Patents by Inventor Kazutaka Hirata

Kazutaka Hirata 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: 7809792
    Abstract: A conference information processing apparatus includes an extracting unit that extracts partial conference audio and/or visual information from conference audio and/or visual information. The partial conference audio and/or visual information has one or more physical events of a conference participant. The apparatus also has a providing unit that provides an index for the partial conference audio and/or visual information in accordance with a functional action abstracted from the one or more physical events.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 3, 2004
    Date of Patent: October 5, 2010
    Assignee: Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kazutaka Hirata, Jun Miyazaki
  • Patent number: 7724277
    Abstract: A display apparatus has an acquisition unit and a display unit. The acquisition unit acquires information of a meeting video and/or the meeting video from a video storage apparatus and the video storage apparatus stores a plurality of meeting videos. The display unit creates a introduction screen for introducing information of the meeting video based on the information acquired by the acquisition unit, and displays the introduction screen on a display surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 22, 2004
    Date of Patent: May 25, 2010
    Assignee: Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jun Shingu, Jun Miyazaki, Toshiya Yamada, Kazutaka Hirata
  • Patent number: 7705875
    Abstract: A display device comprising includes an acquiring unit and a display unit. The acquiring unit acquires information about a conference from a storage device that stores conference information. The display unit creates an icon being representative of a feature of the conference and also a table, and displays the icon on the table corresponding to the conference. The display unit creates the icon and the table based on the information acquired by the acquiring unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2004
    Date of Patent: April 27, 2010
    Assignee: Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jun Shingu, Jun Miyazaki, Toshiya Yamada, Kazutaka Hirata
  • Patent number: 7657061
    Abstract: A communication apparatus includes a display device, a camera, a database, and a server. Display information is displayed on the display device. A viewer image of a first viewer, who is watching and listening to the display information, is taken with the camera. The display information is associated with the viewer image that has been taken with the camera. The display information and the viewer image are stored in the database that is connected over a network. The server reproduces the viewer image in association with the display information. A second viewer who has watched and listened to the viewer image of the first viewer is able to know the reaction of the first viewer, and thus new communication resulted from the reaction of the first viewer can be expected.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 3, 2004
    Date of Patent: February 2, 2010
    Assignee: Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jun Shingu, Jun Miyazaki, Kazutaka Hirata, Toshiya Yamada
  • Patent number: 7527383
    Abstract: An information processing system includes a projection unit that projects at least image data for calibration, an image data capturing unit that captures projection image data projected by the projection unit, a specifying unit that specifies positions of points to be calibrated with the image data captured by the image data capturing unit, the positions of the points to be calibrated representing a shape of the image data for calibration, a calculation unit that calculates parameters to transform the positions of the points to be calibrated on to the positions of reference points, and a transformation unit that transforms the image data captured by the image data capturing unit with the parameters.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 2005
    Date of Patent: May 5, 2009
    Assignee: Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kazutaka Hirata, Tetsuo Iyoda
  • Patent number: 7466335
    Abstract: A conference recording device includes plural photographing units, a generating unit that generates photographing area information representative of a photographing area of each of the photographing units so that each of the photographing units cooperatively photographs a photographing object, and a control unit that controls the photographing area of each of the photographing units by based on the photographing area information generated by the generating unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 2004
    Date of Patent: December 16, 2008
    Assignee: Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kazutaka Hirata, Jun Miyazaki
  • Publication number: 20080068562
    Abstract: An image processing system includes: a projecting portion that projects image data; a first image recording portion that records a projection region of the projecting portion as first image data, at first resolution; a second image recording portion that records the projection region of the projection portion as second image data, at second resolution, which is higher than the first resolution; and an image processing portion that sends first image data at the first resolution and second image data at the second resolution to a terminal apparatus and outputs image data to be projected from the terminal apparatus to the projecting portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 21, 2007
    Publication date: March 20, 2008
    Applicant: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Kazutaka HIRATA
  • Publication number: 20060291014
    Abstract: An information processing system includes a projection unit that projects at least image data for calibration, an image data capturing unit that captures projection image data projected by the projection unit, a specifying unit that specifies positions of points to be calibrated with the image data captured by the image data capturing unit, the positions of the points to be calibrated representing a shape of the image data for calibration, a calculation unit that calculates parameters to transform the positions of the points to be calibrated on to the positions of reference points, and a transformation unit that transforms the image data captured by the image data capturing unit with the parameters.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 1, 2005
