3025 patents
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Utility
Ultrasound signal processing device that uses synthetic aperture method and delay and sum method
1 Nov 22
A reception beamformer 140 includes a delay-and-sum unit 142 that performs delay-and-sum processing with respect to reception signal sequences from multiple channels based on reflected ultrasound to calculate acoustic line signal line data.
Ryuichiro Tanaka
Filed: 10 Jul 19
Utility
Ultrasound diagnostic technique for setting virtual origins of acoustic lines for trapezoidal scanning
1 Nov 22
An ultrasound diagnostic apparatus transmits ultrasound toward a subject by driving an ultrasound probe in which multiple transducers are arranged in an array, receives a reception signal that is based on waves reflected within the subject from the ultrasound probe, and generates an ultrasound image.
Tomohito Sakai, Akihiro Kawabata
Filed: 12 Feb 20
Utility
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1 Nov 22
An image forming system includes: an image former that forms an image; a stacker that stacks a recording medium on which an image has been formed by the image former and which has been discharged from the image former; a lifter that raises or lowers the stacker between a stacking position where the recording medium is stacked and a lower position located below the stacking position; a recording medium detector that detects the recording medium stacked on the stacker; and a hardware processor that controls driving of the lifter so as to lower the stacker from the stacking position to the lower position when it is determined that the recording medium is on the stacker on the basis of a detection result of the recording medium detector within start-up time from a time when power is switched on to a time of shifting to an image formable state.
Kenichi Yamada
Filed: 18 Mar 20
Utility
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1 Nov 22
A two-dimensional flicker measurement apparatus includes: a first calculation unit that calculates a flicker amount of each of a plurality of measurement regions set on a measurement target based on a photometric quantity obtained by performing photometry in the measurement target at a first sampling frequency; a second calculation unit that calculates a flicker amount of a predetermined measurement region set on the measurement target based on a photometric quantity obtained by performing photometry in the predetermined measurement region at a second sampling frequency; and a correction unit that corrects the flicker amount of each of the plurality of measurement regions calculated by the first calculation unit using a correction coefficient defined by the flicker amount calculated by the second calculation unit and a flicker amount of the predetermined measurement region calculated based on a photometric quantity obtained by performing photometry in the predetermined measurement region at the first sampling frequency.
Yoshihiro Nishikawa
Filed: 10 Sep 18
Utility
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27 Oct 22
An image-forming apparatus which can improve the heating stability of the recording material in the heating unit is provided.
Shinichi NAGAO
Filed: 22 Apr 22
Utility
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27 Oct 22
A management apparatus that manages a plurality of image forming apparatuses, the management apparatus includes: a storage that stores histories of user operations on the image forming apparatuses for the plurality of image forming apparatuses, respectively; and a hardware processor that determines an image forming apparatus recommended to be operated from among the plurality of image forming apparatuses based on the histories of the user operations of the image forming apparatuses and outputs a notification indicating the determined recommended image forming apparatus.
Izuru NOMURA
Filed: 4 Apr 22
Utility
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27 Oct 22
An image-forming apparatus that can restrict reduction in the accuracy of image formation onto a recording material is provided.
Shinichi NAGAO
Filed: 22 Apr 22
Utility
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27 Oct 22
A cleaning device includes a cleaner that cleans a body to be cleaned, wherein the cleaner includes: an elastic member in which a contact portion in contact with the body to be cleaned is formed in an uneven shape continuous in a predetermined direction; and a support member that supports the elastic member, and the cleaner is configured so that a contact pressure of the elastic member to the body to be cleaned is constant in the predetermined direction.
Yoshiki NAKANE, Ken NAKANO
Filed: 13 Apr 22
Utility
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25 Oct 22
An image forming apparatus includes: an image carrier; an exposing device; a developing device with a developing roller; a development current detector that detects development current between the image carrier and the developing roller; and a hardware processor.
Tomohiro Kawasaki, Hiroyuki Saito, Kazutoshi Kobayashi, Keiki Katsumata, Kei Okamura
Filed: 12 May 21
Utility
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25 Oct 22
A sheet conveyance method using a sheet conveyance apparatus that includes a conveyance path and a plurality of alignment members disposed along the conveyance path, the method includes: determining a set of alignment members to be operated based on a length of the paper sheet from among the plurality of alignment members; and aligning the paper sheet conveyed on the conveyance path using the determined set of alignment members.
