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Utility
Assistance Control Method and Assistance System
21 Oct 21
An assistance control method for an assistance system that assists monitoring a monitoring object person includes: an acquisition step of acquiring, from among a plurality of terminal devices, a notification destination terminal device which is a terminal device of a notification destination to be notified of an abnormality of the monitoring object person and is determined in accordance with an abnormal state of the monitoring object person determined by a central processing device; an abnormality notification step of notifying, of the abnormality of the monitoring object person, the notification destination terminal device acquired in the acquisition step; and an information transmission step of transmitting monitoring object person information to the notification destination terminal device from the central processing device in accordance with a transmission request for the monitoring object person information from the notification destination terminal device that has been notified of abnormality of the monitoring object person in the abnormality notification step.
Masashi NISHIKADO, Atsuhiro NODA, Hiroshi OKADA, Ken Kitamara
Filed: 6 Dec 17
Utility
Motor control device, method of estimating initial position of magnetic pole of rotor, and image forming apparatus
19 Oct 21
In a motor control device, when estimating an initial position of a magnetic pole of a rotor of a motor, a drive circuit continuously or intermittently applies a voltage to a stator winding at each of a plurality of energization angles while sequentially changing the energization angles, and at a voltage value and for an energization time period, the voltage value and the energization time period being set such that the rotor does not rotate.
Yuta Tachibana, Hiroyuki Yoshikawa, Daichi Suzuki
Filed: 10 Feb 20
Utility
Dynamic analysis system
19 Oct 21
A dynamic analysis system includes: a hardware processor that: extracts an extended lung field region formed of one region including two lungs and a region between the two lungs from a dynamic image obtained by radiography of a dynamic state of a chest of a subject; and generates an analysis result image illustrating an analysis result of a pulmonary function in the extended lung field region by analyzing the dynamic image.
Noritsugu Matsutani
Filed: 11 May 18
Utility
Image inspecting apparatus and image forming system
19 Oct 21
An image inspecting apparatus includes a reader that reads an image on a recording material formed in an image forming apparatus and generates read image data and an image analyzer that performs analysis to determine abnormality for the read image data by using a threshold value and creates an analysis result.
Makoto Ikeda
Filed: 29 Jan 20
Utility
Color accuracy vertfication device that manages color accuracy of plurality of printers
19 Oct 21
A color accuracy verification device includes: a hardware processor that: acquires a colorimetric value for each color patch of color accuracy verification charts generated by a plurality of printers; stores the colorimetric value in time series; sets a target printer to carry out color accuracy verification; and verifies color accuracy based on: the colorimetric value of the target printer stored in the hardware processor; and a verification reference value set in advance; and a display that displays a verification result by the hardware processor for the target printer.
Ryohei Inada
Filed: 22 Aug 19
Utility
X-ray imaging system
19 Oct 21
An X-ray imaging system includes the following.
Yasunori Tsuboi, Hiromichi Shindou
Filed: 10 Apr 19
Utility
Exposure device and image forming apparatus
19 Oct 21
An exposure device includes: a first lens array unit and a second lens array unit each including a plurality of optical elements formed in a formation surface with respective optical axes parallel to each other, the formation surface of the first lens array unit being not perpendicular to the optical axes; a first lens array holder and a second lens array holder that hold the first lens array unit and the second lens array unit with the respective optical axes of the plurality of optical elements parallel to each other; and a light source assembly in which optical element groups each including a plurality of light-emitting devices aligned in a direction perpendicular to the optical axes are disposed at different positions in a direction parallel to the optical axes, wherein the first lens array unit is provided with a first seating surface and a second seating surface.
Takahiro Matsuo, Atsushi Nagaoka, Hajime Taniguchi, Ryo Hasegawa
Filed: 30 Apr 20
Utility
Image forming apparatus capable of supressing toner remaining in an outer region of a photoconductor
19 Oct 21
An image forming apparatus includes: a photoconductor; a charging roller; an exposure device; a developing device that is provided on a downstream side of the charging roller in a rotation direction of the photoconductor, and forms a toner image by supplying toner to a latent image; a cleaning blade that is provided between a transfer part of a surface of the photoconductor located on a downstream side of the developing device in the rotation direction of the photoconductor and the charging roller, and removes residual toner adhering to a part of the surface of the photoconductor on a downstream side of the transfer part; a lubricant supplier that supplies a lubricant to the surface of the photoconductor; and a voltage controller that controls a charging voltage to be applied to the charging roller.
Junichi Arai
Filed: 5 Mar 21
Utility
Backup apparatus
19 Oct 21
A backup apparatus includes a hardware processor that selects one of a plurality of devices, the devices being communicably connected to each other and each including a storage apparatus and a connection I/F to connect to an external storage apparatus, and collectively makes a backup of backup target data held by the plurality of devices into the external storage apparatus connected to the connection I/F of a selected device, wherein the hardware processor selects one of the plurality of devices on a basis of a predetermined selection condition including an amount of data of backup target data held by each of the devices.
Yoshio Miyamoto
Filed: 30 Oct 19
Utility
Zoom lens, imaging optical device, and digital device
19 Oct 21
A zoom lens includes: in order from an object side, a first lens group having positive refractive power; a second lens group having negative refractive power; a third lens having positive refractive power; a fourth lens group having negative refractive power; a fifth lens group having positive refractive power; and a sixth lens group having negative refractive power.
