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).
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Publication number: 20180197215Abstract: A billing system includes an operation unit, a determination unit, an extraction unit, a first calculator, and a second calculator. The operation unit receives an operation for executing a function provided by one device of a plurality of devices. The determination unit determines whether the one device is available for the function associated with the operation received by the operation unit. The extraction unit extracts another device that is available for the function as a substitute for the one device when the determination unit determines that the one device is not available for the function. The first calculator calculates a fee for the function to be executed by the other device. The second calculator calculates a total billed amount based on the fee calculated by the first calculator and content executed by the other device when the function is executed by the other device.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 11, 2016Publication date: July 12, 2018Applicant: RICOH COMPANY, LTD.Inventors: Takashi TORIUMI, Yasunori TSUKIOKA, Shunsuke WATANABE, Yuka KONNO, Katsumi TANAKA, Mie WATANABE, Hirohisa SAITOH, Hiroyuki SAKUYAMA, Tohru SASAKI, Atsushi OKAZATO
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Patent number: 9712694Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: March 4, 2016Date of Patent: July 18, 2017Assignee: RICOH COMPANY, LIMITEDInventors: 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
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Patent number: 9692917Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: March 15, 2016Date of Patent: June 27, 2017Assignee: 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
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Patent number: 9594987Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: October 23, 2013Date of Patent: March 14, 2017Assignee: RICOH COMPANY, LTD.Inventor: Mie Watanabe
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Patent number: 9501250Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: April 6, 2015Date of Patent: November 22, 2016Assignee: RICOH COMPANY, LTD.Inventors: Tatsuo Nishimura, Tohru Sasaki, Tomohiro Kuroyanagi, Atsushi Okazato, Makoto Sasaki, Junki Aoki, Takuya Mori, Hirohisa Saitoh, Mie Watanabe, Yukinori Ishii
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Publication number: 20160277604Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: March 15, 2016Publication date: September 22, 2016Applicant: 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
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Publication number: 20160274824Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: March 4, 2016Publication date: September 22, 2016Applicant: Ricoh Company, LimitedInventors: 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
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Patent number: 9317234Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: January 25, 2012Date of Patent: April 19, 2016Assignee: Ricoh Company, LTD.Inventors: Mie Watanabe, Hiroyuki Nishiyama, Yoshikazu Tanaka, Kazuya Kurihara, Seiji Tokuoka, Shi Zhong Zhu
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Publication number: 20160080200Abstract: A system includes a first apparatus capable of registering a plurality of apparatuses, and a second apparatus connected to the first apparatus via a network. The second apparatus transmits an inquiry request for inquiring presence of a first apparatus capable of registering on the network to all apparatuses on the network by broadcast, and when information indicating an access destination of the first apparatus is received, transmits a registration request for registering the second apparatus to the first apparatus to the received access destination.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 2, 2015Publication date: March 17, 2016Applicant: Ricoh Company, Ltd.Inventors: Yukinori ISHII, Tohru SASAKI, Tomohiro KUROYANAGI, Atsushi OKAZATO, Makoto SASAKI, Junki AOKI, Takuya MORI, Hirohisa SAITOH, Mie WATANABE, Tatsuo NISHIMURA
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Publication number: 20160080588Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: September 11, 2015Publication date: March 17, 2016Inventors: 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
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Publication number: 20150341441Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: May 20, 2015Publication date: November 26, 2015Inventors: 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
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Publication number: 20150293728Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: April 6, 2015Publication date: October 15, 2015Applicant: RICOH COMPANY, LTD.Inventors: Tatsuo Nishimura, Tohru SASAKI, Tomohiro KUROYANAGI, Atsushi OKAZATO, Makoto SASAKI, Junki AOKI, Takuya MORI, Hirohisa SAITOH, Mie WATANABE, Yukinori ISHII
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Patent number: 8958117Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: May 1, 2012Date of Patent: February 17, 2015Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.Inventors: Mie Watanabe, Takashi Toriumi
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Publication number: 20140132972Abstract: In an image processing system that includes a terminal apparatus and multiple image processing apparatuses connected via a network, the image processing apparatus selectable after configuring intended print settings on the terminal apparatus. The configuration information is configured on the terminal apparatus to perform intended printing, and the configured configuration information is sent to the image processing apparatus. The image processing apparatus generates image information that indicates a result outputtable by the image processing apparatus based on the received configuration information and its own apparatus information. The terminal apparatus sends a command to print to the image processing apparatus selected by a user based on the sent multiple image information.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 21, 2013Publication date: May 15, 2014Applicant: RICOH COMPANY, LTD.Inventor: Mie WATANABE
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Publication number: 20140111829Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: October 23, 2013Publication date: April 24, 2014Inventor: Mie WATANABE
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Publication number: 20120307261Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: May 1, 2012Publication date: December 6, 2012Applicant: RICOH COMPANY, LTD.Inventors: Mie Watanabe, Takashi Toriumi
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Publication number: 20120195715Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: January 25, 2012Publication date: August 2, 2012Applicant: RICOH COMPANY, LTD.Inventors: Mie Watanabe, Hiroyuki Nishiyama, Yoshikazu Tanaka, Kazuya Kurihara, Seiji Tokuoka, Shi Zhong Zhu