Patents by Inventor Makoto Hibino

Makoto Hibino 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: 20200195789
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, an image processing apparatus includes a damaged file determiner, a response unit, and a file restoration unit. The damaged file determiner determines whether or not a file used in the image processing apparatus is damaged. The response unit requests another device to provide a recovery file to be used to restore the damaged file and obtain the recovery file from another image processing apparatus, when it is determined that the file is damaged. The file restoration unit restores the damaged file by using the recovery file.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 18, 2018
    Publication date: June 18, 2020
    Inventors: Kazunobu Takahashi, Yoji Matsuda, Hiroshi Yamaguchi, Makoto Hibino
  • Publication number: 20190286381
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a storage unit and a processor. The storage unit stores one or more pieces of document data related to a first target and one or more pieces of document data related to a second target. The processor calculates a similarity between each of the one or more pieces of the document data related to the first target and each of the one or more pieces of the document data related to the second target, respectively, and determines a relevance between the first target and the second target, on the basis of the similarity.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 13, 2018
    Publication date: September 19, 2019
    Applicants: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA, TOSHIBA TEC KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Makoto HIBINO
  • Patent number: 10250769
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a reading unit, an image forming unit, and a controller. The reading unit is configured to acquire image data by reading an image on a first sheet. The image forming unit is configure to form an image from the image data on a second sheet using a first color material and a second color material. The controller is configured to perform text recognition on the image data, cause the image forming unit to form text from the image data on the second sheet using the second color material, and cause the image forming unit to form portions of the image data other than the text on the second sheet using the first color material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 5, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2019
    Assignees: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba, Toshiba TEC Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Makoto Hibino
  • Patent number: 10209931
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes a first processor core configured to allocate a plurality of threads to execute a drawing processing for converting printing object data divided into a plurality of units of printing to printing data, a plurality of second processor cores designated to execute data compression on the printing data converted by the drawing processing, and a storage device in which the compressed printing data are stored. The first processor core allocates a new thread to execute the drawing processing upon determining that the number of the second processor cores in an idle state is greater than the number of threads that are executing the drawing processing by a predetermined number.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 19, 2019
    Assignees: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA, TOSHIBA TEC KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Fumiyuki Watanabe, Makoto Hibino
  • Publication number: 20190012120
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes a first processor core configured to allocate a plurality of threads to execute a drawing processing for converting printing object data divided into a plurality of units of printing to printing data, a plurality of second processor cores designated to execute data compression on the printing data converted by the drawing processing, and a storage device in which the compressed printing data are stored. The first processor core allocates a new thread to execute the drawing processing upon determining that the number of the second processor cores in an idle state is greater than the number of threads that are executing the drawing processing by a predetermined number.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 20, 2018
    Publication date: January 10, 2019
    Inventors: Fumiyuki WATANABE, Makoto HIBINO
  • Patent number: 10037181
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, an image forming apparatus includes an image forming job created and transmitted by an job creation unit including an image to be printed, a receiving unit that receives a request of print setting to the image, a display unit that displays a setting screen having a setting unit to designate a setting of rewritable print or permanent print per page in response to receive the request of print setting, a memory unit that stores the setting of rewritable print or permanent print per page set by operating the setting screen, in addition to the image as the image forming job, and an image forming unit that receives the image forming job from the job creation unit and forms images on a sheet based on the setting in the image forming job.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 22, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 31, 2018
    Assignees: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA, TOSHIBA TEC KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Makoto Hibino, Kengo Yaoi
  • Publication number: 20180097955
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a reading unit, an image forming unit, and a controller. The reading unit is configured to acquire image data by reading an image on a first sheet. The image forming unit is configure to form an image from the image data on a second sheet using a first color material and a second color material. The controller is configured to perform text recognition on the image data, cause the image forming unit to form text from the image data on the second sheet using the second color material, and cause the image forming unit to form portions of the image data other than the text on the second sheet using the first color material.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 5, 2017
    Publication date: April 5, 2018
    Inventor: Makoto Hibino
  • Patent number: 9871936
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a reading unit, an image forming unit, and a controller. The reading unit is configured to acquire image data by reading an image on a first sheet. The image forming unit is configure to form an image from the image data on a second sheet using a first color material and a second color material. The controller is configured to perform text recognition on the image data, cause the image forming unit to form text from the image data on the second sheet using the second color material, and cause the image forming unit to form portions of the image data other than the text on the second sheet using the first color material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2018
    Assignees: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA, TOSHIBA TEC KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Makoto Hibino
