Patents by Inventor Yoshiaki Nishizaki

Yoshiaki Nishizaki 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: 20240246414
    Abstract: An information provision device, information provision method, and a non-transitory recording medium storing a program for causing a computer to execute the information provision method. Each of the information provision device and the information provision method includes projecting an image light to a light transmission member to display a for-driver information image indicating for-driver information to be provided to a driver of a mobile object in a prescribed display area, and displaying at a first point where a normal for-driver information image is displayed a priority for-driver information image in place of the normal for-driver information image, where the displaying includes displaying the normal for-driver information image at a second point different from the first point for at least some of a period during which the priority for-driver information image is displayed at the first point.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 7, 2024
    Publication date: July 25, 2024
    Applicant: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Yoshiaki NISHIZAKI, Michinari SHINOHARA
  • Patent number: 11951834
    Abstract: An information provision device, information provision method, and a non-transitory recording medium storing a program for causing a computer to execute the information provision method. Each of the information provision device and the information provision method includes projecting an image light to a light transmission member to display a for-driver information image indicating for-driver information to be provided to a driver of a mobile object in a prescribed display area, and displaying at a first point where a normal for-driver information image is displayed a priority for-driver information image in place of the normal for-driver information image, where the displaying includes displaying the normal for-driver information image at a second point different from the first point for at least some of a period during which the priority for-driver information image is displayed at the first point.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 2, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Yoshiaki Nishizaki, Michinari Shinohara
  • Publication number: 20210284025
    Abstract: An information provision device, information provision method, and a non-transitory recording medium storing a program for causing a computer to execute the information provision method. Each of the information provision device and the information provision method includes projecting an image light to a light transmission member to display a for-driver information image indicating for-driver information to be provided to a driver of a mobile object in a prescribed display area, and displaying at a first point where a normal for-driver information image is displayed a priority for-driver information image in place of the normal for-driver information image, where the displaying includes displaying the normal for-driver information image at a second point different from the first point for at least some of a period during which the priority for-driver information image is displayed at the first point.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 2, 2021
    Publication date: September 16, 2021
    Inventors: Yoshiaki NISHIZAKI, Michinari SHINOHARA
  • Patent number: 11077753
    Abstract: An information provision device, information provision method, and a non-transitory recording medium storing a program for causing a computer to execute the information provision method. Each of the information provision device and the information provision method includes projecting an image light to a light transmission member to display a for-driver information image indicating for-driver information to be provided to a driver of a mobile object in a prescribed display area, and displaying at a first point where a normal for-driver information image is displayed a priority for-driver information image in place of the normal for-driver information image, where the displaying includes displaying the normal for-driver information image at a second point different from the first point for at least some of a period during which the priority for-driver information image is displayed at the first point.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 5, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 3, 2021
    Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Yoshiaki Nishizaki, Michinari Shinohara
  • Publication number: 20180319281
    Abstract: An information provision device, information provision method, and a non-transitory recording medium storing a program for causing a computer to execute the information provision method. Each of the information provision device and the information provision method includes projecting an image light to a light transmission member to display a for-driver information image indicating for-driver information to be provided to a driver of a mobile object in a prescribed display area, and displaying at a first point where a normal for-driver information image is displayed a priority for-driver information image in place of the normal for-driver information image, where the displaying includes displaying the normal for-driver information image at a second point different from the first point for at least some of a period during which the priority for-driver information image is displayed at the first point.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 5, 2018
    Publication date: November 8, 2018
    Inventors: Yoshiaki NISHIZAKI, Michinari Shinohara
  • Patent number: 10040351
    Abstract: An information provision device, information provision method, and a non-transitory recording medium storing a program for causing a computer to execute the information provision method. Each of the information provision device and the information provision method includes projecting an image light to a light transmission member to display a for-driver information image indicating for-driver information to be provided to a driver of a mobile object in a prescribed display area, and displaying at a first point where a normal for-driver information image is displayed a priority for-driver information image in place of the normal for-driver information image, where the displaying includes displaying the normal for-driver information image at a second point different from the first point for at least some of a period during which the priority for-driver information image is displayed at the first point.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 7, 2018
    Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Yoshiaki Nishizaki, Michinari Shinohara
  • Patent number: 9799929
    Abstract: An apparatus includes an apparatus body and a battery pack removable from the apparatus body. Each of the apparatus body and the battery pack includes a memory unit configured to store a use permission flag written after authentications for a pair of the apparatus body and the battery pack through near field communication with a portable terminal, and a control unit configured to permit energization when the use permission flag of the memory unit is ON.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 4, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2017
    Assignee: RICOH COMPANY, LTD.
