Patents by Inventor Nobuhiro Mishima
Nobuhiro Mishima 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).
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Patent number: 10791228Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes: an image processing part; a storage part including a nonvolatile region that stores data in a nonvolatile manner; and a hardware processor that controls the image processing part, wherein the nonvolatile region includes a plurality of storage regions, the storage part stores setting information indicating whether each of the plurality of storage regions is a target of malicious code detection processing, and the hardware processor performs the malicious code detection processing only on a storage region that is the target of the malicious code detection processing based on the setting information among the plurality of storage regions.Type: GrantFiled: April 11, 2019Date of Patent: September 29, 2020Assignee: Konica Minolta, Inc.Inventors: Atsushi Tamura, Yuji Okamoto, Hidetaka Iwai, Takehisa Yamaguchi, Nobuhiro Mishima, Katsuyuki Sugita
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Patent number: 10701237Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes: a non-volatile memory; and a hardware processor that controls the non-volatile memory, wherein the hardware processor determines whether communication speed of a communication path to the non-volatile memory is equal to or less than a threshold value and encrypts the data transmitted to the non-volatile memory when the communication speed is determined to be equal to or less than the threshold value.Type: GrantFiled: June 4, 2019Date of Patent: June 30, 2020Assignee: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.Inventors: Takehisa Yamaguchi, Yuji Okamoto, Hidetaka Iwai, Nobuhiro Mishima, Atsushi Tamura, Katsuyuki Sugita
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Publication number: 20190394352Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes: a non-volatile memory; and a hardware processor that controls the non-volatile memory, wherein the hardware processor determines whether communication speed of a communication path to the non-volatile memory is equal to or less than a threshold value and encrypts the data transmitted to the non-volatile memory when the communication speed is determined to be equal to or less than the threshold value.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 4, 2019Publication date: December 26, 2019Applicant: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.Inventors: Takehisa YAMAGUCHI, Yuji OKAMOTO, Hidetaka IWAI, Nobuhiro MISHIMA, Atsushi TAMURA, Katsuyuki SUGITA
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Publication number: 20190342460Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes: an image processing part; a storage part including a nonvolatile region that stores data in a nonvolatile manner; and a hardware processor that controls the image processing part, wherein the nonvolatile region includes a plurality of storage regions, the storage part stores setting information indicating whether each of the plurality of storage regions is a target of malicious code detection processing, and the hardware processor performs the malicious code detection processing only on a storage region that is the target of the malicious code detection processing based on the setting information among the plurality of storage regions.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 11, 2019Publication date: November 7, 2019Applicant: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.Inventors: Atsushi Tamura, Yuji Okamoto, Hidetaka Iwai, Takehisa Yamaguchi, Nobuhiro Mishima, Katsuyuki Sugita
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Publication number: 20190235802Abstract: A printing system includes: a printer; and a terminal device, wherein an inquirer that inquires of the printer a predicted time to be taken for printing a document to be printed is provided in the terminal device, a calculator that calculates a predicted time to be taken for the printer to print the document under each of a plurality of conditions and a responder that responds to the terminal device about the predicted time for each of the conditions are provided in the printer, a presenter that displays the conditions and the predicted time for each of the conditions on a display and an instructor that instructs the printer to print the document under a condition selected from the conditions are also provided in the terminal device, and a printing part that prints the document under the condition selected from the conditions is also provided in the printer.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 29, 2019Publication date: August 1, 2019Applicant: Konica Minolta, Inc.Inventors: Atsushi TAMURA, Yuji OKAMOTO, Hidetaka IWAI, Takehisa YAMAGUCHI, Nobuhiro MISHIMA, Katsuyuki SUGITA
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Patent number: 10367970Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a communication interface capable of communication over a plurality of frequency bands and a controller configured to determine whether the content of communication of the communication interface satisfies a predetermined condition. The controller is configured to execute control for switching the frequency band of communication via the communication interface to another frequency band over the frequency bands when the content of communication of the communication interface satisfies a predetermined condition.Type: GrantFiled: September 20, 2017Date of Patent: July 30, 2019Assignee: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.Inventors: Akihiro Torigoshi, Junichi Hase, Takeshi Minami, Tomoaki Nakajima, Nobuhiro Mishima, Yuji Tanaka, Daisuke Nakano
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Patent number: 10306083Abstract: An image processing system includes a first image processing device including a first processor. The first processor executes a process including: detecting a change in a load status at the first image processing device; sending a request for information relating to a load status at the second image processing device to the second image processing device when the change in the load status at the first image processing device is detected; analyzing the information relating to the load status at the second image processing device, and determining whether or not the first image processing device establishes wireless communication with a portable terminal; and adjusting to relatively lower a radio field strength from the first image processing device below the radio field strength from the second image processing device when the first image processing device determines not to establish wireless communication with the portable terminal.Type: GrantFiled: July 2, 2015Date of Patent: May 28, 2019Assignee: Konica Minolta, Inc.Inventors: Yuji Okamoto, Junichi Hase, Nobuhiro Mishima, Hidetaka Iwai, Daisuke Nakano, Hirokazu Kubota, Hideaki Soejima
