Patents by Inventor Tadashi Nagata

Tadashi Nagata 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: 11210052
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes an event detection unit detecting at least one event; a registration unit registering corresponding information in which the event, which is detected by the event detection unit, is associated with a program; and a display unit displaying a screen, which is generated by the program, in accordance with the event, which is detected by the event detection unit, based on the corresponding information which is registered in the registration unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 12, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 28, 2021
    Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Tadashi Nagata, Kohichi Hirai
  • Patent number: 10585565
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a storage unit that stores, associating with first identification information of a first program, which causes the information processing apparatus to function as a display control unit that displays a screen and to function as a process control unit that executes a process according to an input to the screen, information indicating whether there is a change in the screen and whether there is a change in the process; and a request unit that requires, when there is a change in the screen, a second program related to second identification information associated with the first identification information and stored in the storage unit, to display a changed screen, and that requires, when there is a change in the process, a third program related to third identification information associated with the first identification information and stored in the storage unit, to execute a changed process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 10, 2020
    Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventor: Tadashi Nagata
  • Patent number: 10348916
    Abstract: A display input device includes a display panel to display a screen thereon, the screen including a plurality of display areas, and a memory to store specification information, GUI information, and layout information. The GUI information includes information on a plurality of GUIs to be displayed on the screen, the plurality of GUIs being classified into a plurality of groups of GUIs. The layout information associates each one of the plurality of display areas with one group of the plurality of GUIs to be displayed on each display area. The display input device further includes circuitry to scale each display area in accordance with a change in the size or the resolution of the screen, and change one of a size of at least one GUI to be displayed in the scaled display area and a number of GUIs to be displayed in the scaled display area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2019
    Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventor: Tadashi Nagata
  • Patent number: 10310867
    Abstract: An information processing system includes an operating unit that receives an input in response to a user operation and that runs under a first operating system; and a main body that runs under a second operating system and operates in response to the input received by the operating unit. The main body includes a generation unit that generates a command to direct rendering of a screen corresponding to an application being executed, and a command transmission control unit that provides control to transmit the command to the operating unit. The operating unit includes a receiving unit that receives the command from the main body, a screen rendering unit that renders the screen in accordance with the command received by the receiving unit, a display unit that displays the screen rendered by the screen rendering unit, and a reboot unit that reboots the operating unit in asynchronization with the main body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 7, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2019
    Assignee: RICOH COMPANY, LIMITED
    Inventors: Yoh Masuyama, Tadashi Nagata, Keisuke Iwasa
  • Patent number: 10205852
    Abstract: An information processing system includes a first storage that stores user information about one or more users of the information processing system; a second storage; a first determining unit that determines, depending on whether a program sets the second storage to store predetermined user information from the user information stored in the first storage, the predetermined user information being used in the program, whether to store the predetermined user information in the second storage; and a user information process unit that obtains the predetermined user information from the user information and stores the predetermined user information in the second storage if the first determining unit determines that the predetermined user information is to be stored in the second storage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 12, 2019
    Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventor: Tadashi Nagata
  • Patent number: 10162649
    Abstract: An information processing system includes an operation part that receives an operation performed by a user; and a body part that operates based on a request from the operation part. The operation part includes a power control part that, when receiving a power turning off instruction from the body part, reboots the operation part and causes the operation part to stand by in a power saving state in which some of operations are stopped, and, when receiving a start up notification from the body part, causes the operation part to return from the power saving state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 25, 2018
    Assignee: RICOH COMPANY, LTD.
