Patents by Inventor Kohji Katamoto
Kohji Katamoto 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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Patent number: 11943400Abstract: The information processing apparatus includes a display. The information processing apparatus accepts user operations via a GUI (graphical user interface) displayed on the display. The operation screen is displayed on the display. On the operation screen, an operation guidance portion, including a message for providing operation guidance to the user, and a plurality of operation keys for accepting user operations are displayed. A part of the operation guidance portion is colored in a first color, the operation keys which are the first type of operation key are colored in the first color, and the operation keys which are the second type of operation key are not colored in the first color.Type: GrantFiled: November 8, 2022Date of Patent: March 26, 2024Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Masao Saeda, Yasuhiro Nakai, Kohji Katamoto, Kohichi Murakami, Yasutomo Hayano
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Patent number: 11889035Abstract: The information processing apparatus includes a display. The information processing apparatus accepts user operations via a GUI (graphical user interface) displayed on the display. When the service ends, the forgotten item notification screen is displayed on the display. In the forgotten item notification screen, a forgotten item reminder unit is provided for reminding a user who left behind a reminder target item, including the property of the user used in connection with the service. An individual reminder section is provided in a forgotten item reminder unit, to give an individual reminder to prevent the occurrence of leaving behind of each reminder target item, for a first-type item for which retrieval cannot be detected and a second-type item for which retrieval can be detected but which has not been retrieved, from among the reminder target items.Type: GrantFiled: May 31, 2022Date of Patent: January 30, 2024Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Masao Saeda, Yasuhiro Nakai, Kohji Katamoto, Kohichi Murakami, Yasutomo Hayano
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Patent number: 11818804Abstract: An information processing system includes an information processing device provided with a housing. The information processing device includes: a placement section that is disposed on an upper surface of the housing, the placement section on which a portable communication object is placed; a wireless communicator that wirelessly communicates with the communication object placed on the placement section; and a first protrusion that extends in a left-right direction along a lower end of the placement section. The placement section includes a placement surface sloping downward from a back side toward a front side, the placement surface on which the communication object is placed. A step, forming a gap between the placement surface and the communication object, is disposed in a lower end portion of the placement surface.Type: GrantFiled: July 25, 2022Date of Patent: November 14, 2023Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Masao Saeda, Yukio Kanaoka, Yasuhiro Nakai, Kohji Katamoto, Kohichi Murakami, Yasutomo Hayano
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Publication number: 20230319200Abstract: An image display device includes a display that displays an executable function, an acceptor that accepts an input of a function to be executed and a setting selectable for the function, a storage that stores history information, the history information being a series of processing details associating the function to be executed based on the input with a setting used when the function is executed, and a controller that causes the display to display a batch button summarizing the series of processing details when the series of processing details satisfies a predetermined execution condition.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 27, 2023Publication date: October 5, 2023Inventors: Kohji KATAMOTO, Takashi YAMANAKA, Megumi IDO, Yuriko TERADA, Masao SAEDA
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Patent number: 11765289Abstract: In an operation assistance system, an operation assistance method, and a computer-readable recording medium recording an operation assistance program, each of which assists with making an operation setting of an image forming apparatus by using a mobile communication terminal, the mobile communication terminal wirelessly communicates with the image forming apparatus, and at least two types of setting items among plural types of the setting items for the image forming apparatus are simultaneously set by a single touch operation on an operation screen of the mobile communication terminal.Type: GrantFiled: December 28, 2021Date of Patent: September 19, 2023Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Takashi Yamanaka, Kohji Katamoto, Yuriko Terada, Megumi Ido, Masao Saeda
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Publication number: 20230054674Abstract: The information processing apparatus includes a display. The information processing apparatus accepts user operations via a GUI (graphical user interface) displayed on the display. The operation screen is displayed on the display. On the operation screen, an operation guidance portion, including a message for providing operation guidance to the user, and a plurality of operation keys for accepting user operations are displayed. A part of the operation guidance portion is colored in a first color, the operation keys which are the first type of operation key are colored in the first color, and the operation keys which are the second type of operation key are not colored in the first color.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 8, 2022Publication date: February 23, 2023Inventors: MASAO SAEDA, YASUHIRO NAKAI, KOHJI KATAMOTO, KOHICHI MURAKAMI, YASUTOMO HAYANO
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Publication number: 20220405652Abstract: A meeting schedule arranger is connected to a plurality of terminals, a schedule manager that stores and manages schedule information of a plurality of members within a particular organization, and to a meeting room reservation manager that stores and manages reservation information of each meeting room available within the particular organization, and configures a meeting set-up system. On the basis of meeting set-up information sent from an organizer terminal, the meeting schedule arranger obtains, from the schedule manager, unoccupied time information of a participant to participate in the meeting; obtains, from the meeting room reservation manager, unoccupied time information of a meeting room to be used for the meeting; creates a meeting schedule plan from the unoccupied time information thus obtained and displays it on the organizer terminal; and selects the meeting schedule plan by the organizer terminal, thereby allowing reservation of a meeting room.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 25, 2022Publication date: December 22, 2022Inventors: Takashi YAMANAKA, KOHJI KATAMOTO, Katsumi NAKANISHI, Yuriko TERADA, MEGUMI IDO, MASAO SAEDA
