Patents by Inventor Takanobu Otsubo

Takanobu Otsubo 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: 20100037133
    Abstract: A document processing device includes: a setting unit that sets an acquisition condition of data to be arranged as an additional element in a region on a printing format document in correlation with the region; an acquiring unit that acquires the data according the acquisition condition set by the setting unit; an arranging unit that arranges the data acquired by the acquiring unit as the additional element in the region on the printing format document, correlated with the condition used for acquisition of the data; and a creating unit that creates a printing format document having data of ground with display contents in which display content by the additional element and display content by the ground are unified, by executing virtual printing for data of the additional element arranged on the printing format document by the arranging unit and data of the ground of the printing format document.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 9, 2009
    Publication date: February 11, 2010
    Applicant: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Takanobu Otsubo
  • Publication number: 20080037051
    Abstract: A document display processor, comprising an image display that displays an image of electronic data and selectively displays apart of the image as an initial condition of the display, and a display controller that selects which part of the image is to be displayed as the initial condition by the image display, the selection is performed per electronic data or per folder storing the electronic data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 7, 2006
    Publication date: February 14, 2008
    Applicant: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Takanobu Otsubo
  • Patent number: 7076096
    Abstract: Disclosed is an image processing device capable of recognizing a specific image such as an image which is prohibited from printing at high speed and, moreover, without being influenced by an image forming process. A drawing command analysis unit analyzes a drawing command received by a drawing command input unit and sends an analysis result to both an output image data generation unit and a recognition image data generation unit. The output image data generation unit generates output image data adapted to an image formation device in accordance with the drawing command. In parallel with the operation, the recognition image data generation unit generates recognition image data adapted to a recognition unit in accordance with the drawing command. The recognition unit performs a process of recognizing a specific image by using the recognition image data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 2001
    Date of Patent: July 11, 2006
    Assignee: Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Takeshi Kunimasa, Toru Hada, Kenichi Ishida, Masao Morita, Yozo Yamaguchi, Masami Kurata, Hiroshi Sekine, Hiroyuki Kawano, Takanobu Otsubo
  • Patent number: 7065259
    Abstract: The present invention provides an image processor and an image processing method wherein a specific image such as an image of which the printing is prohibited can be recognized at high speed and in addition, with high precision. A rendering command analysis unit passes a rendering object to any of a recognition unit for a raster image, a recognition unit for graphics and a recognition unit for a character according to the type of the rendering object in the rendering command and tries to recognize a specific image. The result of recognition by each recognition unit is passed to a recognition determination unit and it is synthetically determined based upon these results of recognition whether the specific image exists or not. Even if the specific image is formed by dividing into plural types of rendering objects, the specific image can be recognized by such recognition processing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 2001
    Date of Patent: June 20, 2006
    Assignee: Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Takeshi Kunimasa, Toru Hada, Kenichi Ishida, Masao Morita, Yozo Yamaguchi, Masami Kurata, Hiroshi Sekine, Hiroyuki Kawano, Takanobu Otsubo
  • Patent number: 7006247
    Abstract: There is provided an image processing apparatus where in an additional image storage unit 3, a color additional image is stored into a color image storage unit 4, and a black/white additional image is stored into a black/white image storage unit 5. A color judging unit 2 judges as to whether an input image corresponds to a color image, or a black/white image every page thereof. Based upon the judgment result of the color judging unit 2, an image synthesizing unit 6 adds the color additional image stored in the color image storage unit 4 to the input image when the input image is the color image, and adds the black/white additional image stored in the black/white image storage unit 5 in the input image when the input image is the black/white image. Then, the image synthesizing unit 6 outputs the resulting image synthesized with the additional image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 22, 2000
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2006
    Assignee: Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hiroshi Sekine, Hiroyuki Kawano, Takanobu Otsubo
  • Publication number: 20010036315
    Abstract: Disclosed is an image processing device capable of recognizing a specific image such as an image which is prohibited from printing at high speed and, moreover, without being influenced by an image forming process. A drawing command analysis unit analyzes a drawing command received by a drawing command input unit and sends an analysis result to both an output image data generation unit and a recognition image data generation unit. The output image data generation unit generates output image data adapted to an image formation device in accordance with the drawing command. In parallel with the operation, the recognition image data generation unit generates recognition image data adapted to a recognition unit in accordance with the drawing command. The recognition unit performs a process of recognizing a specific image by using the recognition image data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 26, 2001
    Publication date: November 1, 2001
    Applicant: Fuji Xerox Co, Ltd.
    Inventors: Takeshi Kunimasa, Toru Hada, Kenichi Ishida, Masao Morita, Yozo Yamaguchi, Masami Kurata, Hiroshi Sekine, Hiroyuki Kawano, Takanobu Otsubo
  • Publication number: 20010036316
    Abstract: The present invention provides an image processor and an image processing method wherein a specific image such as an image of which the printing is prohibited can be recognized at high speed and in addition, with high precision. A rendering command analysis unit passes a rendering object to any of a recognition unit for a raster image, a recognition unit for graphics and a recognition unit for a character according to the type of the rendering object in the rendering command and tries to recognize a specific image. The result of recognition by each recognition unit is passed to a recognition determination unit and it is synthetically determined based upon these results of recognition whether the specific image exists or not. Even if the specific image is formed by dividing into plural types of rendering objects, the specific image can be recognized by such recognition processing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 26, 2001
    Publication date: November 1, 2001
    Applicant: Fuji Xerox Co, Ltd.
    Inventors: Takeshi Kunimasa, Toru Hada, Kenichi Ishida, Masao Morita, Yozo Yamaguchi, Masami Kurata, Hiroshi Sekine, Hiroyuki Kawano, Takanobu Otsubo
  • Publication number: 20010035982
    Abstract: The present invention provides an image processor that enables recognition of a specific image such as an image of which the printing is prohibited at high speed and in addition, with high precision. Image data input to an image formation device is converted to output image data in a PDL conversion unit and it is determined in a preliminary determination unit whether a certain condition is met or not. Only if the certain condition is met, processing for recognizing the specific image is executed by a recognition unit. If the certain condition is not met, it is considered that the possibility of including the specific image is low and no processing for recognizing the specific image is executed. Therefore, the processing can be sped up by the quantity in which no recognition processing is executed. Also, as recognition processing is executed if the certain condition is met and there is the possibility of including the specific image, the precision of recognizing the specific image is never deteriorated.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 25, 2001
    Publication date: November 1, 2001
    Applicant: Fuji Xerox Co, Ltd.
    Inventors: Takanobu Otsubo, Hiroshi Sekine, Hiroyuki Kawano
  • Patent number: RE47951
    Abstract: There is provided an image processing apparatus where in an additional image storage unit 3, a color additional image is stored into a color image storage unit 4, and a black/white additional image is stored into a black/white image storage unit 5. A color judging unit 2 judges as to whether an input image corresponds to a color image, or a black/white image every page thereof. Based upon the judgment result of the color judging unit 2, an image synthesizing unit 6 adds the color additional image stored in the color image storage unit 4 to the input image when the input image is the color image, and adds the black/white additional image stored in the black/white image storage unit 5 in the input image when the input image is the black/white image. Then, the image synthesizing unit 6 outputs the resulting image synthesized with the additional image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 14, 2020
    Assignee: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hiroshi Sekine, Hiroyuki Kawano, Takanobu Otsubo