Patents by Inventor Yoshinaga Kato

Yoshinaga Kato 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: 9131104
    Abstract: A management device includes a status management part managing connection statuses of terminals; a group management part managing a group associated with the terminals, and which manages a group status of the group depending on the connection statuses of the terminals associated with the group, the group management part setting the group status so that the group status represents that the group is ready to connect; a transmission part transmitting to a first terminal which is not in the group the group status representing that the group is ready to connect; and responding to a request to connect to the group from the first terminal, an establishment part, establishing a session to connect the first terminal to a second terminal which is in the group, wherein the connection status of the second terminal represents that the second terminal is ready to connect to other terminals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 7, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 8, 2015
    Assignee: RICOH COMPANY, LTD.
    Inventors: Atsushi Nakafuji, Yoshinaga Kato
  • Patent number: 9128407
    Abstract: An image forming device includes an embedded information job control part configured to connect software components and control execution of an embedded information job that embeds information into image data or extracts embedded information from image data. The embedded information job control part includes a common part configured to perform a first process that is common to respective kinds of the embedded information job, and a specific part configured to perform a second process that is specific to a kind of the embedded information job. The specific part includes a combination of the software components connected in a predetermined order to perform the second process, the combination corresponding to the kind of the embedded information job.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 2009
    Date of Patent: September 8, 2015
    Assignee: RICOH COMPANY, LTD.
    Inventors: Jun Kawada, Akihiro Mihara, Yoshinaga Kato
  • Publication number: 20150237075
    Abstract: A transmission system for managing communication between a first terminal and a second terminal includes a reception unit configured to receive request information from the first terminal, the request information indicating a category of a request of a first user of the first terminal; and a transmission unit configured to transmit an output request to the second terminal. The second terminal outputs image data to be displayed on the first terminal according to the category of the request of the first user of the first terminal upon receiving the output request.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 19, 2015
    Publication date: August 20, 2015
    Inventors: Takeru INOUE, Yoshinaga KATO
  • Publication number: 20150229681
    Abstract: A transmission system that manages sessions established among a plurality of transmission terminals. The transmission system includes a terminal information request signal transmission part that transmits, from a first transmission terminal, a terminal information request signal to request information for identifying a third transmission terminal currently establishing a session with a second transmission terminal that is designated by a user as a destination; and a display part that carries out display in such a manner that the user can determine whether to allow the third transmission terminal to establish a session with the first transmission based on information received in response to the terminal information request signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 12, 2015
    Publication date: August 13, 2015
    Inventors: Shuhei TSUBONE, Yoshinaga KATO
  • Publication number: 20150222855
    Abstract: A transmission management system that manages image communications among a plurality of transmission terminals capable of performing at least voice communications. The transmission system includes a terminal management section that manages image communications state information indicating an image communications state of each of the transmission terminals for each terminal identification information for identifying each transmission terminal, a creation section that creates a specified communications control message causing the specified transmission terminal to control the image communications in accordance with the image communications state information, and a transmitting section that transmits the created communications control message to the transmission terminal caused to control the image communications.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 16, 2015
    Publication date: August 6, 2015
    Inventor: Yoshinaga KATO
  • Publication number: 20150199946
    Abstract: A transmission system includes an external input device which transmits display data to a transmission terminal that is connected to another transmission terminal to be able to communicate therewith. Once the resolution on a display device of the transmission terminal has been modified, the external input device receives first resolution information representing the resolution that has been modified from the transmission terminal, and thereafter converts the resolution of the display data based on the first resolution information and second resolution information representing the resolution on a display device of the external input device. The external input device then transmits the display data that has the converted resolution to the transmission terminal so that the transmission terminal transmits the display data to the other transmission terminal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 12, 2013
    Publication date: July 16, 2015
    Inventor: Yoshinaga Kato
  • Patent number: 9077851
    Abstract: A transmission terminal receives image data from one or more counterpart transmission terminals via a relay device, and displays one or more images based on the received image data on a display. When the transmission terminal receives message data from a management system in alternative to image data to be transmitted from one of the one or more counterpart transmission terminals, the transmission terminal displays a message on the display based on the received message data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 7, 2015
    Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Yoshinaga Kato, Takahiro Asai, Masayuki Ishigami
  • Patent number: 9035994
    Abstract: A transmission management system that manages image communications among a plurality of transmission terminals capable of performing at least voice communications. The transmission system includes a terminal management section that manages image communications state information indicating an image communications state of each of the transmission terminals for each terminal identification information for identifying each transmission terminal, a creation section that creates a specified communications control message causing the specified transmission terminal to control the image communications in accordance with the image communications state information, and a transmitting section that transmits the created communications control message to the transmission terminal caused to control the image communications.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 19, 2015
    Assignee: RICOH COMPANY, LIMITED
    Inventor: Yoshinaga Kato
  • Publication number: 20150092005
    Abstract: An information providing device is capable of communicating with an image forming device, a data managing device, and a transmission terminal. The information providing device includes a storage unit; a communication unit that transmits a forming instruction to instruct the image forming device to perform image forming, and receives, from the image forming device, storage location information indicating the data managing device that stores data obtained by image forming by the image forming device and indicating a storage location in the data managing device; and a storage location managing unit that generates, in the storage unit, management information in which identification information of the image data is associated with the storage location information. The communication unit receives the data saved in the storage location indicated by the storage location information from the data managing device and transmits the received data to the transmission terminal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 10, 2014
    Publication date: April 2, 2015
    Inventors: Yoshinaga KATO, Takahiro Asai
  • Publication number: 20150077511
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus is communicably connectable to a first transmission terminal, which is communicably connected with a second transmission terminal via a network. The information processing apparatus includes an aspect ratio change unit that transforms a shape of a display region in a screen which is displayed on a display unit so that an aspect ratio of the display region is changed to a predetermined value, the display unit being integrated with the information processing apparatus or being connected to the information processing apparatus; an acquisition unit that acquires display data displayed in the display region, an aspect ratio of the display region having been changed to the predetermined value by the aspect ratio change unit; and a data transmission unit that transmits the display data displayed in the display region acquired by the acquisition unit to the first transmission terminal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 12, 2014
    Publication date: March 19, 2015
    Inventors: Akihiro MIHARA, Yoshinaga KATO
  • Publication number: 20150058735
    Abstract: A relay device for relaying data transmitted and received between communication terminals includes: a receiving unit configured to receive a notice of changed layout information from a communication terminal that displays at least one of image data of a captured image and display data of a document in at least one area of a screen based on layout information, the image data and the display data being contained in the data transmitted and received between the communication terminals; a changing unit configured to change management information for managing transmission of the data to the communication terminal according to the notified layout information; and a control unit configured to control transmission of at least one of the display data and the image data to the communication terminal according to the changed management information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 24, 2013
    Publication date: February 26, 2015
    Inventors: Tatsuya Nagase, Yoshinaga Kato
  • Publication number: 20150049237
    Abstract: A display terminal, in which a supply of electric power from a battery can also be performed, includes an imaging unit that performs imaging to generate an image; a display unit that displays the image generated by the imaging unit; a detection unit that detects whether a direction of the imaging unit while imaging to generate the image to be generated by the imaging unit is being changed; and a power supply interruption unit that interrupts the supply of the electric power from the battery to the imaging unit when the detection unit detects that the direction of imaging to generate the image to be generated by the imaging unit is being changed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 12, 2014
    Publication date: February 19, 2015
    Inventors: Masahiro UJIIE, Masanori ISHIGAMI, Tsuyoshi SHIGEMASA, Yoshinaga KATO
  • Patent number: 8947711
    Abstract: An information providing device is capable of communicating with an image forming device, a data managing device, and a transmission terminal. The information providing device includes a storage unit; a communication unit that transmits a forming instruction to instruct the image forming device to perform image forming, and receives, from the image forming device, storage location information indicating the data managing device that stores data obtained by image forming by the image forming device and indicating a storage location in the data managing device; and a storage location managing unit that generates, in the storage unit, management information in which identification information of the image data is associated with the storage location information. The communication unit receives the data saved in the storage location indicated by the storage location information from the data managing device and transmits the received data to the transmission terminal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 19, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 3, 2015
    Assignee: Ricoh Company, Limited
    Inventors: Yoshinaga Kato, Takahiro Asai
  • Publication number: 20150007302
