Patents by Inventor Tsutomu Itai

Tsutomu Itai 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: 20240143757
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus including: one or more controllers that detect a virus and perform a specific measure on a file infected with the virus; and a display that displays that the virus has been detected as display content based on control performed by the one or more controllers, in which the one or more controllers continue to display that the virus has been detected even in a case where the file becomes inaccessible as a result of the specific measure performed on the file.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 26, 2023
    Publication date: May 2, 2024
    Inventor: TSUTOMU ITAI
  • Patent number: 11818313
    Abstract: A terminal device includes a communicator capable of communicating with a plurality of image forming apparatuses capable of switching an operation mode between an energy-saving mode and a normal mode, and a controller, wherein the controller, from the plurality of image forming apparatuses via the communicator, receives information of each image forming apparatus including the operation mode, based on the information of each image forming apparatus, displays states of the operation modes of the image forming apparatuses, and sends a request signal, which switches the operation mode, via the communicator to the image forming apparatus selected from among the displayed image forming apparatuses.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2023
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Tsutomu Itai
  • Publication number: 20230247158
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus that executes a job, based on a setting value, and is operative to store a history of the job, as a job history includes: a storage that stores the setting value of the executed job, as setting history information; a displayer that displays a selection screen for selecting the setting history information stored in the storage; and a controller that reads the setting value included in the selected history information. The controller determines whether to display setting history information of a newly executed job, based on a comparison result between the setting value pertaining to the newly executed job and the setting value included in the setting history information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 7, 2023
    Publication date: August 3, 2023
    Inventor: TSUTOMU ITAI
  • Patent number: 11659120
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus that executes a job, based on a setting value, and is operative to store a history of the job, as a job history includes: a storage that stores the setting value of the executed job, as setting history information; a displayer that displays a selection screen for selecting the setting history information stored in the storage; and a controller that reads the setting value included in the selected history information. The controller determines whether to display setting history information of a newly executed job, based on a comparison result between the setting value pertaining to the newly executed job and the setting value included in the setting history information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2023
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Tsutomu Itai
  • Publication number: 20230066743
    Abstract: A terminal device includes a communicator capable of communicating with a plurality of image forming apparatuses capable of switching an operation mode between an energy-saving mode and a normal mode, and a controller, wherein the controller, from the plurality of image forming apparatuses via the communicator, receives information of each image forming apparatus including the operation mode, based on the information of each image forming apparatus, displays states of the operation modes of the image forming apparatuses, and sends a request signal, which switches the operation mode, via the communicator to the image forming apparatus selected from among the displayed image forming apparatuses.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 23, 2022
    Publication date: March 2, 2023
    Inventor: TSUTOMU ITAI
  • Publication number: 20220191335
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus that executes a job, based on a setting value, and is operative to store a history of the job, as a job history includes: a storage that stores the setting value of the executed job, as setting history information; a displayer that displays a selection screen for selecting the setting history information stored in the storage; and a controller that reads the setting value included in the selected history information. The controller determines whether to display setting history information of a newly executed job, based on a comparison result between the setting value pertaining to the newly executed job and the setting value included in the setting history information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 6, 2021
    Publication date: June 16, 2022
    Inventor: TSUTOMU ITAI
  • Patent number: 11330116
    Abstract: An image forming device includes a document information acquirer that acquires information related to a document, a sheet information acquirer that acquires information related to a print sheet, a storage that stores, in advance, information related to the document and the print sheet, and prediction condition information including proposal processing associated with the document and the print sheet, a processing predictor that acquires, based on the information related to the document and the information related to the print sheet acquired by using the prediction condition information, proposal processing associated with the placed document and the print sheet, and a proposal processing generator that generates information related to the proposal processing to be presented to a user based on the acquired proposal processing. When the user places a document and a print sheet, the proposal processing is acquired and presented to the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 5, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2022
