Patents by Inventor Toshiaki Denpo

Toshiaki Denpo 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: 8295460
    Abstract: A communication apparatus includes an obtaining unit, an image data receiving unit, an extracting unit and a first display control unit. The obtaining unit is configured to obtain a caller identification information through a caller identification via a communication line when an incoming call is received from a caller. The image data receiving unit is configured to receive an image data transmitted from the caller via the communication line. The extracting unit is configured to extract caller information from the image data to specify the caller. The first display control unit is configured to display the caller information on a display screen when the obtaining unit does not obtain the caller identification information at the incoming call.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2007
    Date of Patent: October 23, 2012
    Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Toshiaki Denpo
  • Patent number: 7966483
    Abstract: A communication device includes storage configured to store information, an output device configured to output the information, a power supply detector configured to detect a supply of power to the communication device when the communication device is coupled to an external power source. Also, the communication device includes a processor configured to prohibit the stored information from being output by the output device responsive to the power supply detector detecting the supply of power.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2007
    Date of Patent: June 21, 2011
    Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Toshiaki Denpo
  • Patent number: 7936470
    Abstract: A communication device is connectable to a terminal device, which can perform a data communication with the communication device. The communication device is capable of receiving data through another communication device via a communication network. The communication device may include a data storing system that stores data received from the other communication device through the communication network, a data transmitting system that transmits the data stored in the data storing system, a data counting system that counts the number of pieces of data stored in the data storing system and have not yet been transmitted to the terminal device, and an indicating system that indicates the number of pieces of data counted by the data counting system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 2005
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2011
    Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Toshiaki Denpo
  • Patent number: 7893949
    Abstract: An image display apparatus having a screen on which a plurality of images are one by one displayed and sequentially switched to another at a time interval. The apparatus includes an image storing portion and a display control portion. The image storing portion stores data of an actual image and data of a thumbnail image of the actual image such that the data of the actual image and the data of the thumbnail image are associated with each other. The display control portion selectively operates in one of a first mode and a second mode depending on information on the data of the actual image stored in the image storing portion. The display controlling portion controls to display, on the screen, an image based on the data of the actual image in the first mode, and an image based on the data of the thumbnail image in the second mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 17, 2006
    Date of Patent: February 22, 2011
    Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Toshiaki Denpo
  • Patent number: 7382499
    Abstract: A multifunction device including a body, a media slot placed on the body and which receives a media card and a control panel including a media card indicator that illuminates when a media card has been inserted into the media slot, wherein the media card indicator and the media slot are on different planes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2003
    Date of Patent: June 3, 2008
    Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Toshiaki Denpo
  • Publication number: 20080082852
    Abstract: A communication device includes storage configured to store information, an output device configured to output the information, a power supply detector configured to detect a supply of power to the communication device when the communication device is coupled to an external power source. Also, the communication device includes a processor configured to prohibit the stored information from being output by the output device responsive to the power supply detector detecting the supply of power.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 27, 2007
    Publication date: April 3, 2008
    Applicant: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Toshiaki Denpo
  • Publication number: 20070201649
    Abstract: A communication apparatus includes an obtaining unit, an image data receiving unit, an extracting unit and a first display control unit. The obtaining unit is configured to obtain a caller identification information through a caller identification via a communication line when an incoming call is received from a caller. The image data receiving unit is configured to receive an image data transmitted from the caller via the communication line. The extracting unit is configured to extract caller information from the image data to specify the caller. The first display control unit is configured to display the caller information on a display screen when the obtaining unit does not obtain the caller identification information at the incoming call.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 27, 2007
    Publication date: August 30, 2007
    Applicant: BROTHER KKOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Toshiaki Denpo
  • Publication number: 20070071190
    Abstract: A facsimile apparatus that includes: a main device; an additional device; an item setting part that sets items of operational condition of the main device recognizable through the additional device; an information generating part provided in the main device and generating information of the operational condition of the main device; an information transmitting part that transmits information corresponding to the items set by the item setting part; and an information output part provided in each additional device and outputting the transmitted information to notify a user when the additional device receives the information of the operational condition of the main device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 27, 2006
    Publication date: March 29, 2007
    Inventor: Toshiaki Denpo
  • Publication number: 20070024733
    Abstract: An image display apparatus having a screen on which a plurality of images are one by one displayed and sequentially switched to another at a time interval. The apparatus includes an image storing portion and a display control portion. The image storing portion stores data of an actual image and data of a thumbnail image of the actual image such that the data of the actual image and the data of the thumbnail image are associated with each other. The display control portion selectively operates in one of a first mode and a second mode depending on information on the data of the actual image stored in the image storing portion. The display controlling portion controls to display, on the screen, an image based on the data of the actual image in the first mode, and an image based on the data of the thumbnail image in the second mode.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 17, 2006
    Publication date: February 1, 2007
    Applicant: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Toshiaki Denpo
  • Patent number: 7164872
    Abstract: A copying machine includes a storing portion that stores a value with n (n?2) digits, the n digits having a range from a first digit to an nth digit on a left side of the first digit, wherein the value indicates a number of copies to be made, a number input portion capable of inputting numbers, a copy start input portion capable of inputting an instruction to start copying a document, a copying portion that copies the document based on the value stored in the storing portion when the instruction to start copying is input and a controller that performs a set process and a resetting process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 2004
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2007
    Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Toshiaki Denpo
  • Publication number: 20060023262
    Abstract: A communication device is connectable to a terminal device, which can perform a data communication with the communication device. The communication device is capable of receiving data through another communication device via a communication network. The communication device may include a data storing system that stores data received from the other communication device through the communication network, a data transmitting system that transmits the data stored in the data storing system, a data counting system that counts the number of pieces of data stored in the data storing system and have not yet been transmitted to the terminal device, and an indicating system that indicates the number of pieces of data counted by the data counting system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 26, 2005
    Publication date: February 2, 2006
    Applicant: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Toshiaki Denpo
  • Publication number: 20050213135
    Abstract: When switching of an operating mode is performed while there is data that has not been confirmed yet by a user, that is, unprocessed data that has not been processed yet, remaining in a storage device, the unprocessed data can be processed regardless of whether the user has acknowledged that the unprocessed data remains in the storage device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 25, 2005
    Publication date: September 29, 2005
    Applicant: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Kazunobu Asai, Toshiaki Denpo
  • Publication number: 20040264994
    Abstract: A copying machine includes a storing portion that stores a value with n (n≧2) digits, the n digits having a range from a first digit to an nth digit on a left side of the first digit, wherein the value indicates a number of copies to be made, a number input portion capable of inputting numbers, a copy start input portion capable of inputting an instruction to start copying a document, a copying portion that copies the document based on the value stored in the storing portion when the instruction to start copying is input and a controller that performs a set process and a resetting process.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 25, 2004
    Publication date: December 30, 2004
    Applicant: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Toshiaki Denpo
  • Publication number: 20040130732
    Abstract: A multifunction device including a body, a media slot placed on the body and which receives a media card and a control panel including a media card indicator that illuminates when a media card has been inserted into the media slot, wherein the media card indicator and the media slot are on different planes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 30, 2003
    Publication date: July 8, 2004
    Applicant: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Toshiaki Denpo