Patents by Inventor Yasufumi Aoyama

Yasufumi Aoyama 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).

  • Patent number: 10754598
    Abstract: Provided are a print controller for controlling print processing that divides a one-page document into page pieces and prints multiple page pieces per sheet, a non-transitory computer-readable recording medium and a print control method. As one embodiment, the print controller adjusts a layout of the page pieces, in which fields for the page pieces are arranged in multiple lines extending in the page-division direction, so as to reduce the number of the lines to one, and creates print data according to the adjusted layout. As another embodiment, a computing device for creating a print job for printing a one-page document, displays a screen showing candidates for a layout of the page pieces, including an adjusted layout, in which the number of lines of fields for the page pieces extending in the page-division direction are reduced to one, and creates a print job according to the layout selected on the screen.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 1, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 25, 2020
    Assignee: Konica Minolta, Inc.
    Inventor: Yasufumi Aoyama
  • Publication number: 20190347053
    Abstract: Provided are a print controller for controlling print processing that divides a one-page document into page pieces and prints multiple page pieces per sheet, a non-transitory computer-readable recording medium and a print control method. As one embodiment, the print controller adjusts a layout of the page pieces, in which fields for the page pieces are arranged in multiple lines extending in the page-division direction, so as to reduce the number of the lines to one, and creates print data according to the adjusted layout. As another embodiment, a computing device for creating a print job for printing a one-page document, displays a screen showing candidates for a layout of the page pieces, including an adjusted layout, in which the number of lines of fields for the page pieces extending in the page-division direction are reduced to one, and creates a print job according to the layout selected on the screen.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 1, 2019
    Publication date: November 14, 2019
    Applicant: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.
    Inventor: Yasufumi Aoyama
  • Patent number: 9875069
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a selection section. When the information processing apparatus makes an image forming apparatus perform image formation on a presentation file including first information on a first output image and second information on a second target output image associated with the first output image based on the first information and the second information, the selection section selects a target output image on which the image formation is performed from among the second output image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 2012
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2018
    Assignee: Konica Minolta, Inc.
    Inventors: Tetsuren Ri, Toyoshige Nounishi, Fumihito Akiyama, Masahiro Ozawa, Takahisa Matsunaga, Hiroshi Nogawa, Yasufumi Aoyama, Kunikazu Satou, Shunsuke Araki
  • Patent number: 9639317
    Abstract: An image output apparatus includes an image output unit, a presumption unit, a comparison unit and an output control unit. The image output unit outputs, in a predetermined format, an image of a content of a document file. The presumption unit presumes a first region/language setting of a document file created environment where the document file is created. The comparison unit compares the first region/language setting with a second region/language setting of the image output apparatus. The output control unit makes the image output unit output the image of the content of the document file by using a region/language setting selected from the region/language settings, which are compared with each other by the comparison unit, on the basis of a result of the comparison by the comparison unit in accordance with a predetermined selection condition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 13, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 2, 2017
    Assignee: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.
    Inventors: Yasufumi Aoyama, Masahiro Ozawa, Hiroshi Nogawa, Kunikazu Satou, Takahisa Matsunaga, Tetsuren Ri
  • Patent number: 9547625
    Abstract: An electronic document display apparatus includes a display unit and an analysis-and-setting unit including a determination unit and a first correction unit. The display unit displays an electronic document in display layout set by the analysis-and-setting unit. If the determination unit determines that an image related to a display-range text of a display range to be displayed by the display unit is not included in the display range, the first correction unit adds an image display region where the image is displayed to the display range so as to correct the display layout in such a way that the image and at least a portion of an image text related to the image are included in the display range. The analysis-and-setting unit changes a display state of the image displayed in the image display region on the basis of a predetermined condition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2012
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2017
    Assignee: Konica Minolta, Inc.
    Inventors: Tetsuren Ri, Toyoshige Nounishi, Masahiro Ozawa, Takahisa Matsunaga, Hiroshi Nogawa, Yasufumi Aoyama, Kunikazu Satou
  • Patent number: 9400554
    Abstract: Provided are an information display system, a non-transitory computer-readable storage medium, and a display control method. The information display system includes a transmission type head-mounted display and a control section. The control section includes a gaze point detecting section configured to detect a point of gaze of a user, a first judgment section configured to judge whether the user gazes at a certain area on a virtual screen or on the background beyond the virtual screen, a second judgment section configured to judge whether a sight-line region around the intersection of the virtual screen and a sight line of the user overlaps with an object displayed on the virtual screen, and a display control section configured to, in response to a movement of the point of gaze, change at least one of a display position and a display mode of the object on the basis of judgment results.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 4, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 26, 2016
    Assignee: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.
