Patents by Inventor Naohiko Kubo

Naohiko Kubo 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: 20240106672
    Abstract: A content generation apparatus capable of easily confirming content data, the information of which is registered in a blockchain, is provided. An image pickup apparatus generates an image file and then immediately calculates a hash value of the image file, and transmits image file information including the hash value to a management system. In response to receipt of a registration completion notification indicating that a process of registering the image file information in a blockchain is completed, the image pickup apparatus stores registration-completed information indicating that the image file information is registered in the blockchain, relating to the image file.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 30, 2023
    Publication date: March 28, 2024
    Inventors: DAIYU UENO, KEIICHIRO KUBO, NAOHIKO TSUCHIDA, MINORU SAKAIDA, ATSUSHI FUJITA, KEISUKE TANAKA
  • Publication number: 20240070250
    Abstract: A content generation apparatus capable of guaranteeing that a provider of a content is a generator of the content is provided. The content generation apparatus that generates a content according to an instruction received from a user includes an acquisition unit configured to acquire biometric information of the user, a biometric authentication unit configured to perform biometric authentication of the user based on the biometric information of the user, a hash value generation unit configured to generate a hash value of the content in a case that the biometric authentication of the user has succeeded, and a communication unit configured to transmit the content and information of the content to a management server that registers the hash value and the information of the content in a blockchain. The information of the content includes result information indicating a result of the biometric authentication of the user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 30, 2023
    Publication date: February 29, 2024
    Inventors: NAOHIKO TSUCHIDA, DAIYU UENO, MINORU SAKAIDA, ATSUSHI FUJITA, KEIICHIRO KUBO, KEISUKE TANAKA
  • Patent number: 11704079
    Abstract: An output system includes circuitry to generate information on a character string in response to an authentication request including user identification information transmitted from an output apparatus. The circuitry further transmits the information on the character string to an information processing device. In response to receiving the information on the character string and the user identification information from the output apparatus that has received the information on the character string and the user identification information from the information processing device, the circuitry further performs authentication for a user identified by the user identification information, based on the information on the character string and the user identification information, and transmits an authentication result to the output apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 14, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2023
    Assignee: RICOH COMPANY, LTD.
    Inventors: Naohiko Kubo, Naritake Kondoh
  • Patent number: 11645027
    Abstract: An information processing system includes a program and an output system. The program causes an information processing device to function as a first communication unit configured to transmit, to the output system, an output request of data, and to receive, from the output system, identification information for identifying the output request of the data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2023
    Assignee: RICOH COMPANY, LTD.
    Inventors: Naritake Kondoh, Naohiko Kubo
  • Publication number: 20220129215
    Abstract: An output system includes circuitry to generate information on a character string in response to an authentication request including user identification information transmitted from an output apparatus. The circuitry further transmits the information on the character string to an information processing device. In response to receiving the information on the character string and the user identification information from the output apparatus that has received the information on the character string and the user identification information from the information processing device, the circuitry further performs authentication for a user identified by the user identification information, based on the information on the character string and the user identification information, and transmits an authentication result to the output apparatus.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 14, 2021
    Publication date: April 28, 2022
    Inventors: Naohiko KUBO, Naritake KONDOH
  • Patent number: 11310064
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus manages multiple users who operate respective communication terminals to participate in a meeting held in a virtual place. The information processing apparatus includes a memory; and a processor, and is configured to execute managing a participating user who participates in the meeting, based on a notice from a communication terminal operated by the participating user, the notice using a unique identifier for the virtual place, and the unique identifier being unique among identifiers respectively assigned to multiple virtual places; generating data for displaying a web page in a web browser of the communication terminal operated by the participating user; and transmitting the generated data to the communication terminal operated by the participating user, wherein the managing determines whether all participating users have exited the meeting based on notices from the multiple communication terminals, to end the meeting.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2022
    Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventor: Naohiko Kubo
  • Publication number: 20220113921
