Patents by Inventor Masateru Kumagai

Masateru Kumagai 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: 20230152273
    Abstract: An electrophoresis device of the present disclosure includes an electrophoresis path of a sample, a dispersion element for dispersing light from the sample within the electrophoresis path, a photodetector for detecting the light dispersed by the dispersion element, and a computation unit for determining a spectrum of the light on the basis of a signal from the photodetector, and is characterized in that the computation unit corrects the spectrum using correction factors determined for each migration condition or fluorescent dye.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 12, 2020
    Publication date: May 18, 2023
    Inventors: Noriyuki SUMIDA, Michiru FUJIOKA, Motohiro YAMAZAKI, Isao HARAURA, Yoshimasa MOMOSE, Masateru KUMAGAI
  • Patent number: 10621070
    Abstract: An information processing system includes a first memory that stores information on a request for performing data processing associated with a type of the data processing, a second memory that stores information on a request for performing data processing for testing, and a plurality of circuitry that performs data processing according to the type of the data processing. The plurality of circuitry includes a first circuitry that operates in a normal mode and a second circuitry that operates in a test mode. The second circuitry starts up in the test mode to operate in the test mode if the first circuitry operates in the normal mode and transitions from the test mode to the normal mode according to a user request. In the normal mode, the circuitry acquires the information on the request for performing the data processing from the first memory and performs the data processing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 18, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 14, 2020
    Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Masateru Kumagai, Tadashi Honda, Kohichiroh Nishikawa, Tomoya Amikura
  • Publication number: 20180113792
    Abstract: An information processing system includes a first memory that stores information on a request for performing data processing associated with a type of the data processing, a second memory that stores information on a request for performing data processing for testing, and a plurality of circuitry that performs data processing according to the type of the data processing. The plurality of circuitry includes a first circuitry that operates in a normal mode and a second circuitry that operates in a test mode. The second circuitry starts up in the test mode to operate in the test mode if the first circuitry operates in the normal mode and transitions from the test mode to the normal mode according to a user request. In the normal mode, the circuitry acquires the information on the request for performing the data processing from the first memory and performs the data processing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 18, 2017
    Publication date: April 26, 2018
    Applicant: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Masateru KUMAGAI, Tadashi HONDA, Kohichiroh NISHIKAWA, Tomoya AMIKURA
  • Patent number: 9317396
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a first preservation unit configured to preserve execution request information for information processing; an execution unit configured to execute one or more types of the information processing; an execution control unit configured to have the execution unit being capable of executing one of the types of the information processing execute the information processing of the execution request information preserved by the first preservation unit; and a second preservation unit configured to preserve a stop command of the execution unit. If the execution unit does not execute the information processing, the execution control unit checks the second preservation unit if the second preservation unit preserves the stop command to have the execution unit execute a stop procedure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2016
    Assignee: RICOH COMPANY, LTD.
    Inventors: Tadashi Honda, Tetsuharu Kohkaki, Kenta Yamano, Tomoya Amikura, Masateru Kumagai, Yuuichiroh Hayashi
  • Patent number: 9160867
    Abstract: An information processing system including at least one information processing apparatus includes a holding unit holding a processing request waiting for a processing; processing units monitoring the holding unit, acquiring the processing request and performing the processing corresponding to the processing request; and a memory unit storing information of a state of the processing request, wherein each processing unit includes a state acquiring unit acquiring information indicative of the state of the acquired processing request from the memory unit, and a state controlling unit checking the information indicative of the state of the acquired processing request, and controlling whether the processing corresponding to the acquired processing request is preformed based on a result of checking the information indicative of the state of the acquired processing request.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 1, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 13, 2015
    Assignee: RICOH COMPANY, LTD.
    Inventors: Kenta Yamano, Masateru Kumagai, Tomoya Amikura, Yuuichiroh Hayashi
  • Publication number: 20150156340
    Abstract: An information processing system including at least one information processing apparatus includes a holding unit holding a processing request waiting for a processing; processing units monitoring the holding unit, acquiring the processing request and performing the processing corresponding to the processing request; and a memory unit storing information of a state of the processing request, wherein each processing unit includes a state acquiring unit acquiring information indicative of the state of the acquired processing request from the memory unit, and a state controlling unit checking the information indicative of the state of the acquired processing request, and controlling whether the processing corresponding to the acquired processing request is preformed based on a result of checking the information indicative of the state of the acquired processing request.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 1, 2014
    Publication date: June 4, 2015
    Applicant: RICOH COMPANY, LTD.
