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Utility
Storage Medium Storing Image Processing Program, and Image Processor
27 May 20
A non-transitory recording medium storing a computer readable image processing program that causes a computer to: obtain a captured image; detect, from the obtained image, a person area representing a person and an object area representing a predetermined object; detect positions of articulation points of the person from the detected person area; and estimate an action of the person based on the detected positions of the articulation points and the detected object area.
Tomoya Okazaki
Filed: 30 Oct 19
Utility
Measurement Device and Computer Readable Storage Medium
27 May 20
A measurement device including a hardware processor that: extracts a frame image at a time of deep inspiration from a plurality of frame images of a dynamic image obtained by performing radiation imaging of a dynamic state of a chest of a subject; and performs cardiothoracic ratio measurement to the extracted frame image at the time of deep inspiration.
Kenji NAGAO
Filed: 21 Nov 19
Utility
Ultrasound Diagnostic Apparatus and Ultrasound Image Generating Method
27 May 20
An ultrasound diagnostic apparatus of the present invention includes: a transmitter that generates and outputs a plurality of drive signals to a transducer of an ultrasound probe, the drive signals causing the transducer to transmit a plurality of transmission ultrasound waves that have different waveforms in a temporally shifted manner, the drive signals being compensated for asymmetry of the transmission sound pressure waveforms of the plurality of transmission ultrasound waves transmitted from the transducer; and a hardware processor configured to extract a harmonic component according to a plurality of reception signals, and generating an ultrasound image based on the extracted harmonic component.
Tetsuya TANIGUCHI
Filed: 29 Oct 19
Utility
Image Processing Apparatus and Computer Readable Storage Medium
27 May 20
An image processing apparatus includes a hardware processor that: calculates a representative signal value in a region where no signal value variations attributable to dynamic states of an object are present, in each of a plurality of frame images acquired by consecutively applying radiation onto the object a plurality of times, and extracts high-frequency components of changes over time in the calculated representative signal values; and corrects signal value variations attributable to a fact that an irradiation amount varies each time the radiation is applied, by subtracting the extracted high-frequency components from the plurality of frame images, respectively, or dividing the plurality of frame images by the extracted high-frequency components, respectively.
Tatsuya TAKAGI, Agus SUHARNO, Amai SHIMIZU
Filed: 21 Nov 19
Utility
Inkjet Recording Apparatus and Program Thereof
27 May 20
An inkjet recording apparatus ejects an ink droplet from a recording head to record an image on a recording medium, and includes: a heat source that heats the recording head; a temperature sensor that detects a temperature of the recording head; a carriage to which the recording head is attached; and a hardware processor that makes determination on whether there is a mechanical defect in attaching the recording head to the carriage on the basis of transition of the temperature detected by the temperature sensor at a time when the heat source heats the recording head.
KENGO CHIHARA
Filed: 24 Nov 19
Utility
Inkjet recording method and set of substrate and ink
25 May 20
An inkjet recording method includes: applying an active ray curable inkjet ink onto a coating layer disposed on a substrate by an inkjet method to form an ink layer, and subsequently irradiating the ink layer with an active ray to cure the ink layer, wherein the substrate has an outermost layer formed by at least one selected from polyethylene terephthalate, nylon, and aluminum, the coating layer is disposed on the outermost layer of the substrate and satisfies a condition that a chlorine/carbon ratio (Cl/C) by surface element analysis using electron spectroscopy for chemical analysis (ESCA) is 0.025≤(Cl/C)≤0.43, and the active ray curable inkjet ink contains at least a photopolymerizable compound, a photopolymerization initiator, a pigment, and a gelling agent.
Go Yamaguchi
Filed: 16 Apr 19
Utility
Ink jet recording apparatus
25 May 20
An ink jet recording apparatus contains a conveyer which conveys a recording medium, the conveyer having conveyance members on which the recording medium is mounted; a recorder which jets ink onto the recording medium being conveyed; and a fixer which fixes the ink landed on the recording medium.
Takashi Muramatsu, Mitsuo Kaburagi, Masashi Ikeda
Filed: 10 May 17
Utility
Method for manufacturing lens array optical system and lens array optical system
25 May 20
Plurality of glass droplets are simultaneously dropped toward center of a regular polygon of each unit on a first transfer surface of a first forming die where a plurality of the units is regularly arranged along the same plane, taking, as one unit, three or more first optical transfer surfaces for forming a lens portion placed in such a manner as to overlap vertices of the regular polygon respectively.
Takashi Sannokyou
Filed: 22 Jan 15
Utility
Colorimetric sensor device and image formation apparatus
25 May 20
A housing (20) has a passage port (3) that serves as both the outlet for the illumination light (IL) to go out of the housing (20) toward a sample surface (S) and the inlet for the reflection light (RL) reflected on the sample surface (S) to enter the housing (20).
Takuma Morikawa, Masafumi Hashimoto
Filed: 19 Nov 15
Utility
Scintillator panel
25 May 20
A scintillator panel includes a laminated scintillator having a structure obtained by repeatedly disposing a scintillator layer and a non-scintillator layer in a direction substantially parallel to an incident direction of a radiation, wherein the scintillator layer contains at least a phosphor, a binder resin, and voids, and the non-scintillator layer is transparent, and an average refractive index n1 of the binder resin and the voids of the scintillator layer and a refractive index n2 of the non-scintillator layer satisfy a relationship of formula (A) 0.9≤(n2/n1).
