Patents by Inventor Shusaku Kubo

Shusaku Kubo 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: 11956396
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a processor configured to evaluate a performance of each of a plural combinations of processes, each combination including a series of processes, the plural combinations being included in plural processes, the series of processes being configured to be performed on an image, the performance being evaluated on a basis of a result of performing the series of processes on a test image for each combination, and output an evaluation result for at least two combinations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
    Inventors: Shusaku Kubo, Junichi Shimizu, Kosuke Tomokuni, Mamiko Sato
  • Publication number: 20220311889
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a processor configured to acquire plural scanned images obtained by scanning a bundle of paper media including a plural standard document bundles each of which is a set of a standard document and a related document related to the standard document, extract a title from the plural scanned images, extract, from the plural scanned images, an identifier that is assigned to be common within one standard document bundle and to be different between different standard document bundles, and divide the plural scanned images into bundles such that a scanned image from which the title is extracted is set as a bundle head, scanned images having the same identifier are included in the same bundle, and scanned images having different identifiers are included in different bundles.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 12, 2021
    Publication date: September 29, 2022
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
    Inventors: Fumi KOSAKA, Shigeru OKADA, Shusaku KUBO, Yusuke SUZUKI, Masayuki YAMAGUCHI, Jun ANDO
  • Publication number: 20220309273
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a processor configured to acquire a form image that is obtained from reading of a form in which form information including at least one of a predetermined item or an item value is written, extract the form information from the acquired form image, identify a reference form corresponding to the form image from the extracted form information, correct a revised position using a difference between a position of form information, of which a corresponding reference position is not revised, of the extracted form information and a reference position corresponding to the position, in a case where the reference position of form information of the reference form is revised to the revised position by user's designation, and extract the form information at the corrected revised position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 7, 2021
    Publication date: September 29, 2022
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
    Inventors: Masayuki YAMAGUCHI, Shusaku KUBO, Jun ANDO, Yusuke SUZUKI, Fumi KOSAKA, Shigeru OKADA
  • Publication number: 20220309227
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a processor configured to acquire specific document data, and in a case where the specific document data includes a text code string, output the text code string included in the specific document data as input data for processing executed by outputting a text code string obtained by text recognition of document data in a predetermined format, in the predetermined format.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 12, 2021
    Publication date: September 29, 2022
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
    Inventors: Shigeru OKADA, Shusaku KUBO, Fumi KOSAKA, Yusuke SUZUKI, Masayuki YAMAGUCHI, Jun ANDO
  • Publication number: 20220269898
    Abstract: An information processing device includes: a processor configured to: execute, as preprocessing prior to character recognition, image conversion processing for a document that is a target of the character recognition, the image conversion processing having been determined in advance for each of attributes in the document or for each of regions in the document, the regions having been determined in advance according to a document type; and execute processing of executing the character recognition for the document that has been subjected to the image conversion processing to output a result of the character recognition.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 12, 2021
    Publication date: August 25, 2022
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
    Inventors: Shusaku KUBO, Kunihiko KOBAYASHI, Shigeru OKADA, Fumi KOSAKA, Jun ANDO, Masanori YOSHIZUKA, Yusuke SUZUKI, Masayuki YAMAGUCHI
  • Publication number: 20220179596
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a processor configured to specify plural use apparatuses to use an image of an identical document generated by an image generation apparatus, based on input workflow information, acquire requirements of an input image of each of the plural use apparatuses, and execute a provision process of providing generation information indicating that an image is generated according to a set of values of image attributes satisfying the acquired requirements, to the image generation apparatus.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 24, 2021
    Publication date: June 9, 2022
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
    Inventors: Mamiko SATO, Junichi SHIMIZU, Kosuke TOMOKUNI, Shusaku KUBO
  • Patent number: 11328425
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes a search unit that searches a search area, which is a part of a first image extending over two pages included in the first image, for a dividable area, the first image being indicated by first image data and a division unit that generates second image data indicating two second images, each of which corresponds to one of the two pages, by dividing the first image along a dividing line passing through, in a second direction, which is perpendicular to a first direction, the dividable area found by the search unit, the first direction being a direction across the two pages.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 15, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2022
