Patents by Inventor Kiwame Tokai

Kiwame Tokai 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: 20190121815
    Abstract: When a user inputs a search condition, an agent sends, to a database of each organization to which the user does not have an access right, a search request including the search condition and the ID of a cooperation participant member having an access right to the database of the organization. A proxy of each organization causes the search device to search for a chain of links that connect between a data element that meets the search condition in the search request from the agent and a data element that represents the cooperation participant member in the search request, and returns to the agent information on a cooperation participant member that may have access to the data element that meets the search condition on the basis of the search result.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 20, 2018
    Publication date: April 25, 2019
    Applicant: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Kiwame Tokai
  • Patent number: 10223428
    Abstract: When a user inputs a search condition, an agent sends, to a database of each organization to which the user does not have an access right, a search request including the search condition and the ID of a cooperation participant member having an access right to the database of the organization. A proxy of each organization causes the search device to search for a chain of links that connect between a data element that meets the search condition in the search request from the agent and a data element that represents the cooperation participant member in the search request, and returns to the agent information on a cooperation participant member that may have access to the data element that meets the search condition on the basis of the search result.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2019
    Assignee: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Kiwame Tokai
  • Patent number: 9727563
    Abstract: An information sharing support system includes a first information processor connected to a projector that projects an image on a projection area including an object, and to an image pick-up device for picking up an image of the projection area; an inputting unit that inputs an event in a first layer, inputs a second annotation image as a part of a first annotation image associated with the event to a second layer, inputs a third annotation image to a third layer, and inputs a document to a fourth layer; a transmitter that transmits the second annotation image to the projector device; a receiving unit that receives a picked-up image; and a second information processing device that allocates the picked-up image to the second layer, and includes a display that displays the third annotation image and the document in an overlapping fashion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 8, 2017
    Assignee: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Meng Shi, Kiwame Tokai, Tsutomu Abe, Hiroyuki Miyake, Tetsuo Iyoda, Shoji Sakamoto, Jun Shingu
  • Publication number: 20150186382
    Abstract: When a user inputs a search condition, an agent sends, to a database of each organization to which the user does not have an access right, a search request including the search condition and the ID of a cooperation participant member having an access right to the database of the organization. A proxy of each organization causes the search device to search for a chain of links that connect between a data element that meets the search condition in the search request from the agent and a data element that represents the cooperation participant member in the search request, and returns to the agent information on a cooperation participant member that may have access to the data element that meets the search condition on the basis of the search result.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 12, 2015
    Publication date: July 2, 2015
    Applicant: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Kiwame TOKAI
  • Patent number: 8521727
    Abstract: A search apparatus searches graph data representing a graph including nodes and links. The search apparatus includes the following elements. An input receiving unit receives an input of a reference node indicating a search reference position on the graph and an input of a search condition indicating a condition satisfied by a node, a link, or a combination of a node and a link. A searching unit searches the graph data for a node, a link, or a combination of a node and a link that satisfies the search condition. A search result data generating unit generates search result data indicating at least one search result obtained by the searching unit, together with path data showing a path on the graph from the reference node to each of the at least one search result.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 19, 2011
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2013
    Assignee: Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Kiwame Tokai
  • Patent number: 8484197
    Abstract: A search apparatus includes a graph memory, a root node specification receiving unit, and a search unit. The graph memory stores data of a graph having nodes representing data elements and a link representing a relationship between the data elements. The root node specification receiving unit receives a root node specified from among the nodes in the graph. The search unit searches for an adjacent node which is connected to a target node via a link and which satisfies a search condition that at least one of the target node and the adjacent node has a predetermined attribute. The search unit searches for an adjacent node using the root node as the target node. The search unit iteratively performs a process of searching for an adjacent node using a previously determined adjacent node as the target node for a subsequent iteration to obtain a concatenation of adjacent nodes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2013
    Assignee: Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Kiwame Tokai
  • Publication number: 20130080476
    Abstract: A search apparatus includes a graph memory, a root node specification receiving unit, and a search unit. The graph memory stores data of a graph having nodes representing data elements and a link representing a relationship between the data elements. The root node specification receiving unit receives a root node specified from among the nodes in the graph. The search unit searches for an adjacent node which is connected to a target node via a link and which satisfies a search condition that at least one of the target node and the adjacent node has a predetermined attribute. The search unit searches for an adjacent node using the root node as the target node. The search unit iteratively performs a process of searching for an adjacent node using a previously determined adjacent node as the target node for a subsequent iteration to obtain a concatenation of adjacent nodes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 31, 2012
