Patents by Inventor Yasuhiro Tabata

Yasuhiro Tabata 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: 20240129686
    Abstract: A display control apparatus for controlling display of a display device that a user can wear acquires speech collected by a plurality of microphones, estimates a sound-arrival direction of the acquired speech, and generates a text image corresponding to the acquired speech. The display control apparatus determines an adjustment amount of a display position of the text image on the display unit of the display device based on a detection result of at least one of an operation by the user and a state of the display device. Then, the display control apparatus displays the generated text image at a display position in the display unit, the display position being determined in accordance with the estimated sound-arrival direction and the determined adjustment amount.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 19, 2023
    Publication date: April 18, 2024
    Applicants: Pixie Dust Technologies, Inc., Sumitomo Pharma Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Megumi TABATA, Haruki NISHIMURA, Akira ENDO, Yasuhiro HABARA, Masaki GOMI, Yudai TAIRA
  • Publication number: 20240119684
    Abstract: A display control apparatus for controlling display of a display device acquires speech collected by a plurality of microphones and estimates a sound-arrival direction of the acquired speech. Then, the display control apparatus causes a text image corresponding to the acquired speech to be displayed in a predetermined text display area in a display unit of the display device, and causes a symbol image associated with the text image to be displayed at a display position in the display unit, the display position corresponding to the estimated sound-arrival direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 19, 2023
    Publication date: April 11, 2024
    Applicants: Pixie Dust Technologies, Inc., Sumitomo Pharma Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Megumi TABATA, Haruki NISHIMURA, Akira ENDO, Yasuhiro HABARA, Masaki GOMI, Yudai TAIRA
  • Patent number: 9111008
    Abstract: A document information management system in which a search-engine-compatible interface unit makes a word in a document displayed on the screen to be specified, transfers the specified word to a search engine as a keyword to be used in the search engine, receives a search result from the search engine, and displays the search result on the screen, while a browser-compatible interface unit performs a search (a keyword search and/or global search) by using the keyword transferred from a browser and transfers a search result to the browser.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 11, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 18, 2015
    Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Takashi Yano, Yasuhiro Tabata, Hisashi Ishijima
  • Publication number: 20150178847
    Abstract: [TECHNICAL PROBLEM] An evaluation score and information of a group of applications and patents mutually related with each other to constitute a patent portfolio are visualized so that an effective value evaluation is realized. [SOLUTION] A patent portfolio management system, comprising: a patent value calculation unit that calculates a value score of an individual application stored in the patent information storage unit; an annual fee payable amount calculation unit that calculates a patent annual fee payable amount for a reference year of the subject application for the evaluation based on the annual fee table stored in the annual fee information storage unit; a graphics generation device that generates a patent portfolio management screen inclusive of a preliminarily determined diagram or a preliminarily determined table; and a display device that displays the patent portfolio management screen generated by the graphics generation device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 24, 2014
    Publication date: June 25, 2015
    Applicants: RAYTEC CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yasuhiro TABATA, Takanobu DEGUCHI
  • Patent number: 8826151
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus is connected via a network to both an MFP and a virtual-space management server that manages a virtual space that contains a virtual device that is created by virtualizing the MFP. The information processing apparatus includes a display control unit that displays map information on a display unit, wherein a device symbol that corresponds to the MFP is present in the map information at a position corresponding to the position of the MFP in the real world; a receiving unit that receives a selected device symbol in the map information; an output control unit that outputs image data to either a first data storage unit of the MFP that corresponds to the selected device symbol or to a second data storage unit for the virtual device that is created by virtualizing the MFP and corresponds to the selected device symbol.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2010
    Date of Patent: September 2, 2014
    Assignee: Ricoh Company, Limited
    Inventors: Yasuhiro Tabata, Takashi Yano, Katsuyuki Kaji, Kenta Nozaki
  • Publication number: 20140052709
    Abstract: A document information management system in which a search-engine-compatible interface unit makes a word in a document displayed on the screen to be specified, transfers the specified word to a search engine as a keyword to be used in the search engine, receives a search result from the search engine, and displays the search result on the screen, while a browser-compatible interface unit performs a search (a keyword search and/or global search) by using the keyword transferred from a browser and transfers a search result to the browser.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 11, 2013
    Publication date: February 20, 2014
    Inventors: Takashi YANO, Yasuhiro TABATA, Hisashi ISHIJIMA
  • Patent number: 8554786
    Abstract: A document information management system in which a search-engine-compatible interface unit makes a word in a document displayed on the screen to be specified, transfers the specified word to a search engine as a keyword to be used in the search engine, receives a search result from the search engine, and displays the search result on the screen, while a browser-compatible interface unit performs a search (a keyword search and/or global search) by using the keyword transferred from a browser and transfers a search result to the browser.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 10, 2006
