Patents by Inventor Ryuichi Masuda

Ryuichi Masuda 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: 7694218
    Abstract: A plurality of kinds of electronic source documents are held, and an electronic binder builder selects a desired electronic source document page from electronic source document pages of the plurality of kinds of held electronic source documents. Based on the selected electronic source document page, an integrated electronic document is composed, and page relation between pages in the electronic source document having electronic source document pages constituting the integrated electronic document and pages in a converted integrated electronic document of electronic source document pages constituting the converted integrated electronic document with the integrated electronic document converted into a predetermined file format is managed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2001
    Date of Patent: April 6, 2010
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Ryuichi Masuda, Takafumi Mizuno
  • Publication number: 20080134024
    Abstract: A plurality of kinds of electronic source documents are held, and an electronic binder builder selects a desired electronic source document page from electronic source document pages of the plurality of kinds of held electronic source documents. Based on the selected electronic source document page, an integrated electronic document is composed, and page relation between pages in the electronic source document having electronic source document pages constituting the integrated electronic document and pages in a converted integrated electronic document of electronic source document pages constituting the converted integrated electronic document with the integrated electronic document converted into a predetermined file format is managed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 17, 2007
    Publication date: June 5, 2008
    Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Ryuichi Masuda, Takafumi Mizuno
  • Patent number: 6862603
    Abstract: A file management system, a file management method, and a storage medium by which a higher productivity is achieved by efficient document indexing. In copying index data, a copy is created from text data of an application such as a text editor or a spread sheet or from index data displayed on a document list of a document management system. A range for pasting index data is selected by a pointing device or keyboard operation. The selected range includes a record as a search result, a record in which a new document is recorded, and a pre-index record. If a user gives an instruction on pasting index data, the obtained index data is checked to be recordable data for a field of the selected cell. If it is recordable data, index data record processing is performed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 1, 1999
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2005
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Satoru Nakajima, Kamon Hasuo, Masashi Yahara, Ryuichi Masuda, Tsutomu Murayama
  • Patent number: 6594650
    Abstract: A document management system having enhanced operability so that a plurality of documents can be processed at a time by integrating a search operation, an image recording operation, and an index input operation. In the document management system of the present invention, input search conditions are transmitted to a search portion, which finds out a document satisfying the search conditions from a document data base via an index data recording management portion and outputs the result to a document list control portion. The document list control portion prepares a document list from the result and displays it in a document list display portion. For a new record processing, image data on a manuscript read by a scanner is output to an image control portion. The image control portion records the image data into an image recording portion and reports new document creating information to the document list control portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 1999
    Date of Patent: July 15, 2003
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Kamon Hasuo, Masashi Yahara, Ryuichi Masuda, Tsutomu Murayama, Satoru Nakajima
  • Publication number: 20030105776
    Abstract: A document management system having enhanced operability so that a plurality of documents can be processed at a time by integrating a search operation, an image recording operation, and an index input operation. In the document management system of the present invention, input search conditions are transmitted to a search portion, which finds out a document satisfying the search conditions from a document data base via an index data recording management portion and outputs the result to a document list control portion. The document list control portion prepares a document list from the result and displays it in a document list display portion. For a new record processing, image data on a manuscript read by a scanner is output to an image control portion. The image control portion records the image data into an image recording portion and reports new document creating information to the document list control portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 27, 1999
    Publication date: June 5, 2003
    Inventors: KAMON HASUO, MASASHI YAHARA, RYUICHI MASUDA, TSUTOMU MURAYAMA, SATORU NAKAJIMA
  • Publication number: 20020087602
    Abstract: A plurality of kinds of electronic source documents are held, and an electronic binder builder selects a desired electronic source document page from electronic source document pages of the plurality of kinds of held electronic source documents. Based on the selected electronic source document page, an integrated electronic document is composed, and page relation between pages in the electronic source document having electronic source document pages constituting the integrated electronic document and pages in a converted integrated electronic document of electronic source document pages constituting the converted integrated electronic document with the integrated electronic document converted into a predetermined file format is managed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 10, 2001
    Publication date: July 4, 2002
    Inventors: Ryuichi Masuda, Takafumi Mizuno
  • Patent number: 6185404
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus (or method) includes a reception unit (or step) for receiving digital color image data through an interface from an external apparatus, and a discrimination unit (or step) for discriminating, from the received digital color image data, whether an image represented by the digital color image data is a specific image. A control unit (or step) controls printing using the color image data in accordance with a discriminated result by the discrimination unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 1998
