Patents by Inventor Kohshiro Inomata

Kohshiro Inomata 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: 20240073327
    Abstract: A non-transitory computer readable medium stores a program causing a computer to execute a process including: transmitting output data to an image forming apparatus; receiving, from the image forming apparatus serving as a destination of the output data, first identification information identifying the output data; photographing a code image identifying the image forming apparatus that performs an output operation; acquiring, from the photographed code image, second identification information identifying the image forming apparatus that performs the output operation; and transmitting, with the first identification information attached to the second identification information, an instruction to perform the output operation to the image forming apparatus that is identified in accordance with the second identification information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 1, 2023
    Publication date: February 29, 2024
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
    Inventor: Kohshiro INOMATA
  • Publication number: 20240064184
    Abstract: A non-transitory computer readable medium stores a program causing a computer to execute a process for information processing for a room in which metadata is transmitted and received by multiple terminal apparatuses, and the process includes causing at least one of the multiple terminal apparatuses to present states of multiple participants in the room in accordance with a shared rule determined in advance, the states being deduced from responses of the multiple participants.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 1, 2023
    Publication date: February 22, 2024
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
    Inventor: Kohshiro INOMATA
  • Publication number: 20230333784
    Abstract: An image forming device includes a processor configured to receive a correction from a user with respect to a process of printing a first document to be handled by the image forming device, and transmit correction information in a case where a predetermined condition is fulfilled, the predetermined condition indicating that a second document of which printing is to be handled by another image forming device is related to the first document, and the correction information causing the other image forming device to apply an effect of the correction to a process of printing the second document.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 18, 2022
    Publication date: October 19, 2023
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
    Inventors: Kunikazu UENO, Kohshiro INOMATA, Kengo TOKUCHI, Takahiro OKAYASU
  • Publication number: 20230325126
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a processor configured to: generate a screen that is converted into a data format which allows a portion of a first image of a printed material to be corrected, the portion being a portion related to a region specified by a user; and generate, in response to setting of content of a correction received via the screen, a second image having reflected the set content of the correction therein.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 7, 2022
    Publication date: October 12, 2023
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
    Inventor: Kohshiro INOMATA
  • Publication number: 20230328187
    Abstract: A non-transitory computer readable recording medium records program for causing a computer to implement: a function of displaying a preview image of a document instructed to be output prior to execution of output of the document in a case where a content of the document satisfies a predetermined condition; and a function of permitting the execution of output of the document in a case where confirmation by a user of the preview image displayed is detected.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 2, 2023
    Publication date: October 12, 2023
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
    Inventor: Kohshiro INOMATA
  • Publication number: 20230305662
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a processor configured to: detect a closest portion being a portion having a shortest distance from an operation surface in a perpendicular direction of the operation surface among portions of an object in a spatial region facing the operation surface; determine a position on the operation surface corresponding to a position of the closest portion as an instruction input position by a non-contact operation of a user; and, in a case where a distance between a first position of the closest portion, which is detected at a first time point, and a second position of the closest portion, which is detected at a second time point after a minute time has elapsed from the first time point, in a plane direction parallel to the operation surface is equal to or longer than a threshold distance, invalidate an instruction input on a position on the operation surface corresponding to the second position or output a warning to the user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 7, 2022
    Publication date: September 28, 2023
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
    Inventor: Kohshiro INOMATA
  • Publication number: 20230305782
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a processor configured to command a second image forming apparatus, if the second image forming apparatus exists, to stop printing a second document related to a first document when a stoppage of printing of the first document is received, the second image forming apparatus being responsible for printing the second document.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 7, 2022
    Publication date: September 28, 2023
    Applicant: FUJIFILM BUSINESS INNOVATION CORP.
    Inventors: Kunikazu UENO, Kohshiro INOMATA, Kengo TOKUCHI, Takahiro OKAYASU
  • Patent number: 11641433
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes an acquiring unit, an executing unit, and a controller. The acquiring unit acquires operational information indicating an operation performed at a second apparatus by a user. The executing unit executes a process. The controller causes a display to display information indicating a recommended process to be executed by the executing unit after the operation. The recommended process is set based on the operational information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 2, 2023
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
    Inventor: Kohshiro Inomata
  • Patent number: 11438477
    Abstract: An information processing device includes a processor configured to: group electronic documents that have been processed, based on similarity degree of the electronic documents into one or more groups; determine a group, among the one or more groups, to which at least one received electronic document is to belong; determine whether the at least one received document is a modified version of one or more electronic documents belonging to the determined group, the modified version having been partially modified with respect to the one or more electronic documents belonging to the determined group; and specify a blank portion in the at least one received electronic document by comparing the at least one received electronic document with the one or more electronic documents belonging to the determined group.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 19, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2022
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
    Inventor: Kohshiro Inomata
  • Publication number: 20210227086
    Abstract: An information processing device includes a processor configured to: group electronic documents that have been processed, based on similarity degree of the electronic documents into one or more groups; determine a group, among the one or more groups, to which at least one received electronic document is to belong; determine whether the at least one received document is a modified version of one or more electronic documents belonging to the determined group, the modified version having been partially modified with respect to the one or more electronic documents belonging to the determined group; and specify a blank portion in the at least one received electronic document by comparing the at least one received electronic document with the one or more electronic documents belonging to the determined group.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 19, 2020
    Publication date: July 22, 2021
    Applicant: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Kohshiro INOMATA
  • Patent number: 10733485