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2013
    Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Takashi Yano, Yasuhiro Tabata, Hisashi Ishijima
  • Publication number: 20110231433
    Abstract: A management system includes a document management server that receives an electronic document or the like in a client connected to a network together with predetermined metadata, a temporary storage document server that communicates with a briefcase provided in the Metaverse world and temporarily stores therein an electronic document or the like created or received in the Metaverse world together with predetermined metadata, a transmission unit that transmits an electronic document or the like and metadata in the temporary storage document server to the document server, and a transmission function of transmitting a Corresponding electronic document or the like to the client by searching metadata and/or electronic documents and the like as targets based on search bibliographic data transmitted from the client. The temporary storage document server includes a metadata acquisition unit that acquires predetermined metadata of a document when the document is temporarily stored in the client.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 4, 2011
    Publication date: September 22, 2011
    Applicant: Ricoh Company, Limited
    Inventors: Yasuhiro Tabata, Takashi Yano, Katsuyuki Kaji, Kenta Nozaki
  • Publication number: 20110231434
    Abstract: An information management apparatus managing information on avatars in the metaverse, includes: a static information acquisition unit which acquires static information of each of the avatars; a dynamic information acquisition unit which acquires dynamic information corresponding to behavior of each of the avatars; and an avatar information storage unit which stores therein the static information and the dynamic information in association with each of the avatars.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 8, 2011
    Publication date: September 22, 2011
    Applicant: Ricoh Company, Limited
    Inventors: Yasuhiro Tabata, Takashi Yano, Katsuyuki Kaji, Kenta Nozaki
  • Publication number: 20110063674
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus is connected via a network to both an MFP and a virtual-space management server that manages a virtual space that contains a virtual device that is created by virtualizing the MFP. The information processing apparatus includes a display control unit that displays map information on a display unit, wherein a device symbol that corresponds to the MFP is present in the map information at a position corresponding to the position of the MFP in the real world; a receiving unit that receives a selected device symbol in the map information; an output control unit that outputs image data to either a first data storage unit of the MFP that corresponds to the selected device symbol or to a second data storage unit for the virtual device that is created by virtualizing the MFP and corresponds to the selected device symbol.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 14, 2010
    Publication date: March 17, 2011
    Inventors: Yasuhiro Tabata, Takashi Yano, Katsuyuki Kaji, Kenta Nozaki
  • Patent number: 7512874
    Abstract: The document information management system according to the present invention comprises data base with a plurality of document files previously stored therein, a medium form having a document information section with document information recorded thereon and a bar code information section with electronic information corresponding to contents of the document information converted to bar code information and stored therein, a marking unit for giving a selection mark by selecting a desired word from a medium form, a reading unit for reading a selection mark and bar code information from a medium form with the selection mark given thereto, a retrieving unit for retrieving a corresponding document file from a data base using a word with a selection mark given thereto as a key word according to the selection mark and bar code information, and an output unit for outputting the retrieved document file as related information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2004
    Date of Patent: March 31, 2009
    Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Takashi Yano, Yasuhiro Tabata, Hisashi Ishijima
  • Patent number: 7363580
    Abstract: The document information management system according to the present invention comprises a hypertext preparing unit for preparing a hypertext; a file unit for storing therein correlated information files; a medium form information preparing unit for preparing medium for information from information in the hypertext; a medium form output unit for outputting the recording paper as a medium form; a selection information adding unit for adding selection information; a reader for reading the selection information and linkage information from the medium form; a retrieving unit for retrieving an appropriate correlated information file; and an output unit for outputting the correlated information file retrieved by the retrieving unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 11, 2003
    Date of Patent: April 22, 2008
    Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Yasuhiro Tabata, Takashi Yano, Hisashi Ishijima
  • Publication number: 20060184546
    Abstract: A document information management system in which a search-engine-compatible interface unit makes a word in a document displayed on the screen to be specified, transfers the specified word to a search engine as a keyword to be used in the search engine, receives a search result from the search engine, and displays the search result on the screen, while a browser-compatible interface unit performs a search (a keyword search and/or global search) by using the keyword transferred from a browser and transfers a search result to the browser.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 10, 2006
    Publication date: August 17, 2006
    Inventors: Takashi Yano, Yasuhiro Tabata, Hisashi Ishijima
  • Patent number: 7016058
