Patents by Inventor Kazuaki Tomono

Kazuaki Tomono 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: 10761794
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus capable of performing image processing by communicating with a remote terminal includes: a communication part that communicates with the remote terminal; a display part; and a hardware processor that: is capable of obtaining a file having a format corresponding to a first icon image, the file being a file as an image processing target; is capable of performing image processing involving file format conversion of the obtained file; obtains a second icon image corresponding to a format of a file after undergoing processing generated by the image processing, from the remote terminal; and causes the display part to display the second icon image obtained by the hardware processor, for the file after undergoing processing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 13, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 1, 2020
    Assignee: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.
    Inventors: Hozuma Nakajima, Kazuaki Tomono, Kenzo Yamamoto
  • Patent number: 10498911
    Abstract: A display device, with a display part having a rectangular display area, capable of changing an orientation of the display part between a first orientation and a second orientation rotated by 90 degrees from the first orientation, comprises: a hardware processor that: detects whether the orientation of the display part is either the first orientation or the second orientation; displays a first screen on which an operation screen operable for a user is arranged on a whole surface of the display area on the display part when the orientation of the display part is the first orientation; and displays a second screen on which reduced the operation screen is arranged in a part of the display area and a content included in the operation screen is arranged in a remaining part of the display area on the display part when the orientation of the display part is the second orientation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 5, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2019
    Assignee: Konica Minolta, Inc.
    Inventor: Kazuaki Tomono
  • Patent number: 10404870
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus that is communicable with a portable device carried by a user includes a hardware processor, the hardware processor executes a process in accordance with a setting value, acquires a terminal image displayed by the portable device from the portable device, analyzes the acquired terminal image, and sets the setting value based on a result of analysis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 23, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2019
    Assignee: Konica Minolta, Inc.
    Inventor: Kazuaki Tomono
  • Patent number: 10397431
    Abstract: A graphics processing device includes: a CPU corresponding to a general-purpose; and a GPU corresponding to a special-purpose for graphics processing, the GPU being configured to necessitate draw call batching before the GPU starts its operation, wherein: the CPU judges which device, the CPU itself or the GPU, should perform graphics processing to generate a screen image to be displayed on a display with reference to the number of screen elements composing the screen image; and the CPU performs graphics processing to generate the screen image if the CPU judges that the CPU itself should perform graphics processing, and the CPU performs draw call batching then makes the GPU perform graphics processing to generate the screen image if the CPU judges that the GPU should perform graphics processing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 6, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2019
    Assignee: Konica Minolta, Inc.
    Inventors: Hiroki Tajima, Hozuma Nakajima, Kazuaki Tomono, Kenzo Yamamoto
  • Patent number: 10356258
    Abstract: An image processing system comprises: a terminal device that is provided with a display part; and an image processing device that outputs screen data to the terminal device, thereby enabling the display part to display a screen based on the screen data. The image processing device includes: a storage part in which multiple types of the screen data corresponding to respective screen sizes are stored; a screen information obtaining part that obtains information relating to the screen size of the display part; a screen data selecting part that selects the screen data corresponding to the screen size smaller than the screen size of the display part from among the multiple types of the screen data based on the information obtained by the screen information obtaining part; and an output part that outputs the screen data selected by the screen data selecting part to the terminal device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2019
    Assignee: Konica Minolta, Inc.
    Inventors: Kazuaki Tomono, Hiroki Tajima, Taiju Inagaki, Tadashi Suzue
  • Publication number: 20190215406
    Abstract: A display device, with a display part having a rectangular display area, capable of changing an orientation of the display part between a first orientation and a second orientation rotated by 90 degrees from the first orientation, comprises: a hardware processor that: detects whether the orientation of the display part is either the first orientation or the second orientation; displays a first screen on which an operation screen operable for a user is arranged on a whole surface of the display area on the display part when the orientation of the display part is the first orientation; and displays a second screen on which reduced the operation screen is arranged in a part of the display area and a content included in the operation screen is arranged in a remaining part of the display area on the display part when the orientation of the display part is the second orientation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 5, 2018
    Publication date: July 11, 2019
    Applicant: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.
    Inventor: Kazuaki TOMONO
  • Publication number: 20180373479
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus capable of performing image processing by communicating with a remote terminal includes: a communication part that communicates with the remote terminal; a display part; and a hardware processor that: is capable of obtaining a file having a format corresponding to a first icon image, the file being a file as an image processing target; is capable of performing image processing involving file format conversion of the obtained file; obtains a second icon image corresponding to a format of a file after undergoing processing generated by the image processing, from the remote terminal; and causes the display part to display the second icon image obtained by the hardware processor, for the file after undergoing processing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 13, 2018
    Publication date: December 27, 2018
    Applicant: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.
