Patents by Inventor Hideki Kubo

Hideki Kubo has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Publication number: 20220250401
    Abstract: A printing apparatus comprises a decision unit configured to decide a ratio of ink application amounts of the fluorescent ink and the other ink respectively in each of the plurality of scans. The decision unit decides the ratio of the ink application amount of the fluorescent ink in each of the plurality of scans so that the amount of the coloring material of the fluorescent ink in a surface of an ink layer of the printing medium is less than the amount of the coloring material of the fluorescent ink in an inside of the ink layer of the printing medium.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 4, 2022
    Publication date: August 11, 2022
    Inventors: KOUTA MURASAWA, OKINORI TSUCHIYA, HIROMITSU YAMAGUCHI, HIDEKI KUBO
  • Publication number: 20220250395
    Abstract: A printing apparatus comprises a determination unit configured to, in a case where fluorescent ink is used in printing of an image, determine an order of printing by the fluorescent ink and printing by the light emission suppressing ink that suppresses light emission of the fluorescent ink, in the plurality of scans. The determination unit determines the order of the printing by the fluorescent ink and the printing by the light emission suppressing ink such that the fluorescent ink is printed to be in a layer lower than the light emission suppressing ink in a region of a dark portion of the image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 9, 2022
    Publication date: August 11, 2022
    Inventors: OKINORI TSUCHIYA, KOUTA MURASAWA, HIROMITSU YAMAGUCHI, HIDEKI KUBO
  • Patent number: 11312153
    Abstract: The present invention is directed to obtaining an object having an anisotropic reflection characteristic without using a lenticular lens. A print product including a print medium on which a repetitive structure of projected portions and recessed portions is formed out of image forming materials including a color material includes a first layer formed on surfaces of the projected portions out of a first color material among the image forming materials, and a second layer formed on the recessed portions out of a second color material different from the first color material, wherein the projected portions have a height to occlude part of the second layer when observed at an angle different from an angle formed by a normal to a surface of the print medium.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2022
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Hideki Kubo
  • Patent number: 11128848
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes an acquisition unit configured to acquire image data representing an image generated by projecting a first image on a part of a second image using at least one projection apparatus and a control unit configured to control a presentation unit to present, to a user, an area in the second image where the first image is to be projected by the at least one projection apparatus based on the image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 14, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 21, 2021
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Hideki Kubo, Hisashi Ishikawa
  • Patent number: 11104363
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a train operation planning support system displays a timetable of a train in which a first required time and a first buffer time are placed for running time of the train and a second required time and a second buffer time are placed for dwell time of the train. The first required time is time required for a train running between a departure station and an arrival station. The first buffer time is buffer time obtained by subtracting the first required time from running time of the train set as a target value. The second required time is time required for the train stopping at the arrival station. The second buffer time is buffer time obtained by subtracting the second required time from dwell time of the train which is set as a target value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 31, 2021
    Assignees: Toshiba Digital Solutions Corporation, Toshiba Digital & Consulting Corporation
    Inventor: Hideki Kubo
  • Patent number: 11097756
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a moving block signaling headway calculation system recursively executes a process until an interval reaches a limit value. The process includes calculating headway values for a plurality of points on the running section for each interval, extracting a section between adjacent two points, in which an amount of variation in the headway values between the adjacent two points exceeds a threshold value, a section between two points before and after a front point and an end point of a point or a section where a headway value changes from rise to fall, or a section between two points before and after a front point and an end point of a point or a section where a headway value changes from fall to rise, and subdividing the interval in the extracted sections.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 5, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 24, 2021
    Assignees: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA, TOSHIBA DIGITAL SOLUTIONS CORPORATION
    Inventor: Hideki Kubo
  • Publication number: 20210224702
