Patents by Inventor Toyoaki Oku
Toyoaki Oku 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).
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Patent number: 9992358Abstract: A pull print system includes a printing apparatus (MFP) that executes a print job, a pull print server that spools the print job to be executed as a pull print by the printing apparatus, and an electronic device that sends the print job to the pull print server. The pull print server sends to the electronic device setting information for a job setting being a setting of the print job, and when displaying a setting screen for the job setting, the electronic device displays the setting screen on which the setting information sent from the pull print server is reflected.Type: GrantFiled: March 8, 2017Date of Patent: June 5, 2018Assignee: KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc.Inventors: Ryosuke Mondo, Koji Kubono, Masafumi Sato, Toyoaki Oku, Zhenyu Sun, Yoshio Inoue
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Patent number: 9955035Abstract: Provided is a pull printing system that is capable of improving security performance over that of a typical system. When authentication based on identification information and authentication information of a person providing a transmission instruction from a user terminal is successful, a pull printing server of the pull printing system correlates a printing job from the user terminal with identification information of a person providing an execution instruction from the user terminal, and spools the printing job. When authentication based on identification information and authentication information of a person providing the execution instruction from an MFP is successful, the pull printing server sets the printing job that is related with the identification information of the person providing the execution instruction as a target candidate of pull printing when spooling the printing job that is related with the identification information of the person providing the execution instruction.Type: GrantFiled: March 25, 2017Date of Patent: April 24, 2018Assignee: KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc.Inventors: Yoshio Inoue, Toyoaki Oku, Koji Kubono, Ryosuke Mondo, Masafumi Sato, Zhenyu Sun
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Patent number: 9934096Abstract: In a fault management system, each of one or more image forming apparatuses includes an agent unit that transmits, upon occurrence of a fault, a notice that the fault has occurred and service call information indicative of details of the fault to a fault management server. The fault management server includes a manager unit that transmits a reboot command to the agent unit of the image forming apparatus in which the fault has occurred, upon reception of the notice and the service call information from the agent unit of the image forming apparatus in which the fault has occurred. The agent unit of the image forming apparatus in which the fault has occurred reboots the image forming apparatus in which the fault has occurred, according to the reboot command.Type: GrantFiled: November 11, 2015Date of Patent: April 3, 2018Assignee: Kyocera Document Solutions, IncInventors: Atsushi Matsumoto, Toyoaki Oku, Takeshi Nakamura, Ryuichi Ishizu, Katsuhiro Minoru
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Patent number: 9936083Abstract: An image output system includes a terminal, a server, and a printing device that are communicable with each other via a network. The server includes: a storage device; and a CPU that executes a program for the server to function as a data generating portion configured to generate raster image data by executing a RIP process on the basis of print data received from the terminal and as a data transmitting portion configured to transmit data for outputting an image, to a destination that outputs the image. The data transmitting portion transmits, to the destination, the print data received from the terminal or the raster image data generated by the data generating portion, according to a kind of the destination.Type: GrantFiled: November 23, 2016Date of Patent: April 3, 2018Assignee: KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc.Inventor: Toyoaki Oku
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Patent number: 9924049Abstract: A pull print system includes a print server and a print apparatus. The print server performs a raster-image processor (RIP) process based on print data received as job data from an external apparatus to generate printing image data as raster image data. The RIP process performed by the data generating unit is same as the RIP process performed by the print apparatus. The print apparatus requests to the print server the job data for the user whose login is accepted. The print server transmits to the print apparatus the printing image data of the job data as raster image data.Type: GrantFiled: November 27, 2016Date of Patent: March 20, 2018Assignee: Kyocera Document Solutions Inc.Inventors: Masafumi Sato, Toyoaki Oku, Koji Kubono, Zhenyu Sun, Ryosuke Mondo, Yoshio Inoue
