Patents by Inventor Takehisa Yamaguchi

Takehisa Yamaguchi 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: 20100153643
    Abstract: It is recognized that an attached USB memory is an unanalyzable USB memory. Then, disconnect setting is made. A USB connection process is performed. A PC is instructed through a connection line to establish USB connection. The PC recognizes that the attached device is a USB-connected MFP. The PC acquires data control information of the MFP. The MFP then transfers, through the connection line, the data control information output from the USB memory.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 15, 2009
    Publication date: June 17, 2010
    Applicant: Konica Minolta Business Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Minako KOBAYASHI, Takehisa Yamaguchi, Katsuhiko Akita, Kazuya Anezaki
  • Publication number: 20100153887
    Abstract: A presentation system comprises a data management apparatus for storing document data for presentation therein, a display device for displaying a plurality of pages contained in the document data, and a terminal device capable of performing communication with the data management apparatus. The terminal device sends request data for requesting attachment of an electronic sticky note to the document data to the data management apparatus via network communication according to an input from a listening user of the presentation. The data management apparatus determines a sticky-note attachment object page out of the plurality of pages, to which the electronic sticky note is to be attached, on the basis of page specifying data included in the request data. Then, the data management apparatus generates a file in which the electronic sticky note is attached to the determined sticky-note attachment object page.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 14, 2009
    Publication date: June 17, 2010
    Applicant: KONICA MINOLTA BUSINESS TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
    Inventors: Takehisa Yamaguchi, Minako Kobayashi, Katsuhiko Akita, Kazuya Anezaki
  • Publication number: 20100085598
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes: an accepter that accepts a complex job including a plurality of jobs to be executed cooperatively by a plurality of image processing apparatuses including this image processing apparatus itself; a job controller that makes the plurality of image processing apparatuses including this image processing apparatus itself, cooperatively execute the plurality of jobs included in the accepted complex job; a job administrator that administers execution states of the respective jobs included in the complex job and generates job information pieces indicating job details and execution states of the respective jobs; and a memory that records in itself the generated job information pieces.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 2, 2009
    Publication date: April 8, 2010
    Applicant: Konica Minolta Business Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Minako KOBAYASHI, Hirohisa Miyamoto, Takehisa Yamaguchi, Katsuhiko Akita
  • Publication number: 20090316206
    Abstract: If a job executed on the data to be processed is stopped due to interruption of a wireless communication with an image processing apparatus and a portable terminal, which happens to occur while the image processing apparatus is receiving the data to be processed, which is transmitted by the portable terminal, the image processing apparatus examines if the portable terminals connected before and after stop of the job execution are one and the same, and requests the portable terminal to retransmit the data to be processed. And then the image processing apparatus resumes executing the job on the data to be processed, which is retransmitted in response to the request.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 19, 2009
    Publication date: December 24, 2009
    Applicant: Konica Minolta Business Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Kazuya ANEZAKI, Minako Kobayashi, Takehisa Yamaguchi, Katsuhiko Akita
  • Publication number: 20090307359
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus has a server cooperation function to transmit data to a data processing server connected therewith via a network and receive processed data after the server performs data processing, and is capable of communicating with a plurality of external apparatuses via the network by establishing concurrent connections. A judger judges whether or not the number of the currently established connections with the external apparatuses reaches a limit number of connections that is an allowed upper limit of concurrent connections, and a controller reserves a connection with the data processing server if the judger judges that the number of the currently established connections with the external apparatuses does not reach the limit number of connections during execution of the server cooperation function, and cancels the reserved connection with the data processing server after the end of the execution of the server cooperation function.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 10, 2009
    Publication date: December 10, 2009
    Applicant: Konica Minolta Business Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Katsuhiko AKITA, Minako KOBAYASHI, Takehisa YAMAGUCHI
