Patents by Inventor Kazuo Inui
Kazuo Inui 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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Publication number: 20100332464Abstract: A search site on a network performs information search by a keyword. When a Web page is selected among those detected by the information search, the keyword, a text in the selected Web page and the Web page's address are interconnected and recorded as one search record in a recording device. And then, it is judged whether or not there exist in one or more then one document, any words that match any keywords included in the search records recorded in the recording device. If there exists a word that matches a keyword, the display data to display the document with just a part of the text as least and/or the Web page's address included in the same search record as the keyword, is created, and a job is executed using the display data.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 23, 2010Publication date: December 30, 2010Applicant: Konica Minolta Business Tecchnologies, Inc.Inventors: Hidetaka Iwai, Kazuo Inui, Nobuhiro Mishima, Kaitaku Ozawa
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Patent number: 7814553Abstract: A multifunction device includes a storage controlling portion for causing document data, which are to be given by a user who has logged in to a different user, to be stored in a box owned by the different user, and an access authority setting portion for granting an access authority to make access to the document data, to both of the users in the event that the document data are stored in the box and, also, for erasing the access authority, which has been granted to the user, when the user logs out. Thus, in the event that the user stores the data such as document data or the like in the box other than his or her personal box, the user can be permitted to make access to the data, while the owner of such box is warranted a high security and conveniences of data management are ensured.Type: GrantFiled: September 30, 2004Date of Patent: October 12, 2010Assignee: Konica Minolta Business Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Hiroyuki Kawabata, Hisashi Uchida, Kiyoshi Emori, Kazuo Inui
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Publication number: 20100247063Abstract: In order to facilitate editing of moving images, MFP includes a reproduction portion to reproduce a moving image, an insertion location determination portion to determine, as an insertion location, a reproduction location of a first moving image that is being reproduced at a point of time when an insertion instruction is accepted during reproduction of the first moving image by the reproduction portion, a still image obtaining portion to obtain a still image, a moving image generation portion to generate a second moving image displaying the obtained still image, and a combination portion to generate a third moving image in which the second moving image is inserted at the determined insertion location of the first moving image (S09) and to store the generated third moving image in HDD.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 17, 2009Publication date: September 30, 2010Applicant: Konica Minolta Business Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Kenji Matsuhara, Hiroaki Kubo, Nobuhiro Mishima, Kazuo Inui
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Publication number: 20100049828Abstract: A data sending apparatus, on sending data to a receiving apparatus, searches its storage for a transmission method to the receiving apparatus. After sending data to the receiving apparatus, the sending apparatus receives from the receiving apparatus a transmission result including a transmission condition and capabilities of the receiving apparatus. When an error occurs during the data transmission, the sending apparatus reads the communication and processing capabilities of the receiving apparatus from the transmission result, and resends the data by a transmission method in accordance with the receiving apparatus. It then acquires the transmission result and stores the same in the storage.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 29, 2009Publication date: February 25, 2010Applicant: MINOLTA CO., LTD.Inventors: Tomonari YOSHIMURA, Kazuo Inui, Hiroyuki Ideyama
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Publication number: 20100046021Abstract: In the case where an attribute of a general-purpose file to be processed is an attribute inhibiting printing, an MFP selects a transmission function, which is one of output functions of the MFP, as a function that can be performed (selected) in response to an output instruction, and displays a screen for transmission. In the case of an attribute permitting a document assembly function, the MFP determines that a bind function is a function that can be performed (selected), and displays a screen for the function. In the case of an attribute inhibiting the document assembly function, the MFP determines that a function of adding information to a file, which is one of the output functions of the MFP that does not implement the document assembly function, is a function that can be performed (selected), and displays a screen for the function.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 30, 2009Publication date: February 25, 2010Applicant: Konica Minolta Business Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Kazuo INUI, Hiroaki KUBO, Nobuhiro MISHIMA, Kenji MATSUHARA
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Patent number: 7634576Abstract: A data sending apparatus, on sending data to a receiving apparatus, searches its storage for a transmission method to the receiving apparatus. After sending data to the receiving apparatus, the sending apparatus receives from the receiving apparatus a transmission result including a transmission condition and capabilities of the receiving apparatus. When an error occurs during the data transmission, the sending apparatus reads the communication and processing capabilities of the receiving apparatus from the transmission result, and resends the data by a transmission method in accordance with the receiving apparatus. It then acquires the transmission result and stores the same in the storage.Type: GrantFiled: October 10, 2007Date of Patent: December 15, 2009Assignee: Minolta Co., Ltd.Inventors: Tomonari Yoshimura, Kazuo Inui, Hiroyuki Ideyama
