Patents by Inventor Tatsuhiko SONE

Tatsuhiko SONE 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: 20200159469
    Abstract: A portable terminal has a memory having a program stored thereon and readably by a computer. The program causes the portable terminal to perform acquiring group ID and setting information, storing the group ID and the setting information in association with each other, receiving first instruction information for instructing execution of association processing for the stored group ID, acquiring device ID to identify the device, to which the portable terminal is brought close, from the device through the data acquisition interface, executing the association processing of associating the stored group ID and the device ID acquired through the data acquisition interface after receiving the first instruction information and acquiring the device ID through the data acquisition interface, and storing the association, and after executing the association processing, transmitting the setting information associated with the group ID to the device associated with the group ID, through the network interface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 22, 2020
    Publication date: May 21, 2020
    Inventor: Tatsuhiko Sone
  • Patent number: 10659634
    Abstract: A terminal device may register first device information of a first image processing device in a memory; specify by using the first device information, N applications corresponding to one or more types of image processes that the first image processing device is capable of executing from among M applications; display a first menu screen on a display unit, the first menu screen including N icons indicating the specified N applications, each of the N icons having a first type of displaying state that is capable of accepting a selecting operation for using an application, the first menu screen not including each of (M?N) icons having the first type of displaying state, the (M?N) icons indicating (M?N) applications; send an execution instruction to the first image processing device by using a target application indicated by a target icon selected from among the N icons in the first menu screen.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 19, 2020
    Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Tatsuhiko Sone
  • Patent number: 10652427
    Abstract: A terminal device may be configured to acquire a first signal from a hardware of the terminal device, determine, by using the first signal, whether the distance between the terminal device and a communication device is less than or equal to a threshold value, and in a case where it is determined that the distance between the terminal device and the communication device is less than or equal to the threshold, supply a trigger instruction to an Operating System (OS) program of the terminal device even if a button that may be displayed on a display of the terminal device for supplying the trigger instruction to the OS program is not selected. The OS program may (1) display a notification screen on the display unit and (2) supply a change instruction to the first wireless interface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2020
    Assignee: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Takeshi Shiotani, Tatsuhiko Sone
  • Patent number: 10637944
    Abstract: In an information-processing terminal, a controller is configured to perform: receiving an image-related command operation for instructing an image-processing device to execute an image-related operation via an operation interface; and transmitting image-related command information to the image-processing device via a communication interface in response to receiving the image-related command operation, the image-related command information instructing the image-processing device to execute the image-related operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 6, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 28, 2020
    Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Tatsuhiko Sone
  • Patent number: 10616440
    Abstract: In an information processing terminal, a processor receiving identification information from another program. The identification information is for identifying an image processing operation. The processor performs a first determination process determining whether the specified apparatus is capable of executing the image processing operation identified by the identification information. The processor performs a first display process displaying determination information indicating a result of the first determination process. The processor receives operation condition information from the external program in a case where the first determination process determines that the specified apparatus is capable of executing the image processing operation. The operation condition information indicates a condition for executing the image processing operation. The processor transmits a command to the specified apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 7, 2020
    Assignee: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Hirokazu Sato, Tatsuhiko Sone
  • Patent number: 10582067
    Abstract: A communication device may display a specific screen including a selection image and a plurality of item images, and in a first case where the selection image is selected, supply a trigger instruction to an OS program. The trigger instruction may include an instruction for causing the OS program to display a first image, and the first image may be for notifying a user to perform a predetermined action which is necessary for executing a wireless communication with an external device. The first image may be displayed such that at least one item image among the plurality of item images is not displayed. The communication device, in the first case after the specific screen has been displayed, may output target information related to the at least one item image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 7, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 3, 2020
    Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Tatsuhiko Sone
  • Publication number: 20200068089
    Abstract: A first communication apparatus may repeat a broadcast transmission of a trigger signal via a second interface, which is a signal to be used by a second communication apparatus as a trigger for sending a wireless connection request to the first communication apparatus. The wireless connection request may be for forming a first wireless network to which both the first communication apparatus and the second communication apparatus belong. The first wireless network may be a network for performing a wireless communication via a first interface. The first communication apparatus may receive the wireless connection request via the first interface from the second communication apparatus which has received the trigger signal, and establish a first wireless connection via the first interface with the second communication apparatus so as to form the first wireless network.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 5, 2019