    Inventors: Kenta YAMANO, Masateru KUMAGAI, Tomoya AMIKURA, Yuuichiroh HAYASHI
  • Patent number: 8881160
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus sequentially executing one or more processes of a workflow on an input document includes: a workflow-information storage unit storing workflow information; a result storage unit storing a process result; a workflow control unit receiving workflow identification information for identifying the workflow and acquiring workflow information from the workflow-information storage unit on the basis of the workflow identification information; and a result acquiring unit acquiring the process result from the result storage unit based on the result identification information when the workflow information acquired by the workflow control unit includes the result identification information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 4, 2014
    Assignee: Ricoh Company, Limited
    Inventors: Hiroki Ozaki, Masateru Kumagai, Shinsuke Yanazume, Hiroshi Baba, Shoh Nagamine
  • Publication number: 20140223150
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a first preservation unit configured to preserve execution request information for information processing; an execution unit configured to execute one or more types of the information processing; an execution control unit configured to have the execution unit being capable of executing one of the types of the information processing execute the information processing of the execution request information preserved by the first preservation unit; and a second preservation unit configured to preserve a stop command of the execution unit. If the execution unit does not execute the information processing, the execution control unit checks the second preservation unit if the second preservation unit preserves the stop command to have the execution unit execute a stop procedure.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 24, 2014
    Publication date: August 7, 2014
    Applicant: RICOH COMPANY, LTD.
    Inventors: Tadashi Honda, Tetsuharu Kohkaki, Kenta Yamano, Tomoya Amikura, Masateru Kumagai, Yuuichiroh Hayashi
  • Publication number: 20140223004
    Abstract: A network system including one or more information processing devices includes plural information processing program executing units to execute different processes, and an execution control unit to cause, when receiving via a predefined interface, designation of one or more of the different processes and a reporting destination of a completion report indicating that the different processes have been executed from an application installed on an external device connected to the network system via a network, the information processing program executing units to execute the different processes based on the designation, and to transmit to the reporting destination, when the different processes executed by the information processing program executing units have been completed, a completion report indicating that the different processes have been completed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 4, 2014
    Publication date: August 7, 2014
    Inventors: Tadashi HONDA, Tetsuharu Kohkaki, Kenta Yamano, Tomoya Amikura, Masateru Kumagai, Yuuichiroh Hayashi
  • Patent number: 8605304
    Abstract: In an image processing apparatus, a power control part shuts down power supply after a power shutdown condition is established. A prescript safe state transition part performs a prescript safe state transition process to shift previously set prescript parts to a predetermined safe state. A priority safe state transition part performs a priority safe state transition process to shift previously set priority parts to the safe state. A transition process control part causes the prescript safe state transition process to be executed before execution of the priority safe transition process, and causes the priority safe state transition process to be executed when a predetermined transition change condition is established in the prescript safe state transition process. The power control part shuts down the power supply after the completion of the prescript safe state transition process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 17, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2013
    Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Shinsuke Yanazume, Rie Nakamura, Yoshifumi Kawai, Masateru Kumagai
  • Publication number: 20130290422
    Abstract: A conference support apparatus includes a first reception unit that receives position data from a position data transmission apparatus, an entire region determination unit that determines an entire region based on the position data, a transmission unit that transmits data of the entire region to a first terminal, a second reception unit that receives division data from the first terminal, a division unit that divides the entire region into a plurality of divisional regions, a third reception unit that receives terminal position data from a second terminal, a region determination unit that determines a target divisional region to which the second terminal belongs from the plurality of divisional regions based on the terminal position data, and a distribution unit that distributes handout data associated to the target divisional region to the second terminal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 23, 2013
    Publication date: October 31, 2013
    Applicant: RICOH COMPANY, LTD.
    Inventors: Masateru KUMAGAI, Kei Oyamada
  • Patent number: 8479095
    Abstract: A workflow executing device includes a workflow executing unit; a first extracting unit that extracts a first preview property including a first element constituting a first data item and first position information; a second extracting unit that extracts a second preview property including a second element constituting a second data item and a second position information item, the second data item being obtained as a result of processing the first data item; a preview property managing unit that saves preview properties; a preview property generating unit that inserts the second element that is the processing result into the first preview property in place of the first element that is the processing target, and generates a new second preview property by associating the first position information with the second element; and a preview creating unit that creates preview images based on preview properties.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2011
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2013
    Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Shoh Nagamine, Hiroki Ozaki, Hiroshi Baba, Masateru Kumagai, Shinsuke Yanazume
  • Patent number: 8441661
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes a platform and plugins installed in the platform to cause devices to perform functions, wherein the platform includes a power control unit to control supply of power to the devices and a first power control interface to transmit to the plugins an advanced notice of shutdown, wherein each of the plugins includes a second power control interface to receive the advanced notice of shutdown and a power processing control unit to make a preparation for shutdown in response to the advanced notice of shutdown received through the second power control interface, and to send information about the preparation to the power control unit through the second power control interface, wherein the power control unit controls supply of power to at least one of the devices based on the information about the preparation received from at least one of the plugins.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2011
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2013
    Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Rie Nakamura, Yoshifumi Kawai, Masateru Kumagai, Shinsuke Yanazume
  • Patent number: 8363285
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus to print an image on a recording medium based on print data. The image forming apparatus includes a storing unit to store the print data, an image processing unit to perform image processing on image data included in the print data; a printing operation specification unit to specify implementation of a printing operation; a marking unit to embed marking data in the image data, a marking printing operation specification unit to specify implementation of a marking printing operation, a printing operation implementation unit to implement the printing operation or the marking printing operation, a print data determination unit to determine whether or not the print data includes a setting for the marking printing operation, and a printing operation change unit to change a printing operation performed by the printing operation implementation unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 29, 2009
    Date of Patent: January 29, 2013
    Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Saori Iura, Yasuyuki Igarashi, Masateru Kumagai, Daisuke Okada
  • Publication number: 20120303709
    Abstract: A conference assistance system including one or more of a display terminal that displays data of a document; a display input device that displays added data input by a user; a positional information obtaining device that obtains positional information of the display terminal and the display input device; and a data processing apparatus that calculates the positional relationship of the display terminal and the display input device based on the positional information of the display terminal and the display input device, specifies the display terminal to which the added data is to be delivered based on the positional relationship of the display terminal and the display input device, and delivers the added data to the specified display terminal to have the display terminal display the added data, the display terminal, the display input device, which are capable of communicating via a network.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 17, 2012
    Publication date: November 29, 2012
    Applicant: RICOH COMPANY, LTD.