    Inventors: Hozuma NAKAJIMA, Kazuaki TOMONO, Kenzo YAMAMOTO
  • Patent number: 10110762
    Abstract: A display control device for displaying a screen in a display unit is provided. The display control device includes an obtaining portion configured to obtain size data indicating a size of a display surface of the display unit; and a processor configured to determine whether the size of the display surface is larger or smaller than a predetermined size based on the size data, to display a first screen including first objects in the display unit when the size of the display surface is larger than the predetermined size, and to display a second screen including second objects in the display unit when the size of the display surface is smaller than the predetermined size. The second screen corresponds to the first screen. The second objects are less than the first objects, and each of the second objects corresponds to any one of the first objects.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 23, 2018
    Assignee: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.
    Inventors: Hiroki Tajima, Kazuaki Tomono, Tadashi Suzue, Taiju Inagaki
  • Publication number: 20180262634
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus that is communicable with a portable device carried by a user includes a hardware processor, the hardware processor executes a process in accordance with a setting value, acquires a terminal image displayed by the portable device from the portable device, analyzes the acquired terminal image, and sets the setting value based on a result of analysis.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 23, 2018
    Publication date: September 13, 2018
    Applicant: Konica Minotta, Inc.
    Inventor: Kazuaki TOMONO
  • Patent number: 9984663
    Abstract: A display device includes: a display; a base screen image storage that stores a base screen image; a resolution judgment portion that judges whether or not the display resolution is equal to a reference resolution; an image creator that creates a first image by enlarging or reducing the base screen image to the display resolution while sacrificing image quality for speed and creates a second image by enlarging or reducing the same to the display resolution while sacrificing speed for image quality; a second image storage that stores the second image; a display processor that causes the display to display the first or second image upon screen switch; and a screen judgment portion that judges which screen a screen displayed on the display is, a screen deserving or not deserving for a second image to be stored, with reference to reference information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 23, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 29, 2018
    Assignee: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.
    Inventors: Kazuaki Tomono, Hozuma Nakajima, Hiroki Tajima, Kenzo Yamamoto
  • Publication number: 20170263217
    Abstract: A display device includes: a display; a base screen image storage that stores a base screen image; a resolution judgment portion that judges whether or not the display resolution is equal to a reference resolution; an image creator that creates a first image by enlarging or reducing the base screen image to the display resolution while sacrificing image quality for speed and creates a second image by enlarging or reducing the same to the display resolution while sacrificing speed for image quality; a second image storage that stores the second image; a display processor that causes the display to display the first or second image upon screen switch; and a screen judgment portion that judges which screen a screen displayed on the display is, a screen deserving or not deserving for a second image to be stored, with reference to reference information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 23, 2017
    Publication date: September 14, 2017
    Applicant: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.
    Inventors: Kazuaki TOMONO, Hozuma NAKAJIMA, Hiroki TAJIMA, Kenzo YAMAMOTO
  • Publication number: 20170264769
    Abstract: A graphics processing device includes: a CPU corresponding to a general-purpose; and a GPU corresponding to a special-purpose for graphics processing, the GPU being configured to necessitate draw call batching before the GPU starts its operation, wherein: the CPU judges which device, the CPU itself or the GPU, should perform graphics processing to generate a screen image to be displayed on a display with reference to the number of screen elements composing the screen image; and the CPU performs graphics processing to generate the screen image if the CPU judges that the CPU itself should perform graphics processing, and the CPU performs draw call batching then makes the GPU perform graphics processing to generate the screen image if the CPU judges that the GPU should perform graphics processing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 6, 2017
    Publication date: September 14, 2017
    Applicant: Konica Minolta, Inc.
    Inventors: Hiroki TAJIMA, Hozuma NAKAJIMA, Kazuaki TOMONO, Kenzo YAMAMOTO
  • Patent number: 9628647
    Abstract: A screen generating apparatus includes a reference screen information acquiring portion to acquire reference screen information, the reference screen information including a plurality of components classified into one or more sets and layout information for disposing the components in a reference screen, a screen size acquiring portion to acquire a screen size of a display portion, a set area determining portion to determine, for each of the one or more sets, a converted area corresponding to the set in a display screen, on the basis of the acquired screen size and the layout information included in the reference screen information, and a component disposing portion to dispose the components included in the reference screen information, in the converted areas within the display screen corresponding respectively to the one or more sets, each component being disposed in the same size as that in the reference screen.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 4, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2017
    Assignee: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.
    Inventors: Kazuaki Tomono, Tadashi Suzue, Chohiko Fukuoh, Hiroaki Sugimoto, Manabu Furukawa
  • Publication number: 20170013149
    Abstract: A display control device for displaying a screen in a display unit is provided. The display control device includes an obtaining portion configured to obtain size data indicating a size of a display surface of the display unit; and a processor configured to determine whether the size of the display surface is larger or smaller than a predetermined size based on the size data, to display a first screen including first objects in the display unit when the size of the display surface is larger than the predetermined size, and to display a second screen including second objects in the display unit when the size of the display surface is smaller than the predetermined size. The second screen corresponds to the first screen. The second objects are less than the first objects, and each of the second objects corresponds to any one of the first objects.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 23, 2016
    Publication date: January 12, 2017
    Applicant: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.
