3025 patents
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Utility
Ultrasound probe and correction method for the ultrasound probe
30 Mar 20
An ultrasound probe includes: a plurality of ultrasound transducers each including a diaphragm, a lower electrode laminated on a surface of the diaphragm, a piezoelectric film laminated on a surface of the lower electrode, and including an effective area in which larger vibration is caused upon piezoelectric conversion, and a reference area in which smaller vibration than that in the effective area is caused upon piezoelectric conversion, and an upper electrode laminated on a surface of the piezoelectric film; and hardware processors that correct variation in performance between the ultrasound transducers, wherein one or both of the lower electrode and the upper electrode include an effective area electrode portion, and a reference area electrode portion, and each of the hardware processors is a device that corrects one or both of an output value from the effective area electrode portion and an input value to the effective area electrode portion.
Yuta Nakayama
Filed: 4 Sep 17
Utility
Radiographic image capturing system
30 Mar 20
A radiographic image capturing system includes: a radiation irradiating apparatus which emits radiation and provides notification of radiation emission while emitting the radiation; a radiographic image capturing apparatus which includes two-dimensional matrix radiation detecting elements and reads electric charges accumulated in the radiation detecting elements as image data; an exposure switch capable of two-step manipulations, the exposure switch transmitting an activation signal in response to a first-step manipulation and transmitting a radiation start signal in response to a second-step manipulation; a signal transceiver which receives the activation signal and transfers the received activation signal to the radiation irradiating apparatus; and a delay time calculating device which calculates, as a delay time, a difference between a time of reception of the activation signal at the signal transceiver and a time of start of the notification of radiation emission at the radiation irradiating apparatus.
Kenroku Ubukata
Filed: 7 Mar 17
Utility
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30 Mar 20
Provided is an object detection device which unlikely causes vignetting of a beam reflected from a mirror surface during rotation, and fully ensures object detection performance A light projecting system and a light receiving system are disposed so that a larger one of the area of a region on a mirror surface occupied by a beam emitted from a semiconductor laser and the area of a region on the mirror surface occupied by a beam incident on a photodiode has a longer movement length on the mirror surface during rotation than a smaller one.
Kazutaka Noguchi, Ryouta Ishikawa, Kazuki Matsui
Filed: 3 Oct 16
Utility
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30 Mar 20
Provided is an electrostatic latent image developing toner including toner mother particles having an external additive on a surface of the toner mother particles, wherein the external additive contains inorganic particles and aliphatic acid metal salt particles; the inorganic particles have a number average particle diameter in the range of 10 to 50 nm, and have a Mohs hardness of 8 or more; and the aliphatic acid metal salt particles have a number average particle diameter in the range of 0.4 to 2.0 μm.
Koji Shibata, Takuya Takahashi, Futoshi Kadonome, Shinya Obara
Filed: 5 Feb 19
Utility
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30 Mar 20
An image forming apparatus calculates a post exposure potential after exposure by an exposure device based on a first charge voltage, a second charge voltage, a charge current in a first change characteristic when a transfer voltage is the first charge voltage, a charge current in a second change characteristic when the charge voltage is the first charge voltage, a charge current in the first change characteristic when the charge voltage is the second charge voltage, and a charge current in the second change characteristic when the charge voltage is the second charge voltage, and makes a determination as to life of an image carrier based on the post exposure potential.
Kazuki Odagiri
Filed: 14 May 19
Utility
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30 Mar 20
An endless belt includes a base layer having an endless belt shape, an elastic layer provided on the base layer, and a surface layer provided on the elastic layer.
Akihiro Okuno
Filed: 24 Oct 18
Utility
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30 Mar 20
An image processing device capable of executing a plurality of jobs that differ in kind, the image processing device includes: a controller that controls execution of an input job; and a detection part that, on the basis of a voice detected by a voice detector, detects that any of a plurality of predetermined target voices has been emitted, wherein in a case where it is detected that the target voice has been emitted during a target setting period corresponding to a job that is being executed, among setting periods that are defined beforehand according to kinds of jobs respectively, the controller stops the execution of the job.
Tomoko Maruyama, Kazuhiro Tomiyasu, Atsushi Tomita, Kenichi Sawada, Hiroshi Sugiura
Filed: 21 Oct 18
Utility
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30 Mar 20
An image processing apparatus includes: a hardware processor that: generates image data in a raster form on the basis of PDL data described in a page description language; stores the image data generated by the hardware processor; and outputs a predetermined signal in a case where an image of the image data stored in the hardware processor is determined as an image including a predetermined pattern, wherein the hardware processor executes pattern recognition with respect to a region, which includes printing data, in the image of the image data, and does not execute the pattern recognition with respect to a region, which does not include printing data, in the image of the image data.
