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Utility
Image processing apparatus, image forming apparatus, display apparatus, image processing method, and storage medium
19 Apr 22
An image processing apparatus is provided, which includes: an input unit that receives input of a first image and a second image; a high-frequency image extractor that extracts a high-frequency image from the first image; a low-frequency image extractor that extracts a low-frequency image from the second image; an edge portion extractor that extracts an edge image of the second image; a determination unit that determines a composite position of the high-frequency image and the low-frequency image so that a degree of overlap between the first image and an edge portion is small, and a combiner that combines the high-frequency image and the low-frequency image at the composite position determined by the determination unit.
Misaki Funato
Filed: 4 Jun 20
Utility
Loupe and loupe unit
5 Apr 22
A loupe is bonded to a glasses-type holder to be worn around a head of a user.
Isao Ishimoda
Filed: 25 Sep 17
Utility
Measuring device, image forming apparatus, and measuring method
29 Mar 22
A measuring device, includes a physical property value detector and a push contact member that pushes to bring a sheet material in contact with the physical property value detector; and further includes a first processor that stops conveyance of the sheet material, pushes to bring the sheet material in contact with the physical property value detector, and detects a physical property value of the sheet material; a second processor that, after having detected the physical property value, cancels the pushing by the push contact member, separates the sheet material from the physical property value detector, and starts conveyance of the sheet material; and a physical property value specifier that specifies the physical property value on a basis of physical property values of a plurality of positions within a surface of the sheet material detected by executing the first processing and the second processing repeatedly.
Yumiko Izumiya, Satoshi Ogata, Kazutoshi Yoshimura, Hitoshi Asano, Hirotada Seki, Akimasa Ishikawa
Filed: 14 Jan 20
Utility
Assistance server, tunnel connection assistance method and non-transitory computer-readable recording medium encoded with tunnel connection assistance program
29 Mar 22
An assistance server assists an information processing system, wherein the information processing system includes a management server arranged outside of a firewall and a control subject device arranged inside of the firewall, the assistance server includes a hardware processor, and the hardware processor is configured to establish an assistance connection for communication with the control subject device in response to a request from the control subject device, in the case where being requested by the service provision server to control the control subject device, request the management server to control the control subject device on behalf of the service provision server, and in the case where being requested by the service provision server to control the control subject device, control the control subject device via the assistance connection and cause the control subject device to establish a continuous connection for communication with the management server.
Shunsuke Nagae
Filed: 15 Jul 20
Utility
Image display system that executes rendering by switching the rendering between rendering by a server and rendering by a client terminal
22 Mar 22
An image display system, including: a server and a client terminal, wherein the server includes a server-side hardware processor which performs rendering to generate an initial display image, transmits the initial display image and the image data to the client terminal, at least when rendering is performed to a plurality of pieces of image data, the server executes rendering and transmission of image data so that at least parts of execution periods overlap, the server-side hardware processor executes rendering until end of the transmission, the client terminal is a zero client terminal and includes a client-side hardware processor which displays the received initial display image, and performs rendering of the received image data to generate and display a client display image, and the client terminal executes rendering by switching from the server-side hardware processor to the client-side hardware processor based on end of the transmission.
Akira Kurahashi
Filed: 9 Jul 19
Utility
Voice operation system, voice operation method, and program
22 Mar 22
A voice operation system includes: an image forming apparatus that forms an image on a recording material; a server that accepts voice information related to an operation on the image forming apparatus, and gives an operation instruction to the image forming apparatus; and a voice input/output device that converts an input voice into voice information, sends the voice information to the server, receives voice information as a response to the voice information related to the operation on the image forming apparatus, and emits a sound of the voice information, wherein the server has a hardware processor that stores information on a part of a function or configuration of the image forming apparatus, and the server determines executability of an operation associated with voice information transmitted from the voice input/output device, and causes the image forming apparatus to execute determination of executability of an operation that is not determinable.