    Inventors: Tsutomu Kawase, Yoshiaki Nishizaki, Yukiko Yamazaki, Takahisa Yamaguchi
  • Patent number: 9723432
    Abstract: An information providing system provides delivery information using identification information of an object equipped with a wireless communication function. The information providing system includes a registering unit that registers in advance first link information linking the identification information of the object to the delivery information; a generating unit that generates second link information linking the identification information of the object to delivery information different from the delivery information of the first link information, based on the identification information of the object and identification information of a plurality of information terminals, acquired by communication with the information terminals, which can communicate with the object; and an information providing unit that delivers the delivery information linked by the second link information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 26, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2017
    Assignee: RICOH COMPANY, LTD.
    Inventors: Tatsuya Fujii, Tsutomu Kawase, Yoshiaki Nishizaki, Yuichiro Ueda
  • Publication number: 20160167514
    Abstract: An information provision device, information provision method, and a non-transitory recording medium storing a program for causing a computer to execute the information provision method. Each of the information provision device and the information provision method includes projecting an image light to a light transmission member to display a for-driver information image indicating for-driver information to be provided to a driver of a mobile object in a prescribed display area, and displaying at a first point where a normal for-driver information image is displayed a priority for-driver information image in place of the normal for-driver information image, where the displaying includes displaying the normal for-driver information image at a second point different from the first point for at least some of a period during which the priority for-driver information image is displayed at the first point.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 7, 2015
    Publication date: June 16, 2016
    Inventors: Yoshiaki NISHIZAKI, Michinari SHINOHARA
  • Publication number: 20150334514
    Abstract: An information providing system provides delivery information using identification information of an object equipped with a wireless communication function. The information providing system includes a registering unit that registers in advance first link information linking the identification information of the object to the delivery information; a generating unit that generates second link information linking the identification information of the object to delivery information different from the delivery information of the first link information, based on the identification information of the object and identification information of a plurality of information terminals, acquired by communication with the information terminals, which can communicate with the object; and an information providing unit that delivers the delivery information linked by the second link information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 26, 2013
    Publication date: November 19, 2015
    Applicant: RICOH COMPANY, LTD.
    Inventors: Tatsuya FUJII, Tsutomu KAWASE, Yoshiaki NISHIZAKI, Yuichiro UEDA
  • Publication number: 20150162646
    Abstract: An apparatus includes an apparatus body and a battery pack removable from the apparatus body. Each of the apparatus body and the battery pack includes a memory unit configured to store a use permission flag written after authentications for a pair of the apparatus body and the battery pack through near field communication with a portable terminal, and a control unit configured to permit energization when the use permission flag of the memory unit is ON.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 4, 2013
    Publication date: June 11, 2015
    Applicant: RICOH COMPANY, LTD.
    Inventors: Tsutomu Kawase, Yoshiaki Nishizaki, Yukiko Yamazaki, Takahisa Yamaguchi
  • Publication number: 20150009015
    Abstract: An information providing system includes a passenger conveyor having a handrail belt and a storage unit that stores a first tag identification information. A portable terminal reads the first tag identification information and transmits the first tag identification information and a portable terminal identification information. The information providing system further includes an information providing device to transmit a providing information corresponding to the first tag identification information and the portable terminal identification information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 7, 2014
    Publication date: January 8, 2015
    Inventors: Yoshiko NAKATA, Yuichiro UEDA, Yoshiaki NISHIZAKI, Yasuyuki NAKAMURA, Masahiko ITOH
  • Patent number: 8896627
    Abstract: An information display device of an embodiment includes: a storage unit that stores the image data in association with information of the image data; a retrieval condition receiving unit that receives an input of a retrieval condition; a retrieval unit that retrieves the image data from the storage unit according to the received retrieval condition; a display control unit that displays an entire image representing an entire range in which the retrieved image data is distributed on a client terminal; and an operation receiving unit that receives an operation of an input unit by a user on a screen on which the entire image is displayed. The display control unit extracts the image data included in a range represented by a locus formed by an operation of the input unit, and displays the extracted image data on the client terminal together with the entire image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 7, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 25, 2014
    Assignee: Ricoh Company, Limited
    Inventors: Hiroshi Morohoshi, Yoshiaki Nishizaki
  • Patent number: 8711133
    Abstract: Provided are a control panel or a display as well as an image processing apparatus and an electronic calculating apparatus using the electronic device or the display, the electronic device and the display each using a light transmissive solar cell for electric power generation so as to allow a solar cell part and a display part to be disposed to overlap an input part so that a larger electric power than the conventional cases can be generated without increasing the size of the whole operation panel and the whole display. An electronic device of the present invention includes: a display part capable of electrically and magnetically changing a display region and displaying of a display content displayed in the display region; a solar cell part that transmits light in a visible light region; and an input part that detects whether or not any part of the display region is manipulated, and that transmits light in a visible light region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 29, 2014
    Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Akira Imai, Taisuke Omi, Yoshiaki Nishizaki, Kazuo Koike, Kenichi Yamada, Tasuku Kohara, Tsuyoshi Endoh, Hiroshi Takeda, Hiroki Tsuruoka
  • Publication number: 20140111306
    Abstract: A locking mechanism, that is attached to a device acquiring power from a power generator mounted on the device, includes a radio tag acquiring key information, which is for releasing locking, by radio communications; a short-circuit unit short-circuiting the power generator; and a control unit acquiring specific information of the device, making comparison between the specific information and the key information acquired by the radio tag, and causing the short-circuit unit to short-circuit the power generator based on a result of the comparison, so as to control locking of the device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 17, 2013
    Publication date: April 24, 2014
    Applicant: RICOH COMPANY, LTD.
