Patents by Inventor Naoto Sasagawa

Naoto Sasagawa 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: 10904405
    Abstract: The present invention provides an image processing apparatus comprising detecting alteration of any application held in the image processing apparatus; determining, in a case where alteration has been detected, whether or not the use of the image processing apparatus needs to be restricted based on the application in which alteration has been detected; and displaying, in a display unit and as a result of the determination, in a case where the use of the image processing apparatus needs to be restricted, a message indicating that alteration of the application has been detected, and restricting the use of the image processing apparatus, and in a case where the use of the image processing apparatus need not be restricted, display, in the display unit, a message indicating that alteration of the application has been detected.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 26, 2021
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Atsushi Ikeda, Takeshi Kogure, Hiroaki Koike, Naoto Sasagawa
  • Patent number: 10855852
    Abstract: The present invention provides an image processing apparatus comprising: a memory device that stores a set of instructions; and at least one processor that executes the set of instructions to: detect alteration of an application held in the image processing apparatus; determine, upon detecting alteration, whether or not an application in which alteration has been detected is a pre-installed application; and enabling, as a result of the determination, in a case where the application in which alteration has been detected is a pre-installed application, the use of the application by installing the application using pre-held information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 5, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 1, 2020
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Hiroaki Koike, Atsushi Ikeda, Takeshi Kogure, Naoto Sasagawa
  • Publication number: 20200314281
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus capable of fax communication and a method of controlling the image processing apparatus are described. The image processing apparatus has a user interface capable of accepting from a user, in advance of receiving by a network interface a shutdown request, a setting of whether or not to perform shutdown processing based on the received shutdown request when the image processing apparatus is in a state of being connected to a fax line and when fax communication is possible. The image processing apparatus executes, in accordance with the setting accepted in advance from the user by the user interface, the shutdown processing of the image processing apparatus based on the shutdown request received from the external apparatus.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 17, 2020
    Publication date: October 1, 2020
    Inventor: Naoto Sasagawa
  • Patent number: 10789024
    Abstract: A printing apparatus includes a power supply that supplies power to hardware components in the printing apparatus, a print engine that prints an image, a first controller that controls the print engine to print the image and controls the power supply, and a second controller that instructs the first controller to print, and receives an instruction related to power supply control of the printing apparatus from an external terminal. Upon receiving a turn-off instruction for turning off the printing apparatus from the external terminal, the second controller notifies the first controller of the turn-off instruction, and the first controller controls, in accordance with the turn-off instruction received from the second controller, the power supply to stop supply of the power to both the first controller and the second controller, which has notified the turn-off instruction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 29, 2020
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Naoto Sasagawa
  • Publication number: 20200302402
    Abstract: A non-transitory storage medium stores a program causing an information processing apparatus to execute acquiring first climate information indicating a climate at a date and time related to a first schedule registered in a schedule table in which at least one schedule including a date and time, a genre, and a place is registered, determining whether or not the first climate information satisfies a climate compatibility condition, and outputting incompatibility information indicating that the climate at the date and time related to the first schedule is not compatible with a genre related to the first schedule when determination is made that the first climate information does not satisfy the climate compatibility condition.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 14, 2020
    Publication date: September 24, 2020
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Takashige HORI, Naoto SASAGAWA
  • Publication number: 20200258021
    Abstract: A server device, an information processing method, and a non-transitory storage medium recording a program are provided. The information processing device of the present disclosure, includes a control unit configured to execute providing, to a user device, information on an event in which mobile stores are installed, acquiring, based on a user response to the information on the event, information about demand for the event, and determining mobile objects constituting the mobile stores such that the size of each of the mobile stores is adjusted based on the acquired information about the demand.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 22, 2020
    Publication date: August 13, 2020
    Applicants: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, AISIN SEIKI KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Shinichiro FUJII, Hiroe FUKUI, Takashi GOTO, Tatsuya SHIGEKIYO, Kuniaki JINNAI, Naoto SASAGAWA
  • Publication number: 20200259968
    Abstract: The present invention provides an information processing apparatus having a display unit that displays a screen on which a pointing tool corresponding to a function is disposed. The information processing apparatus obtains a display language of the screen and obtains a language of the pointing tool, and in a case where the display language differs from the language, displays, on the display unit, a confirmation screen for confirming with a user whether to execute the function corresponding to the pointing tool in response to an instruction given by the user via the pointing tool.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 2, 2020
