Patents by Inventor Shigeru Nakamura

Shigeru Nakamura 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: 20210286773
    Abstract: A communication management apparatus includes a memory and circuitry. The memory stores a hierarchical data structure in which each page of a plurality of pages forming a display screen shared by a plurality of communication terminals is associated with one or more objects included in the each page. The circuitry receives, from one communication terminal of the plurality of communication terminals, an operation request that requests an operation on a particular object of the one or more objects. When editing of the particular object and editing of data in a lower layer associated with a higher layer of the particular object are both allowed, the circuitry transmits a success notification to the one communication terminal to notify success of the operation on the particular object.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 8, 2021
    Publication date: September 16, 2021
    Inventors: Takeshi HOMMA, Hiroshi HINOHARA, Shigeru NAKAMURA, Yuichi KAWASAKI, Masashi OGASAWARA, Atsushi MIYAMOTO
  • Patent number: 11119378
    Abstract: A dimming laminate (10) includes: a dimming substrate (18) in which a dimming function material (16) is provided between two first transparent substrates (12) and (14); and a second transparent substrate (22) that is bonded to one first transparent substrate (12) through an adhesive layer (20). Each of the first transparent substrates (12) and (14) has a different average thermal expansion coefficient at 50-350° C. from that of the second transparent substrate (22). In the dimming laminate (10), a third transparent substrate (26) is bonded to the other first transparent substrate (14) through an adhesive layer (24), and an average thermal expansion coefficient at 50-350° C. is equal between the third transparent substrate (26) and the second transparent substrate (22).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 14, 2021
    Assignees: AGC INC., AGC GLASS EUROPE, AGC FLAT GLASS NORTH AMERICA, INC., AGC VIDROS DO BRASIL LTDA.
    Inventors: Shigeru Nakamura, Tetsuya Hiramatsu
  • Publication number: 20210274019
    Abstract: A communication terminal shares data with another communication terminal. The communication terminal includes circuitry. The circuitry receives, from a communication management apparatus that manages the data shared with the another communication terminal, storage location information representing a storage location of background image data transmitted from the another communication terminal, and transmits a download request to an image storing apparatus corresponding to the storage location to request download of the background image data. The circuitry further starts downloading the background image data from the image storing apparatus and receives, from the communication management apparatus, stroke data of a stroke image rendered on the another communication terminal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 5, 2021
    Publication date: September 2, 2021
    Inventors: Hideki SHIRO, Shigeru NAKAMURA, Yuichi KAWASAKI, Hiroshi HINOHARA, Takeshi HOMMA
  • Patent number: 11061641
    Abstract: A screen sharing system is configured to perform screen sharing between a first information processing apparatus and a second information processing apparatus. The first information processing apparatus is configured to acquire, as screen-sharing information, an image displayed on the first information processing apparatus, and transmit the screen-sharing information to a first server, when a data amount of the screen-sharing information is below a threshold value, and transmit the screen-sharing information to a second server and transmit, to the first server, storage destination information indicating a storage destination of the screen-sharing information, when the data is greater than or equal to the threshold value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 13, 2021
    Assignee: RICOH COMPANY, LTD.
    Inventors: Yuichi Kawasaki, Shigeru Nakamura, Masashi Ogasawara, Atsushi Miyamoto, Hiroshi Hinohara, Takeshi Homma
  • Publication number: 20210194218
    Abstract: It is necessary to reduce the power consumption of a plurality of optical amplifiers when there is a difference in the required pumping power between the plurality of optical amplifiers; therefore, an optical amplifying apparatus according to an exemplary aspect of the invention includes a plurality of optical amplifying means for amplifying a plurality of optical signals, each of the plurality of optical amplifying means including a gain medium; a plurality of laser light generating means for generating a plurality of laser beams; at least one optical coupling means for coupling the plurality of laser beams variably in accordance with a coupling factor and outputting a plurality of excitation light beams, each of the plurality of excitation light beams exciting the gain medium; and controlling means for controlling the coupling factor and an output power of each of the plurality of laser light generating means.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 20, 2017
    Publication date: June 24, 2021
    Applicant: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Emmanuel LE TAILLANDIER DE GABORY, Shigeyuki YANAGIMACHI, Shigeru NAKAMURA, Keiichi MATSUMOTO
  • Patent number: 11033566
    Abstract: This invention provides a prophylactic and therapeutic agent for dry eye, having new ingredients to reduce the deterioration of the lacrimal secretory ability and to inhibit the generation of radical oxygen in lacrimal gland tissue. The prophylactic and therapeutic agent for dry eye of this invention contains the maqui berry extract as the active substance of this invention, i.e. containing delphinidin glycoside extracted from the maqui berry and at least one or more of the active substances delphinidin-3-sambubioside-5-glucoside, delphinidin-3,5-diglucoside, delphinidin-3-sambubioside and delphinidin-3-glucoside, preferably delphinidin-3,5-diglucoside.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 5, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 15, 2021
