Patents by Inventor Makoto Mihara

Makoto Mihara 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: 9626137
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes first and second token request transmission units, first and second token reception units, a storage unit, and a device resource request transmission unit. The first token request transmission unit transmits a first token acquisition request containing device credential information. The first token reception unit receives a first token corresponding to the device credential information. The storage unit stores the received first token. The second token transmission unit acquires the stored first token and sends a second token acquisition request containing the acquired first token and identification information for identifying a management unit that manages a device resource. The second token reception unit receives a second token corresponding to the identification information. The device resource request transmission unit transmits a request for a process related to a device resource, the request containing the received second token.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2017
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Makoto Mihara
  • Patent number: 9609698
    Abstract: A microwave heating device mountable to an electric device, includes: a commercial power supply; an AC/DC converter which outputs a plurality of DC voltages according to power supplied from the commercial power supply; a controller which receives power from the AC/DC converter and totally controls the electric device; a microwave processing device using a compound semiconductor which receives a plurality of outputs of the AC/DC converter and outputs a microwave; and a plurality of loads connected between, of the DC voltages output from the AC/DC converter, a predetermined Vd voltage and ground through a plurality of contacts. The loads form a group of electric components in the electric device. The controller controls power supply to the loads, and controls on/off of the contacts to drive the loads by the Vd voltage regardless of the voltage of the commercial power supply.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 12, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2017
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Makoto Mihara, Tomotaka Nobue, Yoshiharu Omori, Toshiyuki Okajima
  • Publication number: 20170058763
    Abstract: An exhaust device for an engine, interposed between an engine body, and a supercharger to be driven by a pressure of exhaust gas to be discharged from the engine body, includes a first exhaust passage and a second exhaust passage which introduce exhaust gas to the supercharger; a partition wall disposed between the first exhaust passage and the second exhaust passage, and configured to partition the first exhaust passage and the second exhaust passage from each other; and a valve disposed within the second exhaust passage, and configured to adjust the flow rate of exhaust gas flowing through the second exhaust passage. The partition wall includes a communication portion for communicating between the first exhaust passage and the second exhaust passage.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 12, 2016
    Publication date: March 2, 2017
    Applicant: MAZDA MOTOR CORPORATION
    Inventors: Einosuke SUEKUNI, Junji UMEMURA, Shuhei TSUJITA, Makoto MIHARA, Tomoaki FUJIYAMA, Hiroyuki HAMADA, Kouji HADAMA, Masahiro IKEDA
  • Patent number: 9565174
    Abstract: An information processing server system in which agreement to terms of service by a user is confirmed using a second authentication session different from a first authentication session used when a client uses the web service is provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 23, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2017
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Makoto Mihara
  • Publication number: 20160360011
    Abstract: If a request regarding display of a screen is accepted from a web browser and data included in the request is confirmed to be associated with old resources, a new application server system obtains the old resources from a storage unit and transmits the old resources to the web browser.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 31, 2016
    Publication date: December 8, 2016
    Inventor: Makoto Mihara
  • Patent number: 9398646
    Abstract: In order to provide a microwave heating device and a microwave heating control method which are capable of uniformly heating a to-be-heated object in a desired state, by employing plural feeding portions provided in a heating chamber on the basis of information about reflected electric power from the respective feeding portions; a control portion controls to supply microwave electric power from plural feeding portions to a heating chamber by operating a microwave generating portion at a heating frequency for heating a to-be-heated object, estimates a heating state for the to-be-heated object on the basis of per-unit-time increase/decrease change states of detected levels of detection signals detected by electric-power detection portions, and controls the heating frequency and the microwave electric power supplied from the feeding portions to the heating chamber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2010
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2016
    Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Tomotaka Nobue, Yoshiharu Oomori, Kenji Yasui, Makoto Mihara
  • Patent number: 9029744
    Abstract: A microwave heating apparatus includes, within a heating room, a placement table having a horizontal placement surface for placing an object to be heated, and a plurality of feeding portions which are placed on a wall surface of the heating room for supplying microwave electric power to the heating room. The microwave heating apparatus is adapted to relatively move the position of the straight line connecting two feeding portions to each other, with respect to the object to be heated, through a movement mechanism portion, and to detect a phase difference between the microwave electric powers which minimizes reflected electric power returning from the heating room to the two feeding portions, for detecting the state of placement of the object to be heated on the placement table.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2011
