Patents by Inventor Takashi Sugaya

Takashi Sugaya 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: 11953945
    Abstract: A body part of a camera includes a display that is at least partially flexible. A display part of the display includes a first display part and a second display part that are integrally formed. A hinge part that connects the first display part to the second display part to be rotatable relative to each other is provided in the vicinity of a bendable part located at a boundary of each display part. The display is bendable in accordance with rotation of the hinge part with the bendable part as a starting point. An operation member is disposed on a back surface of the second display part, and the operation member is exposed to the outside in a bent state of the display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 7, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Keisuke Fukuyo, Takashi Yoshida, Yohei Yamada, Kazuki Sugaya
  • Publication number: 20230401012
    Abstract: A control method for an image processing apparatus having a remote control mode in which a control instruction is received from a terminal device, includes: causing the image processing apparatus to transition to the remote control mode; receiving, by the terminal device, an operation by RPA and giving a control instruction to the image processing apparatus, wherein the image processing apparatus cancels the remote control mode when a period during which there is no communication with the terminal device reaches a certain period of time, and in the receiving, the terminal device repeats communication with the image processing apparatus at a cycle shorter than the certain period of time after giving the control instruction to the image processing apparatus.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 5, 2023
    Publication date: December 14, 2023
    Inventor: TAKASHI SUGAYA
  • Publication number: 20230029567
    Abstract: An optical element includes a resin base; and multiple films on a surface of the resin base, the multiple films including: a first film having a first defect density; and a second film over the first film, the second film having a second defect density smaller than the first defect density of the first film.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 26, 2022
    Publication date: February 2, 2023
    Inventors: Nobuto HOSONO, Jun WATANABE, Takashi SUGAYA
  • Patent number: 10881288
    Abstract: An ophthalmic apparatus that includes a light source of wavelength sweeping type; a measurement optical system; a reference optical system; a light receiving element that receives interference light; a sample clock signal generator that generates a sample clock signal from the light from the light source, the sample clock signal cyclically changing at equal frequency intervals; a signal processor that samples an interference signal based on the sample clock signal, the interference signal being outputted from the light receiving element when the light receiving element receives the interference light. The ophthalmic apparatus generates period data based on the sample clock signal, the period data indicating a relationship between a period of the sample clock signal and time; and determines a processing duration of the interference signal sampled at the signal processor based on the period data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 5, 2021
    Assignee: TOMEY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yuji Nozawa, Takashi Sugaya, Chihiro Kato
  • Patent number: 10740428
    Abstract: An operation processing device used to operate an information device is provided. The operation processing device includes a script execution portion configured to execute a script used for the operation processing device to cause the information device to perform a process in a state where a web page including the script is displayed; a display processing portion configured to finish, in response to operation for giving a command to finish display of the web page performed during execution of the script, the display of the web page in accordance with the operation; and a script continued execution portion configured to take over, when the display processing portion finishes the display of the web page, the script from the script execution portion to execute the script.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 21, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 11, 2020
    Assignee: Konica Minolta, Inc.
    Inventors: Takashi Sugaya, Jun Kunioka, Hiroshi Iwamoto, Takeshi Hibino, Yukina Hisada
  • Publication number: 20200205654
    Abstract: An ophthalmic apparatus that includes a light source of wavelength sweeping type; a measurement optical system; a reference optical system; a light receiving element that receives interference light; a sample clock signal generator that generates a sample clock signal from the light from the light source, the sample clock signal cyclically changing at equal frequency intervals; a signal processor that samples an interference signal based on the sample clock signal, the interference signal being outputted from the light receiving element when the light receiving element receives the interference light. The ophthalmic apparatus generates period data based on the sample clock signal, the period data indicating a relationship between a period of the sample clock signal and time; and determines a processing duration of the interference signal sampled at the signal processor based on the period data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 20, 2019
    Publication date: July 2, 2020
    Inventors: Yuji Nozawa, Takashi Sugaya, Chihiro Kato
  • Patent number: 10616060
    Abstract: An apparatus for selectively applying settings for each of items set in a first processing device to a second processing device is provided. The settings for each of the items are indicated in each file, and the file is dividable into sets of separate data having a predetermined size or smaller. The apparatus includes a user interface configured to allow a user to choose target separate data from among the sets of separate data of each of the files; a selection portion configured to set, at selected data, the sets of separate data of a file having the target separate data among the files; and an application processing portion configured to perform application processing for applying the settings to the second processing device by using, among the sets of separate data of each of the files, the sets of separate data set at the selected data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 21, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 7, 2020
    Assignee: Konica Minolta, Inc.
