Patents by Inventor Shigeru Okada

Shigeru Okada 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: 20210303790
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a processor configured to acquire an image showing a document, recognize characters from the acquired image, generate a connected character string by connecting sequences of the recognized characters at line breaks in a text, and extract a portion corresponding to specified information from the generated connected character string.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 16, 2020
    Publication date: September 30, 2021
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
    Inventors: Shusaku Kubo, Kunihiko Kobayashi, Shigeru Okada, Yusuke Suzuki, Shintaro Adachi
  • Publication number: 20210303842
    Abstract: An information processing device is provided with a processor configured to acquire a document image illustrating a document, and extract target information with respect to a target character string from a region set with reference to a position of a specific type of impression included in the document image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 16, 2020
    Publication date: September 30, 2021
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
    Inventors: Shintaro ADACHI, Shusaku KUBO, Shigeru OKADA, Kunihiko KOBAYASHI, Yusuke SUZUKI
  • Patent number: 11132971
    Abstract: A voltage supply circuit that supplies a voltage to a liquid-crystal panel (10) including a common electrode (30) common to a plurality of pixels is provided with a common voltage generation circuit (310) that generates a common voltage (VCOM) to be supplied to the common electrode 30, an output terminal (320) from which the common voltage (VCOM) is output to the liquid-crystal panel (10), an input terminal (360) to which a voltage of the common electrode (30) detected in the liquid-crystal panel (10) is input as a detection voltage (VCOM_IN), and a first determination circuit (353) that determines whether or not the detection voltage (VCOM_IN) input to the input terminal (360) is normal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 28, 2021
    Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventor: Shigeru Okada
  • Publication number: 20210281696
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a processor. The processor is configured to acquire a first image read from a sheet with multiple first regions that include respectively writing locations of multiple choices that are unselected, acquire a second image read from a sheet with one of the choices selected and with information indicating that the one of the choices has been selected, the information being written at the writing location of the selected choice, output a selection result of the selected choice, the selection result determined in accordance with an arithmetic result of an arithmetic operation performed between a first value determined from the first region in the first image and a second value determined from a region in the second image corresponding to the first region, and exclude from the selection result the choice having the arithmetic result having a value equal to or above a specific value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 1, 2020
    Publication date: September 9, 2021
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
    Inventors: Shigeru OKADA, Shusaku KUBO, Shintaro ADACHI, Kunihiko KOBAYASHI, Yusuke SUZUKI
  • Patent number: 11113520
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a reading unit and a determining unit. The reading unit reads a document. The determining unit specifies, based on a result of reading of the document, a first character string representing a date and a second character string representing a period, and determines an attribute of the document in accordance with the first character string and the second character string.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 7, 2021
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
    Inventors: Shusaku Kubo, Shigeru Okada, Masanori Yoshizuka
  • Patent number: 11113521
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a receiving unit that receives a series of image information items formed of successive image information items of recording media on each of which an image has been formed, a setting unit that sets, as a judgement area, image information of at least a portion of a region having a predetermined width and whose center is set to a boundary between the recording media, which are included in the series of image information items, a determining unit that performs predetermined image processing on the judgement area and determines whether the image information items of the recording media are independent of each other in terms of content or are continuous with each other in terms of content, and an output unit that outputs the series of image information items by splitting the series of image information items when the determining unit determines that the image information items of the recording media are independent of each other and that outputs the series of image inf
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 7, 2021
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
    Inventors: Shusaku Kubo, Shigeru Okada, Masanori Yoshizuka
  • Patent number: 10984285
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a recognition unit, a memory, a registration unit, and an extraction unit. The recognition unit performs recognition of one or more characters included in an image and outputs character information indicating the one or more characters. The memory stores a first specific character and a second specific character in association with each other. The first specific character has an index taking on a value lower than a predetermined value. The index indicates accuracy of the recognition performed by the recognition unit. The second specific character is output after the recognition unit performs the recognition of the first specific character. The registration unit registers at least one character or at least one character string as an extraction target.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 20, 2021
    Assignee: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Masanori Yoshizuka, Shigeru Okada, Shusaku Kubo, Shintaro Adachi
  • Publication number: 20210110149
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a processor configured to specify one or more keys corresponding to user information of a user who uses an electronic document, specify, from the electronic document, a first string corresponding to each of the one or more keys, and extract, from the electronic document, a second string corresponding to the first string.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 3, 2020
    Publication date: April 15, 2021
    Applicant: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Masanori YOSHIZUKA, Shigeru OKADA, Junichi SHIMIZU
  • Publication number: 20210097272
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a processor. The processor is configured to: determine a document type of a document by using a title of the document, the document being classified as the determined document type, the title representing a category of the document and being extracted from a read image of the document; and extract a field value from the document by using an item of definition information prepared in accordance with the determined document type from among items of definition information. The definition information is prepared for each document type and defines a rule for extracting a field value from a document.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 2, 2020
    Publication date: April 1, 2021
    Applicant: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Junichi SHIMIZU, Shigeru OKADA, Masanori YOSHIZUKA
  • Publication number: 20210089766
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a processor programmed to: extract from a document a proper noun that is likely to represent a provider of the document or a receiver of the document; and determine whether an attribute of the proper noun is the provider or the receiver by referring to information obtained from the proper noun or information obtained from a vicinity of the proper noun on the document.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 26, 2020
    Publication date: March 25, 2021
    Applicant: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Masanori YOSHIZUKA, Junichi SHIMIZU, Shigeru OKADA
  • Publication number: 20210089590
