Patents by Inventor Yoshiaki Shibuta

Yoshiaki Shibuta 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: 20200341696
    Abstract: An image forming system includes: an image forming device that produces a printed output based on a print job sent by an information processing device; and a photographing device arranged at a position in which a photographing of the image forming device is enabled. The image forming device and the photographing device communicate with each other over a network. The image forming device includes a hardware processor that: obtains device information that identifies the information processing device that hast sent the print job; and sends the device information to the photographing device. The photographing device includes: an imaging device that photographs an image that identifies a location of the image forming device; and a hardware processor that sends the image photographed by the imaging device to the information processing device based on the device information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 9, 2020
    Publication date: October 29, 2020
    Applicant: Konica Minolta, Inc.
    Inventor: Yoshiaki Shibuta
  • Patent number: 10802771
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a hardware processor that: detects a defect that occurs when an image processor performs an image process on process data; produces verification data when the defect is detected during the image process, wherein the verification data is formed in a case that at least one portion of the process data, to be processed by the image processor, is changed and causes a same defect that occurs during the image process on the process data; and externally outputs the verification data instead of the process data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 2, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 13, 2020
    Assignee: Konica Minolta, Inc.
    Inventors: Hideaki Soejima, Hisashi Uchida, Hiroaki Kubo, Tomoaki Nakajima, Yasutaka Ito, Yoshiaki Shibuta
  • Patent number: 10650291
    Abstract: A simulation device includes: a simulator simulating an information processing device; a virtual execution controller executing a job identical to a job executed by the information processing device, while a parameter different from a parameter set in the information processing device, is set in a virtual device in which the simulator simulates the information processing device, by controlling the simulator, when the information processing device is out of a preset admissibility condition; a parameter determinator determining the parameter set in the virtual device, as a change parameter, when the virtual device while the virtual device executes the job, satisfies the admissibility condition; and a setter controlling the information processing device such that the determined change parameter is set in the information processing device, when an environment of the information processing device becomes identical to an environment when the information processing device is out of the admissibility condition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 11, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2020
    Assignee: Konica Minolta, Inc.
    Inventors: Yasutaka Ito, Hisashi Uchida, Hiroaki Kubo, Tomoaki Nakajima, Yoshiaki Shibuta, Hideaki Soejima
  • Publication number: 20190146720
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a hardware processor that: detects a defect that occurs when an image processor performs an image process on process data; produces verification data when the defect is detected during the image process, wherein the verification data is formed in a case that at least one portion of the process data, to be processed by the image processor, is changed and causes a same defect that occurs during the image process on the process data; and externally outputs the verification data instead of the process data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 2, 2018
    Publication date: May 16, 2019
    Applicant: Konica Minolta, Inc.
    Inventors: Hideaki Soejima, Hisashi Uchida, Hiroaki Kubo, Tomoaki Nakajima, Yasutaka Ito, Yoshiaki Shibuta
  • Publication number: 20190114185
    Abstract: A simulation device includes a hardware processer that simulates an apparatus. When an state of the apparatus does not satisfy a allowable condition, the hardware processor determines a group of the plurality of jobs being executed as an error group, and allows a virtual device to carry out a plurality of jobs that are generated when a parameter defined by at least one of the plurality of jobs included in the error group is changed. When a state of the virtual device satisfies the allowable condition, the hardware processor determines a group of the plurality of jobs executed as a change job group. When the apparatus carries out a plurality of new jobs, the hardware processor allows the apparatus to change each of parameters of the plurality of new jobs to a parameter defined by a change job included in the change job group.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 15, 2018
    Publication date: April 18, 2019
    Applicant: Konica Minolta, Inc.