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Patent number: 11528371Abstract: The information processing apparatus includes a display. The information processing apparatus accepts user operations via a GUI (graphical user interface) displayed on the display. The operation screen is displayed on the display. On the operation screen, an operation guidance portion, including a message for providing operation guidance to the user, and a plurality of operation keys for accepting user operations are displayed. A part of the operation guidance portion is colored in a first color, the operation keys which are the first type of operation key are colored in the first color, and the operation keys which are the second type of operation key are not colored in the first color.Type: GrantFiled: December 16, 2020Date of Patent: December 13, 2022Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Masao Saeda, Yasuhiro Nakai, Kohji Katamoto, Kohichi Murakami, Yasutomo Hayano
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Publication number: 20220361288Abstract: An information processing system includes an information processing device provided with a housing. The information processing device includes: a placement section that is disposed on an upper surface of the housing, the placement section on which a portable communication object is placed; a wireless communicator that wirelessly communicates with the communication object placed on the placement section; and a first protrusion that extends in a left-right direction along a lower end of the placement section. The placement section includes a placement surface sloping downward from a back side toward a front side, the placement surface on which the communication object is placed. A step, forming a gap between the placement surface and the communication object, is disposed in a lower end portion of the placement surface.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 25, 2022Publication date: November 10, 2022Inventors: MASAO SAEDA, YUKIO KANAOKA, YASUHIRO NAKAI, KOHJI KATAMOTO, KOHICHI MURAKAMI, YASUTOMO HAYANO
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Patent number: 11467782Abstract: An image forming system includes a mobile communication terminal, and an image forming device. The mobile communication terminal includes memory that stores data, a location determiner that accepts specifying of data and instruction for printing the specified data and determines whether data is stored in memory or stored in an accessible external device, and a print instructor that, in a case where data is stored in the memory, sends data to the image forming device together with the print instruction, and in a case where data is stored in the external device, sends access information, which is for accessing data, to the image forming device, together with the print instruction. The image forming device includes a controller that, when receiving data together with the print instruction, prints the received data, and when receiving the access information together with the print instruction, acquires and prints data stored in the external device.Type: GrantFiled: July 9, 2021Date of Patent: October 11, 2022Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Masao Saeda, Yasuhiro Nakai, Kohji Katamoto, Kohichi Murakami, Yasutomo Hayano
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Publication number: 20220294921Abstract: The information processing apparatus includes a display. The information processing apparatus accepts user operations via a GUI (graphical user interface) displayed on the display. When the service ends, the forgotten item notification screen is displayed on the display. In the forgotten item notification screen, a forgotten item reminder unit is provided for reminding a user who left behind a reminder target item, including the property of the user used in connection with the service. An individual reminder section is provided in a forgotten item reminder unit, to give an individual reminder to prevent the occurrence of leaving behind of each reminder target item, for a first-type item for which retrieval cannot be detected and a second-type item for which retrieval can be detected but which has not been retrieved, from among the reminder target items.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 31, 2022Publication date: September 15, 2022Inventors: MASAO SAEDA, YASUHIRO NAKAI, KOHJI KATAMOTO, KOHICHI MURAKAMI, YASUTOMO HAYANO
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Patent number: 11438967Abstract: An information processing system includes an information processing device provided with a housing. The information processing device includes: a placement section that is disposed on an upper surface of the housing, the placement section on which a portable communication object is placed; a wireless communicator that wirelessly communicates with the communication object placed on the placement section; and a first protrusion that extends in a left-right direction along a lower end of the placement section. The placement section includes a placement surface sloping downward from a back side toward a front side, the placement surface on which the communication object is placed. A step, forming a gap between the placement surface and the communication object, is disposed in a lower end portion of the placement surface.Type: GrantFiled: December 16, 2020Date of Patent: September 6, 2022Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Masao Saeda, Yukio Kanaoka, Yasuhiro Nakai, Kohji Katamoto, Kohichi Murakami, Yasutomo Hayano
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Publication number: 20220232135Abstract: In an operation assistance system, an operation assistance method, and a computer-readable recording medium recording an operation assistance program, each of which assists with making an operation setting of an image forming apparatus by using a mobile communication terminal, the mobile communication terminal wirelessly communicates with the image forming apparatus, and at least two types of setting items among plural types of the setting items for the image forming apparatus are simultaneously set by a single touch operation on an operation screen of the mobile communication terminal.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 28, 2021Publication date: July 21, 2022Inventors: Takashi YAMANAKA, KOHJI KATAMOTO, Yuriko TERADA, MEGUMI IDO, MASAO SAEDA
