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: 9742815
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a determination unit configured to determine whether a first communication port used by a first communication protocol is available and whether a second communication port used by a second communication protocol is available; and a determination result display unit configured to display a determination result for the first communication port and a determination result for the second communication port individually on a display unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 3, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2017
    Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventor: Yoshinaga Kato
  • Publication number: 20170220309
    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: Application
    Filed: August 31, 2015
    Publication date: August 3, 2017
    Inventor: Yoshinaga KATO
  • Publication number: 20170214809
    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 6, 2017
    Publication date: July 27, 2017
    Inventors: Yoshinaga KATO, Takahiro ASAI
  • Publication number: 20170208179
    Abstract: Disclosed is a transmission terminal that is for executing communication with another transmission terminal at a destination side by communicating with a relay device for relaying image data, and communicating with a transmission management system for managing transmission terminals. The transmission terminal includes a transmitter for transmitting, to the transmission management system, a request for additional display data, as a destination name of the other transmission terminal or a predetermined message; a receiver for receiving the additional display data that is transmitted from the transmission management system; and a display control unit for attaching the additional display data to data of an image that is transmitted from the other transmission terminal through the relay device and that does not show a subject at the destination side, wherein a display unit displays the data of the image to which the additional display data is attached.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 20, 2015
    Publication date: July 20, 2017
    Inventor: Yoshinaga KATO
  • Publication number: 20170201718
    Abstract: A communication terminal receives display data for displaying certain data on a screen of a display device and image data of an optical-to-electrical-converted image from another communication terminal via a communication network, includes a storage part storing reception information indicating whether the display data has been received by the communication terminal and arrangement information indicating at least one of a size and a position of the image based on the image data, in a manner of associating with one another; a reception part receiving the display data and the image data; an extraction part extracting, based on the reception information, the corresponding arrangement information from the storage part; and a display control part displaying the image using the image data based on the arrangement information extracted by the extraction part.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 29, 2017
    Publication date: July 13, 2017
    Inventors: Yoshinaga KATO, Kenji TANAKA, Shizu KANAUCHI, Masaki NAKAGAWA, Alain VOLMAT, Takahiro ASAI
  • Patent number: 9699018
    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: Grant
    Filed: May 29, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2017
    Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Hideki Tamura, Yoshinaga Kato, Katsuyuki Kaji
  • Publication number: 20170177190
    Abstract: An electronic whiteboard to display visual information including handwritten data superimposed with a display image, includes a unit to authenticate a user; a unit to obtain user identification information for identifying the user in case where authentication of the user has succeeded; a unit to store the visual information associated with the user identification information; a unit to read the visual information associated with the user identification information; a unit to display the visual information; a unit to set a mail address of the electronic whiteboard as a transmission source, and to transmit the visual information to a specified destination by an e-mail; a unit to store the mail address of the user associated with the user identification information; and a unit to replace the transmission source by using the specified mail address of the user if the authentication of the user has succeeded.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 8, 2016
    Publication date: June 22, 2017
    Applicant: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Takeru INOUE, Yoshinaga KATO
  • Publication number: 20170171511
    Abstract: A transmission management apparatus manages transmission states of a plurality of transmission terminals including a first transmission terminal and a second transmission terminal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 27, 2017
    Publication date: June 15, 2017
    Inventors: Yoshinaga KATO, Taro Okuyama
  • Patent number: 9661162
    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: December 10, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2017
    Assignee: RICOH COMPANY, LTD.
    Inventors: Yoshinaga Kato, Takahiro Asai
  • Patent number: 9654730
    Abstract: A communication terminal receives display data for displaying certain data on a screen of a display device and image data of an optical-to-electrical-converted image from another communication terminal via a communication network, includes a storage part storing reception information indicating whether the display data has been received by the communication terminal and arrangement information indicating at least one of a size and a position of the image based on the image data, in a manner of associating with one another; a reception part receiving the display data and the image data; an extraction part extracting, based on the reception information, the corresponding arrangement information from the storage part; and a display control part displaying the image using the image data based on the arrangement information extracted by the extraction part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2011
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2017
    Assignee: RICOH COMPANY, LTD.
