Patents by Inventor Tomohiro Nishiguchi

Tomohiro Nishiguchi 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).

  • Patent number: 8994993
    Abstract: A management system for managing a management target device includes: a position detection unit configured to detect a position of a user of the management target device; a management server configured to manage Air Tag information relating to the user; and a mobile terminal. The management server includes: a positional information acquisition unit configured to acquire positional information for the position of the user based on a result of the detection by the position detection unit; a generation unit configured to generate the Air Tag information including device-relating information and the positional information of the user; and a transmission unit configured to transmit the Air Tag information to the mobile terminal. The mobile terminal displays an Air Tag image visualizing the device-relating information of the user by superposing the Air Tag image over a portion representing the user within a shot image of scenery around the mobile terminal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 16, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 31, 2015
    Assignee: Konica Minolta Business Technologies, Inc.
    Inventor: Tomohiro Nishiguchi
  • Patent number: 8619276
    Abstract: An electronic document management device including: an electronic document storage unit that includes a plurality of boxes for storing electronic documents, each box being accessible to a user or a user group having an access right thereto, each of the plurality of boxes storing an electronic document that includes one or more constituent elements, each constituent element being attached with either disclosure-enabled information or disclosure-disabled information depending on a box storing the electronic document; and a modifying unit operable to modify, for each box, each constituent element that is attached with the disclosure-disabled information, so as not to be disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 23, 2007
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2013
    Assignee: Konica Minolta Business Technologies, Inc.
    Inventor: Tomohiro Nishiguchi
  • Publication number: 20130194627
    Abstract: A management system for managing a management target device includes: a position detection unit configured to detect a position of a user of the management target device; a management server configured to manage Air Tag information relating to the user; and a mobile terminal. The management server includes: a positional information acquisition unit configured to acquire positional information for the position of the user based on a result of the detection by the position detection unit; a generation unit configured to generate the Air Tag information including device-relating information and the positional information of the user; and a transmission unit configured to transmit the Air Tag information to the mobile terminal. The mobile terminal displays an Air Tag image visualizing the device-relating information of the user by superposing the Air Tag image over a portion representing the user within a shot image of scenery around the mobile terminal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 16, 2013
    Publication date: August 1, 2013
    Applicant: KONICA MINOLTA BUSINESS TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
    Inventor: Tomohiro Nishiguchi
  • Patent number: 7916323
    Abstract: A printer is provided that can be used easily and preferably without introducing an additional structure into a terminal device and a server. The printer includes a printing process portion for printing based on print data, a print data detection portion for detecting print data stored in a file server, a data reception portion for obtaining print data and the corresponding printing conditions information from the file server when the print data are detected, a print approval/disapproval judge portion for judging approval/disapproval of printing based on the obtained printing conditions information and a print control portion for controlling the printing process portion so that printing is performed based on print data corresponding to the printing conditions information when it is determined to be printable, and for controlling the same so that printing is not performed when it is determined to be unprintable.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 8, 2004
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2011
    Assignee: Konica Minolta Business Technologies, Inc.
    Inventor: Tomohiro Nishiguchi
  • Publication number: 20080184352
    Abstract: In order to simplify the operation and lower the misidentification rate, the MFP includes an HDD to store a temporary record including a fingerprint image of a user and user identification information, a fingerprint image accepting portion to accept a fingerprint image of a user, an extracting portion to extract one of the temporary records stored in the HDD that includes a fingerprint image matching the accepted fingerprint image as a target record, a first requesting portion, when the target record is extracted, to transmit an authentication request, including the user identification information included in the target record and the fingerprint image, to an authentication server, and a permission portion to permit login of the user having the accepted fingerprint image, based on an authentication result received from the authentication server in response to transmission of the authentication request.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 24, 2008
    Publication date: July 31, 2008
    Applicant: Konica Minolta Business Technologies, Inc.
    Inventor: Tomohiro Nishiguchi
  • Publication number: 20080037052
    Abstract: An electronic document management device including: an electronic document storage unit that includes a plurality of boxes for storing electronic documents, each box being accessible to a user or a user group having an access right thereto, each of the plurality of boxes storing an electronic document that includes one or more constituent elements, each constituent element being attached with either disclosure-enabled information or disclosure-disabled information depending on a box storing the electronic document; and a modifying unit operable to modify, for each box, each constituent element that is attached with the disclosure-disabled information, so as not to be disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 23, 2007
    Publication date: February 14, 2008
    Applicant: KONICA MINOLTA BUSINESS TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
    Inventor: Tomohiro Nishiguchi
  • Patent number: 7195408
    Abstract: In a printing system in which a user PC and a printer are connected to a network, when the user PC accesses the printer for print setting, the printer issues a job ticket containing print setting contents to the user PC in a form such as an e-mail. When print data and the job ticket are transmitted from the user PC to the printer, the printer analyzes the job ticket, and executes printing based on the analyzed contents. In this manner, a user can readily achieve a print setting free from errors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 7, 2004
    Date of Patent: March 27, 2007
    Assignee: Konica Minolta Business Technologies, Inc.
    Inventor: Tomohiro Nishiguchi
  • Publication number: 20050180793
    Abstract: In a printing system in which a user PC and a printer are connected to a network, when the user PC accesses the printer for print setting, the printer issues a job ticket containing print setting contents to the user PC in a form such as an e-mail. When print data and the job ticket are transmitted from the user PC to the printer, the printer analyzes the job ticket, and executes printing based on the analyzed contents. In this manner, a user can readily achieve a print setting free from errors.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 7, 2004
    Publication date: August 18, 2005
    Applicant: KONICA MINOLTA BUSINESS TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
    Inventor: Tomohiro Nishiguchi
  • Publication number: 20050068566
    Abstract: A printer is provided that can be used easily and preferably without introducing an additional structure into a terminal device and a server. The printer includes a printing process portion for printing based on print data, a print data detection portion for detecting print data stored in a file server, a data reception portion for obtaining print data and the corresponding printing conditions information from the file server when the print data are detected, a print approval/disapproval judge portion for judging approval/disapproval of printing based on the obtained printing conditions information and a print control portion for controlling the printing process portion so that printing is performed based on print data corresponding to the printing conditions information when it is determined to be printable, and for controlling the same so that printing is not performed when it is determined to be unprintable.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 8, 2004
    Publication date: March 31, 2005
    Applicant: Konica Minolta Business Technologies, Inc.
    Inventor: Tomohiro Nishiguchi
  • Publication number: 20040111670
    Abstract: In a network including a device manager, a device and a client terminal, an acquisition device in the device manager acquires device management data from the device and stores the data as XML data. A selector selects a stylesheet used to present the XML data among one or more stylesheets to be accessed through the network, and an editor correlates the XML data with the selected stylesheet. When the XML data is requested through the network by a presenter of the XML data, a data provider provides the XML data stored in the storage device. Alternatively, the stylesheet selection may be performed in the client terminal. The client terminal can download the stylesheet and present the XML data with the stylesheet.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 24, 2003
    Publication date: June 10, 2004
    Applicant: Minolta Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Haruna Sasakuma, Tomohiro Nishiguchi