Patents by Inventor Kaitaku Ozawa

Kaitaku Ozawa 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: 10776058
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a first network interface configured to accept access from a terminal on a first network, a second network interface configured to accept access from a terminal on a second network, a hardware processor configured to process access from a terminal on the first network and a terminal on the second network, and a memory. The memory includes a first area configured to store data received from the terminal on the second network. The second network is higher in security level than the first network. Access to data stored in the first area from the terminal on the second network is permitted and access to data stored in the first area from the terminal on the first network is restricted.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 15, 2020
    Assignee: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.
    Inventors: Akihiro Torigoshi, Kaitaku Ozawa, Kenichi Takahashi, Masaya Hashimoto, Tomonari Yoshimura, Keisuke Sato
  • Patent number: 10609231
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes: a display unit configured to display an operation screen; an acquisition unit configured to acquire biological information of a user performing operation using the operation screen, the biological information varying reflecting a state of the user; and a registration control unit configured to control operation of registering information on the operation screen and the biological information of the user in association with each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 31, 2020
    Assignee: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.
    Inventor: Kaitaku Ozawa
  • Patent number: 10509896
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus including a communication circuit configured to establish proximity communication with a biometric authentication apparatus, a display, and a processor configured to perform authentication processing with biological information detected by the biometric authentication apparatus is provided. The processor is configured to carry out control for reducing a quantity of light output from the display and incident on the biometric authentication apparatus during detection of the biological information by the biometric authentication apparatus when the processor receives information representing optical detection of the biological information by the biometric authentication apparatus from the biometric authentication apparatus through the communication circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2019
    Assignee: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.
    Inventors: Masao Hosono, Kaitaku Ozawa, Kenichi Takahashi, Toshikazu Kawaguchi, Daisuke Nakano, Tomoaki Nakajima
  • Publication number: 20190297204
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes: a display unit configured to display an operation screen; an acquisition unit configured to acquire biological information of a user performing operation using the operation screen, the biological information varying reflecting a state of the user; and a registration control unit configured to control operation of registering information on the operation screen and the biological information of the user in association with each other.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 10, 2019
    Publication date: September 26, 2019
    Inventor: Kaitaku OZAWA
  • Patent number: 10423825
    Abstract: A retrieval device includes: a printer configured to print a document onto paper together with an identifier image, the identifier image representing an identifier of the document; a storage configured to correlate electronic data for the document with the identifier to store the electronic data; an image taking device configured to photograph the identifier image in the paper; an input device configured to receive an input of a keyword; a search portion configured to search for the keyword in the document by using the electronic data corresponding to the identifier represented in the identifier image photographed; and a display device configured to display a result of the search made by the search portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2019
    Assignee: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.
    Inventor: Kaitaku Ozawa
  • Publication number: 20190272130
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a first network interface configured to accept access from a terminal on a first network, a second network interface configured to accept access from a terminal on a second network, a hardware processor configured to process access from a terminal on the first network and a terminal on the second network, and a memory. The memory includes a first area configured to store data received from the terminal on the second network. The second network is higher in security level than the first network. Access to data stored in the first area from the terminal on the second network is permitted and access to data stored in the first area from the terminal on the first network is restricted.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 28, 2019
    Publication date: September 5, 2019
    Applicant: Konica Minolta, Inc.
    Inventors: Akihiro Torigoshi, Kaitaku Ozawa, Kenichi Takahashi, Masaya Hashimoto, Tomonari Yoshimura, Keisuke Sato
  • Patent number: 10313827
    Abstract: A server for providing a plurality of objects made correspond to a marker is provided. The objects have content differing from each other. The server includes a transmitter configured to preferentially send, in response to a request for the objects based on the marker, an object which has not yet been sent to any of ā€œNā€ (N?2) terminals of the objects to a requesting terminal of the ā€œNā€ terminals, the requesting terminal having made the request.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2019
    Assignee: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.
    Inventors: Kazusei Takahashi, Katsuhiko Akita, Hiroaki Kubo, Kaitaku Ozawa, Akihiro Torigoshi, Yuji Okamoto
  • Patent number: 10298794
    Abstract: An image reading device comprises: a feeder that feeds a document along with a predetermined path; a first reading part that reads a first side of the document at a first position in the path and creates a first image; a second reading part that reads a second side of the document at a second position which is located posterior to the first position in the path and creates a second image; a synthesizing part that lays the first image and the second image on top of one another and creates a composite image; and a detecting part that detects a characteristic pattern of a specific document from the composite image created by the synthesizing part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 29, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2019
    Assignee: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.
