Patents by Inventor Toyoshi ADACHI
Toyoshi ADACHI 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: 11917109Abstract: A printing apparatus includes a communication interface, a memory, a touch panel, a printer, and a controller. The printer prints an image on a recording medium. The controller is configured to: receive a print job through the communication interface and store the print job in the memory; control the touch panel to display a list including one or more job touch keys and a function touch key, the one or more job touch keys being for individually selecting one or more print jobs stored in the memory, the function touch key being for selecting all of the one or more job touch keys included in the list, the list being scrollable along a particular direction; and in response to receiving a scroll operation of the list, controlling the touch panel to cause the list to scroll along the particular direction.Type: GrantFiled: September 17, 2020Date of Patent: February 27, 2024Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Yuqing Liu, Kosuke Mori, Katsunori Enomoto, Toyoshi Adachi
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Patent number: 11902484Abstract: According to aspects of the present disclosure, in a memory of an MFP, information indicating that an additional function, which is inactivated when shipped from a factory, is activated or inactivated is stored. The MFP starts a trial mode in which trial of the additional function is activated, then the additional function becomes activated within an effective period of the trial mode. The MFP is configured to receive an input of setting information used for the additional function, store the input setting information in the memory and execute a process of the additional function in accordance with the setting information. Further, when the trial mode is terminated, the MFP initializes the setting information in a case where the stored information indicates that the additional function is inactivated, but does not initialize the setting information in a case where the stored information indicates that the additional function is activated.Type: GrantFiled: August 12, 2021Date of Patent: February 13, 2024Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Toyoshi Adachi, Ken Saito, Yoshi Hirasawa, Satoshi Tanimoto
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Patent number: 11630977Abstract: Instruction data is configured to include mode information indicating a print mode in download printing. The print mode includes a first mode and a second mode different from the first mode. The download printing includes: in response to extracting the mode information indicating the first mode, performing the download printing by the first mode, the first mode being a mode of, after completing reception of an entirety of a document, starting printing based on the entirety of the document; and in response to extracting the mode information indicating the second mode, performing the download printing by the second mode, the second mode being a mode of, before completing reception of the entirety of the document, starting printing based on a received portion of the document. The second mode is a mode in which reception of the document and printing based on the document are performed in parallel.Type: GrantFiled: April 4, 2022Date of Patent: April 18, 2023Assignee: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Katsunori Enomoto, Toyoshi Adachi, Tomoya Kaneko
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Publication number: 20220327338Abstract: Instruction data is configured to include mode information indicating a print mode in download printing. The print mode includes a first mode and a second mode different from the first mode. The download printing includes: in response to extracting the mode information indicating the first mode, performing the download printing by the first mode, the first mode being a mode of, after completing reception of an entirety of a document, starting printing based on the entirety of the document; and in response to extracting the mode information indicating the second mode, performing the download printing by the second mode, the second mode being a mode of, before completing reception of the entirety of the document, starting printing based on a received portion of the document. The second mode is a mode in which reception of the document and printing based on the document are performed in parallel.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 4, 2022Publication date: October 13, 2022Inventors: Katsunori ENOMOTO, Toyoshi ADACHI, Tomoya KANEKO
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Patent number: 11461062Abstract: A printing device may include: a printing unit configured to print an image, a communication interface; an input unit to which user information is inputted; a memory; and a controller configured to access a table in which user information and an e-mail address are registered in association with each other. The controller may be configured to: receive an e-mail to which attached data is attached; in a case where the e-mail is received, determine whether a sender e-mail address of the e-mail is in the table; in a case where it is determined that the sender e-mail address is in the table, obtain user information associated with the sender e-mail address from the table and store the attached data in the memory; authenticate the user information; and cause the printing unit to print the attached data.Type: GrantFiled: November 25, 2020Date of Patent: October 4, 2022Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Toyoshi Adachi, Yuichiro Sakuragi, Yutaka Urakawa
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Publication number: 20220060597Abstract: According to aspects of the present disclosure, in a memory of an MFP, information indicating that an additional function, which is inactivated when shipped from a factory, is activated or inactivated is stored. The MFP starts a trial mode in which trial of the additional function is activated, then the additional function becomes activated within an effective period of the trial mode. The MFP is configured to receive an input of setting information used for the additional function, store the input setting information in the memory and execute a process of the additional function in accordance with the setting information. Further, when the trial mode is terminated, the MFP initializes the setting information in a case where the stored information indicates that the additional function is inactivated, but does not initialize the setting information in a case where the stored information indicates that the additional function is activated.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 12, 2021Publication date: February 24, 2022Applicant: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Toyoshi ADACHI, Ken SAITO, Yoshi HIRASAWA, Satoshi TANIMOTO
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Publication number: 20210165617Abstract: A printing device may include: a printing unit configured to print an image, a communication interface; an input unit to which user information is inputted; a memory; and a controller configured to access a table in which user information and an e-mail address are registered in association with each other. The controller may be configured to: receive an e-mail to which attached data is attached; in a case where the e-mail is received, determine whether a sender e-mail address of the e-mail is in the table; in a case where it is determined that the sender e-mail address is in the table, obtain user information associated with the sender e-mail address from the table and store the attached data in the memory; authenticate the user information; and cause the printing unit to print the attached data.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 25, 2020Publication date: June 3, 2021Inventors: Toyoshi ADACHI, Yuichiro SAKURAGI, Yutaka URAKAWA
