Patents by Inventor Nobuo Iwata

Nobuo Iwata 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: 20200358913
    Abstract: Provided an information processing apparatus including a first display unit that displays a first menu screen, which includes a menu item for calling a first function of an information processing apparatus, on a display unit, a second display unit that displays a second menu screen, which includes a menu item for calling a second function for using the information processing apparatus for a specific use, on the display unit, and a control unit that controls which of the first menu screen and the second menu screen is preferentially displayed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 27, 2020
    Publication date: November 12, 2020
    Applicant: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Nobuo IWATA
  • Patent number: 10652411
    Abstract: A remote operation apparatus includes a display that displays a desktop screen of an apparatus to be remotely operated; and a controller that displays an input field on a desktop screen of the remote operation apparatus and activates a text input assistance module of the remote operation apparatus in a case in which an activation instruction to activate the text input assistance module of the remote operation apparatus is input, and enables the text input assistance module of the remote operation apparatus to input text to the input field.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 12, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2020
    Assignee: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Nobuo Iwata
  • Patent number: 10359931
    Abstract: A remote operation apparatus includes: a display that displays a desktop screen of an apparatus to be remotely operated; and a controller that displays an input field and displays a soft keyboard in a case in which a specific operation is performed on a displayed desktop screen, and enables text input to the input field with the soft keyboard.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2019
    Assignee: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Nobuo Iwata
  • Publication number: 20180165006
    Abstract: A remote operation apparatus includes: a display that displays a desktop screen of an apparatus to be remotely operated; and a controller that displays an input field and displays a soft keyboard in a case in which a specific operation is performed on a displayed desktop screen, and enables text input to the input field with the soft keyboard.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 23, 2017
    Publication date: June 14, 2018
    Applicant: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Nobuo IWATA
  • Publication number: 20180152571
    Abstract: A remote operation apparatus includes a display that displays a desktop screen of an apparatus to be remotely operated; and a controller that displays an input field on a desktop screen of the remote operation apparatus and activates a text input assistance module of the remote operation apparatus in a case in which an activation instruction to activate the text input assistance module of the remote operation apparatus is input, and enables the text input assistance module of the remote operation apparatus to input text to the input field.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 12, 2017
    Publication date: May 31, 2018
    Applicant: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Nobuo IWATA
  • Patent number: 9693380
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes: a user determination unit that determines whether or not plural user devices are used by a single user on the basis of information transmitted from the plural user devices; a storage unit that stores information of the plural user devices determined to be used by the single user as a set of user devices; a selection unit that selects a second user device to which a service is to be provided in the case where a first user device that requests the service and the second user device are both included in the same set of user devices; and a transmitting unit that transmits service information to the first and the second user device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2017
    Assignee: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yasutoshi Maeda, Nobuo Iwata
  • Publication number: 20170048907
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes: a user determination unit that determines whether or not plural user devices are used by a single user on the basis of information transmitted from the plural user devices; a storage unit that stores information of the plural user devices determined to be used by the single user as a set of user devices; a selection unit that selects a second user device to which a service is to be provided in the case where a first user device that requests the service and the second user device are both included in the same set of user devices; and a transmitting unit that transmits service information to the first and the second user device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 26, 2016
    Publication date: February 16, 2017
    Applicant: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yasutoshi MAEDA, Nobuo IWATA
  • Patent number: 9509781
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes: a user determination unit that determines whether or not plural user devices are used by a single user on the basis of information transmitted from the plural user devices; a storage unit that stores information of the plural user devices determined to be used by the single user as a set of user devices; a selection unit that selects a second user device to which a service is to be provided in the case where a first user device that requests the service and the second user device are both included in the same set of user devices; and a transmitting unit that transmits service information to the first and the second user device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 4, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2016