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2015
    Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yoshiharu Oomori, Tomotaka Nobue, Kenji Yasui, Makoto Mihara
  • Patent number: 9019528
    Abstract: With an information processing apparatus, if a user operates a “back” button of a web browser while a job is being executed, a script for controlling the job currently being executed is lost, and the job can no longer be controlled. An information processing apparatus of the present invention can communicate with a web server, and includes a web browser that displays an operation screen provided by the web server. This information processing apparatus manages the status of a job to be executed, and restricts acceptance of an instruction for screen transition from the user according to the managed status of the job while the job instructed by the web server is being executed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 1, 2010
    Date of Patent: April 28, 2015
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Makoto Mihara, Nobuaki Fukasawa
  • Publication number: 20150106903
    Abstract: An information processing system comprises: a management unit that performs management by associating an electronic certificate for a first group with notification destination information regarding a user who belongs to a second group and has a role in managing to allow the service to be used by the user belonging to the first group; and a notification unit that, in response to a remaining period until an expiration date of the electronic certificate falling below a predetermined value, identifies the notification destination information regarding the user belonging to the second group associated with the electronic certificate from among notification destination information, and performs a notification to update the electronic certificate based on the identified notification destination information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 3, 2014
    Publication date: April 16, 2015
    Inventor: Makoto Mihara
  • Patent number: 8970876
    Abstract: A cloud computing system includes an input data storage unit, a data input unit, an output data storage unit, and a data extraction unit. When an execution instruction is externally input, the cloud computing system reads data from the input data storage unit and processes the read data. Then, the cloud computing system stores a result of processing of the data on the output data storage unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 18, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 3, 2015
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Takeshi Takahashi, Makoto Mihara
  • Publication number: 20140361009
    Abstract: A microwave heating device mountable to an electric device, includes: a commercial power supply; an AC/DC converter which outputs a plurality of DC voltages according to power supplied from the commercial power supply; a controller which receives power from the AC/DC converter and totally controls the electric device; a microwave processing device using a compound semiconductor which receives a plurality of outputs of the AC/DC converter and outputs a microwave; and a plurality of loads connected between, of the DC voltages output from the AC/DC converter, a predetermined Vd voltage and ground through a plurality of contacts. The loads form a group of electric components in the electric device. The controller controls power supply to the loads, and controls on/off of the contacts to drive the loads by the Vd voltage regardless of the voltage of the commercial power supply.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 12, 2012
    Publication date: December 11, 2014
    Inventors: Makoto Mihara, Tomotaka Nobue, Yoshiharu Omori, Toshiyuki Okajima
  • Publication number: 20140355034
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes first and second token request transmission units, first and second token reception units, a storage unit, and a device resource request transmission unit. The first token request transmission unit transmits a first token acquisition request containing device credential information. The first token reception unit receives a first token corresponding to the device credential information. The storage unit stores the received first token. The second token transmission unit acquires the stored first token and sends a second token acquisition request containing the acquired first token and identification information for identifying a management unit that manages a device resource. The second token reception unit receives a second token corresponding to the identification information. The device resource request transmission unit transmits a request for a process related to a device resource, the request containing the received second token.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 27, 2014
    Publication date: December 4, 2014
    Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Makoto Mihara
  • Publication number: 20140359702
    Abstract: An information processing server system in which agreement to terms of service by a user is confirmed using a second authentication session different from a first authentication session used when a client uses the web service is provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 23, 2014
    Publication date: December 4, 2014
    Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Makoto Mihara
  • Patent number: 8901470