    Publication date: March 28, 2013
    Applicant: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Kiwame TOKAI
  • Patent number: 8375284
    Abstract: A document processing system includes: a document management server that manages document data and an access key to access to the document data in association with each other; and an information processing unit including: a processing section; and a display detachably linked to the processing section by one of wired and wireless connection, the display holding an image of a document, the display storing the access key to access to the document data, the processing section comprising: a connection section to which the display is linked so as to read the access key from the display; a document acquisition section that acquires the document data corresponding to the access key read from the display from the document management server; and a document processing section that processes the document data acquired from the document management server.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 2, 2006
    Date of Patent: February 12, 2013
    Assignee: Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yoshitsugu Hirose, Hiroyuki Hattori, Toshiroh Shimada, Tomoyuki Shoya, Shigehiko Sasaki, Minoru Koshimizu, Kiwame Tokai, Sho Hasegawa, Hiroshi Ishikawa
  • Publication number: 20120324330
    Abstract: An information sharing support system includes a first information processor connected to a projector that projects an image on a projection area including an object, and to an image pick-up device for picking up an image of the projection area; an inputting unit that inputs an event in a first layer, inputs a second annotation image as a part of a first annotation image associated with the event to a second layer, inputs a third annotation image to a third layer, and inputs a document to a fourth layer; a transmitter that transmits the second annotation image to the projector device; a receiving unit that receives a picked-up image; and a second information processing device that allocates the picked-up image to the second layer, and includes a display that displays the third annotation image and the document in an overlapping fashion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 21, 2012
    Publication date: December 20, 2012
    Applicant: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Meng SHI, Kiwame TOKAI, Tsutomu ABE, Hiroyuki MIYAKE, Tetsuo IYODA, Shoji SAKAMOTO, Jun SHINGU
  • Patent number: 8284424
    Abstract: A work information generation system includes: a plurality of terminals that display a document; and a server that conducts communications with the plurality of terminals, wherein each of the plurality of terminals includes a notification section that sends notification of identification information given to each of the plurality of terminals and identification information of a document in association with each other to the server in response to display of the document, and wherein the server includes: a determination section; a work information generation section; and a work information retention section as described in the specification.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 25, 2006
    Date of Patent: October 9, 2012
    Assignee: Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Tomoyuki Shoya, Minoru Koshimizu, Yoshitsugu Hirose, Toshiroh Shimada, Shigehiko Sasaki, Kiwame Tokai, Hiroyuki Hattori, Hiroshi Ishikawa, Sho Hasegawa
  • Patent number: 8239753
    Abstract: An information sharing support system is provided. The system includes a first information processing device connected to a projector device for projecting an image on a projection area, and to an image pick-up device for picking up an image of the projection area; an inputting unit that inputs an event in a first layer, inputs a second annotation image as a part of a first annotation image associated with the event to a second layer, inputs a third annotation image as the remaining part of the first annotation image to a third layer, and inputs a document to a fourth layer; a transmitting unit that transmits the second annotation image; and a second information processing device that allocates the picked-up image to the second layer, and includes a display that displays the third annotation image and the document in an overlapping fashion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2007
    Date of Patent: August 7, 2012
    Assignee: Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Meng Shi, Kiwame Tokai, Tsutomu Abe, Hiroyuki Miyake, Tetsuo Iyoda, Shoji Sakamoto, Jun Shingu
  • Publication number: 20120150873
    Abstract: A search apparatus searches graph data representing a graph including nodes and links. The search apparatus includes the following elements. An input receiving unit receives an input of a reference node indicating a search reference position on the graph and an input of a search condition indicating a condition satisfied by a node, a link, or a combination of a node and a link. A searching unit searches the graph data for a node, a link, or a combination of a node and a link that satisfies the search condition. A search result data generating unit generates search result data indicating at least one search result obtained by the searching unit, together with path data showing a path on the graph from the reference node to each of the at least one search result.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 19, 2011
    Publication date: June 14, 2012
    Applicant: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Kiwame TOKAI
  • Patent number: 8125525
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes: a reception unit that receives multiple captured images that are captured with a capture device in parallel from an external apparatus to which the capture device that captures an object is connected; a detection unit that detects a priority image that is included in the multiple captured images being received by the reception unit and is assigned priority information that specifies the priority image to be preferentially displayed on a display device; and a controller that controls the reception unit to stop receiving other captured images which are not detected by the detection unit and to receive the priority image detected by the detection unit and controls the display device to display the priority image on the display device when the priority image is detected by the detection unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 17, 2009
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2012
    Assignee: Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Kiwame Tokai
  • Patent number: 8040388
