Patents by Inventor Yusaku Kurihara
Yusaku Kurihara 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).
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Patent number: 11932679Abstract: The purpose of the present invention is to provide an agent for restoring a visual function or an agent for preventing the deterioration in a visual function, which has an excellent visual function restoring ability. The agent for regenerating a visual function or the agent for preventing the deterioration in a visual function according to the present invention contains, as an active ingredient, a chimeric protein having both an amino acid sequence for a microorganism-origin ion-transporting receptor rhodopsin and an amino acid sequence for an animal-origin G-protein-coupled receptor rhodopsin. The chimeric protein is preferably one in which an amino acid sequence for a cytoplasm-side second loop and/or a cytoplasm-side third loop in the amino acid sequence for the microorganism-origin ion-transporting receptor rhodopsin is substituted by an amino acid sequence for a cytoplasm-side second loop and/or a cytoplasm-side third loop in the G-protein-coupled receptor rhodopsin.Type: GrantFiled: September 1, 2017Date of Patent: March 19, 2024Assignees: Keio University, Nagoya Institute of TechnologyInventors: Toshihide Kurihara, Yusaku Katada, Hiromitsu Kunimi, Kazuo Tsubota, Hideki Kandori
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Patent number: 10944883Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes an executing unit configured to, if there is a shortage of storage capacity for image information necessary to perform image formation, execute the image formation at a reduced image quality below a required image quality, and an informing unit configured to inform that image formation has been executed at a reduced image quality, and inform an effective measure to enable image formation that does not involve a reduction in image quality, the effective measure including at least one of making a setting change to storage capacity allocation and increasing storage capacity.Type: GrantFiled: June 11, 2018Date of Patent: March 9, 2021Assignee: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.Inventors: Satoshi Watanabe, Yuta Yamaguchi, Tomoaki Hirano, Yusaku Kurihara, Masao Yamada, Takahiko Suzuki
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Publication number: 20190325170Abstract: A control device includes a prohibition unit that prohibits use of an electronic apparatus in a case where a sum of a cumulative amount of use of the electronic apparatus for a predetermined period of time and a new amount of use which is newly instructed by an user exceeds a permitted amount in the period of time which is permitted for the user, and a permission unit that permits use of the electronic apparatus by an amount based on an unused amount which is a difference between the permitted amount and the cumulative amount of use in an unreaching period when the unreaching period is present before the period of time in an accounting period including the period of time, in a case where the use of the electronic apparatus is prohibited by the prohibition unit.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 3, 2019Publication date: October 24, 2019Applicant: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.Inventors: Satoshi WATANABE, Yusaku KURIHARA, Tsubasa KITAI, Noriaki TANAKA
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Patent number: 10372949Abstract: A control device includes a prohibition unit that prohibits use of an electronic apparatus in a case where a sum of a cumulative amount of use of the electronic apparatus for a predetermined period of time and a new amount of use which is newly instructed by an user exceeds a permitted amount in the period of time which is permitted for the user, and a permission unit that permits use of the electronic apparatus by an amount based on an unused amount which is a difference between the permitted amount and the cumulative amount of use in an unreaching period when the unreaching period is present before the period of time in an accounting period including the period of time, in a case where the use of the electronic apparatus is prohibited by the prohibition unit.Type: GrantFiled: August 22, 2016Date of Patent: August 6, 2019Assignee: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.Inventors: Satoshi Watanabe, Yusaku Kurihara, Tsubasa Kitai, Noriaki Tanaka
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Publication number: 20180367696Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes an executing unit configured to, if there is a shortage of storage capacity for image information necessary to perform image formation, execute the image formation at a reduced image quality below a required image quality, and an informing unit configured to inform that image formation has been executed at a reduced image quality, and inform an effective measure to enable image formation that does not involve a reduction in image quality, the effective measure including at least one of making a setting change to storage capacity allocation and increasing storage capacity.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 11, 2018Publication date: December 20, 2018Applicant: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.Inventors: Satoshi WATANABE, Yuta YAMAGUCHI, Tomoaki HIRANO, Yusaku KURIHARA, Masao YAMADA, Takahiko SUZUKI
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Patent number: 10122881Abstract: A control device includes: a prohibition unit that prohibits a user from using an electronic apparatus in a case where a sum of a cumulative usage amount of the electronic apparatus by the user for a predetermined period and a new usage amount which is newly instructed by the user exceeds a permitted amount for the user in the period; a subtraction unit that, in a case where the user instructs the electronic apparatus to be continuously used after the use of the electronic apparatus is prohibited by the prohibition unit, subtracts from permitted amounts for the user for a plurality of periods later than the period; and a permission unit that permits the user to use the electronic apparatus after the subtraction is performed by the subtraction unit.Type: GrantFiled: September 9, 2016Date of Patent: November 6, 2018Assignee: Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd.Inventors: Yusaku Kurihara, Tsubasa Kitai, Satoshi Watanabe, Noriaki Tanaka