    Inventors: Mitsuharu Hayasaka, Masahiro Ozawa, Takahisa Matsunaga, Hiroshi Nogawa, Yasufumi Aoyama, Kunikazu Satou, Tetsuren Nogawa
  • Patent number: 9251444
    Abstract: Provided are an image forming apparatus, a non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing a control program, and a print control method. An image forming apparatus which can directly print printing data described in a page description language. The image forming apparatus includes a display section, a data receiving section, an analyzing section and a rasterizing section. The analyzing section is configured to analyze printing data to determine a file format of the printing data, and operate the display section to display a print setup screen thereon, where the print setup screen depends on the file format of the printing data. The analyzing section is further configured to define a layout of objects in each page to be printed and convert the printing data into descriptions of an intermediate language. The rasterizing section is configured to rasterize the descriptions of the intermediate language to create an image to be printed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 16, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 2, 2016
    Assignee: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.
    Inventors: Masahiro Ozawa, Mitsuharu Hayasaka, Takahisa Matsunaga, Hiroshi Nogawa, Yasufumi Aoyama, Kunikazu Satou, Tetsuren Ri
  • Publication number: 20160004195
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes: a printing unit that includes an image forming unit that forms a toner image of each page on recording paper, and a fixation unit that thermally fixes the toner image on the recording paper; and a control unit that controls the printing unit and includes a data acquisition unit, an analysis unit, a rasterization unit, and a printing control unit, wherein the analysis unit includes a band division unit that divides each page into a plurality of bands, and a condition determination unit that determines whether or not low temperature fixation executed at a relatively low temperature is allowed for each of the bands, and sets a fixing temperature for each of the bands based on a determination result, and the printing control unit controls a fixing temperature of the fixation unit based on the fixing temperature set for each of the bands.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 26, 2015
    Publication date: January 7, 2016
    Applicant: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.
    Inventors: Masahiro OZAWA, Kiyoshi EMORI, Takahisa MATSUNAGA, Mitsuharu HAYASAKA, Yasufumi AOYAMA, Tetsuren NOGAWA
  • Publication number: 20150170422
    Abstract: An information display system including a see-through head mount display including a display/projection unit configured to display a drawing object on a virtual screen in a state superimposed on surroundings, and a detection unit configured to detect information determining a position and/or an angle of the virtual screen relative to surroundings, wherein a controller includes: a drawing object generation unit configured to generate a drawing object on the basis of data generated by an application, refer to the information detected by the detection unit, set a drawing position of the drawing object on the virtual screen, and sets a drawing priority for each drawing object; and a drawing processing unit configured to control the display/projection unit to draw the drawing object at the drawing position on the virtual screen, and draws drawing objects overlapping with one another with priority given to a drawing object with a higher drawing priority.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 10, 2014
    Publication date: June 18, 2015
    Inventors: YASUFUMI AOYAMA, MASAHIRO OZAWA, HIROSHI NOGAWA, KUNIKAZU SATOU, TAKAHISA MATSUNAGA, TETSUREN NOGAWA, MITSUHARU HAYASAKA
  • Patent number: 9049324
    Abstract: A data processing device for incorporating one or more scanned data files generated by an image scanning device for storage into a file in a specified format (e.g. an Excel file) equipped with a plurality of display areas (e.g. spreadsheets), which is capable of receiving user's designation of one of the display areas to which each of the scanned data files is allocated to (S101), and modifying configuration data (e.g. part files) of the file so that each of the scanned data files is allocated to one of the display areas according to the user's designation (S112).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 24, 2011
    Date of Patent: June 2, 2015
    Assignee: KONICA MINOLTA BUSINESS TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
    Inventors: Takahisa Matsunaga, Fumihito Akiyama, Masahiro Ozawa, Hiroshi Nogawa, Yasufumi Aoyama, Kunikazu Satou, Yasutaka Shimohara, Tetsuren Ri, Toyoshige Nounishi
  • Publication number: 20150123997
    Abstract: Provided are an information display system, a non-transitory computer-readable storage medium, and a display control method. The information display system includes a transmission type head-mounted display and a control section. The control section includes a gaze point detecting section configured to detect a point of gaze of a user, a first judgment section configured to judge whether the user gazes at a certain area on a virtual screen or on the background beyond the virtual screen, a second judgment section configured to judge whether a sight-line region around the intersection of the virtual screen and a sight line of the user overlaps with an object displayed on the virtual screen, and a display control section configured to, in response to a movement of the point of gaze, change at least one of a display position and a display mode of the object on the basis of judgment results.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 4, 2014
    Publication date: May 7, 2015
    Inventors: Mitsuharu HAYASAKA, Masahiro Ozawa, Takahisa Matsunaga, Hiroshi Nogawa, Yasufumi Aoyama, Kunikazu Satou, Tetsuren Nogawa
  • Publication number: 20150077772
    Abstract: A data generation apparatus includes: a communication section configured to communicate with a print instructing apparatus; and a preview-image generating section configured to analyze a received print job and generate a preview image. The preview-image generating section is further configured to determine whether or not an object having a property not supported by the data generation apparatus exists in each page of the document; in response to determining that the object exists, obtain a possible alternative to the property of the object; generate edit data to be used for highlighting a replaced part in the preview image in which the property of the object is replaced with the possible alternative; and output the edit data to the print instructing apparatus so as to allow a user to recognize the replaced part.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 11, 2014
    Publication date: March 19, 2015
    Applicant: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.