    Assignees: ORYZA OIL & FAT CHEMICAL CO., LTD., KEIO UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Kazuo Tsubota, Shigeru Nakamura, Toshihiro Imada, Junji Tanaka, Takashi Kadekaru, Hiroshi Shimoda, Hiromichi Murai
  • Publication number: 20210126955
    Abstract: A communication terminal includes an interface and circuitry. The interface communicates with a counterpart communication terminal to share data with the counterpart communication terminal that is input with first image data. The circuitry causes a display to display an image associated with second image data. The second image data is compressed data of the first image data. The circuitry further transmits, to a server, a capture image acquisition request that is a request for a capture image corresponding to the image associated with the second image data and displayed on the display. The server manages shared data to be shared with the counterpart communication terminal. The circuitry further receives, from the server, capture image data of an image associated with the first image data. The capture image data is acquired by the counterpart communication terminal in response to the capture image acquisition request.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 13, 2020
    Publication date: April 29, 2021
    Inventors: Kota NAGAOKA, Hiroshi HINOHARA, Takeshi HOMMA, Shigeru NAKAMURA, Yuichi KAWASAKI, Masashi OGASAWARA, Tatsuroh SUGIOKA
  • Publication number: 20210092170
    Abstract: A communication terminal comprising circuitry to: receive selection of screen data, from among one or more items of screen data, as sharing target data to be shared with other communication terminal, each screen data to be used for generating a display screen and having been generated at the communication terminal; and share the sharing target data with the other communication terminal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 24, 2020
    Publication date: March 25, 2021
    Inventors: Kazunobu TAKAHASHI, Hiroshi HINOHARA, Takeshi HOMMA, Atsushi MIYAMOTO, Shigeru NAKAMURA, Yuichi KAWASAKI, Masashi OGASAWARA
  • Publication number: 20210058521
    Abstract: A communication management system, a communication system, a communication control method, and a recording medium.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 6, 2020
    Publication date: February 25, 2021
    Applicant: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Takeshi HOMMA, Shigeru NAKAMURA, Yuichi KAWASAKI, Hiroshi HINOHARA, Kenichiro MORITA, Atsushi MIYAMOTO
  • Publication number: 20210055904
    Abstract: A communication terminal includes circuitry to: transmit a participation request for requesting participation in a remote conference being conducted between one or more other communication terminals, to a communication management apparatus that manages data being shared between the other communication terminals; receive screen data of a display screen being currently displayed at the other communication terminals from the communication management apparatus, the screen data of the display screen being one of a plurality of items of screen data generated at at least one of the other communication terminals in the remote conference; and control a display to display the display screen based on the screen data that is received.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 11, 2020
    Publication date: February 25, 2021
    Inventors: Hiroshi HINOHARA, Shigeru NAKAMURA, Yuichi KAWASAKI, Masashi OGASAWARA, Takeshi HOMMA, Atsushi MIYAMOTO
  • Publication number: 20210026509
    Abstract: A communication terminal includes circuitry that receives, from a communication management apparatus, an operation restriction notification for restricting an operation on a display image to be displayed on a display. The communication management apparatus controls communication between the communication terminal and another communication terminal that shares data of the display image with the communication terminal. In response to receipt of the operation during an operation restriction period in which the operation on the display image is restricted, the circuity controls the display to display a plurality of options as to whether to reflect the received operation in the display image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 2, 2020
    Publication date: January 28, 2021
    Inventors: Takeshi HOMMA, Shigeru NAKAMURA, Yuichi KAWASAKI, Hiroshi HINOHARA, Atsushi MIYAMOTO, Kenichiro MORITA, Masashi OGASAWARA
  • Publication number: 20210018312
    Abstract: An optical coherence tomographic imager for contributing reduction of the number of man-hours for evaluation to obtain a wavelength sweeping operation of continuous, linear, and monotonic change while utilizing a wavelength-tunable laser having a structure that is less susceptible to mechanical disturbance. The optical coherence tomographic imager includes a wavelength-tunable light source, a branching means, an irradiation means, a photoelectric conversion measuring means, and a processor. The wavelength-tunable light source outputs light whose wavelength is determined by a plurality of light source drive parameters. The branching means branches output light of the wavelength-tunable light source into object light and reference light. The irradiation means irradiates an object to be measured with the object light.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 28, 2019
    Publication date: January 21, 2021
    Applicant: NEC Corporation
    Inventor: Shigeru NAKAMURA
  • Patent number: 10868923
    Abstract: A communication management system, a communication system, a communication control method, and a recording medium.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2020
    Assignee: RICOH COMPANY, LTD.
