Patents by Inventor Ken Nishio

Ken Nishio 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: 11628963
    Abstract: This box assembling and packing system is provided: a first jig which is fixed at a predetermined position and against which a side part of a body of a packing box is thrust; a second jig which is fixed at a predetermined position and against which a flap part and a tuck part of the packing box are thrust; and a robot having two articulated arms. A first articulated arm of the two articulated arms holds and moves the packing box in a flatly collapsed form by a packing box holding mechanism, folds and raises the body of the flatly collapsed packing box into a rectangular tubular shape in cooperation with the first jig, and maintains the folded and raised body of the packing box in the rectangular tubular shape by a packing box rectangular tubular shape maintaining mechanism.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2023
    Assignees: SHISEIDO COMPANY, LTD., KAWADA ROBOTICS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ken Nishio, Yuta Horibata, Tadahiro Fujiwara, Kiyoshi Terasaki
  • Publication number: 20210253287
    Abstract: This box assembling and packing system is provided: a first jig which is fixed at a predetermined position and against which a side part of a body of a packing box is thrust; a second jig which is fixed at a predetermined position and against which a flap part and a tuck part of the packing box are thrust; and a robot having two articulated arms. A first articulated arm of the two articulated arms holds and moves the packing box in a flatly collapsed form by a packing box holding mechanism, folds and raises the body of the flatly collapsed packing box into a rectangular tubular shape in cooperation with the first jig, and maintains the folded and raised body of the packing box in the rectangular tubular shape by a packing box rectangular tubular shape maintaining mechanism.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 6, 2019
    Publication date: August 19, 2021
    Inventors: Ken NISHIO, Yuta HORIBATA, Tadahiro FUJIWARA, Kiyoshi TERASAKI
  • Publication number: 20200167067
    Abstract: When an image to be displayed is a scrollable image that can be scrolled while being displayed on a display device (21) of an information processing apparatus (1), a display controller (12) stores a position in the scrollable image, of an image being displayed in a display region of the display device (21) at the time that the operation receiver has received a scroll start instruction, in a HDD (24) as a scroll start position. The display controller (12) also returns an image in the scrollable image currently displayed in the display region at the time that a return instruction has been received, to an image that was displayed in the display region when the start instruction, corresponding to the scroll start position stored in the HDD (24), was received.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 23, 2018
    Publication date: May 28, 2020
    Applicant: KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc.
    Inventor: Ken NISHIO
  • Patent number: 10503993
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes a control unit. The control unit performs OCR processing by identifying a specified area of image data as a detection area, detecting line images contained in the detection area, and analyzing the detected line images to identify a character represented by the line images. Furthermore, when failing to identify a character represented by the line images in the OCR processing, the control unit determines whether the line images represent a part of a character and, upon determination that the line images represent a part of a character, expands the detection area in a direction where the other part of the character to be identified is assumed to be present and performs the OCR processing again on the expanded detection area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2019
    Assignee: KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc.
    Inventor: Ken Nishio
  • Patent number: 10489042
    Abstract: A display device includes a display unit, a touch panel, a storage unit, and a control section that: allows the storage unit to store a display position of content being displayed on a screen of the display unit at a start time point of scroll display, and allows the display unit to display a return mark through which a return to the display position is instructed; when a touch gesture on the return mark is detected through the touch panel before the scroll display is ended, reads out the display position from the storage unit and allows the display unit to redisplay the content of the display position; and when the scroll display is ended without the touch gesture on the return mark being detected through the touch panel, maintains a display state of the content being displayed on the screen of the display unit at the end time point.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2019
    Assignee: KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc.
    Inventor: Ken Nishio
  • Patent number: 10216462
    Abstract: The display device includes a mode shift control unit, a storage control unit, and a display control unit. The mode shift control unit performs such control that if a first condition is satisfied in a first mode, a display screen is not displayed and the first mode shifts to a second mode, and that if a second condition is satisfied in the second mode, the display screen is displayed and the second mode shifts to the first mode. The display control unit performs such control that when the second mode shifts to the first mode by the mode shift control unit, as information displayed on the display screen, an entry of the first setting stored in the storage section is displayed for the first setting and an entry of an initial setting is displayed for the second setting.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 26, 2019
    Assignee: KYOCERA DOCUMENT SOLUTIONS INC.
    Inventor: Ken Nishio
  • Publication number: 20190025997
    Abstract: A display device includes a display unit, a touch panel, a storage unit, and a control section that: allows the storage unit to store a display position of content being displayed on a screen of the display unit at a start time point of scroll display, and allows the display unit to display a return mark through which a return to the display position is instructed; when a touch gesture on the return mark is detected through the touch panel before the scroll display is ended, reads out the display position from the storage unit and allows the display unit to redisplay the content of the display position; and when the scroll display is ended without the touch gesture on the return mark being detected through the touch panel, maintains a display state of the content being displayed on the screen of the display unit at the end time point.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 28, 2018
    Publication date: January 24, 2019
    Applicant: KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc.