Takeo Katsuda, Yusuke Mikoshiba
Filed: 2 Sep 20
Utility
Process for producing dye-containing thermosetting resin particles
22 Mar 22
The present invention provides a method of producing dye-containing thermosetting resin particles, the method including: dispersing seed particles formed from a thermosetting resin in a dispersion medium; and polymerizing a monomer for thermosetting resin synthesis in the thus obtained dispersion in the presence of a dye and an acid catalyst.
Shin Nakayama, Kensaku Takanashi
Filed: 21 Dec 15
Utility
Colorimeter capable of taking a fixed posture with respect to a measurement object
22 Mar 22
Colorimeter having first and second illumination units disposed symmetrically to a reference line in a prescribed plane, first and second light-receiving parts disposed symmetrically to the reference line in the prescribed plane, a calculation unit for determining color information about a measurement object, and an opposing wall that opposes the measurement object when it is measured.
Hiroki Aomatsu, Shinichi Iida, Wataru Yamaguchi, Yoshitaka Teraoka, Yoshihisa Abe
Filed: 5 Jul 17
Utility
Manufacturing method for electronic device
15 Mar 22
The present invention addresses the problem of providing a manufacturing method for an electronic device that is provided with an organic thin film functioning as a sealing film against moisture permeation in an electronic device such as an organic electroluminescence element.
Yukihiro Makishima, Hideo Taka, Hiroshi Kita, Yoshiyuki Suzuri, Lina Yoshida
Filed: 9 Nov 18
Utility
Inspection system, inspection method, and inspection program
15 Mar 22
An inspection system includes: an inspection part that compares a scanned image obtained by scanning a sheet on which an image is formed on the basis of a job with a reference image prepared in advance and thereby performs inspection of the scanned image; and a hardware processor that sets an inspection target page to be a target of inspection and a non-inspection target page to be excluded from inspection, for the job, wherein the hardware processor causes the inspection part to perform inspection for the inspection target page and not to perform inspection for the non-inspection target page on the basis of the setting of the hardware processor, and the hardware processor creates an inspection report including scanned images of all pages of the job including the non-inspection target page.
Takao Kurohata
Filed: 23 Sep 21
Utility
Stacker device and image forming system
15 Mar 22
A stacker device includes: a discharger that discharges sheets in response to a print job; a first tray on which the discharged sheets are stacked; a second tray that serves as a delivery destination of the sheets stacked on the first tray; a shutter that covers an opening on a front side of a housing; a driver that moves the first tray in an up-down direction; and a hardware processor that shuts off power to the driver based on a height position of the shutter and a position of the second tray in a front-rear direction.
Tatsuo Ishizuka, Akira Okamoto, Teruhiko Toyoizumi
Filed: 8 Oct 19
Utility
Recording medium feeder and image forming apparatus
15 Mar 22
A recording medium feeder includes: a first cassette and a second cassette that are disposed side by side in a cross direction and can be pulled out in the same pull-out direction; a housing that houses the first cassette and the second cassette; a transport unit that is disposed above the second cassette in the housing and transports a recording medium sent from the first cassette; and a feeding unit that is disposed in the housing and feeds a recording medium stored in the first cassette toward the transport unit, wherein the transport unit can be pulled out in the same direction as the first cassette and the second cassette, the feeding unit includes a first roller and a second roller that sandwich and transport a recording medium, and the first roller or the second roller releases the sandwiching when the first cassette is pulled out.
Makoto Fujimoto
Filed: 18 Mar 20
Utility
Printed matter foil stamping system, foil stamping print control method, and foil stamping print control program
15 Mar 22
A printed matter foil stamping system includes: a printing device that forms a toner layer or an ink layer on a paper sheet in accordance with print data; and a foil stamping device that performs foil stamping on the toner layer or the ink layer, wherein the printing device or a control device that controls the printing device includes a hardware processor that generates print data capable of forming a portion in which a thickness of the toner layer or the ink layer is relatively large and a portion in which the thickness is relatively small in an area in which foil stamping is to be performed, and, in accordance with the print data, the printing device forms the toner layer or the ink layer having a portion with a relatively large thickness and a portion with a relatively small thickness on the paper sheet.