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
    Inventors: Shigeru Okada, Shusaku Kubo, Masanori Yoshizuka
  • Publication number: 20220107711
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a processor configured to select candidates for second data to be associated with first data, the first data being data which is set by a first apparatus among plural apparatuses constituting a workflow, the second data being data pieces which are set by apparatuses other than the first apparatus among the plural apparatuses, based on a first similarity which is a similarity between names of the first data and the second data, and a second similarity which is a similarity between data formats of the first data and the second data, and generate a first screen in which, for each of the selected candidates, a name of the first data, a name of the candidate, and a name of the apparatus that sets the candidate are displayed in association with each other, the first screen being used for receiving selection of the second data to be associated with the first data, from among the candidates.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 16, 2021
    Publication date: April 7, 2022
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
    Inventors: Kosuke TOMOKUNI, Junichi SHIMIZU, Mamiko SATO, Shusaku KUBO
  • Publication number: 20220070325
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a processor configured to: evaluate the performance of each of plural combinations of processes, each combination including a series of processes, the plural combinations being included in plural processes, the series of processes being configured to be performed on an image, the performance being evaluated on the basis of the result of performing the series of processes on a test image for each combination; select a combination of processes, the evaluated performance of which meets a first selection condition, from among the plural combinations of processes, and process an actual image; and in the case where a performance obtained by processing the actual image meets a switch condition determined in advance, switch to a combination of processes, the evaluated performance of which meets a second selection condition, and process the actual image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 17, 2021
    Publication date: March 3, 2022
    Applicant: FUJIFILM BUSINESS INNOVATION CORP.
    Inventors: Shusaku KUBO, Junichi SHIMIZU, Kosuke TOMOKUNI, Mamiko SATO
  • Publication number: 20220067452
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a processor configured to evaluate a performance of each of a plural combinations of processes, each combination including a series of processes, the plural combinations being included in plural processes, the series of processes being configured to be performed on an image, the performance being evaluated on a basis of a result of performing the series of processes on a test image for each combination, and output an evaluation result for at least two combinations.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 25, 2021
    Publication date: March 3, 2022
    Applicant: FUJIFILM BUSINESS INNOVATION CORP.
    Inventors: Shusaku KUBO, Junichi SHIMIZU, Kosuke TOMOKUNI, Mamiko SATO
  • Patent number: 11206335
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a processor. The processor is configured to identify a type of a target document to be processed from a read image obtained by reading the target document; refer to specific-character information, the specific-character information being information on a specific character set for each type of document in association with a specific image that is to be contained in the document, to obtain a specific character corresponding to the type of the target document and associated with a specific image that is to be contained in the target document; and determine whether an image that matches a search condition set in advance for the obtained specific character is extractable from the read image, to determine a presence or absence of a specific image that is to be contained in the target document in association with the obtained specific character.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 21, 2021
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
    Inventors: Shusaku Kubo, Kunihiko Kobayashi, Kunikazu Ueno
  • Publication number: 20210329135
    Abstract: An information processing device includes a processor configured to obtain a document image which shows a document; and switch a display destination of a correction screen which receives an operation of correcting a result of character recognition performed on the document image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 5, 2020
    Publication date: October 21, 2021
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
    Inventors: Kunihiko KOBAYASHI, Shintaro ADACHI, Shusaku KUBO, Shigeru OKADA, Yusuke SUZUKI
  • Patent number: 11151200
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes: an attribute giving unit that specifies a second date, which is a date after a first date corresponding to a date, on which processing is performed with respect to a document, or a date written in the document, based on information written in the document, and that gives the second date as attribute information of the document.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 24, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 19, 2021
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
    Inventors: Shigeru Okada, Shusaku Kubo, Masanori Yoshizuka
  • Publication number: 20210303842
