Patents by Inventor Masafumi Sato

Masafumi Sato 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: 20180341437
    Abstract: A printing system includes a data processing device and an image forming apparatus. The data processing device includes a data managing unit, a data transmitting unit, and a partial-data generating unit. The image forming apparatus includes a data reporting unit and a data request unit. The data reporting unit reports interrupted print data as the print data for which the image forming apparatus has terminated performance of a printing at a page in a middle. The partial-data generating unit generates unprinted-page print data as the partial-page print data, the unprinted-page print data being the print data of the pages the printing of which has been un-performed by the image forming apparatus in the interrupted print data. The data transmitting unit transmits the unprinted-page print data generated by the partial-data generating unit to the image forming apparatus when the interrupted print data is requested from the image forming apparatus.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 15, 2018
    Publication date: November 29, 2018
    Inventors: Zhenyu Sun, Masafumi Sato
  • Publication number: 20180341438
    Abstract: A printing system includes a data processing device and an image forming apparatus. The data processing device processes print data. The data processing device includes a data receiving unit, a data managing unit, a data transmitting unit, and a preview image generating unit. The preview image generating unit generates a preview image based on print data. When the data receiving unit receives print data of a plurality of pages, the preview image generating unit automatically generates the preview image of a part of pages among the plurality of pages. The data managing unit manages the preview image generated by the preview image generating unit. When the data managing unit manages the preview image of a page requested from the image forming apparatus, the data transmitting unit transmits the preview image managed by the data managing unit to the image forming apparatus.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 21, 2018
    Publication date: November 29, 2018
    Applicant: KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc.
    Inventors: Zhenyu SUN, Masafumi SATO
  • Publication number: 20180300728
    Abstract: A motion analysis device includes a first calculation unit that obtains a relation between a movement direction of a ball hitting surface of an exercise tool at a time of entering an impact and a posture of the ball hitting surface at the impact by using an output of an inertial sensor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 8, 2018
    Publication date: October 18, 2018
    Applicant: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kazuhiro SHIBUYA, Masafumi SATO
  • Publication number: 20180220043
    Abstract: A system includes an electronic device and a login system. The electronic device ensures a login in response to login information for a login received from outside of the system. The login system transmits the login information to the electronic device. The login system includes a camera, an authentication unit, a login information management unit, and an information transmitting unit. The authentication unit authenticates a user. The login information management unit manages the login information for each user. The information transmitting unit transmits the login information managed by the login information management unit for a user authenticated by the authentication unit, to the electronic device. The authentication unit authenticates the user based on a face image obtained with the camera.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 30, 2018
    Publication date: August 2, 2018
    Inventors: Zhenyu Sun, Masafumi Sato, Yoshio Inoue
  • Publication number: 20180198776
    Abstract: Provided is an authentication system that achieves simple single sign-on used by an MFP. A management application includes a first authentication-request unit that transmits an authentication request to a management server and delivers a token to an execution platform. The other application includes a second authentication-request unit that sends an authentication request together with the token to another server. The application-execution platform includes a token-delivery unit that delivers the token to the other application. The management server includes a first authentication unit that returns a token to the first authentication-request unit, a token-creation unit, and a second authentication unit that performs authentication for an inquiry from the other server that uses a token. The other server includes a third authentication-request unit that transfers an authentication request, and transfers an authentication OK message to the second authentication-request unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 10, 2018
    Publication date: July 12, 2018
    Applicant: KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc.
    Inventors: Takashi OGUMA, Masafumi SATO, Zhenyu SUN
  • Patent number: 10016670
    Abstract: A motion analysis device includes a calculation unit which specifies a first imaginary plane, that is, a shaft plane formed by a first line segment representing a direction in which a shaft part of a sporting gear in a static posture extends and a second line segment representing a ball hitting direction, with the use of an output from an inertial sensor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 10, 2018
    Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventor: Masafumi Sato
  • Patent number: 10019210
    Abstract: A printing system includes an electronic device and a print apparatus. The electronic device includes a central processing unit and a storage device, and generates a print job. The print apparatus executes the print job. The storage device stores a job transmission program. The CPU executes the job transmission program to function as a spool availability determination unit and a job transmitter. The spool availability determination unit executes a determination of whether the print apparatus is capable of spooling an instruction execution type print job as the print job, executed in accordance with a specific instruction. The job transmitter transmits the instruction execution type print job to the print apparatus when the spool availability determination unit determines that the print apparatus is capable of spooling the instruction execution type print job. The spool availability determination unit obtains determination information for the determination from the print apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 10, 2018
    Assignee: Kyocera Document Solutions Inc.