    Inventors: Hiroki TAJIMA, Kazuaki TOMONO, Tadashi SUZUE, Taiju INAGAKI
  • Publication number: 20160219170
    Abstract: An image processing system comprises: a terminal device that is provided with a display part; and an image processing device that outputs screen data to the terminal device, thereby enabling the display part to display a screen based on the screen data. The image processing device includes: a storage part in which multiple types of the screen data corresponding to respective screen sizes are stored; a screen information obtaining part that obtains information relating to the screen size of the display part; a screen data selecting part that selects the screen data corresponding to the screen size smaller than the screen size of the display part from among the multiple types of the screen data based on the information obtained by the screen information obtaining part; and an output part that outputs the screen data selected by the screen data selecting part to the terminal device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 22, 2016
    Publication date: July 28, 2016
    Applicant: Konica Minolta, Inc.
    Inventors: Kazuaki TOMONO, Hiroki TAJIMA, Taiju INAGAKI, Tadashi SUZUE
  • Patent number: 9369596
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes: a touch-enabled display that is capable of displaying a first screen and a second screen smaller than the first screen, the second screen showing information, the second screen to be expanded with a user sliding manipulation; a memory that stores reference information determining which information on the second screen is relevant and irrelevant to the first screen; a judgment portion that judges whether or not the information on the second screen is relevant to the first screen on the basis of the reference information stored on the memory; and a display controller that expands the second screen even without the sliding manipulation being completely finished if the information on the second screen is relevant to the first screen and that restores the second screen to the previous state upon finish of the sliding manipulation if the information on the second screen is irrelevant to the first screen.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 16, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2016
    Assignee: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.
    Inventors: Chohiko Fukuoh, Hiroki Tajima, Kazuaki Tomono, Taiju Inagaki
  • Publication number: 20150222767
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes: a touch-enabled display that is capable of displaying a first screen and a second screen smaller than the first screen, the second screen showing information, the second screen to be expanded with a user sliding manipulation; a memory that stores reference information determining which information on the second screen is relevant and irrelevant to the first screen; a judgment portion that judges whether or not the information on the second screen is relevant to the first screen on the basis of the reference information stored on the memory; and a display controller that expands the second screen even without the sliding manipulation being completely finished if the information on the second screen is relevant to the first screen and that restores the second screen to the previous state upon finish of the sliding manipulation if the information on the second screen is irrelevant to the first screen.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 16, 2015
    Publication date: August 6, 2015
    Applicant: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.
    Inventors: Chohiko FUKUOH, Hiroki TAJIMA, Kazuaki TOMONO, Taiju INAGAKI
  • Patent number: 9007636
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes an internal control portion to execute a process predetermined for an internal command, an application executing portion to execute an application program, and an application control portion to convert an application command output from the application executing portion into an internal command and output the internal command to the internal control portion. The application control portion includes a controlled-object determination portion to determine whether the hardware resource to be controlled by a first internal command obtained by converting a first application command input from a first custom portion and the hardware resource to be controlled by a second internal command obtained by converting a second application command input from a second custom portion are of the same type, and an arbitration portion to control timings for outputting the first and second internal commands on the basis of the determination result by the controlled-object determination portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 10, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 14, 2015
    Assignee: Konica Minolta, Inc.
    Inventors: Kazuaki Tomono, Kenji Matsuhara, Kenichi Takahashi, Kazumi Sawayanagi, Yosuke Taniguchi, Manabu Furukawa
  • Patent number: 8988694
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes an operating portion to control hardware resources, an internal control portion to perform a process predetermined for an internal command, an application executing portion to execute an application program and output a simplified command or application command, and an application control portion to convert the simplified command or application command output by the application executing portion into an internal command and output the internal command to the internal control portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 10, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 24, 2015
    Assignee: Konica Minolta, Inc.
    Inventors: Kenichi Takahashi, Kazuaki Tomono, Kazumi Sawayanagi, Kenji Matsuhara, Yosuke Taniguchi
  • Publication number: 20150070398
    Abstract: A screen generating apparatus includes a reference screen information acquiring portion to acquire reference screen information, the reference screen information including a plurality of components classified into one or more sets and layout information for disposing the components in a reference screen, a screen size acquiring portion to acquire a screen size of a display portion, a set area determining portion to determine, for each of the one or more sets, a converted area corresponding to the set in a display screen, on the basis of the acquired screen size and the layout information included in the reference screen information, and a component disposing portion to dispose the components included in the reference screen information, in the converted areas within the display screen corresponding respectively to the one or more sets, each component being disposed in the same size as that in the reference screen.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 4, 2014
    Publication date: March 12, 2015
    Applicant: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.
    Inventors: Kazuaki TOMONO, Tadashi Suzue, Chohiko Fukuoh, Hiroaki Sugimoto, Manabu Furukawa