320 patents
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Utility
Information providing apparatus
8 Jun 20
An information providing apparatus installed in a moving body includes one or more processors, and a memory, the memory storing instructions, which when executed by the one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to display, by a display unit, an information providing image as a virtual image, and control the display unit to change a display position of the information providing image.
Hiroshi Yamaguchi, Kenichiroh Saisho, Masato Kusanagi, Yuuki Suzuki, Keita Katagiri
Filed: 6 Aug 18
Utility
Detector, image forming apparatus, reading apparatus, and adjustment method
8 Jun 20
A detector includes a light source to irradiate an object with light, a sensor to image a first pattern and a second pattern formed on the object with the light irradiated by the light source to generate image data, the first pattern and the second pattern imaged by the sensor at different times, and a circuit to control the light source to adjust a light quantity of the light according to a type of the object and irradiate the object with the light quantity adjusted according to the type of the object, and calculate a relative position of the object between the first pattern and the second pattern.
Takeo Shirato, Mitsunobu Gohda, Tomoaki Hayashi
Filed: 11 Jun 18
Utility
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8 Jun 20
A shared terminal includes: circuitry to control a display to display an image to a plurality of users, the plurality of users sharing a use of the shared terminal, and obtain, from a first privately-owned terminal owned by a first user of the plurality of users, first terminal identification information for identifying the first privately-owned terminal; a transmitter to transmit, to a terminal management server, an authentication request for authenticating the first privately-owned terminal to allow login of the first user into the shared terminal, the authentication request including the first terminal identification information of the first privately-owned terminal; and a receiver to receive an authentication result indicating whether the first privately-owned terminal is authenticated to allow login of the first user, from the terminal management server.
Shiho Katsuragi, Yoshinaga Kato
Filed: 7 Sep 17
Utility
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8 Jun 20
Takuya Saiga, Satoyuki Sekiguchi, Ryo Miyakoshi, Daisuke Asahina
Filed: 14 May 17
Utility
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8 Jun 20
An imaging device includes: an optical system which obtains an optical image of a photographic subject; an image sensor which converts the optical image to an electric signal; a digital signal processor which produces image data based on the electric signal; a display section which displays a photographic subject image expressed by the image data; and an operating section which performs a necessary setting regarding imaging, the digital signal processor including: an autofocus operation section which performs an autofocus operation based on data of an autofocus area set in the photographic subject image; a main area setting section which sets a main area in the photographic subject image; and a blurring operation section which performs a blurring operation on an area other than the main area in the photographic subject image, wherein the autofocus area is set automatically to overlap with at least a part of the main area.
Seiji Nagao
Filed: 17 Jul 18
Utility
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8 Jun 20
A fixing device includes a heater including a heat generator that is divided into a plurality of heat generating portions in an axial direction of the endless belt.
Yuusuke Furuichi, Yukimichi Someya, Tomoya Adachi
Filed: 30 Jan 19
Utility
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8 Jun 20
An imaging system includes an imaging unit, a detecting unit, a recording unit, a correcting unit, and a video generating unit.
Hideaki Yamamoto
Filed: 12 Nov 15
Utility
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8 Jun 20
A heating device includes a belt that rotates in a rotation direction and has a temperature decrease span in an axial direction of the belt, where the belt is susceptible to temperature decrease.
Yukimichi Someya, Tomoya Adachi, Yuusuke Furuichi
Filed: 14 Feb 19
Utility
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8 Jun 20
An apparatus, system, and method are provided, each of which: obtains a first image in a first projection, and a second image in a second projection; obtains area specification information specifying an area in the second image; and associates location information to be used for superimposing the second image on the first image with the area specification information, or generates location information based on the area specification information.
Hiroshi Suitoh, Takahiro Asai, Keiichi Kawaguchi, Kazuhiro Yoshida
Filed: 14 Mar 18
Utility
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8 Jun 20
Systems and methods are provided for dynamically splitting print jobs to reduce the time taken to start printing those jobs, allowing those jobs to be printed on a wider range of printers more efficiently.
Gerald Donald Boldt, Michael Glen Lotz, Jeffrey Alan Sikkink, Joseph Wayne Stradling, Marquis G. Waller
Filed: 19 Jan 16
Utility
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8 Jun 20
An information processing device includes a first display control unit, and a second display control unit.