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Publication number: 20090216536Abstract: An image processing apparatus comprises an image data input portion that inputs image data and a text data input portion that inputs text data. The text data inputted by the text data input portion is converted into voice data by a voice data converter, and this obtained voice data and the image data inputted by the image data input portion are connected to each other by a connector, and then a file including the voice data and the image data connected to each other is created.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 18, 2009Publication date: August 27, 2009Applicant: KONICA MINOLTA BUSINESS TECHNOLOGIES, INC.Inventors: Kenji Matsuhara, Hiroaki Kubo, Nobuhiro Mishima, Kazuo Inui
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Publication number: 20090213410Abstract: A detector detects a first key information piece embedded on one side of one sheet or more than one respective sheets from which image data is read out by a reader, and a second key information piece embedded on the other side thereof or on another sheet. And a comparator 11 compares to each other, the detected first and second key information pieces and judges whether or not these key information pieces are related to each other. Then, a controller permits an output portion to output image data read out from all judgment target sheets if it is judged about all these respective sheets that the first and second key information pieces are related to each other, meanwhile the controller prohibits the output portion from outputting image data read out from one sheet if it is judged about this sheet that those key information pieces are not related to each other.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 12, 2009Publication date: August 27, 2009Applicant: Konica Minolta Business Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Kazuo INUI, Hiroaki Kubo, Nobuhiro Mishima, Kenji Matsuhara
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Publication number: 20090141305Abstract: A data processing apparatus has a first controller which specifies an output mode for image data to be processed and a second controller which determines whether the image data is stored in a memory or not based on the output mode specified by the first controller.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 21, 2009Publication date: June 4, 2009Applicant: Minolta Co. Ltd.Inventors: Kazuo INUI, Hiroyuki IDEYAMA, Tomonari YOSHIMURA
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Publication number: 20090040544Abstract: In order to give notice to process the latest data, MFP includes HDD to store data, a data obtaining portion to accept target data to be output, a related data extraction portion to extract related data that is related to the target data and is newer than the target data from the data stored in HDD, a difference extraction portion to extract a difference between the extracted related data and the target data, and an output portion to output the difference.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 21, 2008Publication date: February 12, 2009Applicant: Konica Minolta Business Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Kenji MATSUHARA, Hiroaki Kubo, Nobuhiro Mishima, Kazuo Inui
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Publication number: 20080200118Abstract: A communication system and a communication method for permitting a user of a cell-phone to receive data in a non-service area via an MFP. When the communication condition between a base station and a cell-phone becomes bad, the base station sends a map showing the current position of the cell-phone and the locations of nearby MFPs to the cell-phone. The user of the cell-phone selects one from the MFPs on the map and notifies the base station of the selected MFP. The base station sends an e-mail addressed to the cell-phone to the selected MFP, and the MFP stores the e-mail therein. The user of the cell-phone makes an access to the MFP by short-distance wireless communication to receive the e-mail.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 8, 2008Publication date: August 21, 2008Applicant: Konica Minolta Business Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Hiroaki Kubo, Kenji Matsuhara, Nobuhiro Mishima, Kazuo Inui
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Publication number: 20080170256Abstract: In an image processing apparatus, information identifying a user and information identifying portable terminal unit are stored in correlation with each other. After a sheet based on a certain printing request is outputted to an exit tray of the image processing apparatus, whether or not a sheet is present in the exit tray is judged, and whether or not a user having transmitted the printing request is situated within a predetermined distance from the image processing apparatus is judged. A message selected based on these judgment results is sent to a mobile terminal unit correlated with information identifying the user.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 1, 2007Publication date: July 17, 2008Applicant: Konica Minolta Business Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Kenji Matsuhara, Hiroaki Kubo, Nobuhiro Mishima, Kazuo Inui
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Patent number: 7365869Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a first memory for storing image data, a second memory for storing image forming conditions, an image output unit for outputting the image data stored in the first memory under the image forming conditions stored in the second memory, and command means for generating a command of discarding the image data being output from the image output unit. The apparatus also has a controller. If a command of discarding the image data is generated by the command means, the controller discards the image data stored in the first memory, while it maintains the associated image forming conditions stored in the second memory.Type: GrantFiled: January 28, 1999Date of Patent: April 29, 2008Assignee: Minolta Co., Ltd.Inventors: Hiroshi Sumiyama, Junko Natsume, Kazuo Inui
