Patents by Inventor Michihiro Uto

Michihiro Uto 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).

  • Image forming apparatus
    Patent number: 9377986
    Abstract: A storage portion stores information, which can be obtained from an image forming apparatus by a communication terminal, as a result of wireless communication with the communication terminal via a first communication portion. The processor stores setting information, the information set in the communication terminal to perform communication with the communication terminal via a second communication portion, in the storage portion. The processor stores application information, the information that can identify an application which is executed by the communication terminal in accordance with a state of the image forming apparatus, in the storage portion. The processor receives the data transmitted from the communication terminal in accordance with the application being executed in the communication terminal as a result of wireless communication, via the second communication portion, with the communication terminal in which the setting information stored in the storage portion by the first storing is set.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 28, 2016
    Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Yoshitsugu Tomomatsu, Michihiro Uto
  • Image Forming Apparatus
    Publication number: 20150331648
    Abstract: A storage portion stores information, which can be obtained from an image forming apparatus by a communication terminal, as a result of wireless communication with the communication terminal via a first communication portion. The processor stores setting information, the information set in the communication terminal to perform communication with the communication terminal via a second communication portion, in the storage portion. The processor stores application information, the information that can identify an application which is executed by the communication terminal in accordance with a state of the image forming apparatus, in the storage portion. The processor receives the data transmitted from the communication terminal in accordance with the application being executed in the communication terminal as a result of wireless communication, via the second communication portion, with the communication terminal in which the setting information stored in the storage portion by the first storing is set.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 16, 2015
    Publication date: November 19, 2015
    Inventors: Yoshitsugu Tomomatsu, Michihiro Uto