    Inventors: Tomoaki Nakajima, Hisashi Uchida, Hiroaki Kubo, Yasutaka Ito, Hideaki Soejima, Yoshiaki Shibuta
  • Publication number: 20190109960
    Abstract: A simulation device includes: a simulator simulating an information processing device; a virtual execution controller executing a job identical to a job executed by the information processing device, while a parameter different from a parameter set in the information processing device, is set in a virtual device in which the simulator simulates the information processing device, by controlling the simulator, when the information processing device is out of a preset admissibility condition; a parameter determinator determining the parameter set in the virtual device, as a change parameter, when the virtual device while the virtual device executes the job, satisfies the admissibility condition; and a setter controlling the information processing device such that the determined change parameter is set in the information processing device, when an environment of the information processing device becomes identical to an environment when the information processing device is out of the admissibility condition.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 11, 2018
    Publication date: April 11, 2019
    Applicant: Konica Minolta, Inc.
    Inventors: Yasutaka Ito, Hisashi Uchida, Hiroaki Kubo, Tomoaki Nakajima, Yoshiaki Shibuta, Hideaki Soejima
  • Patent number: 9888137
    Abstract: A processing apparatus having a function to perform specific processing based on a request from a terminal is provided. The processing apparatus includes a connection portion configured to connect the processing apparatus to the terminal; and a processor configured to control the terminal to display a second screen including a part or a whole of a first screen, the first screen having been displayed in the terminal by another processing apparatus with the function before the processing apparatus connects to the terminal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 16, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2018
    Assignee: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.
    Inventors: Kenji Matsuhara, Takeshi Minami, Kenichi Takahashi, Kaitaku Ozawa, Yoshiaki Shibuta, Yosuke Taniguchi, Atsushi Tamura
  • Patent number: 9641713
    Abstract: A power-saving mode deactivation apparatus for performing communication via a communication network with specific processing apparatuses for particular processing is provided. The power-saving mode deactivation apparatus includes a storage portion for storing therein a deactivation method for deactivating a power-saving mode of each of the specific processing apparatuses; a detection portion for detecting that particular processing data for the particular processing is not delivered to, among the specific processing apparatuses, a destination specific processing apparatus of the particular processing data, and a deactivation portion for performing, when the detection portion detects that the particular processing data is not delivered to the destination specific processing apparatus, deactivation processing for deactivating a power-saving mode of the destination specific processing apparatus based on the deactivation method, stored in the storage portion, for the destination specific processing apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 2, 2017
    Assignee: KONICA MINOLTA BUSINESS TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
    Inventors: Atsushi Ohshima, Keisuke Teramoto, Masami Yamada, Yoshiaki Shibuta, Hiroaki Kubo
  • Patent number: 9350897
    Abstract: An image processing device inserts an AR (Augmented Reality) marker in documents. The AR marker is to deliver an air tag which corresponds to the AR marker from an air tag server to a terminal device, when the terminal device which reads the AR marker satisfies deliver conditions. The image processing device identifies the air tag which is to be delivered from among air tags stored in the air tag server. The image processing device acquires the AR marker which corresponds to the air tag which is to be delivered from the air tag server. The image processing device inserts the acquired AR marker into the document.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 16, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2016
    Assignee: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.
    Inventors: Yosuke Taniguchi, Takeshi Minami, Kenichi Takahashi, Kenji Matsuhara, Kaitaku Ozawa, Yoshiaki Shibuta, Atsushi Tamura
  • Patent number: 9275205
    Abstract: In a material output system, if it is determined that a meeting management server has stored therein meeting information in which an authenticated person is included in prospective participants in a meeting, in which an installation place of MFP that has performed authentication agrees with a meeting room where the meeting is held, and in which the present date and time is included in a meeting room reservation time, MFP is instructed to output a material saved in a location associated with the meeting information. If it is determined that such meeting information is not stored in the meeting management server, the material output system displays a screen to allow output of the material saved in the associated location, for at least one piece of meeting information in which the authenticated user is included in prospective participants in a meeting. Accordingly, the material can be promptly distributed to the participant in the meeting.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 12, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2016
    Assignee: Konica Minolta Business Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Nobuo Kamei, Tomoyuki Okamoto, Yasuji Takeuchi, Tomo Tsuboi, Yoshiaki Shibuta
  • Publication number: 20150365558
    Abstract: An image processing device inserts an AR (Augmented Reality) marker in documents. The AR marker is to deliver an air tag which corresponds to the AR marker from an air tag server to a terminal device, when the terminal device which reads the AR marker satisfies deliver conditions. The image processing device identifies the air tag which is to be delivered from among air tags stored in the air tag server. The image processing device acquires the AR marker which corresponds to the air tag which is to be delivered from the air tag server. The image processing device inserts the acquired AR marker into the document.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 16, 2015
    Publication date: December 17, 2015
    Applicant: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.
