Patents by Inventor Takahiro Asai

Takahiro Asai 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: 9077851
    Abstract: A transmission terminal receives image data from one or more counterpart transmission terminals via a relay device, and displays one or more images based on the received image data on a display. When the transmission terminal receives message data from a management system in alternative to image data to be transmitted from one of the one or more counterpart transmission terminals, the transmission terminal displays a message on the display based on the received message data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 7, 2015
    Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Yoshinaga Kato, Takahiro Asai, Masayuki Ishigami
  • Publication number: 20150186015
    Abstract: A communication terminal includes a display control unit configured to display, on a display unit, a function selecting screen that contains a first icon for receiving a selection of a first communication function and a second icon for receiving a selection of a second communication function. The first communication function is to provide communication using a signaling protocol for connecting to or disconnecting from a destination of communication and an encoding protocol for encapsulating communication data in IP packets. The second communication function is to provide communication using the same signaling protocol and a different encoding protocol. The communication terminal also includes a receiving unit configured to receive a selection of the first icon or the second icon; and a starting unit configured to start the first communication function and the second communication function in response to the selection of the first icon and the second icon, respectively.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 11, 2015
    Publication date: July 2, 2015
    Inventors: Hiroyuki KANDA, Takahiro ASAI
  • Publication number: 20150189237
    Abstract: A communication management system includes a storage unit configured to store therein destination information of a first communication terminal that establishes a first session with a relay device that relays communication data, destination information of a conversion system that performs mutual conversion between communication schemes of communication data transmitted from the first communication terminal and a second communication terminal and establishes a second session with the relay device, and destination information of the second communication terminal that establishes a third session with the conversion system; a receiving unit configured to receive start request information to start communication between the communication terminals from the first communication terminal; an extracting unit configured to extract destination information of each communication terminal and the conversion system stored in the storage unit, based on the received start request information; and a transmitting unit configured
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 13, 2015
    Publication date: July 2, 2015
    Inventor: Takahiro ASAI
  • Patent number: 9066358
    Abstract: A mobile communication terminal including multiple receiving antennas demodulates an interfering UE-specific reference signal that might be used in another mobile communication terminal, and analyzes interference parameters specified by the interfering UE-specific reference signal demodulated by the interfering UE-specific reference signal demodulator, the interference parameters being parameters with regard to another beam sent to another mobile communication terminal from an interfering base station. Then, the mobile communication terminal calculates receiving weights so as to suppress influence to the desired beam from other beams, on the basis of desired beam parameters and the interference parameters.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 19, 2012
    Date of Patent: June 23, 2015
    Assignee: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Yusuke Ohwatari, Nobuhiko Miki, Takahiro Asai, Yukihiko Okumura
  • Publication number: 20150170326
    Abstract: A transmission terminal transmits video data and display data of a screen shared with another transmission terminal to the other transmission terminal via a predetermined relay apparatus. The transmission terminal includes a storage unit that stores relay apparatus information of the relay apparatus to which the transmission terminal transmits the video data; a receive unit that receives the display data from an external input apparatus connected to the transmission terminal; and a transmitting unit that transmits the display data received by the receive unit to the relay apparatus indicated by the relay apparatus information stored in the storage unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 26, 2015
    Publication date: June 18, 2015
    Inventors: Kenji TANAKA, Alain VOLMAT, Masaki NAKAGAWA, Takahiro ASAI
  • Patent number: 9031009
    Abstract: The present invention provide a transmitting/receiving device that includes a sensing period information setting part for, in an interfering system that shares at least a part of a frequency band with an interfered system, setting sensing period information that shows a sensing period for a signal using a shared frequency band; and a transmission prohibition period information notifying part for notifying a terminal in the interfering system of transmission prohibition period information for prohibiting transmission processing in the interfering system until an end of the sensing period, a maximum transmission period for one transmission by the terminal in the interfering system prior to a start point of the sensing period.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2010
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2015
    Assignee: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Hiromasa Fujii, Takahiro Asai, Tomoyuki Ohya
  • Publication number: 20150121253
    Abstract: A communication terminal includes a display control unit configured to display, on a display unit, a function selecting screen that contains a first icon for receiving a selection of a first communication function and a second icon for receiving a selection of a second communication function. The first communication function is to provide communication using a signaling protocol for connecting to or disconnecting from a destination of communication and an encoding protocol for encapsulating communication data in IP packets. The second communication function is to provide communication using the same signaling protocol and a different encoding protocol. The communication terminal also includes a receiving unit configured to receive a selection of the first icon or the second icon; and a starting unit configured to start the first communication function and the second communication function in response to the selection of the first icon and the second icon, respectively.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 1, 2013
