Patents by Inventor Satoru Yanagi

Satoru Yanagi 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: 20250070986
    Abstract: A communication system may include a function executing device, a terminal device and a server. The server may, in a case where a first login request is received from the function executing device and a second login request is received from the terminal device, send operation acceptance screen data to the terminal device. The terminal device may display an operation acceptance screen on a display unit and, in a case where the function executing operation is accepted on the operation acceptance screen, send operation information to the server. The server may, in a case where the operation information is received from the terminal device, send the function executing device a function executing instruction. The function executing device may, in a case where the function executing instruction is received from the server, cause a function executing engine of the function executing device to execute the specific function.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 20, 2024
    Publication date: February 27, 2025
    Inventor: Satoru YANAGI
  • Publication number: 20250039310
    Abstract: Provided is an image processing system including an image processing device and a computer. The image processing device and the computer are connected to a network. The computer has capability of performing data communication using a first communication or a second communication different from the first communication. The image processing device is configured to perform data communication in accordance with at least the first communication. The computer includes a controller configured to retrieve capability information stored in a capability information repository of the image processing device and determine whether the capability information includes second communication implementation information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 25, 2024
    Publication date: January 30, 2025
    Inventors: Taiga MIZUMORI, Daisuke MATSUMOTO, Thanh NGUYENVAN, Toshikazu HORI, Toshiki MOTOYAMA, Satoshi MATSUSHITA, Hiroya NOJIRI, Satoru YANAGI, Tomomi SHIRAKI, Akihito UNO
  • Publication number: 20240364831
    Abstract: A function executing device may be configured to receive a related instruction related to execution of a scan from an external device, and in a case where the related instruction is received from the external device via a first communication path for executing an encrypted communication, send an authentication information request to the external device. In a case where the related instruction is received from the external device via a second communication path for executing an unencrypted communication, the function executing device may be configured not to send the authentication information request to the external device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 9, 2024
    Publication date: October 31, 2024
    Inventors: Masahiro HAYASHI, Toshikazu HORI, Toshiki MOTOYAMA, Thanh NGUYENVAN, Satoru YANAGI, Akihito UNO, Tomomi SHIRAKI, Satoshi MATSUSHITA, Hiroya NOJIRI, Daisuke MATSUMOTO, Taiga MIZUMORI
  • Publication number: 20240361963
    Abstract: A reading system includes a terminal device including a first controller and a storage, and a reading device including a second controller, the reading device being connected to the terminal device and configured to read an object to be read. The storage is configured to store a first program, a second program, and a third program, the first program being an application program corresponding to the reading device, the second program being a general-purpose driver application called from the first program, the third program being a predetermined application program different from the first program and the second program. The second program includes a first mode in which a user interface of the second program is used, and a second mode in which an other user interface that is not the user interface of the second program is used.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 26, 2024
    Publication date: October 31, 2024
    Applicant: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Hiroya NOJIRI, Satoshi MATSUSHITA, Satoru YANAGI, Tomomi SHIRAKI, Akihito UNO, Takashi OHMIYA, Daisuke MATSUMOTO, Katsunori ENOMOTO, Thanh NGUYENVAN, Toshiki MOTOYAMA, Toshikazu HORI
  • Publication number: 20240364835
    Abstract: There is provided a reading apparatus including: a user interface; a communication interface; a scanner; and a controller configured to execute a first scan in response to an instruction to execute the first scan based on an operation to the user interface, and a second scan based on an instruction to execute the second scan from an external apparatus connected to the reading apparatus via the communication interface. The controller is configured to: execute the first scan without requiring authentication in a case where the controller receives, via the user interface, the instruction to execute the first scan; and perform the authentication in a case where the controller receives, via the communication interface, the instruction to execute the second scan, and then execute the second scan in a case where the authentication succeeds and not execute the second scan in a case where the authentication fails.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 25, 2024
    Publication date: October 31, 2024
    Inventors: DAISUKE MATSUMOTO, TAIGA MIZUMORI, TOSHIKAZU HORI, THANH NGUYENVAN, TOSHIKI MOTOYAMA, SATOSHI MATSUSHITA, HIROYA NOJIRI, SATORU YANAGI, TOMOMI SHIRAKI, AKIHITO UNO
  • Publication number: 20240364833
    Abstract: A reading apparatus includes a user interface, a scanner, and a controller configured to perform a push scan that causes the scanner to read a document according to an execution instruction corresponding to an operation on the user interface, and a pull scan that causes the scanner to read the document according to an execution instruction from an external device. The controller is configured to set a restriction setting value relating to a restriction on the push scan, and in a case where the controller receives an execution instruction of the push scan via the user interface, restrict the push scan according to the restriction setting value. In a case where the controller receives an execution instruction of the pull scan, the controller is configured to specify whether authentication is necessary with respect to the execution instruction of the push scan, based on the restriction setting value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 23, 2024
    Publication date: October 31, 2024
    Inventors: Toshikazu HORI, Satoshi MATSUSHITA, Hiroya NOJIRI, Satoru YANAGI, Tomomi SHIRAKI, Akihito UNO, Taiga MIZUMORI, Daisuke MATSUMOTO, Toshiki MOTOYAMA, Thanh NGUYENVAN
  • Patent number: 11989466
