Patents by Inventor Yasuaki Sugimoto

Yasuaki Sugimoto 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: 20210326086
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a determiner and a provider. The determiner executes, as determination of usefulness, a first determination that determines whether or not a setting content of a job and a content of a help screen coincide, in a case where an operation display has displayed a help screen and thereafter has received execution start of a job corresponding to an operation screen associated with the help screen, and the provider provides a useful tag as an identifier to a help scree determined by the determiner such that a determination result of a first determination is “Yes” and makes a memory unit memorize this matter.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 4, 2021
    Publication date: October 21, 2021
    Applicant: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.
    Inventor: Yasuaki SUGIMOTO
  • Patent number: 10484548
    Abstract: An operation display system having a hardware processor is disclosed. The hardware processor acquires load references serving as a reference of pressing force by which a touch panel receives an operation. The hardware processor compares the acquired load references with each other. The hardware processor controls a degree of a change in pressing force for pressing a touch panel of a second operation display apparatus to be notified when there is a difference as a comparison result of load references of a first operation display apparatus operated by a user most recently and the second operation display apparatus to be subsequently operated among a plurality of operation display apparatuses.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 19, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2019
    Assignee: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.
    Inventors: Hideaki Shimizu, Yasuaki Sugimoto
  • Patent number: 10347196
    Abstract: A portable terminal includes: a display unit; an operating unit; a detecting unit configured to detect a position of the terminal; and a display changing unit configured to change a screen displayed on the display unit of the terminal to a screen displayed on an operating panel of a predetermined other apparatus, when the display changing unit detects that the position of the terminal detected by the detecting unit and a position of the predetermined other apparatus have a predetermined positional relationship.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 9, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2019
    Assignee: Konica Minolta, Inc.
    Inventor: Yasuaki Sugimoto
  • Patent number: 10248303
    Abstract: Disclosed is an operation display device including: a display unit to display a group of operation input items among a plurality of operation input items which are arranged in an arrangement order; an operating unit to receive a moving instruction operation for moving a position of the group of operation input items in accordance with the arrangement order, and to receive a setting operation for the operation input item; and a control unit to instruct the display unit to move the position of the group of operation input items so as to shorten a first display time for displaying one or more operation input items having a prohibition relation with the operation input item which has been set as compared with a second display time for displaying each of the other operation input items, in case that the operating unit receives the moving instruction operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2019
    Assignee: Konica Minolta, Inc.
    Inventor: Yasuaki Sugimoto
  • Patent number: 10152167
    Abstract: An operation display system with a plurality of operation display devices each having a touch panel includes: a load criteria acquiring unit configured to acquire load criteria serving as criteria of pressing forces for the touch panels to accept an operation; an operation type acquiring unit configured to acquire types of operations to be performed on the touch panels with respect to objects displayed on screens of the operation display devices; and a control unit configured to control display on the screens of first and second operation display devices of the plurality of operation display devices in accordance with a result of comparison between the load criteria and the acquired types, the first and second operation display devices being in a cooperating state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 11, 2018
    Assignee: Konica Minolta, Inc.
    Inventor: Yasuaki Sugimoto
  • Patent number: 10133451
    Abstract: Disclosed is an operation display device, including: a display unit; a display control unit configured to display operation buttons; and an operation unit configured to receive an operation to one of the operation buttons, wherein in case that identification information is arranged in the operation button in a first display mode, when the operation button is displayed so as to display whole of the identification information in the display area, the display control unit displays the identification information in the first display mode, and in case that the identification information is arranged in the operation button in the first display mode, when a part of the identification information protrudes from the display area, the display control unit changes a display mode of the identification information to a display mode which is different from the first display mode, and displays the identification information in the operation button.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 20, 2018
    Assignee: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.
    Inventors: Hideaki Shimizu, Yasuaki Sugimoto
  • Patent number: 10120439
    Abstract: Disclosed is an operating device including: an operating unit having a plurality of operation buttons; a gaze detection unit configured to detect a gaze of an operator who operates the operating unit; and a judgment unit configured to judge whether an operation for a predetermined operation button of the operating unit is valid or invalid when the operation is received from the operator, wherein in case that the gaze of the operator is not within a predetermined area relating to the predetermined operation button when the operation for the predetermined operation button is received from the operator, the judgment unit judges that the operation is invalid.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 6, 2018
    Assignee: Konica Minolta, Inc.