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2001
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Kamon Hasuo, Ryuichi Masuda, Yuichi Sato, Ken-Ichi Outa
  • Patent number: 5881214
    Abstract: There is disclosed an image searching apparatus capable of searching an image stored in a memory medium, corresponding to a search image, selected from the plural search images registered in advance. The apparatus can generate a synthesized image, including the registered search images, together with marking areas, to be marked by the operator for selecting the search image, and prints the synthesized as a marking sheet which is to be marked by the operator and then read by the apparatus again, whereby the apparatus effects the image search, based on the marking provided on the marking sheet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 1993
    Date of Patent: March 9, 1999
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Akira Morisawa, Kamon Hasuo, Kazuo Ohtani, Ryuichi Masuda, Hirokazu Higuchi, Takeshi Nakamura
  • Patent number: 5765089
    Abstract: A discrimination device and method that generates a control signal used for controlling a color image processing apparatus that processes color image data in a first color space and generates color image data in a second color space different from the first space. The color image data in the first color space is input and then a discrimination is performed to determine whether an image represented by the input color image data includes a specific image. A control signal is generated based on the discrimination result.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 1996
    Date of Patent: June 9, 1998
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Kamon Hasuo, Ryuichi Masuda, Yuichi Sato, Ken-Ichi Outa
  • Patent number: 5583614
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus and method includes a scanner for scanning an original and generating electrical image data representing an image of the original to be processed, a processor for processing the electrical image data supplied by the scanner, and a device for determining whether the original represented by the electrical image data contains a specified image based on the electrical image data supplied by the scanner. The scanner scans the original a plurality of times and the device performs its determination operation on the same original a plurality of times, once for each scanning operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 19, 1995
    Date of Patent: December 10, 1996
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Kamon Hasuo, Ryuichi Masuda, Yuichi Sato, Ken-Ichi Outa
  • Patent number: 5434649
    Abstract: A device that controls a color image processing apparatus receives color component signals representing an original, and extracts a pattern having a predetermined color from the original on the basis of the color component signals. The device determines whether the pattern includes a predetermined image registered in advance, and generates a control signal for controlling an image processing of the original on the basis of the determination result.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 14, 1994
    Date of Patent: July 18, 1995
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Kamon Hasuo, Ryuichi Masuda, Yuichi Sato, Ken-ichi Outa
  • Patent number: 5383514
    Abstract: A vacuum casting apparatus includes a molten metal passage for delivering molten metal into a sprue of a casting die encapsulated in a enclosure, a cylindrical stoke for communicating the molten metal passage with a reservoir tank, a stoke connecting member for biasing the stoke to a member on which the molten metal passage is formed, an auxiliary flange positioned around the stoke connecting member and contacting a surface of said enclosure, and a flexible plate member for air tightly closing a space between the stoke connecting member and the auxiliary flange.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 1993
    Date of Patent: January 24, 1995
    Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Masahiro Taguchi, Yoshiro Hayashi, Ryuichi Masuda, Yoshio Ekino
  • Patent number: 5323514
    Abstract: A cord stopper is used for releasably fastening a cord thereto. The cord stopper has a housing having a longitudinal cavity extending longitudinally therein and a pair of through apertures formed transversely through the peripheral wall at opposed positions. An insert member is fitted in the cavity so as to be reciprocally movable along the cavity and having a through hole transversely therethrough. A biasing member is provided for normally urging the insert member outward of the cavity so that when the insert member is thrust into the cavity against the bias of the biasing member, the through hole comes substantially into alignment with the through apertures for insertion of the cord therethrough. The cord stopper further includes means for temporally locking the insert member to the housing with the through hole of the insert member substantially aligned with the through apertures of the housing for facilitating a cord-threading operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 5, 1993
    Date of Patent: June 28, 1994
    Assignee: Yoshida Kogyo K. K.
    Inventors: Ryuichi Masuda, Hideki Shimizu
  • Patent number: 5321470
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus for processing an input image and recording the image on a recording medium, and particularly a color copying apparatus which permits color copying of an original, and makes it possible to discriminate a specific original for the sake of prevention of forgery of a banknote, a negotiable instrument, or the like. The specific original is provided with copying processing which is different from that provided for an ordinary original.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 1993
    Date of Patent: June 14, 1994
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Kamon Hasuo, Ryuichi Masuda, Yuichi Sato, Ken-Ichi Outa
  • Patent number: 5280545
    Abstract: An image information processing apparatus having an input unit for inputting image information, a synthesizing unit for synthesizing the image information for a plurality of frames inputted from the input unit, and a coding unit for coding the image information synthesized by the synthesizing unit. In particular, the apparatus can synthesize information from the front and the back surfaces of a two-sided original.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 26, 1991
    Date of Patent: January 18, 1994
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Ryuichi Masuda