    Inventors: Takeshi FUJITA, Masateru KUMAGAI, Kei OYAMADA, Yasuharu YANAMURA, Nahoko YANO
  • Patent number: 8305629
    Abstract: One or more among a PC document receive filter, a FAX document receive filter, a read filter, and a readout filter create a report on each of the corresponding functions in a format common to the functions. A report filter changes a format of the created report as desired by the user. Therefore, when a setting for a report output process is changed, it is not necessary to change the setting with respect to each of the functions. Thus, it is possible to reduce development man-hours for the report output process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 2009
    Date of Patent: November 6, 2012
    Assignee: Ricoh Company, Limited
    Inventors: Saori Iura, Yasuyuki Igarashi, Masateru Kumagai, Daisuke Okada
  • Patent number: 8189227
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus is disclosed. The image forming apparatus includes plural image output units, plural output image data converting units disposed for the corresponding image output units for converting image data of a predetermined format into image data of a format for the corresponding image output units, a first memory unit which is used in common for storing image data in processes by the image output units and the output image data converting units, and a memory area adjusting unit which adjusts a memory area in the first memory unit for memory area obtaining requests from the image output units and the output image data converting units.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 2007
    Date of Patent: May 29, 2012
    Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Fukutoshi Uchida, Yuzo Oshima, Masateru Kumagai, Tatsushi Machida
  • Publication number: 20120117570
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus sequentially executing one or more processes of a workflow on an input document includes: a workflow-information storage unit storing workflow information; a result storage unit storing a process result; a workflow control unit receiving workflow identification information for identifying the workflow and acquiring workflow information from the workflow-information storage unit on the basis of the workflow identification information; and a result acquiring unit acquiring the process result from the result storage unit based on the result identification information when the workflow information acquired by the workflow control unit includes the result identification information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 21, 2011
    Publication date: May 10, 2012
    Applicant: RICOH COMPANY, LIMITED
    Inventors: Hiroki Ozaki, Masateru Kumagai, Shinsuke Yanazume, Hiroshi Baba, Shoh Nagamine
  • Publication number: 20120096348
    Abstract: A workflow executing device includes a workflow executing unit; a first extracting unit that extracts a first preview property including a first element constituting a first data item and first position information; a second extracting unit that extracts a second preview property including a second element constituting a second data item and a second position information item, the second data item being obtained as a result of processing the first data item; a preview property managing unit that saves preview properties; a preview property generating unit that inserts the second element that is the processing result into the first preview property in place of the first element that is the processing target, and generates a new second preview property by associating the first position information with the second element; and a preview creating unit that creates preview images based on preview properties.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 23, 2011
    Publication date: April 19, 2012
    Applicant: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Shoh Nagamine, Hiroki Ozaki, Hiroshi Baba, Masateru Kumagai, Shinsuke Yanazume
  • Publication number: 20110222101
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes a platform and plugins installed in the platform to cause devices to perform functions, wherein the platform includes a power control unit to control supply of power to the devices and a first power control interface to transmit to the plugins an advanced notice of shutdown, wherein each of the plugins includes a second power control interface to receive the advanced notice of shutdown and a power processing control unit to make a preparation for shutdown in response to the advanced notice of shutdown received through the second power control interface, and to send information about the preparation to the power control unit through the second power control interface, wherein the power control unit controls supply of power to at least one of the devices based on the information about the preparation received from at least one of the plugins.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 24, 2011
    Publication date: September 15, 2011
    Applicant: RICOH COMPANY, LTD.
    Inventors: Rie NAKAMURA, Yoshifumi Kawai, Masateru Kumagai, Shinsuke Yanazume