    Abstract: An information processing device includes a processor programmed to: determine whether a character string indicating a reference to target information is recorded in a range within a document, the target information corresponding to a keyword in the document, the range being determined based on a position of the keyword in the document; and extract the target information upon a determination that the character string is recorded in the range.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 27, 2020
    Publication date: March 25, 2021
    Applicant: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shigeru OKADA, Junichi SHIMIZU, Masanori YOSHIZUKA
  • Publication number: 20210081660
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a processor. The processor is configured to, in response to acquisition of a read image of a second document whose type is identical to a type of a first document, extract a character string included in, in the read image of the second document, a region where information about surroundings that matches first-document surroundings information is acquired, the information about surroundings satisfying a matching condition for determining matching with the first-document surroundings information that is acquired from an image around an item value acquisition region including an item value to be extracted in a read image of the first document, the character string being extracted as an item value to be extracted in the read image of the second document.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 24, 2020
    Publication date: March 18, 2021
    Applicant: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shigeru OKADA, Junichi SHIMIZU, Masanori YOSHIZUKA
  • Publication number: 20200301977
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes: an attribute giving unit that specifies a second date, which is a date after a first date corresponding to a date, on which processing is performed with respect to a document, or a date written in the document, based on information written in the document, and that gives the second date as attribute information of the document.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 24, 2019
    Publication date: September 24, 2020
    Applicant: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shigeru OKADA, Shusaku KUBO, Masanori YOSHIZUKA
  • Publication number: 20200285847
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a reading unit and a determining unit. The reading unit reads a document. The determining unit specifies, based on a result of reading of the document, a first character string representing a date and a second character string representing a period, and determines an attribute of the document in accordance with the first character string and the second character string.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 8, 2019
    Publication date: September 10, 2020
    Applicant: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shusaku KUBO, Shigeru OKADA, Masanori YOSHIZUKA
  • Publication number: 20200273423
    Abstract: A voltage supply circuit that supplies a voltage to a liquid-crystal panel (10) including a common electrode (30) common to a plurality of pixels is provided with a common voltage generation circuit (310) that generates a common voltage (VCOM) to be supplied to the common electrode 30, an output terminal (320) from which the common voltage (VCOM) is output to the liquid-crystal panel (10), an input terminal (360) to which a voltage of the common electrode (30) detected in the liquid-crystal panel (10) is input as a detection voltage (VCOM_IN), and a first determination circuit (353) that determines whether or not the detection voltage (VCOM_IN) input to the input terminal (360) is normal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 26, 2020
    Publication date: August 27, 2020
    Applicant: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventor: Shigeru OKADA
  • Publication number: 20200265265
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a recognition unit, a memory, a registration unit, and an extraction unit. The recognition unit performs recognition of one or more characters included in an image and outputs character information indicating the one or more characters. The memory stores a first specific character and a second specific character in association with each other. The first specific character has an index taking on a value lower than a predetermined value. The index indicates accuracy of the recognition performed by the recognition unit. The second specific character is output after the recognition unit performs the recognition of the first specific character. The registration unit registers at least one character or at least one character string as an extraction target.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 12, 2019
    Publication date: August 20, 2020
    Applicant: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Masanori YOSHIZUKA, Shigeru OKADA, Shusaku KUBO, Shintaro ADACHI
  • Publication number: 20200250418
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a receiving unit that receives a series of image information items formed of successive image information items of recording media on each of which an image has been formed, a setting unit that sets, as a judgement area, image information of at least a portion of a region having a predetermined width and whose center is set to a boundary between the recording media, which are included in the series of image information items, a determining unit that performs predetermined image processing on the judgement area and determines whether the image information items of the recording media are independent of each other in terms of content or are continuous with each other in terms of content, and an output unit that outputs the series of image information items by splitting the series of image information items when the determining unit determines that the image information items of the recording media are independent of each other and that outputs the series of image inf
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 19, 2019
    Publication date: August 6, 2020
    Applicant: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shusaku KUBO, Shigeru OKADA, Masanori YOSHIZUKA
  • Publication number: 20200242773
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes a search unit that searches a search area, which is a part of a first image extending over two pages included in the first image, for a dividable area, the first image being indicated by first image data and a division unit that generates second image data indicating two second images, each of which corresponds to one of the two pages, by dividing the first image along a dividing line passing through, in a second direction, which is perpendicular to a first direction, the dividable area found by the search unit, the first direction being a direction across the two pages.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 15, 2019
    Publication date: July 30, 2020
    Applicant: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shigeru OKADA, Shusaku KUBO, Masanori YOSHIZUKA
  • Patent number: 10643097
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes a generation unit that generates, in a case where a small-sheet image in a first image is unsuccessfully extracted and results in multiple small-sheet images, a second image including the small-sheet images that are combined.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 5, 2020
    Assignee: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kunihiko Kobayashi, Kazuhiro Oya, Shigeru Okada, Shintaro Adachi, Hiroyuki Kishimoto, Akane Abe
  • Publication number: 20190362143
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a processing unit, an extraction unit, a memory unit, a determination unit, and an assignment unit. The processing unit executes a character recognition process. The extraction unit extracts at least one area located within a predetermined range from a first area that is included in a designated image and that is designated to undergo the character recognition process. The at least one area is a second area. The memory unit stores an attribute on a per character string basis. The determination unit determines, on a basis of the attribute stored by the memory unit, an attribute corresponding to a character string recognized as one or more characters from the first area by the processing unit and a character string recognized as one or more characters from the second area by the processing unit. The assignment unit assigns the determined attribute to the designated image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 13, 2019
    Publication date: November 28, 2019
    Applicant: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shinya NAKAMURA, Akane ABE, Shintaro ADACHI, Kunihiko KOBAYASHI, Kazuhiro OYA, Shigeru OKADA, Junichi SHIMIZU, Akinobu YAMAGUCHI