Patents by Inventor Tomofumi Nakayama

Tomofumi Nakayama 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: 20240100853
    Abstract: A liquid discharge apparatus including a head configured to discharge a liquid, a chamber configured to contain the head, a circulation system configured to circulate a gas inside the chamber, an exhaust system configured to operate to exhaust the gas to an outside of the chamber, a filter provided in the circulation system and configured to remove a removal target contained in the gas, a detection unit configured to indirectly detect the removal target by detecting a detection target that is contained in the gas and different from the removal target, and a controller configured to operate the exhaust system when a concentration of the detection target detected by the detection unit is not lower than a threshold.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 15, 2023
    Publication date: March 28, 2024
    Inventors: SHUGO NAKAYAMA, TOMOFUMI NISHIKAWARA, AKIKO IIMURA, MASAHIRO KURI, TETSUYA YAMAMOTO
  • Publication number: 20230247025
    Abstract: An information processing device comprises a controller. The controller is configured to perform obtaining a usage request to use a service using a particular device based on an input from a user, obtaining device identification information identifying the particular device, first obtaining including displaying, according to the usage request, a first input screen where account information is to be input when an associated account associated with the device identification information is not registered, and not displaying the first input screen when the associated account is registered, and registering the associated account in association with the device identification information based on the account information input on the first input screen when the associated account is not registered.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 10, 2023
    Publication date: August 3, 2023
    Applicant: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Tomofumi NAKAYAMA
  • Patent number: 10719887
    Abstract: A non-transitory computer-readable medium stores computer-readable instructions. A processor of a server connected to a network executes the instructions to obtain expense data from a terminal device via the network, store the specific user ID, the image data, the receipt information data and expense identification information in a first storage in an associated manner. The processor identifies service identification information stored in a second storage and associated with the specific user ID stored in the first storage. The second storage is configured to store the service information including at least service identification information and user identification information. The service identification information is used for a series of data processing regarding a specific business process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 21, 2020
    Assignee: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Tomofumi Nakayama
  • Patent number: 10242410
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus which acquires character string information and position information of the character string in a receipt image by an Optical Character Recognition (OCR), acquires value information corresponding to a keyword corresponding to predetermined item information from the acquired character string information, associates and stores the acquired value information, position information corresponding to the acquired value information and the predetermined item information, displays the receipt image and an object at a position of the receipt image corresponding to the stored position information, selects, in a case where it is determined that same type value information which is a plurality of the value information associated with a same type of the item information is stored, processing to be executed in accordance with a type of the item information related to the same type value information, and executes the selected processing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2019
    Assignee: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Tomofumi Nakayama
  • Publication number: 20160189314
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus which acquires character string information and position information of the character string in a receipt image by an Optical Character Recognition (OCR), acquires value information corresponding to a keyword corresponding to predetermined item information from the acquired character string information, associates and stores the acquired value information, position information corresponding to the acquired value information and the predetermined item information, displays the receipt image and an object at a position of the receipt image corresponding to the stored position information, selects, in a case where it is determined that same type value information which is a plurality of the value information associated with a same type of the item information is stored, processing to be executed in accordance with a type of the item information related to the same type value information, and executes the selected processing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 28, 2015
    Publication date: June 30, 2016
    Inventor: Tomofumi NAKAYAMA
  • Publication number: 20150242964
    Abstract: A non-transitory computer-readable medium stores computer-readable instructions. A processor of a server connected to a network executes the instructions to obtain expense data from a terminal device via the network, store the specific user ID, the image data, the receipt information data and expense identification information in a first storage in an associated manner. The processor identifies service identification information stored in a second storage and associated with the specific user ID stored in the first storage. The second storage is configured to store the service information including at least service identification information and user identification information. The service identification information is used for a series of data processing regarding a specific business process.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 26, 2015
    Publication date: August 27, 2015
    Applicant: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Tomofumi NAKAYAMA
  • Publication number: 20110074798
    Abstract: A display terminal device is provided. The display terminal device includes a display unit, a display control unit configured to control the display unit to display a plurality of image information by switching the image information; an image information acquiring unit configured to acquire image information and display information which is associated with the image information and to be displayed while being added to the image information, a display information reproducing unit configured to reproduce and display the display information associated with the image information while the image information is being displayed, and a display switching control unit configured to control a switching time, at which one of the image information is switched to another of the image information while controlling the display information reproducing unit to reproduce and display the associated display information, based on the display information acquired by the image information acquiring unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 24, 2010
