Patents by Inventor Mie Watanabe

Mie Watanabe 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: 9712694
    Abstract: An operation unit in a child device causes a main unit in the child device to execute a stand-alone job, and causes the main unit and a server device to execute a cooperating job. The main unit executes the stand-alone job every time it is requested, and generates and manages a stand-alone job log including stand-alone job log identification information. The server device controls the execution of stand-alone jobs included in the cooperating job based on a request for executing the cooperating job, and manages cooperating job identification information associated with the stand-alone job log identification information of the stand-alone jobs included in the cooperating job. The server device acquires the stand-alone job logs from the main unit and extracts the stand-alone job logs including the stand-alone job log identification information associated with the cooperating job identification information, to generate a cooperating job log corresponding to the cooperating job.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2017
    Assignee: RICOH COMPANY, LIMITED
    Inventors: Tohru Sasaki, Hirohisa Saitoh, Mie Watanabe, Shunsuke Watanabe, Yuka Konno, Takashi Toriumi, Yasunori Tsukioka, Katsumi Tanaka, Hiroyuki Sakuyama, Atsushi Okazato, Koichiro Maemura, Yukinori Ishii, Tomohiro Kuroyanagi, Fumiyoshi Kittaka, Makoto Sasaki, Junki Aoki, Takuya Mori
  • Patent number: 9692917
    Abstract: An operating information storing system includes a master apparatus and multiple slave apparatuses. The master apparatus and each slave apparatus respectively include a first processor. The master apparatus includes a nonvolatile memory, the first processor that acquires operating information generated by each slave apparatus, stores the acquired operating information, and determines if at least one operating information indicates specific operating information, and a first transmitter. Each slave apparatus includes a volatile memory, a second processor to store generated operating information in the volatile memory sequentially, and a second transmitter that transfers the operating information stored in the volatile memory to the master apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2017
    Assignee: Ricoh Company Ltd.
    Inventors: Atsushi Okazato, Hirohisa Saitoh, Mie Watanabe, Shunsuke Watanabe, Yuka Konno, Takashi Toriumi, Yasunori Tsukioka, Hiroyuki Sakuyama, Tohru Sasaki, Katsumi Tanaka, Koichiro Maemura, Yukinori Ishii, Tomohiro Kuroyanagi, Fumiyoshi Kittaka, Makoto Sasaki, Junki Aoki, Takuya Mori
  • Patent number: 9594987
    Abstract: The printing system according to the present invention includes a specifying unit configured to specify specified data from print object data of a print job containing the print object data and a print setting of the print object data, the specified data representing the print object data to be printed; a partial extraction unit configured to extract the specified data and a partial print setting from the print job, the partial print setting representing the print setting to be applied to the specified data; a job generation unit configured to newly generate a print job containing the specified data and the partial print setting; and a printing unit configured to print an image based on the generated print job.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 14, 2017
    Assignee: RICOH COMPANY, LTD.
    Inventor: Mie Watanabe
  • Patent number: 9501250
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus stores function information that identifies, for each one of a plurality of functions, one or more devices capable of performing the function, receives a user instruction for executing a job from a first device of the plurality of devices, the user instruction instructing execution of at least one function that cannot be performed by the first device, identifies a second device of the plurality of devices that is capable of performing the at least one function of the user instruction using the function information, and controls the second device to transition from a power save mode to a normal operating mode, while keeping devices other than the second device to be in the power save mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 6, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2016
    Assignee: RICOH COMPANY, LTD.
    Inventors: Tatsuo Nishimura, Tohru Sasaki, Tomohiro Kuroyanagi, Atsushi Okazato, Makoto Sasaki, Junki Aoki, Takuya Mori, Hirohisa Saitoh, Mie Watanabe, Yukinori Ishii
  • Patent number: 9317234
    Abstract: A computer readable information recording medium stores a preview display program that performs, when executed by one or more processors, functions of a part configured to determine setting information for imposition type; a part configured to determine setting information for finishing; and a part configured to display preview images for a state after bookbinding in a case where the setting information for imposition type, determined by the part configured to determine setting information for imposition type, includes a setting of magazine or mini book and the setting information for finishing, determined by the part configured to determine setting information for finishing, includes a setting for carrying out the bookbinding, and display preview images for a state before the bookbinding in the other cases.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2016
    Assignee: Ricoh Company, LTD.