    Inventors: Yoshinaga Kato, Kenji Tanaka, Shizu Kanauchi, Masaki Nakagawa, Alain Volmat, Takahiro Asai
  • Publication number: 20170111405
    Abstract: A control system includes a session controller to establish a communications session between a first communications terminal and communications terminals differing from the first communications terminal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 29, 2016
    Publication date: April 20, 2017
    Inventor: Yoshinaga KATO
  • Patent number: 9621804
    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: Grant
    Filed: August 12, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2017
    Assignee: RICOH COMPANY, LTD.
    Inventors: Masahiro Ujiie, Masanori Ishigami, Tsuyoshi Shigemasa, Yoshinaga Kato
  • Patent number: 9621848
    Abstract: A transmission management apparatus manages transmission states of a plurality of transmission terminals including a first transmission terminal and a second transmission terminal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 11, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2017
    Assignee: RICOH COMPANY, LTD.
    Inventors: Yoshinaga Kato, Taro Okuyama
  • Patent number: 9615057
    Abstract: A transmission terminal that communicates contents data including sound data with a counterpart transmission terminal, detects a delay time indicating a delay in receiving the contents data from the counterpart transmission terminal, and interrupts transmission of the contents data other than the sound data to the counterpart transmission terminal when the delay time exceeds a predetermined value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 4, 2017
    Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Yoshinaga Kato, Takahiro Asai
  • Publication number: 20170090843
    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: September 20, 2016
    Publication date: March 30, 2017
    Inventors: Yoshinaga KATO, Tomoki Kanda, Shuhei Tsubone
  • Publication number: 20170085717
    Abstract: A control system is provided for controlling participation of another communication terminal in a session when the session has been established for transmitting information between communication terminals. The control system includes a participation control unit configured to reject participation of the other communication terminal in the session in the case where the session has been established based on a communication start request by one of the communication terminals specifying a first destination, and to permit the participation of the other communication terminal in the session in the case where the session has been established based on a communication start request by one of the communication terminals specifying a second destination different from the first destination.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 2, 2016
    Publication date: March 23, 2017
    Inventors: Megumi KAWAHARA, Yoshinaga Kato, Takashi Inaoka
  • Patent number: 9596431
    Abstract: A recording medium stores a program which, when executed by a computer, causes the computer to perform a process, the computer connected to a transmission terminal connected to a display device and connected to a second transmission terminal via a network, the process including: displaying an area of a program component on a screen of a second display device connected to the computer; receiving selection of one of display data of a whole area of the screen and display data of the area of the program component; acquiring the display data of the whole area or the area; receiving resolution information indicating a resolution of the display device from the transmission terminal; determining a resolution of the display data based on the resolution information and second resolution information indicating a second display device resolution; and transmitting the display data with the determined resolution to the transmission terminal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 14, 2017
    Assignee: RICOH COMPANY, LTD.
    Inventor: Yoshinaga Kato
  • Patent number: 9590974
    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: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2017
    Assignee: RICOH COMPANY, LTD.
    Inventor: Yoshinaga Kato
  • Patent number: 9565393
    Abstract: Disclosed is a communication terminal transmitting and receiving audio data and at least one of image data obtained by imaging a subject and display data of a shared screen between the communication terminal and one or more other communication terminals via a relay device. The communication terminal includes a detector configured to detect a predetermined event in which transmission of the image data is not required while imaging the subject is continuously executed, and a stopper configured to stop imaging the subject and stop transmitting the image data in response to the detection of the predetermined event.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 16, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2017
    Assignee: RICOH COMPANY, LTD.
    Inventors: Tatsuya Nagase, Yoshinaga Kato
  • Publication number: 20170017592
    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: September 27, 2016
    Publication date: January 19, 2017
    Inventor: Yoshinaga KATO