Patents by Inventor Shunsuke MINAMIKAWA

Shunsuke MINAMIKAWA 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: 9614992
    Abstract: A function execution apparatus including a controller configured to receive an alert from a server, the alert indicating particular information about a function of the function execution apparatus, display a notification about the alert, receive the particular information from the server, in response to receiving a first operation to the notification, receive display information for displaying the particular information from the server, display the particular information in accordance with the display information, receive a second operation while the particular information is displayed, and in response to receiving the second operation, display a specific screen image, the specific screen image including a specific certain image for instructing the function execution apparatus to execute processing indicated by the particular information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 4, 2017
    Assignee: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Shunsuke Minamikawa, Masafumi Miyazawa
  • Publication number: 20150373211
    Abstract: A function execution apparatus including a controller configured to receive an alert from a server, the alert indicating particular information about a function of the function execution apparatus, display a notification about the alert, receive the particular information from the server, in response to receiving a first operation to the notification, receive display information for displaying the particular information from the server, display the particular information in accordance with the display information, receive a second operation while the particular information is displayed, and in response to receiving the second operation, display a specific screen image, the specific screen image including a specific certain image for instructing the function execution apparatus to execute processing indicated by the particular information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 17, 2015
    Publication date: December 24, 2015
    Inventors: Shunsuke MINAMIKAWA, Masafumi MIYAZAWA
  • Patent number: 8831458
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus is provided. The image forming apparatus includes: a storage section configured to store data; a printing section configured to perform duplex printing of the data stored in the storage section, the duplex printing including printing N sheets on first sides thereof and subsequently printing M sheets on second sides thereof, wherein M is equal to or smaller than N; a detection section configured to detect a request for storing data in the storage section; and a changing section configured to change the value of N into a smaller value during the duplex printing, in response to the detection of the request for storing data based on a function which uses the storage section concurrently with an operation of the duplex printing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2010
    Date of Patent: September 9, 2014
    Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Shunsuke Minamikawa
  • Patent number: 8654418
    Abstract: A copying apparatus includes: a reader that reads an image on a document; an image forming unit that forms on a recording medium the image read by the reader; and a detector configured to detect a color image from the image read by the reader and trigger the image forming unit to form a mark for image adjustment before forming the color image on the recording medium if the detector detects the color image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 11, 2010
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2014
    Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Shunsuke Minamikawa
  • Patent number: 8582174
    Abstract: A multifunction apparatus includes: an execution request acceptance section that accepts a request for executing a function; a determination section that determines whether or not the execution request is a function involving printing operation when the execution request acceptance section receives the execution request; and an execution section that performs print preparation operation when the determination section determines that the execution request does not correspond to the function involving printing operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 17, 2010
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2013
    Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Shunsuke Minamikawa
  • Patent number: 8537419
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus comprising an image forming unit that forms an image based on a processing batch, a measurement unit, which interrupts the processing batch to form a density pattern by controlling the image forming unit, and which obtains density adjustment data by measuring the density pattern, and an adjustment unit that adjusts the density of the image based on the density adjustment data. When the measurement unit performs a density measurement before formation of a first color page of a processing batch, which includes monochrome and color pages, the adjustment unit adjusts the density of each color page using new density adjustment data obtained through the density measurement performed before the formation of the first color page, and the adjustment unit adjusts the density of each monochrome page using old density adjustment data obtained before the density measurement performed before the formation of the first color page.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 9, 2010
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2013
    Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Shunsuke Minamikawa
  • Publication number: 20110122463
    Abstract: A copying apparatus includes: a reader that reads an image on a document; an image forming unit that forms on a recording medium the image read by the reader; and a detector configured to detect a color image from the image read by the reader and trigger the image forming unit to form a mark for image adjustment before forming the color image on the recording medium if the detector detects the color image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 11, 2010
    Publication date: May 26, 2011
    Applicant: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Shunsuke MINAMIKAWA
  • Publication number: 20110075167
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus comprising an image forming unit that forms an image based on a processing batch, a measurement unit, which interrupts the processing batch to form a density pattern by controlling the image forming unit, and which obtains density adjustment data by measuring the density pattern, and an adjustment unit that adjusts the density of the image based on the density adjustment data. When the measurement unit performs a density measurement before formation of a first color page of a processing batch, which includes monochrome and color pages, the adjustment unit adjusts the density of each color page using new density adjustment data obtained through the density measurement performed before the formation of the first color page, and the adjustment unit adjusts the density of each monochrome page using old density adjustment data obtained before the density measurement performed before the formation of the first color page.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 9, 2010
    Publication date: March 31, 2011
    Applicant: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Shunsuke MINAMIKAWA
  • Publication number: 20100316406
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus is provided. The image forming apparatus includes: a storage section configured to store data; a printing section configured to perform duplex printing of the data stored in the storage section, the duplex printing including printing N sheets on first sides thereof and subsequently printing M sheets on second sides thereof, wherein M is equal to or smaller than N; a detection section configured to detect a request for storing data in the storage section; and a changing section configured to change the value of N into a smaller value during the duplex printing, in response to the detection of the request for storing data based on a function which uses the storage section concurrently with an operation of the duplex printing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 24, 2010
    Publication date: December 16, 2010
    Applicant: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Shunsuke MINAMIKAWA
  • Publication number: 20100245866
    Abstract: A multifunction apparatus includes: an execution request acceptance section that accepts a request for executing a function; a determination section that determines whether or not the execution request is a function involving printing operation when the execution request acceptance section receives the execution request; and an execution section that performs print preparation operation when the determination section determines that the execution request does not correspond to the function involving printing operation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 17, 2010
    Publication date: September 30, 2010
    Applicant: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Shunsuke Minamikawa
  • Publication number: 20090268894
    Abstract: A communication device is provided. The communication device includes a call origination unit that originates a call to a communication terminal device; a shift unit that sets as a granted device the communication terminal device to which the call has been originated, and that shifts the communication device to a limit mode in which communication with a communication terminal device which is not set as a granted device is limited, after the call is originated by the call origination unit; and a control unit that determines whether an incoming call is from a granted device when an incoming call is received while the communication device is in the limit mode, that permits communication if the incoming call is from a granted device, and that limits communication if the incoming call is from a device other than a granted device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 18, 2009
    Publication date: October 29, 2009
    Applicant: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Shunsuke MINAMIKAWA