Patents by Inventor Tetsuya Okuno

Tetsuya Okuno 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: 20220322096
    Abstract: A terminal device is configured to transmit communication start notification for starting short-range wireless communication between a terminal device-side communication interface and a communication device-side communication interface. In response to the communication start notification, a communication device transmits authentication information of wireless communication and a printer one-time token to the terminal device via the short-range communication. The terminal device transmits connection information for connecting a router to the communication device via the wireless communication using the authentication information. The communication device performs setting for connecting the router using the connection information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 31, 2022
    Publication date: October 6, 2022
    Inventor: Tetsuya OKUNO
  • Publication number: 20220317939
    Abstract: A printer of a printing system is configured to a printing operation with a print engine within a range of the permitted number of sheets. The printer transmits notification information, to a terminal device, in accordance with a status of the printer such as a registration status of a server, the permitted number of sheets for printing, an ink remaining amount or the like in response to a short-range wireless communication between a short-range wireless communication interface and the terminal device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 31, 2022
    Publication date: October 6, 2022
    Inventor: Tetsuya OKUNO
  • Publication number: 20220221816
    Abstract: A monitoring device is configured to monitor image recordation by a recorder using a recording material supplied from a first cartridge and a second cartridge. the monitoring device includes a memory and a controller. The controller is configured to obtain number-of-sheet information indicating a number of sheets on which the image recordation has been performed, first consumption amount information indicating a consumption amount of a recording material consumed from the first cartridge, and second consumption amount information indicating a consumption amount of a recording material consumed from the second cartridge, determine ratio information indicating a ratio of the recording material consumed from the second cartridge to a total consumption amount of the recording material consumed from the first and second cartridges based on the obtained first and second consumption amount information, and store the obtained number-of-sheet information and the determined ratio information in the memory.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 28, 2022
    Publication date: July 14, 2022
    Inventors: Yushi DEURA, Shinya ESAKI, Shunsuke MINAMIKAWA, Tetsuya OKUNO, Haruka AZECHI
  • Publication number: 20220166890
    Abstract: A controller of a scanner is configured to determine whether use ID associated with a destination is stored in a memory. When it is determined that the user ID is not stored, the controller disables an operation key, and when it is determined that the user II) is stored, the controller enables the operation key. When the enabled operation key is operated, the controller executes a push scan process that generated scan data is transmitted to the destination.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 23, 2021
    Publication date: May 26, 2022
    Inventor: Tetsuya OKUNO
  • Publication number: 20220166888
    Abstract: An MFP includes a controller. When a short cut key is operated, the controller is configured to execute a scan process to transmit scan data to a destination associated with the short cut key. The controller determines whether the shortcut key associated with user ID is disabled in management information when information about a destination including the user ID is deleted. When determining that the shortcut key is not disabled, the controller disables the shortcut key.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 23, 2021
    Publication date: May 26, 2022
    Inventor: Tetsuya OKUNO
  • Patent number: 11321067
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus has a communication interface, a user interface and a controller. The controller is configured to perform, in response to receipt of a request for installation of software in the information processing apparatus via the communication interface, determining whether the information processing apparatus is in a first status or a second status. When it is determined that information processing apparatus is in the first status, the controller is configured to obtain user approval of installation through the user interface and installing the software in accordance with the request for installation when the user approval is obtained. When it is determined that the information processing apparatus is in the second status, the controller is configured to install the software in accordance with the request for installation without obtaining the user approval.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2022
    Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Tetsuya Okuno
  • Publication number: 20220121404
    Abstract: An image recording device stores correspondence information associating a plurality of status information types, output determination information and request type information. The status information is related to at least one of information on a cartridge and information corresponding to operation of a printing head. The output determination information corresponds to usage type information. The request type information is used to determine a type of a person requesting the status information. A controller of the image recording device is configured to perform receiving an output request of output of the status information, determining a type of the request type information, and identifying the status information of which type is associated with the determined request type information and the output determination information based on the correspondence information from among a plurality of types of the status information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 28, 2021
