Patents by Inventor Kazuma Aoki

Kazuma Aoki 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).

  • Creating data and voice webpages with a fax machine that allows a user to select template names from a list of templates
    Patent number: 7512877
    Abstract: A communication system includes a server and a facsimile machine. The server includes templates and provides a Web page creation service. The facsimile machine communicates with the server and includes input and output units to input and output text, images, and voice messages. When a creation of a Web page is requested from the facsimile machine to the server, a user is prompted to input text, images, and voice messages to be embedded in a template via a display unit of the facsimile machine. The text, images and voice messages input accordingly are sent to the server as input data, and embedded in the template to complete a Web page on the server.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2002
    Date of Patent: March 31, 2009
    Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Kazuma Aoki
  • Image Forming Apparatus
    Publication number: 20090080006
    Abstract: In an image forming apparatus, an image forming portion forms an image on a rotator. A first designating portion determines a first estimated phase point based on a base time point, and designate, as a designated parameter, a correction parameter corresponding to said first estimated phase point based on change characteristics information stored in a storage portion. A correcting portion corrects an image forming position on the rotator based on the designated parameter. A changing portion changes a value of the designated parameter into an adjusted value intermediate between the designated parameter and a reference parameter that is a correction parameter designated based on the time when the detecting portion detects the detecting phase point.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 17, 2008
    Publication date: March 26, 2009
    Applicant: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Kazuma AOKI
  • Communication system, communication terminal, system control program product and terminal control program product
    Patent number: 7483160
    Abstract: In a communication system, an access source page is printed, together with an entry column and code regions on a sheet of paper, the entry column being provided for entering a command content to access destination pages, the code regions being provided for entering codes for specifying access destination pages corresponding to the entry column. Then, the sheet of paper on which the command content has been entered by a user is read. A URL of an access destination page corresponding to each entry column in which the command content has been entered is specified on the basis of contents entered in the code regions, a link list or a text file. At least one command to the specified URL is specified on the basis of check-off states of check columns constituting each entry column. Then, at least one process corresponding to the command is applied to the URL.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 2003
    Date of Patent: January 27, 2009
    Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Kazuma Aoki, Kazuhiro Yamagata, Katsunori Enomoto
  • Image forming apparatus and program product for use in the apparatus
    Patent number: 7471410
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus sends a request signal to a web server upon reception of a request signal for web server from a LAN terminal and receives content data sent from the web server in response to the request signal. The image forming apparatus judges whether the received content data is suitable for a display capabilities of the LAN terminal. When judging that the received content data is suitable for the capabilities of the LAN terminal that has sent the request signal, the image forming apparatus transfers the received content data to the LAN terminal. When judging that the received content data is not suitable for the capabilities of the LAN terminal that has sent the request signal, the image forming apparatus executes a print request process to thereby print an image based on the content data on a recording sheet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 2003
    Date of Patent: December 30, 2008
    Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Yuji Sato, Kazuma Aoki
  • Communication apparatus provided with electronic address book
    Patent number: 7463377
    Abstract: A communication apparatus that executes communication in a desired communication mode determined upon the detection of a predetermined operation done by a user to the communication apparatus prior to communication. Recipient information corresponding to the desired communication mode, that is, a telephone, facsimile, or e-mail mode, is retrieved from an electronic address book in which various kinds of recipient information corresponding to the various communication modes are registered and managed together on a recipient-by-recipient basis, in association with names of recipients. A display unit displays thereon a list of names of recipients associated with the retrieved recipient information to allow the user to designate a recipient from the list.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2002
    Date of Patent: December 9, 2008
    Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Kazuma Aoki
  • Printing Device and Computer Readable Medium Therefor
    Publication number: 20080297841
    Abstract: A printing device, which is configured to execute a print job and perform a printing operation based on the print job, includes an interruption unit configured to perform an interruption process for interrupting a first print job in execution and executing a second print job, a calculating unit configured to calculate a ratio of a second time taken for a printing operation for the second print job to a first time taken for a printing operation for unprinted pages of the first print job, and a control unit configured to allow the interruption unit to perform the interruption process based on the ratio calculated by the calculating unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 29, 2008
    Publication date: December 4, 2008
    Applicant: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Kazuma AOKI
  • Printing Device, Method, and Computer Readable Medium Therefor
    Publication number: 20080297843
    Abstract: A printing device includes a plurality of sorts of interfaces each of which is configured to receive therethrough a print job sent by a sending source device, a printing unit configured to perform a printing operation for the print job received by each of the interfaces, a determining unit configured to determine a print priority of each of the print jobs based on a sort of an interface through which the print job is received, a control unit configured to control the printing unit to preferentially perform a printing operation for a print job with a higher print priority given thereto by the determining unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 30, 2008