    Abstract: An information processing system includes a program and an output system. The program causes an information processing device to function as a first communication unit configured to transmit, to the output system, an output request of data, and to receive, from the output system, identification information for identifying the output request of the data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 8, 2021
    Publication date: April 14, 2022
    Inventors: Naritake KONDOH, Naohiko KUBO
  • Patent number: 11221760
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes circuitry configured to display, on a display, a first display area used for displaying an image shared with a plurality of devices as a shared image, and a second display area used for receiving a user input; and switch a display mode of the shared image based on a user operation of changing a display style of the second display area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 19, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 11, 2022
    Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventor: Naohiko Kubo
  • Patent number: 11063779
    Abstract: A content server manages contents used in one or more events. The server includes one or more memories that store, for each one of one or more participants of an event, one or more capture images, each capture image being an image of particular content of a plurality of contents used in the event and having been captured to a personal terminal of the participant during the event in response to an operation to capture the image of the particular content to the personal terminal. The server further includes circuitry configured to transmit distinction information distinguishing each capture image to a particular information processing terminal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 13, 2021
    Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Naohiko Kubo, Hiroshi Baba
  • Publication number: 20200379642
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes circuitry configured to display, on a display, a first display area used for displaying an image shared with a plurality of devices as a shared image, and a second display area used for receiving a user input; and switch a display mode of the shared image based on a user operation of changing a display style of the second display area.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 19, 2020
    Publication date: December 3, 2020
    Applicant: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventor: NAOHIKO KUBO
  • Publication number: 20200280456
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus manages multiple users who operate respective communication terminals to participate in a meeting held in a virtual place. The information processing apparatus includes a memory; and a processor, and is configured to execute managing a participating user who participates in the meeting, based on a notice from a communication terminal operated by the participating user, the notice using a unique identifier for the virtual place, and the unique identifier being unique among identifiers respectively assigned to multiple virtual places; generating data for displaying a web page in a web browser of the communication terminal operated by the participating user; and transmitting the generated data to the communication terminal operated by the participating user, wherein the managing determines whether all participating users have exited the meeting based on notices from the multiple communication terminals, to end the meeting.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 14, 2020
    Publication date: September 3, 2020
    Applicant: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventor: Naohiko KUBO
  • Patent number: 10721370
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a memory that stores an application and a module related to an operation of the application, and circuitry configured to detect a difference between a first character string included in a first file associated with the application and a second character string included in a second file associated with the module as difference information, the second character string corresponding to the first character string, transmit the difference information indicating the detected difference to a server, and update the second file in accordance with an update notification of the second file transmitted from the server.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 21, 2020
    Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Wataru Naya, Mari Tatezono, Naohiko Kubo, Zentaroh Ono
  • Publication number: 20200210136
    Abstract: A content server manages contents used in one or more events. The server includes one or more memories that store, for each one of one or more participants of an event, one or more capture images, each capture image being an image of particular content of a plurality of contents used in the event and having been captured to a personal terminal of the participant during the event in response to an operation to capture the image of the particular content to the personal terminal. The server further includes circuitry configured to transmit distinction information distinguishing each capture image to a particular information processing terminal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 27, 2019
    Publication date: July 2, 2020
    Inventors: Naohiko KUBO, Hiroshi Baba
  • Publication number: 20200104024
    Abstract: A communication terminal communicable with a content management server includes circuitry to display a first operation display area, a content in the first operation display area based on data of the content transmitted by the content management server, and a second operation display area by a web browser, receive a drag and drop operation for causing the content displayed in the first operation display area to be dragged and dropped to the second operation display area, in response to reception of the drag and drop operation, transmit location specifying information to the content management server, receive the data of the dragged and dropped content to be displayed in the second operation display area, the data of the dragged and dropped content being transmitted by the content management server in response to transmission of the location specifying information, and display the dragged and dropped content in the second operation display area.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 25, 2019