    Inventors: Hideaki Shimizu, Yasuaki Sugimoto
  • Patent number: 10120471
    Abstract: Disclosed in an operation display apparatus including: a display unit; a touch panel to detect a touch position on which a display face of the display unit is touched; and a control unit to control display contents of the display unit and to switch a specific area provided in a part of the display face, between an operable state in which display of information and a detection of a touch action for the touch panel are operated and a non-operable state in which the display and the detection are not operated, wherein the control unit sets a part of the specific area, which is arranged in a boundary with another operation display apparatus disposed with the operation display apparatus side by side, to the operable state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 16, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 6, 2018
    Assignee: Konica Minolta, Inc.
    Inventors: Masao Takahashi, Yasuaki Sugimoto
  • Patent number: 9924050
    Abstract: An operation display apparatus includes: an operating unit; a display unit; a position detecting unit configured to detect a position of a predetermined portable terminal; a free region detecting unit configured to detect a free region on a display screen of at least one of the display unit and the portable terminal; and an operation control unit configured to display an image of the operating unit in the free region when the position of the portable terminal detected by the position detecting unit is in front of a front side of the operating unit, and accept an operation performed on the image, as an operation received by the operating unit, the free region being detected by the free region detecting unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 20, 2018
    Assignee: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.
    Inventor: Yasuaki Sugimoto
  • Patent number: 9791947
    Abstract: Disclosed is an operation display device, including: a display unit; a touch panel to simultaneously detect touch operations carried out with fingers to a display surface of the display unit; a finger shape detecting unit to detect a shape of a contact part of the finger, which contacts to the display surface in each of the touch operations; and a control unit to control display contents of the display unit, wherein when the touch operations are simultaneously detected by the touch panel, the control unit judges whether the touch operations are an operation carried out by one operator or are operations carried out by a plurality of operators in accordance with the shape of the contact part of the finger relating to each touch operation, and changes the display contents of the display unit in accordance with a result of judging the touch operations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 3, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2017
    Assignee: KONICA MINOLTA INC.
    Inventor: Yasuaki Sugimoto
  • Patent number: 9778738
    Abstract: Disclosed is an operation display system, including: an operation display device including a display unit to display an operation window; an operating unit to receive an operation to the operation window; and a display control unit to change the operation window in accordance with the operation received by using the operating unit; an air operation detecting unit to detect an air operation performed by one user in air apart from the display unit; a virtual operation window creating unit to create a virtual operation window in which the operation window is changed in accordance with the air operation; and an AR display unit to show the one user an augmented reality space in which the virtual operation window is synthesized with a real space, wherein the display control unit does not change the operation window displayed on the display unit, in accordance with the air operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2017
    Assignee: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.
    Inventors: Yasuaki Sugimoto, Tsutomu Yamazaki
  • Patent number: 9760168
    Abstract: Disclosed is a guidance information display device, including: a display unit; a camera unit; an action detecting unit to detect a specific action of a user; and a control unit to instruct the display unit to display guidance information when the specific action is detected by the action detecting unit and a specific instrument to be operated is shot by the camera unit, the displayed guidance information corresponding to a combination of the detected specific action and the shot instrument to be operated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2017
    Assignee: Konica Minolta, Inc.
    Inventor: Yasuaki Sugimoto
  • Patent number: 9730971
    Abstract: The present invention provides a controlling agent for a disease caused by a Clostridium bacterium, comprising a cashew nut shell liquid, a heat-treated cashew nut shell liquid, anacardic acid, cardanol, or anacardic acid and cardanol.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2009
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2017
    Assignee: IDEMITSU KOSAN CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kyo Nagashima, Masami Mochizuki, Yasuaki Sugimoto
  • Publication number: 20170109198
    Abstract: Disclosed is a job processing device including: a queue in which jobs are stored; a memory configured to store a program; a network device configured to communicate with an external device via a network; and a processor configured to: sequentially execute the stored jobs by operating in accordance with the stored program, detect another job processing device which operates in accordance with a program having a newer version than the stored program on the network, detect a job in which a quality of a job processing is improved more by being executed by the detected job processing device than by being executed by the job processing device itself, from the stored jobs, and fetch the detected job and transmit the job to the detected job processing device to execute the job by the detected job processing device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 4, 2016
    Publication date: April 20, 2017
    Applicant: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.
