Patents by Inventor Kensuke OKAMOTO

Kensuke OKAMOTO 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).

  • Publication number: 20180091677
    Abstract: An image display apparatus includes an image display that displays an image, and a change processing section that, if the image display is present in a user's gaze direction and if a distance between the user and the image display is shorter than a predetermined distance, performs a change process on the image displayed on the image display.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 28, 2017
    Publication date: March 29, 2018
    Applicant: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kensuke OKAMOTO, Yoshifumi BANDO, Yuichi KAWATA, Hideki YAMASAKI, Ryoko SAITOH, Tomoyo NISHIDA, Mayumi MAKIYAMA
  • Patent number: 9928612
    Abstract: There is provided an information processing apparatus. A determination unit determines whether an object is present in a predetermined place. A specification unit specifies a direction of a toe of a user who uses the information processing apparatus. A notification unit performs a notification to the user in a case where a predetermined direction of the toe is specified and it is determined that the object is present in the place.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 27, 2018
    Assignee: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hideki Yamasaki, Yuichi Kawata, Ryoko Saitoh, Yoshifumi Bando, Kensuke Okamoto, Tomoyo Nishida
  • Publication number: 20180034996
    Abstract: An image display apparatus includes an image display, a receiving unit, a detection section, and a change processing section. The image display displays an image. The receiving unit receives an operation performed by a user on information displayed on the image display. The detection section detects a user's finger approaching the receiving unit or an operation performed by the user on the receiving unit. The change processing section performs a change process on the image displayed on the image display, and stops or does not perform the change process when the detection section detects the approaching or the operation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 28, 2017
    Publication date: February 1, 2018
    Applicant: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Ryoko SAITOH, Yuichi KAWATA, Hideki YAMASAKI, Yoshifumi BANDO, Kensuke OKAMOTO, Tomoyo NISHIDA
  • Patent number: 9871937
    Abstract: A control device is provided and includes: an acquisition unit that acquires the number of persons from a count unit, the count unit counting up the number of persons in an area based on a detection result of a first detection unit, the first detection unit detecting a person who goes in and out through an entrance of the area; and an operation mode control unit that controls an operation mode of a processing device according to the acquired number of persons.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 5, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2018
    Assignee: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kensuke Okamoto, Yuichi Kawata, Hideki Yamasaki, Ryoko Saitoh, Yoshifumi Bando, Tomoyo Nishida
  • Publication number: 20170346978
    Abstract: A wake-up control device includes a detector and a wake-up unit. When an apparatus is in a power-saving state in which power consumption is lower than power consumption in a normal state, the detector detects a hand or finger approaching an operation unit operated in order to perform a wake-up operation of changing a state of the apparatus from the power-saving state to the normal state. In the case where the apparatus is in the power-saving state, if the detector detects a hand or finger approaching the operation unit, even when the operation unit has not been operated, the wake-up unit performs a wake-up operation of changing the state of the apparatus from the power-saving state to the normal state.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 28, 2016
    Publication date: November 30, 2017
    Applicant: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yoshifumi BANDO, Yuichi KAWATA, Hideki YAMASAKI, Ryoko SAITOH, Kensuke OKAMOTO, Tomoyo NISHIDA
  • Publication number: 20170337893
    Abstract: An operation guide apparatus includes a display and a processor. The display displays, on a display screen, operation guide information for providing a guide on an operation for continuously using a device. The processor performs processing to enable an operator who is doing the operation with such a posture that the operator is unable to see the operation guide information displayed on the display screen to recognize the operation guide information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 16, 2016
    Publication date: November 23, 2017
    Applicant: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Tomoyo NISHIDA, Yoshifumi BANDO, Yuichi KAWATA, Hideki YAMASAKI, Ryoko SAITOH, Kensuke OKAMOTO
  • Publication number: 20170310846
    Abstract: A transmit destination changing apparatus includes an acquiring unit that acquires track record information, the track record information indicating a track record of printing of print data transmitted from a print data transmitting apparatus to a first printer among multiple printers, the track record information indicating a track record of printing performed on each of the plural printers in response to a print request, and an output unit that outputs change instruction information if the track record information indicates that print data transmitted to the first printer from the print data transmitting apparatus is likely to be printed on a second printer among the multiple printers in response to a print request, the change instruction information instructing that the destination of the print data be changed to cause the print data to be transmitted to the second printer from the print data transmitting apparatus.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 21, 2016