Kiyoshi Hagiwara, Hiromichi Shindou
Filed: 13 Jan 19
Utility
Image forming apparatus
25 May 20
An image forming apparatus includes: a fixer including fixing rotation body and pressing rotation body with a fixing nip therebetween, and heats and presses a fed sheet through the fixing nip to fix a toner image on the sheet to the sheet; and a hardware processor making a velocity difference between respective surface velocities of the fixing rotation body and the sheet passing through the fixing nip during a high-gloss mode operation to adjust a gloss of the toner image on the sheet.
Yasuo Shirodai, Makoto Fujii, Masahiro Onodera
Filed: 25 Jul 19
Utility
Gloss reduction in image post-processing method, image post-processing apparatus, and image forming apparatus
25 May 20
There is disclosed an image post-processing method for adjusting glossiness of a fixed toner image.
Haruo Horiguchi, Seijiro Takahashi, Toyoko Shibata
Filed: 8 Nov 18
Utility
Image forming apparatus
25 May 20
An image forming apparatus includes the following.
Katsuyuki Taima
Filed: 6 Nov 18
Utility
Optical connector
25 May 20
An optical connector for connecting single mode optical fibers includes a ferrule that connects to and holds an optical fiber, and a resin optical element coupled to the ferrule and that includes a lens positioned relative to an end of the optical fiber held in the ferrule, and the lens is provided with an antireflection structure.
Kazuhiro Wada, Yasushi Mizumachi
Filed: 13 May 18
Utility
Electrophotographic photoreceptor, and electrophotographic image forming method and electrophotographic image forming apparatus using the same
25 May 20
An electrophotographic photoreceptor includes an outermost layer formed of a polymerized cured product of a composition containing a polymerizable monomer and metal oxide particles surface-treated with a surface treatment agent having a silicone chain, wherein a ratio (r/r′) between a number average primary particle diameter (r) of metal oxide particles which are untreated base particles of the metal oxide particles surface-treated with the surface treatment agent having a silicone chain and a sphere equivalent particle diameter (r′) of the untreated base particles calculated from a specific surface area measured by a nitrogen adsorption method is 1.5 or more and 6.0 or less, and a surface treatment amount with the surface treatment agent having a silicone chain per surface area of the untreated base particles is 0.0005 g/m2 or more and 0.0015 g/m2 or less.
Tomoko Sakimura, Hiroki Takao, Mayuko Matsusaki, Kengo Ikeda
Filed: 21 Jul 19
Utility
Projection-type display device
25 May 20
A projection-type display device, provided with: a reflection-type image display element (DP), in which illumination light is reflected at an image display surface so as to be converted to image light and emitted; a prism unit (PU1) that bends a light path of the illumination light and transmits image light; and a projection lens system (PO) that projects the image light transmitted through the prism unit onto a screen.
Masayuki Imaoka
Filed: 25 Jul 17
Utility
Image processing apparatus, control method and customizing information
25 May 20
An image processing apparatus includes: a processor; a first interface that acquires information for user authentication; a second interface that acquires information for user identification; and a memory that stores a customization information table defining information for customizing an operation screen displayed on the first interface.
Kenichi Nagasawa, Nordès Ménard-Lamarre
Filed: 7 May 19
Utility
Paper Stacking Device and Image Forming System
20 May 20
A paper stacking device includes: a stacker on which paper is stacked; a paper ejector that ejects the paper toward the stacker, and a paper floating member that supports, from below, a side end of the paper ejected from the paper ejector, wherein the paper floating member is switched between: a paper floating position that advances from a side of the side end of the paper to an ejection route of the paper, and causes the paper ejected from the paper ejector to float from uppermost paper stacked on the stacker, and a retreat position that retreats from the ejection route.
Tsuyoshi TSUCHIYA
Filed: 12 Nov 19
Utility
Head Cleaning Device, Inkjet Image Forming Apparatus, and Cleaning Method
20 May 20
A head cleaning device includes: a cleaning member that comes into contact with a nozzle surface of an inkjet head from which ink is ejected, and performs a cleaning operation of cleaning the nozzle surface; and a hardware processor that controls the cleaning operation, wherein the hardware processor brings the nozzle surface of the inkjet head heated and the cleaning member into contact with each other, the hardware processor maintains the contact until a temperature of the nozzle surface that has decreased to a temperature below a threshold due to the cleaning member being brought into contact therewith reaches a temperature equal to or higher than the threshold, and the hardware processor controls the cleaning operation after the temperature of the nozzle surface has reached a temperature equal to or higher than the threshold.
TOSHIAKI HIROI
Filed: 11 Nov 19
Utility
Paper Stacking Device and Image Forming System
20 May 20
A paper stacking device includes: a stacker on which paper is stacked; a paper ejector that ejects the paper toward the stacker, an aligning plate that is provided on a side of the paper stacked on the stacker, and aligns a side end of the paper, and a paper floating member that is provided in the aligning plate, and supports, from below, the side end of the paper ejected from the paper ejector, wherein the paper floating member is switched, in conjunction with a movement in upward and downward directions of the aligning plate, between: a paper floating position that advances from a side of the side end of the paper to an ejection route of the paper, and causes the paper ejected from the paper ejector to float from uppermost paper stacked on the stacker, and a retreat position that retreats from the ejection route.
Tsuyoshi TSUCHIYA
Filed: 12 Nov 19