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Tsutomu Itai
  • Publication number: 20210218852
    Abstract: An image forming device includes a document information acquirer that acquires information related to a document, a sheet information acquirer that acquires information related to a print sheet, a storage that stores, in advance, information related to the document and the print sheet, and prediction condition information including proposal processing associated with the document and the print sheet, a processing predictor that acquires, based on the information related to the document and the information related to the print sheet acquired by using the prediction condition information, proposal processing associated with the placed document and the print sheet, and a proposal processing generator that generates information related to the proposal processing to be presented to a user based on the acquired proposal processing. When the user places a document and a print sheet, the proposal processing is acquired and presented to the user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 5, 2021
    Publication date: July 15, 2021
    Inventor: TSUTOMU ITAI
  • Publication number: 20200106902
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus including a display is provided. When events involving with the image forming apparatus are occurring and a predetermined event about which the user should be notified is occurring, notification windows including messages corresponding to the events are displayed on the display. At least one of the notification windows includes a first key, and all of the notification windows are hidden when the first key is operated.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 27, 2019
    Publication date: April 2, 2020
    Inventor: TSUTOMU ITAI
  • Patent number: 7461277
    Abstract: The subject invention provides an image forming device including a main control section and a signal detection circuit for detecting presence or absence of an external signal supplied to the main control section, and further provided with an interface section for controlling external communication; a main power supply circuit; a power supply control circuit. The signal detection circuit includes a low power mode prohibition circuit for outputting a low power mode prohibition signal for voiding the request for low power consumption with respect to the power supply control circuit or the main power supply circuit while the external signal is supplied to the signal detection circuit. With this arrangement, the present invention provides an image forming device capable of appropriate transition into the low power consumption operation by hardware without use of software.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 12, 2004
    Date of Patent: December 2, 2008
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Masaaki Kawakami, Toshinori Tsujii, Mikiya Okada, Tsutomu Itai
  • Patent number: 7203432
    Abstract: A job processing apparatus includes a job executing section, an operating section, an interface section, and a control section. The control section shifts the job processing apparatus from a normal operation mode to a power-saving operation mode after a lapse of standby time T during which no command input to the job executing section is detected. The control section returns the job processing apparatus from the power-saving operation mode to the normal operation mode when a command input to the job executing section is detected in the power-saving operation mode. The control section utilizes standby time T1, instead of the standby time T, if a last job executed by the job executing section is according to job data input through the interface section. The standby time T1 is shorter than the standby time T.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 2005
    Date of Patent: April 10, 2007
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Hirohito Morioka, Mikiya Okada, Tsutomu Itai, Hirotaka Kodama
  • Publication number: 20050180769
    Abstract: A job processing apparatus includes a job executing section, an operating section, an interface section, and a control section. The control section shifts the job processing apparatus from a normal operation mode to a power-saving operation mode after a lapse of standby time T during which no command input to the job executing section is detected. The control section returns the job processing apparatus from the power-saving operation mode to the normal operation mode when a command input to the job executing section is detected in the power-saving operation mode. The control section utilizes standby time T1, instead of the standby time T, if a last job executed by the job executing section is according to job data input through the interface section. The standby time T1 is shorter than the standby time T.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 14, 2005
    Publication date: August 18, 2005
    Inventors: Hirohito Morioka, Mikiya Okada, Tsutomu Itai, Hirotaka Kodama
  • Publication number: 20050108584
    Abstract: The subject invention provides an image forming device including a main control section and a signal detection circuit for detecting presence or absence of an external signal supplied to the main control section, and further provided with an interface section for controlling external communication; a main power supply circuit; a power supply control circuit. The signal detection circuit includes a low power mode prohibition circuit for outputting a low power mode prohibition signal for voiding the request for low power consumption with respect to the power supply control circuit or the main power supply circuit while the external signal is supplied to the signal detection circuit. With this arrangement, the present invention provides an image forming device capable of appropriate transition into the low power consumption operation by hardware without use of software.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 12, 2004
    Publication date: May 19, 2005
    Inventors: Masaaki Kawakami, Toshinori Tsujii, Mikiya Okada, Tsutomu Itai