    Publication date: October 26, 2017
    Applicant: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Ryoko SAITOH, Yuichi KAWATA, Hideki YAMASAKI, Yoshifumi BANDO, Kensuke OKAMOTO, Tomoyo NISHIDA
  • Patent number: 9794446
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus is provided with a specifying unit, an output control unit, and an event detecting unit. The specifying unit specifies an operator who inputs an output request for outputting an output object. The output control unit controls an output process in accordance with the output request. The event detecting unit detects an event having a possibility that the operator stops immediate output of the output request. Even in a case where the output control unit is instructed from the operator to perform an immediate output process of the output request when the operator is specified and where the operator is specified, the output control unit stops the immediate output process of the output request in a case where the event detecting unit detects the event.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 6, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2017
    Assignee: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Tomoyo Nishida, Hideki Yamasaki, Yoshifumi Bando, Yuichi Kawata, Ryoko Saitoh, Kensuke Okamoto
  • Publication number: 20170279995
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a controller that controls the information processing apparatus by making a transition of a state of the information processing apparatus in relation to power consumption of the information processing apparatus from a first state to a second state in which the power consumption is higher than that in the first state, and a line-of-sight detector that detects a line of sight toward the information processing apparatus. The controller makes a transition from the first state to the second state when the line-of-sight detector detects a line of sight toward the information processing apparatus.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 28, 2016
    Publication date: September 28, 2017
    Applicant: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hideki YAMASAKI, Yuichi KAWATA, Ryoko SAITOH, Yoshifumi BANDO, Kensuke OKAMOTO, Tomoyo NISHIDA
  • Publication number: 20170264786
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus is provided with a specifying unit, an output control unit, and an event detecting unit. The specifying unit specifies an operator who inputs an output request for outputting an output object. The output control unit controls an output process in accordance with the output request. The event detecting unit detects an event having a possibility that the operator stops immediate output of the output request. Even in a case where the output control unit is instructed from the operator to perform an immediate output process of the output request when the operator is specified and where the operator is specified, the output control unit stops the immediate output process of the output request in a case where the event detecting unit detects the event.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 6, 2016
    Publication date: September 14, 2017
    Applicant: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Tomoyo NISHIDA, Hideki YAMASAKI, Yoshifumi BANDO, Yuichi KAWATA, Ryoko SAITOH, Kensuke OKAMOTO
  • Publication number: 20170264766
    Abstract: A control device is provided and includes: an acquisition unit that acquires the number of persons from a count unit, the count unit counting up the number of persons in an area based on a detection result of a first detection unit, the first detection unit detecting a person who goes in and out through an entrance of the area; and an operation mode control unit that controls an operation mode of a processing device according to the acquired number of persons.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 5, 2016
    Publication date: September 14, 2017
    Applicant: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kensuke OKAMOTO, Yuichi KAWATA, Hideki YAMASAKI, Ryoko SAITOH, Yoshifumi BANDO, Tomoyo NISHIDA
  • Publication number: 20170249741
    Abstract: There is provided an information processing apparatus. A determination unit determines whether an object is present in a predetermined place. A specification unit specifies a direction of a toe of a user who uses the information processing apparatus. A notification unit performs a notification to the user in a case where a predetermined direction of the toe is specified and it is determined that the object is present in the place.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 30, 2016
    Publication date: August 31, 2017
    Applicant: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hideki YAMASAKI, Yuichi KAWATA, Ryoko SAITOH, Yoshifumi BANDO, Kensuke OKAMOTO, Tomoyo NISHIDA
  • Patent number: 9294704