    Abstract: A device includes a communication interface and a controller. The controller is configured to obtain connection information for connecting the device with a target server from an external device via the communication interface, connect the device with the target server using the obtained connection information, and in response to failing in an attempt to obtain the connection information, provide an error notification varying depending on at what timing the attempt to obtain the connection information has been made. The controller provides a first error notification when the attempt to obtain the connection information has been made at a first timing. The controller provides a second error notification different from the first error notification when the attempt to obtain the connection information has been made at a second timing different from the first timing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2023
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2024
    Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Satoru Yanagi
  • Patent number: 11972270
    Abstract: A communication device may include: a memory configured to store management information in which, for each of a plurality of OIDs of a MIB, the OID and a setting value are associated with each other; and a controller, wherein the controller may be configured to: receive a setting command which conforms to TCP; write the setting value included in the setting command to the management information in association with the OID included in the setting command; and send a response command which conforms to the TCP. In a case where the setting command including a first OID and a first setting value is received, the controller may be configured to: write the first setting value to the management information in association with the first OID after the response command has been sent, and send the response command before the first setting value is written to the management information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Koki Izumi, Satoshi Matsushita, Satoru Yanagi, Munehisa Matsuda, Kiyotaka Ohara, Katsunori Enomoto, Yuki Yada, Kyohei Mori, Hideki Nogawa, Tetsuya Okuno
  • Patent number: 11956227
    Abstract: A communication device may obtain email information inputted by a user, the email information including an email address and server information for using a mail server. The communication device may send a first email by using the server information included in the email information. The communication device may register a first password and the email information in a memory in a case where a registration request is received from a terminal device which has received the first email. The communication device may send a second email by using the server information in the memory in a case where a first change instruction is obtained after the first password and the email information have been registered. The communication device may change the first password in the memory to a second password in a case where a change request is received from the terminal device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Satoru Yanagi
  • Patent number: 11907358
    Abstract: A communication device may receive from a server authentication information, and may register the authentication information in a memory. The communication device may send first location information in the communication device to the server. The communication device may register a first password in the memory in a case where the authentication information is received from the server and a registration request is received from the terminal device. The communication device may send the authentication information and second location information in the communication device to the server in a case where a first change instruction is obtained after the authentication information and the first password have been registered in the memory. The communication device may change the first password in the memory to a second password in a case where a change request is received from the terminal device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Satoru Yanagi
  • Publication number: 20240037261
    Abstract: A communication device may include: a database storing, for each of a plurality of OIDs of MIB, a value in association with the OID; and a controller configured to execute access to a value in the database according to an access request, wherein in a case where the access request includes a first OID and the user of a terminal device is not authenticated as a specific user, the controller executes access to the first value, and in a case where the access request includes a second OID and the user of the terminal device is not authenticated as the specific user, the access to the second value is not executed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 20, 2023
    Publication date: February 1, 2024
    Inventors: Munehisa MATSUDA, Koki IZUMI, Satoshi MATSUSHITA, Satoru YANAGI, Kiyotaka OHARA, Katsunori ENOMOTO, Yuki YADA, Kyohei MORI, Hideki NOGAWA, Tetsuya OKUNO
  • Publication number: 20240036885
    Abstract: A communication device may include: a memory configured to store management information in which, for each of a plurality of OIDs of a MIB, the OID and a setting value are associated with each other; and a controller, wherein the controller may be configured to: receive a setting command which conforms to TCP; write the setting value included in the setting command to the management information in association with the OID included in the setting command; and send a response command which conforms to the TCP. In a case where the setting command including a first OID and a first setting value is received, the controller may be configured to: write the first setting value to the management information in association with the first OID after the response command has been sent, and send the response command before the first setting value is written to the management information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 27, 2023
    Publication date: February 1, 2024
    Inventors: Koki IZUMI, Satoshi MATSUSHITA, Satoru YANAGI, Munehisa MATSUDA, Kiyotaka OHARA, Katsunori ENOMOTO, Yuki YADA, Kyohei MORI, Hideki NOGAWA, Tetsuya OKUNO
  • Publication number: 20240037075
    Abstract: A first communication device may include: a database configured to, for each of a plurality of OIDs of MIB, store the OM in association with a setting value; and a controller, wherein the controller is configured to: receive a writing request from a second communication device by using a second communication scheme different from a first communication scheme including SNMP, the writing request including an OM and a setting value, and the second communication scheme including at least one of encryption of communication data and authentication of a sender of the writing request; and in a case where the writing request is received from the second communication device, write the setting value included in the writing request in the database in association with the OM included in the writing request.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 27, 2023
    Publication date: February 1, 2024
    Inventors: Satoru YANAGI, Satoshi MATSUSHITA, Munehisa MATSUDA, Kiyotaka OHARA, Katsunori ENOMOTO, Yuki YADA, Kyohei MORI, Hideki NOGAWA, Tetsuya OKUNO, Koki IZUMI