    Publication date: April 2, 2020
    Inventors: Hiroshi BABA, Eiichiro Yoshida, Naohiko Kubo, Yuuta Hashimoto
  • Publication number: 20190303880
    Abstract: A communication system accessible to a service for managing screen information of an electronic information board is provided. The communication system includes a first information processing apparatus, and a terminal device provided in a facility, which is configured to communicate with the first information processing apparatus via a network. The first information processing apparatus acquires information about a schedule of facility utilization from a second information processing apparatus managing the schedule; requests the service to create the electronic information board in response to receiving the information about the schedule; and transmits access information for the electronic information board to the terminal device. The terminal device retrieves the access information, and accesses the electronic information board by using the access information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 26, 2019
    Publication date: October 3, 2019
    Applicant: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Yuuta HASHIMOTO, Naohiko KUBO
  • Publication number: 20190306362
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a memory that stores an application and a module related to an operation of the application, and circuitry configured to detect a difference between a first character string included in a first file associated with the application and a second character string included in a second file associated with the module as difference information, the second character string corresponding to the first character string, transmit the difference information indicating the detected difference to a server, and update the second file in accordance with an update notification of the second file transmitted from the server.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 14, 2019
    Publication date: October 3, 2019
    Inventors: Wataru NAYA, Mari TATEZONO, Naohiko KUBO, Zentaroh ONO
  • Patent number: 9794437
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus according to an aspect of the present invention includes a display unit, a storage unit, an accepting unit, and an association control unit. The accepting unit accepts an operation. The association control unit performs control of associating operation information indicating the operation accepted by the accepting unit and an image of a region, which corresponds to the operation accepted by the accepting unit, on a screen displayed on the display unit into an associated set and storing the associated set in the storage unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 5, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2017
    Assignee: RICOH COMPANY, LIMITED
    Inventor: Naohiko Kubo
  • Publication number: 20160198055
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus according to an aspect of the present invention includes a display unit, a storage unit, an accepting unit, and an association control unit. The accepting unit accepts an operation. The association control unit performs control of associating operation information indicating the operation accepted by the accepting unit and an image of a region, which corresponds to the operation accepted by the accepting unit, on a screen displayed on the display unit into an associated set and storing the associated set in the storage unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 5, 2016
    Publication date: July 7, 2016
    Applicant: Ricoh Company Limited
    Inventor: Naohiko Kubo
  • Patent number: 9235788
    Abstract: Disclosed is an image forming apparatus including a command receiving unit that receives a print command, a detector that detects a state of the operation unit, and a controller. When the detector detects that the state of the operation unit is a predetermined state subsequent to receiving the print command by the command receiving unit and prior to completion of printing based on the print command, the controller causes the printing to be terminated. When the detector detects that the state of the operation unit is not the predetermined state subsequent to receiving the print command by the command receiving unit and prior to the completion of the printing based on the print command, the controller causes the printing to be executed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 12, 2016
    Assignee: RICOH COMPANY, LTD.
    Inventors: Daisuke Masui, Hiroya Uruta, Tomoyuki Takahira, Yuka Saito, Naohiko Kubo, Naoya Tamura
  • Patent number: 8736892
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes: a storage unit that stores print data and transformation data transformed into a printable format by reflecting a print condition on the print data; a detection unit that detects an error when the transformation data stored in the storage unit is printed; a decision unit that decides a resolution print condition which is a print condition for resolving an error based on a content of the error and a device state when the error is detected; a transformation unit that acquires the print data from the storage unit and transforms the acquired print data into transformation data on which the decided resolution print condition is reflected; and a print control unit that prints the transformation data transformed by the transformation unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 2, 2011
    Date of Patent: May 27, 2014
    Assignee: Ricoh Company, Limited
    Inventors: Naohiko Kubo, Yasuyuki Igarashi, Kohji Yamamoto, Daisuke Masui, Yuka Saito, Yusuke Kudo