    Inventors: Yosuke TANIGUCHI, Takeshi MINAMI, Kenichi TAKAHASHI, Kenji MATSUHARA, Kaitaku OZAWA, Yoshiaki SHIBUTA, Atsushi TAMURA
  • Publication number: 20150365552
    Abstract: A processing apparatus having a function to perform specific processing based on a request from a terminal is provided. The processing apparatus includes a connection portion configured to connect the processing apparatus to the terminal; and a processor configured to control the terminal to display a second screen including a part or a whole of a first screen, the first screen having been displayed in the terminal by another processing apparatus with the function before the processing apparatus connects to the terminal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 16, 2015
    Publication date: December 17, 2015
    Applicant: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.
    Inventors: Kenji MATSUHARA, Takeshi MINAMI, Kenichi TAKAHASHI, Kaitaku OZAWA, Yoshiaki SHIBUTA, Yosuke TANIGUCHI, Atsushi TAMURA
  • Publication number: 20150269782
    Abstract: An augmented reality information generating apparatus acquires a content stored in an external device, determines a display area defined by a relative position to an object in the content, acquires related information related to the object, and generates augmented reality information in which the content, area information indicating the display area, and the related information are associated with each other. An augmented reality display apparatus acquires a first content, acquires augmented reality information that includes a second content having an identical object with an object in the first content, determines a reality display area in which a relative position to the object in the first content has the same relation with a relative position between the object in the second content and the display area, and displays the related information included in the augmented reality information in the reality display area.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 20, 2015
    Publication date: September 24, 2015
    Applicant: Konica Minolta, Inc.
    Inventors: Atsushi TAMURA, Takeshi MINAMI, Kenichi TAKAHASHI, Kenji MATSUHARA, Kaitaku OZAWA, Yosuke TANIGUCHI, Yoshiaki SHIBUTA
  • Patent number: 8977877
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus being configured to support a power-saving mode which allows achieving low power consumption while keeping an idle connection without communication between the image processing apparatus and a communication device in a network environment, comprises: a first judgment portion which judges whether or not the communication device supports the power-saving mode; and a communicator which establishes a connection to the communication device at a first communication rate if the first judgment portion judges that the communication device does not support the power-saving mode, at a second communication rate which is faster than the first communication rate if the first judgment portion judges that the communication device supports the power-saving mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 24, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 10, 2015
    Assignee: Konica Minolta Business Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Masami Yamada, Keisuke Teramoto, Hiroaki Kubo, Atsushi Ohshima, Yoshiaki Shibuta
  • Patent number: 8970887
    Abstract: An image forming system includes an image forming apparatus and an external terminal. The image forming apparatus generates first display data for a first operation screen that includes a key image for receiving an instruction to execute an external terminal program, on the basis of program information regarding the types of external terminal programs that are programs installed in the external terminal, and transmits the first display data to the external terminal. The external terminal displays the first operation screen on a display unit of the external terminal on the basis of the first display data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 3, 2015
    Assignee: Konica Minolta, Inc.
