Patents by Inventor Kazuo Shibuta
Kazuo Shibuta 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: 10614390Abstract: Provided is an information processing apparatus, including a task request receiving unit that receives a request for a task of creating contents, a contract entry receiving unit that receives an entry of a contract of the task, a method selection receiving unit that receives a selection of any one of a designation method, and a competition method, and a task contract requesting unit that outputs information for requesting a contract of the task to the one or more applicants designated among the applicants whose entry is received by the contract entry receiving unit when the designation method is selected and outputs information for requesting a contract of all or a part of the task to the two or more applicants whose entry is received by the contract entry receiving unit when the competition method is selected.Type: GrantFiled: March 10, 2017Date of Patent: April 7, 2020Assignee: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.Inventors: Masahiro Oizumi, Kazuo Shibuta, Norihito Mizobata, Kojiro Tsutsumi
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Publication number: 20180018604Abstract: Provided is an information processing apparatus, including a task request receiving unit that receives a request for a task of creating contents, a contract entry receiving unit that receives an entry of a contract of the task, a method selection receiving unit that receives a selection of any one of a designation method, and a competition method, and a task contract requesting unit that outputs information for requesting a contract of the task to the one or more applicants designated among the applicants whose entry is received by the contract entry receiving unit when the designation method is selected and outputs information for requesting a contract of all or a part of the task to the two or more applicants whose entry is received by the contract entry receiving unit when the competition method is selected.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 10, 2017Publication date: January 18, 2018Applicant: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.Inventors: Masahiro OIZUMI, Kazuo SHIBUTA, Norihito MIZOBATA, Kojiro TSUTSUMI
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Patent number: 8305420Abstract: An attention calling apparatus includes: a measurement unit for measuring at least one first job related physical quantity related to a performance status of a first job of a user; and an attention calling processing execution unit for executing processing for calling user's attention so as to perform a second job based on the first job related physical quantity measured by the measurement unit and at least one second job related physical quantity indicating a status of the second job which a user can perform.Type: GrantFiled: September 7, 2005Date of Patent: November 6, 2012Assignee: Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd.Inventors: Hideto Yuzawa, Yoshifumi Matsunaga, Akinori Komura, Tomokazu Yago, Kazuo Shibuta, Hiroyuki Hattori
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Patent number: 8140374Abstract: A commodity-information provision evaluation method for visualizing information contributing to evaluating of commodity information provided by a commodity provider, includes performing, according to an operator's selection operation, process display processing that includes superimposing and displaying at least two of intention information, expectation information and practical information on a screen in a matrix format, to visualize a gap between the commodity information provision media, or image display processing that includes superimposing at least two of target image information, design image information and user image information on an image map screen in which information regarding image is allocated to each of regions into which a display screen is divided so that the at least two are displayed in regions to which the at least two are allocated.Type: GrantFiled: April 6, 2007Date of Patent: March 20, 2012Assignee: Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd.Inventors: Kazushi Ozawa, Koushi Kawamoto, Kazuo Shibuta, Yutaka Andoh, Yoshitsugu Hirose
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Patent number: 8015050Abstract: There is provided an operation supporting apparatus including a memory portion that stores characteristics of an operation to be multiplexed, and a determination portion that determines appropriateness of multiple operations to be multiplexed on the basis of the characteristics thereof stored in the memory portion.Type: GrantFiled: September 9, 2005Date of Patent: September 6, 2011Assignee: Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd.Inventors: Akinori Komura, Yoshifumi Matsunaga, Kazuo Shibuta, Hideto Yuzawa, Tomokazu Yago, Hiroyuki Hattori
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Patent number: 7913904Abstract: A medium evaluation method for evaluating a commodity information provision medium that commodity consumers expect to use as an acquisition unit of commodity information provided by a commodity provider at each step of a purchase process wherein: expectation information is associated with kinds of commodity information provision media that commodity consumers expect to use at each step of the purchase process, and access information is used to access the consumers from whom the expectation information is acquired, the method includes: in response to specifying a certain commodity information provision medium at a certain step of the purchase process in the expectation information, specifying access information of a consumer who expects to use the specified commodity information provision medium at the specified step of the purchase process from the access information.Type: GrantFiled: April 6, 2007Date of Patent: March 29, 2011Assignee: Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd.Inventors: Kazushi Ozawa, Koushi Kawamoto, Kazuo Shibuta, Yutaka Andoh, Yoshitsugu Hirose
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Publication number: 20080016024Abstract: A questionnaire apparatus includes: a question storage unit that holds plural questions; a selection condition reception unit that receives a selection condition for selecting a question; and a question selection unit that selects a next question from among the questions stored in the question storage unit, based on a question, an answer to the question and a selection condition received by the selection condition reception unit.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 25, 2007Publication date: January 17, 2008Applicant: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.Inventors: Yutaka Andoh, Kazushi Ozawa, Koushi Kawamoto, Kazuo Shibuta