    Inventors: Zhenyu Sun, Masafumi Sato, Yoshio Inoue, Tatsuya Hiwatari
  • Patent number: 10007472
    Abstract: A printing system includes a server, an electronic device and a print apparatus. The electronic device includes a central processing unit (CPU) and a storage device storing a printer driver. The CPU executes the printer driver to function as an authentication unit, a user information storage unit, and a job transmitter. The authentication unit transmits authentication information of a user and receives user information from the server. The user information storage unit stores the user information received by the authentication unit. The job transmitter uses the user information received by the authentication unit to transmit an instruction execution type print job to the print apparatus. If the user information is not received by the authentication unit, the job transmitter transmits the instruction execution type print job corresponding to print regulation information included in the user information stored in the user information storage unit to the print apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 26, 2018
    Assignee: Kyocera Document Solutions Inc.
    Inventors: Zhenyu Sun, Masafumi Sato, Tatsuya Hiwatari, Yoshio Inoue
  • Patent number: 9999394
    Abstract: A motion analysis device that obtains a relation between a movement direction of a ball hitting surface of an exercise tool at a time of starting a swing and a posture of the ball hitting surface at the time of impact during the swing by using output of an inertial sensor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 19, 2018
    Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kazuhiro Shibuya, Masafumi Sato
  • Patent number: 9992358
    Abstract: A pull print system includes a printing apparatus (MFP) that executes a print job, a pull print server that spools the print job to be executed as a pull print by the printing apparatus, and an electronic device that sends the print job to the pull print server. The pull print server sends to the electronic device setting information for a job setting being a setting of the print job, and when displaying a setting screen for the job setting, the electronic device displays the setting screen on which the setting information sent from the pull print server is reflected.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 5, 2018
    Assignee: KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc.
    Inventors: Ryosuke Mondo, Koji Kubono, Masafumi Sato, Toyoaki Oku, Zhenyu Sun, Yoshio Inoue
  • Publication number: 20180140211
    Abstract: A workout information display method includes: acquiring workout information based on a workout executed by a user; displaying a graph in which a first axis represents a distance or a time and a second axis represents a measurement value of each measurement item of the workout information in a first display region; displaying first to P-th icons for selecting setting of measurement values of first to P-th measurement items on the second axis of the graph in a second display region; and displaying a measurement value of the measurement item corresponding to the icon in regard to at least one of the first to P-th icons.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 27, 2017
    Publication date: May 24, 2018
    Applicant: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hironori NAKAZAWA, Masafumi SATO, Nobuyuki KITO, Nonoyama MASAAKI, Kinpara YUKI
  • Publication number: 20180146102
    Abstract: An information-processing system includes a personal computer, a management server, and one or more image forming apparatuses. The management server includes an emulator management unit and one or more emulators, and an estimated amount calculating unit. The estimated amount calculating unit calculates an estimated amount of charging when the print job is executed using the total count of pages, the print paper sheet size for each page, and the color/monochrome type for each page of the document to be printed by the print job determined by the emulator selected by the emulator management unit. Each of the one or more image forming apparatuses includes an estimated amount display. The estimated amount display obtains the estimated amount of charging from the management server when the print job is executed, so as to present the estimated amount of charging to the user via the display.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 24, 2017
    Publication date: May 24, 2018
    Inventors: Takashi Oguma, Masafumi Sato, Zhenyu Sun
  • Patent number: 9962591
    Abstract: A motion analysis method includes: specifying a first axis along a longitudinal direction of a shaft of a golf club when a user is at a standstill using an output of a sensor unit; and estimating a prescribed position between head and chest of the user when the user is at a standstill using the output of the sensor unit and body information of the user, and specifying a second axis which connects the estimated prescribed position and a hitting position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 8, 2018
    Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventor: Masafumi Sato
  • Patent number: 9955035
    Abstract: Provided is a pull printing system that is capable of improving security performance over that of a typical system. When authentication based on identification information and authentication information of a person providing a transmission instruction from a user terminal is successful, a pull printing server of the pull printing system correlates a printing job from the user terminal with identification information of a person providing an execution instruction from the user terminal, and spools the printing job. When authentication based on identification information and authentication information of a person providing the execution instruction from an MFP is successful, the pull printing server sets the printing job that is related with the identification information of the person providing the execution instruction as a target candidate of pull printing when spooling the printing job that is related with the identification information of the person providing the execution instruction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 24, 2018
    Assignee: KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc.
