Patents by Inventor Nobuhiro Itoh

Nobuhiro Itoh 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: 7929687
    Abstract: A facsimile apparatus can notify a user of the fact that facsimile data being received is sent from a specific party. A communication control part receives facsimile data and party information from a remote facsimile apparatus, the party information identifying the remote facsimile apparatus. A melody output part stores and outputs a call-notification-melody so as to output the reproduced call-notification-melody through a speaker. A specific party discrimination part stores specific party information regarding a specific party for which the call-notification-melody is output. A system control part cases the melody output part to reproduce and output the call-notification-melody stored when the party information which the communication control part acquired matches the specific party information stored in the specific party discrimination part at a time of reception of a call.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2007
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2011
    Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventor: Nobuhiro Itoh
  • Patent number: 7903808
    Abstract: A facsimile apparatus can notify a user of the fact that facsimile data being received is sent from a specific party. A communication control part receives facsimile data and party information from a remote facsimile apparatus, the party information identifying the remote facsimile apparatus. A melody output part stores and outputs a call-notification-melody so as to output the reproduced call-notification-melody through a speaker. A specific party discrimination part stores specific party information regarding a specific party for which the call-notification-melody is output. A system control part cases the melody output part to reproduce and output the call-notification-melody stored when the party information which the communication control part acquired matches the specific party information stored in the specific party discrimination part at a time of reception of a call.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 2005
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2011
    Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventor: Nobuhiro Itoh
  • Patent number: 7782495
    Abstract: A facsimile apparatus is provided with a specific destination name storage section to store destination names of specific destinations, a receiving end identifying section to identify a receiving end by analyzing terminal information received from the receiving end when making a facsimile transmission to the receiving end, a specific destination identifying section to search from the specific destination name storage section a destination name corresponding to the receiving end which is identified by the receiving end identifying section, and a notifying section to output a communication result notification indicative of a result of the facsimile transmission to the receiving end only when the specific destination identifying section finds the corresponding destination name in the specific destination name storage section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 14, 2003
    Date of Patent: August 24, 2010
    Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventor: Nobuhiro Itoh
  • Patent number: 7532341
    Abstract: A facsimile apparatus is provided that prints image information with a designated printing color (such as magenta) stored in a designated calling-party printing color storage unit in an operation of receiving a document from a designated calling party that has been registered beforehand in association with the designated printing color. Such a document printed with the designated printing color can be clearly distinguished from a document that is printed with a default printing color (such as black) for an undesignated calling party.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 2003
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2009
    Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventor: Nobuhiro Itoh
  • Patent number: 7446905
    Abstract: A facsimile apparatus having a multi-color printing function is disclosed. The facsimile apparatus includes an information registering part configured to register registration information including book mark printing colors used for printing a book mark corresponding to a sender of a plurality of senders, a determining part configured to determine, based on the registration information, whether to print the book mark when receiving image information from the sender, and a printing part configured to print the book mark corresponding to the sender.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 2004
    Date of Patent: November 4, 2008
    Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd
    Inventor: Nobuhiro Itoh
  • Patent number: 7394578
    Abstract: This facsimile device comprises inputting means for inputting image data of a subject copy having a width in a main scanning direction larger than an A3-size width, reading means for divisively reading lines of the image data in a sub-scanning direction by dividing the image data into divisional lines of data having a predetermined width, image rotating means for performing an image rotation with respect to each of the divisional lines of data so as to supply rotated divisional lines, encoding means for encoding each of the rotated divisional lines into encoded data, and outputting means for outputting the encoded data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 21, 2002
    Date of Patent: July 1, 2008
    Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventor: Nobuhiro Itoh
  • Publication number: 20070285732
    Abstract: A facsimile apparatus can notify a user of the fact that facsimile data being received is sent from a specific party. A communication control part receives facsimile data and party information from a remote facsimile apparatus, the party information identifying the remote facsimile apparatus. A melody output part stores and outputs a call-notification-melody so as to output the reproduced call-notification-melody through a speaker. A specific party discrimination part stores specific party information regarding a specific party for which the call-notification-melody is output. A system control part cases the melody output part to reproduce and output the call-notification-melody stored when the party information which the communication control part acquired matches the specific party information stored in the specific party discrimination part at a time of reception of a call.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 21, 2007
    Publication date: December 13, 2007
    Inventor: Nobuhiro Itoh
  • Patent number: 7046791
    Abstract: A facsimile apparatus can notify a user of the fact that facsimile data being received is sent from a specific party. A communication control part receives facsimile data and party information from a remote facsimile apparatus, the party information identifying the remote facsimile apparatus. A melody output part stores and outputs a call-notification-melody so as to output the reproduced call-notification-melody through a speaker. A specific party discrimination part stores specific party information regarding a specific party for which the call-notification-melody is output. A system control part cases the melody output part to reproduce and output the call-notification-melody stored when the party information which the communication control part acquired matches the specific party information stored in the specific party discrimination part at a time of reception of a call.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 12, 2002
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2006
    Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventor: Nobuhiro Itoh
