document image data to be fetched. That makes it possible to fetch in simple procedures again the document image data just registered or fetched.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 1, 2000
    Date of Patent: September 26, 2006
    Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Takehito Yamaguchi, Kazuyuki Murata, Hideyuki Kuwano, Yuji Okada, Naoki Takahashi, Kenji Hisatomi, Joji Tanaka
  • Patent number: 6903833
    Abstract: An image data distribution system wherein an image server has information on destination group formed of members selected from among a plurality of image communication apparatuses. The information is memorized on a storage memory and the image data will be sent out to the respective members of the destination group specified by the destination information. In this image data distribution system, the distribution managing element sends all the distribution destination group names to a digital combination unit when a request for registration with a group is received from input manipulation element provided in the digital combination unit and registers the digital combination unit with a specified distribution destination group when the distribution destination group is specified by the digital combination unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 1999
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2005
    Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kazuyuki Murata, Hideyuki Kuwano, Yuji Okada, Naoki Takahashi, Takehito Yamaguchi, Kenji Hisatomi, Joji Tanaka
  • Patent number: 6792547
    Abstract: The invention relates to a digital integrated apparatus capable of registering and fetching image data, and has an object to solve various problems resulting from the necessity of the user authentication at the time of using the apparatus. Specifically, it is arranged that, the display-input control means 92a classifies the user authentication under the first user authentication in a specific level and the second user authentication in a lower level than the first one, and then judges based on the initial setting whether the result of the second user authentication is valid or not. The first user authentication is based on the attribute of user's personal information including a user registration card Ku, and the second user authentication is based on the user ID and password inputted from the control panel 92. Therefore, it is possible to limit the fetching by using the other person's user ID and password.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2000
    Date of Patent: September 14, 2004
    Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kazuyuki Murata, Hideyuki Kuwano, Takehito Yamaguchi, Yuji Okada, Naoki Takahashi, Joji Tanaka, Kenji Hisatomi
  • Patent number: 6700681
    Abstract: An image data communication apparatus for sending or receiving image data to or from the destination's or destination image data communication apparatus image data communication apparatuses connected thereto via telecommunication line, network or the like. The apparatus is so configured that image data outputting means 1 outputs a communication results report containing information on the ongoing communication in case a communication error occurs while an document image data is being sent to the destination's image data communication apparatus connected to the sender via communication means 15 and the image data restarts to be sent on the basis of information on the communication written in the communication results report when a communication results report is inputted from image data inputting means 2.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 1999
    Date of Patent: March 2, 2004
    Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Joji Tanaka, Kazuyuki Murata, Takehito Yamaguchi, Hideyuki Kuwano, Yuji Okada, Naoki Takahashi, Kenji Hisatomi
  • Patent number: 6661933
    Abstract: When an image is to be filed in the storage means 105, an original copy size detection means 102b identifies the type (size and lay) of the original copy. A first positioning means 11a puts up a plurality of possible places on the printing paper to write the ID mark in, the plurality of possible places given a priority number. A space checking means 6 checks the possible space which comes up for checking according to priority numerical order and notifies the first positioning means 11a of the results. A pattern synthesizing means 108 integrates an ID mark corresponding to the document ID in the space found to be blank by the space checking means 6, generating an image representing the marked sheet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 5, 1999
    Date of Patent: December 9, 2003
    Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kenji Hisatomi, Kazuyuki Murata, Takehito Yamaguchi, Hideyuki Kuwano, Yuji Okada, Naoki Takahashi, Joji Tanaka
  • Patent number: 6636649
    Abstract: It is possible for the present invention to carry out the inclination correcting by adding a simple constitution of shifting an image only in the main-scanning direction to that of the conventional image processing apparatus. The first line shifting means 65 shifts the image data in the main scanning direction by specific number of lines in the shifting amount corresponding to the inclined angle detected by the inclined angle detecting means 66. The first rotating means 85 rotates the image data stored in the first image memory 88 by 90 degree or 270 degree, and then interchanges the main-scanning direction and the sub-scanning direction. The second line shifting means 91 shifts the image data rotated by the first rotating means 85 in the main-scanning direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 18, 1999
    Date of Patent: October 21, 2003
    Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kazuyuki Murata, Takehito Yamaguchi, Hideyuki Kuwano, Yuji Okada, Joji Tanaka, Naoki Takahashi, Kenji Hisatomi
  • Patent number: 6604218
    Abstract: A data encoding apparatus is provided wherein, in one aspect, bit data are encoded by using at least one kind of error-correcting code out of two kinds of error-correcting modes—random error-correcting code mode and burst error correcting code mode. The encoded bit data are then arranged in a specific two-dimensional region in a matrix to form a two-dimensional image, which is then printed on a medium. The encoded bit data may be relocated in accord with a relocation map.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 10, 2000
    Date of Patent: August 5, 2003
    Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kenji Hisatomi, Kazuyuki Murata, Takehito Yamaguchi, Hideyuki Kuwano, Yuji Okada, Naoki Takahashi, Joji Tanaka
  • Patent number: 6559972
    Abstract: An image data processing apparatus for storing a multi-valued image data inputted from an image scanner as a plural image data of various resolutions and applying them for tasks, such as printing and displaying. After the conversion by the resolution converting device to a multi-valued image of low resolution, the data is binarized by the binarization circuit and stored after the encoding by the encoding circuit. Meanwhile the encoded data is decoded as the binary data by the decoding circuit and then inputted to a display screen. The image scanner includes the first gradation converting device for converting the intermediate density area of the image data to a specific high or low density. Therefore, it is possible to increase the compression rate at the time of the encoding of the display image data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 1999
    Date of Patent: May 6, 2003
    Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Noaki Takahashi, Kazuyuki Murata, Takehito Yamaguchi, Hideyuki Kuwano, Yuji Okada, Joji Tanaka, Kenji Hisatomi
  • Patent number: 6278513
    Abstract: A digital copier includes an image reading part and a printing part. The image reading part includes reading means for electrically scanning lines of image information of a document in a primary scanning direction at a predetermined cycle to output image signals for the lines; secondary scanning means for mechanically moving a primary scanning position with respect to the document at a constant secondary scanning speed V in a secondary scanning direction perpendicular to the primary scanning direction; and line thinning means for thinning out lines for the image signals to 1/N where N is an integer. The printing part prints an image on a printing medium based on the image signals supplied from the image reading part. The lines of image information of the document are copied at an arbitrary zoom ratio in the secondary scanning direction by combining a value of the integer N and a value of the secondary scanning speed V.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 19, 1999
    Date of Patent: August 21, 2001
    Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kazuyuki Murata, Takehito Yamaguchi, Hideyuki Kuwano, Yuji Okada, Joji Tanaka, Naoki Takahashi, Kenji Hisatomi
  • Patent number: 4871128
    Abstract: The present invention is an auto reverse mechanism for tape recorder/playback devices. In the present invention, if the tape travel in either direction is completed to stop the rotation of the reel turntables, a detector at first detects the halt of the reel turntables through the change-over clutch, and mechanically transmits it to the trigger. The trigger then drives the intermittent drive by the drive force of the drive belt mechanism through the drive force transmission, from a position away from the linkage with the drive force transmission to a position for the linkage with it.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 19, 1988
    Date of Patent: October 3, 1989
    Assignee: Wako Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Taro Tanaka, Joji Tanaka