Hiroaki Kubo
Filed: 8 Mar 18
Utility
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30 Mar 20
A remotely-operated apparatus remotely operated by an external terminal notifies the external terminal of a first transition command when a server cooperation process which is a cooperation process with a server is performed.
Tatsunori Okada
Filed: 10 Dec 13
Utility
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30 Mar 20
Provided are a label-printing control apparatus, a non-transitory computer-readable recording medium and a label-printing control method.
Masatsugu Kouguchi
Filed: 31 Mar 19
Utility
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30 Mar 20
An image processing apparatus includes a first memory used for first rearrangement processing on a group of pixels in an input image, and a second memory used for second rearrangement processing on a group of pixels in an image obtained by the first rearrangement processing, and performs correction processing that includes the first rearrangement processing and the second rearrangement processing on the input image.
Hisashi Uchida, Hiroaki Kubo
Filed: 6 Feb 18
Utility
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30 Mar 20
An image forming system in which distributed processing of a job is performed by a plurality of image forming apparatuses and each of the image forming apparatuses inspects an output image formed on paper by distributed processing.
Mikimasa Honma
Filed: 11 Sep 18
Utility
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30 Mar 20
An image processing apparatus includes: a display unit configured to display an operation screen; an acquisition unit configured to acquire biological information of a user performing operation using the operation screen, the biological information varying reflecting a state of the user; and a registration control unit configured to control operation of registering information on the operation screen and the biological information of the user in association with each other.
Kaitaku Ozawa
Filed: 9 Jun 19
Utility
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30 Mar 20
An image forming apparatus includes an image former forming a toner image on a long sheet; a main conveyance path conveying the long sheet to the image former; and a double-side conveyance path which branches off from a first side, in the main conveyance path, downstream of the image former in a conveyance direction of the long sheet, and which conveys the long sheet to a second side upstream of the image former by reversing the conveyance direction at a point of switching back to invert the long sheet.
Yasuo Shiokawa, Yoshiteru Kawakami, Takahiro Okubo
Filed: 11 Jun 18
Utility
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30 Mar 20
An information processing system transmits and receives sound data through a switching equipment.
Yukio Watanabe
Filed: 1 Mar 18
Utility
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30 Mar 20
An image reading apparatus according to the present disclosure includes a platen glass, an image reader, and an output interface.
Hiroshi Ibaraki
Filed: 16 Apr 17
Utility
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30 Mar 20
An image forming device includes: a hardware processor that performs halftone processing on input image data using a threshold matrix of a dither method, and that, when dot missing exists in a formed image by the image forming part, performs interpolation by rearranging a missing dot to peripheral pixel position; and an image forming part that forms an image on a recording medium on the basis of image data after halftone processing by the halftone processing part, wherein the hardware processor, using the threshold matrix, sets a blank pixel having a high probability of being generated next when gradation is increased, as a rearrangement destination of the missing dot.
Toshiyuki Mizutani
Filed: 29 Oct 18
Utility
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25 Mar 20
A toner replenishing apparatus includes: a toner storage that stores toner for replenishment; an agitation paddle that is arranged in the toner storage and rotates to agitate toner stored in the toner storage; a conveyance member that is disposed in a lower part of the toner storage and is used to convey the toner stored in the toner storage toward a developer; and an agitation member that moves along with rotation of the agitation paddle, wherein the conveyance member is arranged away from the agitation paddle in a plan view, and the agitation member agitates the toner located above the conveyance member, which is a part of the toner stored in the toner storage.
Hideji HIGASHIMURA
Filed: 13 Aug 19
Utility
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25 Mar 20
A toner supply device includes a toner storage unit that stores toner for supply, and a stirring unit that stirs the toner stored in the toner storage unit.
Hideji HIGASHIMURA, Kie HAYASHI
Filed: 17 Sep 19
Utility
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25 Mar 20
A post-processing apparatus performs post-processing on a paper sheet conveyed from a previous stage side, and includes: a corrector that performs bend correction on the paper sheet, in accordance with one of a plurality of bend correction methods; a post-processor that performs the post-processing on the paper sheet subjected to the bend correction performed by the corrector; and a hardware processor that selects one of the plurality of bend correction methods, on the basis of a bend correction accuracy corresponding to a product to be created by the post-processing being performed by the post-processor, and a productivity of the product, wherein from the plurality of bend correction methods, the hardware processor selects a bend correction method that reduces a difference between a post-processing time required for the post-processor to perform the post-processing and a correction time required for the corrector to perform the bend correction on the paper sheet.
Hiroyuki WAKABAYASHI
Filed: 18 Aug 19