    Abstract: An indicator system includes: a controller that transmits an image captured by an image capturing unit and a zoomed image captured by a zoom image capturing unit to a terminal, the image capturing unit capturing an image of an object, the zoom image capturing unit zooming in the object and capturing an image of the zoomed-in object, the controller causing a projecting unit to project an annotation image onto the object, the annotation image indicating an annotation in accordance with an instruction based on the image and given in the terminal; and a storing unit that stores conditions for capturing the zoomed image and the instruction which is associated with the conditions, when the instruction with respect to the annotation image is issued for the zoomed image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 10, 2008
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2011
    Assignee: Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kiwame Tokai, Meng Shi
  • Patent number: 8035700
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus including: a registration portion that, every time a new image is input, registers the image and an identifier with a storage; a reception portion that receives a delivery request including an identifier of an image and a delivery condition from an external terminal; a transmission portion that, when the identifier satisfying the delivery request is registered, transmits the image corresponding to the identifier to the external terminal; an addition portion that, when the identifier satisfying the delivery request is not registered, adds a set of the identifier, the delivery condition, identification information of the external terminal, and a registration time to the storage; and a notification portion that, when the identifier is not registered although a given period has passed from the registration time, notifies the external terminal of information showing that the image corresponding to the delivery request does not exist.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 20, 2009
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2011
    Assignee: Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Kiwame Tokai
  • Patent number: 7797619
    Abstract: A task analysis system includes: a document display that displays a document image and retains unit identification information identifying the document display itself; and a task management apparatus that manages a task, the task management apparatus including: a task associating unit that previously determines the unit identification information of the document display used to carry out the task; a acquisition unit that acquires the unit identification information and document identification information of a document displayed on the document display, the document identification information identifying the document; and a task analysis unit that determines the document used to carry out the task based on the document identification information, the document identification information being acquired corresponding to the unit identification information determined in the task associating unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 16, 2006
    Date of Patent: September 14, 2010
    Assignee: Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Tomoyuki Shoya, Minoru Koshimizu, Yoshitsugu Hirose, Toshiroh Shimada, Shigehiko Sasaki, Kiwame Tokai, Hiroyuki Hattori, Hiroshi Ishikawa, Sho Hasegawa
  • Publication number: 20100085435
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes: a reception unit that receives multiple captured images that are captured with a capture device in parallel from an external apparatus to which the capture device that captures an object is connected; a detection unit that detects a priority image that is included in the multiple captured images being received by the reception unit and is assigned priority information that specifies the priority image to be preferentially displayed on a display device; and a controller that controls the reception unit to stop receiving other captured images which are not detected by the detection unit and to receive the priority image detected by the detection unit and controls the display device to display the priority image on the display device when the priority image is detected by the detection unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 17, 2009
    Publication date: April 8, 2010
    Applicant: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Kiwame Tokai
  • Publication number: 20100045806
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus including: a registration portion that, every time a new image is input, registers the image and an identifier with a storage; a reception portion that receives a delivery request including an identifier of an image and a delivery condition from an external terminal; a transmission portion that, when the identifier satisfying the delivery request is registered, transmits the image corresponding to the identifier to the external terminal; an addition portion that, when the identifier satisfying the delivery request is not registered, adds a set of the identifier, the delivery condition, identification information of the external terminal, and a registration time to the storage; and a notification portion that, when the identifier is not registered although a given period has passed from the registration time, notifies the external terminal of information showing that the image corresponding to the delivery request does not exist.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 20, 2009
    Publication date: February 25, 2010
    Applicant: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Kiwame TOKAI
  • Patent number: 7651027
    Abstract: A remote instruction system includes a controller that controls an image capturing portion to capture an image of a target and transmit a captured image to a remote terminal, and controls a projecting portion to project an annotation image onto the target according to an instruction on the captured image given by the remote terminal, and a relative position changing portion that is controlled by the instruction on the captured image given by the remote terminal and changes the position of the target relative to the image projection portion and the image capturing portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 19, 2006
    Date of Patent: January 26, 2010
    Assignee: Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Kiwame Tokai
  • Patent number: 7590662
    Abstract: A remote supporting apparatus including a first receiving unit that receives information about a first annotation image from another device, a projecting unit that projects an image on a predetermined projection region in cooperation with the another device in accordance with the information about the first annotation image received from the first receiving unit, a recording unit that records an image of the projection region, a first transmitting unit, a second transmitting unit, a second receiving unit, and a displaying unit that displays an image in accordance with the information about the recorded image received by the second receiving unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 20, 2006
    Date of Patent: September 15, 2009
    Assignee: Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Kiwame Tokai