  • Publication number: 20170155784
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a reading unit, an image forming unit, and a controller. The reading unit is configured to acquire image data by reading an image on a first sheet. The image forming unit is configure to form an image from the image data on a second sheet using a first color material and a second color material. The controller is configured to perform text recognition on the image data, cause the image forming unit to form text from the image data on the second sheet using the second color material, and cause the image forming unit to form portions of the image data other than the text on the second sheet using the first color material.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 30, 2016
    Publication date: June 1, 2017
    Inventor: Makoto HIBINO
  • Publication number: 20160239247
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, an image forming apparatus includes an image forming job created and transmitted by an job creation unit including an image to be printed, a receiving unit that receives a request of print setting to the image, a display unit that displays a setting screen having a setting unit to designate a setting of rewritable print or permanent print per page in response to receive the request of print setting, a memory unit that stores the setting of rewritable print or permanent print per page set by operating the setting screen, in addition to the image as the image forming job, and an image forming unit that receives the image forming job from the job creation unit and forms images on a sheet based on the setting in the image forming job.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 22, 2016
    Publication date: August 18, 2016
    Applicants: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA, TOSHIBA TEC KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Makoto HIBINO, Kengo YAOI
  • Patent number: 9348546
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, an image forming apparatus includes an image forming job created and transmitted by an job creation unit including an image to be printed, a receiving unit that receives a request of print setting to the image, a display unit that displays a setting screen having a setting unit to designate a setting of rewritable print or permanent print per page in response to receive the request of print setting, a memory unit that stores the setting of rewritable print or permanent print per page set by operating the setting screen, in addition to the image as the image forming job, and an image forming unit that receives the image forming job from the job creation unit and forms images on a sheet based on the setting in the image forming job.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2011
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2016
    Assignees: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA, TOSHIBA TEC KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Makoto Hibino, Kengo Yaoi
  • Publication number: 20150350478
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus according to an embodiment includes a print unit that prints an image on a recording medium based on scan print data generated by reading an image from a document or remote print data received from an information terminal connected to a network. A control panel with a display unit receives input from a user. The display unit includes a backlight. A control unit controls the backlight to be on when the control panel is accepting input from the user indicating a start of scanning to generate the scan print data, and controls the backlight to be off when performing printing of the remote print data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 2, 2014
    Publication date: December 3, 2015
    Applicants: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA, TOSHIBA TEC KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Makoto HIBINO, Saravanacoumar DOURECANNOU
  • Publication number: 20120170064
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, an image forming apparatus includes an image forming job created and transmitted by an job creation unit including an image to be printed, a receiving unit that receives a request of print setting to the image, a display unit that displays a setting screen having a setting unit to designate a setting of rewritable print or permanent print per page in response to receive the request of print setting, a memory unit that stores the setting of rewritable print or permanent print per page set by operating the setting screen, in addition to the image as the image forming job, and an image forming unit that receives the image forming job from the job creation unit and forms images on a sheet based on the setting in the image forming job.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 27, 2011
    Publication date: July 5, 2012
    Applicants: TOSHIBA TEC KABUSHIKI KAISHA, KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA
    Inventors: Makoto HIBINO, Kengo YAOI
  • Publication number: 20110299116
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, there is provided a print instruction device including an acquisition section, a calculation section, a display section, and a transmission section. The acquisition section acquires recommended setting corresponding to user information from an image forming apparatus. The calculation section calculates the amount of consumption of the Quota value by a print process according to the recommended setting that the acquisition section acquired from the image forming apparatus. The display section displays the recommended setting acquired by the acquisition section and the amount of the Quota value consumed by the print process according to the recommended setting, calculated by the calculation section. The transmission section transmits print data including a print setting content instructed by a user to the image forming apparatus after the recommended setting is displayed on the display section.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 31, 2011
    Publication date: December 8, 2011
    Applicants: TOSHIBA TEC KABUSHIKI KAISHA, KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA
    Inventor: Makoto Hibino
  • Publication number: 20110007355
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a print status setting apparatus includes a unit configured to display a print setting screen for acquiring a print status of a document, a unit configured to acquire a print status set value via the print setting screen, a unit configured to generate, from the print status set value, first print information represented by a language used by a printing apparatus for print processing, a unit configured to display, on the basis of the first print information, a preview screen to change a print status for each of pages, a unit configured to acquire a print status change set value to change the print status for each of the pages, a unit configured to generate second print information obtained by changing the first print information with the print status change set value applied thereto, and a unit configured to output the second print information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 8, 2010
    Publication date: January 13, 2011
    Applicants: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA, TOSHIBA TEC KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Makoto Hibino