Patents by Inventor Kiyoshi Mizukura

Kiyoshi Mizukura 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: 11622056
    Abstract: A personal computer 1 includes a first communication interface mechanism 16 that communicates with a first scanner 2A, and a first memory 13 that stores first reading setting information 131A in a first folder 131. The first scanner 2A includes a reception unit 221 that receives instruction data CM instructing reading of an image for which the first folder 131 is specified as the storage destination for read data, an acquisition unit 222 that, when the reception unit 221 receives the instruction data CM, accesses to the first folder 131 of the personal computer 1 and acquires the first reading setting information 131A from the first folder 131, a setting unit 223 that sets a reading condition based on the first reading setting information 131A, and a reading unit 224 that reads out an image and generates read data under the reading condition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 4, 2023
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Kentaro Kanada, Kiyoshi Mizukura
  • Publication number: 20220286573
    Abstract: A personal computer 1 includes a first communication interface mechanism 16 that communicates with a first scanner 2A, and a first memory 13 that stores first reading setting information 131A in a first folder 131. The first scanner 2A includes a reception unit 221 that receives instruction data CM instructing reading of an image for which the first folder 131 is specified as the storage destination for read data, an acquisition unit 222 that, when the reception unit 221 receives the instruction data CM, accesses to the first folder 131 of the personal computer 1 and acquires the first reading setting information 131A from the first folder 131, a setting unit 223 that sets a reading condition based on the first reading setting information 131A, and a reading unit 224 that reads out an image and generates read data under the reading condition.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 2, 2022
    Publication date: September 8, 2022
    Inventors: Kentaro KANADA, Kiyoshi MIZUKURA
  • Patent number: 10997406
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes a controller configured to execute a process on a result of reading on a plurality of documents. The controller obtains document data of a plurality of pages generated by reading the plurality of pages, executes detection of a heading region corresponding to a headline of a document on the obtained document data of the individual pages, and makes a determination as to whether reading order of the documents is appropriate by estimating the anteroposterior relationship among the pages based on presence or absence of the heading region in the document data of the individual pages.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 4, 2021
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Eiichi Harada, Kiyoshi Mizukura
  • Publication number: 20200242347
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes a controller configured to execute a process on a result of reading on a plurality of documents. The controller obtains document data of a plurality of pages generated by reading the plurality of pages, executes detection of a heading region corresponding to a headline of a document on the obtained document data of the individual pages, and makes a determination as to whether reading order of the documents is appropriate by estimating the anteroposterior relationship among the pages based on presence or absence of the heading region in the document data of the individual pages.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 24, 2020
    Publication date: July 30, 2020
    Inventors: Eiichi Harada, Kiyoshi Mizukura
  • Publication number: 20190236351
    Abstract: Provided are a controller configured to acquire a receipt image having been generated by reading of a receipt and a display section configured to display the receipt image, and the controller recognizes character rows included in the receipt image by performing character recognition processing, specifies an itemized-receipt region inside the receipt image on the basis of the character rows included in the receipt image, omits a region included in the receipt image and located above the upper end side of the itemized-receipt region, and allows a region including a portion or the whole of the itemized-receipt region to be displayed on the display section.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 30, 2019
    Publication date: August 1, 2019
    Applicant: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventor: Kiyoshi MIZUKURA
  • Publication number: 20050264833
    Abstract: The technique of the invention enables the user to readily refer to the details of efficient image processing performed on input image data. On completion of each selected image processing option performed on input image data Dpi, the details of an efficient series of image processing operations sequentially performed for conversion of the input image data Dpi to final retouched image data are updated by taking into account latest settings of relevant parameters of the selected image processing option. The updated details are stored in the form of a work memo file FL2. The work memo file FL2 includes data DT11 ‘execution order’, data DT12 ‘retouching option’, and data DT13 ‘parameters’. The concrete procedure of the invention for ‘efficiency’ updates the parameters of each image processing option to be performed multiple times to the latest settings, while maintaining the user's specified work sequence of the respective image processing options.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 7, 2005
    Publication date: December 1, 2005
    Inventors: Yasushi Hiraoka, Kiyoshi Mizukura, Tomotaka Takarabe