    Inventors: Kunikazu SATOU, Masahiro Ozawa, Takahisa Matsunaga, Mitsuharu Hayasaka, Hiroshi Nogawa, Yasufumi Aoyama, Tetsuren Ri
  • Patent number: 8976373
    Abstract: Disclosed is an image processing apparatus includes a plurality of control sections each of which performs analysis processing of analyzing data of page description language form to generate intermediate language data and rendering processing of generating rendering data based on the intermediate language data generated by the analysis processing, the plurality of control sections capable of performing the analysis processing and the rendering processing parallelly with each other; and a storage section which stores the intermediate language data and the rendering data, and at least any one of the plurality of control sections obtains information with regard to a vacant capacity of the storage section, and at least any one of the control sections discontinues the analysis processing being performed by at least any one control section and performs the rendering processing based on the information with regard to the vacant capacity of the storage section and a predetermined set value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 10, 2015
    Assignee: Konica Minolta, Inc.
    Inventors: Hiroshi Nogawa, Fumihito Akiyama, Masahiro Ozawa, Jun Kuroki, Takahisa Matsunaga, Yasufumi Aoyama, Kunikazu Satou, Yasutaka Shimohara
  • Publication number: 20140376019
    Abstract: Provided are an image forming apparatus, a non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing a control program, and a print control method. An image forming apparatus which can directly print printing data described in a page description language. The image forming apparatus includes a display section, a data receiving section, an analyzing section and a rasterizing section. The analyzing section is configured to analyze printing data to determine a file format of the printing data, and operate the display section to display a print setup screen thereon, where the print setup screen depends on the file format of the printing data. The analyzing section is further configured to define a layout of objects in each page to be printed and convert the printing data into descriptions of an intermediate language. The rasterizing section is configured to rasterize the descriptions of the intermediate language to create an image to be printed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 16, 2014
    Publication date: December 25, 2014
    Applicant: Konica Minolta, Inc.
    Inventors: Masahiro OZAWA, Mitsuharu HAYASAKA, Takahisa MATSUNAGA, Hiroshi NOGAWA, Yasufumi AOYAMA, Kunikazu SATOU, Tetsuren RI
  • Patent number: 8767247
    Abstract: Disclosed is a print data generation device comprising: a storage unit including: a region in which there are temporarily stored data in an intermediate language format between data in a page description language format and print data, and the print data to be generated based on the data in the intermediate language format; and a rasterization region for use at a time when rasterization processing in which the print data is to be generated based on the data in the intermediate language format is executed; and a control unit that includes a plurality of arithmetic operation parts, sets arithmetic operation parts which execute the rasterization processing based on a status of use of the arithmetic operation parts and a status of a free region of the storage unit, and executes the rasterization processing for each of the set arithmetic operation parts.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 1, 2011
    Date of Patent: July 1, 2014
    Assignee: Konica Minolta, Inc.