    Assignee: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yasutoshi Maeda, Nobuo Iwata
  • Patent number: 9298714
    Abstract: Provided is an information processing apparatus including a reception section that receives a request for a process relative to management of a publication, a code acquisition section that acquires plural codes affixed to the publication, a determination section that determines whether or not a code corresponding to the process is present in the plural acquired codes, and a process execution section that executes the process based on the code when it is determined that the code corresponding to the process is present.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2016
    Assignee: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Nobuo Iwata, Yasuko Yamamoto, Yoko Nozaki
  • Publication number: 20150365543
    Abstract: Provided an information processing apparatus including a first display unit that displays a first menu screen, which includes a menu item for calling a first function of an information processing apparatus, on a display unit, a second display unit that displays a second menu screen, which includes a menu item for calling a second function for using the information processing apparatus for a specific use, on the display unit, and a control unit that controls which of the first menu screen and the second menu screen is preferentially displayed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 4, 2014
    Publication date: December 17, 2015
    Applicant: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD
    Inventor: Nobuo IWATA
  • Publication number: 20150363412
    Abstract: Provided is an information processing apparatus including a reception section that receives a request for a process relative to management of a publication, a code acquisition section that acquires plural codes affixed to the publication, a determination section that determines whether or not a code corresponding to the process is present in the plural acquired codes, and a process execution section that executes the process based on the code when it is determined that the code corresponding to the process is present.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 23, 2014
    Publication date: December 17, 2015
    Applicant: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Nobuo IWATA, Yasuko YAMAMOTO, Yoko NOZAKI
  • Patent number: 9176453
    Abstract: A reduction gear unit incorporatable in an image forming apparatus includes planetary gear mechanisms each including a sun gear, an outer gear, planetary gears arranged between the outer gear and the sun gear at equal intervals and meshing with the sun gear and the outer gear, and a carrier rotatable coaxially with the sun gear and the outer gear to rotatably support the planetary gears. An extreme upstream mechanism in the drive transmission direction includes an input element connected to a drive source. An extreme downstream mechanism includes an output element connected to a member outputting the drive force to a rotary member. Any mechanism other than the extreme downstream mechanism includes an output element connected to an input element of an adjacent mechanism located downstream of any other mechanism. The sun gear of the extreme downstream mechanism has a larger pitch diameter than any other mechanisms.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 11, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 3, 2015
    Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Katsuaki Miyawaki, Hiromichi Matsuda, Tetsuo Watanabe, Nobuo Iwata
  • Publication number: 20150271277
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes: a user determination unit that determines whether or not plural user devices are used by a single user on the basis of information transmitted from the plural user devices; a storage unit that stores information of the plural user devices determined to be used by the single user as a set of user devices; a selection unit that selects a second user device to which a service is to be provided in the case where a first user device that requests the service and the second user device are both included in the same set of user devices; and a transmitting unit that transmits service information to the first and the second user device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 4, 2014
    Publication date: September 24, 2015
    Applicant: FUJI XEROX Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yasutoshi MAEDA, Nobuo IWATA
  • Publication number: 20150091446
    Abstract: The lighting control console includes a display, an operation device and a controller. The display displays a lighting spatial image corresponding to the lighting space, and displays, in the lighting spatial image, virtual instruments corresponding to the respective lighting instruments so that positions of the virtual instruments in the lighting spatial image correspond to respective positions of the lighting instruments in the lighting space. The operation device has a three dimensional detection space associated with the lighting spatial image and/or the lighting space. The operation device detects a position of an operation object in the detection space and specifies a position in the lighting spatial image based on the detected position in the detection space. The controller identifies, when one of the virtual instruments in the lighting spatial image is specified by the operation object through the operation device, a lighting instrument associated with the specified virtual instrument.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 24, 2014
    Publication date: April 2, 2015
    Inventors: Kenji OHTA, Nobuo IWATA
  • Patent number: 8864620