    Publication date: August 13, 2020
    Inventor: Naoto Sasagawa
  • Patent number: 10728412
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus capable of fax communication and a method of controlling the image processing apparatus are described. The image processing apparatus has a user interface capable of accepting from a user, in advance of receiving by a network interface a shutdown request, a setting of whether or not to perform shutdown processing based on the received shutdown request when the image processing apparatus is in a state of being connected to a fax line and when fax communication is possible. The image processing apparatus executes, in accordance with the setting accepted in advance from the user by the user interface, the shutdown processing of the image processing apparatus based on the shutdown request received from the external apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 28, 2020
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Naoto Sasagawa
  • Publication number: 20200234573
    Abstract: An information processing device includes a control unit configured to perform: acquiring a degree of congestion of persons that are located in a predetermined range including a plurality of vehicles which is parked at predetermined positions and is able to travel autonomously; determining a positional relationship between the plurality of vehicles based on the degree of congestion; and transmitting a movement command to a first vehicle which is a vehicle which is requested to move out of the plurality of vehicles such that the determined positional relationship is satisfied.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 18, 2019
    Publication date: July 23, 2020
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Shinichiro FUJII, Hiroe FUKUI, Takashi GOTO, Tatsuya SHIGEKIYO, Kuniaki JINNAI, Naoto SASAGAWA
  • Publication number: 20200233626
    Abstract: An information processing device includes a control unit that executes: acquiring information indicating an environment surrounding a place where a plurality of movable objects is disposed, the plurality of movable objects including display units that display a picture to configure an external appearance; deciding a display content of the picture to be displayed by the display units included in the plurality of movable objects, depending on the information indicating the environment surrounding the place; and giving an instruction to cause the display units to display the picture having the decided display content, to the plurality of movable objects disposed at an area surrounding the place.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 6, 2019
    Publication date: July 23, 2020
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Shinichiro Fujii, Hiroe Fukui, Takashi Goto, Tatsuya Shigekiyo, Kuniaki Jinnai, Naoto Sasagawa
  • Publication number: 20200234595
    Abstract: A vehicle allocation service system includes an acquisition unit configured to acquire biological information and positional information of a user, a selection unit configured to select a moving object to be provided to the user based on the biological information, a decision unit configured to acquire priority added to a satisfied condition of the biological information of the user and decide an order of vehicle allocation for the selected moving object according to the priority, and an instruction unit configured to instruct the selected moving object to move according to the positional information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 16, 2019
    Publication date: July 23, 2020
    Applicant: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Shinichiro FUJII, Hiroe Fukui, Takashi Goto, Tatsuya Shigekiyo, Kuniaki Jinnai, Naoto Sasagawa
  • Publication number: 20200234361
    Abstract: A server apparatus as a management apparatus in a system includes a controller configured to execute acquiring commodity-or-the-like purchase information of a user in a first mobile store from a store device of the first mobile store, selecting a commodity or a service predicted to be purchased next by the user based on commodities or services in the acquired commodity-or-the-like purchase information, and transmitting information regarding the user to a store device of a second mobile store dealing in the selected commodity or service.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 18, 2019
    Publication date: July 23, 2020
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Shinichiro FUJII, Hiroe FUKUI, Takashi GOTO, Tatsuya SHIGEKIYO, Kuniaki JINNAI, Naoto SASAGAWA
  • Publication number: 20200234358
    Abstract: Disclosed is an information processing apparatus including a controller. The controller is configured to execute acquiring index information representing a tendency having interest in a commodity of a store visit user in an autonomous traveling vehicle as a first store, selecting a recommended commodity out of stock in the first store based on the index information, and generating a command to a carrier apparatus configured to carry a commodity between the autonomous traveling vehicles or an autonomous traveling vehicle as a second store dealing in the selected recommended commodity so as to move the recommended commodity from the autonomous traveling vehicle as the second store to the autonomous traveling vehicle as the first store.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 11, 2019
    Publication date: July 23, 2020
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Shinichiro FUJII, Hiroe FUKUI, Takashi GOTO, Tatsuya SHIGEKIYO, Kuniaki JINNAI, Naoto SASAGAWA
  • Publication number: 20200231147
    Abstract: An information processing device includes: an accident/near miss detecting unit that detects a first vehicle of a plurality of vehicles based on vehicle information acquired by each of the vehicles and including position information and date-and-time information corresponding to time when the vehicle information is acquired by the vehicles, the first vehicle being involved in a near miss or accident; a surrounding vehicle extracting unit that extracts surrounding vehicles of the vehicles and the date-and-time information corresponding to the position information, the surrounding vehicles being positioned at an area surrounding the first vehicle at time of the near miss or accident; and an object vehicle specifying unit that specifies a second vehicle of the surrounding vehicles, the second vehicle being a vehicle in which an inadequate driving operation causing the near miss or accident of the first vehicle is performed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 16, 2020