    Abstract: An information processing device is provided with a processor configured to acquire a document image illustrating a document, and extract target information with respect to a target character string from a region set with reference to a position of a specific type of impression included in the document image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 16, 2020
    Publication date: September 30, 2021
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
    Inventors: Shintaro ADACHI, Shusaku KUBO, Shigeru OKADA, Kunihiko KOBAYASHI, Yusuke SUZUKI
  • Publication number: 20210303843
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a processor configured to acquire an image showing a document of a closed contract, recognize characters from the acquired image, calculate positions of the recognized characters in the image, determine, based on the calculated positions, whether any other characters are present in a region anterior or posterior to a date represented by the recognized characters, and output the date as an execution date of the contract if determining that no other characters are present in the anterior region and the posterior region.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 16, 2020
    Publication date: September 30, 2021
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
    Inventors: Shusaku Kubo, Kunihiko Kobayashi, Shigeru Okada, Yusuke Suzuki, Shintaro Adachi
  • Publication number: 20210303790
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a processor configured to acquire an image showing a document, recognize characters from the acquired image, generate a connected character string by connecting sequences of the recognized characters at line breaks in a text, and extract a portion corresponding to specified information from the generated connected character string.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 16, 2020
    Publication date: September 30, 2021
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
    Inventors: Shusaku Kubo, Kunihiko Kobayashi, Shigeru Okada, Yusuke Suzuki, Shintaro Adachi
  • Publication number: 20210281696
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a processor. The processor is configured to acquire a first image read from a sheet with multiple first regions that include respectively writing locations of multiple choices that are unselected, acquire a second image read from a sheet with one of the choices selected and with information indicating that the one of the choices has been selected, the information being written at the writing location of the selected choice, output a selection result of the selected choice, the selection result determined in accordance with an arithmetic result of an arithmetic operation performed between a first value determined from the first region in the first image and a second value determined from a region in the second image corresponding to the first region, and exclude from the selection result the choice having the arithmetic result having a value equal to or above a specific value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 1, 2020
    Publication date: September 9, 2021
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
    Inventors: Shigeru OKADA, Shusaku KUBO, Shintaro ADACHI, Kunihiko KOBAYASHI, Yusuke SUZUKI
  • Patent number: 11113521
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a receiving unit that receives a series of image information items formed of successive image information items of recording media on each of which an image has been formed, a setting unit that sets, as a judgement area, image information of at least a portion of a region having a predetermined width and whose center is set to a boundary between the recording media, which are included in the series of image information items, a determining unit that performs predetermined image processing on the judgement area and determines whether the image information items of the recording media are independent of each other in terms of content or are continuous with each other in terms of content, and an output unit that outputs the series of image information items by splitting the series of image information items when the determining unit determines that the image information items of the recording media are independent of each other and that outputs the series of image inf
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 7, 2021
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
    Inventors: Shusaku Kubo, Shigeru Okada, Masanori Yoshizuka
  • Patent number: 11113520
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a reading unit and a determining unit. The reading unit reads a document. The determining unit specifies, based on a result of reading of the document, a first character string representing a date and a second character string representing a period, and determines an attribute of the document in accordance with the first character string and the second character string.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 7, 2021
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
    Inventors: Shusaku Kubo, Shigeru Okada, Masanori Yoshizuka
  • Patent number: 10984285
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a recognition unit, a memory, a registration unit, and an extraction unit. The recognition unit performs recognition of one or more characters included in an image and outputs character information indicating the one or more characters. The memory stores a first specific character and a second specific character in association with each other. The first specific character has an index taking on a value lower than a predetermined value. The index indicates accuracy of the recognition performed by the recognition unit. The second specific character is output after the recognition unit performs the recognition of the first specific character. The registration unit registers at least one character or at least one character string as an extraction target.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 20, 2021
    Assignee: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Masanori Yoshizuka, Shigeru Okada, Shusaku Kubo, Shintaro Adachi