Patents by Inventor Nobuhiro Hara

Nobuhiro Hara 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: 20220345540
    Abstract: A management server includes: a service negotiator configured to identify a providable service which is able to be provided by each of a plurality of electronic apparatuses in correlation with the corresponding electronic apparatus; a service notifier configured to return a service discovery response including service identification information to a client terminal in response to reception of a service discovery request from the client terminal; and an electronic apparatus controller configured to stop return from the plurality of electronic apparatuses by transmitting a stop command for instructing to stop return of a response in response to the service discovery request from the client terminal to the plurality of electronic apparatuses and to transmit the service execution request to the corresponding electronic apparatus in response to reception of the service execution request for instructing to execute a service providable by one of the plurality of electronic apparatuses from the client terminal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 12, 2022
    Publication date: October 27, 2022
    Applicant: KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc.
    Inventor: Nobuhiro HARA
  • Patent number: 11454961
    Abstract: The processing time monitoring device is intended to monitor processing time of the target device, and includes: a data acquisition unit that acquires time series data of the target device as input time series data; a time difference calculation unit that calculates a time difference between the input time series data and reference time series data, the time difference existing in a direction of a time axis; and a display unit that displays the time difference calculated by time difference calculation unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 27, 2022
    Assignee: FANUC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Nobuhiro Hara, Yukio Kaniwa
  • Patent number: 11376701
    Abstract: A tool replacement timing management system includes a data acquisition section configured to acquire time series data indicating a machining state from a machine, a data cutout section configured to cut out specimen data from the time series data according to at least one condition or a combination of conditions selected from among machining, a tool, a workpiece, and a tool speed, a machining state variable calculating section configured to calculate a machining state variable, which is a statistical index, from the specimen data, a tool deterioration state generation section configured to generate tool deterioration state data in which the machining state variable is aligned in a time series, and a tool replacement timing calculating section configured to calculate a tool replacement timing on a basis of the tool deterioration state data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 5, 2022
    Assignee: FANUC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yukio Kaniwa, Nobuhiro Hara, Yuuki Ootsuka
  • Patent number: 11050900
    Abstract: An electronic apparatus includes a remote operation executor, a support information manager, and a display controller. The remote operation executor executes remote operation that receives the operation support from an operator terminal. The support information manager obtains support information from a support information storage, the support information storage storing, as the support information, operation procedure data indicating a series of operation inputted at the operator terminal. The display controller displays on the display an operation procedure indicated by the operation procedure data included in the support information obtained by the support information manager.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 29, 2021
    Assignee: KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc.
    Inventors: Nobuhiro Hara, Ken Saratani, Takushi Dandoko, Daigo Tashiro
  • Patent number: 11044377
    Abstract: An electronic apparatus includes a remote operation executor, a support information manager, a display controller, a determiner, and an editor. The remote operation executor executes remote operation that receives the operation support from an operator terminal. The support information manager causes a support information storage to store operation procedure data as support information, the operation procedure data indicating a series of operations operated in accordance with the remote operation. The determiner determines whether the operation procedure data that the support information stored in the support information storage indicates is up to date. The editor, when the operation procedure data is not up to date, edits the operation procedure data stored in the support information storage to up to date.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 22, 2021
    Assignee: KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc.
    Inventors: Nobuhiro Hara, Ken Saratani, Takushi Dandoko, Daigo Tashiro
  • Publication number: 20210044717
    Abstract: An electronic apparatus includes a remote operation executor, a support information manager, and a display controller. The remote operation executor executes remote operation that receives the operation support from an operator terminal. The support information manager obtains support information from a support information storage, the support information storage storing, as the support information, operation procedure data indicating a series of operation inputted at the operator terminal. The display controller displays on the display an operation procedure indicated by the operation procedure data included in the support information obtained by the support information manager.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 31, 2020
    Publication date: February 11, 2021
    Applicant: KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc.
    Inventors: Nobuhiro HARA, Ken SARATANI, Takushi DANDOKO, Daigo TASHIRO
  • Publication number: 20210044718
    Abstract: An electronic apparatus includes a remote operation executor, a support information manager, a display controller, a determiner, and an editor. The remote operation executor executes remote operation that receives the operation support from an operator terminal. The support information manager causes a support information storage to store operation procedure data as support information, the operation procedure data indicating a series of operations operated in accordance with the remote operation. The determiner determines whether the operation procedure data that the support information stored in the support information storage indicates is up to date. The editor, when the operation procedure data is not up to date, edits the operation procedure data stored in the support information storage to up to date.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 31, 2020
    Publication date: February 11, 2021
    Applicant: KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc.
