Patents by Inventor Takatsugu Kuno
Takatsugu Kuno 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).
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Patent number: 10764467Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes: a determination part that performs an accomplishment determination process which is a process of determining whether or not a job is accomplishable prior to a billing process using a pre-billing method which is a billing method of billing for execution of the job before completion of the job; and a decision part that decides whether or not to perform the billing process based on the determination result of the accomplishment determination process, wherein the decision part decides that the billing process is to be performed for the execution of the job when it is determined that the job is accomplishable, and decides that the billing process is not to be performed for the execution of the job when it is determined that the job is not accomplishable.Type: GrantFiled: August 23, 2019Date of Patent: September 1, 2020Assignee: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.Inventors: Yuji Kawamura, Yoichi Kurumasa, Takatsugu Kuno
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Publication number: 20200106917Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes: a determination part that performs an accomplishment determination process which is a process of determining whether or not a job is accomplishable prior to a billing process using a pre-billing method which is a billing method of billing for execution of the job before completion of the job; and a decision part that decides whether or not to perform the billing process based on the determination result of the accomplishment determination process, wherein the decision part decides that the billing process is to be performed for the execution of the job when it is determined that the job is accomplishable, and decides that the billing process is not to be performed for the execution of the job when it is determined that the job is not accomplishable.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 23, 2019Publication date: April 2, 2020Applicant: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.Inventors: Yuji KAWAMURA, Yoichi KURUMASA, Takatsugu KUNO
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Publication number: 20200059565Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes means for storing data, means for dividing data into a plurality of pieces of element data, and means for performing virus check onto each of the plurality of pieces of element data in a designated order.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 14, 2019Publication date: February 20, 2020Applicant: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.Inventors: Masayuki ITO, Kazuhiro TOMIYASU, Takatsugu KUNO, Hiroshi SUGIURA, Shin OHBA, Akito OTA
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Patent number: 10228843Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes a display for displaying operational information for executing image processing, an operation unit for giving an input instruction in association with a display region appearing on the display, and a controller for controlling the display in accordance with the input instruction on the operation unit. The controller is configured to determine whether an input instruction of a flick operation is given through the operation unit in association with a prescribed display region appearing on the display. If it is determined that the input instruction of the flick operation is given, the controller is configured to enlarge a range of the prescribed display region in which the input instruction is allowed, and to display the enlarged display region on the display.Type: GrantFiled: October 2, 2012Date of Patent: March 12, 2019Assignee: KONICA MINOLTA BUSINESS TECHNOLOGIES, INC.Inventors: Yoichi Kurumasa, Kenichi Sawada, Masahiro Imamura, Atsushi Tomita, Tetsuya Tokumoto, Ryosuke Nishimura, Takatsugu Kuno
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Patent number: 9870117Abstract: Disclosed is a processing apparatus, which makes it possible to make a cursor automatically move by employing a pointing device. The processing apparatus includes a control section and a processing section that implements processing under the controlling operations conducted by the control section.Type: GrantFiled: September 15, 2014Date of Patent: January 16, 2018Assignee: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.Inventors: Shin Ohba, Takatsugu Kuno, Ken Miyazaki, Hiroshi Shimura, Shigeo Konuma
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Patent number: 9762760Abstract: An image processing apparatus comprises: a display that displays a first screen including one or more than one first key for setting a mode to execute a function of the apparatus, and then, if one of the first keys is pressed, displays a second screen including one or more than one second key, which is a lower-class screen under the pressed first key; and a customizing portion that hides at least one of the first and the second keys on the first screen, according to a user operation, and wherein if a user changes to non-display, the setting of at least one of the first keys on the first screen, while there exists a second key preliminarily prohibited from being hidden, on the second screen that is a lower-class screen under the first key to be hidden according to the changed setting, the customizing portion doesn't hide the first key.Type: GrantFiled: February 18, 2011Date of Patent: September 12, 2017Assignee: KONICA MINOLTA BUSINESS TECHNOLOGIES, INC.Inventors: Tsumoru Matsuura, Eiichi Yoshida, Takatsugu Kuno, Kenichi Komaba, Taketoshi Yamahata