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Publication number: 20210092244Abstract: A printing apparatus includes a communication interface, a memory, a touch panel, a printer, and a controller. The printer prints an image on a recording medium. The controller is configured to: receive a print job through the communication interface and store the print job in the memory; control the touch panel to display a list including one or more job touch keys and a function touch key, the one or more job touch keys being for individually selecting one or more print jobs stored in the memory, the function touch key being for selecting all of the one or more job touch keys included in the list, the list being scrollable along a particular direction; and in response to receiving a scroll operation of the list, controlling the touch panel to cause the list to scroll along the particular direction.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 17, 2020Publication date: March 25, 2021Inventors: Yuqing Liu, Kosuke Mori, Katsunori Enomoto, Toyoshi Adachi
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Patent number: 10616433Abstract: An information processing device may activate a first application program for providing a first function corresponding to a first item image, in a case where the first item image is selected from among N1 pieces of item images in a first item selection screen, under a non-connection state in which a storage device that stores program control data is not connected to the information processing device. The information processing device may activate a second application program for providing a second function, in a case where a second item image is selected from among N2 pieces of item images in a second item selection screen, under a connection state in which a second storage device that stores first program control data is connected to the information processing device, and display a function related screen which is related to the second function in accordance with the first program control data.Type: GrantFiled: January 27, 2016Date of Patent: April 7, 2020Assignee: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Sadaaki Miyazaki, Tetsuya Okuno, Toyoshi Adachi, Katsunori Enomoto
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Patent number: 10326893Abstract: In an image forming apparatus, a controller is configured to receive an e-mail stored in a mail server through a network interface, generate identification information corresponding to image data attached to the received e-mail, store, in a storage, the identification information, a transmission source address of the e-mail to which to the image data corresponding to the identification information is attached, and the image data corresponding to the identification information, in an associated manner, cause a printer to print a particular image corresponding to the identification information, identify the identification information in the particular image read by an image reader, retrieve, from the storage, the transmission source address of the e-mail to which the image data corresponding to the identification information identified in the identifying process, and transmit an e-mail addressed to the transmission source address retrieved in the address retrieval step to the mail server.Type: GrantFiled: February 14, 2018Date of Patent: June 18, 2019Assignee: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Tetsuya Okuno, Hironori Takasaki, Tony Lee, Katsunori Enomoto, Toyoshi Adachi, Yuqing Liu
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Patent number: 10257387Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes: an image processing device processing image data; a wireless communication wirelessly communicating with an external terminal present at a predetermined distance from the wireless communication and receiving first identification information from the external terminal; a first storage storing a first record including the first identification information and second identification information while being associated with each other; an receiving the second identification information and third identification information; a communication capable of communicating with a server, the server storing the second identification information and the third identification information while being associated with each other; a display; and a processor.Type: GrantFiled: December 5, 2017Date of Patent: April 9, 2019Assignee: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Hironori Takasaki, Toyoshi Adachi
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Patent number: 10182172Abstract: An image processing apparatus performs: acquiring instruction data including notification data and location information indicative of a location of next instruction data; controlling at least one of a display and an image processor to perform an operation instructed by the instruction data acquired most recently; when controlling the at least one of the display and the image processor, connecting a first communication interface with a mobile terminal within a particular distance range from the image processing apparatus, in accordance with a near-field wireless communication protocol; when controlling, transmitting the notification data extracted from the instruction data acquired most recently, to the mobile terminal through the first communication interface, the notification data being data for specifying an operation to be performed by the mobile terminal; and acquiring the next instruction data based on the location information extracted from the instruction data acquired most recently.Type: GrantFiled: June 28, 2017Date of Patent: January 15, 2019Assignee: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Toyoshi Adachi, Tetsuya Okuno
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Patent number: 10136005Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes: a scanner, memory storing instructions; and a controller, when executing the instructions, causing the image processing apparatus to execute: a first reception processing of receiving instruction data, a first determination processing of determining whether the instruction data is screen instruction data or action instruction data. If the instruction data is the screen instruction data, the image processing apparatus executes: a display processing of displaying a setting screen, an acceptance processing of accepting a user operation designating the parameter; a first storage processing of storing the parameter designated by the acceptance processing. If the instruction data is the action instruction data, the image processing apparatus executes: a scan instruction processing of causing the scanner to execute the scanning action; a generation processing of generating the metadata, with using the parameter stored in the memory, and a second transmission processing.Type: GrantFiled: March 23, 2017Date of Patent: November 20, 2018Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Tetsuya Okuno, Toyoshi Adachi