    Inventors: Shinichi Asai, Takashi Sugaya, Hideyuki Matsuda, Yu Sonoda, Shohei Ichiyama
  • Publication number: 20200034555
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a virus check unit that performs a virus check, a reception unit that receives data from an external apparatus, and an execution control unit that causes the virus check unit to perform the virus check on the data when a specific condition is satisfied after the receipt of the data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 19, 2019
    Publication date: January 30, 2020
    Applicant: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.
    Inventors: Hiroyuki OHNO, Takeshi HIBINO, Hiroaki SUGIMOTO, Takashi SUGAYA, Taro YAMAMOTO
  • Patent number: 10447873
    Abstract: A display device, comprises: a manipulation input part that receives user operation; a display part on which a list screen showing a plurality of data elements in a list form is displayed; and a hardware processor that: obtains the data element to display on the list screen; and creates the list screen based on the obtained data element and displays on the display part. The hardware processor obtains a number of the data element that is more than a number that can be displayed on the list screen and that enables a time required until completion of displaying the list screen to be less than a predetermined period of time and outputs the number of the data element that can be displayed on the list screen, and stores the data element exceeding the number that can be displayed on the list screen as cache.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2019
    Assignee: Konica Minolta, Inc.
    Inventor: Takashi Sugaya
  • Patent number: 10409580
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes a first storage area for storing firmware including a processing program for communication processing with an external terminal, and a processor. A processor starts execution of the processing program when a request to start the communication processing is received from the external terminal during execution of the firmware in the first storage area, and stores a modification program supplied into a second storage area when the modification program is received during execution of the processing program. The modification program is a modified program of at least a partial program in the processing program. The processor terminates execution of the processing program when a request to terminate the communication processing is received, and rewrites the processing program in the first storage area using the modification program in the second storage area when execution of the processing program is terminated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2019
    Assignee: Konica Minolta, Inc.
    Inventors: Takashi Sugaya, Jun Kunioka, Taketoshi Yamahata, Yusaku Tanaka, Zhenhuan Qu
  • Publication number: 20190141205
    Abstract: A display device, comprises: a manipulation input part that receives user operation; a display part on which a list screen showing a plurality of data elements in a list form is displayed; and a hardware processor that: obtains the data element to display on the list screen; and creates the list screen based on the obtained data element and displays on the display part. The hardware processor obtains a number of the data element that is more than a number that can be displayed on the list screen and that enables a time required until completion of displaying the list screen to be less than a predetermined period of time and outputs the number of the data element that can be displayed on the list screen, and stores the data element exceeding the number that can be displayed on the list screen as cash.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 25, 2018
    Publication date: May 9, 2019
    Applicant: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.
    Inventor: Takashi Sugaya
  • Publication number: 20170090905
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes a first storage area for storing firmware including a processing program for communication processing with an external terminal, and a processor. A processor starts execution of the processing program when a request to start the communication processing is received from the external terminal during execution of the firmware in the first storage area, and stores a modification program supplied into a second storage area when the modification program is received during execution of the processing program. The modification program is a modified program of at least a partial program in the processing program. The processor terminates execution of the processing program when a request to terminate the communication processing is received, and rewrites the processing program in the first storage area using the modification program in the second storage area when execution of the processing program is terminated.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 28, 2016
    Publication date: March 30, 2017
    Applicant: Konica Minolta, Inc.
    Inventors: Takashi SUGAYA, Jun KUNIOKA, Taketoshi YAMAHATA, Yusaku TANAKA, Zhenhuan QU
  • Publication number: 20170033993
    Abstract: An apparatus for selectively applying settings for each of items set in a first processing device to a second processing device is provided. The settings for each of the items are indicated in each file, and the file is dividable into sets of separate data having a predetermined size or smaller. The apparatus includes a user interface configured to allow a user to choose target separate data from among the sets of separate data of each of the files; a selection portion configured to set, at selected data, the sets of separate data of a file having the target separate data among the files; and an application processing portion configured to perform application processing for applying the settings to the second processing device by using, among the sets of separate data of each of the files, the sets of separate data set at the selected data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 21, 2016
    Publication date: February 2, 2017
    Applicant: Konica Minolta, Inc.
    Inventors: Shinichi Asai, Takashi Sugaya, Hideyuki Matsuda, Yu Sonoda, Shohei Ichiyama
  • Publication number: 20160357486
    Abstract: A data providing device includes a transmission unit configured to transmit at least one of a plurality of pieces of data to a terminal device, and a compression unit configured to compress the at least one of the plurality of pieces of data, the data providing device including: a reception unit configured to receive, from the terminal device, specification of one or a plurality of pieces of target data that are transmission targets among the plurality of pieces of data, wherein, in a case where the number of pieces of the one or the plurality of pieces of target data is less than a predetermined number, the transmission unit transmits the target data to the terminal device without the compression unit compressing the target data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 3, 2016
    Publication date: December 8, 2016
    Applicant: Konica Minolta, Inc.