    Inventors: Hiroaki Kubo, Katsuhiko Akita, Kaitaku Ozawa, Kazusei Takahashi, Akihiro Torigoshi, Yuji Okamoto
  • Patent number: 10282318
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes a plurality of memories and a hardware processor which controls an execution operation of a first function including an image processing function and an execution operation of a second function including a server function, by using the plurality of memories. The hardware processor estimates a required bandwidth which is a memory bandwidth required for the execution operation of the first function on the basis of a current operation mode of the image processing apparatus among a plurality of operation modes of the image processing apparatus, and determines a bandwidth securing channel for first function which is a channel capable of being used for the execution operation of the first function and incapable of being used for the execution operation of the second function, out of a plurality of channels used to access the plurality of memories, on the basis of the required bandwidth.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 12, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2019
    Assignee: Konica Minolta, Inc.
    Inventors: Kenichi Takahashi, Kaitaku Ozawa, Masao Hosono, Tomoaki Nakajima, Toshikazu Kawaguchi, Daisuke Nakano
  • Patent number: 10230871
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus to which a plurality of users can log in includes: a display unit configured to display an image; and a display controller configured to display personal region images corresponding to the respective users in a plurality of personal display regions at different positions in a display face of the display unit, display common images in the same common display region among the users in the display face of the display unit, and display images of data acquired on the authority to access of a corresponding user in the personal display regions to be movable, respectively, wherein when any of the users logs out, the display controller finishes displaying the image arranged in the personal display region among the data acquired on the authority to access of the user who logs out, and continues to display the image arranged in the common display region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 23, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2019
    Assignee: Konica Minolta, Inc.
    Inventors: Kenichi Takahashi, Katsuhiko Akita, Kaitaku Ozawa, Masami Yamada, Yuji Okamoto, Yuki Asai, Yasutaka Ito
  • Patent number: 10069990
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes a main processor configured to process packets received by a wired LAN module and a wireless LAN module in a normal state and a sub processor configured to process packets received by the wired LAN module and the wireless LAN module in place of the main processor in a first power saving state in which supply of electric power to the main processor is stopped. In the first power saving state, the sub processor is configured to process a packet received by the wired LAN module by using a first combination of a MAC address and an IP address and to process a packet received by the wireless LAN module by using a second combination of a MAC address and an IP address.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 4, 2018
    Assignee: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.
    Inventors: Masami Yamada, Katsuhiko Akita, Kaitaku Ozawa, Yuji Okamoto, Yuki Asai, Kenichi Takahashi, Yasutaka Ito
  • Patent number: 10003707
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes a display unit that displays a preview image of a document on a preview screen during login of a first user, a communication controller that receives a job from an external device, a determination unit that determines whether the job received from the external device is a specific type of job, and a display controller that controls display on the preview screen. When the specific type of job is received during display of the preview screen, the display controller assumes a predetermined degree or more of possibility that a second user different from the first user may approach the apparatus, and performs at least one of first display control where the preview image is automatically hidden on the preview screen and second display control where a non-display button for hiding the preview image according to a user operation is displayed on the preview screen.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 17, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 19, 2018
    Assignee: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.
    Inventors: Kaitaku Ozawa, Katsuhiko Akita, Yuji Okamoto, Masami Yamada, Yuki Asai, Kenichi Takahashi, Yasutaka Ito
  • Publication number: 20180165434
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus including a communication circuit configured to establish proximity communication with a biometric authentication apparatus, a display, and a processor configured to perform authentication processing with biological information detected by the biometric authentication apparatus is provided. The processor is configured to carry out control for reducing a quantity of light output from the display and incident on the biometric authentication apparatus during detection of the biological information by the biometric authentication apparatus when the processor receives information representing optical detection of the biological information by the biometric authentication apparatus from the biometric authentication apparatus through the communication circuit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 15, 2017
    Publication date: June 14, 2018
    Applicant: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.