    Abstract: In a microwave heating apparatus of the invention, microwaves from oscillation parts 1a, 1b are divided into a plurality of microwaves by power division parts 2a, 2b and inputted to amplification parts 4a, 4b, 4c, 4d, and desired microwave powers from the amplification parts are supplied from feeding parts 5a, 5b, 5c, 5d to a heating chamber 8. Reflected powers reflected from the heating chamber to the amplification parts via the feeding parts are detected by power detection parts 6a, 6b, 6c, 6d. Each of the feeding parts has a plurality of antennas for supplying the microwaves having different characteristics to the heating chamber, and a control part 7 extracts an oscillating frequency with which the reflected powers detected by the power detection parts are minimum, and causes the oscillation parts to oscillate at the extracted oscillating frequency so as to supply the microwaves having the different characteristics from the plurality of antennas to the heating chamber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2009
    Date of Patent: December 2, 2014
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Yoshiharu Oomori, Tomotaka Nobue, Kenji Yasui, Makoto Mihara
  • Patent number: 8836974
    Abstract: An image processing system including a service platform configured to manage a job related to image processing according to a processing request received via a request receiving program in a distributed environment and one or more computers configured to cause a back-end processing program to process the job, including an execution unit configured to execute a task defined in the job acquired by the acquisition unit under control of the back-end processing program, and a recording unit configured to record information which is a result of processing the task executed by the execution unit and is used to maintain consistency of the image processing system into an area which is protected against writing by the task and managed by the service platform.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 18, 2011
    Date of Patent: September 16, 2014
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Makoto Mihara, Takeshi Takahashi
  • Patent number: 8782747
    Abstract: According to the present invention, a workflow desired by a user can be easily implemented without making any change or installing any application program in an image processing apparatus. An information processing apparatus includes a generation unit which generates setting information of a button related to execution of a work item, which is included in a screen displayed on an image processing apparatus according to a user, based on an activity corresponding to the work item and information of a user, who can execute the work item, acquired based on a role allocated to the work item, when the work item is generated that represents a work executed by a person in charge in an activity which is a work unit of a workflow executed in the image processing apparatus; and a transmission unit which transmits the setting information generated in the generation unit to the image processing apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 8, 2009
    Date of Patent: July 15, 2014
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Makoto Mihara
  • Publication number: 20140180717
    Abstract: A non-transitory computer readable medium stores a program causing a computer to execute a process including searching a memory that stores medical care record information about each patient including information about a medical care region and a medical care date and time for each piece of medical care record information about a specified patient; and generating a distribution list image indicating distribution of the pieces of medical care record information. The generating generates the distribution list image in which a position distribution image and a time distribution image are arranged for display. The position distribution image has a position display mark arranged at each position corresponding to the medical care region on a body schema indicating a human body or part thereof. The time distribution image has a time display mark arranged at each position corresponding to the medical care date and time on a time axis.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 22, 2013
    Publication date: June 26, 2014
    Applicant: FUJI XEROX Co., Ltd
    Inventor: Makoto MIHARA
  • Patent number: 8763145
    Abstract: A screen to be presented to a customer administrator is generated according to the license status. Also, as a license status, a processing progress status is provided in which the customer administrator is prohibited to perform operations during asynchronous license status change processing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 1, 2012
    Date of Patent: June 24, 2014
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Makoto Mihara
  • Patent number: 8680446
    Abstract: A microwave heating apparatus includes a microwave generation part 10 using a semiconductor element, and first and second heating chambers 100a, 100b to each of which a microwave generated in the microwave generation part is fed. A reflected microwave returned from at least one of the first and second heating chambers 100a, 100b to the microwave generation part is transmitted to the other heating chamber by a circulation type non-reciprocal circuit 118, so that generated power of the microwave generation part is substantially completely consumed upon heating of an article to be heated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 2009
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2014
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Tomotaka Nobue, Kenji Yasui, Yoshiharu Oomori, Makoto Mihara
  • Publication number: 20140075301
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus and a control method update document data in such a manner that an object in document data is inputted to an application, the object is transmitted to an external information processing apparatus, a processing result processed based on the object is received, and the processing result is inputted to the document data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 9, 2013
    Publication date: March 13, 2014
    Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Makoto MIHARA