Patents by Inventor Tetsuya Nishino
Tetsuya Nishino 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: 11575804Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes an activator, a command storage device and a controller. The activator activates a customer ID received by a UI, out of customer IDs stored in a customer ID storage device. The command storage device stores the activated customer ID in association with command information received by the UI. The controller changes a function setting of the image forming apparatus, according to the command information received from an external device, despite a security level being set to a high level, when function information included in the command information received from the external device via a communication device accords with the function information included in changeable command information stored in the command storage device.Type: GrantFiled: March 15, 2022Date of Patent: February 7, 2023Assignee: KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc.Inventor: Tetsuya Nishino
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Publication number: 20220303431Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes an activator, a command storage device and a controller. The activator activates a customer ID received by a UI, out of customer IDs stored in a customer ID storage device. The command storage device stores the activated customer ID in association with command information received by the UI. The controller changes a function setting of the image forming apparatus, according to the command information received from an external device, despite a security level being set to a high level, when function information included in the command information received from the external device via a communication device accords with the function information included in changeable command information stored in the command storage device.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 15, 2022Publication date: September 22, 2022Applicant: KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc.Inventor: Tetsuya NISHINO
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Patent number: 11388296Abstract: A visibility adjusting unit (22) displays on the display device (15a) a user interface to specify a visibility level, detects with the input device (15b) a user operation performed to the user interface such that the user operating specifies a visibility level, determines the visibility level based on the detected user operation, and converts the determined visibility level to a resolution in accordance with a predetermined conversion rule. The scan control unit (21) specifies to the image scanning unit (11) the resolution obtained in the conversion performed by the visibility adjusting unit (22) and causes the image scanning unit (11) to generate image data of the document image, and converts the generated image data to image data of a specified data type.Type: GrantFiled: March 11, 2019Date of Patent: July 12, 2022Inventor: Tetsuya Nishino
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Publication number: 20220198126Abstract: A display device (100) includes a receiving section (12), a registering section (2112), a display section (11), an identifying section (2111), and a changing section (212). The receiving section (12) receives selection of a label from a user. The registering section (2112) registers the label and a format set in association with each other. The format set includes format items to be embodied in a character display format and format contents each indicating a content of a corresponding one of the format items. The display section (11) displays a character string including a first character. The identifying section (211) identifies the first character. The changing section (212) changes the character display format of the first character based on the format set associated with the label.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 6, 2020Publication date: June 23, 2022Applicant: KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc.Inventor: Tetsuya NISHINO
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Patent number: 11245807Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes an image reading device, a printing device, a specific character string detector, and a controller. The specific character string detector extracts a specific area image, enlarges the specific area image, executes character recognition processing on the enlarged specific area image to detect a character string, and determines whether or not the detected character string includes a predetermined specific character string. The controller prohibits copying of the document image when the predetermined specific character string is included in the detected character string. The size of the specific character string before enlargement is smaller than a lower limit character string size of character recognition in the character recognition processing, and the size of the specific character string after enlargement is equal to or larger than the lower limit character string size of character recognition in the character recognition processing.Type: GrantFiled: April 27, 2020Date of Patent: February 8, 2022Assignee: KYOCERA DOCUMENT SOLUTIONS INC.Inventor: Tetsuya Nishino
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Publication number: 20210058523Abstract: A visibility adjusting unit (22) displays on the display device (15a) a user interface to specify a visibility level, detects with the input device (15b) a user operation performed to the user interface such that the user operating specifies a visibility level, determines the visibility level based on the detected user operation, and converts the determined visibility level to a resolution in accordance with a predetermined conversion rule. The scan control unit (21) specifies to the image scanning unit (11) the resolution obtained in the conversion performed by the visibility adjusting unit (22) and causes the image scanning unit (11) to generate image data of the document image, and converts the generated image data to image data of a specified data type.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 11, 2019Publication date: February 25, 2021Inventor: Tetsuya NISHINO
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Patent number: 10929020Abstract: An information processing device includes a control unit functioning as a receiving unit, a processing unit, and a storage controller, a storage, and a communication unit. The storage controller stores data in the storage when the receiving unit receives a predetermined storage instruction, transmits the data to a predetermined storage device among a plurality of storage devices, and stores the transmitted data in the predetermined storage device.Type: GrantFiled: February 23, 2018Date of Patent: February 23, 2021Assignee: KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc.Inventors: Shoichi Sakaguchi, Yoshiyuki Fujiwara, Yoshihisa Tanaka, Yoshiki Yoshioka, Tetsuya Nishino, Seiji Onishi
