Patents by Inventor Naoki Sugawara

Naoki Sugawara 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: 20240028617
    Abstract: A labeling assistance device (10) includes an unlabeled data acquirer (11) and a labeling necessity determiner (13). The unlabeled data acquirer (11) acquires unlabeled data. The labeling necessity determiner (13) determines, based on labeled data, whether labeling of the unlabeled data is necessary.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 15, 2021
    Publication date: January 25, 2024
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventor: Naoki SUGAWARA
  • Patent number: 11632475
    Abstract: Provided is a technique for allowing a user to easily check the status of an image scanning apparatus. An image scanning apparatus is configured to transmit original document image data by storing, sequentially in a buffer, line data obtained by line-by-line scanning of an original document and transmitting the stored line data to a host computer sequentially line by line, and includes a control unit configured to perform control to transmit original document image data including notification image data to the host computer in a case where it is detected that the apparatus status of the image scanning apparatus is not normal during processing executed in response to a scan command received from the host computer, the notification image data being a notification of an error occurrence.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 19, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2023
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Naoki Sugawara
  • Publication number: 20230046190
    Abstract: A diagnosis system diagnoses presence or absence of an abnormality from data pieces collected in a factory. The diagnosis system includes (i) a diagnoser that diagnoses presence or absence of an abnormality by classifying, in accordance with a diagnosis model defining a plurality of groups, the collected data pieces into at least one of the plurality of groups, (ii) an extractor that extracts, from the collected data pieces, a candidate for a data piece to belong to a new group different from the plurality of groups, (iii) a reception device that provides candidate information relating to the candidate extracted by the extractor, (iv) and a learner that learns a new model including the new group. The diagnoser diagnoses presence or absence of an abnormality with the new model after the new model is learned.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 30, 2020
    Publication date: February 16, 2023
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Naoki SUGAWARA, Ryo KASHIWAGI, Motoyuki OZAKI
  • Publication number: 20220345573
    Abstract: Provided is a technique for allowing a user to easily check the status of an image scanning apparatus. An image scanning apparatus is configured to transmit original document image data by storing, sequentially in a buffer, line data obtained by line-by-line scanning of an original document and transmitting the stored line data to a host computer sequentially line by line, and includes a control unit configured to perform control to transmit original document image data including notification image data to the host computer in a case where it is detected that the apparatus status of the image scanning apparatus is not normal during processing executed in response to a scan command received from the host computer, the notification image data being a notification of an error occurrence.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 19, 2022
    Publication date: October 27, 2022
    Inventor: Naoki Sugawara
  • Patent number: 9300788
    Abstract: An apparatus which accepts a connection of an external telephone and connects to a telephone line includes a first controller configured to control line impedance via the telephone line, a detecting unit configured to detect a ringing signal received from the telephone line, a determining unit configured to determine whether the external telephone captures a telephone line, and a second controller configured to invalidate the control over line impedance by the first controller in a case where the apparatus is a standby state and validate the suppression of the control over ringer impedance by the first controller in a case where the detecting unit detects the ringing signal and the determining unit determines that the external telephone does not capture a telephone line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2016
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Naoki Sugawara
  • Publication number: 20140185791
    Abstract: An apparatus which accepts a connection of an external telephone and connects to a telephone line includes a first controller configured to control line impedance via the telephone line, a detecting unit configured to detect a ringing signal received from the telephone line, a determining unit configured to determine whether the external telephone captures a telephone line, and a second controller configured to invalidate the control over line impedance by the first controller in a case where the apparatus is a standby state and validate the suppression of the control over ringer impedance by the first controller in a case where the detecting unit detects the ringing signal and the determining unit determines that the external telephone does not capture a telephone line.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 23, 2013
    Publication date: July 3, 2014
    Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Naoki Sugawara
  • Patent number: 8347272
    Abstract: A method of analyzing program source code prepared for a multithreading platform comprises analyzing a targeted source code set to extract a set of characteristic information for each wait operation; analyzing the targeted source code set to extract a set of characteristic information for each notification call to an application programming interface of the multithreading platform; identifying a one-way branching correspondence with a wait operation for each notification call by comparing the extracted set of characteristic information for the notification operation and the extracted set of characteristic information for each wait operation with a set of predefined asynchronous operation correspondence pattern information for notification and wait functions implemented by the application programming interface; extracting a set of information for each identified one-way branching correspondence; and storing the extracted set of information for each identified one-way branching correspondence in a data store.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 23, 2008