Hiromu Nagato
Filed: 21 Oct 19
Utility
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25 Oct 22
A pest detector includes: a first electrode; a second electrode that is arranged to face the first electrode; an electric field generator that generates an electric field in a gap between the first electrode and the second electrode; an imager that images at least the first electrode; and a hardware processor that determines an attaching state of insect pests that can be attached to the first electrode, based on an image captured by the imager.
Tatsuya Furuta
Filed: 12 May 20
Utility
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25 Oct 22
A radiographic image display apparatus 3 included in a radiographic imaging system 100 includes a hardware processor that obtains an image data item on each of the frame images generated by the radiographic imaging apparatus 2, detects a situation of the subject at least at a time point in the dynamic imaging, associates the detected situation of the subject with the obtained image data items, and issues a specific output for notification that the subject is in a specific situation when the subject is in a state of a specific frame image fs, in a case where the display is caused to display the specific frame image fs, this specific frame image fs being taken when it is detected that the situation of the subject is the specific situation.
Sumiya Nagatsuka
Filed: 5 Mar 21
Utility
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25 Oct 22
There is provided a screw tightening apparatus that fastens, with a screw, two objects to be fastened including a first member provided with a first screw hole and a second member provided with a second screw hole for screwing, and the screw tightening apparatus includes: a distance measuring device that measures a relative position between the first member and the second member in a vertical direction perpendicular to the axial direction of the second screw hole; a screw tightening part that holds the screw inserted into the first screw hole and screws the screw into the second screw hole for screwing; a moving mechanism that moves the screw tightening part along the vertical direction; and a hardware processor that controls the screw tightening part and the moving mechanism according to a measured value of the distance measuring device.
Daichi Suzuki, Kiyohito Tsujihara, Shogo Asaoka
Filed: 12 Apr 21
Utility
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20 Oct 22
Michiyo FUJITA, Ryuichi HIRAMOTO, Kaori MATSUSHIMA
Filed: 31 Mar 22
Utility
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20 Oct 22
There is a need to provide an image generator and an image generation method capable of avoiding wasting a normal printed matter if any in sheets of paper output after an occurrence of waste paper.
Takashi YAMASHITA
Filed: 10 May 22
Utility
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20 Oct 22
An image forming apparatus includes: a transferer that transfers a toner image on an image carrier formed by an image former onto a paper sheet; a fixer that heats and thereby fixes the toner image on the paper sheet; a read image acquisitor that acquires read image data of the paper sheet on a downstream side of the fixer in a conveyance direction, the read image data being generated by a reader that reads an image of the paper sheet; and a hardware processor that: controls a conveyance speed of the paper sheet in the transferer and/or the fixer, and changes or updates the conveyance speed based on an image of the acquired read image data.
YOUICHIROU NISHI
Filed: 6 Apr 22
Utility
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20 Oct 22
An image forming apparatus includes: a storage that stores a job that is encrypted; and a hardware processor that: decrypts the encrypted job read from the storage, executes the decrypted job, upon detecting a cyberattack during execution of the decrypted job, identifies a target of the cyberattack, and switches an operation related to the decrypted job being executed based on the target.
Masayuki Yasukaga
Filed: 15 Apr 22
Utility
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20 Oct 22
A workpiece surface defect detection device or the like that is capable of stably detecting a small surface defect with high accuracy is provided.
AKIRA YAHASHI, YOSHIHITO SOUMA, TAIZO WAKIMURA, RYUICHI YOSHIDA, SHOTA UEKI
Filed: 2 Oct 19
Utility
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20 Oct 22
An image processing apparatus includes a hardware processor that acquires image data of a radiograph, calculates an exposure index related to noise in the radiograph on the basis of the image data that is acquired, and causes a notifier to notify of a matter based on the exposure index that is calculated.
Koutarou KANAMORI
Filed: 22 Jun 22
Utility
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20 Oct 22
An image reading device includes: an area sensor in which color filters of three colors of R, G, and B are arranged in a Bayer array and a light receiving amount is detected by a light receiving element for each color filter; and a hardware processor that: reads a document by using the light receiving elements in a first group in the area sensor, reads the document by using the light receiving elements in a second group in the area sensor, at a region shifted by ½ pixels in a sub-scanning direction from a reading region of the light receiving elements in the first group, and interpolates R-color read data and B-color read data using G-color read data and synthesizes image data having a resolution twice the resolution of the area sensor.
Takehisa NAKAO
Filed: 1 Mar 22