Patents by Inventor Shoko Haba

Shoko Haba 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: 20220057975
    Abstract: A printed matter management device includes: a hardware processor that: requests storage confirmation information for confirming whether a printed matter to be managed is stored from a user who has printed the printed matter; determines whether the printed matter is stored based on the storage confirmation information; and records a determination result.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 9, 2021
    Publication date: February 24, 2022
    Inventor: SHOKO HABA
  • Patent number: 11199950
    Abstract: A moving image reproduction apparatus for reproducing a moving image for explaining a work including a plurality of steps, includes: a reproducer that reproduces the moving image; a progress display that displays an indicator indicating a progress of reproduction of the moving image and a position on the indicator where the moving image is being currently reproduced; and a candidate display that displays a candidate image corresponding to at least one jump destination included in the moving image when a predetermined operation is performed on the indicator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 14, 2021
    Assignee: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.
    Inventors: Zhenhuan Qu, Atsushi Tomita, Yoichi Kurumasa, Shoko Haba, Ryosuke Nishimura, Mie Kawabata, Kazuhiro Tomiyasu
  • Patent number: 11036440
    Abstract: An image formation system includes a plurality of image formation apparatuses. A first image formation apparatus among the plurality of image formation apparatuses includes a controller and a display. The controller detects a connection of an external device, acquires identification information of the detected external device, and specifies, by using specific information, one or more image formation apparatuses capable of using the detected external device among the plurality of image formation apparatuses. The display displays identification information of each of the specified one or more image formation apparatuses.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 15, 2021
    Assignee: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.
    Inventors: Shoko Haba, Taketoshi Yamahata
  • Publication number: 20210075930
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes: an operation panel that receives a user operation; a voice receiver that receives a voice input; a voice identification device that identifies the voice received by the voice receiver and obtains identification information from the voice; a voice controller that receives an operation based on the voice input and the identification information; a storage that stores the identification information; and a system controller that controls the image forming apparatus based on the user operation or the operation based on the voice input.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 4, 2020
    Publication date: March 11, 2021
    Applicant: Konica Minolta, Inc.
    Inventors: Shoko Haba, Hiroaki Sugimoto
  • Publication number: 20200167099
    Abstract: An image formation system includes a plurality of image formation apparatuses. A first image formation apparatus among the plurality of image formation apparatuses includes a controller and a display. The controller detects a connection of an external device, acquires identification information of the detected external device, and specifies, by using specific information, one or more image formation apparatuses capable of using the detected external device among the plurality of image formation apparatuses. The display displays identification information of each of the specified one or more image formation apparatuses.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 11, 2019
    Publication date: May 28, 2020
    Applicant: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.
    Inventors: Shoko HABA, Taketoshi YAMAHATA
  • Patent number: 10484432
    Abstract: A security information update system includes a service providing server and information processing devices, the service providing server including: an authentication information memory that stores a pair of security information and identification information; and a service providing unit that provides a service to the information processing device, and the information processing devices including: a policy acquisition unit that acquires a security policy; a security information memory that stores security information; a process executing unit that transmits a pair of the same identification information and security information to the service providing server and receives a service; an authentication information acquisition unit that acquires security information after update; an update unit that updates security information with the acquired security information after the update date and time; and a prohibition unit that prohibits execution of a process of receiving a service after the update date and time u
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 4, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2019
    Assignee: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.
    Inventors: Jun Shiraishi, Toshiya Shozaki, Ryosuke Nishimura, Tomoko Maruyama, Shoko Haba
  • Patent number: 10412260
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes: a display portion; an error sensor that detects an operating error; a recovery sensor that detects the recovery from an operating error; and a display processor that makes the display portion display a notice of an operating error when the error sensor detects the operating error and that makes the display portion display an operation guide for preventing the reoccurrence of the same operating error when the recovery sensor detects the recovery from the operating error.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2019
    Assignee: Konica Minolta, Inc.
    Inventors: Shinichi Asai, Kenichi Komaba, Shoko Haba, Yu Sonoda
  • Patent number: 10341832
    Abstract: An information processing device of a cooperative system that further includes a portable device includes: a display that displays an image; a position detector that detects a position on a display surface of the display with which an object has made contact; and a hardware processor that detects the portable device in response to the position detector detecting a position with which an object has made contact, establishes a communication path with the portable device, switches an independent mode not cooperating with the portable device to a cooperation mode cooperating with the portable device when a communication path with the portable device is established and the portable device is detected by the hardware processor, and displays a related image that is related to the portable device on the display in response to the hardware processor no longer detecting the portable device in the cooperation mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2019
    Assignee: Konica Minolta, Inc.