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Patent number: 10891090Abstract: An image forming system includes an image forming apparatus, a management terminal device, and a mobile terminal device. The mobile terminal device downloads and installs an application program, presents identification information to the management terminal device, and accepts a temporal ID. The management terminal device, upon accepting the identification information from the mobile terminal device, generates the temporal ID, presents the temporal ID to the mobile terminal device, and transmits the temporal ID to a user authentication device to register the temporal ID as a user ID of the guest user. When payment of a usage fee for the image forming apparatus by the guest user is completed, the management terminal device deletes registration of the temporal ID. The image forming apparatus performs user authentication when the guest user logs in to the image forming apparatus, and issues an invoice when the guest user logs out.Type: GrantFiled: December 24, 2019Date of Patent: January 12, 2021Assignee: KYOCERA DOCUMENT SOLUTIONS INC.Inventor: Tetsuya Nishino
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Publication number: 20200366804Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes an image reading device, a printing device, a specific character string detector, and a controller. The specific character string detector extracts a specific area image, enlarges the specific area image, executes character recognition processing on the enlarged specific area image to detect a character string, and determines whether or not the detected character string includes a predetermined specific character string. The controller prohibits copying of the document image when the predetermined specific character string is included in the detected character string. The size of the specific character string before enlargement is smaller than a lower limit character string size of character recognition in the character recognition processing, and the size of the specific character string after enlargement is equal to or larger than the lower limit character string size of character recognition in the character recognition processing.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 27, 2020Publication date: November 19, 2020Inventor: Tetsuya NISHINO
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Publication number: 20200225892Abstract: An image forming system includes an image forming apparatus, a management terminal device, and a mobile terminal device. The mobile terminal device downloads and installs an application program, presents identification information to the management terminal device, and accepts a temporal ID. The management terminal device, upon accepting the identification information from the mobile terminal device, generates the temporal ID, presents the temporal ID to the mobile terminal device, and transmits the temporal ID to a user authentication device to register the temporal ID as a user ID of the guest user. When payment of a usage fee for the image forming apparatus by the guest user is completed, the management terminal device deletes registration of the temporal ID. The image forming apparatus performs user authentication when the guest user logs in to the image forming apparatus, and issues an invoice when the guest user logs out.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 24, 2019Publication date: July 16, 2020Inventor: Tetsuya NISHINO
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Patent number: 10609234Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a reading section, a detection section, a determination section, and a decision section. The reading section reads an image of a first document and generates a document information item indicating the image and a sheet color of the first document. The reading section also reads an image of a second document and generates a document information item indicating the image and a sheet color of the second document. The detection section detects sheet colors based on the respective document information items. The determination section determines whether or not the sheet color each match any one of specific colors other than the white color. When the determination section determines that a sheet color matches one of the specific colors, the decision section decides a transmission address of the document information items based the one specific color.Type: GrantFiled: June 27, 2018Date of Patent: March 31, 2020Assignee: KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc.Inventor: Tetsuya Nishino
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Patent number: 10601921Abstract: An information processing device includes a control unit functioning as a receiving unit, a processing unit, and a storage controller, a storage, and a communication unit. Each of a plurality of sheets of data is associated with each predetermined storage device among a plurality of storage devices, and information indicating a correspondence between the plurality of sheets and the predetermined storage devices is stored in the storage in advance. When the receiving unit receives a predetermined storage instruction, the storage controller performs a process of storing data in the storage and causing the communication unit to transmit data indicating the plurality of sheets to storage devices associated with the sheets with respect to each of the plurality of sheets, and stores the transmitted data in the storage devices.Type: GrantFiled: February 15, 2018Date of Patent: March 24, 2020Assignee: KYOCERA Document Solutions, Inc.Inventors: Shoichi Sakaguchi, Yoshiyuki Fujiwara, Yoshihisa Tanaka, Yoshiki Yoshioka, Tetsuya Nishino, Seiji Onishi
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Publication number: 20190297220Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes a raw image obtaining unit, a combined image generating unit, and a stamp image composing unit. The raw image obtaining unit obtains N raw images for generating an N-up image. The combined image generating unit generates the combined image from the obtained raw images. The stamp image composing unit selects a stamp image adapted for a combined image generating condition from a plurality of stamp images having mutually different layouts of stamps to compose the selected stamp image on the combined image.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 22, 2019Publication date: September 26, 2019Inventor: Tetsuya Nishino
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Patent number: 10241658Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a display section, a storage section, and a control unit. When accepting a predetermined gesture under a gesture acceptance control, the control unit allows the storage section to store window information indicating a size and a position of a window being displayed on the display section, creates an icon associated with a file being displayed in the window, and allows the display section to display the icon. When accepting a launch gesture on the icon under the gesture acceptance control, the control unit retrieves the window information from the storage section and allows the display section to display a window for displaying the file associated with the icon in the size and position indicated by the window information.Type: GrantFiled: April 19, 2017Date of Patent: March 26, 2019Assignee: KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc.Inventors: Isaac Judd, Yoshihisa Tanaka, Tetsuya Nishino