  • Publication number: 20240015138
    Abstract: A communication device may include a memory configured to store a first application program corresponding to a first communication port and not to store a second application program corresponding to a second communication port, and a controller. The controller may be configured to: in a case where a first request signal for the first communication port is received in a state where the first communication port is enabled, execute a process according to the first request signal by the first application program; and in a case where a second request signal for the second communication port is received in a state where the second communication port is enabled, execute a security process related to security of the communication device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 6, 2023
    Publication date: January 11, 2024
    Inventor: Satoru YANAGI
  • Publication number: 20230399778
    Abstract: A heat insulating, heat storing, and heat generating material includes first fibers having a function of generating heat through moisture absorption, second fibers having a diameter smaller than a diameter of the first fibers, and a binding material binding together the first fibers, binding together the second fibers, and binding together the first fibers and the second fibers. The binding material contains a thermoplastic resin.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 8, 2023
    Publication date: December 14, 2023
    Inventors: Satomi YOSHIOKA, Satoru YANAGI, Kazuhiro ICHIKAWA, Satoru HOSONO, Jiro KATO, Tatsushi KATO, Shunichi SEKI
  • Publication number: 20230325130
    Abstract: A device includes a communication interface and a controller. The controller is configured to obtain connection information for connecting the device with a target server from an external device via the communication interface, connect the device with the target server using the obtained connection information, and in response to failing in an attempt to obtain the connection information, provide an error notification varying depending on at what timing the attempt to obtain the connection information has been made. The controller provides a first error notification when the attempt to obtain the connection information has been made at a first timing. The controller provides a second error notification different from the first error notification when the attempt to obtain the connection information has been made at a second timing different from the first timing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 28, 2023
    Publication date: October 12, 2023
    Applicant: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Satoru YANAGI
  • Publication number: 20230122259
    Abstract: An advertisement print method includes an advertisement information obtaining step of obtaining, by an advertisement processing apparatus, advertisement information input by an input apparatus, a transaction data selection step of selecting, by the advertisement processing apparatus, N transaction data associated with the advertisement information from a plurality of transaction data stored in an e-commerce database based on the advertisement information and orderer information and receiver information stored in the e-commerce database, N being an integer not less than 1, and a print step of printing, by a print apparatus, an advertisement based on the advertisement information on packing materials of N products specified by the N selected transaction data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 17, 2022
    Publication date: April 20, 2023
    Inventors: Tetsuji FUJITA, Hisashi KOIKE, Satoru YANAGI, Tokuro MIYANISHI, Jun TAKIZAWA, Tomoaki NAKAMURA, Akio ITO, Toshiaki MIKOSHIBA
  • Publication number: 20230098764
    Abstract: A packaging machine includes a first supplying unit, a second supplying unit, a placing mechanism, a moving mechanism, a guide member, and a joining mechanism. The first supplying unit supplies a first packaging material. The second supplying unit supplies a second packaging material. The placing mechanism places an object to be packaged on the first packaging material supplied by the first supplying unit. The moving mechanism moves the first packaging material, with the object to be packaged placed on the first packaging material, in a direction along a first axis. The guide member guides the second packaging material onto the object to be packaged. The joining mechanism joins the first packaging material and the second packaging material together. The object to be packaged is packaged using the first packaging material and the second packaging material.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 28, 2022
    Publication date: March 30, 2023
    Inventors: Hisashi KOIKE, Satoru YANAGI, Shigeo FUJITA, Tetsuji FUJITA
  • Publication number: 20220311736
    Abstract: In the operation state of the communication apparatus being the power-saving state, the communication apparatus receives a request signal from an external device, switches the operation state of the communication apparatus from the power-saving state to the normal state in response to the request signal including the source IP address being a global IP address, and performs a predetermined process in response to the operation state of the communication apparatus being switched from the power-saving state to the normal state. The predetermined process is not performed in the operation state of the communication apparatus being the power-saving state. In response to the request signal including the source IP address not being a global IP address, the communication apparatus transmits a first response signal to the request signal to the external device without switching the operation state of the communication apparatus from the power-saving state to the normal state.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 22, 2022
    Publication date: September 29, 2022
    Inventors: Satoru YANAGI, Akihiro FURUKAWA
  • Publication number: 20220171843
    Abstract: A communication device may receive from a server authentication information, and may register the authentication information in a memory. The communication device may send first location information in the communication device to the server. The communication device may register a first password in the memory in a case where the authentication information is received from the server and a registration request is received from the terminal device. The communication device may send the authentication information and second location information in the communication device to the server in a case where a first change instruction is obtained after the authentication information and the first password have been registered in the memory. The communication device may change the first password in the memory to a second password in a case where a change request is received from the terminal device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 2, 2021
    Publication date: June 2, 2022
    Inventor: Satoru YANAGI