Patents by Inventor Tomoko Maruyama

Tomoko Maruyama 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: 11919995
    Abstract: An epoxy resin, comprising an epoxy compound having two or more mesogenic structures, and having a loss tangent of 1 or more at 35° C. before curing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: RESONAC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Naoki Maruyama, Tomoko Higashiuchi, Kazumasa Fukuda, Hideyuki Katagi, Yuki Nakamura, Yoshitaka Takezawa
  • Patent number: 10606531
    Abstract: An image processing device capable of executing a plurality of jobs that differ in kind, the image processing device includes: a controller that controls execution of an input job; and a detection part that, on the basis of a voice detected by a voice detector, detects that any of a plurality of predetermined target voices has been emitted, wherein in a case where it is detected that the target voice has been emitted during a target setting period corresponding to a job that is being executed, among setting periods that are defined beforehand according to kinds of jobs respectively, the controller stops the execution of the job.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 22, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 31, 2020
    Assignee: Konica Minolta, Inc.
    Inventors: Tomoko Maruyama, Kazuhiro Tomiyasu, Atsushi Tomita, Kenichi Sawada, Hiroshi Sugiura
  • Patent number: 10540126
    Abstract: An image processing device that provides an operation terminal device with an operation screen and receives input information from the operation terminal device, comprising a hardware processor that: communicates with the operation terminal device in either a first communication mode or a second communication mode, which is different from the first communication mode; determines whether the communication with the operation terminal device is in the first communication mode or the second communication mode; and creates a first screen, which is the operation screen imposed with no limit, and provides the operation terminal device with the created first screen when the communication is determined to be made in the first communication mode, and creates a second screen, which is the operation screen imposed with a limit, and provides the operation terminal device with the created second screen when the communication is determined to be made in the second communication mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 2, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2020
    Assignee: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.
    Inventors: Tomoko Maruyama, Hideyuki Matsuda, Kaoru Fukuoka, Jun Shiraishi, Hiroyuki Ohno, Eisaku Owada
  • Patent number: 10509352
    Abstract: When an image forming apparatus such as an MFP runs out of supplies, such as paper or toner, the user will need to load paper in the paper tray or replace the toner cartridge. However, the user occasionally has difficulty in opening the paper tray or the front cover because his/her hands are carrying the additional supplies. For example, the user may have to put the belonging down to open up the paper tray or the front cover. The image forming apparatus reacts to the user's desire in a mechanical manner by opening the paper tray or the front cover.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2019
    Assignee: Konica Minolta, Inc.
    Inventors: Tomoko Maruyama, Kaoru Fukuoka, Hideyuki Matsuda, Jun Shiraishi, Hiroyuki Ohno
  • Patent number: 10484432
    Abstract: A security information update system includes a service providing server and information processing devices, the service providing server including: an authentication information memory that stores a pair of security information and identification information; and a service providing unit that provides a service to the information processing device, and the information processing devices including: a policy acquisition unit that acquires a security policy; a security information memory that stores security information; a process executing unit that transmits a pair of the same identification information and security information to the service providing server and receives a service; an authentication information acquisition unit that acquires security information after update; an update unit that updates security information with the acquired security information after the update date and time; and a prohibition unit that prohibits execution of a process of receiving a service after the update date and time u
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 4, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2019
    Assignee: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.
    Inventors: Jun Shiraishi, Toshiya Shozaki, Ryosuke Nishimura, Tomoko Maruyama, Shoko Haba
  • Patent number: 10481851
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus having a function to communicate with a terminal is provided. The image forming apparatus includes a receiver configured to receive, from the terminal, a print command to print a rasterized image having been stored; a user interface configured to receive, from a user, an execution command to print the rasterized image after the receiver receives the print command; and a printer configured to print the rasterized image after the user interface receives the execution command.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 24, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2019
    Assignee: Konica Minolta, Inc.
    Inventors: Kazuhiro Tomiyasu, Hiroaki Sugimoto, Tomoko Maruyama, Kazuaki Kanai, Yusuke Shinosaki
  • Publication number: 20190141206
    Abstract: An image processing system includes: an image processing device that comprises a first display and a first hardware processor; and an information processing device that communicates with the image processing device, and comprises: a second display on which a second screen same as a first screen being displayed on the first display is displayed; and a second hardware processor, wherein one of the first and second hardware processors determines whether a screen display standard of the first display is left or right standard and whether a screen display standard of the second display is left or right standard, and inverts the second screen that is same as the first screen being displayed on the first display and is displayed on the second display right and left, when the screen display standards of the first and second displays are determined to be different from each other.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 8, 2018
    Publication date: May 9, 2019
    Applicant: Konica Minolta, Inc.