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Publication number: 20190007564Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a reading section, a detection section, a determination section, and a decision section. The reading section reads an image of a first document and generates a document information item indicating the image and a sheet color of the first document. The reading section also reads an image of a second document and generates a document information item indicating the image and a sheet color of the second document. The detection section detects sheet colors based on the respective document information items. The determination section determines whether or not the sheet color each match any one of specific colors other than the white color. When the determination section determines that a sheet color matches one of the specific colors, the decision section decides a transmission address of the document information items based the one specific color.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 27, 2018Publication date: January 3, 2019Applicant: KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc.Inventor: Tetsuya NISHINO
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Publication number: 20180286348Abstract: An information processor includes: a communication section, a reception section, a communication control section, a storage section, and a storage control section. The communication section transmits/receives data to/from an external server. The reception section receives instructions from a user. The communication control section controls data communication operation performed by the communication section and causes the communication section to receive, from the server, data which is included in a plurality of pieces of data stored in the server and which is specified by the instruction received by the reception section. The storage control section causes the storage section to store the data received from the server by the communication section. In a case where the data received by the communication section is the data received from a predefined server, the data is deleted from the storage section when predefined time has passed since predefined processing was performed on the data.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 27, 2018Publication date: October 4, 2018Applicant: KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc.Inventors: Shoichi SAKAGUCHI, Jiro NAGIRA, Tetsuya YOSHIOKA, Tetsuya NISHINO, Yoshiki YOSHIOKA, Yoshihisa TANAKA
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Publication number: 20180288156Abstract: An information processing system includes a server and an information processing device that includes an accepting unit, a communication control unit, a storage unit, and a storage control unit. The storage control unit causes the storage unit to store the data received by the communication unit from the server. The storage control unit performs processes to: (i) cause the communication unit to receive the associated information from the server in addition to the data when the communication unit is caused to receive the data from the server; and (ii) determine whether the storage unit stores data associated with one piece of data or not when the accepting unit accepts a deletion instruction of data specifying the one piece of data stored in the storage unit and delete the associated data from the storage unit together with the one piece of data when the storage unit stores the associated data.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 26, 2018Publication date: October 4, 2018Applicant: KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc.Inventors: Shoichi SAKAGUCHI, Jiro NAGIRA, Tetsuya YOSHIOKA, Tetsuya NISHINO, Yoshiki YOSHIOKA, Yoshihisa TANAKA
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Publication number: 20180248951Abstract: An information processing device includes a control unit functioning as a receiving unit, a processing unit, and a storage controller, a storage, and a communication unit. Each of a plurality of sheets of data is associated with each predetermined storage device among a plurality of storage devices, and information indicating a correspondence between the plurality of sheets and the predetermined storage devices is stored in the storage in advance. When the receiving unit receives a predetermined storage instruction, the storage controller performs a process of storing data in the storage and causing the communication unit to transmit data indicating the plurality of sheets to storage devices associated with the sheets with respect to each of the plurality of sheets, and stores the transmitted data in the storage devices.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 15, 2018Publication date: August 30, 2018Applicant: KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc.Inventors: Shoichi SAKAGUCHI, Yoshiyuki FUJIWARA, Yoshihisa TANAKA, Yoshiki YOSHIOKA, Tetsuya NISHINO, Seiji ONISHI
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Publication number: 20180248950Abstract: An information processing device includes a control unit functioning as a receiving unit, a processing unit, and a storage controller, a storage, and a communication unit. The storage stores information indicating a plurality of predetermined storage devices among a plurality of storage devices and information indicating priorities concerning storage destinations of the plurality of predetermined storage devices. When the receiving unit receives a predetermined storage instruction, the storage controller performs a process of storing data in the storage and causing the communication unit to transmit the data to a storage device in which a priority equal to or higher than a value indicated by the storage instruction is set among the plurality of predetermined storage devices in response to the storage instruction received by the receiving unit, and stores the transmitted data in the storage devices.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 15, 2018Publication date: August 30, 2018Applicant: KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc.Inventors: Shoichi SAKAGUCHI, Yoshiyuki FUJIWARA, Yoshihisa TANAKA, Yoshiki YOSHIOKA, Tetsuya NISHINO, Seiji ONISHI
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Publication number: 20180246651Abstract: An information processing device includes a control unit functioning as a receiving unit, a processing unit, and a storage controller, a storage, and a communication unit. The storage controller stores data in the storage when the receiving unit receives a predetermined storage instruction, transmits the data to a predetermined storage device among a plurality of storage devices, and stores the transmitted data in the predetermined storage device.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 23, 2018Publication date: August 30, 2018Applicant: KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc.Inventors: Shoichi SAKAGUCHI, Yoshiyuki FUJIWARA, Yoshihisa TANAKA, Yoshiki YOSHIOKA, Tetsuya NISHINO, Seiji ONISHI