Patents by Inventor Kazunori Soda
Kazunori Soda 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).
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Patent number: 8537379Abstract: A document reading apparatus includes an integral display portion integrally provided with the area sensor portion and a main CPU for controlling screen display of the integral display portion, in which reflection light from an object placed on a screen of the integral display portion is detected by the area sensor portion. Based on an area of reflection light from the object detected by the area sensor portion, the main CPU determines whether or not the object is a document, and when determined that it is a document, it sets a document reading mode for reading the document placed on the screen by the area sensor portion.Type: GrantFiled: January 27, 2009Date of Patent: September 17, 2013Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Kazunori Soda, Kazumasa Tonami
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Patent number: 8279498Abstract: A document reading apparatus includes an integral display portion integrally provided with the area sensor portion and a main CPU for controlling screen display of the integral display portion, in which a document placed on a screen of the integral display portion is read by the area sensor portion. The integral display portion has an operation area for displaying various operation keys of the document reading apparatus on its screen, and the main CPU detects an area of the document placed on the screen by the area sensor portion and sets an area other than an area where the document is placed as the operation area of the document reading apparatus.Type: GrantFiled: January 23, 2009Date of Patent: October 2, 2012Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Kazumasa Tonami, Kazunori Soda
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Patent number: 8269993Abstract: In an apparatus having a document reading portion for reading an image of a document on a document platen, by reading an image of a document on a display screen using an area sensor, it's not necessary to set a document for reading on the platen so that the document is prevented from being left behind, and even when a document on the platen and the document sticks out of the platen to extend over the screen, it is possible to prevent the document on the screen is erroneously read. When detecting a document on the platen and detecting that an object on the screen does not have a standard size by the area sensor, a control portion of the apparatus controls so that the document reading portion reads the image of the document on the platen and the area sensor is prohibited from reading the image.Type: GrantFiled: January 16, 2009Date of Patent: September 18, 2012Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Hiroshi Takatani, Kazunori Soda
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Patent number: 8089645Abstract: An image processing apparatus which receives print data transmitted from an information processing device, includes: a storage for storing the received print data when the data is confidential print data, together with its ID information; an input control portion for allowing for input of ID information; and a controller having the function that, when detecting input of ID information, outputs the confidential print data corresponding to the input ID information and the function of switching the image forming portion from normal power status to power saving status when no print request has been made for a fixed period of time.Type: GrantFiled: May 12, 2008Date of Patent: January 3, 2012Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Kazunori Soda
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Patent number: 7980478Abstract: A document reading apparatus includes an integral display portion integrally provided with an area sensor portion and a wireless IC tag reader, and a main CPU for detecting by the area sensor portion reflection light from an object placed on a screen of the integral display portion and detecting by the wireless IC tag reader that a wireless IC tag comes close to the screen. When it is determined that the object is a document based on an area of reflection light from the object, the main CPU switches to a document reading mode for reading the document on the screen by the area sensor portion, and when it is detected that a wireless IC tag comes close to the screen, the main CPU switches to a wireless IC tag reading mode for reading electronic money information of the wireless IC tag by the wireless IC tag reader.Type: GrantFiled: January 23, 2009Date of Patent: July 19, 2011Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Shigeru Watase, Kazunori Soda
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Publication number: 20090200370Abstract: A document reading apparatus includes an integral display portion integrally provided with an area sensor portion and a wireless IC tag reader, and a main CPU for detecting by the area sensor portion reflection light from an object placed on a screen of the integral display portion and detecting by the wireless IC tag reader that a wireless IC tag comes close to the screen. When it is determined that the object is a document based on an area of reflection light from the object, the main CPU switches to a document reading mode for reading the document on the screen by the area sensor portion, and when it is detected that a wireless IC tag comes close to the screen, the main CPU switches to a wireless IC tag reading mode for reading electronic money information of the wireless IC tag by the wireless IC tag reader.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 23, 2009Publication date: August 13, 2009Inventors: Shigeru WATASE, Kazunori SODA