    Inventor: Ken NISHIO
  • Publication number: 20180246687
    Abstract: The display device includes a mode shift control unit, a storage control unit, and a display control unit. The mode shift control unit performs such control that if a first condition is satisfied in a first mode, a display screen is not displayed and the first mode shifts to a second mode, and that if a second condition is satisfied in the second mode, the display screen is displayed and the second mode shifts to the first mode. The display control unit performs such control that when the second mode shifts to the first mode by the mode shift control unit, as information displayed on the display screen, an entry of the first setting stored in the storage section is displayed for the first setting and an entry of an initial setting is displayed for the second setting.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 22, 2018
    Publication date: August 30, 2018
    Inventor: Ken NISHIO
  • Publication number: 20180039847
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes a control unit. The control unit performs OCR processing by identifying a specified area of image data as a detection area, detecting line images contained in the detection area, and analyzing the detected line images to identify a character represented by the line images. Furthermore, when failing to identify a character represented by the line images in the OCR processing, the control unit determines whether the line images represent a part of a character and, upon determination that the line images represent a part of a character, expands the detection area in a direction where the other part of the character to be identified is assumed to be present and performs the OCR processing again on the expanded detection area.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 27, 2017
    Publication date: February 8, 2018
    Applicant: KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc.
    Inventor: Ken NISHIO
  • Patent number: 7940412
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus which includes: a job storage unit for storing a plurality of print jobs; an image forming unit for executing the print jobs stored in the job storage unit; and a job managing unit for managing an execution order of the print jobs performed by the image forming unit. The job managing unit includes: priority job managing portion which, during execution of a specific print job carried out according to an execution order set in advance, manages the image forming unit to suspend the specific print job and preferentially to execute another print job; and job continuation judging portion which, when completing a priority print job that is executed by the priority job managing portion, judges whether or not to continue execution of the specific print job based on a job execution state of the specific print job that is being executed when starting the priority print job.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 6, 2007
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2011
    Assignee: Kyocera Mita Corporation
    Inventors: Keisaku Matsumae, Toshiyuki Nakade, Seiji Onishi, Ken Nishio
  • Publication number: 20070206230
    Abstract: An image processor has an image scanning unit, a memory, an address specification unit, a scan control unit, and a transmission control unit. The image scanning unit is configured to scan an original image. The memory is configured to store image data scanned by the image scanning unit. The address specification unit is able to specify a plurality of addresses of different protocols as multi-address destination. The scan control unit controls the image data scanned by the image scanning unit. The transmission control unit is configured to generate an image data from an image data stored in the memory, such that the image data has an image quality that is appropriate for the protocol corresponding to each of the addresses specified by the address specification unit, and transmit the image data to each of the addresses.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 1, 2007
    Publication date: September 6, 2007
    Applicant: KYOCERA MITA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ken Nishio, Toshiyuki Nakade, Seiji Onishi, Keisaku Matsumae
  • Publication number: 20070188800
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus which includes: a job storage unit for storing a plurality of print jobs; an image forming unit for executing the print jobs stored in the job storage unit; and a job managing unit for managing an execution order of the print jobs performed by the image forming unit. The job managing unit includes: priority job managing portion which, during execution of a specific print job carried out according to an execution order set in advance, manages the image forming unit to suspend the specific print job and preferentially to execute another print job; and job continuation judging portion which, when completing a priority print job that is executed by the priority job managing portion, judges whether or not to continue execution of the specific print job based on a job execution state of the specific print job that is being executed when starting the priority print job.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 6, 2007
    Publication date: August 16, 2007
    Applicant: KYOCERA MITA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Keisaku Matsumae, Toshiyuki Nakade, Seiji Onishi, Ken Nishio
  • Publication number: 20060221377
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus has a storage section that stores image data, a display section that displays the image data stored in the storage section, a transmission section that extracts from the storage section the image data stored therein and then transmits the image data, and a control section that, when a transmission error occurs while the transmission section is transmitting the image data and the transmission section can no longer transmit the image data, stores in the storage section the image data left untransmitted as the image data having a transmission failure record, and inhibits the output of, of the image data stored in the storage section, the image data having the transmission failure record.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 29, 2006
    Publication date: October 5, 2006
    Inventor: Ken Nishio
  • Patent number: 5709377
    Abstract: Special sheets to be handled differently from normal sheets are accommodated in a specific sheet feeding deck such that a predetermined operation or presentation associated with reproduction procedure is permitted or prohibited for the special sheets in the specific sheet feeding deck. For example, if the production of two-sided copies is prohibited for a specific sheet feeding deck which accommodates sheets to be used again, the sheets are not automatically selected during the production of two-sided copies even if they are of the same size as a document original. This ensures erroneous handling is prevented, such as image forming on both sides of the special sheets in the specific sheet feeding deck.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 23, 1996
    Date of Patent: January 20, 1998
    Assignee: Mita Industrial Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yoshiki Yoshioka, Yoshiyuki Fujiwara, Ken Nishio