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Utility
Meeting support system, meeting support device, and meeting support program
5 Jul 22
There is provided a meeting support system that supports the progress of a meeting, the meeting support system including a hardware processor that: determines a first feature value based on information about a meeting, the first feature value corresponding to a range of a subject of a meeting, the information about a meeting having been registered in advance; stores a weight, the weight corresponding to each type of meeting; extracts a word or phrase from speech of participants in a meeting; determines a second feature value corresponding to the extracted word or phrase; and determines whether a speech is off topic from a subject of a meeting, depending on whether the second feature value is included in an allowable range, the allowable range being specified by the first feature value and the weight corresponding to a type of an ongoing meeting.
Yoshimi Nakayama
Filed: 20 Aug 20
Utility
Image forming system, management server, and recording material information detecting apparatus
5 Jul 22
An image forming system includes: a recording material information detecting apparatus; an image forming apparatus; and a management server, wherein the recording material information detecting apparatus includes: a first hardware processor that detects recording material characteristic information; and a second hardware processor that acquires first environmental information, the image forming apparatus includes: an image former that forms an image on a second recording material; a third hardware processor that acquires second environmental information; a fourth hardware processor that transmits the second environmental information to the management server and requests the recording material characteristic information corresponding to the second environmental information; and a fifth hardware processor that sets an image formation condition for the image former to form the image on the second recording material, and the management server includes a sixth hardware processor.
Fusako Ozawa
Filed: 21 May 21
Utility
Image forming apparatus and data transfer method
21 Jun 22
An image forming apparatus includes an image forming unit including a scanner and a printer, a server, and a local network circuit connecting the image forming unit and the server.
Kazuhiro Tomiyasu, Kaoru Fukuoka, Hiroaki Sugimoto
Filed: 26 Jun 20
Utility
Ultrasound signal processing device, ultrasound diagnostic device
14 Jun 22
An ultrasound signal processing device: performing events involving transmitting ultrasound towards a subject; receiving ultrasound reflection from the subject in response to each event; and generating a frame signal from sub-frame signals generated based on the ultrasound reflection.
Mineo Tsushima
Filed: 11 Oct 19
Utility
Π(PI)-conjugated compound, organic electroluminescence element material, light-emitting material, light-emitting thin film, organic electroluminescence element, display device, and illumination device
14 Jun 22
Yasuo Miyata, Taketo Namikawa, Takayuki Iijima, Ryutaro Sugawara, Tetsuya Yamada, Takatugu Suzuki
Filed: 27 Apr 16
Utility
Image forming apparatus, image forming method and image forming program capable of improving cleaning performance by a cleaning blade
14 Jun 22
An image forming apparatus includes: an image carrier that carries a toner image including toner; a driver that rotates the image carrier; a toner remover that comes in contact with the image carrier and removes toner remaining on the image carrier while the image carrier is rotated in a forward direction by the driver; and a hardware processor that evaluates a degree of deterioration of the image carrier or the toner remover, determines a number of times of execution of removal operation in which the image carrier is rotated in a reverse direction and then rotated in the forward direction, on the basis of the degree of deterioration, and controls the driver to cause the removal operation to be executed the number of times of execution.
Masato Kimura
Filed: 21 Jun 21
Utility
Image display control system, image display system, and image analysis device for dynamic medical imaging
14 Jun 22
An image display control system includes a hardware processor that acquires data of a static image of a subject, and data of a dynamic image of the subject including a plurality of frame images, analyzes the dynamic image that is acquired, and creates analysis result data based on an analysis result, and selects, on a basis of a purpose of checking of data, at least one of the data among the data of the static image that is acquired, a part of the data of the dynamic image that is acquired, and the analysis result data that is created.
Takanori Ando, Kenichi Yanagisawa, Ichirou Hamamoto, Naoki Hayashi
Filed: 14 Nov 19
Utility
Image forming apparatus, image forming method, and image forming program
14 Jun 22
An image forming apparatus includes: an image former that prints a foil stamping image on a recording material in accordance with a job for printing the foil stamping image, the foil stamping image being a target to which foil is transferred in foil stamp printing; and a hardware processor that trims an image on a page identical to at least one page included in the job such that the image on the identical page does not overlap an image adjustment mark that is printed for adjusting an image to be overprinted, and causes the image former to print, together with the job, the identical page having the trimmed image.
Ken Miyazaki
Filed: 27 Jul 20
Utility
Optical element and method for manufacturing optical element
14 Jun 22
To provide a method for manufacturing an optical element, which improves the surface precision of the optical surface as well as reducing the birefringence at a low cost.