    Publication date: April 21, 2022
    Inventors: Shinya ESAKI, Yushi DEURA, Haruka AZECHI, Tetsuya OKUNO, Shunsuke MINAMIKAWA
  • Patent number: 11303767
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a user interface, a notification device, and a controller including a network driver performing communication via a network, a non-network driver performing communication with a terminal device connected to the image forming apparatus in a wired manner, without via the network, and a processor configuring a web server generating web screen data. The processor performs: determining whether a request of the web screen data is transmitted via the network driver or the non-network driver; when the request is transmitted via the network driver, notification processing, confirmation processing, and limitedly transmitting the web screen data to the terminal device; and when the request is transmitted via the non-network driver, unlimitedly transmitting the web screen data to the terminal device, without the notification processing and the confirmation processing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2022
    Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Tetsuya Okuno
  • Patent number: 11288099
    Abstract: An electronic apparatus performs: acquiring an input file name from a removable memory connected to an interface; determining whether the input file name includes a first character string and whether the input file name includes a second character string; when the input file name includes the first character string, changing current setting information into specified setting information, the current setting information being among a plurality of setting information stored in the internal memory and corresponding to a first setting item specified by first input information, the specified setting information being included in the first input information and corresponding to the first setting item; and when the input file name includes the second character string, acquiring current setting information corresponding to a second setting item specified by second input information; and storing, in the removable memory, a file including output information indicating the acquired current setting information, as an out
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 24, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2022
    Assignee: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Tetsuya Okuno, Katsunori Enomoto, Fumitake Tajiri, Yoshihiro Itogawa, Sho Ogura, Hideki Nogawa
  • Publication number: 20220011985
    Abstract: A controller of an image reading device is configured to obtain template data from an information processing device through a communication interface. The template data includes format data, first replacement data, and second replacement data. The controller replaces the first replacement data with identification data of the image recording device, replaces the second replacement data with detailed information, and generates transmission data containing the format data, the identification data, and the detailed information. The controller transmits the generated transmission data to the information processing device through the communication interface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 27, 2021
    Publication date: January 13, 2022
    Inventors: Tetsuya OKUNO, Shinya ESAKI, Shunsuke MINAMIKAWA, Haruka AZECHI, Yushi DEURA
  • Publication number: 20220009241
    Abstract: An image recording device includes a display panel, a cartridge mount, an information input interface, memory, and a controller. The controller obtains service provider information through the information input interface, stores the obtained service provider information in the memory, obtains first identification information or second identification information related to a cartridge mounted in the cartridge mount, sets an operation mode to a first mode in response to obtaining the first identification information, sets the operation mode to a second mode in response to obtaining the second identification information, causes the display panel to display a type of the cartridge in response to setting the operation mode to the first mode, and causes the display panel to display the service provider information in response to setting the operation mode to the second mode.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 28, 2021
    Publication date: January 13, 2022
    Inventors: Haruka AZECHI, Shunsuke MINAMIKAWA, Shinya ESAKI, Yushi DEURA, Tetsuya OKUNO, Tony LEE
  • Publication number: 20220011991
    Abstract: An image recording device includes a cartridge mount to which a cartridge is mounted, a print engine that performs printing, a cartridge interface, an information interface, a memory, and a controller.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 28, 2021
    Publication date: January 13, 2022
    Inventors: Tetsuya OKUNO, Shinya ESAKI, Shunsuke MINAMIKAWA, Haruka AZECHI, Yushi DEURA, Tony LEE
  • Publication number: 20220011986
    Abstract: An image recording device includes a cartridge mount configured to hold a cartridge detachably, a cartridge interface, a print engine configured to execute printing, a communication interface configured to connect to a communication network connected to the Internet, memory and a controller.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 28, 2021
    Publication date: January 13, 2022
    Inventors: Haruka AZECHI, Tetsuya OKUNO, Shinya ESAKI, Yushi DEURA, Shunsuke MINAMIKAWA, Sadaaki MIYAZAKI, Tony LEE
  • Publication number: 20220009242
    Abstract: An image recording device includes a cartridge mount to which a cartridge is mounted, a cartridge interface, a memory, a communication interface, a print engine configured to execute printing, and a controller. The controller is configured to obtain a transmission address stored in a cartridge memory of the cartridge through the cartridge interface, store the obtained transmission address in the memory, obtain, from the memory, notification information including at least one from a group of remaining amount information indicating a remaining amount of consumable in the cartridge mounted to the cartridge mount, order information indicating an order for the cartridge and status information indicating a state of the print engine, and transmission source information, and transmit the obtained notification information and the obtained transmission source information to the obtained transmission address through the communication interface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 28, 2021
