Patents by Inventor Sho TSUJIMOTO

Sho TSUJIMOTO 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).

  • Patent number: 11880615
    Abstract: An image formation apparatus includes an accepting portion that accepts authentication information for identifying whether a user is an authorized user having a right to use the image formation apparatus; an authenticator that authenticates whether the user is the authorized user, based on the authentication information accepted by the accepting portion; and an adder that adds, to an image to be printed, tracking information including information for specifying the user authenticated as the authorized user by the authenticator. If the authentication information accepted by the accepting portion is single identification information, the adder adds, as the tracking information, to the image, user specifying information for specifying the user authenticated as the authorized user, the user specifying information being different from the single identification information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 23, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2024
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Sho Tsujimoto
  • Publication number: 20230342094
    Abstract: An image formation apparatus includes an accepting portion that accepts authentication information for identifying whether a user is an authorized user having a right to use the image formation apparatus; an authenticator that authenticates whether the user is the authorized user, based on the authentication information accepted by the accepting portion; and an adder that adds, to an image to be printed, tracking information including information for specifying the user authenticated as the authorized user by the authenticator. If the authentication information accepted by the accepting portion is single identification information, the adder adds, as the tracking information, to the image, user specifying information for specifying the user authenticated as the authorized user, the user specifying information being different from the single identification information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 23, 2023
    Publication date: October 26, 2023
    Inventor: SHO TSUJIMOTO
  • Publication number: 20230297545
    Abstract: In an information processing system, an information processing apparatus saves mobile address book data of a mobile terminal in a temporary database, and refers to the mobile address book data to execute an image transmission job. When user authentication is not performed to the mobile terminal after the mobile address book data has been referenced, the temporary database is deleted at a first timing at which a reset key is operated on an image transmission screen, a second timing at which the image transmission screen transitions from the image transmission screen transitions to another screen, or a third timing after a predetermined time has elapsed. When the user authentication is performed, the temporary database is deleted at a timing of logging out by an explicit logout operation or an automatic logout due to elapse of a time.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 17, 2023
    Publication date: September 21, 2023
    Inventor: SHO TSUJIMOTO
  • Publication number: 20220377186
    Abstract: An image processing device includes an image inputter, a selector and a generator. The image inputter inputs an image. The selector selects a setting of a layout. The generator, based on the setting of the layout, generates, from the image, a document file having information about the layout.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 13, 2022
    Publication date: November 24, 2022
    Inventor: SHO TSUJIMOTO
  • Patent number: 10972626
    Abstract: The present invention provides an image reading apparatus including: a scanner that scans originals by a batch-scan that are placed on an original table; an original reading circuitry that reads an image of each of the scanned originals, and control circuitry, wherein the control circuitry executes a continuous multi-crop process according to a selection by a user, and when the continuous multi-crop process is executed, the control circuitry displays on the display one operation key that receives an instruction to start the next scan and another operation key that receives an instruction to end the reading respectively every time each batch-scan is executed to enable the batch-scan to be repeatedly executed until receiving the instruction to end the reading, and handles the images of the originals read by the repeated batch-scans as a series of image data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 6, 2021
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Kazuhiro Mizude, Kazuma Ogawa, Tatsuya Fujisaki, Sho Tsujimoto
  • Patent number: 10846038
    Abstract: An image processing system includes plural image processing devices connected with each other by a network. In the one image processing device, in a case where a new job accepted by a job accepting unit may not be executed immediately, a control unit transmits image data related to the job to the other image processing device capable of image processing and causes the other image processing device to execute image processing. In the other image processing device, the control unit assesses whether or not an image processing result is to be returned to the one image processing device, and transmits the image processing result to the one image processing device to execute a final process if assessed to return the image processing result, but executes the final process of the image processing result in the other image processing device if assessed not to return the image processing result.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 24, 2020
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Kazuma Ogawa, Sho Tsujimoto
  • Publication number: 20200252517
    Abstract: The present invention provides an image reading apparatus including: a scanner that scans originals by a batch-scan that are placed on an original table; an original reading circuitry that reads an image of each of the scanned originals, and control circuitry, wherein the control circuitry executes a continuous multi-crop process according to a selection by a user, and when the continuous multi-crop process is executed, the control circuitry displays on the display one operation key that receives an instruction to start the next scan and another operation key that receives an instruction to end the reading respectively every time each batch-scan is executed to enable the batch-scan to be repeatedly executed until receiving the instruction to end the reading, and handles the images of the originals read by the repeated batch-scans as a series of image data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 22, 2020
    Publication date: August 6, 2020
    Inventors: Kazuhiro MIZUDE, Kazuma OGAWA, Tatsuya FUJISAKI, Sho TSUJIMOTO
  • Patent number: 10447882
    Abstract: An image reading apparatus includes a platen on which a document is to be placed; an image generating unit that performs scanning on the platen to generate a position detection image and an output image; a document position detecting unit that detects whether a document exists and a position of the document based on the generated position detection image; a document extracting unit that extract an area corresponding to the document from the generated output image; and a control unit that controls the image generating unit, the document position detecting unit, and the document extracting unit so as to output an image of the extracted document.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 6, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2019
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Kazuhiro Mizude, Kazuma Ogawa, Tatsuya Fujisaki, Sho Tsujimoto
  • Publication number: 20190146736
    Abstract: An image processing system includes plural image processing devices connected with each other by a network. In the one image processing device, in a case where a new job accepted by a job accepting unit may not be executed immediately, a control unit transmits image data related to the job to the other image processing device capable of image processing and causes the other image processing device to execute image processing. In the other image processing device, the control unit assesses whether or not an image processing result is to be returned to the one image processing device, and transmits the image processing result to the one image processing device to execute a final process if assessed to return the image processing result, but executes the final process of the image processing result in the other image processing device if assessed not to return the image processing result.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 9, 2018
    Publication date: May 16, 2019
    Inventors: KAZUMA OGAWA, SHO TSUJIMOTO
  • Publication number: 20180234577
    Abstract: An image reading apparatus includes a platen on which a document is to be placed; an image generating unit that performs scanning on the platen to generate a position detection image and an output image; a document position detecting unit that detects whether a document exists and a position of the document based on the generated position detection image; a document extracting unit that extract an area corresponding to the document from the generated output image; and a control unit that controls the image generating unit, the document position detecting unit, and the document extracting unit so as to output an image of the extracted document.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 6, 2018
    Publication date: August 16, 2018
    Inventors: KAZUHIRO MIZUDE, KAZUMA OGAWA, TATSUYA FUJISAKI, SHO TSUJIMOTO
  • Publication number: 20170155792
    Abstract: An image reading apparatus comprising: an original reading unit configured to scan originals placed on an original table in batch by a batch-scan to read an image of each of the originals; a cropping unit configured to crop an image of each original from an image obtained by the batch-scan; an image output unit configured to attach a filename to image data of the cropped image of each original and output each image data in a new folder or an existing folder; and a control unit configured to control the original reading unit, the cropping unit, and the image output unit, wherein the control unit is capable of processing images of multiple originals cropped by more than one batch-scan as a series of image data, and controlling the image output unit in at least such a way that a series of filenames is attached to the series of image data according to a predetermined rule, the series of image data is output into the same folder, or the series of image data is stored in association with one another.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 21, 2016
    Publication date: June 1, 2017
    Inventors: Kazuhiro MIZUDE, Kazuma OGAWA, Tatsuya FUJISAKI, Sho TSUJIMOTO