    Publication date: December 28, 2006
    Inventors: Kazutaka Hirata, Tetsuo Iyoda
  • Publication number: 20050275715
    Abstract: A display device comprising includes an acquiring unit and a display unit. The acquiring unit acquires information about a conference from a storage device that stores conference information. The display unit creates an icon being representative of a feature of the conference and also a table, and displays the icon on the table corresponding to the conference. The display unit creates the icon and the table based on the information acquired by the acquiring unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 16, 2004
    Publication date: December 15, 2005
    Inventors: Jun Shingu, Jun Miyazaki, Toshiya Yamada, Kazutaka Hirata
  • Publication number: 20050275716
    Abstract: A display apparatus has an acquisition unit and a display unit. The acquisition unit acquires information of a meeting video and/or the meeting video from a video storage apparatus and the video storage apparatus stores a plurality of meeting videos. The display unit creates a introduction screen for introducing information of the meeting video based on the information acquired by the acquisition unit, and displays the introduction screen on a display surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 22, 2004
    Publication date: December 15, 2005
    Inventors: Jun Shingu, Jun Miyazaki, Toshiya Yamada, Kazutaka Hirata
  • Publication number: 20050248651
    Abstract: A conference recording device includes plural photographing units, a generating unit that generates photographing area information representative of a photographing area of each of the photographing units so that each of the photographing units cooperatively photographs a photographing object, and a control unit that controls the photographing area of each of the photographing units by based on the photographing area information generated by the generating unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 15, 2004
    Publication date: November 10, 2005
    Inventors: Kazutaka Hirata, Jun Miyazaki
  • Publication number: 20050210105
    Abstract: A conference information processing apparatus includes an extracting unit that extracts partial conference audio and/or visual information from conference audio and/or visual information. The partial conference audio and/or visual information has one or more physical events of a conference participant. The apparatus also has a providing unit that provides an index for the partial conference audio and/or visual information in accordance with a functional action abstracted from the one or more physical events.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 3, 2004
    Publication date: September 22, 2005
    Inventors: Kazutaka Hirata, Jun Miyazaki
  • Publication number: 20050179785
    Abstract: A communication apparatus includes a display device, a camera, a database, and a server. Display information is displayed on the display device. A viewer image of a first viewer, who is watching and listening to the display information, is taken with the camera. The display information is associated with the viewer image that has been taken with the camera. The display information and the viewer image are stored in the database that is connected over a network. The server reproduces the viewer image in association with the display information. A second viewer who has watched and listened to the viewer image of the first viewer is able to know the reaction of the first viewer, and thus new communication resulted from the reaction of the first viewer can be expected.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 3, 2004
    Publication date: August 18, 2005
    Inventors: Jun Shingu, Jun Miyazaki, Kazutaka Hirata, Toshiya Yamada
  • Patent number: 6219149
    Abstract: A print processing apparatus realizes high speed processing of input data which includes various types of drawing objects such as images, graphics and characters. In the apparatus, input data generated by an input data generating unit is converted into intermediate data in an intermediate data generating element. An intermediate data order controlling element rearranges intermediate data pieces based on overlap therebetween and classifies them into groups, in each of which the data pieces can be processed in parallel. A group ID indicating a group for parallel processing, a hardware configuration ID and so on are assigned to the intermediate data piece. A rasterizing unit receives configuration data from a configuration data administering element, if necessary, in accordance with the hardware configuration ID assigned to the intermediate data piece, and rewrites a function of a reconfigurable rasterizing element under the control of the reconfiguration controlling element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 1998
    Date of Patent: April 17, 2001
    Assignee: Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Tetsuro Kawata, Yuji Onozawa, Takashi Nagao, Noriaki Seki, Kazutaka Hirata, Yoshinori Wada, Hiroshi Ishikawa
  • Patent number: 6100998
    Abstract: A print processor is disclosed which comprises: an input unit for inputting print data including at least either texts or graphics and described in predetermined drawing instructions; an image output unit for outputting images based on data having a predetermined data structure; an intermediate data generating unit for generating intermediate data from the print data, the intermediate data being expressed in a format which is higher in abstract terms than the data structure and which includes at least one basic graphic; an rasterizing process unit for rasterizing the intermediate data into the data structure and for supplying the image output unit with the intermediate data thus rasterized; a determining unit for determining a number and a size of the basic graphics constituting the intermediate data generated by the intermediate data generating unit; an rasterizing time predicting unit for predicting the time it takes the rasterizing process unit to rasterize the intermediate data on the basis of the number
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 1997
    Date of Patent: August 8, 2000
    Assignee: Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Takashi Nagao, Yuji Onozawa, Hiroshi Ishikawa, Noriaki Seki, Koki Uwatoko, Satoshi Kubota, Koji Adachi, Tetsuro Kawata, Kazutaka Hirata, Yoshinori Wada, Masahiko Koyanagi