  • Publication number: 20060062377
    Abstract: A facsimile apparatus can notify a user of the fact that facsimile data being received is sent from a specific party. A communication control part receives facsimile data and party information from a remote facsimile apparatus, the party information identifying the remote facsimile apparatus. A melody output part stores and outputs a call-notification-melody so as to output the reproduced call-notification-melody through a speaker. A specific party discrimination part stores specific party information regarding a specific party for which the call-notification-melody is output. A system control part cases the melody output part to reproduce and output the call-notification-melody stored when the party information which the communication control part acquired matches the specific party information stored in the specific party discrimination part at a time of reception of a call.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 9, 2005
    Publication date: March 23, 2006
    Inventor: Nobuhiro Itoh
  • Publication number: 20050024694
    Abstract: A facsimile apparatus having a multi-color printing function is disclosed. The facsimile apparatus includes an information registering part configured to register registration information including book mark printing colors used for printing a book mark corresponding to a sender of a plurality of senders, a determining part configured to determine, based on the registration information, whether to print the book mark when receiving image information from the sender, and a printing part configured to print the book mark corresponding to the sender.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 8, 2004
    Publication date: February 3, 2005
    Inventor: Nobuhiro Itoh
  • Publication number: 20040075871
    Abstract: A facsimile apparatus is provided with a specific destination name storage section to store destination names of specific destinations, a receiving end identifying section to identify a receiving end by analyzing terminal information received from the receiving end when making a facsimile transmission to the receiving end, a specific destination identifying section to search from the specific destination name storage section a destination name corresponding to the receiving end which is identified by the receiving end identifying section, and a notifying section to output a communication result notification indicative of a result of the facsimile transmission to the receiving end only when the specific destination identifying section finds the corresponding destination name in the specific destination name storage section.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 14, 2003
    Publication date: April 22, 2004
    Inventor: Nobuhiro Itoh
  • Publication number: 20040001212
    Abstract: A facsimile apparatus is provided that prints image information with a designated printing color (such as magenta) stored in a designated calling-party printing color storage unit in an operation of receiving a document from a designated calling party that has been registered beforehand in association with the designated printing color. Such a document printed with the designated printing color can be clearly distinguished from a document that is printed with a default printing color (such as black) for an undesignated calling party.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 17, 2003
    Publication date: January 1, 2004
    Inventor: Nobuhiro Itoh
  • Publication number: 20030053144
    Abstract: A facsimile apparatus can notify a user of the fact that facsimile data being received is sent from a specific party. A communication control part receives facsimile data and party information from a remote facsimile apparatus, the party information identifying the remote facsimile apparatus. A melody output part stores and outputs a call-notification-melody so as to output the reproduced call-notification-melody through a speaker. A specific party discrimination part stores specific party information regarding a specific party for which the call-notification-melody is output. A system control part cases the melody output part to reproduce and output the call-notification-melody stored when the party information which the communication control part acquired matches the specific party information stored in the specific party discrimination part at a time of reception of a call.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 12, 2002
    Publication date: March 20, 2003
    Applicant: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventor: Nobuhiro Itoh
  • Publication number: 20020097443
    Abstract: This facsimile device comprises inputting means for inputting image data of a subject copy having a width in a main scanning direction larger than an A3-size width, reading means for divisively reading lines of the image data in a sub-scanning direction by dividing the image data into divisional lines of data having a predetermined width, image rotating means for performing an image rotation with respect to each of the divisional lines of data so as to supply rotated divisional lines, encoding means for encoding each of the rotated divisional lines into encoded data, and outputting means for outputting the encoded data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 21, 2002
    Publication date: July 25, 2002
    Inventor: Nobuhiro Itoh
  • Patent number: 5560236
    Abstract: In a rolling and cutting method for an endless hot-rolled steel strip comprising continuous hot rolling and joining rough-rolled slabs to each other with a joint having a boundary between slabs, subjecting the joined rough-rolled strip continuously to hot finish rolling to obtain an endless hot-rolled steel strip with a joint having a boundary between strips, cutting the endless hot-rolled steel strip immediately before coiling, and coiling each cut strip into a coil, the endless hot-rolled steel strip being cut such that the boundary between two successive slabs or sheets is positioned on the radially outermost face of the coil; the target cut point is set relative to the boundary by applying the tracking error of the boundary and the cutting control error for ensuring that the target cut point is accurately positioned on the radially outermost surface of the coil; the strip is kept from breaking at the boundary when coiled, and the coil as a final product can be produced with minimum scrap.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 4, 1994
    Date of Patent: October 1, 1996
    Assignee: Kawasaki Steel Corporation
    Inventors: Soichiro Onda, Nobuhiro Itoh, Toshio Imazeki, Toshisada Takechi
  • Patent number: 4833390
    Abstract: A charge completion detector comprises a thermoelectric detecting element outputting a thermally generated electromotive force in correspondence with the rise of temperature incidental to the completion of charging a secondary cell, and detecting means electrically connected to the thermoelectric detecting element for detecting the thermally generated electromotive force generated in the thermoelectric detecting element. The thermoelectric detecting element comprises a base material of semiconductive ceramics and a plurality of pairs of electrodes formed spaced apart from each other by a prescribed distance on the base material for forming hot junctions and cold junctions. A heat radiating member is thermally coupled to the cold junctions of the base material. The temperature of the hot junction side thermally coupled to the secondary cell will be approximately the same as that of the secondary cell while the temperature of the cold junction side is kept at an environmental temperature.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 5, 1988
    Date of Patent: May 23, 1989
    Assignee: Murata Manufacturing Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Akira Kumada, Michihiro Murata, Nobuhiro Itoh, Norimitsu Kitoh