    Inventors: Nobuhiro HARA, Ken SARATANI, Takushi DANDOKO, Daigo TASHIRO
  • Publication number: 20200306913
    Abstract: A tool replacement timing management system includes a data acquisition section configured to acquire time series data indicating a machining state from a machine, a data cutout section configured to cut out specimen data from the time series data according to at least one condition or a combination of conditions selected from among machining, a tool, a workpiece, and a tool speed, a machining state variable calculating section configured to calculate a machining state variable, which is a statistical index, from the specimen data, a tool deterioration state generation section configured to generate tool deterioration state data in which the machining state variable is aligned in a time series, and a tool replacement timing calculating section configured to calculate a tool replacement timing on a basis of the tool deterioration state data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 27, 2020
    Publication date: October 1, 2020
    Inventors: Yukio KANIWA, Nobuhiro HARA, Yuuki OOTSUKA
  • Patent number: 10755092
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus including: an image scanning unit scanning an image of an original document; an image forming unit forming the image onto a recording sheet; a text extraction section extracting a text area from the image for each of various kinds of languages; an editing section, for each of the various kinds of languages, giving color different from one another to the text area or selectively deleting the text area; and a control section controlling the image forming unit so as to cause the image forming unit to form the text area for each of the various kinds of languages on the recording sheet in respective color given to the text area or to form a text area, which is among the text areas of the various kinds of languages and is not being deleted by the editing section, on the recording sheet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 25, 2020
    Assignee: KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc.
    Inventor: Nobuhiro Hara
  • Publication number: 20200183372
    Abstract: The processing time monitoring device is intended to monitor processing time of the target device, and includes: a data acquisition unit that acquires time series data of the target device as input time series data; a time difference calculation unit that calculates a time difference between the input time series data and reference time series data, the time difference existing in a direction of a time axis; and a display unit that displays the time difference calculated by time difference calculation unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 3, 2019
    Publication date: June 11, 2020
    Inventors: Nobuhiro HARA, Yukio KANIWA
  • Publication number: 20190095709
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus including: an image scanning unit scanning an image of an original document; an image forming unit forming the image onto a recording sheet; a text extraction section extracting a text area from the image for each of various kinds of languages; an editing section, for each of the various kinds of languages, giving color different from one another to the text area or selectively deleting the text area; and a control section controlling the image forming unit so as to cause the image forming unit to form the text area for each of the various kinds of languages on the recording sheet in respective color given to the text area or to form a text area, which is among the text areas of the various kinds of languages and is not being deleted by the editing section, on the recording sheet.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 27, 2018
    Publication date: March 28, 2019
    Applicant: KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc.
    Inventor: Nobuhiro HARA
  • Patent number: 9864557
    Abstract: The multifunctional peripheral includes a download control unit, a determination unit, a storage control unit, a display screen data generation unit, and a display control unit. The determination unit determines whether or not data downloaded by the download control unit contains printable file data. If the determination unit determines that the data contains printable file data, the storage control unit performs control so as to extract the printable file data and store the printable file data in the cache memory. The display screen data generation unit generates display screen data to be displayed on the display screen. The display screen data is a list of the file data stored in the storage unit by the storage control unit. The display control unit performs control so as to display the display screen data, which is generated by the display screen data generation unit, on the display screen.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 22, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2018
    Assignee: KYOCERA DOCUMENT SOLUTIONS INC.
    Inventor: Nobuhiro Hara
  • Patent number: 9769343
    Abstract: To provide a sleep mode control system restricting power consumption while an image forming apparatus (ifma) is in a sleep mode (slm) and allowing a user to deactivate the sleep mode without impairing his/her convenience. The sleep mode control system includes the imf entering the slm to reduce power consumption and a power generator provided below a passage floor on which the imf is mounted. The power generator has a power generation unit, when stepped, provides a private power generation and an electromotive force detection unit detecting an electromotive force generated at the power generation unit successively, generating a pulse signal using the resulting electromotive force, and outputting the resulting pulse signal successively. The ifma has a sleep control part deactivating the slm, while the ifma is being in the slm, based on a signal pattern of the pulse signal outputted from the electromotive force detection unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 29, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2017
    Assignee: KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc.