    Inventors: Masao HOSONO, Kaitaku OZAWA, Kenichi TAKAHASHI, Toshikazu KAWAGUCHI, Daisuke NAKANO, Tomoaki NAKAJIMA
  • Publication number: 20180107613
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes a plurality of memories and a hardware processor which controls an execution operation of a first function including an image processing function and an execution operation of a second function including a server function, by using the plurality of memories. The hardware processor estimates a required bandwidth which is a memory bandwidth required for the execution operation of the first function on the basis of a current operation mode of the image processing apparatus among a plurality of operation modes of the image processing apparatus, and determines a bandwidth securing channel for first function which is a channel capable of being used for the execution operation of the first function and incapable of being used for the execution operation of the second function, out of a plurality of channels used to access the plurality of memories, on the basis of the required bandwidth.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 12, 2017
    Publication date: April 19, 2018
    Inventors: Kenichi TAKAHASHI, Kaitaku OZAWA, Masao HOSONO, Tomoaki NAKAJIMA, Toshikazu KAWAGUCHI, Daisuke NAKANO
  • Publication number: 20180075396
    Abstract: Provided is a workflow management apparatus that manages a registered workflow, wherein a work procedure order is associated with a work procedure and a worker who is to do the work procedure in the workflow, and the workflow management apparatus includes: a hardware processor that: obtains biological information, the biological information being read with a biological information reading device for reading biological information about a wearer of the device, the biological information being about at least a worker of the workflow; identifies a next procedure worker who makes the registered workflow stagnant when the workflow is stagnant; and determines according to the biological information whether to remind the next procedure worker to do a procedure.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 6, 2017
    Publication date: March 15, 2018
    Applicant: Konica Minolta, Inc.
    Inventors: Tomoaki NAKAJIMA, Kaitaku OZAWA, Masao HOSONO, Toshikazu KAWAGUCHI, Kenichi TAKAHASHI, Daisuke NAKANO
  • Patent number: 9888137
    Abstract: A processing apparatus having a function to perform specific processing based on a request from a terminal is provided. The processing apparatus includes a connection portion configured to connect the processing apparatus to the terminal; and a processor configured to control the terminal to display a second screen including a part or a whole of a first screen, the first screen having been displayed in the terminal by another processing apparatus with the function before the processing apparatus connects to the terminal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 16, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2018
    Assignee: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.
    Inventors: Kenji Matsuhara, Takeshi Minami, Kenichi Takahashi, Kaitaku Ozawa, Yoshiaki Shibuta, Yosuke Taniguchi, Atsushi Tamura
  • Publication number: 20170279997
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes a display unit that displays a preview image of a document on a preview screen during login of a first user, a communication controller that receives a job from an external device, a determination unit that determines whether the job received from the external device is a specific type of job, and a display controller that controls display on the preview screen. When the specific type of job is received during display of the preview screen, the display controller assumes a predetermined degree or more of possibility that a second user different from the first user may approach the apparatus, and performs at least one of first display control where the preview image is automatically hidden on the preview screen and second display control where a non-display button for hiding the preview image according to a user operation is displayed on the preview screen.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 17, 2017
    Publication date: September 28, 2017
    Applicant: Konica Minolta, Inc.
    Inventors: Kaitaku OZAWA, Katsuhiko AKITA, Yuji OKAMOTO, Masami YAMADA, Yuki ASAI, Kenichi TAKAHASHI, Yasutaka ITO
  • Publication number: 20170269886
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes an acquisition part that acquires biological information on a user who makes the image processing apparatus execute a job, the biological information changing while reflecting a state of the user, and a registration control part that controls an operation for registering information on the job and the biological information on the user in association with each other.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 7, 2017
    Publication date: September 21, 2017
    Applicant: Konica Minolta, Inc.
    Inventor: Kaitaku OZAWA
  • Publication number: 20170272590
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes: a display unit configured to display an operation screen; an acquisition unit configured to acquire biological information of a user performing operation using the operation screen, the biological information varying reflecting a state of the user; and a registration control unit configured to control operation of registering information on the operation screen and the biological information of the user in association with each other.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 16, 2017
    Publication date: September 21, 2017
    Inventor: Kaitaku OZAWA
  • Publication number: 20170257504
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes a main processor configured to process packets received by a wired LAN module and a wireless LAN module in a normal state and a sub processor configured to process packets received by the wired LAN module and the wireless LAN module in place of the main processor in a first power saving state in which supply of electric power to the main processor is stopped. In the first power saving state, the sub processor is configured to process a packet received by the wired LAN module by using a first combination of a MAC address and an IP address and to process a packet received by the wireless LAN module by using a second combination of a MAC address and an IP address.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 2, 2017
    Publication date: September 7, 2017
    Applicant: Konica Minolta, Inc.
    Inventors: Masami Yamada, Katsuhiko Akita, Kaitaku Ozawa, Yuji Okamoto, Yuki Asai, Kenichi Takahashi, Yasutaka Ito