    Publication date: March 31, 2011
    Applicant: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Tomofumi NAKAYAMA
  • Publication number: 20110078180
    Abstract: An information acquiring terminal apparatus that acquires information through a line that charges on basis of a given charge system based on at least one of a communication distance and a communication time, includes: an acquisition subject attribute setting portion that sets an attribute of information to acquire depending on input by a user; an acquisition condition setting portion that sets an acquisition condition including a condition on a maximum charge amount at information acquisition depending on input by the user; an acquisition subject determining portion that based on a communication condition in a case of acquiring each acquisition candidate information matching an attribute set by the acquisition subject attribute setting portion, determines the acquisition candidate information satisfying the acquisition condition to be acquisition subject information; and an acquiring portion that acquires the acquisition subject information through the line.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 29, 2010
    Publication date: March 31, 2011
    Applicant: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Tomofumi NAKAYAMA
  • Publication number: 20100225662
    Abstract: A contact position is obtained from an input device. As an operation mode of a display device, a cleaning corresponding mode which disenables an operation corresponding to cleaning of a screen and using the input device on an object to be displayed on the screen is started. In the case where the operation mode is the cleaning corresponding mode, when the screen is touched, the color of a pixel in the screen corresponding to the contact position is changed to a predetermined color. When the number of pixels whose color is changed to the predetermined color becomes to a predetermined number or more, the cleaning corresponding mode is finished.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 4, 2010
    Publication date: September 9, 2010
    Applicant: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Tomofumi Nakayama
  • Publication number: 20090164909
    Abstract: This invention is, in a remote operation apparatus which transmits information to a terminal device having a display part which displays received information, for the purpose of operability improvement on the occasion of inspecting structured documents such as Web pages, in a document inspection apparatus with a small screen size, equipped with an input part which inputs various instructions, a display part which displays various information, a communication processing part which obtains display information which is displayed on a display screen of the display part through a network, an area recognition processing part which extracts a size of a rectangular area which is included in a window which was obtained by the communication processing part and is displayed on the display part, and display information in the rectangular area, a storage part which stores size information of the display screen of the display part of the terminal device, an area change processing part which modifies a size of the rectangul
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 29, 2009
    Publication date: June 25, 2009
    Applicant: PANASONIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Keizou SATOU, Tomofumi Nakayama, Masako Yoshimura, Yasuyuki Numata
  • Patent number: 7506261
    Abstract: This invention is, in a remote operation apparatus which transmits information to a terminal device having a display part which displays received information, for the purpose of operability improvement on the occasion of inspecting structured documents such as Web pages, in a document inspection apparatus with a small screen size, equipped with an input part which inputs various instructions, a display part which displays various information, a communication processing part which obtains display information which is displayed on a display screen of the display part through a network, an area recognition processing part which extracts a size of a rectangular area which is included in a window which was obtained by the communication processing part and is displayed on the display part, and display information in the rectangular area, a storage part which stores size information of the display screen of the display part of the terminal device, an area change processing part which modifies a size of the rectangul
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 2004
    Date of Patent: March 17, 2009
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Keizou Satou, Tomofumi Nakayama, Masako Yoshimura
  • Publication number: 20050091607
    Abstract: This invention is, in a remote operation apparatus which transmits information to a terminal device having a display part which displays received information, for the purpose of operability improvement on the occasion of inspecting structured documents such as Web pages, in a document inspection apparatus with a small screen size, equipped with an input part which inputs various instructions, a display part which displays various information, a communication processing part which obtains display information which is displayed on a display screen of the display part through a network, an area recognition processing part which extracts a size of a rectangular area which is included in a window which was obtained by the communication processing part and is displayed on the display part, and display information in the rectangular area, a storage part which stores size information of the display screen of the display part of the terminal device, an area change processing part which modifies a size of the rectangul
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 25, 2004
    Publication date: April 28, 2005
    Applicant: MATSUSHITA ELECTRIC INDUSTRIAL CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Keizou Satou, Tomofumi Nakayama, Masako Yoshimura, Yasuyuki Numata
  • Publication number: 20030206193
    Abstract: The present invention provides a communication control system that includes a control terminal having a display unit for displaying an image and a controlled computer, and transmits image information stored in the computer to the terminal. The terminal transmits image display capability information of the terminal, and the computer then receives it. The computer processes the image information of the computer based on the image display capability information of the terminal, and transmits it to the terminal. The terminal receives the changed image information and displays it on the display unit. This process allows efficient communication. When such control is stored as a program in a storage medium, a general computer can be controlled.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 8, 2003
    Publication date: November 6, 2003
    Inventors: Keizo Sato, Masako Yoshimura, Tomofumi Nakayama, Junzo Ikuta, Yasuyuki Numata