    Publication date: February 27, 2020
    Inventors: Kunihito TERASHITA, Naoki YOSHIDA, Tatsuhiko SONE
  • Patent number: 10558401
    Abstract: A portable terminal has a memory having a program stored thereon and readably by a computer. The program causes the portable terminal to perform acquiring group ID and setting information, storing the group ID and the setting information in association with each other, receiving first instruction information for instructing execution of association processing for the stored group ID, acquiring device ID to identify the device, to which the portable terminal is brought close, from the device through the data acquisition interface, executing the association processing of associating the stored group ID and the device ID acquired through the data acquisition interface after receiving the first instruction information and acquiring the device ID through the data acquisition interface, and storing the association, and after executing the association processing, transmitting the setting information associated with the group ID to the device associated with the group ID, through the network interface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2020
    Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Tatsuhiko Sone
  • Publication number: 20200015307
    Abstract: A terminal device may acquire first connection information including a plurality of parameters, and send the first connection information to a communication device by using a first wireless connection and not via an access point. The first connection information is used in the communication device to execute a process for establishing a wireless connection with a target access point. The terminal device may receive a failure notification indicating that the process has failed from the communication device by using the first wireless connection and not via an access point in a case where the process in the communication device has failed, and display a cause screen indicating that the process has failed due to the specific parameter on a display unit in a case where the failure notification is received from the communication device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 2, 2019
    Publication date: January 9, 2020
    Inventors: Keishi Naka, Hiroyuki Yamaoka, Tatsuhiko Sone, Naoki Kusumoto
  • Patent number: 10506129
    Abstract: A first communication apparatus may repeat a broadcast transmission of a trigger signal via a second interface, which is a signal to be used by a second communication apparatus as a trigger for sending a wireless connection request to the first communication apparatus. The wireless connection request may be for forming a first wireless network to which both the first communication apparatus and the second communication apparatus belong. The first wireless network may be a network for performing a wireless communication via a first interface The first communication apparatus may receive the wireless connection request via the first interface from the second communication apparatus which has received the trigger signal, and establish a first wireless connection via the first interface with the second communication apparatus so as to form the first wireless network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 16, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2019
    Assignee: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Kunihito Terashita, Naoki Yoshida, Tatsuhiko Sone
  • Publication number: 20190306335
    Abstract: A communication device may display a specific screen including a selection image and a plurality of item images, and in a first case where the selection image is selected, supply a trigger instruction to an OS program. The trigger instruction may include an instruction for causing the OS program to display a first image, and the first image may be for notifying a user to perform a predetermined action which is necessary for executing a wireless communication with an external device. The first image may be displayed such that at least one item image among the plurality of item images is not displayed. The communication device, in the first case after the specific screen has been displayed, may output target information related to the at least one item image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 7, 2019
    Publication date: October 3, 2019
    Inventor: Tatsuhiko SONE
  • Publication number: 20190273839
    Abstract: A terminal device may be configured to acquire a first signal from a hardware of the terminal device, determine, by using the first signal, whether the distance between the terminal device and a communication device is less than or equal to a threshold value, and in a case where it is determined that the distance between the terminal device and the communication device is less than or equal to the threshold, supply a trigger instruction to an Operating System (OS) program of the terminal device even if a button that may be displayed on a display of the terminal device for supplying the trigger instruction to the OS program is not selected. The OS program may (1) display a notification screen on the display unit and (2) supply a change instruction to the first wireless interface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 28, 2019
    Publication date: September 5, 2019
    Inventors: Takeshi SHIOTANI, Tatsuhiko SONE
  • Publication number: 20190268499
    Abstract: A communication system including an image processing apparatus configured to, in response to receiving acquisition instruction information from a server via indirect communication, receive authentication information from an information processing terminal device via near-field wireless communication, transmit the received authentication information to the server via the indirect communication, and in response to receiving communication instruction information, which indicates a method for data communication with a service providing apparatus, from the server via the indirect communication, perform data communication with the service providing apparatus in accordance with the received communication instruction information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 26, 2019
    Publication date: August 29, 2019
    Inventors: Masayuki ISHIBASHI, Tatsuhiko SONE, Ken SAITO
  • Publication number: 20190182404
    Abstract: In an information processing terminal, a processor receiving identification information from another program. The identification information is for identifying an image processing operation. The processor performs a first determination process determining whether the specified apparatus is capable of executing the image processing operation identified by the identification information. The processor performs a first display process displaying determination information indicating a result of the first determination process. The processor receives operation condition information from the external program in a case where the first determination process determines that the specified apparatus is capable of executing the image processing operation. The operation condition information indicates a condition for executing the image processing operation. The processor transmits a command to the specified apparatus.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 6, 2018
