Patents Assigned to Konica Minolta, Inc.
  • Patent number: 11907594
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus according to the present disclosure includes: a hardware processor configured to control an image former on a basis of a job pertaining to a printing execution command. The hardware processor is configured to divide the job pertaining to the printing execution command into a plurality of short jobs, and configured to stop conveyance of the roll sheet and forcibly eject degraded toner from a developing device of the image former at a pause timing between short jobs temporally adjacent to each other among the plurality of short jobs; and the hardware processor sets a job content of each of the plurality of short jobs such that an image of a printing target is inverted upside down for each job switching of the plurality of short jobs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: Konica Minolta, Inc.
    Inventor: Ken Miyazaki
  • Patent number: 11903765
    Abstract: An ultrasonic diagnostic apparatus includes: an ultrasonic probe that transmits/receives ultrasonic waves; a camera that captures a subject; an ultrasonic image generator that generates an ultrasonic image of the subject based on a reception signal acquired from the ultrasonic probe; a first hardware processor that generates a display image including a camera image acquired from the camera and an ultrasonic image acquired from the ultrasonic image generator; and a second hardware processor that decides a display style of the camera image to be arranged in the display image in accordance with an operation mode of the ultrasonic diagnostic apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 21, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: Konica Minolta, Inc.
    Inventors: Toshio Oka, Takashi Sakai
  • Patent number: 11909932
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes: a sensor configured to detect first information related to a physical property value of a sheet, the sheet to have an image formed thereon; and a processor configured to: obtain second information related to a brand of the sheet; and store the first information and the second information in a memory, the first information being detected by the sensor, the second information being obtained by the processor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: Konica Minolta, Inc.
    Inventors: Takahiro Tsujimoto, Akinori Kimata, Kenichi Hayashi, Noriyuki Jinbo, Shiro Umeda
  • Patent number: 11906919
    Abstract: A recording medium determination device includes a light emitter, a light detector, and a hardware processor. The light emitter emits inspection light to a recording medium. The light detector detects incident light including at least one of diffuse reflected light of the inspection light emitted to the recording medium and fluorescent light excited by the inspection light in the recording medium. The hardware processor makes a determination depending on a property of the recording medium based on a detection result of first incident light of the incident light in accordance with first inspection light of the inspection light and second incident light of the incident light in accordance with second inspection light of the inspection light obtained by the light detector. The second inspection light has an intensity whose peak wavelength is shorter than the peak wavelength of the first inspection light.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 5, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.
    Inventors: Shohei Dokiya, Daisuke Kobayashi, Masahiko Takahashi, Makoto Ooki, Takafumi Yuasa, Takaki Uemura
  • Patent number: 11909937
    Abstract: A processing system includes a hardware processor. The hardware processor obtains first read data of a sample image for image data included in user desired job data for image formation, searches job data stored in a storage section for data of a similar image to an image included in the obtained first read data to detect the data of the similar image, outputs a list of the detected data of the similar image, causes an image forming apparatus to form an image based on selected data selected from the data included in the list, obtains second read data of the formed image, and performs color adjustment on the selected data based on the first read data and the second read data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 3, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.
    Inventor: Tanmoy Majumder
  • Publication number: 20240053466
    Abstract: A vital data acquisition system includes a hardware processor that: sets an identified region, based on imaged information; acquires vital data based on a detection result from a sensor; and determines whether the identified region is correctly set based on the vital data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 9, 2023
    Publication date: February 15, 2024
    Applicant: Konica Minolta, Inc.
    Inventor: Atsuhiro Naka
  • Patent number: 11896418
    Abstract: A non-transitory recording medium storing a computer readable program that causes a computer of a moving image management apparatus, which manages a radiographic moving image, to perform: obtaining that is obtaining a first radiographic moving image and a second radiographic moving image, the first radiographic moving image showing a movement of a subject while breathing is repeated a first number of times per unit time, and the second radiographic moving image showing a movement of the subject while breathing is repeated a second number of times that is different from the first number of times per the unit time; and associating that is associating respective numbers of breaths during imagings with the first radiographic moving image and the second radiographic moving image that are obtained in the obtaining.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 7, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.