    Inventors: Atsushi Tomita, Kazuhiro Tomiyasu, Tomoko Maruyama, Kenichi Sawada, Hiroshi Sugiura
  • Publication number: 20190129665
    Abstract: An image processing device capable of executing a plurality of jobs that differ in kind, the image processing device includes: a controller that controls execution of an input job; and a detection part that, on the basis of a voice detected by a voice detector, detects that any of a plurality of predetermined target voices has been emitted, wherein in a case where it is detected that the target voice has been emitted during a target setting period corresponding to a job that is being executed, among setting periods that are defined beforehand according to kinds of jobs respectively, the controller stops the execution of the job.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 22, 2018
    Publication date: May 2, 2019
    Applicant: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.
    Inventors: Tomoko Maruyama, Kazuhiro Tomiyasu, Atsushi Tomita, Kenichi Sawada, Hiroshi Sugiura
  • Patent number: 10275035
    Abstract: A device for determining a gesture includes a display portion for selectively displaying one of screens; a storage portion for storing, for each of the screens, a rule used for distinguishing between gestures; a detection portion for detecting a motion made by a user; and a determination portion for identifying, from among the gestures, a gesture represented by the motion detected by the detection portion based on the rule for a current screen, the current screen being one of the screens and being displayed at a time when the motion has been detected.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2019
    Assignee: Konica Minolta, Inc.
    Inventors: Hiroshi Sugiura, Hiroshi Iwamoto, Kenichi Sawada, Takeshi Hibino, Tomoko Maruyama
  • Publication number: 20190042168
    Abstract: An image processing device that provides an operation terminal device with an operation screen and receives input information from the operation terminal device, comprising a hardware processor that: communicates with the operation terminal device in either a first communication mode or a second communication mode, which is different from the first communication mode; determines whether the communication with the operation terminal device is in the first communication mode or the second communication mode; and creates a first screen, which is the operation screen imposed with no limit, and provides the operation terminal device with the created first screen when the communication is determined to be made in the first communication mode, and creates a second screen, which is the operation screen imposed with a limit, and provides the operation terminal device with the created second screen when the communication is determined to be made in the second communication mode.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 2, 2018
    Publication date: February 7, 2019
    Applicant: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.
    Inventors: Tomoko Maruyama, Hideyuki Matsuda, Kaoru Fukuoka, Jun Shiraishi, Hiroyuki Ohno, Eisaku Owada
  • Patent number: 10152583
    Abstract: Each of the plurality of information processing apparatus includes an operation panel, a storage that stores security information, and a hardware processor. The hardware processor registers an administrator, when a user is registered as the administrator, authenticates the user, and when the user is authenticated, executes a first process of updating any of the stored security information, and a second process of setting the information processing apparatus in accordance with an operation by the authenticated user, and when the user is not registered as the administrator and is authenticated as an administrator in communicable another information processing apparatus, executes the first process but not the second process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 3, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 11, 2018
    Assignee: Konica Minolta, Inc.
    Inventors: Shoko Haba, Ryosuke Nishimura, Toshiya Shozaki, Tomoko Maruyama, Jun Shiraishi
  • Patent number: 10148845
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus capable of exchanging various types of information with at least one image forming apparatus includes a nonvolatile storage unit capable of higher-speed access processing than a hard disk drive of the image forming apparatus and capable of storing amount-of-use information regarding an amount of use of the image forming apparatus by each user, and a management unit configured to manage usage of the image forming apparatus by a user, by using the amount-of-use information stored in the storage unit. On a predetermined condition, the management unit shifts specific amount-of-use information to a shift destination device that is another image forming apparatus different from the image forming apparatus, the specific amount-of-use information being amount-of-use information about a specific user out of a plurality of pieces of amount-of-use information about each of a plurality of users stored in the storage unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 4, 2018
    Assignee: Konica Minolta, Inc.
    Inventors: Yusuke Shinosaki, Hiroaki Sugimoto, Kazuhiro Tomiyasu, Tomoko Maruyama, Kazuaki Kanai
  • Publication number: 20180275576
    Abstract: An image forming system includes: an image forming apparatus; an imaging portion that performs imaging of a belonging of a user, the user being adjacent to the image forming apparatus; a belonging analyzer that identifies the belonging by performing analysis on an image obtained by the imaging portion; a memory that stores a user assistance lookup table including the following pieces of information associated one another in advance: a belonging of a user; a user assistance action; and a target member of the image forming apparatus, the target member to be affected by the user assistance action; a searcher that retrieves a user assistance action and target member both associated with the identified belonging by searching the user assistance lookup table for a record associated with the identified belonging; and a hardware processor that makes the image forming apparatus take the user assistance action by the target member.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 20, 2018
    Publication date: September 27, 2018
    Applicant: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.
    Inventors: Tomoko MARUYAMA, Kaoru FUKUOKA, Hideyuki MATSUDA, Jun SHIRAISHI, Hiroyuki OHNO
  • Patent number: 9979855
    Abstract: An image processing system includes: an image processing apparatus; an instruction server configured to transmit instruction information to the image processing apparatus via a router having a firewall function; and a session server configured to set up a session between the image processing apparatus and the instruction server. The image processing apparatus is configured to switch, in a case where the state of the image processing apparatus is a power saving state when a time specified by a transmission interval elapses from transmission of a connection confirmation packet for the session with the instruction server, to a state in which at least the connection confirmation packet can be transmitted.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 22, 2018
    Assignee: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.