    Abstract: A communication apparatus includes a communication unit that connects with an external device in a one-to-one relationship, the external device storing certificate information required for connection with a network; an acquisition unit that acquires the certificate information from the external device connected with the communication unit; and a connection request unit that sends a request for connection with the network to a communication management device, the request including the certificate information acquired by the acquisition unit, so that the communication management device determines whether to permit the connection with the network in response to the request received from the communication apparatus.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 17, 2014
    Publication date: January 1, 2015
    Inventor: Yoshinaga KATO
  • Publication number: 20140368410
    Abstract: An information processing device includes a display control unit configured to display data in an area formed in a display unit connected to the information processing device, a display data acquiring unit configured to acquire the display data displayed in an operation reception area or an entire area, which is a target of receiving an operation by a user, an area forming unit configured to form a render reception area so as to be superposed on the operation reception area, a render receiving unit configured to receive rendering with respect to the render reception area, a render data acquiring unit configured to acquire render data rendered in the render reception area, a render data combining unit configured to combine the display data with the render data, and a data sending unit configured to send, to a terminal, the display data with which the render data has been combined.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 9, 2014
    Publication date: December 18, 2014
    Inventors: Takuya IMAI, Masanori ISHIGAMI, Yoshinaga Kato, Kenichiro Morita, Shoh Nagamine
  • Publication number: 20140365628
    Abstract: A communication terminal reads, from a removable memory, user-specific application information indicating one or more of the plurality of applications that are allowed for use by a specific user, and transmits a request for address information that includes application identification information of each one of one or more applications that are allowed for use by the specific user at the communication terminal to obtain address information associated with the application identification information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 29, 2014
    Publication date: December 11, 2014
    Inventors: Hideki TAMURA, Yoshinaga KATO, Katsuyuki KAJI
  • Publication number: 20140313283
    Abstract: Disclosed is an electronic device that is connected to a display device and outputs image data to the display device, the electronic device including a resolution retrieval unit that retrieves a recommended resolution; a resolution determination unit that determines whether the recommended resolution is greater than or equal to a priority resolution; a resolution selecting unit that selects a first resolution; and a resolution changing unit that changes a resolution of the display device to be the first resolution. When the resolution determination unit determines that the retrieved recommended resolution is greater than or equal to the priority resolution, the resolution selecting unit selects the priority resolution as the first resolution. When the resolution determination unit determines that the retrieved recommended resolution is less than the priority resolution, the resolution selecting unit selects a standard resolution as the first resolution.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 17, 2012
    Publication date: October 23, 2014
    Inventor: Yoshinaga Kato
  • Publication number: 20140292816
    Abstract: A computer program product includes a non-transitory computer-usable medium having computer-readable program codes embodied in the medium. The program codes when executed cause a computer to execute: detecting a connection status of an externally connected second display different from a built-in first display; writing status information indicating the detected connection status in a storage, changing over a display destination between the first display and the second display based on the detected connection status, and controlling a display screen according to screen specifications of the first display or the second display, which corresponds to the display destination after changeover; and reading the connection status written in the storage and scaling a display image at a magnification based on the read connection status.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 18, 2014
    Publication date: October 2, 2014
    Inventors: Tsuyoshi Shigemasa, Masanori Ishigami, Mikiko Abe, Masahiro Ujiie, Taro Okuyama, Yoshinaga Kato
  • Publication number: 20140293000
    Abstract: An image processing device includes an image control unit that controls an operation of imaging a picture image; a detection control unit that controls an operation of detecting whether a direction of imaging the picture image is changed or not; and a display control unit that controls an operation of displaying a display image which is generated based on the imaged picture image, and displays an image for setting when the detection control unit detects that the direction of imaging is changed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 21, 2014
    Publication date: October 2, 2014
    Inventors: Masahiro UJIIE, Tsuyoshi Shigemasa, Mikiko Abe, Taro Okuyama, Yoshinaga Kato, Takahiro Hiramatsu
  • Publication number: 20140298311
    Abstract: A terminal is connected to a terminal management device and an update management device. The terminal includes: a determination request unit configured to request the terminal management device to determine whether or not an update of a program is executable; an acquisition unit configured to, when the determination request unit receives information indicating that the terminal is able to execute an update of a program, acquire an update program used for executing an update of the program from the update management device; and an updating unit configured to execute the update program received from the update management device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 26, 2014
    Publication date: October 2, 2014
    Inventors: Mikiko ABE, Tsuyoshi Shigemasa, Masahiro UJIIE, Taro Okuyama, Yoshinaga Kato