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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Patent No.:

US 11818492 B1

PDFFull Text
Date of Patent:
Nov. 14, 2023

Filed:

Sep. 21, 2021

Communication management apparatus, image communication system, communication management method, and recording medium

Applicants:

Hidekuni Annaka, Saitama, JP;

Kenichiro Morita, Tokyo, JP;

Kyohsuke Kaminushi, Kanagawa, JP;

Hiroyuki Kanda, Kanagawa, JP;

Tomonori Aikawa, Kanagawa, JP;

Yuya Akimoto, Tokyo, JP;

Inventors:

Hidekuni Annaka, Saitama, JP;

Kenichiro Morita, Tokyo, JP;

Kyohsuke Kaminushi, Kanagawa, JP;

Hiroyuki Kanda, Kanagawa, JP;

Tomonori Aikawa, Kanagawa, JP;

Yuya Akimoto, Tokyo, JP;

Assignee:

RICOH COMPANY, LTD., Tokyo, JP;

Attorney:

XSENSUS LLP

Primary Examiner:

Daniel M Pasiewicz

Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 23/90 (2023.01); H04N 23/63 (2023.01); H04N 23/661 (2023.01); H04N 23/698 (2023.01); H04N 5/268 (2006.01); H04N 5/262 (2006.01); H04N 23/80 (2023.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 5/268 (2013.01); H04N 5/2624 (2013.01); H04N 23/635 (2023.01); H04N 23/661 (2023.01); H04N 23/698 (2023.01); H04N 23/80 (2023.01); H04N 23/90 (2023.01);
Abstract

A communication management apparatus for communicating with a communication terminal, including circuitry that receives from the communication terminal pieces of designated-position information transmitted, each indicating a corresponding one of a plurality of designated positions in an area where the plurality of image capturing devices are provided, and transmits to the communication terminal identification information of a shareable image capturing device and pieces of predetermined-area information of the shareable image capturing device, the shareable image capturing device being an image capturing device for which distances from any two designated positions among the plurality of designated positions indicated by the pieces of designated-position information are shortest and which is capable of sharing images of the two designated positions, each of the pieces of predetermined-area information of the shareable image capturing device indicating a predetermined area in which a corresponding one of the two designated positions is viewed at the front.

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