    Date of Patent: January 1, 2013
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Naoki Sugawara, Tadashi Yamamoto
  • Patent number: 7852516
    Abstract: A facsimile machine a communication portion that receives first image data, and a recording part records that data on a recording sheet. A reading portion reads an original sheet and obtains second image data, which is transmitted by a second communication means. A medium conveying mechanism is used in reading an original sheet and in recording on a recording sheet. When the facsimile machine is instructed to read an original and transmit the read image while the communication portion receives image data, the reading portion reads the original and obtains the second image data while the communication portion receives the first image data, the recording part records the first image data on the recording sheet while the second communication means transmits the second image data, and the conveying mechanism automatically switches from conveying the original sheet to conveying the recording sheet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 2004
    Date of Patent: December 14, 2010
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Naoki Sugawara
  • Publication number: 20100023926
    Abstract: A method of analyzing program source code prepared for a multithreading platform comprises analyzing a targeted source code set to extract a set of characteristic information for each wait operation; analyzing the targeted source code set to extract a set of characteristic information for each notification call to an application programming interface of the multithreading platform; identifying a one-way branching correspondence with a wait operation for each notification call by comparing the extracted set of characteristic information for the notification operation and the extracted set of characteristic information for each wait operation with a set of predefined asynchronous operation correspondence pattern information for notification and wait functions implemented by the application programming interface; extracting a set of information for each identified one-way branching correspondence; and storing the extracted set of information for each identified one-way branching correspondence in a data store.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 23, 2008
    Publication date: January 28, 2010
    Applicant: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Naoki Sugawara, Tadashi Yamamoto
  • Patent number: 7310169
    Abstract: An image communication apparatus aims to prevent that an original is damaged in case of sharing an edge sensor, a driving motor and a transportation roller in both a reading operation and a recording operation, and thus includes a control means. In a case where an operation state stored in a non-volatile memory is not “in-reading (i.e., the reading operation is being performed)” when a power supply is turned on, the control means controls to discharge a recording paper if the recording paper in question is detected by an original/recording paper detection means. On one hand, in a case where the operation state stored in the non-volatile memory is “in-reading”, the control means controls not to discharge an original even if the original in question is detected by the original/recording paper detection means.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 2003
    Date of Patent: December 18, 2007
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Naoki Sugawara
  • Publication number: 20070146801
    Abstract: In a facsimile machine in which a reading conveying path and a recording conveying path are commonly shared, when an attempt is made to send a facsimile in the midst of receiving the facsimile, the transmitting of a facsimile is enable to be rapidly performed. Included are reading means for reading an original; communication means for transmitting/receiving an image data; first accumulating means for accumulating an received image data in a memory; recording means for recording the image data following the memory; transmitting instruction means for instructing the transmitting of the original; and a medium conveying mechanism being a conveying mechanism common for the original and a recording sheet.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 2, 2004
    Publication date: June 28, 2007
    Applicant: CANON KAUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Naoki Sugawara
  • Patent number: 7149790
    Abstract: A server device for enabling to output contents of a homepage designated by an e-mail from a particular facsimile device and a control method therefor are disclosed. The server device according to the present invention checks whether there is a description of “URL=”, which means acquisition of homepage data, in a body of a received e-mail destined for the facsimile device. If there is the description, the server device uses a URL described following the “URL=” to download the homepage data. Then the downloaded homepage data and contents of the e-mail are converted into the facsimile data, a calling is made via telephone lines to the facsimile device corresponding to a destination mail address to send the data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 17, 2002
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2006
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Naoki Sugawara
  • Publication number: 20050285759
    Abstract: A communication device includes a ship-to country-group setting unit for setting one from a plurality of ship-to country-groups for the communication device, wherein ship-to countries are grouped into ship-to country-groups, a ship-to country-group storing unit for storing the set ship-to country-group, a country-parameter-value selecting unit by which a user selects one from a plurality of ship-to countries in the corresponding ship-to country-group set by the ship-to country-group setting unit as a value of a ship-to country parameter, and a country-parameter-value storing unit for storing the selected ship-to country, wherein the selectable ship-to countries are limited to ship-to countries in the corresponding ship-to country-group set by the ship-to country-group setting unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 23, 2005
    Publication date: December 29, 2005
    Applicant: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Naoki Sugawara