    Publication date: January 13, 2022
    Inventors: Yushi DEURA, Shinya ESAKI, Shunsuke MINAMIKAWA, Tetsuya OKUNO, Haruka AZECHI, Tony LEE
  • Patent number: 11221808
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus configured to execute: either of: encryption determination processing of determining whether a connection request is encrypted, in a case where the connection request has been transmitted via a network driver; and non-network receipt processing of operating a recording driver based on the connection request without determining whether the connection request is encrypted, in a case where the connection request has been transmitted via a non-network driver; and in a case where the encryption determination processing is executed, either of: decryption processing of decrypting the connection request which is encrypted and network receipt processing of operating the recording driver based on the decrypted connection request, in a case where the connection request is encrypted; and rejection processing of not operating the recording driver based on the connection request, in a case where the connection request is not encrypted.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 11, 2022
    Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Tetsuya Okuno
  • Publication number: 20210306510
    Abstract: According to aspects of the present disclosures, an image scanning apparatus receives an inquiry for assignment information and, when the assignment information designates none of multiple destination candidates, transmits the assignment information indicating the same to a mobile terminal. When receiving, from the mobile terminal, an assignment request requesting to assign a server as a destination, the image scanning apparatus checks whether the assignment information designates none of the multiple destination candidates. When it is confirmed that the assignment information designates none of the multiple destination candidates, a state of the assignment information is changed to a state of designating a server as the destination of image data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 17, 2021
    Publication date: September 30, 2021
    Inventor: Tetsuya OKUNO
  • Publication number: 20210306488
    Abstract: A function executing device may receive a first function executing request from a first external device and receive a second function executing request from a second external device. The function executing device may display, in a case where the first function executing request is received, a first approval screen on the display. The function executing device may display, in a case where the second function executing request is received, a second approval screen on the display. In a case where the second function executing request is received under a state where the first approval screen is displayed on the display, the second approval screen may not be displayed on the display instead of the first approval screen.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 30, 2021
    Publication date: September 30, 2021
    Inventor: Tetsuya OKUNO
  • Publication number: 20210306477
    Abstract: An MFP is configured to perform an upper limit setting process of setting an upper limit value of scan data amount storable in a RAM, a scanning process of controlling a scanning device to generate scan data of one document medium and store the scan data in the RAM, a determining process of determining, after performing the scanning process, whether an amount of the scan data accumulated in the storage exceeds the upper limit value, when determining that the amount of the scan data exceeds the upper limit value, a transmitting process of inhibiting the scanning process and transmitting the scan data accumulated in the RAM to a server through a communication device, and a releasing process of deleting the scan data accumulated in the RAM and releasing inhibition of the scanning process after performing the transmitting process.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 16, 2021
    Publication date: September 30, 2021
    Inventor: Tetsuya OKUNO
  • Publication number: 20210306522
    Abstract: According to aspects of the present disclosures, when receiving an enabling request of a cloud cooperation function, a controller of an MFP notifies a user using an LCD module and change its state to an approval waiting state. When an approval operation by a user is confirmed, the MFP shifts access permission state and notifies a mobile terminal of the fact. When a constant connection between the MFP and a server is established, the MFP transmits a creation request for creating a server access token to the server. Then, the MFP receives the server access toke and transmits the same to the mobile terminal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 5, 2021
    Publication date: September 30, 2021
    Inventor: Tetsuya OKUNO
  • Patent number: 11108925
    Abstract: There is provided a multi-function peripheral including: a scanner; one of a printer and an image transmitting part; a data communicating part; and a controller. The controller is configured to execute: scanning of an object by controlling the scanner; obtaining of network information regarding communication which is performed by the data communicating part and terminal identification information as identification information of a mobile terminal, from image data generated by scanning, performed by the scanner, of an image as the object displayed on a display of the mobile terminal; and controlling of the data communicating part so as to transmit, based on the obtained network information, self-identification information which is identification information of the multi-function peripheral, as information addressed to a device having the obtained terminal identification information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 31, 2021
    Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Tetsuya Okuno