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Patent number: 9141269Abstract: A display system includes an image forming device and a mobile communication terminal. In the display system, the mobile communication terminal accepts a flick manipulation to move the screen, and transmits flick information on the accepted flick manipulation to the image forming device. The image forming device decides an area, which is a part of the screen of the mobile communication terminal and in which display is changed when the screen is moving, and sequentially transmits to the mobile communication terminal positional information on the decided area and screen data of the screen before the movement is completed since the movement is started, which is decided based on the flick information in the decided area. The mobile communication terminal displays the screen in the area of the transmitted positional information based on the transmitted screen data.Type: GrantFiled: November 20, 2012Date of Patent: September 22, 2015Assignee: KONICA MINOLTA BUSINESS TECHNOLOGIES, INC.Inventors: Koichi Amiya, Takatsugu Kuno, Hiroshi Murakami, Yusaku Tanaka, Hiroshi Iwamoto, Kenichi Sawada
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Patent number: 9069461Abstract: A display system includes an image forming apparatus for storing screen data and a portable information terminal for displaying a screen based on the screen data stored by the image forming apparatus. The display system accepts flick operation for requesting movement of a screen at the portable communication terminal and transmits flick information concerning the flick operation to the image forming apparatus. The display system successively transmits screen data of screens from the start of movement to completion of movement from the image forming apparatus to the portable communication terminal, based on the flick information. The display system displays a screen based on the transmitted screen data on the portable communication terminal.Type: GrantFiled: October 19, 2012Date of Patent: June 30, 2015Assignee: KONICA MINOLTA BUSINESS TECHNOLOGIES, INC.Inventors: Koichi Amiya, Takatsugu Kuno, Hiroshi Iwamoto, Hiroshi Murakami, Yusaku Tanaka, Kenichi Sawada
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Patent number: 9052860Abstract: An image forming apparatus that prints and edits a document includes a user identification portion, a print management portion that records print management information indicating a user who performs abort operation of printing, an edit management portion that records edit management information, a determination portion that determines, based on the print management information, whether or not the user is a print suspended operator who has performed the abort operation previously, a page extraction portion that, when the print suspended operator performs reprinting operation for giving instructions to print the document that has been updated, extracts pages of the document which were printed successfully when printing of the document was suspended and have been updated thereafter, and a print controller that controls the image forming apparatus such that the image forming apparatus prints at least unprinted pages of the document and the pages extracted by the page extraction portion.Type: GrantFiled: August 20, 2010Date of Patent: June 9, 2015Assignee: KONICA MINOLTA BUSINESS TECHNOLOGIES, INC.Inventors: Taketoshi Yamahata, Tsumoru Matsuura, Eiichi Yoshida, Takatsugu Kuno, Kenichi Komaba
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Patent number: 9036176Abstract: An MFP (Multifunction Peripheral) receives, from a remote terminal, information on a first operation to request the MFP to execute processing. The MFP transmits, to the remote terminal, information on a screen in accordance with the information on the first operation, and receives, from the remote terminal, a report that a screen in accordance with the transmitted information is displayed on the remote terminal. The MFP receives, from the remote terminal, information on a second operation to request the MFP to execute processing, after receipt of the information on the first operation and before receipt of the report, and decides whether to execute or cancel the processing in accordance with the information on the second operation, depending on the type of the information on the second operation.Type: GrantFiled: March 6, 2013Date of Patent: May 19, 2015Assignee: KONICA MINOLTA BUSINESS TECHNOLOGIES, INC.Inventors: Hiroshi Iwamoto, Kenichi Sawada, Takatsugu Kuno, Koichi Amiya, Yusaku Tanaka, Hiroshi Murakami