    Inventors: Keisuke Iwasa, Tadashi Nagata, Yoh Masuyama
  • Patent number: 9883328
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a data format determination unit determining whether data read by near field wireless communications correspond to data read in a peer-to-peer mode; a data attribute determination unit identifying an application that can use the data based on attribute information of the data when it is determined that the data correspond to the data that are read in the peer-to-peer mode; a communication method determination unit identifying an application that can use the data based on a communication method used when the data are read, when it is determined that the data do not correspond to the data that are read in the peer-to-peer mode; and an application use processing unit performing processing so that the application identified by the data attribute determination unit or the application identified by the communication method determination unit can use the data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 23, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2018
    Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventor: Tadashi Nagata
  • Publication number: 20170364367
    Abstract: An information processing system includes an operating unit that receives an input in response to a user operation and that runs under a first operating system; and a main body that runs under a second operating system and operates in response to the input received by the operating unit. The main body includes a generation unit that generates a command to direct rendering of a screen corresponding to an application being executed, and a command transmission control unit that provides control to transmit the command to the operating unit. The operating unit includes a receiving unit that receives the command from the main body, a screen rendering unit that renders the screen in accordance with the command received by the receiving unit, a display unit that displays the screen rendered by the screen rendering unit, and a reboot unit that reboots the operating unit in asynchronization with the main body.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 7, 2017
    Publication date: December 21, 2017
    Applicant: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Yoh MASUYAMA, Tadashi NAGATA, Keisuke IWASA
  • Patent number: 9792127
    Abstract: An information processing system includes an operating unit that receives an input in response to a user operation and that runs under a first operating system; and a main body that runs under a second operating system and operates in response to the input received by the operating unit. The main body includes a generation unit that generates a command to direct rendering of a screen corresponding to an application being executed, and a command transmission control unit that provides control to transmit the command to the operating unit. The operating unit includes a receiving unit that receives the command from the main body, a screen rendering unit that renders the screen in accordance with the command received by the receiving unit, a display unit that displays the screen rendered by the screen rendering unit, and a reboot unit that reboots the operating unit in asynchronization with the main body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2017
    Assignee: RICOH COMPANY, LIMITED
    Inventors: Yoh Masuyama, Tadashi Nagata, Keisuke Iwasa
  • Publication number: 20170244865
    Abstract: An information processing system includes a first storage that stores user information about one or more users of the information processing system; a second storage; a first determining unit that determines, depending on whether a program sets the second storage to store predetermined user information from the user information stored in the first storage, the predetermined user information being used in the program, whether to store the predetermined user information in the second storage; and a user information process unit that obtains the predetermined user information from the user information and stores the predetermined user information in the second storage if the first determining unit determines that the predetermined user information is to be stored in the second storage.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 16, 2015
    Publication date: August 24, 2017
    Applicant: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventor: Tadashi NAGATA
  • Publication number: 20170139658
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes an event detection unit detecting at least one event; a registration unit registering corresponding information in which the event, which is detected by the event detection unit, is associated with a program; and a display unit displaying a screen, which is generated by the program, in accordance with the event, which is detected by the event detection unit, based on the corresponding information which is registered in the registration unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 12, 2015
    Publication date: May 18, 2017
    Applicant: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Tadashi NAGATA, Kohichi HIRAI
  • Publication number: 20170132015
    Abstract: An information processing system includes an operation part that receives an operation performed by a user; and a body part that operates based on a request from the operation part. The operation part includes a power control part that, when receiving a power turning off instruction from the body part, reboots the operation part and causes the operation part to stand by in a power saving state in which some of operations are stopped, and, when receiving a start up notification from the body part, causes the operation part to return from the power saving state.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 16, 2016
    Publication date: May 11, 2017
    Applicant: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Keisuke IWASA, Tadashi NAGATA, Yoh MASUYAMA
  • Patent number: 9621748
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus is disclosed. The information processing apparatus includes a display unit which displays a screen in which is performed an operation for controlling another apparatus; and a control unit which manages an error occurring in the other apparatus and controls displaying/non-displaying of error information which indicates an occurrence of the error, wherein the control unit controls the displaying/non-displaying of the error information based on a relationship between the error occurring and the screen displayed by the display unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2017
    Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Fumiyoshi Kittaka, Tadashi Nagata
  • Publication number: 20170078504
    Abstract: A display input device includes a display panel to display a screen thereon, the screen including a plurality of display areas, and a memory to store specification information, GUI information, and layout information. The GUI information includes information on a plurality of GUIs to be displayed on the screen, the plurality of GUIs being classified into a plurality of groups of GUIs. The layout information associates each one of the plurality of display areas with one group of the plurality of GUIs to be displayed on each display area. The display input device further includes circuitry to scale each display area in accordance with a change in the size or the resolution of the screen, and change one of a size of at least one GUI to be displayed in the scaled display area and a number of GUIs to be displayed in the scaled display area.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 29, 2016
    Publication date: March 16, 2017
    Applicant: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventor: Tadashi NAGATA
  • Patent number: 9563435
    Abstract: An information processing system includes an operation part that receives an operation performed by a user; and a body part that operates based on a request from the operation part. The operation part includes a power control part that, when receiving a power turning off instruction from the body part, reboots the operation part and causes the operation part to stand by in a power saving state in which some of operations are stopped, and, when receiving a start up notification from the body part, causes the operation part to return from the power saving state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 22, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2017
    Assignee: RICOH COMPANY, LTD.