    Abstract: A network control system including a computer network and a plurality of image forming apparatuses connected to the computer network, each configured to record an image on a recording paper. A server is connected to the computer network and stores a graphic layout of an operation panel of all of the plurality of image forming apparatuses connected to the computer network and stores information items of all of the plurality of image forming apparatuses connected to the computer network. The computer includes a display to display the graphic layout and the information items stored in the server and an input device to select the image forming apparatus for recording by selecting the information items displayed on the computer display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 12, 1999
    Date of Patent: March 21, 2006
    Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventor: Yasuhiro Tabata
  • Patent number: 6910184
    Abstract: A document information management system includes a database containing a plurality of document files with raster information previously stored therein, a display unit for displaying hypertext and non-hypertext documents, a marking pen unit, an execution instructing unit, a marking command analyzing unit, a first and second retrieving units, and an output unit. The marking pen unit has a marking pen for giving at least one marking command to one or more buttons or words for a hypertext document and one or more words in a non-hypertext document each displayed on the display unit. The marking command analyzing unit analyzes, when instructed by the execution instructing unit, contents of the marking command based upon the command mark as a button or key word. The analyzing includes a displacement comparison of the raster information. The first and second retrieval units retrieve related hypertext or non-hypertext documents, respectively. The output unit then outputs the related information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 2000
    Date of Patent: June 21, 2005
    Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Takashi Yano, Yasuhiro Tabata, Hisashi Ishijima
  • Publication number: 20050114351
    Abstract: The document information management system according to the present invention comprises data base with a plurality of document files previously stored therein, a medium form having a document information section with document information recorded thereon and a bar code information section with electronic information corresponding to contents of the document information converted to bar code information and stored therein, a marking unit for giving a selection mark by selecting a desired word from a medium form, a reading unit for reading a selection mark and bar code information from a medium form with the selection mark given thereto, a retrieving unit for retrieving a corresponding document file from a data base using a word with a selection mark given thereto as a key word according to the selection mark and bar code information, and an output unit for outputting the retrieved document file as related information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 15, 2004
    Publication date: May 26, 2005
    Inventors: Takashi Yano, Yasuhiro Tabata, Hisashi Ishijima
  • Publication number: 20040059727
    Abstract: A document information management system in which a search-engine-compatible interface unit makes a word in a document displayed on the screen to be specified, transfers the specified word to a search engine as a keyword to be used in the search engine, receives a search result from the search engine, and displays the search result on the screen, while a browser-compatible interface unit performs a search (a keyword search and/or global search) by using the keyword transferred from a browser and transfers a search result to the browser.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 24, 2003
    Publication date: March 25, 2004
    Inventors: Takashi Yano, Yasuhiro Tabata, Hisashi Ishijima
  • Patent number: 6658408
    Abstract: A document information management system in which a search-engine-compatible interface unit makes a word in a document displayed on the screen to be specified, transfers the specified word to a search engine as a keyword to be used in the search engine, receives a search result from the search engine, and displays the search result on the screen, while a browser-compatible interface unit performs a search (a keyword search and/or global search) by using the keyword transferred from a browser and transfers a search result to the browser.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 22, 2002
    Date of Patent: December 2, 2003
    Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Takashi Yano, Yasuhiro Tabata, Hisashi Ishijima
  • Publication number: 20030121006
    Abstract: The document information management system according to the present invention comprises a hypertext preparing unit for preparing a hypertext; a file unit for storing therein correlated information files; a medium form information preparing unit for preparing medium for information from information in the hypertext; a medium form output unit for outputting the recording paper as a medium form; a selection information adding unit for adding selection information; a reader for reading the selection information and linkage information from the medium form; a retrieving unit for retrieving an appropriate correlated information file; and an output unit for outputting the correlated information file retrieved by the retrieving unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 11, 2003
    Publication date: June 26, 2003
    Inventors: Yasuhiro Tabata, Takashi Yano, Hisashi Ishijima
  • Patent number: 6537324
    Abstract: The document information management system according to the present invention includes a hypertext preparing unit for preparing a hypertext. A file unit storing therein correlated information files. A medium form information preparing unit for prepares a medium for information from information in the hypertext. A medium form output unit outputs the recording paper as a medium form. A selection information adding unit adds selection information. A reader reads the selection information and linkage information from the medium form. A retrieving unit retrieves an appropriate correlated information file, and an output unit for outputs the correlated information file retrieved by the retrieving unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 13, 1998
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2003
    Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Yasuhiro Tabata, Takashi Yano, Hisashi Ishijima