Patents by Inventor Keita Minami
Keita Minami 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: 20230233435Abstract: A cosmetic composition exerts a high improving effect on a texture of hair of a head or a scalp. The cosmetic composition includes nucleic acid, succinic acid, alanine, citric acid, and glycine. An amount of the nucleic acid is 6.6 to 11.5% by mass based on a total mass of the composition, and an amount of the citric acid is 7.1 to 17.4% by mass based on the total mass of the composition. The cosmetic composition is allowed to contain at least one member selected from, for example, histidine, arginine, proline, isoleucine, serine, valine, aspartic acid, threonine, phenylalanine, pyrrolidonecarboxylic acid, sodium pyrrolidonecarboxylate, sodium lactate, and water to prepare a cosmetic.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 13, 2022Publication date: July 27, 2023Inventor: Keita MINAMI
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Patent number: 11375071Abstract: A speech setting system includes a job execution device that is capable of executing a job, and a speech setting assistance device that assists generation of the job to be executed by the job execution device based on speech information obtained from a speech, wherein the job execution device includes a first hardware processor, the first hardware processor is configured to execute the job in accordance with a parameter set for each of a plurality of setting items, and display a setting screen in which a plurality of the parameters respectively corresponding to the plurality of setting items are arranged, the speech setting assistance device includes a second hardware processor, and the second hardware processor is configured to determine the parameter corresponding to each of the plurality of setting items based on the speech information, and output speech output information for outputting the determined parameter corresponding to each of the plurality of setting items by speech in accordance with an outputType: GrantFiled: September 1, 2020Date of Patent: June 28, 2022Assignee: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.Inventor: Keita Minami
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Publication number: 20210099587Abstract: A speech setting system includes a job execution device that is capable of executing a job, and a speech setting assistance device that assists generation of the job to be executed by the job execution device based on speech information obtained from a speech, wherein the job execution device includes a first hardware processor, the first hardware processor is configured to execute the job in accordance with a parameter set for each of a plurality of setting items, and display a setting screen in which a plurality of the parameters respectively corresponding to the plurality of setting items are arranged, the speech setting assistance device includes a second hardware processor, and the second hardware processor is configured to determine the parameter corresponding to each of the plurality of setting items based on the speech information, and output speech output information for outputting the determined parameter corresponding to each of the plurality of setting items by speech in accordance with an outputType: ApplicationFiled: September 1, 2020Publication date: April 1, 2021Applicant: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.Inventor: Keita MINAMI
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Patent number: 10687215Abstract: An authentication system includes: a reading unit that (i) reads ID information as a response to a first read command being a command to which only a first type of contactless communication terminal responds, and outputs the ID information and type information indicating that a contactless communication terminal is of the first type, and (ii) reads ID information as a response to a second read command being a command to which both the first and second types of contactless communication terminals respond, and causes additional issuance of the first read command, and when succeeding in reading ID information as a response to the additionally issued first read command, outputs the ID information and type information indicating the first type; an authentication unit that, when a user list includes an output pair of ID information and type information of the communicating contactless communication terminal, authenticates a user associated with output pair.Type: GrantFiled: June 22, 2018Date of Patent: June 16, 2020Assignee: Konica Minolta, Inc.Inventor: Keita Minami
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Patent number: 10409531Abstract: A control device that is communicable with a plurality of image forming apparatuses, comprises: an information obtaining part that obtains history information from the plurality of image forming apparatuses; a spool destination deciding part that decides two or more image forming apparatuses as spool destinations of an accepted job from the plurality of image forming apparatuses based on plural pieces of history information obtained by the information obtaining part; and a job transmitter that transmits a job to the two or more image forming apparatuses decided by the spool destination deciding part.Type: GrantFiled: February 23, 2017Date of Patent: September 10, 2019Assignee: Konica Minolta, Inc.Inventor: Keita Minami
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Publication number: 20190230242Abstract: An image processing apparatus that converts a format of image data by using any of a plurality of existing conversion programs, includes: a register that performs, by selecting at least one group including N number of conversion programs among the plurality of conversion programs such that a format after conversion by a (K?1)th conversion program coincides with a format before conversion by a Kth conversion program, registration processing of registering each of the selected at least one group as a program set; and a converter that converts, in a case where any of the at least one program set is designated, the format of the image data by sequentially using the N number of conversion programs included in the designated program set among the plurality of conversion programs, from a first conversion program of the N number of conversion programs.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 11, 2019Publication date: July 25, 2019Applicant: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.Inventors: Keita Minami, Toshinobu Yamaguchi
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Publication number: 20180324587Abstract: An authentication system includes: a reading unit that (i) reads ID information as a response to a first read command being a command to which only a first type of contactless communication terminal responds, and outputs the ID information and type information indicating that a contactless communication terminal is of the first type, and (ii) reads ID information as a response to a second read command being a command to which both the first and second types of contactless communication terminals respond, and causes additional issuance of the first read command, and when succeeding in reading ID information as a response to the additionally issued first read command, outputs the ID information and type information indicating the first type; an authentication unit that, when a user list includes an output pair of ID information and type information of the communicating contactless communication terminal, authenticates a user associated with output pair.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 22, 2018Publication date: November 8, 2018Applicant: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.Inventor: Keita MINAMI