    Publication date: July 23, 2020
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Takashige Hori, Naoto Sasagawa
  • Publication number: 20200232811
    Abstract: An information processing device according to one embodiment of the present disclosure includes an advertising information delivery unit that causes a display device of a user terminal to display advertising information including navigation elements each of which guides the user to a predetermined action related to its content. An information processing device according to another embodiment of the present disclosure includes an advertising information display processing unit that causes a display device of a user terminal to display advertising information including navigation elements each of which guides the user to a predetermined action related to its content.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 8, 2020
    Publication date: July 23, 2020
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Takashige HORI, Naoto SASAGAWA
  • Publication number: 20200234337
    Abstract: An information processing system includes a vehicle and an information processing apparatus. The vehicle includes a display device disposed facing outside, and a first control unit configured to execute control so as to display advertisement information on the display device. The information processing apparatus includes a second control unit configured to execute: acquiring a congestion degree of persons present around the vehicle; and determining a display position of the advertisement information on the display device in accordance with the congestion degree. When the congestion degree is equal to or greater than a first threshold, the information processing system determines a display region of the advertisement information to be an upper region on a display screen of the display device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 4, 2019
    Publication date: July 23, 2020
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Shinichiro FUJII, Hiroe Fukui, Takashi Goto, Tatsuya Shigekiyo, Kuniaki Jinnai, Naoto Sasagawa
  • Publication number: 20200130691
    Abstract: An information processing device, a non-transitory storage medium in which a program is recorded, and an information processing method are disclosed. The information processing device includes: an acquisition unit configured to acquire information from a decision-target vehicle; and a control unit configured to give a manner point to the decision-target vehicle which provides the information, based on an other-object reaction and an other-object influence action, when it is determined that an action of the decision-target vehicle is the other-object influence action based on the acquired information, the other-object influence action being an action that influences another object, the other-object reaction being a reaction of the other object to the other-object influence action and being checked based on information about a periphery of the decision-target vehicle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 18, 2019
    Publication date: April 30, 2020
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Naoto SASAGAWA
  • Publication number: 20200118169
    Abstract: It is an object of the present disclosure to provide more appropriate advertisement information for each of a plurality of users sharing a specific space. The advertisement delivery system provides advertisement information to each user existing in a specific space shared by a plurality of users having a specific purpose. In this advertisement delivery system, an information processing device generates advertisement information for each user based on an attribute of a specific space associated with a specific purpose and an attribute of each user associated with the specific purpose. The advertisement distribution device arranged in a specific space receives advertisement information for each user from the information processing device and transmits the received advertisement information to the user terminal associated with the user to be provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 15, 2019
    Publication date: April 16, 2020
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Masahiro MISAKI, Orie MITSUHASHI, Masahiro UEDA, Yoshitaka ATSUMI, Naoto SASAGAWA, Naoki YAMAMURO, Chiho OGAWA
  • Publication number: 20200111127
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus extracts at least one store from a plurality of stores in accordance with an order in which degrees of safety for a target vehicle are ordered as starting from higher degrees of safety, by using information which indicates the degree of safety relevant to situations to be provided if a user visits the store and the user leaves the store by using the vehicle with respect to each of the plurality of stores belonging to a predetermined category; and provides, to the user who gets on the target vehicle, information which prompts the user to visit the at least one store.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 9, 2019
    Publication date: April 9, 2020
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Masahiro MISAKI, Orie MITSUHASHI, Masahiro UEDA, Yoshitaka ATSUMI, Naoto SASAGAWA, Naoki YAMAMURO, Chiho OGAWA
  • Publication number: 20200096357
    Abstract: An information processing device is provided with a controller which executes: obtaining predetermined service information including an advertisement; obtaining predetermined user information on biological information of a user in a vehicle in which the user rides; estimating a health condition of the user based on the user information; extracting distribution information which is information, among the service information, is judged to match the user based on the user's health condition, and which is information about a medical facility according to the health condition or/and information about a predetermined store which sells goods according to the health condition; and selecting, based on position information of the vehicle, information to be actually distributed to the user from among the distribution information thus extracted, and providing the information thus selected to the user, by transmitting the selected distribution information to an on-board device of the vehicle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 25, 2019
    Publication date: March 26, 2020
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Masahiro MISAKI, Orie MITSUHASHI, Masahiro UEDA, Yoshitaka ATSUMI, Naoto SASAGAWA, Naoki YAMAMURO, Chiho OGAWA