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Publication number: 20180285702Abstract: A language management control apparatus includes a first controller that issues an execute instruction to perform an image forming process by referencing received image information and by using a first language selected from among plural pre-stored languages, a memory that stores the received image information, and a second controller that, if the selected first language is determined to be inadequate after a start of an execution of the image forming process, performs an operation to issue a suspend instruction to suspend the image forming process, an operation to select a second language from plural languages by reading the image information from the memory, and an operation to issue the execute instruction to perform the image forming process.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 2, 2017Publication date: October 4, 2018Applicant: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.Inventors: Tomoaki HIRANO, Yusaku KURIHARA, Satoshi WATANABE, Masao YAMADA, Yuta YAMAGUCHI, Takahiko SUZUKI
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Patent number: 9946499Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a transmitter and an update unit. The transmitter refers to a memory in response to an availability determination request with designation of a requested usage amount of a function. The memory stores a usable amount for each of second periods which are set by dividing a first period into plural periods. An upper limit value of a usage amount of the function which it is not allowed to exceed being set to the first period. The usable amount for each of the second periods is set as an initial value by allocating the upper limit value to the second periods. The transmitter transmits executability information to a request source of the availability determination request when the function in the requested usage amount is executable. The update unit updates the usable amounts stored in the memory based on the requested usage amount.Type: GrantFiled: April 5, 2017Date of Patent: April 17, 2018Assignee: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.Inventors: Noriaki Tanaka, Yusaku Kurihara, Tsubasa Kitai, Satoshi Watanabe
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Publication number: 20180088880Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a transmitter and an update unit. The transmitter refers to a memory in response to an availability determination request with designation of a requested usage amount of a function. The memory stores a usable amount for each of second periods which are set by dividing a first period into plural periods. An upper limit value of a usage amount of the function which it is not allowed to exceed being set to the first period. The usable amount for each of the second periods is set as an initial value by allocating the upper limit value to the second periods. The transmitter transmits executability information to a request source of the availability determination request when the function in the requested usage amount is executable. The update unit updates the usable amounts stored in the memory based on the requested usage amount.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 5, 2017Publication date: March 29, 2018Applicant: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.Inventors: Noriaki TANAKA, Yusaku KURIHARA, Tsubasa KITAI, Satoshi WATANABE
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Patent number: 9906682Abstract: A control device includes a prohibition unit that prohibits a user from using an electronic apparatus in a case where a sum of a cumulative used amount of the electronic apparatus by the user for a predetermined time period and a new used amount which is newly instructed by the user exceeds a permitted amount for the predetermined time period; an acquiring unit that acquires charging destination information for the user in a case where the prohibition unit prohibits the user from using the electronic apparatus; an output unit that outputs charging information for excess over the permitted amount of the user, using the charging destination information in a case where the charging destination information is acquired by the acquiring unit; and a permission unit that permits the user to use the electronic apparatus after the charging information is output.Type: GrantFiled: September 1, 2016Date of Patent: February 27, 2018Assignee: Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd.Inventors: Tsubasa Kitai, Noriaki Tanaka, Satoshi Watanabe, Yusaku Kurihara
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Publication number: 20170289394Abstract: A control device includes a prohibition unit that prohibits a user from using an electronic apparatus in a case where a sum of a cumulative used amount of the electronic apparatus by the user for a predetermined time period and a new used amount which is newly instructed by the user exceeds a permitted amount for the predetermined time period; an acquiring unit that acquires charging destination information for the user in a case where the prohibition unit prohibits the user from using the electronic apparatus; an output unit that outputs charging information for excess over the permitted amount of the user, using the charging destination information in a case where the charging destination information is acquired by the acquiring unit; and a permission unit that permits the user to use the electronic apparatus after the charging information is output.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 1, 2016Publication date: October 5, 2017Inventors: Tsubasa Kitai, Noriaki Tanaka, Satoshi Watanabe, Yusaku Kurihara