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Patent number: 9910627Abstract: A remote maintenance system includes: a remote maintenance server; and one or more image forming apparatuses, the server including an operation input unit, a display unit, a storage unit that stores panel programs, a communication unit, an image forming apparatus database in which functions are registered, and a manager circuit that acquires, when a serviceman instructs restoration, the panel program to be restored from the storage unit, analyzes which of the functions is to be invoked by the panel program, compares, by referencing the database, the function of the restore-destination apparatus and the function to be invoked, and determines whether the restore-destination apparatus executes the panel program, and instructs the restore-destination apparatus to restore the panel program when it executes the panel program, each image forming apparatus restoring, when receiving a restore instruction, the panel program based on the instruction.Type: GrantFiled: July 6, 2016Date of Patent: March 6, 2018Assignee: KYOCERA DOCUMENT SOLUTIONS INC.Inventors: Ryuichi Ishizu, Toyoaki Oku, Takeshi Nakamura, Ryosuke Mondo, Atsushi Matsumoto, Katsuhiro Minoru, Daisuke Yoshida
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Patent number: 9798963Abstract: An image forming system includes an image forming apparatus and a server. The image forming apparatus transmits to the server image data representing an image. The image is read by the reading device from the recording medium on which the print device prints the image, in response to an instruction to print at the origin of the print area. The server acquires, from the image data transmitted from the image forming apparatus, a printing-complete reference position, as a position where the recording-medium origin is made a reference, in a location printed on the recording medium by the image forming apparatus in response to an instruction to execute printing at the print-area origin, and acquires the displacement as a difference between the acquired printing-complete reference position and the print reference position stored in the storage device.Type: GrantFiled: August 31, 2016Date of Patent: October 24, 2017Assignee: Kyocera Document Solutions Inc.Inventors: Daisuke Yoshida, Takeshi Nakamura, Toyoaki Oku, Ryuichi Ishizu, Ryosuke Mondo, Atsushi Matsumoto, Katsuhiro Minoru
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Publication number: 20170279974Abstract: A pull print system includes a printing apparatus (MFP) that executes a print job, a pull print server that spools the print job to be executed as a pull print by the printing apparatus, and an electronic device that sends the print job to the pull print server. The pull print server sends to the electronic device setting information for a job setting being a setting of the print job, and when displaying a setting screen for the job setting, the electronic device displays the setting screen on which the setting information sent from the pull print server is reflected.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 8, 2017Publication date: September 28, 2017Applicant: KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc.Inventors: Ryosuke MONDO, Koji KUBONO, Masafumi SATO, Toyoaki OKU, Zhenyu SUN, Yoshio INOUE
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Publication number: 20170280004Abstract: Provided is a pull printing system that is capable of improving security performance over that of a typical system. When authentication based on identification information and authentication information of a person providing a transmission instruction from a user terminal is successful, a pull printing server of the pull printing system correlates a printing job from the user terminal with identification information of a person providing an execution instruction from the user terminal, and spools the printing job. When authentication based on identification information and authentication information of a person providing the execution instruction from an MFP is successful, the pull printing server sets the printing job that is related with the identification information of the person providing the execution instruction as a target candidate of pull printing when spooling the printing job that is related with the identification information of the person providing the execution instruction.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 25, 2017Publication date: September 28, 2017Applicant: KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc.Inventors: Yoshio INOUE, Toyoaki OKU, Koji KUBONO, Ryosuke MONDO, Masafumi SATO, Zhenyu SUN
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Patent number: 9716806Abstract: A management system includes a management server and one or more image forming apparatuses. The management server includes an operation input unit, a display, a first communication unit, a storage unit, and a manager unit. The manager unit, when the administrator instructs a set value change of a setting item for a specific image forming apparatus, determines which set value management group includes the image forming apparatus to which the change has been instructed, refers to a reflection-range table of a set value management group including the image forming apparatus to which the change has been instructed, determines which image forming apparatus among other image forming apparatuses executes the set value change based on the reference result, and instructs the other determined image forming apparatus to change the set value.Type: GrantFiled: July 8, 2016Date of Patent: July 25, 2017Assignee: KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc.Inventors: Takeshi Nakamura, Toyoaki Oku, Ryuichi Ishizu, Atsushi Matsumoto, Katsuhiro Minoru, Daisuke Yoshida, Ryosuke Mondo