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Patent number: 11381697Abstract: The information processing apparatus includes a display. The information processing apparatus accepts user operations via a GUI (graphical user interface) displayed on the display. When the service ends, the forgotten item notification screen is displayed on the display. In the forgotten item notification screen, a forgotten item reminder unit is provided for reminding a user who left behind a reminder target item, including the property of the user used in connection with the service. An individual reminder section is provided in a forgotten item reminder unit, to give an individual reminder to prevent the occurrence of leaving behind of each reminder target item, for a first-type item for which retrieval cannot be detected and a second-type item for which retrieval can be detected but which has not been retrieved, from among the reminder target items.Type: GrantFiled: December 23, 2020Date of Patent: July 5, 2022Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Masao Saeda, Yasuhiro Nakai, Kohji Katamoto, Kohichi Murakami, Yasutomo Hayano
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Publication number: 20220019387Abstract: An image forming system includes a mobile communication terminal, and an image forming device. The mobile communication terminal includes memory that stores data, a location determiner that accepts specifying of data and instruction for printing the specified data and determines whether data is stored in memory or stored in an accessible external device, and a print instructor that, in a case where data is stored in the memory, sends data to the image forming device together with the print instruction, and in a case where data is stored in the external device, sends access information, which is for accessing data, to the image forming device, together with the print instruction. The image forming device includes a controller that, when receiving data together with the print instruction, prints the received data, and when receiving the access information together with the print instruction, acquires and prints data stored in the external device.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 9, 2021Publication date: January 20, 2022Inventors: MASAO SAEDA, YASUHIRO NAKAI, KOHJI KATAMOTO, KOHICHI MURAKAMI, YASUTOMO HAYANO
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Publication number: 20210227629Abstract: An information processing system includes an information processing device provided with a housing. The information processing device includes: a placement section that is disposed on an upper surface of the housing, the placement section on which a portable communication object is placed; a wireless communicator that wirelessly communicates with the communication object placed on the placement section; and a first protrusion that extends in a left-right direction along a lower end of the placement section. The placement section includes a placement surface sloping downward from a back side toward a front side, the placement surface on which the communication object is placed. A step, forming a gap between the placement surface and the communication object, is disposed in a lower end portion of the placement surface.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 16, 2020Publication date: July 22, 2021Inventors: MASAO SAEDA, YUKIO KANAOKA, YASUHIRO NAKAI, KOHJI KATAMOTO, KOHICHI MURAKAMI, YASUTOMO HAYANO
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Publication number: 20210218853Abstract: The information processing apparatus includes a display. The information processing apparatus accepts user operations via a GUI (graphical user interface) displayed on the display. The operation screen is displayed on the display. On the operation screen, an operation guidance portion, including a message for providing operation guidance to the user, and a plurality of operation keys for accepting user operations are displayed. A part of the operation guidance portion is colored in a first color, the operation keys which are the first type of operation key are colored in the first color, and the operation keys which are the second type of operation key are not colored in the first color.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 16, 2020Publication date: July 15, 2021Inventors: MASAO SAEDA, YASUHIRO NAKAI, KOHJI KATAMOTO, KOHICHI MURAKAMI, YASUTOMO HAYANO
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Publication number: 20210218855Abstract: The information processing apparatus includes a display. The information processing apparatus accepts user operations via a GUI (graphical user interface) displayed on the display. When the service ends, the forgotten item notification screen is displayed on the display. In the forgotten item notification screen, a forgotten item reminder unit is provided for reminding a user who left behind a reminder target item, including the property of the user used in connection with the service. An individual reminder section is provided in a forgotten item reminder unit, to give an individual reminder to prevent the occurrence of leaving behind of each reminder target item, for a first-type item for which retrieval cannot be detected and a second-type item for which retrieval can be detected but which has not been retrieved, from among the reminder target items.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 23, 2020Publication date: July 15, 2021Inventors: MASAO SAEDA, YASUHIRO NAKAI, KOHJI KATAMOTO, KOHICHI MURAKAMI, YASUTOMO HAYANO
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Patent number: 10931833Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes an image reading unit that generates image data from an image on an original document, a short-range wireless communication unit that performs communication via short-range wireless communication, an acquisition unit that acquires identification information from a plurality of mobile terminals within a communication area, a display unit that displays a plurality of pieces of identification information, an operation input unit that accepts selection of a plurality of pieces of identification information, which is at least some of the pieces of identification information, in accordance with operation by an operator and that specifies a selection group including a plurality of mobile terminals indicated by the selected plurality of pieces of identification information, and a transceiving unit that transmits image data only to the plurality of mobile terminals included in the selection group via the wireless communication unit.Type: GrantFiled: May 14, 2019Date of Patent: February 23, 2021Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Masao Saeda, Yasuhiro Nakai, Kohji Katamoto, Kohichi Murakami, Yasutomo Hayano
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Patent number: 10911627Abstract: An image forming apparatus system includes an image forming apparatus and a coin device that receives a usage fee to use the image forming apparatus. The image forming apparatus may execute the auto-clear based on a detection of a detection sensor that detects a user. The detection sensor includes only a first detection sensor disposed in a range of an area of an operator.Type: GrantFiled: December 9, 2019Date of Patent: February 2, 2021Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Masao Saeda, Yasuhiro Nakai, Kohji Katamoto, Kohichi Murakami, Yasutomo Hayano