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).

  • Patent number: 9705968
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a transmission unit, a notification unit, and an instruction unit. The transmission unit transmits a request for processing to a destination at which the request is accepted. The notification unit makes a notification of destination information including first information used to call the information processing apparatus and second information concerning the requested processing. The instruction unit instructs an external apparatus, when the external apparatus calls the information processing apparatus using the destination information, to perform an operation concerning the requested processing on the basis of the second information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 23, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 11, 2017
    Assignee: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Kohshiro Inomata
  • Publication number: 20170180571
    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: Application
    Filed: March 30, 2016
    Publication date: June 22, 2017
    Applicant: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Kohshiro INOMATA
  • Patent number: 9658813
    Abstract: An information processing device includes a communication unit that makes communication with a plurality of service providing devices; a receiving unit that receives information relating to use of a function, which is provided by the information processing device, from one service providing device among the plurality of service providing devices; and a notification unit that notifies the other service providing device about a state of the information processing device through the communication unit in response to the reception of the information by the receiving unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2017
    Assignee: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Yamashita, Kohshiro Inomata, Masayuki Yamaguchi
  • Publication number: 20170046659
    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: Application
    Filed: February 10, 2016
    Publication date: February 16, 2017
    Applicant: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kohshiro INOMATA, Masayuki YAMAGUCHI
  • Publication number: 20170048283
    Abstract: A non-transitory computer readable medium stores a program causing a computer to transmit and receive multimedia data, including at least one of sound data and video data, between a plurality of terminal devices connected to each other through a network. The program causes the computer to function as a transmission request receiving section, a reception request receiving section, a first communication channel establishment section, an establishment request receiving section, a permission/rejection receiving section, and a second communication channel establishment section. The transmission request receiving section receives a transmission request for first multimedia data from a terminal device. The reception request receiving section receives a reception request for the first multimedia data from another terminal device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 19, 2016
    Publication date: February 16, 2017
    Applicant: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kohshiro INOMATA, Takumi KOBAYASHI
  • Publication number: 20170048284
    Abstract: A non-transitory computer readable medium stores a program causing a computer to transmit and receive multimedia data including at least one of sound data and video data between plural terminals connected to each other through a network to communicate with each other. The program causes the computer to function as a detection section and an association section. The detection section detects an event occurring when the plural terminals communicate with each other. The association section associates event information relating to the event with the multimedia data based on time information included in the multimedia data and a time when the detection section detects the event.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 29, 2016
    Publication date: February 16, 2017
    Applicant: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kohshiro INOMATA, Tetsuo FUKASAWA
  • Patent number: 9532003
    Abstract: A non-transitory computer readable medium stores a program causing a computer to execute a process for synchronous display of a document for use at a conference on multiple terminals connected via a network and for transmission and reception of media data including at least one of audio data and video data. The process includes, in accordance with whether or not each of multiple users has a right to access a document selected by a first user on a first terminal, controlling content for display on multiple terminals used by the multiple users, and controlling transmission and reception of the media data between the first terminal and each of the multiple terminals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2016
    Assignee: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Kohshiro Inomata
  • Patent number: 9530018
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a file acquiring unit, a generating unit, a data processing unit, and an output unit. The file acquiring unit acquires a file on the basis of an instruction from a user. The generating unit generates restriction information for restricting access to the file acquired by the file acquiring unit. The data processing unit associates the restriction information generated by the generating unit with the file acquired by the file acquiring unit. The output unit outputs the restriction information generated by the generating unit on a paper medium.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 5, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2016
    Assignee: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Kohshiro Inomata
  • Publication number: 20160241738
    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: Application
    Filed: April 29, 2016
    Publication date: August 18, 2016
    Applicant: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Kohshiro INOMATA
  • Patent number: 9378413
    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: June 13, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 28, 2016
    Assignee: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD
    Inventor: Kohshiro Inomata
  • Publication number: 20160134839
    Abstract: A non-transitory computer readable medium stores a program causing a computer to execute a process for synchronous display of a document for use at a conference on multiple terminals connected via a network and for transmission and reception of media data including at least one of audio data and video data. The process includes, in accordance with whether or not each of multiple users has a right to access a document selected by a first user on a first terminal, controlling content for display on multiple terminals used by the multiple users, and controlling transmission and reception of the media data between the first terminal and each of the multiple terminals.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 18, 2015
    Publication date: May 12, 2016
    Applicant: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Kohshiro INOMATA
  • Publication number: 20160134670
