Patents by Inventor Toshimi Shinchi

Toshimi Shinchi 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).

  • Publication number: 20220147699
    Abstract: An image information processing apparatus includes: a hardware processor that: specifies, based on image information of an image captured by an imaging part, a document region in which a document that is visually recognizable recorded matter is arranged, the document region being a region included in the image; acquires an annotation corresponding to the document; and causes the annotation to be displayed in a region corresponding to a non-document region in a display region of a display, the non-document region being a region other than the document region in the image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 7, 2021
    Publication date: May 12, 2022
    Inventor: TOSHIMI SHINCHI
  • Patent number: 10747485
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus cooperates with a flying vehicle, and includes: a communicator that exchanges data with another device; a printer that performs printing on a paper sheet; a storage that stores positional information of seats, positional information of image forming apparatuses, and a moving speed of the flying vehicle; and a hardware processor that controls the image forming apparatus, wherein the hardware processor is to: obtain delivery destination information from a print job; receive positional information from the flying vehicle; read out the positional information of a seat as a delivery destination and the positional information of the image forming apparatuses; calculate a travel time until the flying vehicle reaches the delivery destination; transfer the print job to another image forming apparatus; and transmit information regarding the other image forming apparatus to the flying vehicle via the communicator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 18, 2020
    Assignee: Konica Minolta, Inc.
    Inventor: Toshimi Shinchi
  • Publication number: 20200210119
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus cooperates with a flying vehicle, and includes: a communicator that exchanges data with another device; a printer that performs printing on a paper sheet; a storage that stores positional information of seats, positional information of image forming apparatuses, and a moving speed of the flying vehicle; and a hardware processor that controls the image forming apparatus, wherein the hardware processor is to: obtain delivery destination information from a print job; receive positional information from the flying vehicle; read out the positional information of a seat as a delivery destination and the positional information of the image forming apparatuses; calculate a travel time until the flying vehicle reaches the delivery destination; transfer the print job to another image forming apparatus; and transmit information regarding the other image forming apparatus to the flying vehicle via the communicator.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 23, 2019
    Publication date: July 2, 2020
    Applicant: Konica Minolta, Inc.
    Inventor: Toshimi SHINCHI
  • Patent number: 10394445
    Abstract: An MFP (Multi-Functional Peripheral) as an information processing apparatus accepts an input through a keyboard selectively displayed on the touch panel of an operation terminal from among a plurality of keyboards configured with software key groups different from each other. The MFP displays a setting screen including a plurality of input areas on the touch panel. When the setting screen appears, the MFP acquires the type of the selectively displayed keyboard and decides an input accepting area that accepts an input through the selectively displayed keyboard, from among the plurality of input areas.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 22, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2019
    Assignee: Konica Minolta, Inc.
    Inventors: Shohei Ichiyama, Toshimi Shinchi
  • Patent number: 9930197
    Abstract: An information converter includes an acquisition part for acquiring execution information of a specific function mode, the specific function mode being included in customized information which is operation setting information customized for a specific user and not being installed in a specific image forming apparatus; and a converter for dividing an operation to be executed in the specific function mode into a plurality of jobs which can be executed in the specific image forming apparatus and converting the execution information of the specific function mode into converted execution information described by using combination of the plurality of jobs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 4, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 27, 2018
    Assignee: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.
    Inventors: Eiichi Yoshida, Takuya Okada, Takeshi Hibino, Toshimi Shinchi, Kenichi Komaba
  • 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: 20150381832
    Abstract: An information converter includes an acquisition part for acquiring execution information of a specific function mode, the specific function mode being included in customized information which is operation setting information customized for a specific user and not being installed in a specific image forming apparatus; and a converter for dividing an operation to be executed in the specific function mode into a plurality of jobs which can be executed in the specific image forming apparatus and converting the execution information of the specific function mode into converted execution information described by using combination of the plurality of jobs.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 4, 2015
    Publication date: December 31, 2015
    Applicant: Konica Minolta, Inc.
    Inventors: Eiichi YOSHIDA, Takuya OKADA, Takeshi HIBINO, Toshimi SHINCHI, Kenichi KOMABA
  • Patent number: 9207846
    Abstract: A set value input device, comprising: a display in which a screen having at least one set value input area can be displayed; a touch detection portion; a first input portion which is displayed when the touch detection portion detects the set value input area is touched and which is to input a set value in the set value input area; a judging portion for judging, whether a second input portion is in an enabled state or in a disabled state, the second input portion being operable of the set value input screen, and inputting a set value when the set value input area is selected; and a control portion which disables the first input portion, makes one of the set value input areas selected if the second input portion is enabled, and which makes all the set value input areas non-selected if the second input portion is disabled.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 8, 2015
    Assignee: Konica Minolta, Inc.