Michinari Shinohara, Hideaki Yamagata
Filed: 23 Jan 19
Utility
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8 Jun 20
A permanent magnet motor is provided, which includes a rotor including a rotation axle and a plurality of magnetized rotor magnets on a periphery, which rotor magnets are magnetized to form alternately N-poles and S-poles; first and second ring-shaped-claw-pole units, whose inner circumferences face the rotor magnets, including a plurality of first and second claw-poles along the inner circumference, the first and the second claw-poles being closely adjacent to each other extending alternately in upward and downward axis directions of the rotation axle, bottom sides of the first and the second claw-poles forming a ring shape.
Takashi Hashimoto, Takahisa Koike, Haruyuki Suzuki, Eiki Yoshimizu, Norihiro Yamamoto
Filed: 22 Nov 15
Utility
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8 Jun 20
A disclosed control system configured to control transmission of content data between communication terminals includes one or more processors, and a memory storing instructions that, when executed by the one or more processors, cause the control system to receive a transmission request including attribute information indicating an attribute of the content data for transmitting the content data from a first communication terminal, and perform control for transmitting the content data to a second communication terminal specified based on the destination information in response to the attribute information being in a predetermined format, the predetermined format including destination information indicating a destination of the content data and to perform control for transmitting the content data to a third communication terminal that has requested reception of the content data having the attribute indicated by the attribute information in response to the attribute information not being in the predetermined format.
Atsushi Miyamoto, Naoki Umehara, Hiroshi Hinohara, Takeshi Horiuchi, Takuya Soneda
Filed: 31 May 18
Utility
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8 Jun 20
An information processing apparatus includes a memory to store information of a display status of setting item buttons used for selecting corresponding setting items on a screen, and information of at least one of the setting items corresponding to an error that occurs during information processing as an error-occurred setting item, and circuitry to detect occurrence of the error during the information processing, determine whether a setting item button corresponding to the error-occurred setting item is displayed or not on the screen when the occurrence of the error is detected during the information processing, and display the setting item button corresponding to the error-occurred setting item on the screen based on a determination that the setting item button corresponding to the error-occurred setting item is not displayed on the screen when the occurrence of the error is detected during the information processing.
Yuto Shibata
Filed: 27 May 19
Utility
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3 Jun 20
A network system includes: a memory to store an information table storing a plurality of terminal identification information identifying a plurality of information terminals respectively in association with a plurality of face information; an authentication server disposed on a network; a camera; and an access point that allows one or more of the plurality of information terminals to connect to the network.
KAZUKI KITAZAWA
Filed: 10 Oct 19
Utility
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3 Jun 20
A light deflection device includes a substrate including a planar portion and a recess; a spacer member disposed at a bottom of the recess; a supporting section disposed on the spacer member; a movable part rotatably supported by the supporting section and having a reflecting surface configured to reflect light at a height equal to or higher than a height of the planar portion; and a light transmissive member disposed on the planar portion and covering the movable part.
KAZUHIKO ADACHI
Filed: 1 Oct 19
Utility
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3 Jun 20
A contact-separation mechanism includes a cam to rotate to move a contact-separation member to and from a counterpart member, a detection target to rotate together with the cam, and a detector to detect presence or absence of the detection target in a detection area of the detector, and circuitry.
SHIGEO NANNO, Kimihiro Tanaka, Tamotsu Ikeda, Kenji Tomita, Osamu Saito
Filed: 6 Oct 19
Utility
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3 Jun 20
An image forming apparatus includes an image bearer, a writing device, a partition, and a plurality of side members.
Hiroaki TAKAGI
Filed: 25 Nov 19
Utility
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3 Jun 20
A post-processing apparatus includes a binding tool configured to bind a sheet bundle, a binding tool driver, and control circuitry.
Shinji TANOUE, Katsuji YAMAGUCHI, Akikazu IWATA, Ken SAWADA
Filed: 29 Oct 19
Utility
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3 Jun 20
A fixing device includes a fixing belt stretched taut around a plurality of supports, a pressure rotator to form a fixing nip between the fixing belt and the pressure rotator, a belt polishing mechanism to polish the fixing belt.
Daisuke ARAI
Filed: 23 Oct 19