    Inventors: Nobuhiro Hara, Naoki Sawa, Hiroki Arakawa, Yuki Enokizono
  • Publication number: 20170147268
    Abstract: The multifunctional peripheral includes a download control unit, a determination unit, a storage control unit, a display screen data generation unit, and a display control unit. The determination unit determines whether or not data downloaded by the download control unit contains printable file data. If the determination unit determines that the data contains printable file data, the storage control unit performs control so as to extract the printable file data and store the printable file data in the cache memory. The display screen data generation unit generates display screen data to be displayed on the display screen. The display screen data is a list of the file data stored in the storage unit by the storage control unit. The display control unit performs control so as to display the display screen data, which is generated by the display screen data generation unit, on the display screen.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 22, 2016
    Publication date: May 25, 2017
    Inventor: Nobuhiro Hara
  • Publication number: 20160352950
    Abstract: To provide a sleep mode control system restricting power consumption while an image forming apparatus (ifma) is in a sleep mode (slm) and allowing a user to deactivate the sleep mode without impairing his/her convenience. The sleep mode control system includes the imf entering the slm to reduce power consumption and a power generator provided below a passage floor on which the imf is mounted. The power generator has a power generation unit, when stepped, provides a private power generation and an electromotive force detection unit detecting an electromotive force generated at the power generation unit successively, generating a pulse signal using the resulting electromotive force, and outputting the resulting pulse signal successively. The ifma has a sleep control part deactivating the slm, while the ifma is being in the slm, based on a signal pattern of the pulse signal outputted from the electromotive force detection unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 29, 2016
    Publication date: December 1, 2016
    Applicant: KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc.
    Inventors: Nobuhiro HARA, Naoki SAWA, Hiroki ARAKAWA, Yuki ENOKIZONO
  • Patent number: 9432550
    Abstract: A server device is connected with a plurality of electronic devices in a communicable manner and configures a setting for a desired electronic device out of the plurality of electronic devices. The server device includes a device location management section and a setting determination section. The device location management section acquires location information representing current locations of the electronic devices. The setting determination section refers to settings for other electronic devices, out of the plurality of electronic devices, located at a short distance from the current location of the desired electronic device to determine the setting for the desired electronic device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2016
    Assignee: KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc.
    Inventors: Nobuhiro Hara, Yumi Nakagoshi, Ayaka Hontsu, Hiroshi Nakamura
  • Patent number: 9286011
    Abstract: An image formation device includes a document box, an operating section, a version check control section, a document data update control section, and a print control section. When receiving a select operation, the version check control section determines whether or not a selected piece of document data has been updated on an external server. If the selected data has been updated on the external server, the document data update control section downloads an updated piece of document data from the external server and updates the piece of document data in the document box. When receiving a print instruction operation, the print control section causes printing based on the piece of document data already stored in the document box if the selected piece of document data has not been updated or causes printing based on the updated piece of document data if the selected piece of document data has been updated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 27, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 15, 2016
    Assignee: KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc.
    Inventor: Nobuhiro Hara
  • Publication number: 20150309758
    Abstract: An image formation device includes a document box, an operating section, a version check control section, a document data update control section, and a print control section. When receiving a select operation, the version check control section determines whether or not a selected piece of document data has been updated on an external server. If the selected data has been updated on the external server, the document data update control section downloads an updated piece of document data from the external server and updates the piece of document data in the document box. When receiving a print instruction operation, the print control section causes printing based on the piece of document data already stored in the document box if the selected piece of document data has not been updated or causes printing based on the updated piece of document data if the selected piece of document data has been updated.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 27, 2013
    Publication date: October 29, 2015
    Inventor: Nobuhiro HARA
  • Patent number: 9160882
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a document box, a communication unit, a console unit, a referencing entity management table, and a control unit. The console unit accepts a delete operation of inputting a delete instruction to delete document data stored in the document box. The referencing entity management table allows information about another image forming apparatus referencing document data stored in the document box to be registered therein as referencing entity information. The control unit determines whether or not the document data to be deleted designated by the delete instruction input by the delete operation is referenced by another image forming apparatus, based on the referencing entity management table. The control unit, if the document data to be deleted is referenced by another image forming apparatus, causes the communication unit to transmit the document data to be deleted to the another image forming apparatus based on the referencing entity information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 26, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 13, 2015
    Assignee: KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc.
    Inventor: Nobuhiro Hara
  • Patent number: 9152359
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes an operation panel, a printing device, a storage device, a job management unit, a power-saving mode setting unit, and an operation mode control unit. The power-saving mode setting unit that: (a) specifies the job log where the start time point of the job execution belongs to an identical time slot in a past for a predetermined time slot; and (b1) sets the power-saving mode for the predetermined time slot to the first power-saving mode when a proportion of the number of the executing jobs where the job types of the specified job log belong to the first job type group to the number of the executing jobs where the job types of the specified job log belong to the first job type group or the second job type group exceeds a predetermined threshold value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 26, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2015
    Assignee: Kyocera Document Solutions Inc.
    Inventors: Ayaka Hontsu, Nobuhiro Hara, Yumi Nakagoshi, Hiroshi Nakamura