  • Patent number: 6809836
    Abstract: Demand for an inexpensive color facsimile apparatus is expected not in the business field but in home use, and a product which is easy to operate and use is required in consideration of home use. Such color facsimile apparatus, i.e., an image communication apparatus has a communication means for communicating with a partner terminal via a line, a DRAM (118) for storing image information received by the communication means, a management means for managing the image information stored in the DRAM (118), decoding means for decoding the image information stored in the DRAM (118) into image data to be recorded on a recording paper sheet, and a recording unit (120) for recording a visible image on a recording paper sheet on the basis of the decoded image data using a selected attached ink cartridge.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 1999
    Date of Patent: October 26, 2004
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Hiroshi Nobuta, Yasuhide Ueno, Susumu Matsuzaki, Takeshi Toyama, Muneki Nakao, Naoki Sugawara
  • Patent number: 6785366
    Abstract: Whether a call is placed after waiting for confirmation operation or without waiting for confirmation operation upon completion of speech recognition is selected. Data is initialized in the standby state, and upon instruction of speech recognition, speech recognition is done. The speech recognition result is displayed, and when a speech recognition key is operated without any confirmation operation, speech recognition is redone without setting the standby state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 1999
    Date of Patent: August 31, 2004
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Hiroshi Nobuta, Yasuhide Ueno, Susumu Matsuzaki, Takeshi Toyama, Muneki Nakao, Naoki Sugawara
  • Patent number: 6775033
    Abstract: An image communication apparatus and a communication controlling method thereon, wherein in the case where image data having an attribute not specified by the ITU-T recommendation is transmitted, regardless of an attribute of image data to be transmitted, a reception command including a first image attribute specified by the ITU-T recommendation are sent out, and information including a second image attribute of image data to be transmitted is sent out in a phase transmitting the image data after the reception command is sent out. And when an image is transmitted with the second image attribute, a transmission takes place with a binary file transfer communication procedure following a first communication procedure specified by the ITU-T recommendation so that image data having an image attribute not standardized by the ITU-T recommendation can be transmitted.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 1999
    Date of Patent: August 10, 2004
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Hiroshi Nobuta, Yasuhide Ueno, Susumu Matsuzaki, Takeshi Toyama, Muneki Nakao, Naoki Sugawara
  • Publication number: 20040141215
    Abstract: An image communication apparatus aims to prevent that an original is damaged in case of sharing an edge sensor, a driving motor and a transportation roller in both a reading operation and a recording operation, and thus includes a control means. In a case where an operation state stored in a non-volatile memory is not “in-reading (i.e., the reading operation is being performed)” when a power supply is turned on, the control means controls to discharge a recording paper if the recording paper in question is detected by an original/recording paper detection means. On one hand, in a case where the operation state stored in the non-volatile memory is “in-reading”, the control means controls not to discharge an original even if the original in question is detected by the original/recording paper detection means.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 29, 2003
    Publication date: July 22, 2004
    Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Naoki Sugawara
  • Publication number: 20040015552
    Abstract: A server device for enabling to output contents of a homepage designated by an e-mail from a particular facsimile device and a control method therefor are disclosed. The server device according to the present invention checks whether there is a description of “URL=”, which means acquisition of homepage data, in a body of a received e-mail destined for the facsimile device. If there is the description, the server device uses a URL described following the “URL=” to download the homepage data. Then the downloaded homepage data and contents of the e-mail are converted into the facsimile data, a calling is made via telephone lines to the facsimile device corresponding to a destination mail address to send the data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 17, 2002
    Publication date: January 22, 2004
    Inventor: Naoki Sugawara
  • Patent number: 6252672
    Abstract: A communication apparatus includes a receiver which receives data from a partner, and an informing device which informs the partner of a maximum reception speed of the apparatus. Also included are a recorder which records on a recording sheet, image data received by the receiver, and a detector which detects a maximum recording ability of the recorder. Lastly included is a controller which causes the informing device to vary the maximum reception speed to be informed to the partner, according to the maximum recording ability detected by the detector.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 17, 1997
    Date of Patent: June 26, 2001
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Naoki Sugawara, Ichiro Iwasaki
  • Patent number: 6230208
    Abstract: Upon reception of data via a PSTN (Public Switched Telephone Network), if a reception-result notification request is received from a transmitting apparatus, the state associated with the reception result as to whether or not the user of a terminal on the LAN has confirmed the data, is discriminated after completion of data reception and the disconnection of a line. Then, the discriminated information is notified by calling the transmitting apparatus. When the receiving apparatus is set to refuse notification by originating a call by itself, the information is notified in response to a call originated by the transmitting apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 1998
    Date of Patent: May 8, 2001
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Seiji Omori, Naoki Sugawara