Patents by Inventor Manabu Kurashina

Manabu Kurashina 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).

  • System for controlling operation of feeding recording media, and method for controlling operation of feeding recording media, and storage medium
    Patent number: 9975359
    Abstract: A system for controlling an operation of feeding recording media from a plurality of physical medium containers of an output apparatus includes at least one memory to store output-related media/container information including logical information, property information of the recording media, and information of the plurality of physical medium containers by associating the logical information and the property information of the recording media, and associating the logical information and the information of the plurality of physical medium containers, and circuitry configured to generate an output instruction including logical information, extract the logical information from the output instruction, and identify one or more physical medium containers each containing a specific recording medium to be used in performing an image forming operation by referring the property information of the recording media and the information of the plurality of physical medium containers each associated with the extracted logical
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 7, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 22, 2018
    Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Hiroshi Itoh, Manabu Kurashina
  • SYSTEM FOR CONTROLLING OPERATION OF FEEDING RECORDING MEDIA, AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING OPERATION OF FEEDING RECORDING MEDIA, AND STORAGE MEDIUM
    Publication number: 20170259590
    Abstract: A system for controlling an operation of feeding recording media from a plurality of physical medium containers of an output apparatus includes at least one memory to store output-related media/container information including logical information, property information of the recording media, and information of the plurality of physical medium containers by associating the logical information and the property information of the recording media, and associating the logical information and the information of the plurality of physical medium containers, and circuitry configured to generate an output instruction including logical information, extract the logical information from the output instruction, and identify one or more physical medium containers each containing a specific recording medium to be used in performing an image forming operation by referring the property information of the recording media and the information of the plurality of physical medium containers each associated with the extracted logical
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 7, 2017
    Publication date: September 14, 2017
    Applicant: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Hiroshi Itoh, Manabu Kurashina