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Patent number: 9684508Abstract: A mobile device receives a latest version of firmware with a firmware management system that manages firmware and receives a current version of firmware in an image forming apparatus through close-range communication with the image forming apparatus. The mobile device determines whether or not a later version than the current version of firmware in the image forming apparatus exists based on the latest version of firmware and the current version of firmware that are received.Type: GrantFiled: January 26, 2016Date of Patent: June 20, 2017Assignee: KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc.Inventors: Toyoaki Oku, Takeshi Nakamura, Ryuichi Ishizu, Atsushi Matsumoto, Katsuhiro Minoru, Daisuke Yoshida
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Publication number: 20170155776Abstract: An image output system includes a terminal, a server, and a printing device that are communicable with each other via a network. The server includes: a storage device; and a CPU that executes a program for the server to function as a data generating portion configured to generate raster image data by executing a RIP process on the basis of print data received from the terminal and as a data transmitting portion configured to transmit data for outputting an image, to a destination that outputs the image. The data transmitting portion transmits, to the destination, the print data received from the terminal or the raster image data generated by the data generating portion, according to a kind of the destination.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 23, 2016Publication date: June 1, 2017Inventor: Toyoaki Oku
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Publication number: 20170155773Abstract: A pull print system includes a print server and a print apparatus. The print server performs a raster-image processor (RIP) process based on print data received as job data from an external apparatus to generate printing image data as raster image data. The RIP process performed by the data generating unit is same as the RIP process performed by the print apparatus. The print apparatus requests to the print server the job data for the user whose login is accepted. The print server transmits to the print apparatus the printing image data of the job data as raster image data.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 27, 2016Publication date: June 1, 2017Inventors: Masafumi Sato, Toyoaki Oku, Koji Kubono, Zhenyu Sun, Ryosuke Mondo, Yoshio Inoue
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Publication number: 20170061263Abstract: An image forming system includes an image forming apparatus and a server. The image forming apparatus transmits to the server image data representing an image. The image is read by the reading device from the recording medium on which the print device prints the image, in response to an instruction to print at the origin of the print area. The server acquires, from the image data transmitted from the image forming apparatus, a printing-complete reference position, as a position where the recording-medium origin is made a reference, in a location printed on the recording medium by the image forming apparatus in response to an instruction to execute printing at the print-area origin, and acquires the displacement as a difference between the acquired printing-complete reference position and the print reference position stored in the storage device.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 31, 2016Publication date: March 2, 2017Inventors: Daisuke Yoshida, Takeshi Nakamura, Toyoaki Oku, Ryuichi Ishizu, Ryosuke Mondo, Atsushi Matsumoto, Katsuhiro Minoru
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Publication number: 20170017445Abstract: A remote maintenance system includes: a remote maintenance server; and one or more image forming apparatuses, the server including an operation input unit, a display unit, a storage unit that stores panel programs, a communication unit, an image forming apparatus database in which functions are registered, and a manager circuit that acquires, when a serviceman instructs restoration, the panel program to be restored from the storage unit, analyzes which of the functions is to be invoked by the panel program, compares, by referencing the database, the function of the restore-destination apparatus and the function to be invoked, and determines whether the restore-destination apparatus executes the panel program, and instructs the restore-destination apparatus to restore the panel program when it executes the panel program, each image forming apparatus restoring, when receiving a restore instruction, the panel program based on the instruction.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 6, 2016Publication date: January 19, 2017Inventors: RYUICHI ISHIZU, TOYOAKI OKU, TAKESHI NAKAMURA, RYOSUKE MONDO, ATSUSHI MATSUMOTO, KATSUHIRO MINORU, DAISUKE YOSHIDA