    Inventors: Akinori Tsunomori, Taketoh Muraoka
  • Patent number: 11902474
    Abstract: An image reading apparatus includes: a reader that reads an image formed on a print medium; and a backing part that is disposed at a position facing the reader and is capable of switching a color of a portion to be a background of the print medium upon reading by the reader to a plurality of colors according to a type of the print medium and/or a color read from the print medium.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.
    Inventor: Kenji Kawatsu
  • Patent number: 11899999
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes: a former that performs image formation on a sheet conveyed on a conveyance path; a first hardware processor that detects a type of the sheet on which the image is formed; a second hardware processor that receives specification of a type of a sheet from a user; and a third hardware processor that receives a user setting regarding the image formation, wherein the user setting includes a setting for allowing the former to continuously perform the image formation in a case where the sheet type detected by the first hardware processor is different from the sheet type specified by the user received by the second hardware processor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 25, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: Konica Minolta, Inc.
    Inventors: Akinori Kimata, Kenichi Hayashi, Shiro Umeda, Yukinobu Iguchi, Satoru Sasaki
  • Patent number: 11902672
    Abstract: A flicker measurement device includes a first processing unit that performs a first process of calculating respective flicker values of a plurality of measurement regions set on a measurement object based on a photometric quantity of the measurement object obtained from the measurement object under a measurement condition of a flicker for each of the plurality of measurement conditions stored in advance in a measurement condition storage unit, a second processing unit that performs a second process of generating linked data in which data composed of the respective flicker values of the plurality of measurement regions calculated by the first processing unit and the measurement conditions are linked for each of the plurality of measurement conditions, and a third processing unit that performs a third process of storing the linked data generated by the second processing unit in a linked data storage unit for each of the plurality of measurement conditions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 20, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: Konica Minolta, Inc.
    Inventor: Katsuki Imai
  • Patent number: 11896430
    Abstract: A portable ultrasound image diagnostic apparatus includes a first housing, a second housing including a display panel, a connector, and an ultrasound probe. The connector connects the first housing and a lower edge portion of the second housing so that the second housing is rotatable to be overlapped on the first housing to fold the portable ultrasound image diagnostic apparatus. The connector is provided at a position between a center of the first housing and a front side of the first housing. The second housing is rotatable towards a rear side of the first housing with a horizontal axis of the connector as a supporting axis to open the portable ultrasound image diagnostic apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 5, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.
    Inventors: Hisayoshi Nagase, Takahiko Shiraishi, Tatsushi Chihara
  • Publication number: 20240045175
    Abstract: An imaging optical system includes, in order from an object side, first, second, third, fourth, fifth and sixth lenses. The first lens has negative power and an object side surface having a convex shape. The second lens has positive power and a meniscus shape being convex toward the object side. The third lens has positive power. The fourth lens has negative power. The fifth lens is a biconvex lens that has positive power. The sixth lens has positive or negative power, has an image side surface, and has an extreme value other than an intersection point with an optical axis on the image side surface of the sixth lens. The imaging optical system satisfies a conditional expression (1); 1.5<f2/f<3.5. The f2 represents a focal length of the second lens, and the f represents a focal length of the imaging optical system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 18, 2023
    Publication date: February 8, 2024
    Applicants: Konica Minolta, Inc., KONICA MINOLTA OPTO (DALIAN) CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Akihiro Kondo, Zhiyu Huang
  • Publication number: 20240048400
    Abstract: A control apparatus includes a hardware processor that obtains information on volume of a sound in a conference room detected by a sound detection device that detects the sound in the conference room during a conference in the conference room, derives an index value that represents risk of information leakage due to sound leakage, based at least on the obtained information on the volume of the sound in the conference room, and causes an output device or an information terminal device installed in the conference room to issue an alert, if the index value is equal to or more than a predetermined threshold.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 29, 2023
    Publication date: February 8, 2024
    Applicant: Konica Minolta, Inc.
    Inventor: Tomohiro IWASE
  • Patent number: 11895428
    Abstract: A control apparatus connected to a plurality of radiographic imaging apparatuses, includes a receiver that receives state information indicating whether a state is a first state in which the radiographic imaging apparatus is not connected to or synchronized with a specific synchronization source or a second state in which the radiographic imaging apparatus is connected to and synchronized with the specific synchronization source, from each of the plurality of radiographic imaging apparatuses, a hardware processor that makes a first determination that at least one of the plurality of radiographic imaging apparatuses is in the first state or a second determination that all of the plurality of radiographic imaging apparatuses are in the second state, based on the state information received from each of the plurality of radiographic imaging apparatuses, and an outputter that outputs whether a determination result by the hardware processor is the first determination or the second determination.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 20, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.