    Inventors: Tomonari Yoshimura, Yoshio Komaki, Minako Kobayashi, Hiroki Tajima, Yoshiaki Shibuta
  • Patent number: 8896870
    Abstract: An image forming system comprises an image forming apparatus and an external terminal. The image forming apparatus has a receiving part for receiving operation input information on an operation input into an operation screen from the external terminal, a specifying part for specifying a first program to which an execution instruction is given through the operation screen on the basis of the operation input information, a determination part for determining a second program having the same function as that of the first program as an execution object program on the condition that the second program is installed in the external terminal, and a notification part for notifying the external terminal that the second program is determined as the execution object program. The external terminal executes a processing in accordance with the second program and displays a result of the processing executed in accordance with the second program.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 25, 2014
    Assignee: Konica Minolta Business Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Minako Kobayashi, Yoshio Komaki, Junichi Hase, Tomonari Yoshimura, Hiroki Tajima, Yoshiaki Shibuta
  • Publication number: 20130308159
    Abstract: An image forming system includes an image forming apparatus and an external terminal. The image forming apparatus generates first display data for a first operation screen that includes a key image for receiving an instruction to execute an external terminal program, on the basis of program information regarding the types of external terminal programs that are programs installed in the external terminal, and transmits the first display data to the external terminal. The external terminal displays the first operation screen on a display unit of the external terminal on the basis of the first display data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 20, 2013
    Publication date: November 21, 2013
    Applicant: Konica Minolta, Inc.
    Inventors: Tomonari YOSHIMURA, Yoshio Komaki, Minako Kobayashi, Hiroki Tajima, Yoshiaki Shibuta
  • Publication number: 20130258400
    Abstract: An image forming system comprises an image forming apparatus and an external terminal. The image forming apparatus has a receiving part for receiving operation input information on an operation input into an operation screen from the external terminal, a specifying part for specifying a first program to which an execution instruction is given through the operation screen on the basis of the operation input information, a determination part for determining a second program having the same function as that of the first program as an execution object program on the condition that the second program is installed in the external terminal, and a notification part for notifying the external terminal that the second program is determined as the execution object program. The external terminal executes a processing in accordance with the second program and displays a result of the processing executed in accordance with the second program.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 8, 2013
    Publication date: October 3, 2013
    Applicant: Konica Minolta Business Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Minako KOBAYASHI, Yoshio Komaki, Junichi Hase, Tomonari Yoshimura, Hiroki Tajima, Yoshiaki Shibuta
  • Patent number: 8438232
    Abstract: The present invention is intended to reduce operation load of a responsible person corresponding to external address for transmission of an e-mail to the external address. In order to accomplish this, an e-mail transmission device transmits an e-mail based on an operation made by a user, comprising: a storage part for storing therein a destination address registration information in which a destination address of the e-mail, an address type information in which either of internal address or external address is registered as type of the destination address, and an address responsible for external address registered if the address type registered in the address type information is external address are associated with each other; and a transmission part for transmitting the e-mail to the destination address designated by the user from a plurality of destination addresses included in the destination address registration information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2010
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2013
    Assignee: Konica Minolta Business Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Tomo Tsuboi, Tomoyuki Okamoto, Yasuji Takeuchi, Nobuo Kamei, Yoshiaki Shibuta
  • Publication number: 20130057883
    Abstract: A power-saving mode deactivation apparatus for performing communication via a communication network with specific processing apparatuses for particular processing is provided. The power-saving mode deactivation apparatus includes a storage portion for storing therein a deactivation method for deactivating a power-saving mode of each of the specific processing apparatuses; a detection portion for detecting that particular processing data for the particular processing is not delivered to, among the specific processing apparatuses, a destination specific processing apparatus of the particular processing data, and a deactivation portion for performing, when the detection portion detects that the particular processing data is not delivered to the destination specific processing apparatus, deactivation processing for deactivating a power-saving mode of the destination specific processing apparatus based on the deactivation method, stored in the storage portion, for the destination specific processing apparatus.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 27, 2012
    Publication date: March 7, 2013
    Applicant: KONICA MINOLTA BUSINESS TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
    Inventors: Atsushi OHSHIMA, Keisuke Teramoto, Masami Yamada, Yoshiaki Shibuta, Hiroaki Kubo