Patents by Inventor Shiro Horibe

Shiro Horibe 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).

  • Information processing apparatus, information processing method, information processing program and recording medium for determining an order of displaying search items
    Patent number: 8370344
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus is disclosed which determines, based on fitness to a specified condition, an order of displaying multiple to-be-searched information items which are pre-stored. The apparatus includes a specifying-condition information obtaining unit, an index-information obtaining unit, a population-limiting information obtaining unit, an index-information modifying unit, and a fitness calculating unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2009
    Date of Patent: February 5, 2013
    Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Shiro Horibe, Hideo Itoh, Tetsuya Ikeda, Takuya Hiraoka
  • INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, INFORMATION PROCESSING PROGRAM AND RECORDING MEDIUM
    Publication number: 20090276418
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus is disclosed which determines, based on fitness to a specified condition, an order of displaying multiple to-be-searched information items which are pre-stored. The apparatus includes a specifying-condition information obtaining unit, an index-information obtaining unit, a population-limiting information obtaining unit, an index-information modifying unit, and a fitness calculating unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 28, 2009
    Publication date: November 5, 2009
    Inventors: Shiro HORIBE, Hideo ITOH, Tetsuya IKEDA, Takuya HIRAOKA
  • Document searching device, document searching method, program, and recording medium
    Publication number: 20060230031
    Abstract: In a document searching device that searches documents from a set of predetermined documents in response to an input search condition, a seed document acquiring unit is operable to acquire seed documents based on information that is different from the input search condition. A word extraction unit is operable to extract a set of words that are associated with the input search condition, from the seed documents acquired by the seed document acquiring unit. A search unit is operable to search documents from the set of predetermined documents based on the input search condition and the set of words extracted by the word extraction unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 31, 2006
    Publication date: October 12, 2006
    Inventors: Tetsuya Ikeda, Takuya Hiraoka, Hiroki Hayano, Shiro Horibe