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Patent number: 10248481Abstract: An information processing device includes: an acquisition unit configured to acquire a determination result of a state of a user, who has given a transmission job execution instruction, determined based on biological information of the user; and a job control unit configured to control an execution of the transmission job according to the user state determination result, wherein when it is determined that the user is in an off-normal state, the job control unit executes a confirmation request process to request the user to make a confirmation related to the transmission job.Type: GrantFiled: June 23, 2017Date of Patent: April 2, 2019Assignee: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.Inventors: Takeshi Minami, Junichi Hase, Nobuhiro Mishima, Akihiro Torigoshi, Tomoaki Nakajima, Daisuke Nakano, Yuji Tanaka
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Patent number: 10248286Abstract: An image forming apparatus comprises: a display which allows users to connect a first icon to a second icon on a first screen and is capable of displaying the first screen with a still image of the first icon in motion and a second screen matching an event; a completion detector which detects completion of the connecting operation; a processor which performs an operation predetermined for the first and second icon when the connecting operation is completed; an event detector which detects occurrence of an event during the connecting operation; and a controller which performs, if an event occurs before completion of the connecting operation, a control operation consisting of: storing composition information of the first screen with a still image of the first icon in motion; interrupting the first screen; and reproducing the first screen after disappearance of the second screen on the basis of the composition information.Type: GrantFiled: January 15, 2013Date of Patent: April 2, 2019Assignee: Konica Minolta, Inc.Inventors: Manabu Furukawa, Hideyuki Matsuda, Nobuhiro Mishima, Kazusei Takahashi, Mitsuharu Nagai
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Patent number: 9986131Abstract: An image processing system includes a terminal worn by a user for use; and an image output apparatus configured to perform an output process for outputting an image in accordance with a command given by the user. The terminal includes an obtaining portion configured to obtain, from the user, a physical feature of the user. Any one or both of the terminal and the image output apparatus includes an authentication portion configured to perform, prior to the output process, an authentication process for verifying the user based on the physical feature obtained by the obtaining portion. The image output apparatus includes an output process portion configured to perform the output process when the authentication portion verifies the user.Type: GrantFiled: November 30, 2016Date of Patent: May 29, 2018Assignee: Konica Minolta, Inc.Inventors: Yuji Tanaka, Junichi Hase, Takeshi Minami, Tomoaki Nakajima, Nobuhiro Mishima, Akihiro Torigoshi, Daisuke Nakano
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Patent number: 9955043Abstract: An image processing apparatus comprises: an accepting portion that accepts a request for a temporary use permission to use a function of the image processing apparatus from a second portable terminal apparatus in place of a first portable terminal apparatus having a proper use permission to use the function, an obtaining portion that obtains application information of an application installed on the second portable terminal apparatus; a determining portion that determines a scope of the temporary use permission with reference to reference data stored on a management apparatus and on the basis of the application information; a judgment portion that judges whether or not the requested process falls within the determined scope when a request for a process requiring the function is received from or transferred to the second portable terminal apparatus; and an executor portion that executes the requested process if it falls within the determined scope.Type: GrantFiled: March 23, 2016Date of Patent: April 24, 2018Assignee: Konica Minolta, Inc.Inventors: Toshikazu Kawaguchi, Junichi Hase, Yosuke Taniguchi, Nobuhiro Mishima, Hidetaka Iwai, Hideaki Soejima
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Publication number: 20180084144Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a communication interface capable of communication over a plurality of frequency bands and a controller configured to determine whether the content of communication of the communication interface satisfies a predetermined condition. The controller is configured to execute control for switching the frequency band of communication via the communication interface to another frequency band over the frequency bands when the content of communication of the communication interface satisfies a predetermined condition.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 20, 2017Publication date: March 22, 2018Applicant: Konica Minolta, Inc.Inventors: Akihiro TORIGOSHI, Junichi HASE, Takeshi MINAMI, Tomoaki NAKAJIMA, Nobuhiro MISHIMA, Yuji TANAKA, Daisuke NAKANO
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Patent number: 9883071Abstract: A processor of an MFP generates a first additional image based on an image in a designated region of a document. Furthermore, the processor of the MFP generates a second additional image showing a difference between the document and a document before revision of the document. Then, the processor of the MFP registers the first additional image and the second additional image on a server in association with a marker image showing the revised edition number of the document.Type: GrantFiled: October 26, 2015Date of Patent: January 30, 2018Assignee: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.Inventors: Yosuke Taniguchi, Junichi Hase, Nobuhiro Mishima, Hidetaka Iwai, Toshikazu Kawaguchi, Hideaki Soejima
