Patents by Inventor Shinji Makishima

Shinji Makishima 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: 20190045006
    Abstract: A display apparatus includes a display unit, a communication unit configured to periodically receive synchronization information for synchronizing a screen of the display unit with a screen of another display apparatus, and a control unit configured to control the display unit to display a first screen corresponding to the received synchronization information when the control unit is not carrying out a predetermined operation, and a second screen that does not correspond to the synchronization information when the control unit is carrying out the predetermined operation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 8, 2018
    Publication date: February 7, 2019
    Inventors: Akihiro Mizutani, Takahiro Hagiwara, Shinji Makishima, Toshihiro Ida, Yusuke Hamada, Hiroshi Watanabe, Ken Sakuta
  • Patent number: 10165147
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes a scanner, a communication interface, and a controller. The controller is configured to generate property and setting data of image data that is generated based on image scanning by the scanner, and control the communication interface to transmit the image data and the property and setting data thereof to a server connected to the image processing apparatus through a network, so that the image data and the property and setting data thereof are stored therein in association with each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 25, 2018
    Assignees: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA, TOSHIBA TEC KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Toshihiro Ida, Hiroshi Watanabe, Kazuhiro Ogura, Takahiro Hagiwara, Shinji Makishima, Akihiro Mizutani, Yusuke Hamada, Ken Sakuta
  • Patent number: 10042591
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, an image forming apparatus includes a processor, a network interface and a display device. The network interface under processor control acquires identification information of a different image forming apparatus on which a user is determined to have use authority based on user identification information of the user. The network interface under processor control also acquires an image forming job registered with the different image forming apparatus based on the acquired identification information of the different image forming apparatus. The display device under processor control displays the image forming job acquired by the network interface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 7, 2018
    Assignees: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA, TOSHIBA TEC KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Takahiro Hagiwara, Shinji Makishima, Koji Endo, Hiroshi Watanabe, Akihiro Mizutani, Toshihiro Ida, Yusuke Hamada, Kazuhiro Ogura, Takeo Nishijima
  • Publication number: 20180165045
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, an image forming apparatus includes a processor, a network interface and a display device. The network interface under processor control acquires identification information of a different image forming apparatus on which a user is determined to have use authority based on user identification information of the user. The network interface under processor control also acquires an image forming job registered with the different image forming apparatus based on the acquired identification information of the different image forming apparatus. The display device under processor control displays the image forming job acquired by the network interface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 13, 2016
    Publication date: June 14, 2018
    Inventors: Takahiro HAGIWARA, Shinji MAKISHIMA, Koji ENDO, Hiroshi WATANABE, Akihiro MIZUTANI, Toshihiro IDA, Yusuke HAMADA, Kazuhiro OGURA, Takeo NISHIJIMA
  • Publication number: 20180063360
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes a scanner, a communication interface, and a controller. The controller is configured to generate property and setting data of image data that is generated based on image scanning by the scanner, and control the communication interface to transmit the image data and the property and setting data thereof to a server connected to the image processing apparatus through a network, so that the image data and the property and setting data thereof are stored therein in association with each other.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 30, 2016
    Publication date: March 1, 2018
    Inventors: Toshihiro IDA, Hiroshi WATANABE, Kazuhiro OGURA, Takahiro HAGIWARA, Shinji MAKISHIMA, Akihiro MIZUTANI, Yusuke HAMADA, Ken SAKUTA
  • Patent number: 9509800
    Abstract: A document priority determination apparatus comprises a program schedule retrieving unit configured to retrieve schedules of programs of an event, a current time detection unit configured to detect a current time, and a priority determination unit configured to set a priority of a document based on the retrieved program schedules and the detected current time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 20, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2016
    Assignees: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA, TOSHIBA TEC KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Toshihiro Ida, Kazuhiro Ogura, Shinji Makishima, Akihiro Mizutani, Yusuke Hamada
  • Publication number: 20150242064
    Abstract: An information display apparatus includes a display unit and a control unit. The display unit is configured to display a document page with a plurality of layers superimposed thereon. The plurality of layers includes a first layer that includes a first image that is accessible by the information display apparatus and not by an apparatus external to the information display apparatus, and a second layer that includes a second image that is accessible by the information display apparatus and the apparatus external to the information display apparatus. The control unit is configured to set one of the plurality of layers as a writing layer in which a user can add an image, and control the display unit such that a density of the first image is different from a density of the second image when the first layer is set as the writing layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 19, 2015
