Patents by Inventor Miyoko Maruyama

Miyoko Maruyama 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: 20230262174
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes: a display; a memory configured to store instructions; and one or more processors configured to execute the instructions to: display a first screen displaying a setting history of an executed job and a second screen displaying an operation button for calling a registered job setting; and register the job setting corresponding to the setting history and display the operation button for calling the registered job setting on the second screen, when a job based on the setting history under specific control is executed a predetermined number of times or more in response to a selection performed by a user on the display on the first screen.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 10, 2023
    Publication date: August 17, 2023
    Inventor: MIYOKO MARUYAMA
  • Publication number: 20220103705
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes: an operation recognizer that receives, from a user, an operation for a setting and an instruction regarding image formation; a job controller that performs control on the setting and the instruction in response to the operation received by the operation recognizer; an image former that executes image formation in accordance with the setting and the instruction under control of the job controller; and a display controller that displays, to the user, a status regarding the setting and the instruction under control of the job controller, wherein the job controller causes the display controller to display an operation guide for an explanation of the operation in response to a request by the user, and determines an operation guide to be displayed based on at least either a setting when the request is received or a status when the request is received.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 13, 2021
    Publication date: March 31, 2022
    Inventor: MIYOKO MARUYAMA
  • Patent number: 10812665
    Abstract: An information transmitting apparatus includes a search unit and an information transmitting unit. The search unit searches for at least one destination linked with authentication information using a character string corresponding to the authentication information as a keyword. The information transmitting unit transmits information using a search result obtained by the search unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 20, 2020
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Masashi Ichikawa, Yuichi Nishii, Miyoko Maruyama
  • Patent number: 10652412
    Abstract: On a touch-panel display of an image forming apparatus, which is divided to five areas, that is, a system area, a function selection area, a preview area, an action panel area and a task trigger area, pieces of information are displayed. Even if an operational mode is switched, the same or similar information is always displayed in the area arranged at the same position. In addition, when an input of a numerical value is requested, a group of keys of the same arrangement is displayed at the same position on the touch-panel display, regardless of the operational mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 16, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2020
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Miyoko Maruyama
  • Publication number: 20190068835
    Abstract: An information transmission system includes a unit configured to cause an authentication unit to perform authentication based on authentication information, a unit configured to cause a search unit to search for at least one transmission destination associated with the authentication information by using a text string corresponding to the authentication information as a keyword, and an information transmission unit configured to transmit information using a result of the search performed by the search unit. The authentication unit is disposed in a first external apparatus connected to the information transmission apparatus via a network, and the search unit is disposed in a second external apparatus connected to the information transmission apparatus via a network.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 24, 2018
    Publication date: February 28, 2019
    Inventors: MASASHI ICHIKAWA, YUICHI NISHII, MIYOKO MARUYAMA
  • Publication number: 20190068834
    Abstract: An information transmitting system includes an authentication unit, a search unit, and an information transmitting unit. The authentication unit performs authentication based on authentication information. The search unit searches for at least one destination linked with authentication information using a character string corresponding to the authentication information as a keyword. The information transmitting unit transmits information using a search result obtained by the search unit. The authentication unit is included in an external apparatus connected via a network to an apparatus including the information transmitting unit. The search unit is included in the apparatus including the information transmitting unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 24, 2018
    Publication date: February 28, 2019
    Inventors: Masashi ICHIKAWA, Yuichi NISHII, Miyoko MARUYAMA
  • Publication number: 20190068804
    Abstract: An information transmission system includes a unit configured to cause an authentication unit to perform authentication based on authentication information, a unit configured to cause a search unit to search for at least one transmission destination associated with the authentication information by using a text string corresponding to the authentication information as a keyword, and an information transmission unit configured to transmit information using a result of the search performed by the search unit. The authentication unit and the search unit are disposed in an external apparatus connected to the information transmission apparatus via a network.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 24, 2018
    Publication date: February 28, 2019
    Inventors: MASASHI ICHIKAWA, YUICHI NISHII, MIYOKO MARUYAMA
  • Publication number: 20190068803
    Abstract: An information transmitting apparatus includes a search unit and an information transmitting unit. The search unit searches for at least one destination linked with authentication information using a character string corresponding to the authentication information as a keyword. The information transmitting unit transmits information using a search result obtained by the search unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 24, 2018
    Publication date: February 28, 2019
    Inventors: Masashi ICHIKAWA, Yuichi NISHII, Miyoko MARUYAMA
  • Publication number: 20150281479
    Abstract: On a touch-panel display of an image forming apparatus, which is divided to five areas, that is, a system area, a function selection area, a preview area, an action panel area and a task trigger area, pieces of information are displayed. Even if an operational mode is switched, the same or similar information is always displayed in the area arranged at the same position. In addition, when an input of a numerical value is requested, a group of keys of the same arrangement is displayed at the same position on the touch-panel display, regardless of the operational mode.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 16, 2015
    Publication date: October 1, 2015
    Inventor: Miyoko MARUYAMA
  • Patent number: 9030692
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes: an HDD for storing a plurality of pieces of transmission destination information in correspondence with a short-cut key for instructing image transmission; an operation unit displaying the short-cut key and detecting selection of the short-cut key; and a control unit displaying the plurality of transmission destinations stored in correspondence with the short-cut key if a prescribed condition is satisfied. The operation unit receives a selection operation of selecting a piece of transmission destination information from among the displayed plurality of pieces of transmission destination information, and the control unit determines the selected piece of transmission destination information to be the transmission destination of image transmission made by the selection of the short-cut key. Even if a plurality of transmission destinations are registered with the short-cut key, erroneous transmission to an unintended destination can be prevented.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 4, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2015
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Miyoko Maruyama, Naohiro Andoh
  • Patent number: 8572484