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Publication number: 20080089341Abstract: There is provided a data transmission apparatus, an image processing apparatus and a program, capable of preventing data from being transmitted to a destination to which the data should not be transmitted, in the case where there is a possibility that the data is forwarded to a destination other than the destination designated at the time of the transmission. When an address designated as a transmission destination has a possibility that data is forwarded to another address, such as an address of a mailing list, a forward destination information determining/acquiring unit acquires the information of the forward destination. When the forward destination includes the address that does not correspond to the transmission-permitted address held in a transmission-permitted address holder unit, an e-mail transmission canceling unit cancels the transmission to the address to which the transmission is not permitted.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 8, 2007Publication date: April 17, 2008Applicant: KONICA MINOLTA BUSINESS TECHNOLOGIES, INC.Inventor: Kazuo INUI
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Publication number: 20080055659Abstract: A transmission-side MFP receives a user name, checks whether the user name is registered in a destination user list, and if so, transmits image data to a reception-side MFP. If an ACK is received, the transmission-side MFP displays that transmission was successful. When a NACK is received or a time out occurs, the transmission-side MFP checks whether the user name is registered in an individual address book, and if so, transmits the image data using a corresponding transmission method. If an ACK is received, the transmission-side MFP displays that transmission was successful. If a timeout occurs, the transmission-side MFP displays that transmission failed.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 30, 2007Publication date: March 6, 2008Applicant: KONICA MINOLTA BUSINESS TECHNOLOGIES, INC.Inventors: Hisashi UCHIDA, Kazuo INUI, Tomo TSUBOI, Hideki HINO, Ayumi ITOH
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Publication number: 20080055624Abstract: An image processing apparatus that can be controlled according to multiple control methods for multiple types of control.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 21, 2007Publication date: March 6, 2008Applicant: KONICA MINOLTA BUSINESS TECHNOLOGIES, INC.Inventors: Kazuo INUI, Tomo Tsuboi, Hisashi Uchida
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Publication number: 20080052405Abstract: A data sending apparatus, on sending data to a receiving apparatus, searches its storage for a transmission method to the receiving apparatus. After sending data to the receiving apparatus, the sending apparatus receives from the receiving apparatus a transmission result including a transmission condition and capabilities of the receiving apparatus. When an error occurs during the data transmission, the sending apparatus reads the communication and processing capabilities of the receiving apparatus from the transmission result, and resends the data by a transmission method in accordance with the receiving apparatus. It then acquires the transmission result and stores the same in the storage.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 10, 2007Publication date: February 28, 2008Applicant: Minolta Co. Ltd.Inventors: Tomonari Yoshimura, Kazuo Inui, Hiroyuki Ideyama
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Patent number: 7299293Abstract: A data sending apparatus, on sending data to a receiving apparatus, searches its storage for a transmission method to the receiving apparatus. After sending data to the receiving apparatus, the sending apparatus receives from the receiving apparatus a transmission result including a transmission condition and capabilities of the receiving apparatus. When an error occurs during the data transmission, the sending apparatus reads the communication and processing capabilities of the receiving apparatus from the transmission result, and resends the data by a transmission method in accordance with the receiving apparatus. It then acquires the transmission result and stores the same in the storage.Type: GrantFiled: April 4, 2003Date of Patent: November 20, 2007Assignee: Minolta Co., Ltd.Inventors: Tomonari Yoshimura, Kazuo Inui, Hiroyuki Ideyama
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Publication number: 20060294464Abstract: Necessity/no necessity for user support (such as enlarged display) is registered for each user or for each screen displayed on the apparatus. A user using the apparatus is specified by means of user authentication. Every time the screen is to be displayed, it is done based on information of necessity/no necessity for user support that has been registered. Thus, operability for the user can be improved.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 23, 2005Publication date: December 28, 2006Applicant: Konica Minolta Business Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Yoshiki Tokimoto, Kazuo Inui, Kimie Mishima
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Publication number: 20060242579Abstract: In order to enable a user to easily and quickly set the processing mode, the user interface device sets the processing mode for job execution in an image processing apparatus. This user interface device includes specifying means that specifies the processing modes presented to the user prior to processing mode setting as presentation processing modes, generating means that generates presentation preview images indicating processing results when the image data is processed using the presentation processing modes, display means that displays the generated presentation preview images, and setting means that sets in the image processing apparatus the processing modes corresponding to the displayed presentation preview images.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 16, 2005Publication date: October 26, 2006Applicant: Konica Minolta Business Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Kimie Mishima, Kazuo Inui, Yoshiki Tokimoto