    Publication date: August 27, 2015
    Inventors: Yusuke HAMADA, Hiroshi WATANABE, Akihiro MIZUTANI, Takahiro HAGIWARA, Shinji MAKISHIMA, Toshihiro IDA, Ken SAKUTA
  • Publication number: 20150244800
    Abstract: A display apparatus includes a display unit, a communication unit configured to periodically receive synchronization information for synchronizing a screen of the display unit with a screen of another display apparatus, and a control unit configured to control the display unit to display a first screen corresponding to the received synchronization information when the control unit is not carrying out a predetermined operation, and a second screen that does not correspond to the synchronization information when the control unit is carrying out the predetermined operation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 19, 2015
    Publication date: August 27, 2015
    Inventors: Akihiro MIZUTANI, Takahiro HAGIWARA, Shinji MAKISHIMA, Toshihiro IDA, Yusuke HAMADA, Hiroshi WATANABE, Ken SAKUTA
  • Publication number: 20150242369
    Abstract: A document data distribution server includes a storage unit, a communication unit configured to receive document data of a document, image data of an image added to the document, and a request for integrated document data, and a control unit. The control unit is configured to compress the document data and control the storage unit to store the compressed document data when the communication unit receives the document data, control the storage unit to store the image data when the communication unit receives the image data, generate, as the integrated document data, data of a first layer that includes the compressed document data and data of a second layer to be superimposed on the first layer, that includes the image data of the added image, and control the communication unit to output the integrated document data, when the communication unit receives the request.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 19, 2015
    Publication date: August 27, 2015
    Inventors: Takahiro HAGIWARA, Akihiro MIZUTANI, Shinji MAKISHIMA, Toshihiro IDA, Yusuke HAMADA, Hiroshi WATANABE, Ken SAKUTA
  • Publication number: 20150242075
    Abstract: A method for providing document data includes storing document data of a document having a plurality of pages and page management data associated with the document data, the page management data indicating page numbers of one or more pages that are replacement pages of the document or inserted pages of the document, displaying a user interface including a plurality of selectable items, wherein each corresponds to one or more pages and indicating whether the pages are replacement pages or inserted pages, receiving a user input selecting one of the selectable items, extracting data from the document data, with reference to the page management data, of the one or more of pages corresponding to the item selected through the user interface, and outputting the extracted data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 19, 2015
    Publication date: August 27, 2015
    Inventors: Hiroshi WATANABE, Takahiro HAGIWARA, Shinji MAKISHIMA, Toshihiro IDA, Yusuke HAMADA, Akihiro MIZUTANI, Ken SAKUTA
  • Patent number: 8953209
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a server apparatus includes a reception unit, a storage unit, a list sending unit, and a transmission unit. The reception unit receives print data designating a user who is able to execute printing. The storage unit stores the print data received by the reception unit. The list sending unit sends a list of the print data, which the user who is an operator of an image forming apparatus is able to execute, to the image forming apparatus. The transmission unit transmits the print data selected from the list of the print data sent by the list sending unit to the image forming apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 10, 2015
    Assignees: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba, Toshiba Tec Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Toshihiro Ida, Kazuhiro Ogura, Shinji Makishima, Akihiro Mizutani, Yusuke Hamada
  • Publication number: 20140285847
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a server apparatus includes a storage unit, a communication unit, and a controller. The storage unit stores print jobs received from an external apparatus. The communication unit transmits the print job stored in the storage unit, in response to a print request for the print job from any image forming apparatus, to the image forming apparatus which is a print request source. The controller changes the print job of which a storage limit expires among the print jobs stored in the storage unit into a deleted print job so as to have a temporary storage limit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 12, 2014
    Publication date: September 25, 2014
    Inventors: Yusuke Hamada, Kazuhiro Ogura, Shinji Makishima, Akihiro Mizutani, Toshihiro Ida
  • Publication number: 20140244754
    Abstract: A data managing device manages data created in a plurality of terminal devices connected through a network. The data managing device includes a drawing storage unit configured to store added drawing data when the drawing data is added by a first terminal device, and a controller configured to control the drawing storage unit and communicate with the plurality of terminal devices so that the added drawing data is displayed on at least one of the plurality of terminal devices other than the first terminal device if the first terminal device had presenter authority when the drawing data is added.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 20, 2014
    Publication date: August 28, 2014
    Applicants: Toshiba Tec Kabushiki Kaisha, Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: AKIHIRO MIZUTANI, Kazuhiro Ogura, Shinji Makishima, Toshihiro Ida, Yusuke Hamada
  • Publication number: 20140237075
    Abstract: A document priority determination apparatus comprises a program schedule retrieving unit configured to retrieve schedules of programs of an event, a current time detection unit configured to detect a current time, and a priority determination unit configured to set a priority of a document based on the retrieved program schedules and the detected current time.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 20, 2014