Tatsuro Yamamuro
Filed: 9 Jul 19
Utility
Test support method for supporting prediction of pathological complete response (pCR) using fluorescent nanoparticles
15 Mar 22
The present invention relates to a test support method which is a means for predicting whether or not pathological complete response (pCR) will be attained when a preoperative chemotherapy with an anticancer drug is performed, the method using a sample (breast cancer tissue section) collected from a breast cancer patient to be subjected to the preoperative chemotherapy.
Hideki Gouda, Masaru Takahashi, Kensaku Takanashi, Hisatake Okada, Yuichi Ozaki, Yuka Yoshihara, Yasushi Nakano, Kohsuke Gonda, Noriaki Ohuchi, Mika Watanabe, Norikazu Masuda, Masakazu Toi, Hiroshi Tada, Minoru Miyashita
Filed: 8 Nov 17
Utility
Image forming apparatus and recording medium
15 Mar 22
Provided is an image forming apparatus including a developer that performs development with toner, the image forming apparatus including a vibrator that applies vibrations to a vibrated portion of the developer, and a hardware processor that controls the vibrator.
Kazutoshi Kobayashi, Tomohiro Kawasaki, Keiki Katsumata, Kei Okamura
Filed: 14 May 21
Utility
Image forming apparatus for adjusting pixels in image data when an ink ejection failure occurs in a nozzle
15 Mar 22
An image forming apparatus includes a hardware processor that: adjusts positions of pixels in image data when an ink ejection failure occurs in a nozzle that forms an image by ejecting ink, so as to reduce an influence of the ink ejection failure when forming an image based on the image data; and adds pixels to an area in the image data where pixels have disappeared due to the adjustment of the hardware processor.
Kazuhiro Kurabayashi
Filed: 10 Jul 20
Utility
Image forming device
15 Mar 22
An image forming device forms images of a plurality of pages on a continuous sheet, and the image forming device includes: a hardware processor that: stores the images to be formed on the sheet in a page unit; writes image data to be stored to the hardware processor from the images of the plurality of pages in the hardware processor as pieces of information on a plurality of pixels arrayed in a first direction and a second direction; reads the image data written in the hardware processor; and acquires a correction amount to correct a deviation between a conveying direction of conveying the sheet to an image former and the second direction of the image data; and the image former that forms the images on the sheet based on the image data read by the hardware processor.
Masato Sakurai
Filed: 16 Mar 21
Utility
Two-dimensional flicker measurement device, two-dimensional flicker measurement system, two-dimensional flicker measurement method, and two-dimensional flicker measurement program
8 Mar 22
A two-dimensional flicker measurement device includes: a two-dimensional imaging device having a partial reading function for reading a part of an imaging region; a setting unit that sets a plurality of parts, which correspond to partial regions each of which includes two or more of measurement regions, in the imaging region; a control unit that acquires a photometric quantity of each of the plurality of partial regions corresponding to the plurality of parts by causing the two-dimensional imaging device to image the measurement target multiple times using the partial reading function with the number of set parts as the number of times of imaging; and a calculation unit that executes processing, which is for calculating flicker amounts of the two or more measurement regions included in the partial region based on the acquired photometric quantity of the partial region, for each of the plurality of partial regions.
Satoshi Masuda
Filed: 10 Sep 18
Utility
Projection display apparatus
8 Mar 22
A projection display apparatus includes a reflective image display element having an image display surface including micromirrors, a prism unit bending an optical path of illumination light and transmitting image light, and a projection optical system.
Masayuki Imaoka
Filed: 6 Feb 17
Utility
Information processing apparatus, program, and information processing system
8 Mar 22
There is provided an information processing apparatus installed in a mobile object, the information processing apparatus including: a hardware processor that detects entry/exit of a user into/from the mobile object; and controls a security level in the mobile object, in accordance with entry/exit of a user into/from the mobile object.
Takehisa Yamaguchi, Takeshi Morikawa
Filed: 10 Jun 20