Patents by Inventor Toshihiro Mochizuki

Toshihiro Mochizuki 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: 9575454
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes an input unit that receives specifications of a color, a type of a surface effect that is a visual or a tactile effect, and a region to which the surface effect is applied, with respect to input image data; a generating unit that generates color data and gloss control data based on the specifications, the gloss control data being data which is used for generating clear toner data and in which a gloss control value is specified for identifying the type of the surface effect applied to the recording medium and for identifying a region to which the surface effect is applied in the recording medium; and a sending unit that sends the color data and the gloss control data to a print control apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 10, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2017
    Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Hiroo Kitagawa, Hiroaki Suzuki, Toshihiro Mochizuki
  • Patent number: 9547357
    Abstract: A system includes apparatuses and a power collecting device for collecting power consumption information at power sources to which the apparatuses are connected, respectively. The apparatus includes a controller that sets the apparatus to a first state or a second state for a lower power consumption; a first obtaining unit that obtains, from the device, first associated information in which first information for identifying the sources is associated with second information indicating power consumption of the respective sources; a retaining unit that retains second associated information in which the first associated information is associated with the time when the first obtaining unit obtains the first associated information; a state determining unit that determines a state of the other apparatus; and a second obtaining unit that obtains third associated information corresponding to a period during which the apparatus is in the second state when the apparatus transits to the first state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2017
    Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventor: Toshihiro Mochizuki
  • Publication number: 20160277345
    Abstract: A conferencing system includes at least one first information terminal, a second information terminal, and an information processing apparatus. The information processing apparatus includes a receiving unit configured to receive a first display position corresponding to a current display position of content data displayed by the first information terminal. The second information terminal includes a display unit configured to display the content data and the first display position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 16, 2016
    Publication date: September 22, 2016
    Applicant: RICOH COMPANY, LTD.
    Inventors: Toshihiro MOCHIZUKI, Jun EBATA
  • Publication number: 20160241774
    Abstract: A control apparatus includes a first processing unit configured to calculate correlation information between image signals, which are respectively output from one of the pixel portions positioned in one of a plurality of first regions, a focus detection unit configured to perform focus detection on the basis of a calculation result by the first processing unit, a second processing unit configured to calculate correlation information between image signals, which are respectively output from the one of the pixel portions positioned in one of a plurality of second regions, a distribution information calculation unit configured to calculate distribution information corresponding to an object distance on the basis of a calculation result by the second processing unit, and a control unit configured to control the second processing unit and the distribution information calculation unit on the basis of the correlation information calculated by the first processing unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 9, 2016
    Publication date: August 18, 2016
    Inventor: Toshihiro Mochizuki
  • Patent number: 9420168
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus obtains light field data, and selects a subject. The apparatus outputs restriction information which is information for not focusing on the selected subject, and is information for restricting reconstruction of the light field data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2016
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Masahiro Aimi, Toshihiro Mochizuki, Kenichi Murata
  • Publication number: 20160156717
    Abstract: Provided is an information processing apparatus including: a content execution unit configured to execute a content; a content type storage unit configured to store each type of the content in association with information for determining whether or not to allow finish of the execution during a travel of a vehicle; a memory monitoring unit configured to identify a remaining memory capacity available for the content execution unit; a travel state monitoring unit configured to acquire a state of the vehicle; and a finish content determination unit configured to use, when the remaining memory capacity is less than a predetermined threshold, the content type storage unit to determine a content for which execution is allowed to be finished depending on the state of the vehicle acquired by the travel state monitoring unit, and issue a finish request for the content to the content execution unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 25, 2015
    Publication date: June 2, 2016
    Inventors: Takashi MATSUMOTO, Atushi SHIMIZU, Wataru NAKASONE, Toshihiro MOCHIZUKI
  • Patent number: 9213505
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes: a generating unit that generates a print job including one or more print data, first information indicating the one or more print data divided into multiple units for which respective print conditions when printing is executed are set, and second information indicating the print conditions; an accepting unit that accepts designation input which designates a print range of a specified job indicating a print job specified from among one or more print jobs; a determining unit that determines whether a unit is included in the print range with respect to each of units indicated by first information included in the specified job; and an output control unit that performs control, as for a unit determined to be partially included in the print range by the determining unit, so as to output options to set a print condition for the unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2015