    Inventors: Yoshio Inoue, Toyoaki Oku, Koji Kubono, Ryosuke Mondo, Masafumi Sato, Zhenyu Sun
  • Publication number: 20180095396
    Abstract: A master server includes a mapping management unit that returns, with respect to an address inquiry request for a site server to be in cooperation with a PC, the address inquiry request being sent from the PC, an IP address of the site server to be in cooperation with the PC that sent the address inquiry request. The site server includes an authentication processing unit that authenticates the user in response to an authentication request for the user from the PC, and returns an authentication result to the PC, a permission information providing unit that, when the authentication processing unit succeeds in authentication, obtains the permission information corresponding to the user from the second memory, and provides the permission information to the PC that sent the authentication request, and a second spooler that spools job data from the PC, and outputs the job data to the image forming apparatus.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 29, 2017
    Publication date: April 5, 2018
    Inventors: ZHENYU SUN, MASAFUMI SATO
  • Publication number: 20180083953
    Abstract: The management server authenticates the user on the basis of the authentication request using the user name and the password received from the image forming apparatus, generates user session information obtained in a process of the user authentication process, stores the user session information in association with the IP address of the image forming apparatus in the third memory, and supplies the user session information in response to an inquiry using the IP address from the third party server. The third party server receives the authentication request using the IP address from the image forming apparatus, makes an inquiry to the management server by using the IP address, and authenticates the user on the basis of the returned user session information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 15, 2017
    Publication date: March 22, 2018
    Inventors: MASAFUMI SATO, ZHENYU SUN, TAKASHI OGUMA
  • Patent number: 9924049
    Abstract: A pull print system includes a print server and a print apparatus. The print server performs a raster-image processor (RIP) process based on print data received as job data from an external apparatus to generate printing image data as raster image data. The RIP process performed by the data generating unit is same as the RIP process performed by the print apparatus. The print apparatus requests to the print server the job data for the user whose login is accepted. The print server transmits to the print apparatus the printing image data of the job data as raster image data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 27, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 20, 2018
    Assignee: Kyocera Document Solutions Inc.
    Inventors: Masafumi Sato, Toyoaki Oku, Koji Kubono, Zhenyu Sun, Ryosuke Mondo, Yoshio Inoue
  • Patent number: 9886225
    Abstract: A printing system includes a plurality of print apparatuses each including a CPU, a storage device including a job management program, and a display. The display displays a list screen, into which a first list of instruction execution type print jobs received from another of the plurality of print apparatuses and a second list of the instruction execution type print jobs of a logged-in user among the instruction execution type print jobs spooled in the storage device are combined on the display In the other of the plurality of print apparatuses, if status change of spooling of the logged-in user's instruction execution type print job has occurred, the print apparatus is notified of the status change of spooling from the other of the plurality of print apparatuses to update the list screen displayed on the display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2018
    Assignee: Kyocera Document Solutions Inc.
    Inventors: Zhenyu Sun, Masafumi Sato, Tatsuya Hiwatari, Yoshio Inoue
  • Patent number: 9880187
    Abstract: A motion analysis method includes: specifying plural operations included in a motion operation using an output from an inertial sensor; calculating an operating time of each of the plural operations; adjusting a time axis of each operating time; and outputting operation information of the operation based on the adjusted time axis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 8, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2018
    Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kazuhiro Shibuya, Masafumi Sato, Kazuo Nomura, Kenya Kodaira
  • Publication number: 20170280004
    Abstract: Provided is a pull printing system that is capable of improving security performance over that of a typical system. When authentication based on identification information and authentication information of a person providing a transmission instruction from a user terminal is successful, a pull printing server of the pull printing system correlates a printing job from the user terminal with identification information of a person providing an execution instruction from the user terminal, and spools the printing job. When authentication based on identification information and authentication information of a person providing the execution instruction from an MFP is successful, the pull printing server sets the printing job that is related with the identification information of the person providing the execution instruction as a target candidate of pull printing when spooling the printing job that is related with the identification information of the person providing the execution instruction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 25, 2017
    Publication date: September 28, 2017
    Applicant: KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc.
    Inventors: Yoshio INOUE, Toyoaki OKU, Koji KUBONO, Ryosuke MONDO, Masafumi SATO, Zhenyu SUN