    Publication date: June 13, 2019
    Inventors: Hirokazu SATO, Tatsuhiko SONE
  • Publication number: 20190149689
    Abstract: A first communication apparatus may repeat a broadcast transmission of a trigger signal via a second interface, which is a signal to be used by a second communication apparatus as a trigger for sending a wireless connection request to the first communication apparatus. The wireless connection request may be for forming a first wireless network to which both the first communication apparatus and the second communication apparatus belong. The first wireless network may be a network for performing a wireless communication via a first interface The first communication apparatus may receive the wireless connection request via the first interface from the second communication apparatus which has received the trigger signal, and establish a first wireless connection via the first interface with the second communication apparatus so as to form the first wireless network.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 16, 2019
    Publication date: May 16, 2019
    Inventors: Kunihito TERASHITA, Naoki YOSHIDA, Tatsuhiko SONE
  • Publication number: 20190149677
    Abstract: A terminal device may register first device information of a first image processing device in a memory; specify by using the first device information, N applications corresponding to one or more types of image processes that the first image processing device is capable of executing from among M applications; display a first menu screen on a display unit, the first menu screen including N icons indicating the specified N applications, each of the N icons having a first type of displaying state that is capable of accepting a selecting operation for using an application, the first menu screen not including each of (M?N) icons having the first type of displaying state, the (M?N) icons indicating (M?N) applications; send an execution instruction to the first image processing device by using a target application indicated by a target icon selected from among the N icons in the first menu screen.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 6, 2018
    Publication date: May 16, 2019
    Inventor: Tatsuhiko SONE
  • Patent number: 10257389
    Abstract: A communication system including an image processing apparatus configured to, in response to receiving acquisition instruction information from a server via indirect communication, receive authentication information from an information processing terminal device via near-field wireless communication, transmit the received authentication information to the server via the indirect communication, and in response to receiving communication instruction information, which indicates a method for data communication with a service providing apparatus, from the server via the indirect communication, perform data communication with the service providing apparatus in accordance with the received communication instruction information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2019
    Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Masayuki Ishibashi, Tatsuhiko Sone, Ken Saito
  • Publication number: 20190095140
    Abstract: A portable terminal has a memory having a program stored thereon and readably by a computer. The program causes the portable terminal to perform acquiring group ID and setting information, storing the group ID and the setting information in association with each other, receiving first instruction information for instructing execution of association processing for the stored group ID, acquiring device ID to identify the device, to which the portable terminal is brought close, from the device through the data acquisition interface, executing the association processing of associating the stored group ID and the device ID acquired through the data acquisition interface after receiving the first instruction information and acquiring the device ID through the data acquisition interface, and storing the association, and after executing the association processing, transmitting the setting information associated with the group ID to the device associated with the group ID, through the network interface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 27, 2018
    Publication date: March 28, 2019
    Inventor: Tatsuhiko Sone
  • Patent number: 10205847
    Abstract: A first communication apparatus may repeat a broadcast transmission of a trigger signal via a second interface, which is a signal to be used by a second communication apparatus as a trigger for sending a wireless connection request to the first communication apparatus. The wireless connection request may be for forming a first wireless network to which both the first communication apparatus and the second communication apparatus belong. The first wireless network may be a network for performing a wireless communication via a first interface The first communication apparatus may receive the wireless connection request via the first interface from the second communication apparatus which has received the trigger signal, and establish a first wireless connection via the first interface with the second communication apparatus so as to form the first wireless network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 12, 2019
    Assignee: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Kunihito Terashita, Naoki Yoshida, Tatsuhiko Sone
  • Patent number: 10168968
    Abstract: In response to receiving an instruction operation in a receiving process, a processor executes an apparatus-side preparing process including an issuance requesting process of transmitting issuance requesting information to a server through a communicator, the issuance requesting information being information for requesting issuance of authentication information indicative of authority to perform data communication with a service providing apparatus, the instruction operation being a user operation of instructing execution of a preparing process for connecting the image forming apparatus to the service providing apparatus, a storage-instruction receiving process of receiving storage instructing information from the server through the communicator, the storage instructing information being information including the authentication information issued by the service providing apparatus, and a first near-field transmitting process of, in response to approach of the card to the first near-field communicator, transmi
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 1, 2019
    Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Tatsuhiko Sone