    Assignee: RICOH COMPANY, LIMITED
    Inventor: Toshihiro Mochizuki
  • Publication number: 20150316886
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes an input unit that receives specifications of a color, a type of a surface effect that is a visual or a tactile effect, and a region to which the surface effect is applied, with respect to input image data; a generating unit that generates color data and gloss control data based on the specifications, the gloss control data being data which is used for generating clear toner data and in which a gloss control value is specified for identifying the type of the surface effect applied to the recording medium and for identifying a region to which the surface effect is applied in the recording medium; and a sending unit that sends the color data and the gloss control data to a print control apparatus.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 10, 2015
    Publication date: November 5, 2015
    Inventors: Hiroo KITAGAWA, Hiroaki SUZUKI, Toshihiro MOCHIZUKI
  • Patent number: 9110426
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes an input unit that receives specifications of a color, a type of a surface effect that is a visual or a tactile effect, and a region to which the surface effect is applied, with respect to input image data; a generating unit that generates color data and gloss control data based on the specifications, the gloss control data being data which is used for generating clear toner data and in which a gloss control value is specified for identifying the type of the surface effect applied to the recording medium and for identifying a region to which the surface effect is applied in the recording medium; and a sending unit that sends the color data and the gloss control data to a print control apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 2011
    Date of Patent: August 18, 2015
    Assignee: RICOH COMPANY, LIMITED
    Inventors: Hiroo Kitagawa, Hiroaki Suzuki, Toshihiro Mochizuki
  • Patent number: 9104351
    Abstract: A non-transitory printing control program product is disclosed. The printing control program product causes a computer to function as a printing data generating unit which generates printing data for normal printing and printing data for trial printing such that the printing data for the normal printing and the printing data for the trial printing are printed by the same printing apparatus, the printing data for the normal printing and the printing data for the trial printing being generated from the same submitted manuscript data; and a printing data management unit which receives the printing data for the normal printing and the printing data for the trial printing and which causes the same printing apparatus to print the printing data for the normal printing and the printing data for the trial printing in accordance with the normal printing condition and the trial printing condition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 11, 2015
    Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Toshihiro Mochizuki, Daigo Miyaguchi
  • Publication number: 20150085163
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus obtains light field data, and selects a subject. The apparatus outputs restriction information which is information for not focusing on the selected subject, and is information for restricting reconstruction of the light field data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 17, 2014
    Publication date: March 26, 2015
    Inventors: Masahiro Aimi, Toshihiro Mochizuki, Kenichi Murata
  • Publication number: 20150019888
    Abstract: A system includes apparatuses and a power collecting device for collecting power consumption information at power sources to which the apparatuses are connected, respectively. The apparatus includes a controller that sets the apparatus to a first state or a second state for a lower power consumption; a first obtaining unit that obtains, from the device, first associated information in which first information for identifying the sources is associated with second information indicating power consumption of the respective sources; a retaining unit that retains second associated information in which the first associated information is associated with the time when the first obtaining unit obtains the first associated information; a state determining unit that determines a state of the other apparatus; and a second obtaining unit that obtains third associated information corresponding to a period during which the apparatus is in the second state when the apparatus transits to the first state.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 27, 2014
    Publication date: January 15, 2015
    Applicant: RICOH COMPANY, LIMITED
    Inventor: Toshihiro MOCHIZUKI
  • Publication number: 20140333943
    Abstract: A display processing apparatus includes a gloss-control plane generating unit configured to generate gloss-control plane data for specifying a type of a surface effect applied to a recording medium and an area in a recording medium to which the surface effect is applied; an obtaining unit configured to obtain replacement information that is used to replace a type of the surface effect that is not available in a device configuration with a type of the surface effect that is available in the device configuration; a replacing unit configured to replace the type of the surface effect designated by the designation information with the type of the available surface effect using the replacement information obtained by the obtaining unit; and a preview image generating unit configured to generate a preview image based on the gloss-control plane data having an area to which the available surface effect is to be applied.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 25, 2014
    Publication date: November 13, 2014
    Applicant: RICOH COMPANY, LIMITED
    Inventor: Toshihiro MOCHIZUKI
  • Patent number: 8824009
    Abstract: A display processing apparatus includes a gloss-control plane generating unit configured to generate gloss-control plane data for specifying a type of a surface effect applied to a recording medium and an area in a recording medium to which the surface effect is applied; an obtaining unit configured to obtain replacement information that is used to replace a type of the surface effect that is not available in a device configuration with a type of the surface effect that is available in the device configuration; a replacing unit configured to replace the type of the surface effect designated by the designation information with the type of the available surface effect using the replacement information obtained by the obtaining unit; and a preview image generating unit configured to generate a preview image based on the gloss-control plane data having an area to which the available surface effect is to be applied.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 11, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 2, 2014