    Inventors: Takeshi Homma, Shigeru Nakamura, Yuichi Kawasaki, Hiroshi Hinohara, Kenichiro Morita, Atsushi Miyamoto
  • Publication number: 20200341631
    Abstract: For the purpose of improving the usability of an electronic whiteboard in, for example, setting work by a user, an electronic whiteboard (2) of the present invention includes: an event acquisition unit (22, 24) configured to acquire information indicating an object coming into contact with a display (3, 115) and event information such as the coordinates of a contact location; an identifying unit (25, 38) configured to identify whether the contact object is an electronic pen (4) or a user's hand, and identify the event type, such as stroke drawing, UI operation, or gesture operation, from the coordinates of a contact location and the model name of an electronic whiteboard; and a processing unit (26, 27, 32) configured to perform processing on the event the type of which has been identified.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 9, 2020
    Publication date: October 29, 2020
    Applicant: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Shigeru NAKAMURA, Yuichi KAWASAKI
  • Publication number: 20200309692
    Abstract: An optical beam controller includes: an optical multiple-beam generator generating a plurality of wavelength-swept optical beams; and an optical frequency difference setter setting an optical frequency difference in any combination of the plurality of optical beams in such a way as to be larger than a band of a photodetector that receives an optical beam.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 18, 2018
    Publication date: October 1, 2020
    Applicant: NEC Corporation
    Inventor: Shigeru NAKAMURA
  • Publication number: 20200296146
    Abstract: A communication management system manages a session in which a plurality of terminal apparatuses shares a stroke image. The communication management system includes circuitry configured to: manage stroke information including a plurality of pieces of stroke data representing the stroke image; receive, from a first terminal apparatus, group operation information for designating one or more pieces of stroke data, which are operation targets, from among the plurality of pieces of stroke data; and restrict, based on the group operation information, an operation regarding the one or more pieces of stroke data by a second terminal apparatus, which is different from the first terminal apparatus.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 12, 2020
    Publication date: September 17, 2020
    Inventors: Hiroshi HINOHARA, Shigeru NAKAMURA, Takeshi HOMMA, Yuichi KAWASAKI, Masashi OGASAWARA, Atsushi MIYAMOTO, Hideki SHIRO, Kenichiro MORITA
  • Publication number: 20200296145
    Abstract: A communication terminal includes circuitry configured to: start a download of a plurality of stroke data items corresponding to a plurality of stroke images drawn at another communication terminal from a communication management system; receive capture image data obtained by capturing a display screen displayed at the another communication terminal by the another communication terminal, from an image storage device that stores the capture image data; when the download of the plurality of stroke data items is not completed, control a display of the communication terminal to display a capture image corresponding to the received capture image data; and when the download of the plurality of stroke data items is completed, control the display to switch an image to be displayed on the display from the capture image currently being displayed to the plurality of stroke images corresponding to the downloaded plurality of stroke data items.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 4, 2020
    Publication date: September 17, 2020
    Inventors: Takeshi HORIUCHI, Shigeru NAKAMURA, Yuichi KAWASAKI, Masashi OGASAWARA, Hiroshi HINOHARA, Takeshi HOMMA, Atsushi MIYAMOTO, Takafumi TAKEDA
  • Publication number: 20200278823
    Abstract: A screen sharing system is configured to perform screen sharing between a first information processing apparatus and a second information processing apparatus. The first information processing apparatus is configured to acquire, as screen-sharing information, an image displayed on the first information processing apparatus, and transmit the screen-sharing information to a first server, when a data amount of the screen-sharing information is below a threshold value, and transmit the screen-sharing information to a second server and transmit, to the first server, storage destination information indicating a storage destination of the screen-sharing information, when the data is greater than or equal to the threshold value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 27, 2020
    Publication date: September 3, 2020
    Inventors: Yuichi KAWASAKI, Shigeru NAKAMURA, Masashi OGASAWARA, Atsushi MIYAMOTO, Hiroshi HINOHARA, Takeshi HOMMA
  • Patent number: 10761718
    Abstract: For the purpose of improving the usability of an electronic whiteboard in, for example, setting work by a user, an electronic whiteboard (2) of the present invention includes: an event acquisition unit (22, 24) configured to acquire information indicating an object coming into contact with a display (3, 115) and event information such as the coordinates of a contact location; an identifying unit (25, 38) configured to identify whether the contact object is an electronic pen (4) or a user's hand, and identify the event type, such as stroke drawing, UI operation, or gesture operation, from the coordinates of a contact location and the model name of an electronic whiteboard; and a processing unit (26, 27, 32) configured to perform processing on the event the type of which has been identified.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 2, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 1, 2020
    Assignee: RICOH COMPANY, LTD.
    Inventors: Shigeru Nakamura, Yuichi Kawasaki
  • Patent number: 10725653
    Abstract: An image processing device, an image processing system, and a method of processing an image. The image processing device and the method includes displaying a first screen and a second screen using an image processing device connected to an image display apparatus, controlling a display to display one of the first screen and the second screen on the image display apparatus, acquiring from the image display apparatus discrimination data including at least data for distinguishing between the first screen and the second screen, and determining a partition between the first screen and the second screen based on the discrimination data. The image processing system includes an image display apparatus and at least one information processing device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 3, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 28, 2020
    Assignee: RICOH COMPANY, LTD.
    Inventors: Tatsuyuki Oikawa, Ayako Watanabe, Shigeru Nakamura