    Publication date: December 4, 2008
    Applicant: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Kazuma AOKI
  • Communication terminal, storage medium and communication system
    Patent number: 7418654
    Abstract: A communication terminal uses a Web printing function to print a Web page of a URL designated through an operation panel, together with the URL of the Web page and an entry column for entering keywords, on a sheet of paper. When an image is read from the sheet of paper, the communication terminal specifies contents written in a specific position. When any URL is contained in the contents and any keyword is specified together with the URL, the communication terminal registers the URL and the keyword associatively in a data table. After that, a user can make the communication terminal print the Web page of the designated URL by designating the URL registered in the data table on the basis of the keyword corresponding to the URL.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 2003
    Date of Patent: August 26, 2008
    Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Yoshiyuki Kondo, Kazuma Aoki
  • Image processing system, image processing device, server and program
    Patent number: 7406270
    Abstract: An image processing system including an image processing device, a service supply unit and an information supply unit is provided. The image processing device includes a service search data transmission unit, a service determination unit, and a service requesting unit. The information supply unit including a service search data reception unit; a presumption unit that presumes a probability of each service based on the service search data received by the service search data reception unit and according to prescribed presumption rules; and a list supply unit that supplies a list generated by extracting services likely to be requested from the service supply unit from all the services executable by the service supply unit and a list generated by sorting the services executable by the service supply unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 3, 2005
    Date of Patent: July 29, 2008
    Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Masafumi Miyazawa, Makoto Matsuda, Kiyotaka Ohara, Kazuma Aoki, Satoru Yanagi, Masatoshi Kokubo
  • Service providing system
    Patent number: 7395121
    Abstract: A service providing system includes input/output devices, a service providing device configured to provide services by driving the input/output devices, and a preparation device, in response to receipt of a provision command for a service, configured to selectively place the input/output devices, for providing the service, which are in a non-standby state, into a standby state. In a multi-function device system including input/output devices, a method of providing a service includes receiving a provision command for a service, and selectively placing the input/output devices for providing the service into a standby state in response to the provision command.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2006
    Date of Patent: July 1, 2008
    Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Kazuma Aoki
  • Image forming device capable of sorting acquired data
    Patent number: 7375846
    Abstract: A facsimile device includes a communication module for communicating with a web server connected to the Internet. A web printing unit of the communication module receives data from the web server, and adds accumulated data information indicating a saving position of the received data to a corresponding data file if the received data conforms to predetermined sorting conditions. When the amount of received data for which the accumulated data information has been stored in the data file exceeds one page worth, then n-pages worth of received data is converted into print data and recorded in a print FIFO.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 6, 2003
    Date of Patent: May 20, 2008
    Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Masatoshi Kokubo, Kazuma Aoki
  • Image forming apparatus
    Publication number: 20080080008
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes: a connector unit to which an external memory device is connected; a detecting unit configured to detect whether the external memory device is connected to the connector unit or not and output a detection result indicating that the connector unit is in a connected state or an unconnected state; a printing unit configured to execute a printing according to data from the external memory device connected to the connector unit; and a suspending unit configured to suspend operation of the printing unit according to a predetermined timing in response to a change in the detection result from the connected state to the unconnected state.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 27, 2007
    Publication date: April 3, 2008
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Yamamoto, Toru Tsuzuki, Masashi Kato, Kazuma Aoki
  • Image Forming Apparatus
    Publication number: 20080043281
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes: a memory connecting portion, to which an external memory is detachably connected; a detecting portion that detects a connection state of the external memory; a printing portion that prints an image based on an image file to be printed which is stored in the external memory; and a controller that performs an automatic printing processing in which the controller controls the printing portion to automatically start printing the image in response to a detection by the detecting portion of connection of the external memory to the memory connecting portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 14, 2007
    Publication date: February 21, 2008
    Applicant: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Masashi KATO, Toru TSUZUKI, Hiroyuki YAMAMOTO, Kazuma AOKI
  • IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS
    Publication number: 20080003035
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes: a first designation portion which designates a directory from plural directories stored in a storage medium; a first printing portion which index prints images on a first print medium based on files stored in the directory designated by the first designation portion, the files including at least one of an image data file and a sub-directory; a display portion; a first display control portion which controls the display portion to display information for designating the files after the images are index-printed by the first printing portion; a second designation portion which designates one of the files based on the information displayed on the display portion; and a second printing portion which prints an image on a second print medium based on the designated one of the files.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 8, 2007