    Inventor: Masahiro Kuwata
  • Patent number: 11892350
    Abstract: A device for measuring two-dimensional flicker of the present application includes a plurality of two-dimensional sensors having a partial readout function of reading out only a pixel value of some of photoelectric conversion elements included in set partial readout regions, among a plurality of photoelectric conversion elements. In the device for measuring two-dimensional flicker, a plurality of measurement regions are set two-dimensionally on a measurement target object. Each pixel in the plurality of measurement regions is individually acquired, by setting each of the plurality of partial readout regions of the plurality of two-dimensional sensors in each of a plurality of partial imaging regions obtained by dividing an entire imaging region including entirely the measurement target object. A flicker value of the plurality of measurement regions is individually obtained based on each pixel value in the plurality of measurement regions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.
    Inventor: Satoshi Masuda
  • Patent number: 11890871
    Abstract: A method of driving an inkjet head having a nozzle and a pressure generator, a plurality of droplets of the ink discharged in response to a series of the drive signals being caused to hit a recording medium to form a single pixel. The method includes, applying, to the pressure generator, the series of the drive signals including a first one of the drive signals that has a first voltage amplitude and a second one of the drive signals that has a second voltage amplitude larger than the first voltage amplitude. A last drive signal in the series of the drive signals is the second one of the drive signals. The first voltage amplitude and the second voltage amplitude are determined such that a ratio of (first voltage amplitude)/(second voltage amplitude) has a value corresponding to a specific gravity of the ink to be discharged.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.
    Inventors: Xinze Li, Yasuhiko Suetomi
  • Publication number: 20240036503
    Abstract: [Problem] To provide a stiffness measuring device capable of highly accurately measuring the stiffness of a recording material such as a sheet, and an image forming system equipped with the stiffness measuring device. [Solution] A stiffness measuring device includes a holding portion that holds a recording material so that a recording surface of the recording material is substantially parallel to a vertical direction, a pressing portion, and a stiffness acquiring section. The pressing portion presses a measurement point located on a lower side in the vertical direction than the portion of the recording material held by the holding portion. The stiffness acquiring section measure a reaction force obtained when the measurement point is pressed by the pressing portion and acquires the measured reaction force as the stiffness of the recording material.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 11, 2023
    Publication date: February 1, 2024
    Applicant: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.
    Inventors: Yasuo KOYANAGI, Kazumichi YOSHIDA, Yoshihito SASAMOTO, Kazutoshi YOSHIMURA
  • Publication number: 20240040045
    Abstract: An image inspection device includes a processor coupled to a sensor. The processor reads, using the sensor, an image formed on a recording material by an image forming device and creates a read image; causes an analysis to detect an abnormality in the read image and creates an analysis result; and creates a normal image file including the read image in which the abnormality has not been detected based on the analysis result.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 11, 2023
    Publication date: February 1, 2024
    Applicant: Konica Minolta, Inc.
    Inventor: Makoto Oki
  • Patent number: 11889036
    Abstract: Provided is an image forming system in which an image forming apparatus is connected to a post-processing apparatus having a function of trimming. The image forming system includes: a repeat setting part that determines either: a setting of a scan size of a scan image per one printed reproduction of the scan image, the one printed reproduction being to be laid out by imposition of the scan image; or a setting of the imposition of the scan image according to the scan size of the scan image; a trimming setting part that determines either: a setting of a card size of cards to be obtained by trimming a recording medium; or a setting of a trimming area for the cards; and a coordination part that coordinates the repeat setting part and the trimming setting part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.
    Inventor: Akio Ueda
  • Patent number: 11886145
    Abstract: Provided is an electrostatic charge image developing toner including toner matrix particles containing at least a binder resin, wherein a photosensitizer having a singlet oxygen generating ability is contained inside the toner matrix particles or in an external additive attached to the toner matrix particles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.
    Inventor: Akihiko Itami