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a document reader, a storage for storing image data, a display image generator for generating a display image, a display panel and a control unit-side controller for providing preview display of display images on a display panel, based on the image data input from the document reader. The control unit-side controller includes a document sheaf display controller, a small-sized image preparation controller, a small-sized image display controller, a folder preparation controller, a folder storage controller and a folder display controller.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2013
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Miyoko Maruyama, Kumiko Ogino
  • Patent number: 8531704
    Abstract: An image communication apparatus includes: a storage device storing an address identifier and frequency of use of an address as a transmission destination; an address display device displaying a plurality of addresses such that an address of high frequency of use is displayed with higher priority than an address of low frequency of use; a designating device allowing a user to designate a transmission destination from a plurality of displayed addresses; an image data transmitting device transmitting image data to a designated transmission destination; and a display changing device for changing, if an address having low frequency of use and displayed without priority among the addresses stored in the storage device is designated as a transmission destination, the manner of display to have the address displayed with priority.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 2, 2010
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2013
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Miyoko Maruyama, Terumi Hayashi
  • Patent number: 8488155
    Abstract: A document reading device is provided that may perform preview display to enable read contents to be checked if it is determined that a blank sheet exists among read document images. This document reading device includes a document reading portion, a blank-sheet determining portion that determines blank-sheet image data among document image data read by the document reading portion, and a preview displaying portion that performs preview display for image data excluding the blank-sheet image data determined by the blank-sheet determining portion, and the preview displaying portion is capable of performing re-preview display of all the image data read by the document reading portion for the image data excluding the blank-sheet image data displayed in the preview display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 2, 2009
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2013
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Miyoko Maruyama, Takeshi Nakamura
  • Patent number: 8451480
    Abstract: A CPU of an image forming apparatus executes a program including: the step (S210) of reading address information if a single-touch call number is input (YES at S208); a step (S230, S232) of transmitting image data using a line registered in advance; and a step (S230, S232, S226) of transmitting image data using line (1) if the line (1) is input, using line (2) if the line (2) is input and using a free line otherwise, if the line is not registered in advance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 4, 2010
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2013
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Miyoko Maruyama
  • Publication number: 20130070295
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes: an HDD for storing a plurality of pieces of transmission destination information in correspondence with a short-cut key for instructing image transmission; an operation unit displaying the short-cut key and detecting selection of the short-cut key; and a control unit displaying the plurality of transmission destinations stored in correspondence with the short-cut key if a prescribed condition is satisfied. The operation unit receives a selection operation of selecting a piece of transmission destination information from among the displayed plurality of pieces of transmission destination information, and the control unit determines the selected piece of transmission destination information to be the transmission destination of image transmission made by the selection of the short-cut key. Even if a plurality of transmission destinations are registered with the short-cut key, erroneous transmission to an unintended destination can be prevented.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 4, 2012
    Publication date: March 21, 2013
    Applicant: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Miyoko MARUYAMA, Naohiro ANDOH
  • Publication number: 20120131452
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a document reader, a storage for storing image data, a display image generator for generating a display image, a display panel and a control unit-side controller for giving display guidance on the input status of image data from the document reader, on the display panel. The control unit-side controller includes: a display image displaying controller that performs such control as to display a display image from the display image generator on the display panel when the image output by an image output unit is started; and an output image displaying controller that performs such control as to move the display image displayed on the display panel toward a predetermined position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 19, 2011
    Publication date: May 24, 2012
    Applicant: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Kumiko Ogino, Miyoko Maruyama
  • Publication number: 20120050800
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a document reader, a storage for storing image data, a display image generator for generating a display image, a display panel and a control unit-side controller for providing preview display of display images on a display panel, based on the image data input from the document reader. The control unit-side controller includes a document sheaf display controller, a small-sized image preparation controller, a small-sized image display controller, a folder preparation controller, a folder storage controller and a folder display controller.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 10, 2011
    Publication date: March 1, 2012
    Applicant: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Miyoko Maruyama, Kumiko Ogino
  • Publication number: 20110234518
    Abstract: On a touch-panel display of an image forming apparatus, which is divided to five areas, that is, a system area, a function selection area, a preview area, an action panel area and a task trigger area, pieces of information are displayed. Even if an operational mode is switched, the same or similar information is always displayed in the area arranged at the same position. In addition, when an input of a numerical value is requested, a group of keys of the same arrangement is displayed at the same position on the touch-panel display, regardless of the operational mode.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 11, 2011
    Publication date: September 29, 2011
    Inventor: Miyoko MARUYAMA
  • Publication number: 20110026075
    Abstract: An image communication apparatus includes: a storage device storing an address identifier and frequency of use of an address as a transmission destination; an address display device displaying a plurality of addresses such that an address of high frequency of use is displayed with higher priority than an address of low frequency of use; a designating device allowing a user to designate a transmission destination from a plurality of displayed addresses; an image data transmitting device transmitting image data to a designated transmission destination; and a display changing device for changing, if an address having low frequency of use and displayed without priority among the addresses stored in the storage device is designated as a transmission destination, the manner of display to have the address displayed with priority.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 2, 2010
    Publication date: February 3, 2011
    Applicant: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Miyoko Maruyama, Terumi Hayashi
  • Publication number: 20100195146
    Abstract: A CPU of an image forming apparatus executes a program including: the step (S210) of reading address information if a single-touch call number is input (YES at S208); a step (S230, S232) of transmitting image data using a line registered in advance; and a step (S230, S232, S226) of transmitting image data using line (1) if the line (1) is input, using line (2) if the line (2) is input and using a free line otherwise, if the line is not registered in advance.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 4, 2010
    Publication date: August 5, 2010
    Applicant: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Miyoko Maruyama