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Publication number: 20070288305Abstract: A commodity-information provision evaluation method for visualizing information contributing to evaluating of commodity information provided by a commodity provider, includes: performing process display processing that includes superimposing and displaying, for each consumer cluster, at least two of intention information, expectation information and practical information on a screen in a matrix format of kinds of commodity information provision media and respective steps of a purchase process, to visualize a gap between the commodity information provision media, or image display processing that includes superimposing at least two of target image information, design image information and user image information on an image map screen in which information regarding image is allocated to each of regions into which a display screen is divided so that the at least two are displayed for each cluster in regions to which the at least two are allocated.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 6, 2007Publication date: December 13, 2007Applicant: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.Inventors: Kazushi Ozawa, Koushi Kawamoto, Kazuo Shibuta, Yutaka Andoh, Yoshitsugu Hirose
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Publication number: 20070250376Abstract: A medium evaluation method for evaluating a commodity information provision medium that commodity consumers expect to use as an acquisition unit of commodity information provided by a commodity provider at each step of a purchase process wherein: expectation information is associated with kinds of commodity information provision media that commodity consumers expect to use at each step of the purchase process, and access information is used to access the consumers from whom the expectation information is acquired, the method includes: in response to specifying a certain commodity information provision medium at a certain step of the purchase process in the expectation information, specifying access information of a consumer who expects to use the specified commodity information provision medium at the specified step of the purchase process from the access information.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 6, 2007Publication date: October 25, 2007Applicant: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.Inventors: Kazushi Ozawa, Koushi Kawamoto, Kazuo Shibuta, Yutaka Andoh, Yoshitsugu Hirose
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Publication number: 20070240059Abstract: A commodity-information provision evaluation method for visualizing information contributing to evaluating of commodity information provided by a commodity provider, includes performing, according to an operator's selection operation, process display processing that includes superimposing and displaying at least two of intention information, expectation information and practical information on a screen in a matrix format, to visualize a gap between the commodity information provision media, or image display processing that includes superimposing at least two of target image information, design image information and user image information on an image map screen in which information regarding image is allocated to each of regions into which a display screen is divided so that the at least two are displayed in regions to which the at least two are allocated.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 6, 2007Publication date: October 11, 2007Applicant: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.Inventors: Kazushi Ozawa, Koushi Kawamoto, Kazuo Shibuta, Yutaka Andoh, Yoshitsugu Hirose
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Patent number: 7152016Abstract: There is disclosed an apparatus for supporting evaluation of usability in consideration of situations particular to each business and ISO evaluation standards. The usability evaluation support apparatus uses an instrument including a display portion for displaying information, and supports the evaluation of usability in achieving a given task. During achievement of the task, a control unit acquires information of an operation log related to an operation performed by a user, and divides an effectiveness index associated with achievement of the task, efficiency index associated with efficiency for the achievement, and satisfaction index associated with subjective satisfaction of a task achiever for each predefined subtask. The unit evaluates the indexes by a statistical calculation using measurement results of a plurality of measurement items including the information of the operation log for each subtask.Type: GrantFiled: February 10, 2003Date of Patent: December 19, 2006Assignee: Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd.Inventors: Tsutomu Ohyama, Toru Tanaka, Yoshitsugu Hirose, Toshie Mihira, Kazuo Shibuta, Katsura Sakai, Hideto Yuzawa
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Publication number: 20060179187Abstract: There is provided an operation supporting apparatus including a memory portion that stores characteristics of an operation to be multiplexed, and a determination portion that determines appropriateness of multiple operations to be multiplexed on the basis of the characteristics thereof stored in the memory portion.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 9, 2005Publication date: August 10, 2006Inventors: Akinori Komura, Yoshifumi Matsunaga, Kazuo Shibuta, Hideto Yuzawa, Tomokazu Yago, Hiroyuki Hattori
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Publication number: 20060083409Abstract: An attention calling apparatus includes: a measurement unit for measuring at least one first job related physical quantity related to a performance status of a first job of a user; and an attention calling processing execution unit for executing processing for calling user's attention so as to perform a second job based on the first job related physical quantity measured by the measurement unit and at least one second job related physical quantity indicating a status of the second job which a user can perform.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 7, 2005Publication date: April 20, 2006Inventors: Hideto Yuzawa, Yoshifumi Matsunaga, Akinori Komura, Tomokazu Yago, Kazuo Shibuta, Hiroyuki Hattori
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Patent number: 6829564Abstract: There is disclosed an apparatus for supporting evaluation of usability of an instrument relative to performing a given task. During performing of the task, a control unit acquires information of an operation log related to an operation performed by a user, and evaluates an effectiveness index associated with achievement of the task, efficiency index associated with efficiency, and satisfaction index associated with subjective satisfaction of the user. The indexes are generated by a statistical calculation using a plurality of measured items, including the operation log information.Type: GrantFiled: February 10, 2003Date of Patent: December 7, 2004Assignee: Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd.Inventors: Toru Tanaka, Toshie Mihira, Yoshitsugu Hirose, Kazuo Shibuta, Tsutomu Ohyama, Katsura Sakai, Hideto Yuzawa