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Publication number: 20180234560Abstract: In an image forming apparatus, a controller is configured to receive an e-mail stored in a mail server through a network interface, generate identification information corresponding to image data attached to the received e-mail, store, in a storage, the identification information, a transmission source address of the e-mail to which to the image data corresponding to the identification information is attached, and the image data corresponding to the identification information, in an associated manner, cause a printer to print a particular image corresponding to the identification information, identify the identification information in the particular image read by an image reader, retrieve, from the storage, the transmission source address of the e-mail to which the image data corresponding to the identification information identified in the identifying process, and transmit an e-mail addressed to the transmission source address retrieved in the address retrieval step to the mail server.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 14, 2018Publication date: August 16, 2018Inventors: Tetsuya OKUNO, Hironori TAKASAKI, Tony LEE, Katsunori ENOMOTO, Toyoshi ADACHI, Yuqing LIU
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Publication number: 20180183977Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes: an image processing device processing image data; a wireless communication interface wirelessly communicating with an external terminal present at a predetermined distance from the wireless communication interface and receiving first identification information from the external terminal; a first storage storing a first record including the first identification information and second identification information while being associated with each other; an interface receiving the second identification information and third identification information; a communication interface capable of communicating with a server, the server storing the second identification information and the third identification information while being associated with each other; a display; and a processor.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 5, 2017Publication date: June 28, 2018Inventors: Hironori TAKASAKI, Toyoshi Adachi
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Patent number: 9971558Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes: an image reading unit configured to perform image reading; an interface to which an external memory is detachably attached; an input unit configured to receive an instruction of a user; a storage unit configured to store at least one of a reading driver of controlling the image reading unit and a reading driver-command of acquiring the reading driver from an external; and a control unit configured to: receive, from the input unit, a reading instruction of storing the image data, which is acquired by performing image reading, in the external memory attached to the interface, perform, when receiving the reading instruction of storing the image data, a reading driver-data storing process of storing both the image data and one of the reading driver and the reading driver-command in the external memory attached to the interface.Type: GrantFiled: March 27, 2014Date of Patent: May 15, 2018Assignee: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Toyoshi Adachi
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Patent number: 9967344Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes: a communication interface configured to communicate with at least one server and a relay device; a processor configured to execute functions; and a controller. The controller causes the image processing apparatus to: send the relay device identification information identifying the image processing apparatus; receive, from the relay device, setting information indicating which service is usable by the image processing apparatus identified by the transmitted identification information, among services provided by the at least one server; display at least one service image respectively identifying at least one usable service of the services based on the setting information; and limit selection of at least one of the functions, based on the setting information.Type: GrantFiled: March 27, 2015Date of Patent: May 8, 2018Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Toyoshi Adachi
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Patent number: 9921789Abstract: An image processing apparatus is configured to transmit setting related information to the portable terminal in response to performing one of receipt of identification information through a receiving unit and establishment of wireless communication with a portable terminal in a first communication method within a prescribed period of time from performing another of the receipt of the identification information through the receiving unit and the establishment of the wireless communication with the portable terminal in the first communication method. The setting related information is one of: setting information stored in a storage unit in association with identification information received through the receiving unit; and acquisition information used for acquiring the setting information stored in the storage unit in association with the identification information received through the receiving unit.Type: GrantFiled: February 18, 2016Date of Patent: March 20, 2018Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Toyoshi Adachi, Masashi Ohhashi
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Publication number: 20180007229Abstract: An image processing apparatus performs: acquiring instruction data including notification data and location information indicative of a location of next instruction data; controlling at least one of a display and an image processor to perform an operation instructed by the instruction data acquired most recently; when controlling the at least one of the display and the image processor, connecting a first communication interface with a mobile terminal within a particular distance range from the image processing apparatus, in accordance with a near-field wireless communication protocol; when controlling, transmitting the notification data extracted from the instruction data acquired most recently, to the mobile terminal through the first communication interface, the notification data being data for specifying an operation to be performed by the mobile terminal; and acquiring the next instruction data based on the location information extracted from the instruction data acquired most recently.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 28, 2017Publication date: January 4, 2018Inventors: Toyoshi ADACHI, Tetsuya OKUNO
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Patent number: 9860396Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes an image processing device and a controller configured to obtain data identification information, receive definition data identified by the data identification information, display a definition screen based on the received definition data, receive a designation operation, further obtain the data identification information defined in the screen definition data, control the image processing device to execute image processing defined in the operation definition data, when the obtained data identification information is first identification information for identifying first definition data stored in a first server, determine whether the first identification information coincides with the specific identification information, prior to receiving the definition data, and when the first identification information coincides with the specific identification information, receive second definition data identified by second identification information associated with the specific identType: GrantFiled: March 27, 2017Date of Patent: January 2, 2018Assignee: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Tetsuya Okuno, Toyoshi Adachi