    Publication date: January 3, 2008
    Applicant: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Hiroyuki YAMAMOTO, Toru TSUZUKI, Masashi KATO, Kazuma AOKI
  • IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS
    Publication number: 20070299750
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus that can read data from a storage medium having hierarchically structured directories including a first directory and a second directory which is stored in the first directory. The apparatus includes: a display portion that displays designation information of the first directory; a designation portion that designates the second directory based on the first directory designation information displayed on the display portion; a display control portion that controls the display portion to display designation information of the second directory when the second directory is designated by the designation portion; and a printing portion that index-prints images on a print medium based on files stored in one of the first and second directories, the designation information of which is currently displayed on the display portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 8, 2007
    Publication date: December 27, 2007
    Applicant: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Kazuma AOKI, Masashi KATO, Toru TSUZUKI, Hiroyuki YAMAMOTO
  • Image Processing Device and Method for Moving Device to Ready State
    Publication number: 20070285718
    Abstract: There is provided an image processing device, which comprises an interface into which a removal storage medium can be connected; at least one device having one of an image reading function and an image output function; a preparation control unit configured to execute a preparation process so that the at least one device moves from a first state corresponding to a non-ready state and a second state corresponding to a ready state; and an image process unit having at least one of a function of storing image data and a function of reading image data; a detection unit configured to detect whether the removal storage medium is connected to the interface; and a controller configured to move the at least one device to the second state in response to detection of insertion of the removal medium into the interface by the detection unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 12, 2007
    Publication date: December 13, 2007
    Applicant: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Kazuma AOKI, Masashi KATO, Toru TSUZUKI, Hiroyuki YAMAMOTO
  • PRINTING APPARATUS, COMPUTER USABLE MEDIUM, AND CONTROLLING METHOD THEREFOR
    Publication number: 20070279689
    Abstract: A printing apparatus to make a number of copy of a printed material on which an image is formed according to print data stored in a removable memory medium is provided. The printing apparatus includes an interface to which the removable memory medium is connected so that the print data stored in the removable memory medium is inputted to the printing apparatus, a printable number detecting system, which is configured to detect a number of copy of the printed material to be made being stored in the removable memory medium, a printing system, which is configured to make the printed material, and a controlling system, which is configured to control a total of the number of copy of the printed material to be made by the printing system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 6, 2007
    Publication date: December 6, 2007
    Applicant: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Kazuma AOKI, Masashi KATO, Toru TSUZUKI, Hiroyuki YAMAMOTO
  • Image Forming Device and Image Forming Method
    Publication number: 20070245237
    Abstract: An image forming device includes a display, a reading unit, a display controlling unit, and an operating unit. The reading unit reads at least one file stored in a removable memory. The display controlling unit displays on the display a first selection item together with at least one second selection item. The first selection item is used for performing index printing for the at least one file. The at least one second selection item is used for printing each of the at least one file. Each of the at least one second selection item corresponds to one of the at least one file. The operating unit is capable of selecting one of the first selection item and the at least one second selection item.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 27, 2007
    Publication date: October 18, 2007
    Applicant: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Toru Tsuzuki, Masashi Kato, Hiroyuki Yamamoto, Kazuma Aoki
  • Duplicate Setting Prevention System For Image Processing Apparatus
    Publication number: 20070229897
    Abstract: A duplicate setting prevention system for an image processing apparatus includes a setting file, a set of history information, a determination unit, a setting unit, a prohibiting unit, and a history information recording unit. The setting file is stored in a removable memory removably mounted on an image processing apparatus and is for setting the image processing apparatus. The set of history information is stored in the removable memory and indicates that the image processing apparatus has been set based on the setting file. When the removable memory is mounted on the image processing apparatus, the determination unit reads out the history information set and determines that a setting has been performed to the image processing apparatus based on the setting file. The setting unit performs the setting to the image processing apparatus based on the setting file.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 27, 2007
    Publication date: October 4, 2007
    Applicant: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Masashi KATO, Toru TSUZUKI, Hiroyuki YAMAMOTO, Kazuma AOKI
  • PERIPHERAL DEVICE THAT MANAGES DATA DELETION AUTHORITY
    Publication number: 20070233636
    Abstract: A peripheral device has a mounting portion and a storage unit. The mounting portion is configured to mount a removable storage. The storage unit is configured to store data. The reading out unit reads out specific information from the removable storage medium when the removable storage medium is mounted to the mounting portion. The deletion unit deletes at least part of the data in the storage unit based on the specific information read out by the reading out unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 30, 2007
    Publication date: October 4, 2007
    Applicant: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Masashi Kato, Toru Tsuzuki, Hiroyuki Yamamoto, Kazuma Aoki