Patents by Inventor Toru Zushi

Toru Zushi 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).

  • Information terminal, information processing apparatus, information processing system, and information processing method
    Patent number: 10484816
    Abstract: An information terminal including circuitry configured to acquire, using a plurality of function modules, identification data unique to each positioning devices, from sound waves output, respectively, from the plurality of positioning devices; acquire site information of a corresponding site being one of a plurality of sites in each of which at least one positioning device is placed, from an information processing apparatus that manages, for each site, the site information that includes specifying information for specifying one of the plurality of function modules capable of executing predetermined processing on the corresponding site corresponding to a position of the information terminal; and cause the function module specified by the specifying information to execute the predetermined processing. The plurality of function modules is configured to acquire the identification data in different schemes from each other and execute the predetermined processing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 25, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2019
    Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Toru Zushi, Tadahiro Takata, Kouichi Yamada, Shinji Kaizuka, Hiroyoshi Kuroda, Teruko Hashizume
  • INFORMATION TERMINAL, INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM, AND INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD
    Publication number: 20180343540
    Abstract: An information terminal including circuitry configured to acquire, using a plurality of function modules, identification data unique to each positioning devices, from sound waves output, respectively, from the plurality of positioning devices; acquire site information of a corresponding site being one of a plurality of sites in each of which at least one positioning device is placed, from an information processing apparatus that manages, for each site, the site information that includes specifying information for specifying one of the plurality of function modules capable of executing predetermined processing on the corresponding site corresponding to a position of the information terminal; and cause the function module specified by the specifying information to execute the predetermined processing. The plurality of function modules is configured to acquire the identification data in different schemes from each other and execute the predetermined processing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 25, 2018
    Publication date: November 29, 2018
    Inventors: Toru ZUSHI, Fumihiko HASHIZUME, Tadahiro TAKATA, Kouichi YAMADA, Shinji KAIZUKA, Hiroyoshi KURODA
  • Image Forming Apparatus Having a Function of Mediating Data Transmission Between a Reception Part and a Job Execution Part
    Publication number: 20090147305
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus has at least one job execution part that executes a job based on data received according to a print protocol. A data reception part receives data transferred according to the print protocol. The data reception part exists depending on a kind of the print protocol. A mediation part mediates transmission of the data between the data reception part and the job execution part.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 26, 2008
    Publication date: June 11, 2009
    Inventor: Toru Zushi