    Inventors: Keisuke Iwasa, Tadashi Nagata, Yoh Masuyama
  • Publication number: 20160360346
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a data format determination unit determining whether data read by near field wireless communications correspond to data read in a peer-to-peer mode; a data attribute determination unit identifying an application that can use the data based on attribute information of the data when it is determined that the data correspond to the data that are read in the peer-to-peer mode; a communication method determination unit identifying an application that can use the data based on a communication method used when the data are read, when it is determined that the data do not correspond to the data that are read in the peer-to-peer mode; and an application use processing unit performing processing so that the application identified by the data attribute determination unit or the application identified by the communication method determination unit can use the data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 23, 2015
    Publication date: December 8, 2016
    Applicant: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventor: Tadashi NAGATA
  • Publication number: 20160274753
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a storage unit that stores, associating with first identification information of a first program, which causes the information processing apparatus to function as a display control unit that displays a screen and to function as a process control unit that executes a process according to an input to the screen, information indicating whether there is a change in the screen and whether there is a change in the process; and a request unit that requires, when there is a change in the screen, a second program related to second identification information associated with the first identification information and stored in the storage unit, to display a changed screen, and that requires, when there is a change in the process, a third program related to third identification information associated with the first identification information and stored in the storage unit, to execute a changed process.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 9, 2014
    Publication date: September 22, 2016
    Applicant: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventor: Tadashi NAGATA
  • Publication number: 20160274919
    Abstract: An information processing system includes an operating unit that receives an input in response to a user operation and that runs under a first operating system; and a main body that runs under a second operating system and operates in response to the input received by the operating unit. The main body includes a generation unit that generates a command to direct rendering of a screen corresponding to an application being executed, and a command transmission control unit that provides control to transmit the command to the operating unit. The operating unit includes a receiving unit that receives the command from the main body, a screen rendering unit that renders the screen in accordance with the command received by the receiving unit, a display unit that displays the screen rendered by the screen rendering unit, and a reboot unit that reboots the operating unit in asynchronization with the main body.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 31, 2016
    Publication date: September 22, 2016
    Applicant: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Yoh MASUYAMA, Tadashi NAGATA, Keisuke IWASA
  • Patent number: 9377829
    Abstract: An information processing system includes an operating unit that receives an input in response to a user operation and that runs under a first operating system; and a main body that runs under a second operating system and operates in response to the input received by the operating unit. The main body includes a generation unit that generates a command to direct rendering of a screen corresponding to an application being executed, and a command transmission control unit that provides control to transmit the command to the operating unit. The operating unit includes a receiving unit that receives the command from the main body, a screen rendering unit that renders the screen in accordance with the command received by the receiving unit, a display unit that displays the screen rendered by the screen rendering unit, and a reboot unit that reboots the operating unit in asynchronization with the main body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 21, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 28, 2016
    Assignee: RICOH COMPANY, LIMITED
    Inventors: Yoh Masuyama, Tadashi Nagata, Keisuke Iwasa
  • Patent number: 9348982
    Abstract: An information processing system, an operating device, and computer-readable storage medium. The operating device acquires, from an operation application program installed in the operating device, function information that indicates a function provided by the operation application program, acquires use authority information that is stored in a use-authority information storage device and is related to user identification information on an operating user that operates the operating device, determines whether the operating user has authority to use the function provided by the operation application program by using the use authority information acquired and the function information acquired, and performs the function when the operating user has the authority to use the function.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2016
    Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Shigeo Negoro, Yoh Masuyama, Keisuke Iwasa, Tadashi Nagata, Kiyohiko Shinomiya, Yutaka Yagiura, Tomoki Shibukawa