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: 10592189
    Abstract: A non-transitory computer-readable recording medium stores an information processing program that causes a computer that constitutes an information processing apparatus including a built-in first display device, to execute a process. The process includes detecting, from outside the information processing apparatus, a state where a second display device is connected, the second display device being different from the first display device; setting both the first display device and the second display device as display destinations, when switching the display destination from the first display device to the second display device; switching the display destination to the second display device after setting both the first display device and the second display device as display destinations; and controlling a display image according to a screen specification of the second display device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 17, 2020
    Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventor: Yoshinaga Kato
  • Publication number: 20200050567
    Abstract: A transmission terminal includes at least one processor configured to transmit a terminal information request to request the number of transmission terminals under transmission to a transmission management apparatus connected via a network; and display image data received from one or more of the transmission terminals under transmission on a display device, and display the number of the transmission terminals under transmission received from the transmission management apparatus in response to the terminal information request on the display device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 16, 2019
    Publication date: February 13, 2020
    Inventor: Yoshinaga KATO
  • Publication number: 20200043188
    Abstract: A communication terminal communicably connected with a server, including circuitry to: obtain first image data of at least a part of a first object detected at a first point of time; transmit the first image data to the server to request verification of the first image data; obtain second image data of at least a part of a second object detected at a second point of time, the second point of time being a time later than the first point of time; calculate a distance between a first position indicating a position of the first object at the first point of time, and a second position indicating a position of the second object at the second point of time; and control not to transmit the second image data based on a determination indicating that the calculated distance is equal to or less than a threshold
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 30, 2019
    Publication date: February 6, 2020
    Inventor: Yoshinaga KATO
  • Publication number: 20200045176
    Abstract: While using a communication system in which groups of destinations on a network are managed, and any one of the groups can be specified as a destination, if a group needs to be changed, added, or deleted, updating the system on the network is required, which increases load of maintenance. To address such a problem, an operation input receiving unit of a terminal receives selection of a group including destination information that represents destination candidates of communication. A destination management unit of the terminal determines a destination among the destination candidates represented by the destination information included in the selected group. A sending and receiving unit of the terminal makes a request for starting communication with the determined destination, to a management system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 16, 2016
    Publication date: February 6, 2020
    Inventors: Atsuhiro FUJII, Takeshi FUJITA, Yoshinaga KATO, Kiyoshi KASATANI
  • Patent number: 10511700
    Abstract: A communication terminal including a processor to output a first display image generated by a first application for communication preferentially over a second display image generated by a second application for communication. The processor causes the first application to output state information indicating a state corresponding to an event generated by the second application.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 17, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2019
    Assignee: RICOH COMPANY, LTD.
    Inventors: Atsuhiro Fujii, Yoshinaga Kato
  • Publication number: 20190377537
    Abstract: A shared terminal, includes circuitry to control a display to display an image to a plurality of users, the plurality of users sharing a use of the shared terminal; and a network interface to communicate with a terminal management server and a destination management server through a network. The circuitry obtains, from a first privately-owned terminal owned by a first user, first terminal identification information for identifying the first privately-owned terminal. Under control of the circuitry, the network interface transmits the first terminal identification information to a terminal management server; receives first user identification information from a terminal management server; transmits the first user identification information to the destination management server; receives a first email address of the first user from the destination management server; and transmits an email whose sender email address is the first email address.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 22, 2019
    Publication date: December 12, 2019
    Applicant: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Yoshinaga KATO, Takeru INOUE
  • Patent number: 10503676
    Abstract: A transmission terminal includes at least one processor configured to transmit a terminal information request to request the number of transmission terminals under transmission to a transmission management apparatus connected via a network; and display image data received from one or more of the transmission terminals under transmission on a display device, and display the number of the transmission terminals under transmission received from the transmission management apparatus in response to the terminal information request on the display device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2019
    Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventor: Yoshinaga Kato
  • Patent number: 10489049
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus for performing image processing on a superimposed image in which a plurality of images are superimposed, the image processing apparatus including processing circuitry configured to generate the superimposed image by superimposing at least a stroke image and a background image; determine whether a storage destination, which is for storing image data indicating the superimposed image, is an external device coupled to the image processing apparatus; and compress background image data indicating the background image among the image data, and to refrain from compressing stroke image data indicating the stroke image among the image data, in response to the storage destination being determined to be the external device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 1, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2019
    Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventor: Yoshinaga Kato
  • Patent number: 10452338
    Abstract: A shared terminal, includes circuitry to control a display to display an image to a plurality of users, the plurality of users sharing a use of the shared terminal; and a network interface to communicate with a terminal management server and a destination management server through a network. The circuitry obtains, from a first privately-owned terminal owned by a first user, first terminal identification information for identifying the first privately-owned terminal. Under control of the circuitry, the network interface transmits the first terminal identification information to a terminal management server; receives first user identification information from a terminal management server; transmits the first user identification information to the destination management server; receives a first email address of the first user from the destination management server; and transmits an email whose sender email address is the first email address.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 9, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2019
    Assignee: RICOH COMPANY, LTD.