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Publication number: 20170019552Abstract: A management system includes a management server and one or more image forming apparatuses. The management server includes an operation input unit, a display, a first communication unit, a storage unit, and a manager unit. The manager unit, when the administrator instructs a set value change of a setting item for a specific image forming apparatus, determines which set value management group includes the image forming apparatus to which the change has been instructed, refers to a reflection-range table of a set value management group including the image forming apparatus to which the change has been instructed, determines which image forming apparatus among other image forming apparatuses executes the set value change based on the reference result, and instructs the other determined image forming apparatus to change the set value.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 8, 2016Publication date: January 19, 2017Applicant: KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc.Inventors: Takeshi NAKAMURA, Toyoaki OKU, Ryuichi ISHIZU, Atsushi MATSUMOTO, Katsuhiro MINORU, Daisuke YOSHIDA, Ryosuke MONDO
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Patent number: 9531786Abstract: A device management system includes an electronic device and a remote maintenance server. The electronic device displays an operation screen to a user. The remote maintenance server includes a transparent panel management portion that draws a guide image on a virtual transparent panel based on an operation of a service person performed on a service terminal device, and causes the electronic device to overlay and display the virtual transparent panel on the operation screen.Type: GrantFiled: July 15, 2014Date of Patent: December 27, 2016Assignee: KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc.Inventors: Daisuke Yoshida, Toyoaki Oku, Koki Nakajima, Takeshi Nakamura, Yoshihiko Arai, Atsushi Matsumoto
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Patent number: 9497351Abstract: A server, image forming apparatus, image forming system, or monitoring method allows an administrator an intuitive, visual grasp of the status of an image forming apparatus and helps reduce the load on network communication. The server has a template code/character data acquirer that acquires, from an image forming apparatus having a display displaying a panel image, a template code corresponding to a template image included in the panel image and character data included in the panel image; and a panel image generator that reads, from a storage storing a template image, the template image corresponding to the template code and that generates the panel image by combining together the template image read and the character data acquired from the image forming apparatus.Type: GrantFiled: April 18, 2016Date of Patent: November 15, 2016Assignee: KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc.Inventors: Atsushi Matsumoto, Toyoaki Oku, Takeshi Nakamura, Ryuichi Ishizu, Katsuhiro Minoru, Daisuke Yoshida, Ryosuke Mondo
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Publication number: 20160316102Abstract: A server, image forming apparatus, image forming system, or monitoring method allows an administrator an intuitive, visual grasp of the status of an image forming apparatus and helps reduce the load on network communication. The server has a template code/character data acquirer that acquires, from an image forming apparatus having a display displaying a panel image, a template code corresponding to a template image included in the panel image and character data included in the panel image; and a panel image generator that reads, from a storage storing a template image, the template image corresponding to the template code and that generates the panel image by combining together the template image read and the character data acquired from the image forming apparatus.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 18, 2016Publication date: October 27, 2016Applicant: KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc.Inventors: Atsushi MATSUMOTO, Toyoaki OKU, Takeshi NAKAMURA, Ryuichi ISHIZU, Katsuhiro MINORU, Daisuke YOSHIDA, Ryosuke MONDO
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Publication number: 20160224333Abstract: A mobile device receives a latest version of firmware with a firmware management system that manages firmware and receives a current version of firmware in an image forming apparatus through close-range communication with the image forming apparatus. The mobile device determines whether or not a later version than the current version of firmware in the image forming apparatus exists based on the latest version of firmware and the current version of firmware that are received.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 26, 2016Publication date: August 4, 2016Applicant: KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc.Inventors: Toyoaki OKU, Takeshi NAKAMURA, Ryuichi ISHIZU, Atsushi MATSUMOTO, Katsuhiro MINORU, Daisuke YOSHIDA