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Patent number: 9030701Abstract: An MFP (Multi-Functional Peripheral) as an image forming apparatus displays a remote operation screen that is a screen for operating the MFP on an operation terminal and accepts a print setting and a print execution instruction from the operation terminal through the remote operation screen. The MFP prints the acquired image with the print setting accepted through the remote operation screen if a print execution instruction is accepted through a screen of an application different from an application that accepts a request for display of the remote operation screen.Type: GrantFiled: September 17, 2013Date of Patent: May 12, 2015Assignee: Konica Minolta, Inc.Inventors: Koichi Amiya, Kenichi Sawada, Hiroshi Murakami, Yusaku Tanaka, Hiroshi Iwamoto, Takatsugu Kuno
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Publication number: 20150082254Abstract: Disclosed is a processing apparatus, which makes it possible to make a cursor automatically move by employing a pointing device. The processing apparatus includes a control section and a processing section that implements processing under the controlling operations conducted by the control section.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 15, 2014Publication date: March 19, 2015Inventors: Shin OHBA, Takatsugu Kuno, Ken Miyazaki, Hiroshi Shimura, Shigeo Konuma
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Patent number: 8879114Abstract: When an instruction for combine setting is accepted, a reduction ratio of an original image is set as a first reduction ratio based on an orientation of the original image and an orientation of output paper. When an instruction to change the reduction ratio for the previewed original image is accepted, if a reduction ratio after the change (a second reduction ratio) falls within a prescribed range from the first reduction ratio, the first reduction ratio is set as a reduction ratio of the original image for arranging onto a sheet of output paper in combination.Type: GrantFiled: July 6, 2012Date of Patent: November 4, 2014Assignee: Konica Minolta Business Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Kenichi Sawada, Takatsugu Kuno, Masahiro Imamura, Atsushi Tomita, Yoichi Kurumasa, Ryosuke Nishimura, Tetsuya Tokumoto
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Patent number: 8699050Abstract: An image forming device for executing an authentication print job including: a communication interface unit for receiving print data; a job data holding unit for holding job data based on the print data for the authentication print job; a user authentication unit for outputting the result of the user authentication to a control unit; a job execution unit for executing a job based on the job data; a job list generating unit for generating a list of the authentication print jobs; a display unit for displaying the list; and the control unit for, in receiving the result of the user authentication, acquiring a number of the authentication print jobs of the user authenticated by the user authentication, wherein, when the number is greater than or equal to a predetermined number, the control unit causes the job list generating unit to generate the list of the authentication print jobs of the authenticated user, the display unit to display the list, and the job execution unit to execute the authentication print job oType: GrantFiled: June 3, 2009Date of Patent: April 15, 2014Assignee: Konica Minolta Business Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Atsushi Tomita, Kenichi Sawada, Katsushi Sukigara, Shoko Haba, Takatsugu Kuno
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Publication number: 20140078549Abstract: An MFP (Multi-Functional Peripheral) as an image forming apparatus displays a remote operation screen that is a screen for operating the MFP on an operation terminal and accepts a print setting and a print execution instruction from the operation terminal through the remote operation screen. The MFP prints the acquired image with the print setting accepted through the remote operation screen if a print execution instruction is accepted through a screen of an application different from an application that accepts a request for display of the remote operation screen.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 17, 2013Publication date: March 20, 2014Applicant: Konica Minolta, Inc.Inventors: Koichi AMIYA, Kenichi SAWADA, Hiroshi MURAKAMI, Yusaku TANAKA, Hiroshi IWAMOTO, Takatsugu KUNO
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Patent number: 8670147Abstract: An image forming apparatus that prints and edits a document includes a user identification portion, a print management portion that records print management information indicating a user who performs abort operation of printing, an edit management portion that records edit management information, a determination portion that determines, based on the print management information, whether or not the user is a print suspended operator who has performed the abort operation previously, a page extraction portion that, when the print suspended operator performs reprinting operation for giving instructions to print the document that has been updated, extracts pages of the document which were printed successfully when printing of the document was suspended and have been updated thereafter, and a print controller that controls the image forming apparatus such that the image forming apparatus prints at least unprinted pages of the document and the pages extracted by the page extraction portion.Type: GrantFiled: August 20, 2010Date of Patent: March 11, 2014Assignee: Konica Minolta Business Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Taketoshi Yamahata, Tsumoru Matsuura, Eiichi Yoshida, Takatsugu Kuno, Kenichi Komaba