    Inventors: Yoshinaga Kato, Takeru Inoue
  • Publication number: 20190306175
    Abstract: A communication terminal communicably connected with a server, including circuitry to: detect one or more objects in any one of one or more images that are sequentially captured with an imaging unit; count a number of object detections, every time a predetermined number of objects are detected in the image; and transmit, to the server, one or more items of image data each including each one of the detected one or more objects, based on a determination that the counted number of object detections reaches or exceeds a predetermined value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 29, 2019
    Publication date: October 3, 2019
    Inventors: Yoshinaga KATO, Yoshiyuki Toda, Takahiro Asai
  • Publication number: 20190306334
    Abstract: In a communication system, a data processing terminal transmits a request for obtaining processing information for a specific service to one of an image acquisition terminal and a data processing server; receives a response including processing information from the one of the image acquisition terminal and the data processing server, the processing information indicating processing to be executed by at least one of the image acquisition terminal and the data processing server in providing the specific service; and transmits the processing information to other one of the image acquisition terminal and the data processing server, to cause the other one of the image acquisition terminal and the data processing server to configure settings based on the processing information and execute processing on the captured image data according to the settings.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 27, 2019
    Publication date: October 3, 2019
    Inventors: Takamichi Katoh, Yoshinaga Kato, Keiichi Kawaguchi
  • Patent number: 10416939
    Abstract: A shared terminal includes circuitry. The circuitry controls a display to display an image to a plurality of users, and obtains, from a first terminal of a first user, first terminal identification information. The circuitry transmits the first terminal identification information and an authentication request, to a terminal management server, and receives a first user name of the first user from the terminal management server. The circuitry controls the display to display a print configuration screen, and receives setting of print parameters for an image being displayed on the display via the print configuration screen, and receives other user name of the plurality of users other than the first user. The circuitry transmits data generated based on the image displayed on the display, the first user name, the other user name, and the print parameters that are set on the print configuration screen, to a print server.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2019
    Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventor: Yoshinaga Kato
  • Patent number: 10419618
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus connected via a communication network, the information processing apparatus including a setter configured to set a communication path by adding a communication port between the information processing apparatus and another information processing apparatus to transmit first content data of a first content; and a transmitter configured to transmit, to the other information processing apparatus, second content data of a second content created with respect to the first content according to a communication system using an electronic blackboard that is a second information processing system, from the communication port added to set the communication path between the information processing apparatus and the other information processing apparatus to transmit the first content data of the first content according to an electronic conference system that is a first information processing system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2019
    Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Yoshinaga Kato, Kiyoshi Kasatani, Keisuke Tsukada
  • Publication number: 20190253570
    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: April 24, 2019
    Publication date: August 15, 2019
    Inventors: Yoshinaga KATO, Takahiro ASAI
  • Patent number: 10356361
    Abstract: A communication terminal includes a receiver and circuitry. The receiver receives first content data from a counterpart communication terminal with a first communication; and receives second content data from the counterpart communication terminal with a second communication. The circuitry controls a display to display the first image generated based on the first content data, the second image generated based on the second content data, one of the first image and the second image being superimposed on the other one of the first image and the second image, a first instruction image for accepting a first instruction to display one of the first image and the second image, and a second instruction image for accepting a second instruction to end the first communication and the second communication with the counterpart communication terminal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2019
    Assignee: RICOH COMPANY, LTD.
    Inventors: Yoshinaga Kato, Ayako Watanabe
  • Patent number: 10326895
    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: April 6, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 18, 2019
    Assignee: RICOH COMPANY, LTD.
    Inventors: Yoshinaga Kato, Takahiro Asai
  • Patent number: 10310799
    Abstract: A control for causing an information processing device connected to an apparatus to perform a method includes: acquiring from the apparatus a display setting representing a setting of display for one or more user interface components displayed by the apparatus; selecting, in response to the acquired display setting, one of display settings representing a setting of display for one or more user interface components displayed on a screen of the information processing device; and displaying the one or more user interface components on the screen of the information processing device in accordance with the selected display setting.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 1, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2019
    Assignee: RICOH COMPANY, LTD.
    Inventor: Yoshinaga Kato
  • Patent number: 10298881
    Abstract: A communication terminal receives, from a mobile terminal, first terminal identification information for identifying a first communication terminal that is located remotely from the communication terminal, the mobile terminal being a mobile terminal that has obtained the first terminal identification information from the first communication terminal, determines the first communication terminal identified with the first terminal identification information as a communication destination, and starts communicating with the first communication terminal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 13, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2019
    Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventor: Yoshinaga Kato
  • Publication number: 20190146745
    Abstract: A shared terminal includes: circuitry to cause a display to display an image to a plurality of users, the plurality of users simultaneously sharing use of the shared terminal; and a network interface to communicate with a destination management server through a network, the destination management server being different from the shared terminal and storing, in a memory, for each of the plurality of users, user identification information of the user in association with an email address of the user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 10, 2019
    Publication date: May 16, 2019
    Applicant: RICOH COMPANY, LTD.
    Inventor: Yoshinaga KATO
  • Publication number: 20190107988
    Abstract: A display control apparatus capable of controlling display of images on a first display, obtains display area information indicating a size of a display area of the first display for displaying a second image generated at an external apparatus, transmits to the external apparatus resolution information indicating a resolution of image data that matches the size of the display area of the first display, receives from the external apparatus second image data having the resolution that matches the size of the display area of the first display, the second image data being generated at the external apparatus based on the second image, and controls the first display to display the second image in the display area based on the second image data received from the external apparatus.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 5, 2018
    Publication date: April 11, 2019
    Inventors: Yoshinaga KATO, Tomoki KANDA, Shuhei TSUBONE