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Publication number: 20170289379Abstract: A control device includes: a prohibition unit that prohibits a user from using an electronic apparatus in a case where a sum of a cumulative usage amount of the electronic apparatus by the user for a predetermined period and a new usage amount which is newly instructed by the user exceeds a permitted amount for the user in the period; a subtraction unit that, in a case where the user instructs the electronic apparatus to be continuously used after the use of the electronic apparatus is prohibited by the prohibition unit, subtracts from permitted amounts for the user for a plurality of periods later than the period; and a permission unit that permits the user to use the electronic apparatus after the subtraction is performed by the subtraction unit.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 9, 2016Publication date: October 5, 2017Inventors: Yusaku Kurihara, Tsubasa Kitai, Satoshi Watanabe, Noriaki Tanaka
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Publication number: 20170277918Abstract: A control device includes a prohibition unit that prohibits use of an electronic apparatus in a case where a sum of a cumulative amount of use of the electronic apparatus for a predetermined period of time and a new amount of use which is newly instructed by an user exceeds a permitted amount in the period of time which is permitted for the user, and a permission unit that permits use of the electronic apparatus by an amount based on an unused amount which is a difference between the permitted amount and the cumulative amount of use in an unreaching period when the unreaching period is present before the period of time in an accounting period including the period of time, in a case where the use of the electronic apparatus is prohibited by the prohibition unit.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 22, 2016Publication date: September 28, 2017Applicant: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.Inventors: Satoshi WATANABE, Yusaku KURIHARA, Tsubasa KITAI, Noriaki TANAKA
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Patent number: 9542135Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a receiving unit, an image data generating unit, a memory, and a saving unit. The receiving unit receives a print instruction. The image data generating unit generates output image data in response to the print instruction received by the receiving unit. The memory stores specification information for specifying a print instruction for which operation history information is to be obtained. The saving unit saves, in a case where specification information on the print instruction received by the receiving unit matches the specification information stored in the memory, operation history information indicating that image formation processing has been performed by using the output image data in response to the print instruction.Type: GrantFiled: September 11, 2015Date of Patent: January 10, 2017Assignee: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.Inventor: Yusaku Kurihara
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Publication number: 20160274838Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a receiving unit, an image data generating unit, a memory, and a saving unit. The receiving unit receives a print instruction. The image data generating unit generates output image data in response to the print instruction received by the receiving unit. The memory stores specification information for specifying a print instruction for which operation history information is to be obtained. The saving unit saves, in a case where specification information on the print instruction received by the receiving unit matches the specification information stored in the memory, operation history information indicating that image formation processing has been performed by using the output image data in response to the print instruction.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 11, 2015Publication date: September 22, 2016Applicant: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.Inventor: Yusaku KURIHARA
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Patent number: 9239973Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes: an image forming section that receives print data and forms an image on a sheet; a stacking section that stacks the sheet on which the image is formed by the image forming section; and a notification section that issues notification prompting the user to change orientation of the sheet stacked on the stacking section in the case where an output mode, by which the sheet with the image formed thereon by the image forming section is outputted onto the stacking section, is changed between the sheet and a next sheet, wherein the notification section determines a change of the output mode based on any one of a sheet output orientation that is an orientation in outputting the sheet, on which the image is formed, onto the stacking section and a printing orientation that is an orientation in forming the image on the sheet.Type: GrantFiled: February 4, 2015Date of Patent: January 19, 2016Assignee: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.Inventor: Yusaku Kurihara
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Patent number: 6867872Abstract: The present invention provides an image processing apparatus and an image processing method that enable efficient use of code information storage areas and can rapidly process code information to render characters. A character data management unit stores reference information for referencing the shape data of a character indicated by inputted character data in an intermediate code buffer in association with an intermediate code. Thereby, a data amount of the intermediate code buffer is reduced. At the same time, reference information for referencing the intermediate code is stored in a font cache buffer in association with the character shape data. By dint of the mutual reference, when character shape data is to be saved from, e.g.Type: GrantFiled: August 30, 2000Date of Patent: March 15, 2005Assignee: Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd.Inventors: Yusaku Kurihara, Makoto Sano, Shigeru Tsukimura