    Inventors: Shohei Ichiyama, Toshimi Shinchi, Atsushi Tomita, Toshiyuki Maeshima, Yusaku Tanaka
  • Patent number: 9167112
    Abstract: An image forming system comprises a calling part for calling up customized information which is operation setting information customized for a specific user, a converter for dividing an operation to be executed in a specific function mode which is installed in a first image forming apparatus and not installed in a second image forming apparatus into a plurality of jobs and changing execution information of the specific function mode to converted execution information described by using combination of pieces of execution information on the plurality of jobs when the specific function mode is included in the customized information, and a controller for executing an operation to implement the same function as that of the specific function mode in the second image forming apparatus by using the converted execution information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 20, 2015
    Assignee: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.
    Inventors: Eiichi Yoshida, Takuya Okada, Takeshi Hibino, Toshimi Shinchi, Kenichi Komaba
  • Patent number: 9025172
    Abstract: A printing setting apparatus for generating printing setting information described in one data format included in plural types of data formats and submitting a printing job to an image forming apparatus capable of executing a printing job based on printing setting information described in said plural types of data formats, comprising: an operation acceptor for accepting a user's operation for input; a generator for making printing setting based on control information received by said operation acceptor and generating printing setting information described in said one data format based on said printing setting; a converter for converting said printing setting information described in said one data format into printing setting information described in another data format included in said plural types of data formats; and an output part for outputting said printing setting information which is generated by said converter and described in said another data format.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 5, 2015
    Assignee: Konica Minolta, Inc.
    Inventors: Tomoko Maruyama, Atsushi Tomita, Mie Kawabata, Hiroshi Sugiura, Toshimi Shinchi
  • Publication number: 20140317550
    Abstract: An MFP (Multi-Functional Peripheral) as an information processing apparatus accepts an input through a keyboard selectively displayed on the touch panel of an operation terminal from among a plurality of keyboards configured with software key groups different from each other. The MFP displays a setting screen including a plurality of input areas on the touch panel. When the setting screen appears, the MFP acquires the type of the selectively displayed keyboard and decides an input accepting area that accepts an input through the selectively displayed keyboard, from among the plurality of input areas.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 22, 2014
    Publication date: October 23, 2014
    Applicant: Konica Minolta, Inc.
    Inventors: Shohei ICHIYAMA, Toshimi SHINCHI
  • Patent number: 8743407
    Abstract: A computer readable recording medium stored with a color conversion setting program, the program causes a computer to execute a process comprising: (a) generating a plurality of profile sets respectively associated with paper types, each of the profile sets being to be used for applying at least one kind of color conversion profile having conversion data for converting colors to a color conversion process depending on the particular paper type used for printing; (b) generating color setting information containing the plurality of profile sets respectively associated with paper types to be used during the color conversion process for each job; and (c) executing a control process for registering the color setting information generated in the step (b) to a storage unit, from which the color setting information is read out during the color conversion process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 2010
    Date of Patent: June 3, 2014
    Assignee: Konica Minolta, Inc.
    Inventor: Toshimi Shinchi
  • Patent number: 8717589
    Abstract: Each of a plurality of process execution portions includes an accumulation portion to accumulate a job in which the first process among processes not yet executed is an in-charge process, and a batch processing portion to execute the in-charge process on combination data including one or more data on condition that a total process volume becomes equal to or greater than a lower limit value predetermined for the in-charge process. The batch processing portion includes a determination portion to determine whether there exists a job having a previous process now being executed, a first delay portion to delay start of the in-charge process until a prescribed time has elapsed since the total process volume becomes equal to or greater than the lower limit value, and a second delay portion to delay start of the in-charge process until a job determined that the previous process is now being executed is accumulated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 6, 2014
    Assignee: Konica Minolta Business Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Takuya Okada, Tomoko Maruyama, Kenichi Komaba, Toshimi Shinchi, Koichi Amiya
  • Publication number: 20140118784
    Abstract: A set value input device, comprising: a display in which a screen having at least one set value input area can be displayed; a touch detection portion; a first input portion which is displayed when the touch detection portion detects the set value input area is touched and which is to input a set value in the set value input area; a judging portion for judging, whether a second input portion is in an enabled state or in a disabled state, the second input portion being operable of the set value input screen, and inputting a set value when the set value input area is selected; and a control portion which disables the first input portion, makes one of the set value input areas selected if the second input portion is enabled, and which makes all the set value input areas non-selected if the second input portion is disabled.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 23, 2013
    Publication date: May 1, 2014
    Applicant: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.