    Publication date: August 21, 2014
    Applicants: TOSHIBA TEC KABUSHIKI KAISHA, KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA
    Inventors: Toshihiro IDA, Kazuhiro OGURA, Shinji MAKISHIMA, Akihiro MIZUTANI, Yusuke HAMADA
  • Patent number: 8773714
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, an image forming apparatus includes a scanner, a setting unit, and a control unit. The scanner is configured to read a document. The setting unit is configured to receive an instruction to append a display image to a signature field of a PDF. The control unit is configured to generate the PDF by appending the display image to the signature field, for the document.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2011
    Date of Patent: July 8, 2014
    Assignees: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba, Toshiba Tec Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Shinji Makishima, Kazuhiro Ogura, Akihiro Mizutani, Toshihiro Ida, Yusuke Hamada
  • Publication number: 20140092434
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a server apparatus includes a reception unit, a storage unit, a list sending unit, and a transmission unit. The reception unit receives print data designating a user who is able to execute printing. The storage unit stores the print data received by the reception unit. The list sending unit sends a list of the print data, which the user who is an operator of an image forming apparatus is able to execute, to the image forming apparatus. The transmission unit transmits the print data selected from the list of the print data sent by the list sending unit to the image forming apparatus.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 3, 2013
    Publication date: April 3, 2014
    Applicants: TOSHIBA TEC KABUSHIKI KAISHA, KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA
    Inventors: Toshihiro Ida, Kazuhiro Ogura, Shinji Makishima, Akihiro Mizutani, Yusuke Hamada
  • Patent number: 8687224
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a server apparatus includes a storage unit, a transfer unit, and a management unit. The storage unit stores user identification information and an extension condition with information indicating a print job. If the transfer unit receives an inquiry of a print job including user information from an image forming apparatus, the transfer unit transfers the print job corresponding to the user information included in the inquiry to the image forming apparatus as the inquiry sending source from among the print jobs stored in the storage unit. The management unit deletes a print job, to which an extension condition was added, from among the print jobs stored in the storage unit after the elapse time from the print job receiving time point exceeds the preservation period and the extension condition is then further exceeded.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2014
    Assignees: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba, Toshiba Tec Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Kazuhiro Ogura, Shinji Makishima, Akihiro Mizutani, Toshihiro Ida, Yusuke Hamada
  • Patent number: 8625138
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a server apparatus includes a reception unit, a storage unit, a list sending unit, and a transmission unit. The reception unit receives print data designating a user who is able to execute printing. The storage unit stores the print data received by the reception unit. The list sending unit sends a list of the print data, which the user who is an operator of an image forming apparatus is able to execute, to the image forming apparatus. The transmission unit transmits the print data selected from the list of the print data sent by the list sending unit to the image forming apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2011
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2014
    Assignees: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba, Toshiba Tec Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Toshihiro Ida, Kazuhiro Ogura, Shinji Makishima, Akihiro Mizutani, Yusuke Hamada
  • Patent number: 8526038
    Abstract: The present invention provides a technique capable of preventing, in a system that transmits a print job from a network terminal to a printing apparatus through a print job managing server, useless consumption of a storage area of the printing apparatus and an unnecessary increase in traffic in a network. A print job managing server includes: a transmission-destination-information acquiring unit configured to acquire job transmission destination information for specifying at least one printing apparatus that is a job transmission destination associated in advance with information concerning a transmission source of a print job; and a job transmitting unit configured to transmit the print job to the printing apparatus, which is the job transmission destination, on the basis of the acquired job transmission destination information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 2010
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2013
    Assignees: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba, Toshiba Tec Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Toshihiro Ida, Kazuhiro Ogura, Shinji Makishima, Akihiro Mizutani, Yusuke Hamada
  • Publication number: 20130188219
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a print system includes a client computer connected to a network and configured to generate a document as a print job, a print server connected to the network and configured to store, as an updated print job, the document generated by the client computer and additional information added to the document, a viewing terminal connected to the network and used to view the document stored in the print server and add information to the document, and a printer configured to print the document together with the added information according to a printing instruction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 4, 2012
    Publication date: July 25, 2013
    Applicants: TOSHIBA TEC KABUSHIKI KAISHA, KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA
    Inventors: Toshihiro Ida, Kazuhiro Ogura, Shinji Makishima, Akihiro Mizutani, Yusuke Hamada