    Abstract: An image capturing apparatus includes an input unit, a detecting unit, and a controller. The input unit continuously inputs a signal sequence. The signal sequence includes values of multiple pixels and control information. The pixels constitute an image. The control information is embedded at multiple positions according to a rule. The detecting unit detects occurrence of an error on the basis of the inputted control information. The controller interrupts the input performed by the input unit when the detected error is based on the control information embedded in a first region of the image, and continues the input when the detected error is based on the control information embedded in a second region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 6, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2016
    Assignee: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yuichi Kawata, Nobuaki Suzuki, Hideki Yamasaki, Tomitsugu Koseki, Yoshifumi Bando, Kensuke Okamoto
  • Patent number: 9245172
    Abstract: An authentication apparatus includes a feature acquiring unit that acquires a feature of an authentication target; an extracting unit that extracts one or more registered persons having features similar to the acquired feature; a determining unit that determines whether any registered person having a feature similar to the feature of at least one extracted registered person exits in the registered persons; a first identifying unit that, if the determination is negative, identifies the registered person having the feature having a highest degree of similarity with the acquired feature as the authentication target; a specific information accepting unit that accepts information specific to the authentication target; and a second identifying unit that, if the determination is affirmative and the accepted specific information coincides with the information specific to any extracted registered person, identifies the registered person having the coinciding specific information as the authentication target.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 26, 2016
    Assignee: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Tomitsugu Koseki, Yuichi Kawata, Nobuaki Suzuki, Hideki Yamasaki, Yoshifumi Bando, Kensuke Okamoto
  • Publication number: 20150271484
    Abstract: An image capturing apparatus includes an input unit, a detecting unit, and a controller. The input unit continuously inputs a signal sequence. The signal sequence includes values of multiple pixels and control information. The pixels constitute an image. The control information is embedded at multiple positions according to a rule. The detecting unit detects occurrence of an error on the basis of the inputted control information. The controller interrupts the input performed by the input unit when the detected error is based on the control information embedded in a first region of the image, and continues the input when the detected error is based on the control information embedded in a second region.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 6, 2015
    Publication date: September 24, 2015
    Inventors: Yuichi KAWATA, Nobuaki SUZUKI, Hideki YAMASAKI, Tomitsugu KOSEKI, Yoshifumi BANDO, Kensuke OKAMOTO
  • Publication number: 20140268217
    Abstract: An operation history image storage apparatus includes an imaging unit that captures an image of a specific area facing a processing apparatus which performs processing in accordance with an operation by an operator, a controller that controls the imaging unit to capture an image of an operation state with respect to the processing apparatus, an extracting unit that extracts a person image from the image of the specific area captured by the imaging unit, a masking unit that masks whole or a part of a background image other than the person image extracted by the extracting unit, and a storing unit that stores the image of the specific area after masking by the masking unit as operation history information of the operator operating the processing apparatus.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 9, 2013
    Publication date: September 18, 2014
    Applicant: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yuichi KAWATA, Tomitsugu KOSEKI, Hideki YAMASAKI, Kensuke OKAMOTO, Nobuaki SUZUKI, Yoshifumi BANDO
  • Publication number: 20140241593
    Abstract: An authentication apparatus includes a feature acquiring unit that acquires a feature of an authentication target; an extracting unit that extracts one or more registered persons having features similar to the acquired feature; a determining unit that determines whether any registered person having a feature similar to the feature of at least one extracted registered person exits in the registered persons; a first identifying unit that, if the determination is negative, identifies the registered person having the feature having a highest degree of similarity with the acquired feature as the authentication target; a specific information accepting unit that accepts information specific to the authentication target; and a second identifying unit that, if the determination is affirmative and the accepted specific information coincides with the information specific to any extracted registered person, identifies the registered person having the coinciding specific information as the authentication target.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 30, 2013
    Publication date: August 28, 2014
    Applicant: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Tomitsugu KOSEKI, Yuichi KAWATA, Nobuaki SUZUKI, Hideki YAMASAKI, Yoshifumi BANDO, Kensuke OKAMOTO