    Inventor: Yasuaki SUGIMOTO
  • Publication number: 20160370929
    Abstract: An operation display system with a plurality of operation display devices each having a touch panel includes: a load criteria acquiring unit configured to acquire load criteria serving as criteria of pressing forces for the touch panels to accept an operation; an operation type acquiring unit configured to acquire types of operations to be performed on the touch panels with respect to objects displayed on screens of the operation display devices; and a control unit configured to control display on the screens of first and second operation display devices of the plurality of operation display devices in accordance with a result of comparison between the load criteria and the acquired types, the first and second operation display devices being in a cooperating state.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 20, 2016
    Publication date: December 22, 2016
    Applicant: Konica Minolta, Inc.
    Inventor: Yasuaki SUGIMOTO
  • Publication number: 20160349893
    Abstract: An operation display system having a hardware processor is disclosed. The hardware processor acquires load references serving as a reference of pressing force by which a touch panel receives an operation. The hardware processor compares the acquired load references with each other. The hardware processor controls a degree of a change in pressing force for pressing a touch panel of a second operation display apparatus to be notified when there is a difference as a comparison result of load references of a first operation display apparatus operated by a user most recently and the second operation display apparatus to be subsequently operated among a plurality of operation display apparatuses.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 19, 2016
    Publication date: December 1, 2016
    Applicant: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.
    Inventors: Hideaki SHIMIZU, Yasuaki SUGIMOTO
  • Publication number: 20160196050
    Abstract: Disclosed is an operation display device, including: a display unit; a display control unit configured to display operation buttons; and an operation unit configured to receive an operation to one of the operation buttons, wherein in case that identification information is arranged in the operation button in a first display mode, when the operation button is displayed so as to display whole of the identification information in the display area, the display control unit displays the identification information in the first display mode, and in case that the identification information is arranged in the operation button in the first display mode, when a part of the identification information protrudes from the display area, the display control unit changes a display mode of the identification information to a display mode which is different from the first display mode, and displays the identification information in the operation button.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 29, 2015
    Publication date: July 7, 2016
    Applicant: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.
    Inventors: Hideaki SHIMIZU, Yasuaki SUGIMOTO
  • Patent number: 9380179
    Abstract: Disclosed is an AR display device including: a display unit configured to display an augmented reality space in which an image is overlapped with a reality space; a camera configured to shoot the reality space corresponding to the augmented reality space; a setting information obtaining unit configured to obtain setting contents relating to an additional processing to be carried out for an image or an output sheet; a detecting unit configured to detect a sheet in the reality space and a posture thereof; and a display control unit configured to prepare an output image which simulatedly shows a processing result to be obtained in accordance with the setting contents and which is corrected so as to be matched with the posture of the sheet, and to instruct the display unit to display the augmented reality space in which the output image is overlapped with the sheet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 5, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 28, 2016
    Assignee: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.
    Inventor: Yasuaki Sugimoto
  • Publication number: 20160088174
    Abstract: An operation display apparatus includes: an operating unit; a display unit; a position detecting unit configured to detect a position of a predetermined portable terminal; a free region detecting unit configured to detect a free region on a display screen of at least one of the display unit and the portable terminal; and an operation control unit configured to display an image of the operating unit in the free region when the position of the portable terminal detected by the position detecting unit is in front of a front side of the operating unit, and accept an operation performed on the image, as an operation received by the operating unit, the free region being detected by the free region detecting unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 17, 2015
    Publication date: March 24, 2016
    Applicant: Konica Minolta, Inc.
    Inventor: Yasuaki SUGIMOTO
  • Patent number: 9292088
    Abstract: Disclosed is a display device including: a display unit; a gaze detection unit configured to detect the user's gaze; and a control unit configured to control a display of a series of images, wherein in case that the user removes the gaze while the series of images are sequentially displayed, the control unit obtains first information specifying a position of an image in the series of images, which is displayed when the user removes the gaze, and instructs the display unit to continue a dynamic display of the series of images, and then, in case that the user returns the gaze, the control unit makes a judgment as to whether the control unit executes a replay process from the position specified in the first information, and in case that the control unit judges that the control unit executes the replay process, the control unit executes the replay process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 1, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2016
    Assignee: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.
    Inventor: Yasuaki Sugimoto