    Inventors: Shohei Ichiyama, Toshimi Shinchi, Atsushi Tomita, Toshiyuki Maeshima, Yusaku Tanaka
  • Patent number: 8705103
    Abstract: An image processing system includes an image forming apparatus and first and second image processing servers connected to the image forming apparatus via a network, the first image processing server includes: a first image processor which performs a first image processing operation on target image data received from the image forming apparatus; and a protected area calculator which calculates a protected area to be prohibited from being processed next, which is related to the area processed by the first image processor, and generates image protection information including information of the protected area, and the second image processing server includes a second image processor which performs a second image processing operation on the areas excluding the protected area whose information is included in the image protection information generated by the protected area calculator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 22, 2014
    Assignee: Konica Minolta Business Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Eiichi Yoshida, Takuya Okada, Toshimi Shinchi, Kenichi Komaba, Masao Hosono
  • Publication number: 20140029035
    Abstract: A printing setting apparatus for generating printing setting information described in one data format included in plural types of data formats and submitting a printing job to an image forming apparatus capable of executing a printing job based on printing setting information described in said plural types of data formats, comprising: an operation acceptor for accepting a user's operation for input; a generator for making printing setting based on control information received by said operation acceptor and generating printing setting information described in said one data format based on said printing setting; a converter for converting said printing setting information described in said one data format into printing setting information described in another data format included in said plural types of data formats; and an output part for outputting said printing setting information which is generated by said converter and described in said another data format.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 30, 2013
    Publication date: January 30, 2014
    Applicant: Konica Minolta, Inc.
    Inventors: Tomoko MARUYAMA, Atsushi TOMITA, Mie KAWABATA, Hiroshi SUGIURA, Toshimi SHINCHI
  • Publication number: 20130335771
    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: Application
    Filed: June 12, 2013
    Publication date: December 19, 2013
    Inventors: Hiroshi SUGIURA, Mie KAWABATA, Toshimi SHINCHI, Atsushi TOMITA, Tomoko Maruyama
  • Patent number: 8514439
    Abstract: An image processing server in charge of a first image processing operation determines a reference value for a reference item; generates first reference information; calculates its charge; generates first charge information indicating its calculated amount of charge; and transmits the first reference information and the first charge information to the next location, separately from image data obtained by the first image processing operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 2011
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2013
    Assignee: Konica Minolta Business Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Kenichi Komaba, Eiichi Yoshida, Takuya Okada, Toshimi Shinchi, Masao Hosono
  • Publication number: 20130009971
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus comprises: an image processor which performs a plurality of image processing operations on one target data object separately; a display; and a controller which extracts from the target data object a plurality of data sections changed by the image processing operations of the image processor and displays the extracted data sections all together on the display as preview images.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 28, 2012
    Publication date: January 10, 2013
    Applicant: KONICA MINOLTA BUSINESS TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
    Inventors: Tomoko MARUYAMA, Toshimi Shinchi, Takuya Okada, Koichi Amiya, Kenichi Komaba
  • Publication number: 20120268785
    Abstract: Each of a plurality of process execution portions includes an accumulation portion to accumulate a job in which the first process among processes not yet executed is an in-charge process, and a batch processing portion to execute the in-charge process on combination data including one or more data on condition that a total process volume becomes equal to or greater than a lower limit value predetermined for the in-charge process. The batch processing portion includes a determination portion to determine whether there exists a job having a previous process now being executed, a first delay portion to delay start of the in-charge process until a prescribed time has elapsed since the total process volume becomes equal to or greater than the lower limit value, and a second delay portion to delay start of the in-charge process until a job determined that the previous process is now being executed is accumulated.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 20, 2012
    Publication date: October 25, 2012
    Applicant: Konica Minolta Business Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Takuya OKADA, Tomoko MARUYAMA, Kenichi KOMABA, Toshimi SHINCHI, Koichi AMIYA