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Publication number: 20090201543Abstract: A document reading apparatus includes an integral display portion integrally provided with the area sensor portion and a main CPU for controlling screen display of the integral display portion, in which a document placed on a screen of the integral display portion is read by the area sensor portion. The integral display portion has an operation area for displaying various operation keys of the document reading apparatus on its screen, and the main CPU detects an area of the document placed on the screen by the area sensor portion and sets an area other than an area where the document is placed as the operation area of the document reading apparatus.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 23, 2009Publication date: August 13, 2009Inventors: Kazumasa TONAMI, Kazunori Soda
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Publication number: 20090201517Abstract: A document reading apparatus includes an integral display portion integrally provided with the area sensor portion and a main CPU for controlling screen display of the integral display portion, in which reflection light from an object placed on a screen of the integral display portion is detected by the area sensor portion. Based on an area of reflection light from the object detected by the area sensor portion, the main CPU determines whether or not the object is a document, and when determined that it is a document, it sets a document reading mode for reading the document placed on the screen by the area sensor portion.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 27, 2009Publication date: August 13, 2009Inventors: Kazunori SODA, Kazumasa TONAMI
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Publication number: 20090190152Abstract: In an apparatus having a document reading portion for reading an image of a document on a document platen, by reading an image of a document on a display screen using an area sensor, it's not necessary to set a document for reading on the platen so that the document is prevented from being left behind, and even when a document on the platen and the document sticks out of the platen to extend over the screen, it is possible to prevent the document on the screen is erroneously read. When detecting a document on the platen and detecting that an object on the screen does not have a standard size by the area sensor, a control portion of the apparatus controls so that the document reading portion reads the image of the document on the platen and the area sensor is prohibited from reading the image.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 16, 2009Publication date: July 30, 2009Inventors: Hiroshi TAKATANI, Kazunori SODA
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Patent number: 7495811Abstract: An image reading apparatus includes a display section for displaying image information by being subjected to a voltage and/or an electric field, a writing section for writing the image information into the display section, and a reading section for optically reading the image information displayed on the display section. As the display section, a flexible display section such as an electronic sheet is adopted in the image reading apparatus.Type: GrantFiled: June 13, 2003Date of Patent: February 24, 2009Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Kazunori Soda
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Publication number: 20080297837Abstract: An image processing apparatus which receives print data transmitted from an information processing device, includes: a storage for storing the received print data when the data is confidential print data, together with its ID information; an input control portion for allowing for input of ID information; and a controller having the function that, when detecting input of ID information, outputs the confidential print data corresponding to the input ID information and the function of switching the image forming portion from normal power status to power saving status when no print request has been made for a fixed period of time.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 12, 2008Publication date: December 4, 2008Inventor: Kazunori SODA
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Publication number: 20040012828Abstract: An image reading apparatus includes a display section for displaying image information by being subjected to a voltage and/or an electric field, a writing section for writing the image information into the display section, and a reading section for optically reading the image information displayed on the display section. As the display section, a flexible display section such as an electronic sheet is adopted in the image reading apparatus.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 13, 2003Publication date: January 22, 2004Applicant: Sharp Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Kazunori Soda