    Inventors: Kazuhiro Tomiyasu, Yoichi Kurumasa, Shoko Haba, Mie Kawabata, Ryosuke Nishimura, Zhenhuan Qu
  • Patent number: 10178250
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a display, a position detector that detects a position in a display surface of the display and a hardware processor. The hardware processor, in response to detection of the position with which an object has been in contact, detects a portable device; establishes a communication path with the portable device; detects a continuation state based on a state of the portable device or a state of the information processing apparatus; in the case where the communication path is established with the portable device, and the portable device is detected, switches to a cooperation mode; in the case where the portable device is no longer detected, if the continuation state is detected, maintains the cooperation mode; and in the case where the portable device is no longer detected, if the continuation state is not detected, switches from the cooperation mode to the single mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 2, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 8, 2019
    Assignee: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.
    Inventors: Shoko Haba, Yoichi Kurumasa, Kazuhiro Tomiyasu, Ryosuke Nishimura, Mie Kawabata, Zhenhuan Qu
  • Patent number: 10152583
    Abstract: Each of the plurality of information processing apparatus includes an operation panel, a storage that stores security information, and a hardware processor. The hardware processor registers an administrator, when a user is registered as the administrator, authenticates the user, and when the user is authenticated, executes a first process of updating any of the stored security information, and a second process of setting the information processing apparatus in accordance with an operation by the authenticated user, and when the user is not registered as the administrator and is authenticated as an administrator in communicable another information processing apparatus, executes the first process but not the second process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 3, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 11, 2018
    Assignee: Konica Minolta, Inc.
    Inventors: Shoko Haba, Ryosuke Nishimura, Toshiya Shozaki, Tomoko Maruyama, Jun Shiraishi
  • Patent number: 10027842
    Abstract: An image processing device includes: a hardware processor configured to: execute a process according to a received remote operation in response to reception of the remote operation from a master device registered in advance among a plurality of mobile information devices; confirm to a duplicate login device other than an own device among the plurality of image processing devices that the duplicate login device is remotely operated by the master device in a case where a remote operation of instructing connection with a sub device different from the master device is received from the master device; and execute a process according to a remote operation received from the sub device in a case where it is confirmed by a confirmation unit that the duplicate login device is remotely operated by the master device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 17, 2018
    Assignee: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.
    Inventors: Shoko Haba, Kenichi Komaba, Shinichi Asai, Hiroki Ueda, Yu Sonoda
  • Patent number: 9979855
    Abstract: An image processing system includes: an image processing apparatus; an instruction server configured to transmit instruction information to the image processing apparatus via a router having a firewall function; and a session server configured to set up a session between the image processing apparatus and the instruction server. The image processing apparatus is configured to switch, in a case where the state of the image processing apparatus is a power saving state when a time specified by a transmission interval elapses from transmission of a connection confirmation packet for the session with the instruction server, to a state in which at least the connection confirmation packet can be transmitted.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 22, 2018
    Assignee: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.
    Inventors: Ryosuke Nishimura, Toshiya Shozaki, Tomoko Maruyama, Shoko Haba, Jun Shiraishi
  • Publication number: 20180136805
    Abstract: A moving image reproduction apparatus for reproducing a moving image for explaining a work including a plurality of steps, includes: a reproducer that reproduces the moving image; a progress display that displays an indicator indicating a progress of reproduction of the moving image and a position on the indicator where the moving image is being currently reproduced; and a candidate display that displays a candidate image corresponding to at least one jump destination included in the moving image when a predetermined operation is performed on the indicator.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 9, 2017
    Publication date: May 17, 2018
    Applicant: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.
    Inventors: Zhenhuan QU, Atsushi TOMITA, Yoichi KURUMASA, Shoko HABA, Ryosuke NISHIMURA, Mie KAWABATA, Kazuhiro TOMIYASU
  • Publication number: 20180124548
    Abstract: An information processing device of a cooperative system that further includes a portable device includes: a display that displays an image; a position detector that detects a position on a display surface of the display with which an object has made contact; and a hardware processor that detects the portable device in response to the position detector detecting a position with which an object has made contact, establishes a communication path with the portable device, switches an independent mode not cooperating with the portable device to a cooperation mode cooperating with the portable device when a communication path with the portable device is established and the portable device is detected by the hardware processor, and displays a related image that is related to the portable device on the display in response to the hardware processor no longer detecting the portable device in the cooperation mode.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 29, 2017
    Publication date: May 3, 2018
    Applicant: Konica Minolta, Inc.