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Patent number: 8621388Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes an operation panel serving as a display apparatus and an input apparatus for accepting a request for performing processing and a control unit for controlling display on the operation panel. The control unit performs determination processing for determining whether a time period required for the processing requested to be performed is predictable or not, provides animation display by continuously displaying two or more windows relating to the processing when it is determined that the time period required for the processing is predictable, and provides pop-up display by displaying one window relating to the processing when it is determined that the time period required for the processing is not predictable.Type: GrantFiled: September 23, 2011Date of Patent: December 31, 2013Assignee: Konica Minolta Business Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Atsushi Tomita, Ryosuke Nishimura, Kenichi Sawada, Takatsugu Kuno, Masahiro Imamura
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Patent number: 8607164Abstract: An image processing apparatus comprising: a display; a controller that displays or hides a function button for use of a function on a display screen on the display according to one or more than one pattern information object indicating the setting whether to display or hide the function button on the display screen; a firmware updater that updates firmware; and a comparator that compares the old and new firmware in terms of the functions installed thereon, and wherein, if the comparison result drawn by the comparator indicates that a new function is added due to the firmware update, the controller displays or hides a first function button for use of the new function according to pattern information for a second function button for use of a function on a higher layer than the new function or pattern information for a group including the second function button.Type: GrantFiled: December 27, 2010Date of Patent: December 10, 2013Assignee: Konica Minolta Business Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Atsushi Tomita, Kenichi Sawada, Takuya Okada, Takeshi Hibino, Takatsugu Kuno
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Publication number: 20130235414Abstract: An MFP (Multifunction Peripheral) receives, from a remote terminal, information on a first operation to request the MFP to execute processing. The MFP transmits, to the remote terminal, information on a screen in accordance with the information on the first operation, and receives, from the remote terminal, a report that a screen in accordance with the transmitted information is displayed on the remote terminal. The MFP receives, from the remote terminal, information on a second operation to request the MFP to execute processing, after receipt of the information on the first operation and before receipt of the report, and decides whether to execute or cancel the processing in accordance with the information on the second operation, depending on the type of the information on the second operation.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 6, 2013Publication date: September 12, 2013Applicant: Konica Minolta Business Technologies, IncInventors: Hiroshi Iwamoto, Kenichi Sawada, Takatsugu Kuno, Koichi Amiya, Yusaku Tanaka, Hiroshi Murakami
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Publication number: 20130127688Abstract: A display system includes an image forming device and a mobile communication terminal. In the display system, the mobile communication terminal accepts a flick manipulation to move the screen, and transmits flick information on the accepted flick manipulation to the image forming device. The image forming device decides an area, which is a part of the screen of the mobile communication terminal and in which display is changed when the screen is moving, and sequentially transmits to the mobile communication terminal positional information on the decided area and screen data of the screen before the movement is completed since the movement is started, which is decided based on the flick information in the decided area. The mobile communication terminal displays the screen in the area of the transmitted positional information based on the transmitted screen data.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 20, 2012Publication date: May 23, 2013Applicant: KONICA MINOLTA BUSINESS TECHNOLOGIES, INC.Inventors: Koichi AMIYA, Takatsugu KUNO, Hiroshi MURAKAMI, Yusaku TANAKA, Hiroshi IWAMOTO, Kenichi SAWADA