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Patent number: 6629795Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes an image forming unit, a paper transport unit, and a control unit for supplying the image forming unit with image data for a plurality of pages so that the image forming unit forms images page by page on sheets transported by the paper transport unit, wherein, when the image data for each page includes data representative of blanks on a leading end side and on a tail end side of the page in a paper transport direction, the control unit deletes the data representative of the blank either on the leading end side or on the tail end side from the image data prior to supplying the image forming unit with the image data, and controls the paper transport unit so that a plurality of sheets are transported sequentially to the image formation unit in a multiple state in which one sheet partially overlaps with another in the paper transport direction by a length corresponding to the deleted data representative of the blank.Type: GrantFiled: March 6, 2001Date of Patent: October 7, 2003Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Hiroki Kinoshita, Kazunori Soda, Yoshifumi Maitani, Hideki Sekino, Masayuki Gomi, Masahiro Kitajiri, Takehiro Katoh, Noritomo Nakashima, Yasuhiro Inoue, Yoshio Nishimoto, Yukinari Satou, Norihide Momose
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Publication number: 20010033050Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes an image forming unit, a paper transport unit, and a control unit for supplying the image forming unit with image data for a plurality of pages so that the image forming unit forms images page by page on sheets transported by the paper transport unit, wherein, when the image data for each page includes data representative of blanks on a leading end side and on a tail end side of the page in a paper transport direction, the control unit deletes the data representative of the blank either on the leading end side or on the tail end side from the image data prior to supplying the image forming unit with the image data, and controls the paper transport unit so that a plurality of sheets are transported sequentially to the image formation unit in a multiple state in which one sheet partially overlaps with another in the paper transport direction by a length corresponding to the deleted data representative of the blank.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 6, 2001Publication date: October 25, 2001Inventors: Hiroki Kinoshita, Kazunori Soda, Yoshifumi Maitani, Hideki Sekino, Masayuki Gomi, Masahiro Kitajiri, Takehiro Katoh, Noritomo Nakashima, Yasuhiro Inoue, Yoshio Nishimoto, Yukinari Satou, Norihide Momose
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Patent number: 5627628Abstract: When a CPU switches the power supply to a fusing lamp to OFF from ON state while an exposing lamp stays on, the CPU suspends a feedback phase control of the exposing lamp and carries out a phase control of the exposing lamp based on the phase control data pre-stored in a RAM for a predetermined period before and after the switching. The exposing lamp is hardly affected by the variance in voltage caused by the switching of the power supply state to the fusing lamp, and therefore can emit exposing light in a constant amount to form an image. Thus, it becomes possible to produce a satisfactory copy image with substantially no inconsistency in copy density.Type: GrantFiled: February 29, 1996Date of Patent: May 6, 1997Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Kazunori Soda, Shigeharu Maehara
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Patent number: 5408301Abstract: An electrophotographic apparatus is provided with a fixing device having the first through third fixing rollers for forming the first fixing section by contacting the first and second fixing rollers as well as forming the second fixing section by contacting the second and third fixing rollers, the first fixing section being temperature-adjusted in relation to a first copying mode, the second fixing section being temperature-adjusted in relation to a second copying mode. Either the first or second fixing section is temperature-adjusted according to the order of priority in such a manner that after the completion of the temperature adjustments, temperature adjustments with respect to the other fixing section is successively carried out.Type: GrantFiled: March 31, 1993Date of Patent: April 18, 1995Assignee: Sharp Labushiki KaishaInventors: Masato Tokishige, Kiyoshi Inamoto, Atsushi Kurimoto, Nobuyuki Ueda, Tokiyuki Okano, Kazunori Soda, Kazunori Iwasa, Tomiyuki Ishikawa, Hidetoshi Kaneko, Toshiki Ohgita, Hideo Matsuda, Takashi Kubo, Syuichi Yoshinaka, Yasuhiro Ono, Yoshiaki Masuda
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Patent number: 5325165Abstract: A copying machine as an example of electrophotographic printing machines is composed of a main body which permits both black-and-white copying and full color copying, and a reverse and retransport unit provided under the main body, for reversing and retransporting a sheet after being copied on one surface thereof to the main body. The main body has a fixing means including upper and lower fixing portions formed between three heat rollers. The lower fixing portion placed closer to the reverse and retransport unit is associated with the black-and-white copying, and the upper fixing portion is associated with the full color copying. Upper and lower discharge transport paths for discharging the sheet out of the device are provided so as to respectively extend from the upper and lower fixing portions. Further, a retransport path is provided so as to extend from the lower fixing portion. Since the above three paths are provided without having any crossing point, the structure of the paths is simplified.Type: GrantFiled: March 8, 1993Date of Patent: June 28, 1994Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Toshiki Ohgita, Hideo Matsuda, Takashi Kubo, Yoshiaki Masuda, Hidetoshi Kaneko, Kazunori Iwasa, Kazunori Soda, Tokiyuki Okano, Tomiyuki Ishikawa