    Inventors: Ryosuke Nishimura, Toshiya Shozaki, Tomoko Maruyama, Shoko Haba, Jun Shiraishi
  • Patent number: 9900468
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes: an authentication information requesting portion that transmits one or more requests for authentication information to a portable terminal apparatus upon receipt of a connection request therefrom, the connection request not requiring user identification; a first authentication portion that performs first authentication not requiring user identification by comparing authentication information to first reference data, the authentication information being received in return for the request; a second authentication portion that performs second authentication by comparing the authentication information to second reference data for user identification; and a processor that takes one piece of authentication information or any one of multiple pieces of authentication information received in return for the one or more requests, according to a predetermined rule, and that makes the second authentication portion perform the second authentication using the one piece of authenticati
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 18, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2018
    Assignee: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.
    Inventors: Tomoko Maruyama, Ryosuke Nishimura, Toshiya Shozaki, Shoko Haba, Jun Shiraishi
  • Publication number: 20180032296
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus having a function to communicate with a terminal is provided. The image forming apparatus includes a receiver configured to receive, from the terminal, a print command to print a rasterized image having been stored; a user interface configured to receive, from a user, an execution command to print the rasterized image after the receiver receives the print command; and a printer configured to print the rasterized image after the user interface receives the execution command.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 24, 2017
    Publication date: February 1, 2018
    Applicant: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.
    Inventors: Kazuhiro TOMIYASU, Hiroaki SUGIMOTO, Tomoko MARUYAMA, Kazuaki KANAI, Yusuke SHINOSAKI
  • Publication number: 20170180590
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus capable of exchanging various types of information with at least one image forming apparatus includes a nonvolatile storage unit capable of higher-speed access processing than a hard disk drive of the image forming apparatus and capable of storing amount-of-use information regarding an amount of use of the image forming apparatus by each user, and a management unit configured to manage usage of the image forming apparatus by a user, by using the amount-of-use information stored in the storage unit. On a predetermined condition, the management unit shifts specific amount-of-use information to a shift destination device that is another image forming apparatus different from the image forming apparatus, the specific amount-of-use information being amount-of-use information about a specific user out of a plurality of pieces of amount-of-use information about each of a plurality of users stored in the storage unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 14, 2016
    Publication date: June 22, 2017
    Applicant: Konica Minolta, Inc.
    Inventors: Yusuke SHINOSAKI, Hiroaki SUGIMOTO, Kazuhiro TOMIYASU, Tomoko MARUYAMA, Kazuaki KANAI
  • Patent number: 9646233
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus, comprises: a receiving part for receiving an email at a predetermined time; a print outputting part for producing a printed output of data contained in the received email; a stop controlling part for temporarily suspending the receiving process by the receiving part or the process to produce the printed output by the print outputting part; a determining part for receiving an input of instruction information specifying a processing to process the received email and determining the processing to process the received email in accordance with the input instruction information while the stop controlling part is temporarily suspending the process; and an email processing part for performing the processing determined by the determining part to process the received email while the process is being temporarily suspended by the stop controlling part or after the temporary suspension by the stop controlling part is cancelled.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 12, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2017
    Assignee: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.
    Inventors: Hiroshi Sugiura, Mie Kawabata, Toshimi Shinchi, Atsushi Tomita, Tomoko Maruyama
  • Publication number: 20170111398
    Abstract: A security information update system includes a service providing server and information processing devices, the service providing server including: an authentication information memory that stores a pair of security information and identification information; and a service providing unit that provides a service to the information processing device, and the information processing devices including: a policy acquisition unit that acquires a security policy; a security information memory that stores security information; a process executing unit that transmits a pair of the same identification information and security information to the service providing server and receives a service; an authentication information acquisition unit that acquires security information after update; an update unit that updates security information with the acquired security information after the update date and time; and a prohibition unit that prohibits execution of a process of receiving a service after the update date and time u
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 4, 2016
    Publication date: April 20, 2017
    Applicant: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.
    Inventors: Jun SHIRAISHI, Toshiya SHOZAKI, Ryosuke NISHIMURA, Tomoko MARUYAMA, Shoko HABA
  • Publication number: 20170098066
    Abstract: Each of the plurality of information processing apparatuses includes an operation panel, a storage that stores security information, and a hardware processor. The hardware processor registers an administrator, when a user is registered as the administrator, authenticates the user, and when the user is authenticated, executes a first process of updating any of the stored security information, and a second process of setting the information processing apparatus in accordance with an operation by the authenticated user, and when the user is not registered as the administrator and is authenticated as an administrator in communicable another information processing apparatus, executes the first process but not the second process.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 3, 2016
    Publication date: April 6, 2017
    Applicant: Konica Minolta, Inc.
    Inventors: Shoko Haba, Ryosuke Nishimura, Toshiya Shozaki, Tomoko Maruyama, Jun Shiraishi