    Inventors: Masahiro Ozawa, Fumihito Akiyama, Jun Kuroki, Takahisa Matsunaga, Hiroshi Nogawa, Yasufumi Aoyama, Kunikazu Satou, Yasutaka Shimohara
  • Patent number: 8675212
    Abstract: Disclosed is an image processing apparatus, comprising: a control section including a plurality of operation units; and a nonvolatile storage section to store a program to execute analysis processing and rendering processing by a control of the control section, the analysis processing analyzing page description language format data to generate intermediate language format data by the band, and the rendering processing generating rendering data based on the generated intermediate language format data, wherein the control section assigns the operation units the analysis and rendering processing to be executed, based on the stored program, wherein at least one of the operation units is capable of executing the analysis and rendering processing, and wherein when the operation unit is executing one of the analysis and rendering processing, and when an event which suspends the processing being executed occurs, the operation unit executes the other processing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 18, 2014
    Assignee: Konica Minolta Business Technologies, Ltd.
    Inventors: Fumihito Akiyama, Masahiro Ozawa, Jun Kuroki, Hiroshi Nogawa, Yasufumi Aoyama, Kunikazu Satou, Yasutaka Shimohara, Takahisa Matsunaga, Tetsuren Ri
  • Patent number: 8665458
    Abstract: Disclosed is an image forming apparatus which generates print data based on control data for page print inputted from an external device and which forms an image based on the print data. The image forming apparatus includes a control unit having a plurality of arithmetic processing units, and an image forming unit for forming an image based on the print data which is outputted by the control unit. The control unit generates the print data by carrying out a rasterizing process of one page in band unit constituted by a predetermined number of lines based on the control data for page print and sequentially outputs the generated print data at output timings defined in a constant output interval, wherein the rasterizing process is controlled based on whether or not generation of print data is to be completed within the output interval for all of bands in the one page.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2014
    Assignee: Konica Minolta Business Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Masahiro Ozawa, Fumihito Akiyama, Jun Kuroki, Takahisa Matsunaga, Hiroshi Nogawa, Yasufumi Aoyama, Kunikazu Satou, Yasutaka Shimohara
  • Publication number: 20130308149
    Abstract: An image output apparatus includes an image output unit, a presumption unit, a comparison unit and an output control unit. The image output unit outputs, in a predetermined format, an image of a content of a document file. The presumption unit presumes a first region/language setting of a document file created environment where the document file is created. The comparison unit compares the first region/language setting with a second region/language setting of the image output apparatus. The output control unit makes the image output unit output the image of the content of the document file by using a region/language setting selected from the region/language settings, which are compared with each other by the comparison unit, on the basis of a result of the comparison by the comparison unit in accordance with a predetermined selection condition.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 13, 2013
    Publication date: November 21, 2013
    Applicant: Konica Minolta, Inc.
    Inventors: Yasufumi AOYAMA, Masahiro OZAWA, Hiroshi NOGAWA, Kunikazu SATOU, Takahisa MATSUNAGA, Tetsuren RI
  • Patent number: 8560945
    Abstract: There is described a file editing apparatus, a file editing method and a file editing program, each of which makes it possible not only for the user to edit an XPS file easily and conveniently, but also for plural users, respectively located at different sites, to issue instructions for editing the same XPS file from the different sites at a time. The apparatus includes: a receiving section to receive a print job; a parsing section to parse the print job, so as to read file editing instruction information attached to the print job; and a file editing section that decompresses an XPS file to edit the XPS file decompressed, and then, compresses the XPS file after editing, so as to create an edited XPS file. Accordingly, the apparatus also makes it possible to edit the XPS file, irrespective of the OS or the environment of the application program currently executed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 2009
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2013
    Assignee: Konica Minolta Business Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Fumihito Akiyama, Yoshinori Tanaka, Masahiro Ozawa, Jun Kuroki, Hiroshi Nogawa, Yasufumi Aoyama
  • Patent number: 8477326
    Abstract: Disclosed is an image formation apparatus, comprising: a reception section to receive PDL data; an image processing section including a plurality of operation sections, each of which executing a task performing processing by a page or a task performing processing by a band to generate printing data based on the PDL data; a control section to analyze the PDL data to obtain the number of printing pages, the control section dynamically setting the number of the operation sections assigned to each of the task performing the processing by the page and the task performing the processing by the band in accordance with the obtained number of the printing pages; and a printing section to form an image on a printing medium based on the generated printing data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2010
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2013
    Assignee: Konica Minolta Business Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Takahisa Matsunaga, Fumihito Akiyama, Masahiro Ozawa, Jun Kuroki, Hiroshi Nogawa, Yasufumi Aoyama, Kunikazu Satou, Yasutaka Shimohara