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Patent number: 10028140Abstract: An authentication system includes: a reading unit that (i) reads ID information as a response to a first read command being a command to which only a first type of contactless communication terminal responds, and outputs the ID information and type information indicating that a contactless communication terminal is of the first type, and (ii) reads ID information as a response to a second read command being a command to which both the first and second types of contactless communication terminals respond, and causes additional issuance of the first read command, and when succeeding in reading ID information as a response to the additionally issued first read command, outputs the ID information and type information indicating the first type; an authentication unit that, when a user list includes an output pair of ID information and type information of the communicating contactless communication terminal, authenticates a user associated with output pair.Type: GrantFiled: March 25, 2016Date of Patent: July 17, 2018Assignee: Konica Minolta, Inc.Inventor: Keita Minami
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Publication number: 20170242636Abstract: A control device that is communicable with a plurality of image forming apparatuses, comprises: an information obtaining part that obtains history information from the plurality of image forming apparatuses; a spool destination deciding part that decides two or more image forming apparatuses as spool destinations of an accepted job from the plurality of image forming apparatuses based on plural pieces of history information obtained by the information obtaining part; and a job transmitter that transmits a job to the two or more image forming apparatuses decided by the spool destination deciding part.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 23, 2017Publication date: August 24, 2017Applicant: Konica Minolta, Inc.Inventor: Keita MINAMI
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Publication number: 20160285848Abstract: An authentication system includes: a reading unit that (i) reads ID information as a response to a first read command being a command to which only a first type of contactless communication terminal responds, and outputs the ID information and type information indicating that a contactless communication terminal is of the first type, and (ii) reads ID information as a response to a second read command being a command to which both the first and second types of contactless communication terminals respond, and causes additional issuance of the first read command, and when succeeding in reading ID information as a response to the additionally issued first read command, outputs the ID information and type information indicating the first type; an authentication unit that, when a user list includes an output pair of ID information and type information of the communicating contactless communication terminal, authenticates a user associated with output pair.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 25, 2016Publication date: September 29, 2016Applicant: Konica Minolta, Inc.Inventor: Keita Minami
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Publication number: 20110145906Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes an executing unit executing information processing, a control unit controlling an operation of the executing unit, a storage unit for storing specific information for executing an administrator mode and a communication unit for communicating with a smart card. When information matching the PIN code stored in the smart card and information matching the information stored in said storage unit are received, the control unit executes the administrator mode.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 15, 2010Publication date: June 16, 2011Applicant: Konica Minolta Business Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Akemi MORITA, Takashi Ueda, Keita Minami
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Publication number: 20040214895Abstract: Herein is disclosed an aqueous stable lysine solution containing an acid radical in such amount that the solubility of lysine therein has been increased than in the corresponding aqueous lysine base solution, whereby during storage of lysine in the form of a free-lysine solution (liquid composition), the precipitation of lysine base crystals due to the drop in temperature is prevented thereby improving the handling thereof during transportation (transfer) etc.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 21, 2004Publication date: October 28, 2004Applicant: Ajinomoto Co., Inc.Inventors: Kazuhiro Hasegawa, Toshiya Tanabe, Keita Minami
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Publication number: 20020123648Abstract: Herein is disclosed an aqueous stable lysine solution containing an acid radical in such amount that the solubility of lysine therein has been increased than in the corresponding aqueous lysine base solution, whereby during storage of lysine in the form of a free-lysine solution (liquid composition), the precipitation of lysine base crystals due to the drop in temperature is prevented thereby improving the handling thereof during transportation (transfer) etc.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 27, 2002Publication date: September 5, 2002Applicant: AJINOMOTO CO., INC.Inventors: Kazuhiro Hasegawa, Toshiya Tanabe, Keita Minami
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Patent number: 6329548Abstract: Herein is disclosed an aqueous stable lysine solution containing an acid radical in such amount that the solubility of lysine therein has been increased than in the corresponding aqueous lysine base solution, whereby during storage of lysine in the form of a free-lysine solution (liquid composition), the precipitation of lysine base crystals due to the drop in temperature is prevented thereby improving the handling thereof during transportation (transfer) etc.Type: GrantFiled: March 3, 2000Date of Patent: December 11, 2001Assignee: Ajinomoto Co., Inc.Inventors: Kazuhiro Hasegawa, Toshiya Tanabe, Keita Minami
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Publication number: 20010043942Abstract: Herein is disclosed an aqueous stable lysine solution containing an acid radical in such amount that the solubility of lysine therein has been increased than in the corresponding aqueous lysine base solution, whereby during storage of lysine in the form of a free-lysine solution (liquid composition), the precipitation of lysine base crystals due to the drop in temperature is prevented thereby improving the handling thereof during transportation (transfer) etc.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 18, 2001Publication date: November 22, 2001Applicant: AJINOMOTO, CO., INC.Inventors: Kazuhiro Hasegawa, Toshiya Tanabe, Keita Minami