    Inventors: Mie Watanabe, Hiroyuki Nishiyama, Yoshikazu Tanaka, Kazuya Kurihara, Seiji Tokuoka, Shi Zhong Zhu
  • Publication number: 20160080588
    Abstract: An information processing system includes an execution request unit that requests one or more multiple preregistered apparatuses to execute an operation, an authority information acquisition unit that acquires authority information that indicates user authority on the preregistered apparatus from at least one of the preregistered apparatuses, an authority management information generator that generates authority management information that indicates the user authority applied to the preregistered apparatuses based on the authority information that the authority information acquisition unit acquires, and a controller that controls whether or not to allow the execution request unit to request to execute the operation based on the authority management information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 11, 2015
    Publication date: March 17, 2016
    Inventors: Tohru SASAKI, Tomohiro Kuroyanagi, Atsushi Okazato, Makoto Sasaki, Junki Aoki, Takuya Mori, Hirohisa Saitoh, Mie Watanabe, Tatsuo Nishimura, Yukinori Ishii, Hiroyuki Sakuyama, Fumihiro Umetsu, Itaru Kodaira, Naoki Shimizu, Akira Yokoyama, Hiroaki Ikkanzaka, Tadashi Sato, Takashi Toriumi, Fumiyoshi Kittaka
  • Publication number: 20150341441
    Abstract: An information processing system includes electronic devices each including a display unit, and at least one information processing apparatus including a display unit. The information processing apparatus is able to communicate with the electronic devices via a network. The information processing system includes a first sharing unit configured to cause sharing of display contents of the display unit of a first electronic device of the electronic devices and the display unit of the information processing apparatus; and a second sharing unit configured to acquire, from the first electronic device, information of a second electronic device of the electronic devices that is operating in cooperation with the first electronic device, and cause sharing of display contents of the display unit of the second electronic device and the display unit of the information processing apparatus based on the information of the second electronic device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 20, 2015
    Publication date: November 26, 2015
    Inventors: Hirohisa SAITOH, Tomohiro Kuroyanagi, Tohru Sasaki, Atsushi Okazato, Makoto Sasaki, Junki Aoki, Takuya Mori, Mie Watanabe, Tatsuo Nishimura, Yukinori Ishii, Yasunori Tsukioka, Shunsuke Watanabe, Hiroyuki Sakuyama, Yuka Konno, Katsumi Tanaka, Takashi Toriumi
  • Patent number: 8958117
    Abstract: A print control device includes a prohibition determination unit, when a first sheet size of a sheet stored in a printing device is different from a second sheet size designated by an operator, preventing, when determining that the second sheet size of the sheet can be generated by cutting the sheet having the first sheet size, an execution of a post process function other than cutting in the printing device; and a workflow generation unit generating a workflow including operational steps of causing a cutting device to cut the sheet having the first sheet size to obtain the sheet having the second sheet size, and causing a functional device other than the cutting device to perform the post process function on the printing output after cutting the sheet having the first sheet size.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 1, 2012
    Date of Patent: February 17, 2015
    Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Mie Watanabe, Takashi Toriumi
  • Publication number: 20120307261
    Abstract: A print control device includes a prohibition determination unit, when a first sheet size of a sheet stored in a printing device is different from a second sheet size designated by an operator, preventing, when determining that the second sheet size of the sheet can be generated by cutting the sheet having the first sheet size, an execution of a post process function other than cutting in the printing device; and a workflow generation unit generating a workflow including operational steps of causing a cutting device to cut the sheet having the first sheet size to obtain the sheet having the second sheet size, and causing a functional device other than the cutting device to perform the post process function on the printing output after cutting the sheet having the first sheet size.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 1, 2012
    Publication date: December 6, 2012
    Applicant: RICOH COMPANY, LTD.
    Inventors: Mie Watanabe, Takashi Toriumi
  • Publication number: 20120195715
    Abstract: A computer readable information recording medium stores a preview display program that performs, when executed by one or more processors, functions of a part configured to determine setting information for imposition type; a part configured to determine setting information for finishing; and a part configured to display preview images for a state after bookbinding in a case where the setting information for imposition type, determined by the part configured to determine setting information for imposition type, includes a setting of magazine or mini book and the setting information for finishing, determined by the part configured to determine setting information for finishing, includes a setting for carrying out the bookbinding, and display preview images for a state before the bookbinding in the other cases.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 25, 2012
    Publication date: August 2, 2012
    Applicant: RICOH COMPANY, LTD.
    Inventors: Mie Watanabe, Hiroyuki Nishiyama, Yoshikazu Tanaka, Kazuya Kurihara, Seiji Tokuoka, Shi Zhong Zhu