Patents by Inventor Makoto Kowaka

Makoto Kowaka 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: 20140320919
    Abstract: An electronic device in the present disclosure includes the following: an imaging device configured to scan a paper sheet, wherein the paper sheet comprises a first side and a second side, wherein scanning the paper sheet produces an image; a display device; a printing image acquisition unit configured to acquire a printing image; an image forming apparatus configured to print the printing image; and a display control unit configured to control the display device to display, if the produced image includes an image of a paper sheet, a composite image that combines the acquired printing image and the image of the paper sheet within the produced image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 29, 2014
    Publication date: October 30, 2014
    Applicant: KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc.
    Inventor: Makoto KOWAKA
  • Publication number: 20140168713
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes: a job receiving unit that receives a job for executing printing; an image-quality-adjustment execution unit that executes a normal image-quality adjustment at an image-quality adjustment time and a prior image-quality adjustment before the image-quality adjustment time; an image-quality-setting receiving unit that receives an image-quality setting; a reply request unit that, within a specific state before the image-quality adjustment time since the job is received by the job receiving unit, requests a reply indicating whether to execute a prior image-quality adjustment if a specific condition for the reception of the image-quality setting is satisfied; and a printing execution unit that, if the reply indicates that the prior image-quality adjustment is to be executed, prints an image on a recording medium by executing the job after the image-quality-adjustment execution unit executes the prior image-quality adjustment.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 17, 2013
    Publication date: June 19, 2014
    Applicant: Kyocera Document Solutions Inc.
    Inventor: Makoto Kowaka
  • Publication number: 20080151300
    Abstract: In regard to a print result of both-side printing, to display a preview image which allows intuitive understanding of both of the page order and the front-back relationship of each of the page images. When conducting both-side printing, a page of one page image to be formed on the front surface of a paper is identified, and a print preview image is displayed on display unit, in which a turned-over image g1 indicating a part of the uppermost paper of the stacked papers is turned over. And, on a first area p1 corresponding to the front surface section of the uppermost paper, a page image g12 to be formed on the section is displayed, while on a second area p2 corresponding to the back surface section of the same paper and on a third area p3 corresponding to the front surface section of the second paper, partial images g23 and g33 extracted from each of corresponding page images are displayed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 22, 2008
    Publication date: June 26, 2008
    Inventors: Makoto Kowaka, Tetsuya Matsusaka, Akihiko Ikazaki