    Inventors: Kazuhiro Tomiyasu, Yoichi Kurumasa, Shoko Haba, Mie Kawabata, Ryosuke Nishimura, Zhenhuan Qu
  • Publication number: 20180115660
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a display, a position detector that detects a position in a display surface of the display and a hardware processor, wherein the hardware processor, in response to detection of the position with which an object has been in contact, detects a portable device, establishes a communication path with the portable device, detects a continuation state based on a state of the portable device or a state of the information processing apparatus, and in the case where the communication path is established with the portable device, and the portable device is detected, switches to a cooperation mode, and in the case where the portable device is no longer detected, if the continuation state is detected, maintains the cooperation mode, and in the case where the portable device is no longer detected, if the continuation state is not detected, switches from the cooperation mode to the single mode.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 2, 2017
    Publication date: April 26, 2018
    Inventors: Shoko HABA, Yoichi KURUMASA, Kazuhiro TOMIYASU, Ryosuke NISHIMURA, Mie KAWABATA, Zhenhuan QU
  • Patent number: 9900468
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes: an authentication information requesting portion that transmits one or more requests for authentication information to a portable terminal apparatus upon receipt of a connection request therefrom, the connection request not requiring user identification; a first authentication portion that performs first authentication not requiring user identification by comparing authentication information to first reference data, the authentication information being received in return for the request; a second authentication portion that performs second authentication by comparing the authentication information to second reference data for user identification; and a processor that takes one piece of authentication information or any one of multiple pieces of authentication information received in return for the one or more requests, according to a predetermined rule, and that makes the second authentication portion perform the second authentication using the one piece of authenticati
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 18, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2018
    Assignee: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.
    Inventors: Tomoko Maruyama, Ryosuke Nishimura, Toshiya Shozaki, Shoko Haba, Jun Shiraishi
  • Publication number: 20170366698
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes: a display portion; an error sensor that detects an operating error; a recovery sensor that detects the recovery from an operating error; and a display processor that makes the display portion display a notice of an operating error when the error sensor detects the operating error and that makes the display portion display an operation guide for preventing the reoccurrence of the same operating error when the recovery sensor detects the recovery from the operating error.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 15, 2017
    Publication date: December 21, 2017
    Applicant: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.
    Inventors: Shinichi ASAI, Kenichi KOMABA, Shoko HABA, Yu SONODA
  • Publication number: 20170280003
    Abstract: An image processing device includes: a hardware processor configured to: execute a process according to a received remote operation in response to reception of the remote operation from a master device registered in advance among a plurality of mobile information devices; confirm to a duplicate login device other than an own device among the plurality of image processing devices that the duplicate login device is remotely operated by the master device in a case where a remote operation of instructing connection with a sub device different from the master device is received from the master device; and execute a process according to a remote operation received from the sub device in a case where it is confirmed by a confirmation unit that the duplicate login device is remotely operated by the master device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 15, 2017
    Publication date: September 28, 2017
    Applicant: Konica Minolta, Inc.
    Inventors: Shoko HABA, Kenichi KOMABA, Shinichi ASAI, Hiroki UEDA, Yu SONODA
  • Publication number: 20170111398
    Abstract: A security information update system includes a service providing server and information processing devices, the service providing server including: an authentication information memory that stores a pair of security information and identification information; and a service providing unit that provides a service to the information processing device, and the information processing devices including: a policy acquisition unit that acquires a security policy; a security information memory that stores security information; a process executing unit that transmits a pair of the same identification information and security information to the service providing server and receives a service; an authentication information acquisition unit that acquires security information after update; an update unit that updates security information with the acquired security information after the update date and time; and a prohibition unit that prohibits execution of a process of receiving a service after the update date and time u
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 4, 2016
    Publication date: April 20, 2017
    Applicant: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.
    Inventors: Jun SHIRAISHI, Toshiya SHOZAKI, Ryosuke NISHIMURA, Tomoko MARUYAMA, Shoko HABA
  • Publication number: 20170098066
    Abstract: Each of the plurality of information processing apparatuses includes an operation panel, a storage that stores security information, and a hardware processor. The hardware processor registers an administrator, when a user is registered as the administrator, authenticates the user, and when the user is authenticated, executes a first process of updating any of the stored security information, and a second process of setting the information processing apparatus in accordance with an operation by the authenticated user, and when the user is not registered as the administrator and is authenticated as an administrator in communicable another information processing apparatus, executes the first process but not the second process.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 3, 2016
    Publication date: April 6, 2017
    Applicant: Konica Minolta, Inc.
    Inventors: Shoko Haba, Ryosuke Nishimura, Toshiya Shozaki, Tomoko Maruyama, Jun Shiraishi