    Inventors: Tsutomu Kawase, Yoshiaki Nishizaki, Takahisa Yamaguchi, Yukiko Yamazaki
  • Publication number: 20120062590
    Abstract: An information display device of an embodiment includes: a storage unit that stores the image data in association with information of the image data; a retrieval condition receiving unit that receives an input of a retrieval condition; a retrieval unit that retrieves the image data from the storage unit according to the received retrieval condition; a display control unit that displays an entire image representing an entire range in which the retrieved image data is distributed on a client terminal; and an operation receiving unit that receives an operation of an input unit by a user on a screen on which the entire image is displayed. The display control unit extracts the image data included in a range represented by a locus formed by an operation of the input unit, and displays the extracted image data on the client terminal together with the entire image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 7, 2011
    Publication date: March 15, 2012
    Inventors: Hiroshi MOROHOSHI, Yoshiaki Nishizaki
  • Patent number: 8121410
    Abstract: In a system for providing an illegal use research service for image data, the image data received from a terminal apparatus is registered as a research subject, a research condition for research whether or not the image data being registered is illegally used by a Web site on the network is set, image data that are identical or similar to the image data being the research subject from a web site on the network are searched for based on a feature amount and the research condition, and a search result is informed as a research report to the research client using said terminal apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 2008
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2012
    Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Yanagisawa, Yasushi Yamamoto, Yoshiaki Nishizaki
  • Patent number: 8085242
    Abstract: An input control device and an image forming apparatus capable of providing an easy-to-use operating environment even for a user having difficulties operating such conventional devices and apparatuses due to his/her height, color vision deficiency, weak vision, use of a wheelchair, and the like is disclosed. In the input control device, based on the detected distance between an instruction item on the display and an operation direction element (such as a user's finger), the display mode of the instruction item is changed (by, for example, changing positions, colors, and combinations). Further, as the operation direction element approaches, the size of the instruction item on the display becomes larger, thereby improving the operability especially for a user with color vision deficiency or weak vision.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 28, 2008
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2011
    Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Tsuyoshi Endoh, Kazuo Koike, Kenichi Yamada, Tasuku Kohara, Taisuke Omi, Takashi Inoue, Hiroki Tsuruoka, Yoshiaki Nishizaki
  • Publication number: 20110221735
    Abstract: Provided are a control panel or a display as well as an image processing apparatus and an electronic calculating apparatus using the electronic device or the display, the electronic device and the display each using a light transmissive solar cell for electric power generation so as to allow a solar cell part and a display part to be disposed to overlap an input part so that a larger electric power than the conventional cases can be generated without increasing the size of the whole operation panel and the whole display. An electronic device of the present invention includes: a display part capable of electrically and magnetically changing a display region and displaying of a display content displayed in the display region; a solar cell part that transmits light in a visible light region; and an input part that detects whether or not any part of the display region is manipulated, and that transmits light in a visible light region.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 10, 2011
    Publication date: September 15, 2011
    Inventors: Akira IMAI, Taisuke Omi, Yoshiaki Nishizaki, Kazuo Koike, Kenichi Yamada, Tasuku Kohara, Tsuyoshi Endoh, Hiroshi Takeda, Hiroki Tsuruoka
  • Patent number: 7621448
    Abstract: An information managing apparatus for managing an information display medium is disclosed that includes a reversible display unit that is configured to reversibly display information in visible form and a reversible display storage unit that is configured to store display content data corresponding to the information displayed at the reversible display unit. The apparatus further includes a scanner unit that is configured to read a display of the reversible display unit and acquire display read data of the read display; a reader unit that is configured to acquire first display content data stored in the reversible display storage unit; and a control unit that is configured to compare the display read data acquired by the scanner unit and the first display content data acquired by the reader unit, extract a difference between the display read data and the first display content data based on the comparison, and output the extracted difference.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2005
    Date of Patent: November 24, 2009
    Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Hideo Sakurai, Atsushi Kutami, Tetsuo Noji, Yoshihiro Sugiyama, Junpei Sakae, Yoshiaki Nishizaki