    Publication date: April 30, 2015
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Kanda, Takahiro Asai
  • Patent number: 9017932
    Abstract: A processed substrate and a method for easily manufacturing the processed substrate with high efficiency are provided, the processed substrate having openings in respective surfaces thereof that are matched to each other in size. The processed substrate includes a light transmissive substrate having a plurality of through-holes. Each of the through-holes has a large-diameter opening and a small-diameter opening, the large-diameter opening being larger in size than the small-diameter opening by 5% or less of the size of the large-diameter opening. As such, through-holes with openings in the respective surfaces of the processed substrate that are matched to each other in size can be provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 4, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 28, 2015
    Assignee: Tokyo Ohka Kogyo Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hirofumi Imai, Koki Tamura, Koichi Misumi, Takahiro Asai
  • Patent number: 9001179
    Abstract: A transmission terminal transmits video data and display data of a screen shared with another transmission terminal to the other transmission terminal via a predetermined relay apparatus. The transmission terminal includes a storage unit that stores relay apparatus information of the relay apparatus to which the transmission terminal transmits the video data; a receive unit that receives the display data from an external input apparatus connected to the transmission terminal; and a transmitting unit that transmits the display data received by the receive unit to the relay apparatus indicated by the relay apparatus information stored in the storage unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 7, 2015
    Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Kenji Tanaka, Alain Volmat, Masaki Nakagawa, Takahiro Asai
  • Publication number: 20150092005
    Abstract: An information providing device is capable of communicating with an image forming device, a data managing device, and a transmission terminal. The information providing device includes a storage unit; a communication unit that transmits a forming instruction to instruct the image forming device to perform image forming, and receives, from the image forming device, storage location information indicating the data managing device that stores data obtained by image forming by the image forming device and indicating a storage location in the data managing device; and a storage location managing unit that generates, in the storage unit, management information in which identification information of the image data is associated with the storage location information. The communication unit receives the data saved in the storage location indicated by the storage location information from the data managing device and transmits the received data to the transmission terminal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 10, 2014
    Publication date: April 2, 2015
    Inventors: Yoshinaga KATO, Takahiro Asai
  • Patent number: 8980997
    Abstract: Disclosed is an adhesive composition in which a solid component is dissolved in a solvent, the solid component being dissolved in the solvent to have a solid component content of not less than 20% by weight with respect to a total amount of the solid component and the solvent, the solid component containing resin obtained by polymerizing a monomer composition that contains a cycloolefin monomer, the solvent having no carbon-carbon double bond, and an alcohol content contained in the solvent being not more than 0.45% by weight with respect to an entire amount of the solvent.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 17, 2015
    Assignee: Tokyo Ohka Kogyo Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Koki Tamura, Takahiro Asai, Atsushi Kubo, Hirofumi Imai, Takahiro Yoshioka
  • Publication number: 20150074196
    Abstract: An information processing terminal is disclosed, including a generation part and a transmission part. The generation part generates image data indicating a first image where address information of predetermined data is embedded in a second image being displayed at a display device. The transmission part transmits the image data generated by the generation part to have a destination for sharing the second image be a share of the image data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 2, 2014
    Publication date: March 12, 2015
    Inventors: Taro OKUYAMA, Takahiro Asai
  • Publication number: 20150062286
    Abstract: A transmission management system stores association information that associates, for each one of a plurality of starting terminals, starting terminal identification information for identifying the starting terminal capable of requesting to start communication with one or more candidate counterpart terminals, and candidate counterpart terminal identification information for identifying each one of the one or more candidate counterpart terminals.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 27, 2014
    Publication date: March 5, 2015
    Inventors: Yuya AKIMOTO, Ryoji Shimamoto, Takahiro Asai, Yohei Yamamoto, Kaoru Maeda
  • Patent number: 8963990
    Abstract: An apparatus, system, and method of managing data transmission are provided, each of which is capable of generating reservation information regarding communication reserved for at least one of a first transmission terminal and a second transmission terminal, in response to a communication start request that requests to start communication between the first transmission terminal and the second transmission terminal. The reservation information is generated, for example, based on first time information indicating the time at which communication reserved for the first transmission terminal is scheduled to start, and second time information indicating the time at which communication reserved for the second transmission terminal is scheduled to start. The reservation information is transmitted to the first transmission terminal. The data transmission management method may be implemented in the form of a program stored in a non-transitory recording medium.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 24, 2015
    Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Kaoru Maeda, Takahiro Asai, Naoki Umehara
  • Patent number: 8964713
    Abstract: A transmission management system manages, for items of transmission terminal identification information for identifying transmission terminals, respectively, relay apparatus identification information for identifying relay apparatuses capable of relaying content data transmitted from each of transmission terminals; receives, from the transmission terminal acting as a request source, items of the terminal identification information for identifying the transmission terminal acting as the request source and the transmission terminal acting as a destination, respectively; searches the relay apparatus identification information based on the received items of the terminal identification information for identifying the transmission terminals acting as the request source and the destination, respectively, and extracts items of the relay apparatus identification information each being common to the items of the transmission terminal acting as the request source and the destination, respectively.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 17, 2011
    Date of Patent: February 24, 2015
    Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Hiroshi Hinohara, Takahiro Asai, Kunio Okita
  • Patent number: 8949593
    Abstract: An authentication system receives encrypted terminal identification information and terminal identification information, from a transmission terminal, and determines whether decrypted identification information decrypted using a terminal public key obtained by the authentication system matches the terminal identification information received from the transmission terminal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 11, 2011
    Date of Patent: February 3, 2015
    Assignee: Ricoh Company, Limited
    Inventors: Masaki Nakagawa, Alain Volmat, Takahiro Asai
  • Patent number: 8947711
    Abstract: An information providing device is capable of communicating with an image forming device, a data managing device, and a transmission terminal. The information providing device includes a storage unit; a communication unit that transmits a forming instruction to instruct the image forming device to perform image forming, and receives, from the image forming device, storage location information indicating the data managing device that stores data obtained by image forming by the image forming device and indicating a storage location in the data managing device; and a storage location managing unit that generates, in the storage unit, management information in which identification information of the image data is associated with the storage location information. The communication unit receives the data saved in the storage location indicated by the storage location information from the data managing device and transmits the received data to the transmission terminal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 19, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 3, 2015
    Assignee: Ricoh Company, Limited
    Inventors: Yoshinaga Kato, Takahiro Asai
  • Publication number: 20150021907
    Abstract: To provide a fuel line joint capable of improving resistance to an external force in a joint configured to store a liquid fuel. A fuel line joint is equipped with an integrally formed main body portion that has a storage region configured to store a liquid fuel in a lower part thereof and has an opening portion above the storage region of the liquid fuel; a lid that is formed separately from the main body portion, is attached to the main body portion so as to close the opening portion of the main body portion, and is not connected to members other than the main body portion; and a plurality of mounting portions that is formed integrally with the main body portion and mounted to each of a plurality of pipes forming a fuel line.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 11, 2014
    Publication date: January 22, 2015
    Inventor: Takahiro ASAI
  • Publication number: 20150009281
    Abstract: A transmission management system includes: a relay device management unit that manages relay device-specifying information for specifying each relay device on a communication network, for every piece of relay device-identification information for identifying each relay device; a terminal management unit that manages terminal-specifying information for specifying each transmission terminal on the communication network; a receiving unit that receives, from a transmission terminal as a predetermined request source, terminal-identification information for the request source and terminal-identification information for a transmission terminal as a destination; an extracting unit that extracts the terminal-specifying information of a corresponding transmission terminal based on the terminal-identification information for the request source; and a primary selecting unit that selects two or more pieces of relay device-identification information of relay devices, to which relay device-specifying information representin
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 22, 2014
    Publication date: January 8, 2015
    Inventors: Kunio OKITA, Takahiro ASAI
  • Patent number: 8930524
    Abstract: A status reporting apparatus for reporting a status of an image processing apparatus operating in connection with a network includes a status detector, a status report destination information obtainer, and a status reporting unit. The status detector detects a status of the image processing apparatus. The status report destination information obtainer obtains information on at least one report destination to which the status detected by the status detector is to be reported in accordance with status report destination information in which the status of the image processing apparatus is associated with the information on the at least one report destination. The status reporting unit reports the status detected by the status detector to the at least one report destination on which the information is obtained by the status report destination information obtainer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 5, 2009
    Date of Patent: January 6, 2015
    Assignee: Ricoh Company, Limited
    Inventors: Takahiro Asai, Naoki Umehara