Takehiko Goshima, Yoshihiro Okumura, Hiroshi Umetsu, Seiji Yuasa
Filed: 31 May 19
Utility
Image generator and image generation method
7 Jun 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: 27 Apr 18
Utility
Specimen detection device and specimen detection method
7 Jun 22
By irradiating a sensor chip including an analyte labeled with a fluorescent substance with excitation light from an excitation light irradiation unit for emitting the excitation light using a specimen detector including the excitation light irradiation unit and a fluorescence detection unit for detecting fluorescence, fluorescence emitted from the fluorescent substance is detected by the fluorescence detection unit.
Tetsuya Noda
Filed: 13 Feb 18
Utility
Operation receiving apparatus, control method, image forming system, and recording medium
31 May 22
An operation receiving apparatus includes: a display; a user interface that overlaps with the display and receives a manual operation by a user; and a controller that acquires a recognition result of a user voice, and controls the display to display a first display region and a second display.
Tomoko Kuroiwa
Filed: 18 Mar 20
Utility
Medical image display device and medical image display system for superimposing analyzed images
31 May 22
A medical image display device includes a hardware processor that (i) acquires an original image and an analyzed image obtained by analyzing the original image from another device, (ii) carries out predetermined image processing on one of the original image and the analyzed image as acquired, or carries out different types of image processing respectively on the original image and the analyzed image, (iii) superimposes the analyzed image as acquired or a processed analyzed image obtained by carrying out image processing on the analyzed image on the original image as acquired or a processed original image obtained by carrying out image processing on the original image to generate a processed superimposed image, and (iv) causes the superimposed image to be displayed on a display.
Eiichi Akagi
Filed: 16 Dec 19
Utility
Post-processing apparatus and image forming system
31 May 22
A post-processing apparatus includes: a cutter that cuts a transported sheet; a waste bin that stores a cutting waste generated by a cutting operation of the cutter and falling from the cutter; a sensor that detects the cutting waste at a predetermined position in a depth direction in the waste bin; and a hardware processor that controls the cutting operation of the cutter according to a cutting mode, sets a predetermined value according to the cutting mode when the sensor detects the cutting waste, counts the number of times of cutting by the cutter after the sensor starts to detect the cutting waste, and detects that the waste bin is full when the counted number of times of cutting reaches the predetermined value.
Teruhiko Toyoizumi, Masayuki Watanabe, Hidenori Mine
Filed: 6 Apr 20
Utility
Cleaning device capable of preventing a conveyance member from contacting a brush-like rotation body and a collection member, drum unit, and image forming apparatus
31 May 22
A cleaning device includes: a brush-like rotation body that collects residual toner adhering to a photoreceptor from the photoreceptor and holds the residual toner; a collection member that is disposed so as to be in contact with the brush-like rotation body and collects the residual toner held by the brush-like rotation body from the brush-like rotation body; a blade member that scrapes off the residual toner collected by the collection member from the collection member; a conveyance member that is disposed below the brush-like rotation body and the collection member and conveys the residual toner scraped off from the collection member by the blade member; and a restriction part that is disposed above the conveyance member and restricts contact of the conveyance member with the brush-like rotation body and the collection member.
Takeru Kinoshita, Junji Murakawa
Filed: 10 Sep 21
Utility
Sheet conveyance device and image forming apparatus
31 May 22
There is provided a sheet conveyance device that includes a first conveyance roller and a second conveyance roller that are arranged at a position other than a center in a direction of sheet width in a sheet conveyance path, a roller selector that selects the first conveyance roller or the second conveyance roller as a roller to convey a sheet, and a controller that causes the roller selector to select the first conveyance roller or the second conveyance roller.
Makoto Fujii
Filed: 3 Oct 19
Utility
Medium for resin particles containing fluorescent dye
31 May 22
A method of storing fluorescent dye-containing resin particles comprising adding the fluorescent dye-containing resin particles in a liquid comprising a buffer, a protein, and a surfactant, thereby obtaining a particle-containing liquid.
Masaru Takahashi, Fuminori Okada
Filed: 5 Sep 19
Utility
Inkjet image forming apparatus and transfer control method
24 May 22
An inkjet image forming apparatus includes a transferer and a hardware processor.
Midori Shimomura, Yukimasa Azuma
Filed: 27 Apr 20
Utility
Image forming device
24 May 22
An image forming device that executes a preview display of an image to be printed, including: a projector; a panel display; a receiver that receives an instruction indicating whether or not to implement security in the preview display; and a controller that, when an instruction to implement security is not received, controls the projector to execute the preview display according to a first mode that represents the image to be printed at a display area equal to or larger than a defined size, and when an instruction to implement security is received, controls the projector and the panel display to execute the preview display according to a second mode that represents the image to be printed at a display area less than the defined size.
Tatsuya Shinno
Filed: 11 Mar 21
Utility
Image inspection apparatus, image inspection method, and non-transitory computer-readable medium for indicating areas to be inspected and areas exempt from inspection
24 May 22
An image inspection apparatus is provided to allow a user, when checking a scan result of automatic inspection, to check a really-inspected area.
Tetsu Kawasaki
Filed: 15 Apr 20