  • Publication number: 20090303526
    Abstract: A document data update information providing system has a document data accumulation apparatus and an image forming apparatus interconnected via a network. The document data accumulation apparatus creates update information of document data selectively among those accumulated in the document data accumulation apparatus, by an update information creator. The image forming apparatus transmits a request for update information of document data, thereby obtains the selectively created update information and displays it on a display.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 26, 2009
    Publication date: December 10, 2009
    Applicant: Konica Minolta Business Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Minako Kobayashi, Takehisa Yamaguchi, Katsuhiko Akita
  • Publication number: 20090109472
    Abstract: The subject matter of the present invention described herein is an image transmission system in which an image transmission apparatus uses configuration that has been set in a server. The image transmission apparatus acquires identifiers from the server, and displays the identifiers on a UI screen based on the acquired identifiers. Upon receiving a selection from the UI screen, the image transmission apparatus acquires an address corresponding to the selected identifier from the server, and uses the address for transmission of image data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 16, 2008
    Publication date: April 30, 2009
    Applicant: KONICA MINOLTA BUSINESS TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
    Inventors: Minako Kobayashi, Hirohisa Miyamoto, Takehisa Yamaguchi, Katsuhiko Akita, Okihisa Yoshida
  • Publication number: 20090113010
    Abstract: Upon accepting, from a user B, a new registration of a configuration showing that the user B wishes to receive data via a FAX, a server sets a notification flag to an address book of a user A which includes an address of the user B. Upon accepting a login of the user A, an MFP displays a message to notify the user A of the new registration by the user B, based on the notification flag. The user A, who has notified of the new registration, can transmit the data to the user B with use of the new registration configured by the user B, namely via a FAX. Accordingly, the user B can receive the data via a FAX as the user B wishes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 16, 2008
    Publication date: April 30, 2009
    Applicant: KONICA MINOLTA BUSINESS TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
    Inventors: Minako Kobayashi, Hirohisa Miyamoto, Takehisa Yamaguchi, Katsuhiko Akita, Okihisa Yoshida
  • Publication number: 20090100071
    Abstract: An image transmission apparatus is high in convenience, operability and reliability when newly registering a transmission destination to an address book. The apparatus obtains a list of destination names corresponding to recipients who have registered a recipient setting designating a transmission method; receives from a user a selection of whether to follow the recipient setting; receives from the user (a) if a selection to not follow the recipient setting has been received, a destination name and a transmission method to correspond thereto, and (b) if a selection to follow the recipient setting has been received, a selection of a destination name from the list; in the case of (a), registers the destination name and the transmission method in association as a candidate for the destination; and in the case of (b), registers the selected destination name with an indication that the recipient setting is to be followed, as a candidate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 1, 2008
    Publication date: April 16, 2009
    Applicant: KONICA MINOLTA BUSINESS TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
    Inventors: Minako Kobayashi, Hirohisa Miyamoto, Takehisa Yamaguchi, Katsuhiko Akita, Okihisa Yoshida
  • Publication number: 20090094254
    Abstract: An image transmission system includes an image transmission device and a server that provides recipient information including recipient specification information and a transmission method and destination for image data. The server records, in association with a recipient identifier, recipient-designated recipient information and display mode designation information indicating a display mode for the recipient information. Each time the recipient information and display mode designation information is updated, the server overwrites the recorded information with the updated recipient information and display mode designation information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 1, 2008
    Publication date: April 9, 2009
    Applicant: KONICA MINOLTA BUSINESS TECHNOLOGIES, INC
    Inventors: Katsuhiko Akita, Minako Kobayashi, Hirohisa Miyamoto, Takehisa Yamaguchi, Okihisa Yoshida
  • Publication number: 20090091788
    Abstract: An image sending system including a server and a plurality of image sending apparatuses. The server (i) receives sending method specification information specified by a receiver and indicating a sending method for image data addressed to the receiver, (ii) records the sending method specification information and an identifier of the receiver in association with each other, (iii) and receives updated sending method specification information and rewrites the recorded sending method specification information with the updated sending method specification information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 1, 2008