    Abstract: A rotary body driver includes a driving source and a planetary gear transmission to receive a driving force from the driving source. The planetary gear transmission includes a sun gear rotatable by the driving force received from the driving source, a plurality of planet gears meshed with and surrounding the sun gear with an identical interval between the adjacent planet gears, a rotatable carrier to rotatably support the plurality of planet gears, an outer gear encircling and meshed with the plurality of planet gears, and an output shaft combined with and supporting the carrier. A rotary body shaft mounting a rotary body is connected to the output shaft of the planetary gear transmission to transmit the driving force received from the output shaft to the rotary body. The outer gear is made of resin and the output shaft and the carrier are made of metal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 4, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 21, 2014
    Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Yasuhiro Maehata, Katsuaki Miyawaki, Hiromichi Matsuda, Tetsuo Watanabe, Nobuo Iwata, Keisuke Shimizu
  • Patent number: 8585537
    Abstract: A driving device includes a planetary gear deceleration mechanism in a transmission path that transmits driving force from a driving motor to a driven member, in which the deceleration mechanism includes first and second support units into which a housing that constitutes a mechanism main body is divided, the first support unit includes carriers of at least one stage and pinion gears supported thereby, and is provided with an output unit in the carrier of the final stage, the second support unit includes an output shaft that is detachable from the output unit and a supporting unit for the output shaft, and the output shaft is supported in an insertable and removable manner with respect to the output unit of the carriers in the first and the second support units that are joined to each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2013
    Assignee: Ricoh Company, Limited
    Inventors: Katsuaki Miyawaki, Hiromichi Matsuda, Tetsuo Watanabe, Nobuo Iwata
  • Patent number: 8588651
    Abstract: A rotary drive device to drive a rotary body included in an image forming apparatus. The rotary drive device includes a drive source and a planetary gear mechanism to control torque from the drive source. The planetary gear mechanism includes a sun gear rotated by the torque, an annular gear coaxial to the sun gear and having inward-facing teeth, multiple planetary gears provided within the annular gear, and a carrier rotatable coaxially to the sun gear and the annular gear to rotatably support the multiple planetary gears. The annular gear is formed by injecting molten resin into a mold having a cylindrical cavity with teeth shapes along an inner circumference of the cavity from multiple pin gates provided to the mold at equal intervals along a circumference of the cavity. A number of pin gates is a non-integer multiple of a number of planetary gears.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2013
    Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Hiromichi Matsuda, Katsuaki Miyawaki, Tetsuo Watanabe, Nobuo Iwata
  • Patent number: 8523730
    Abstract: A planetary gear unit including a sun gear rotatable by torque from a drive source, an outer gear disposed coaxially with the sun gear, multiple planetary gears disposed within the outer gear at equal intervals along an inner circumference of the outer gear to engage the sun gear and the outer gear, a carrier pin to rotatably support each of the multiple planetary gears, and a carrier rotatable coaxially with the sun gear and the outer gear to support both ends of the carrier pin. At least a first end of the carrier pin is constructed of a circular portion and a linear portion to form a first supported part. The carrier includes a first support part that supports the first supported part and is formed to position the circular portion of the first supported part downstream from the linear portion in a direction of rotation of the carrier.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 23, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2013
    Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Katsuaki Miyawaki, Hiromichi Matsuda, Tetsuo Watanabe, Nobuo Iwata, Keisuke Shimizu, Yasuhiro Maehata
  • Publication number: 20130109529
    Abstract: A rotary body driver includes a driving source and a planetary gear transmission to receive a driving force from the driving source. The planetary gear transmission includes a sun gear rotatable by the driving force received from the driving source, a plurality of planet gears meshed with and surrounding the sun gear with an identical interval between the adjacent planet gears, a rotatable carrier to rotatably support the plurality of planet gears, an outer gear encircling and meshed with the plurality of planet gears, and an output shaft combined with and supporting the carrier. A rotary body shaft mounting a rotary body is connected to the output shaft of the planetary gear transmission to transmit the driving force received from the output shaft to the rotary body. The outer gear is made of resin and the output shaft and the carrier are made of metal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 4, 2012
    Publication date: May 2, 2013
    Inventors: Yasuhiro MAEHATA, Katsuaki Miyawaki, Hiromichi Matsuda, Tetsuo Watanabe, Nobuo Iwata, Keisuke Shimizu
  • Patent number: 8365077
    Abstract: An information processor includes an information processing unit that executes an information process by reference to a setting, a setting unit that executes a provisional selection to select one or more selection items among multiple selection items and a definitive selection for deciding the provisional selection by reference to an operation by a user and determines a setting of the information process by reference to a result of the definitive selection, a determination unit that determines a selection item to be explained by reference to one or more selection item provisionally selected by the setting unit, and an explanation outputting unit that outputs an explanation for the user for the selection item to be explained which is determined by the determination unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 2008
    Date of Patent: January 29, 2013
    Assignee: Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Masayoshi Sakakibara, Nobuo Iwata