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Publication number: 20040075685Abstract: There is disclosed an apparatus for supporting evaluation of usability in consideration of situations particular to each business and ISO evaluation standards. The usability evaluation support apparatus uses an instrument including a display portion for displaying information, and supports the evaluation of usability in achieving a given task. During acieve of the task, a control unit acquires information of an operation log related to an operation performed by a user, and divides an effectiveness index associated with achievement of the task, efficiency index associated with efficiency for the achievement, and satisfaction index associated with subjective satisfaction of a task achiever for each predefined subtask. The unit evaluates the indexes by a statistical calculation using measurement results of a plurality of measurement items including the information of the operation log for each subtask.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 10, 2003Publication date: April 22, 2004Applicant: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.Inventors: Tsutomu Ohyama, Toru Tanaka, Yoshitsugu Hirose, Toshie Mihira, Kazuo Shibuta, Katsura Sakai, Hideto Yuzawa
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Publication number: 20040049366Abstract: There is disclosed an apparatus for supporting evaluation of usability of an instrument relative to performing a given task. During performing of the task, a control unit acquires information of an operation log related to an operation performed by a user, and evaluates an effectiveness index associated with achievement of the task, efficiency index associated with efficiency, and satisfaction index associated with subjective satisfaction of the user. The indexes are generated by a statistical calculation using a plurality of measured items, including the operation log information.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 10, 2003Publication date: March 11, 2004Applicant: FUJI XEROX CO., LTDInventors: Toru Tanaka, Toshie Mihira, Yoshitsugu Hirose, Kazuo Shibuta, Tsutomu Ohyama, Katsura Sakai, Hideto Yuzawa
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Patent number: 5883636Abstract: A drawing system enables the user to prepare an attractive drawing easily from a simple drawing drawn by the user, when the user prepares a drawing electrically. Original read section reads an image for specifying elements and positioning relation of the elements on an input paper. The elements and the positioning relation of the elements are determined in accordance with the read image, and are stored in the element data storage section. At the same time, a drawing guide is selected from the drawing guide selection section. In accordance with the selected drawing guide, coordinates where drawing elements can be placed, forms of the drawing elements, and colors of the drawing elements are changed to prepare an attractive drawing.Type: GrantFiled: October 18, 1996Date of Patent: March 16, 1999Assignee: Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd.Inventors: Naoki Hayashi, Kazuo Shibuta
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Patent number: 5802535Abstract: The apparatus prepares a plurality of documents, each of which potentially having a different portion changed in accordance with simple operations. Portions to be changed are determined automatically or are partly based on the user's instructions. Portions to be changed can be partially extracted and uniquely emphasized. A plurality of outputted documents corresponding to an original document are automatically formed, each outputted document having a selected design preference applied to selected portions.Type: GrantFiled: January 25, 1996Date of Patent: September 1, 1998Assignee: Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd.Inventor: Kazuo Shibuta
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Patent number: 5798766Abstract: A drawing system includes a placeable point storage unit for storing identifiers for uniquely identifying a plurality of placeable points and positions of the placeable points on a two-dimensional plane in a one-to-one correspondence therebetween, an element storage unit for storing element attribute information containing information representing element colors and the identifiers of the placeable points as position attributes, a position rule storage unit for storing position rules for determining the positions of the placeable points on the two-dimensional plane, a position rule selection unit for selecting one of the position rules, a placement change unit for changing the positions of the placeable points on the two-dimensional plane stored in the placeable point storage unit based on the selected position rule, a color arrangement change unit for determining the colors of the drawing elements based on the positional relationship of the placeable points after their positions are changed by the placementType: GrantFiled: October 15, 1996Date of Patent: August 25, 1998Assignee: Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd.Inventors: Naoki Hayashi, Kazuo Shibuta
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Patent number: 5537522Abstract: A document processing device automatically changes chart designs in inputted documents. The processing device receives simple indications showing the user's intentions, improves the quality of designs in accordance with input indications and outputs the improved design. A document image inputting module receives the current document. A chart extracting module then extracts areas of charts included in the inputted document. A chart area dividing module receives output from the extracting module and divides the extracted chart area into elements such as character, line and graphic areas. An element attribute providing module receives the divided elements and determines the positional relations of the elements with respect to the whole chart. An output image forming module receives information from both the chart area dividing module and the element attribute providing module. The output image is formed by coloring image data corresponding to each element.Type: GrantFiled: January 24, 1995Date of Patent: July 16, 1996Assignee: Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd.Inventors: Kazuo Shibuta, Tsuyoshi Tanaka