    Publication date: April 9, 2009
    Applicant: Konica Minolta Business Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Okihisa YOSHIDA, Minako Kobayashi, Hirohisa Miyamoto, Takehisa Yamaguchi, Katsuhiko Akita
  • Publication number: 20090091776
    Abstract: An image transmission apparatus includes a storage part that stores previous transmission methods; a receiving part that receives a destination name from a sender (S4); an obtaining part that obtains, from the address server computer, a new transmission method registered in association with the received destination name (S10); an extracting part that extracts the previous transmission method stored in association with the received destination name (S13); and a selection part that has a sender select one of the obtained new transmission method and the extracted previous transmission method (S20). The image transmission apparatus resolves problems such as a high communication charge being incurred or an image being unable to be transmitted as intended by the sender without a sender realizing, in an environment where recipients can each arbitrarily select a destination according to a setting.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 7, 2008
    Publication date: April 9, 2009
    Applicant: KONICA MINOLTA BUSINESS TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
    Inventors: Minako Kobayashi, Hirohisa Miyamoto, Takehisa Yamaguchi, Katsuhiko Akita, Okihisa Yoshida
  • Publication number: 20090059280
    Abstract: Personal address books of users are stored in an address server. Each user registers, with the personal address book of his/her own, conditions (transmission conditions) that should be satisfied when other users transmit image data to the user. The conditions are registered in correspondence with addresses of the other users. When one of the other users transmits (as a transmission source) to the user (as a transmission destination) who has set the transmission conditions, from an MFP, the transmission conditions, which were set by the transmission destination user with respect to the transmitter, are downloaded from the address server to the transmission source MFP. And then the MFP transmits the image data to the transmission destination user under the downloaded transmission conditions. This enables the transmission destination user to cause the image data to be transmitted thereto under such conditions that match the needs of the transmission destination user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 21, 2008
    Publication date: March 5, 2009
    Applicant: KONICA MINOLTA BUSINESS TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
    Inventors: Takehisa YAMAGUCHI, Hirohisa Miyamoto, Minako Kobayashi, Katsuhiko Akita, Okihisa Yoshida
  • Publication number: 20090055644
    Abstract: An address list management apparatus stores, for each user of an MFP (Multi Function Peripheral), a different address list that lists address information pieces for transmission of image data by the MFP. Upon being instructed by a logged-in user to transmit image data, the MFP transmits, to the address list management apparatus, a request for the address list that specifies the user. Upon receiving the request, the address list management apparatus transmits, to the MFP, a sending list pertaining to the user. The sending list is created by deleting secret information from address information pieces in the address list, and modifying such address information pieces so that image data is transmitted to the address list management apparatus. The address list management apparatus refers to the address list, and transfers the image data to the specified address.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 11, 2008
    Publication date: February 26, 2009
    Applicant: Konica Minolta Business Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Hirohisa MIYAMOTO, Minako Kobayashi, Katsuhiko Akita, Okihisa Yoshida, Takehisa Yamaguchi
  • Publication number: 20080239374
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus (2) capable of providing a box for each user is provided. The image processing apparatus (2) includes a user grouping process portion (205) that determines a total of an amount of a box of a first user that has been used by a second user and an amount of a box of the second user that has been used by the first user, determines whether or not the total is equal to or greater than a predetermined amount, and groups both the users when the total is equal to or greater than the predetermined amount, and a box reset process portion (207) that performs a reset process for providing again the boxes of the grouped first user and the grouped second user in an identical image processing apparatus if the boxes are provided in different image processing apparatuses.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 17, 2008
    Publication date: October 2, 2008
    Applicant: Konica Minolta Business Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Takehisa Yamaguchi, Minako Kobayashi, Hirohisa Miyamoto, Katsuhiko Akita, Okihisa Yoshida
  • Publication number: 20080117456