    Inventors: Yu SONODA, Takashi SUGAYA, Shinichi ASAI, Hideyuki MATSUDA
  • Patent number: 9467497
    Abstract: An image forming device having a function of a web server receives a data transmission request relating to a first web page from an external device; and transmits first data (including a first script for automatically transmitting a periodic request (first periodic request) from a browser of the external device to the web server) to the external device in response to the data transmission request. The image forming device transmits second data (including a second script for automatically transmitting a periodic request (second periodic request) from the browser to the web server while the second web page is being displayed) to the external device in response to a new page call command transmitted from the external device, the new page call command being for calling the second web page from the first web page.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 1, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2016
    Assignee: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.
    Inventors: Takashi Sugaya, Jun Kunioka, Hiroshi Iwamoto, Takeshi Hibino, Yukina Hisada
  • Publication number: 20150324159
    Abstract: An image forming device having a function of a web server receives a data transmission request relating to a first web page from an external device; and transmits first data (including a first script for automatically transmitting a periodic request (first periodic request) from a browser of the external device to the web server) to the external device in response to the data transmission request. The image forming device transmits second data (including a second script for automatically transmitting a periodic request (second periodic request) from the browser to the web server while the second web page is being displayed) to the external device in response to a new page call command transmitted from the external device, the new page call command being for calling the second web page from the first web page.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 1, 2015
    Publication date: November 12, 2015
    Applicant: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.
    Inventors: Takashi SUGAYA, Jun KUNIOKA, Hiroshi IWAMOTO, Takeshi HIBINO, Yukina HISADA
  • Patent number: 9124750
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes: a user identification unit that identifies a user of the apparatus; a registration determination unit that determines whether the settings required for using a function of the apparatus are registered in a user registration unit when a user issues an instruction to execute the function, the settings being related to the user having issued the instruction, the user registration unit being capable of registering settings for each user with respect to setting items including items required for using the function and arbitrary items; a first execution unit that executes the function when the registration determination unit determines that the settings required for using the function are registered; and a second execution unit that performs a predetermined operation other than execution of the function when the registration determination unit determines that the settings required for using the function are not registered.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 25, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 1, 2015
    Assignee: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.
    Inventors: Hiroshi Iwamoto, Jun Kunioka, Takashi Sugaya, Yukina Hisada, Takeshi Hibino
  • Publication number: 20150220654
    Abstract: An operation processing device used to operate an information device is provided. The operation processing device includes a script execution portion configured to execute a script used for the operation processing device to cause the information device to perform a process in a state where a web page including the script is displayed; a display processing portion configured to finish, in response to operation for giving a command to finish display of the web page performed during execution of the script, the display of the web page in accordance with the operation; and a script continued execution portion configured to take over, when the display processing portion finishes the display of the web page, the script from the script execution portion to execute the script.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 21, 2015
    Publication date: August 6, 2015
    Inventors: Takashi Sugaya, Jun Kunioka, Hiroshi Iwamoto, Takeshi Hibino, Yukina Hisada
  • Publication number: 20150146227
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes: a user identification unit that identifies a user of the apparatus; a registration determination unit that determines whether the settings required for using a function of the apparatus are registered in a user registration unit when a user issues an instruction to execute the function, the settings being related to the user having issued the instruction, the user registration unit being capable of registering settings for each user with respect to setting items including items required for using the function and arbitrary items; a first execution unit that executes the function when the registration determination unit determines that the settings required for using the function are registered; and a second execution unit that performs a predetermined operation other than execution of the function when the registration determination unit determines that the settings required for using the function are not registered.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 25, 2014
    Publication date: May 28, 2015
    Applicant: Konica Minolta Inc.
    Inventors: Hiroshi IWAMOTO, Jun KUNIOKA, Takashi SUGAYA, Yukina HISADA, Takeshi HIBINO
  • Patent number: 9032286
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus can conduct communication with a terminal through a network, and includes a storage, a communication unit, and a changing unit. The storage stores a setting Web page which is of a Web page used to change a setting of the image processing apparatus. The communication unit transmits the setting Web page to the terminal on a request from the terminal. The changing unit changes the setting of the image processing apparatus when a request is made to the setting Web page from the terminal. The setting Web page includes a description that notifies another image processing apparatus, which can conduct communication with the terminal, of a setting content of the image processing apparatus, the setting content being input to the setting Web page from the terminal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2015
    Assignee: Konica Minolta Business Technologies, Inc.
    Inventor: Takashi Sugaya