    Assignee: Ricoh Company, Limited
    Inventor: Toshihiro Mochizuki
  • Publication number: 20140226039
    Abstract: An image capturing apparatus comprises an image capturing unit configured to capture an image and generate light field image data, a selection unit configured to select an object from the captured image data, an associating unit configured to associate a plurality of objects selected by the selection unit, a reconstruction unit configured to reconstruct a plurality of images in which the plurality of objects associated by the associating unit are in focus, respectively, and a composition unit configured to composite the plurality of images reconstructed by the reconstruction unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 30, 2014
    Publication date: August 14, 2014
    Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Satoshi Yamamoto, Toshihiro Mochizuki, Kenichi Murata
  • Patent number: 8767221
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus connected to an image forming apparatus includes: a size detecting unit that detects a size of each page of a document to be printed; an orientation detecting unit that detects orientation of each page of the document; a receiving unit that receives a setting of post processing that is to be performed on a printed sheet on which the document is printed; a determining unit that determines whether pages of different sizes, both having one side of the same length and other sides of different lengths, are detected in the document; a rotation control unit that, when the determining unit determines that the pages of the different sizes have been detected, rotates pages so that sides of the same length are aligned on the basis of the setting of the post processing; and an output unit that outputs the document with the pages rotated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 2011
    Date of Patent: July 1, 2014
    Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Toshihiro Mochizuki, Shizhong Zhu
  • Publication number: 20140118773
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes: a generating unit that generates a print job including one or more print data, first information indicating the one or more print data divided into multiple units for which respective print conditions when printing is executed are set, and second information indicating the print conditions; an accepting unit that accepts designation input which designates a print range of a specified job indicating a print job specified from among one or more print jobs; a determining unit that determines whether a unit is included in the print range with respect to each of units indicated by first information included in the specified job; and an output control unit that performs control, as for a unit determined to be partially included in the print range by the determining unit, so as to output options to set a print condition for the unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 28, 2013
    Publication date: May 1, 2014
    Inventor: Toshihiro MOCHIZUKI
  • Patent number: 8711387
    Abstract: A non-transitory computer readable recording medium that stores a print management program causing a computer to function as a retrieval unit that retrieves information about first functions of an image forming device and information about second functions of plural second devices; and a determination unit that determines whether the second functions of the second devices can process a print job, when the first functions of the image forming device cannot process the print job. Here, the image forming device and the second devices are connected to a print system including the computer. When the determination unit determines that the second functions of the second devices cannot process the print job, the print management program constrains the second functions of the second devices from being utilized.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 29, 2014
    Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Toshihiro Mochizuki, Hiroyuki Nakajima
  • Publication number: 20130063740
    Abstract: A display processing apparatus includes a gloss-control plane generating unit configured to generate gloss-control plane data for specifying a type of a surface effect applied to a recording medium and an area in a recording medium to which the surface effect is applied; an obtaining unit configured to obtain replacement information that is used to replace a type of the surface effect that is not available in a device configuration with a type of the surface effect that is available in the device configuration; a replacing unit configured to replace the type of the surface effect designated by the designation information with the type of the available surface effect using the replacement information obtained by the obtaining unit; and a preview image generating unit configured to generate a preview image based on the gloss-control plane data having an area to which the available surface effect is to be applied.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 11, 2012
    Publication date: March 14, 2013
    Applicant: Ricoh Company, Limited
    Inventor: Toshihiro MOCHIZUKI
  • Publication number: 20120320420
    Abstract: A non-transitory printing control program product is disclosed. The printing control program product causes a computer to function as a printing data generating unit which generates printing data for normal printing and printing data for trial printing such that the printing data for the normal printing and the printing data for the trial printing are printed by the same printing apparatus, the printing data for the normal printing and the printing data for the trial printing being generated from the same submitted manuscript data; and a printing data management unit which receives the printing data for the normal printing and the printing data for the trial printing and which causes the same printing apparatus to print the printing data for the normal printing and the printing data for the trial printing in accordance with the normal printing condition and the trial printing condition.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 11, 2012
    Publication date: December 20, 2012
    Applicant: RICOH COMPANY, LTD.
    Inventors: Toshihiro Mochizuki, Daigo Miyaguchi