    Abstract: There is provided an image processing device and a program for image processing. The device is capable of easily handling different deadlines for reply, wherein the deadline depends on the time at which counting of time starts and varies according to the time. In the device of the present invention, a timing unit starts counting time when a print instruction receiving unit receives a print instruction of a file through an operating unit. On the print medium which a printer unit prints out, an identification mark is additionally printed. A content of a process for the image data obtained through the reading by a scanner unit is changed according to whether the time at which the scanner unit reads the print medium on which the identification mark is added is on or before the deadline for reply being set to the file or not.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 8, 2007
    Publication date: May 22, 2008
    Applicant: KONICA MINOLTA BUSINESS TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
    Inventor: Takehisa Yamaguchi
  • Publication number: 20070300283
    Abstract: Broadcasting waves transmitted from a broadcasting device include operation control information for operating peripheral devices on a receiver side in accordance with the contents of a broadcast program in addition to broadcast data about said broadcast program. The receiver outputs the broadcast data to a display device, and transmits an operation command signal dependent on the operation control information to the peripheral devices to operate the peripheral devices in accordance with the contents of the broadcast program. As a result, an air conditioner raises or lowers room temperature and an illumination device blinks according to the progress of the program.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 26, 2007
    Publication date: December 27, 2007
    Applicant: MINOLTA CO., LTD
    Inventors: Takehisa Yamaguchi, Hideki Nagata, Akira Kawabata, Masato Fujii, Yasuaki Serita, Yoshiyuki Tamai, Hiroshi Hatano, Yasumasa Sawai, Kazuhiko Ishimaru
  • Patent number: 7286202
    Abstract: An image display in which a resistance value of internal wiring for inputting a signal and a power supply to a driving IC COG-packaged on an insulating substrate composing a display panel is reduced without enlarging external size of the display panel, and a method of manufacturing the image display. In internal wiring 8 for inputting a signal and a power supply to a driving IC 4 COG-packaged on a first insulating substrate 1, first layer internal wiring 8a is composed of a first conductive film forming a scanning line, etc., and second layer internal wiring 8b is composed of a second conductive film forming a signal line, etc. Connecting wiring 15 for connecting the first layer internal wiring 8a and the second layer internal wiring 8b is formed simultaneously with formation of a display electrode, and the internal wiring 8 is formed into a multi-layer structure connected electrically parallel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 11, 2006
    Date of Patent: October 23, 2007
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Advanced Display
    Inventors: Takehisa Yamaguchi, Hironori Aoki
  • Patent number: 7269843
    Abstract: Broadcasting waves transmitted from a broadcasting device include operation control information for operating peripheral devices on a receiver side in accordance with the contents of a broadcast program in addition to broadcast data about said broadcast program. The receiver outputs the broadcast data to a display device, and transmits an operation command signal dependent on the operation control information to the peripheral devices to operate the peripheral devices in accordance with the contents of the broadcast program. As a result, an air conditioner raises or lowers room temperature and an illumination device blinks according to the progress of the program.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 23, 2001
    Date of Patent: September 11, 2007
    Assignee: Minolta Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Takehisa Yamaguchi, Hideki Nagata, Akira Kawabata, Masato Fujii, Yasuaki Serita, Yoshiyuki Tamai, Hiroshi Hatano, Yasumasa Sawai, Kazuhiko Ishimaru
  • Patent number: 7206056
    Abstract: The display device includes the lead line connected to pixels, the line terminal connected to the lead line and connected to the terminal of the drive circuit mounted directly on the insulating substrate by the conductive material through the transparent conductive film, the external terminal to be connected to an external unit, an external line connected to the external terminal, and an external line terminal connected to the external line and connected directly to the terminal of the drive circuit by the conductive material. The surface of the line terminal to be connected to the transparent conductive film is formed by the high resistance conductive film, and the surface of the external line terminal to be connected to the terminal of the drive circuit by the conductive material is formed by the low resistance conductive film.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 2004
    Date of Patent: April 17, 2007
    Assignee: Advanced Display Inc.
    Inventors: Hitoshi Morishita, Hiroshi Ueda, Hirofumi Iwanaga, Shigeaki Noumi, Takehisa Yamaguchi