    Abstract: A non-transitory computer readable medium stores a program causing a computer to execute a process for displaying parts of display screens in synchronization across multiple terminals connected via a network. The process includes receiving connection requests from the terminals, granting to one of the terminals having transmitted the connection request an operation right to operate on materials that are displayed in synchronization, and notifying the terminals, other than the terminal that has been granted the operation right from among the terminals having transmitted the connection requests, of material information of the materials displayed on the terminal and operation information indicating contents of an operation performed on the materials.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 27, 2015
    Publication date: May 12, 2016
    Applicant: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Kohshiro INOMATA
  • Publication number: 20160085494
    Abstract: A control device includes a selection unit. The selection unit selects, based on location information of a portable terminal and information of a moving speed of the portable terminal, regional information related to a region represented by the location information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 28, 2015
    Publication date: March 24, 2016
    Inventors: Kohshiro INOMATA, Takashi MOMMA
  • Patent number: 9286480
    Abstract: An information processing device includes a processing-type accepting unit that accepts a type of first processing of data, a data accepting unit that accepts post-processing data, the post-processing data being data on which the first processing accepted by the processing-type accepting unit has been executed, and a data processing unit that determines a data confidentiality level indicating a degree of confidentiality of the post-processing data, on a basis of a first confidentiality level associated with the type of the first processing, and executes second processing according to the data confidentiality level with respect to the post-processing data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 20, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 15, 2016
    Assignee: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yosuke Kinoshita, Kohshiro Inomata, Fumihisa Suzuki, Hirochika Shionoiri, Yasushi Amano
  • Patent number: 9262104
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a first replacing unit, an obtaining unit, and a second replacing unit. The first replacing unit replaces, in first document data including plural character strings, a first character string which satisfies a predetermined condition by a second character string including a character string which is not included in the first document data so as to generate second document data. The obtaining unit obtains a processing result generated by processing the second document data. The second replacing unit replaces the second character string included in the processing result by a character string corresponding to the first character string.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 24, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 16, 2016
    Assignee: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD
    Inventors: Yasushi Amano, Kohshiro Inomata, Fumihisa Suzuki, Yosuke Kinoshita, Hirochika Shionoiri
  • Publication number: 20160044469
    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: Application
    Filed: February 5, 2015
    Publication date: February 11, 2016
    Inventors: Kohshiro INOMATA, Takumi KOBAYASHI
  • Publication number: 20160028789
    Abstract: A non-transitory computer readable medium stores a program causing a computer to execute a process for allowing at least part of display content of a second terminal apparatus included in multiple terminal apparatuses to be displayed on at least a portion of a display screen of a first terminal apparatus included in the multiple terminal apparatuses in such a manner that the first terminal apparatus is in a synchronous state. The process includes acquiring first operation content indicating content of an operation performed by a first user on the first terminal apparatus; and modifying, in a case where the first operation content indicates content of an operation of modifying display content displayed on the first terminal apparatus in synchronization with the second terminal apparatus and indicates content of a predetermined operation, the display content displayed on the first terminal apparatus to display content corresponding to the first operation content.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 2, 2015
    Publication date: January 28, 2016
    Inventors: Kohshiro INOMATA, Tetsuo FUKASAWA
  • Patent number: 9235794
    Abstract: An information processing device includes a security level determining unit that determines a security level, the security level indicating a level of security related to leakage of information in an image processing device, and an instructing unit that changes an output method to an output method having a high security level and gives at least one of two instructions, in a case where the security level does not satisfy a predetermined condition, the two instructions including an instruction for outputting information notifying the output method that has been changed, and an instruction for outputting information prompting for change of the security level in the image processing device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 19, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 12, 2016
    Assignee: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Fumihisa Suzuki, Kohshiro Inomata, Hirochika Shionoiri, Yosuke Kinoshita, Yasushi Amano
  • Patent number: 9177134
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes following components. An authentication processing unit authenticates a user. A display displays information. An accessing unit accesses an external service. An authenticated-access-information acquiring unit acquires authenticated access information associated with user information for identifying an authenticated user. An unauthenticated-access-information acquiring unit acquires unauthenticated access information having been input by an unauthenticated user when accessing the external service.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 4, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 3, 2015
    Assignee: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kohshiro Inomata, Hirochika Shionoiri
  • Patent number: 9164797
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes an application program information acquisition unit that acquires a resource amount to be used in each of a plurality of operation modes by an application program in operation or an application program desired to be operated, and an operation determination unit that determines, in accordance with the resource amount acquired by the application information acquisition unit, whether the application program desired to be operated is installable and/or startable. The operation program desired to be operated is installed and/or started up in response to a result provided by the operation determination unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 15, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 20, 2015
    Assignee: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Kohshiro Inomata