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Patent number: 9876939Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes: an information obtaining portion that obtains association information indicating an association between a first and second portable terminal apparatus from an association information storage, the first portable terminal apparatus having a proper permission to use a function of the image processing apparatus from the first portable terminal apparatus, the second portable terminal apparatus having a temporary permission to use the function from the second portable terminal apparatus in place of the first portable terminal apparatus; a data storage that stores data caused by a process between the image processing apparatus and the second portable terminal apparatus; an online terminal detector that detects the first portable terminal apparatus as being online; and a data provider that provides the data to the first portable terminal apparatus from the data storage when the online terminal detector detects the first portable terminal apparatus as being online.Type: GrantFiled: March 23, 2016Date of Patent: January 23, 2018Assignee: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.Inventors: Hideaki Soejima, Junichi Hase, Hidetaka Iwai, Nobuhiro Mishima, Yosuke Taniguchi, Toshikazu Kawaguchi
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Publication number: 20170371729Abstract: An information processing device includes: an acquisition unit configured to acquire a determination result of a state of a user, who has given a transmission job execution instruction, determined based on biological information of the user; and a job control unit configured to control an execution of the transmission job according to the user state determination result, wherein when it is determined that the user is in an off-normal state, the job control unit executes a confirmation request process to request the user to make a confirmation related to the transmission job.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 23, 2017Publication date: December 28, 2017Applicant: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.Inventors: Takeshi MINAMI, Junichi Hase, Nobuhiro Mishima, Akihiro Torigoshi, Tomoaki Nakajima, Daisuke Nakano, Yuji Tanaka
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Publication number: 20170371600Abstract: An image processing system includes an acquiring section that acquires biological information on a user who makes an image processing apparatus execute a job and operation information on the image processing apparatus with the biological information changing depending on a state of the user, an analysis section that analyzes stress of the user concerning use of the image processing apparatus, based on the biological information and the operation information, and an output section that outputs an analysis result obtained by the analysis section.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 21, 2017Publication date: December 28, 2017Applicant: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.Inventors: Yuji TANAKA, Junichi HASE, Takeshi MINAMI, Nobuhiro MISHIMA, Akihiro TORIGOSHI, Tomoaki NAKAJIMA, Daisuke NAKANO
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Patent number: 9854132Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes: an imaging unit configured to capture an image of a subject; an image extraction unit configured to extract an image of a predetermined shape from a captured image being the image of the subject captured and output by the imaging unit; and a registration unit configured to, upon the image extraction unit extracting a first image identifying input data and a second image identifying a storage area, store the input data identified by the first image in the storage area identified by the second image.Type: GrantFiled: December 8, 2015Date of Patent: December 26, 2017Assignee: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.Inventors: Nobuhiro Mishima, Junichi Hase, Toshikazu Kawaguchi, Hidetaka Iwai, Yosuke Taniguchi, Hideaki Soejima
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Publication number: 20170171430Abstract: An image processing system includes a terminal worn by a user for use; and an image output apparatus configured to perform an output process for outputting an image in accordance with a command given by the user. The terminal includes an obtaining portion configured to obtain, from the user, a physical feature of the user. Any one or both of the terminal and the image output apparatus includes an authentication portion configured to perform, prior to the output process, an authentication process for verifying the user based on the physical feature obtained by the obtaining portion. The image output apparatus includes an output process portion configured to perform the output process when the authentication portion verifies the user.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 30, 2016Publication date: June 15, 2017Applicant: Konica Minolta, Inc.Inventors: Yuji TANAKA, Junichi HASE, Takeshi MINAMI, Tomoaki NAKAJIMA, Nobuhiro MISHIMA, Akihiro TORIGOSHI, Daisuke NAKANO
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Patent number: 9621743Abstract: A terminal device performs communication with a MFP (Multifunction Peripheral), and each of cloud servers. Terminal device executes transmitting and receiving process for image data with the MFP and the cloud servers via a cooperation application program. The terminal device switches a working application in the terminal device to another application, during the transmitting and receiving process via the cooperation application program. In this instance, the terminal device suspends the transmitting and receiving process. The terminal device executes transmitting and receiving process via the another application for a part of the image data for which the transmitting and receiving process is not executed.Type: GrantFiled: July 7, 2015Date of Patent: April 11, 2017Assignee: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.Inventors: Daisuke Nakano, Junichi Hase, Hirokazu Kubota, Nobuhiro Mishima, Hidetaka Iwai, Yuji Okamoto, Hideaki Soejima
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Patent number: 9558434Abstract: A remote operation system comprises an image forming apparatus and a remote operation apparatus. The image forming apparatus has an operation input part including a touch panel and a hardware key and a transmission part for transmitting synthesizable area information indicating a synthesizable area in a candidate screen (first screen) of the remote operation screen to the remote operation apparatus. The first screen is a screen including a touch panel area and a hardware key area, and the synthesizable area is defined in the synthesizable area information as an area not including a hardware key image. The remote operation apparatus generates a second screen by synthesizing an additional image to be added to the first screen into the synthesizable area of the first screen on the basis of the synthesizable area information and displays the second screen on the display part as the remote operation screen.Type: GrantFiled: January 29, 2013Date of Patent: January 31, 2017Assignee: KONICA MINOLTA BUSINESS TECHNOLOGIES, INC.Inventors: Junichi Hase, Manabu Furukawa, Nobuhiro Mishima, Masaya Hashimoto, Akihiro Torigoshi