Hiroaki Tanaka
Filed: 13 Nov 19
Utility
Method for Acquiring Auxiliary Information
14 Oct 21
The present invention provides a method for acquiring auxiliary information useful to assist a diagnosis or treatment of prostate cancer.
Tomonori KANEKO, Takatoshi KAYA, Chikara OHYAMA, Tohru YONEYAMA, Yuki TOBISAWA, Osamu OGAWA, Takahiro INOUE
Filed: 25 Sep 19
Utility
Inspection Device, Program, and Inspection System
14 Oct 21
An inspection device includes: a memory; and a controller that executes an inspection of an image of a sheet of paper by comparing the image of the sheet of paper output by a printing device for each of two or more jobs with a correct image of each image, wherein the controller stores, in the memory, an image judged to be an image defect in the inspection, and displays, on a display device, a list of images judged to be an image defect in the inspection of the two or more jobs.
Takao KUROHATA
Filed: 26 Feb 21
Utility
Information Acquiring Method, Information Acquiring Device, and Program
14 Oct 21
Information useful for diagnosis or treatment is acquired by quantitatively evaluating the expression levels of each of a plurality of mutually different domains in the same protein in a human tissue slice, by providing: a staining process of using a plurality of staining reagents having mutually different colorings to stain the plurality of different domains in the same protein; a quantifying step of quantifying the expression levels of each of the plurality of domains; and a calculating step of calculating the ratios between the expression levels of the plurality of domains.
Kenji NISHIKAWA, Masaru TAKAHASHI
Filed: 5 Sep 19
Utility
Image Forming Method and Image Forming System
14 Oct 21
Provided is an image forming method using a toner for developing an electrostatic charge image and an electrophotographic photoreceptor, and containing at least a charging step, an exposing step, a developing step and a transferring step, wherein the electrophotographic photoreceptor has a photosensitive layer, and the photosensitive layer contains a triphenylamine derivative having a specific structure as a charge transport material, and the toner for developing an electrostatic charge image contains at least titanic acid compound particles as an external additive.
Seisuke MAEDA
Filed: 15 Mar 21
Utility
Image Forming Control Apparatus and Image Forming Apparatus
14 Oct 21
Provided is an image forming control apparatus including a first detection section that detects an image for detection formed on a recording medium, a second detection section that detects the image for detection formed on the recording medium on a further downstream side than the first detector in a conveyance direction of the recording medium, and a hardware processor that controls an image forming apparatus such that the image forming apparatus starts a preparation operation of image forming processing after detection in the first detection section and forms an image for printing on the recording medium based on detection timing in the second detection section.
Sho OKUZAWA
Filed: 12 Apr 21
Utility
Method for Measuring Brain Natriuretic Peptide and Kit for Measuring Brain Natriuretic Peptide
14 Oct 21
The present invention pertains to a BNP measuring method with which it is possible to measure the concentration of BNP in a specimen with higher sensitivity and higher reproducibility.
Takanori MURAYAMA
Filed: 19 Apr 19
Utility
Image Forming System and Abnormal Sheet Information Display Method
14 Oct 21
An image forming system includes: a sheet feeder; an image former that forms an image on a paper sheet; a conveyor that conveys a paper sheet to a sheet ejection destination; a switcher that switches sheet ejection destinations; a reader that optically reads a paper sheet, and outputs a read image; an abnormal sheet detector that detects an abnormal paper sheet by analyzing the read image; a storage; a display; and a hardware processor that performs: ejection destination switch control to control the switcher to eject an abnormal paper sheet and a succeeding paper sheet to a second ejection destination different from a regular ejection destination; storage control, for each of the abnormal paper sheet and the succeeding paper sheet, to associate sheet information, the read image, and a stacking order with one another, and store them into the storage; and display control to cause the display to display them.
Kazunari SHIMONO
Filed: 24 Jun 21
Utility
Image Forming Apparatus, Control Method In Image Forming Apparatus, and Control Program In Image Forming Apparatus
14 Oct 21
There is provided an image forming apparatus that forms an image with a plurality of coloring materials on a recording medium, and the image forming apparatus includes: a hardware processor that calculates a chromaticity range having a color difference not less than a setting value to respective chromaticities of the plurality of coloring materials for use in formation of the image, as a base color range common between the plurality of coloring materials.
Yorihiro YAMAYA
Filed: 12 Apr 21
Utility
Ultrasound Image Diagnostic Apparatus and Power Supply Control Method
14 Oct 21
An ultrasound image diagnostic apparatus includes: a power source control section that supplies power to a power source section which performs supply of power to each part of the ultrasound image diagnostic apparatus; a battery that supplies the power to the power source control section: an external power supply section that supplies, to the power source control section, the power supplied from outside of the ultrasound image diagnostic apparatus; and a power supply control section that controls supply of power from the battery and the external power supply section to the power source control section based on an operation state of the ultrasound image diagnostic apparatus and the presence or absence of the power supplied from the external power supply section.
Yuki MURAMATSU, Kazuya OSADA, Yasuhiro NAKAMURA
Filed: 25 Mar 21
Utility
Inkjet Head and Inkjet Recording Apparatus
14 Oct 21
Provided is an inkjet head including a plurality of ink dischargers, a first common ejection flow path, and a second common ejection flow path.
Hikaru HAMANO
Filed: 29 Aug 18