    Abstract: A writing preservation apparatus preserves, as image data, writing on a writing target medium in which writing is performed and erasing of writing in an arbitrary region is performed. The apparatus includes an acquisition unit that acquires time-series image data items at points of times for the writing target medium, a written region recognition unit that recognizes written regions in which writing is performed on the writing target medium at the points of time based on the image data items at the points of time which are acquired by the acquisition unit, and a preservation unit that preserves first image data at a first point of time in a case where the written region recognized based on the first image data in whole or part is absent in the written region recognized based on second image data at a second point of time subsequent to the first point of time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 7, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 4, 2020
    Assignee: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Kohshiro Inomata
  • Publication number: 20200099810
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes an acquiring unit, an executing unit, and a controller. The acquiring unit acquires operational information indicating an operation performed at a second apparatus by a user. The executing unit executes a process. The controller causes a display to display information indicating a recommended process to be executed by the executing unit after the operation. The recommended process is set based on the operational information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 11, 2019
    Publication date: March 26, 2020
    Applicant: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Kohshiro INOMATA
  • Patent number: 10341397
    Abstract: A non-transitory computer readable medium, storing a program causing a computer to execute a process for causing at least portions off display screens of plural terminals connected to each other through a network to display information in a synchronous manner, includes receiving material information indicating information regarding a material to be displayed, receiving operation information indicating details of operations that users perform on the respective terminals, and recording minutes information in which the material information, the operation information, and time information indicating times at which the users perform the operations are associated with each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 10, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2019
    Assignee: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kohshiro Inomata, Masayuki Yamaguchi
  • Patent number: 10091129
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a communication section, a calculator, and a sender. The communication section communicates with a processing providing apparatus which utilizes a different amount of resource in accordance with a load of processing to be performed on data. The calculator calculates an amount of resource to be utilized for performing processing on the data by the processing providing apparatus, at plural time points corresponding to different steps of processing performed by the information processing apparatus before sending the data to the processing providing apparatus. The sender sends a request to get or release the resource based on the amount of resource calculated by the calculator to the processing providing apparatus via the communication section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 2, 2018
    Assignee: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD
    Inventors: Tetsuo Fukasawa, Kohshiro Inomata
  • Publication number: 20180276510
    Abstract: A writing preservation apparatus preserves, as image data, writing on a writing target medium in which writing is performed and erasing of writing in an arbitrary region is performed. The apparatus includes an acquisition unit that acquires time-series image data items at points of times for the writing target medium, a written region recognition unit that recognizes written regions in which writing is performed on the writing target medium at the points of time based on the image data items at the points of time which are acquired by the acquisition unit, and a preservation unit that preserves first image data at a first point of time in a case where the written region recognized based on the first image data in whole or part is absent in the written region recognized based on second image data at a second point of time subsequent to the first point of time.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 7, 2017
    Publication date: September 27, 2018
    Applicant: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Kohshiro INOMATA
  • Patent number: 9948795
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes an image acquisition unit, a region specifying unit, and a partial-image recognition unit. The image acquisition unit acquires first image data representing a first image and second image data representing a second image that is an image acquired by performing additional recording on the first image. The region specifying unit specifies a region, where additional recording is performed with respect to the first image, of the second image in accordance with the first image data and the second image data acquired by the image acquisition unit. The partial-image recognition unit recognizes a partial image recorded in the region specified by the region specifying unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 17, 2018
    Assignee: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Kohshiro Inomata
  • Patent number: 9877168
    Abstract: A non-transitory computer readable medium stores a program causing a computer to execute a process for transmission and reception of media data including at least one of audio data and video data among multiple terminal apparatuses connected via a network. The process includes receiving a transmission request for the media data from at least one terminal apparatus among the multiple terminal apparatuses; receiving a reception request for the media data from at least one terminal apparatus among the multiple terminal apparatuses; and establishing a communication path to transmit the media data between a terminal apparatus that has made the transmission request among the multiple terminal apparatuses and at least one of terminal apparatuses that have made the reception request among the multiple terminal apparatuses, in a case where the total number of terminal apparatuses that have made the transmission request is less than or equal to a predetermined set value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 5, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2018
    Assignee: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kohshiro Inomata, Takumi Kobayashi
  • Publication number: 20180018140
    Abstract: A display control device includes a recognition unit and a controller. The recognition unit recognizes that a first area that has a specific size and in which a specific image is displayed is arranged on a display screen of a first display apparatus. After the recognition unit recognizes that the first area is arranged, the controller performs control to arrange, on a display screen of a second display apparatus, a second area that has the specific size and in which the specific image is displayed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 11, 2017
    Publication date: January 18, 2018
    Applicant: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Takumi KOBAYASHI, Kohshiro INOMATA, Masayuki YAMAGUCHI, Tetsuo FUKASAWA
  • Publication number: 20170316049
    Abstract: A data processing apparatus is provided. The apparatus includes a CPU that registers, by a user for each of plural services, a sample and a criterion for the sample, both of which are different for each service; transmits the sample to each of plural providers of the service corresponding to the sample; receives, from each provider, a result of performing the service on the sample; evaluates, for each provider, the result according to a match rate with a character indicated by the criterion for the sample; and transmits original data to a provider based on the evaluations.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 18, 2017
    Publication date: November 2, 2017
    Applicant: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD
    Inventors: Hirochika SHIONOIRI, Kohshiro INOMATA, Fumihisa SUZUKI, Yosuke KINOSHITA, Yasushi AMANO, Hideo FUJII
  • Patent number: 9723174
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus is provided. The image processing apparatus includes a data receiver, an image specifier, a replacement specifier, and a data generator. The data receiver receives data. The image specifier specifies a first image contained in the data. The replacement specifier specifies replacement data for the first image on the basis of a characteristic of the data. The data generator generates data in which the first image has been replaced with an image represented by the replacement data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2017
    Assignee: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Kohshiro Inomata