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, an information processing apparatus includes a platform selector configured to select a platform occupied by a vehicle from a plurality of platforms based on platform information including the plurality of platforms and occupation information including a time period in which at least one vehicle occupies at least one of the platforms.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 9, 2020
    Publication date: July 22, 2021
    Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA
    Inventors: Tomoshi OTSUKI, Hideki KUBO
  • Patent number: 10896358
    Abstract: To make it possible to appropriately reproduce a desired color in a case where it is desired to change hue of a specific area on a reproduced image obtained by projecting a projection image onto printed matter in an overlapping manner. In an image processing apparatus, a print image for outputting printed matter by a printer onto which a moving image in which color of an object changes in a time series is projected in an overlapping manner is generated. The image processing apparatus acquires an image at least including the object whose color changes. Then, the image processing apparatus generates the print image by performing saturation reduction processing for an area of the object whose color changes in the acquired image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 21, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 19, 2021
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Kyohei Kikuta, Hideki Kubo, Hisashi Ishikawa
  • Publication number: 20210002088
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a consolidated transportation method arranges a plurality of baggage in a same transportation area and performs transportation. A consolidation determination item is defined. A first baggage corresponding to an easily transferred baggage item in the consolidation determination item is arranged in a first transportation area and transported. A second baggage corresponding to a highly sensitive baggage item in the consolidation determination item is arranged in a second transportation area and transported. A first transporter includes the first transportation area. A second transporter includes the second transportation area. The first transportation area and the second transportation area are physically separated.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 21, 2020
    Publication date: January 7, 2021
    Applicant: TOSHIBA DIGITAL SOLUTIONS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Megumi KOBAYASHI, Yasuto HATAFUKU, Hideo ANDO, Hideki KUBO, Motokazu IWASAKI, Yoko IKEDA, Shinsuke IUCHI, Tatsuki SHIRAISHI, Kiyoshi TAKEMOTO, Kaori KITAMI, Keishi HIGASHI, Michiyo SATO, Masaru WATABIKI
  • Publication number: 20200402408
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a platooning operation system organizes a platoon by making a plurality of vehicles cooperate. The platooning operation system includes an application acceptance processor and a platoon organization processor. The application acceptance processor accepts an application of a vehicle for admission to the platoon. The platoon organization processor which selects a platoon to which the vehicle is to be admitted or determines possibility of admission of the vehicle to the platoon, based on at least one of information on a driver driving the vehicle and information on the vehicle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 8, 2020
    Publication date: December 24, 2020
    Applicant: TOSHIBA DIGITAL SOLUTIONS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Megumi KOBAYASHI, Yasuto HATAFUKU, Hideki KUBO, Motokazu IWASAKI, Yoko IKEDA, Shinsuke IUCHI, Kiyoshi TAKEMOTO, Kaori KITAMI, Keishi HIGASHI, Tatsuki SHIRAISHI, Michiyo SATO, Masaru WATABIKI
  • Publication number: 20200391775
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus according to an embodiment includes a diagram processor configured to calculate, based on a first diagram of first to n-th train lines including at least one time of: times of departure of a vehicle from stop positions, times of arrival of the vehicle at the stop positions, and times of pass of the vehicle through the stop positions, an adjustment amount of the time; and an output diagram creator configured to create a second diagram based on the calculated adjustment amount and the first diagram.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 12, 2020
    Publication date: December 17, 2020
    Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA
    Inventors: Tomoshi OTSUKI, Hideki Kubo, Hideyuki Aisu, Takufumi Yoshida
  • Publication number: 20200298882
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a transport service method comprises organizing a vehicle group of a plurality of self-driving vehicles in which a parameter value inherent to vehicles falls within a predetermined range, and controlling cooperative travel of the self-driving vehicles in the vehicle group to perform transport service of baggage, persons, animals, and the like.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 5, 2020
    Publication date: September 24, 2020
    Applicant: TOSHIBA DIGITAL SOLUTIONS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Megumi KOBAYASHI, Yasuto HATAFUKU, Masahiro SAMEJIMA, Hideki KUBO, Motokazu IWASAKI, Yoko IKEDA, Shinsuke IUCHI, Kiyoshi TAKEMOTO, Keishi HIGASHI, Kaori KITAMI, Masaharu DOI, Tatsuki SHIRAISHI, Keiji OGATA, Yoshiki YAMAOKA, Masaru WATABIKI, Takeshi NAGAI, Masao UOZUMI, Masatomo SAITO, Michiyo SATO, Masanori TAKAHASHI
  • Publication number: 20200304682
    Abstract: An image-processing apparatus generates data to be outputted to formation unit which form a shaped article on a recording medium. An acquisition unit acquire first shape data that represents a shape of unevenness, A first generation unit generate edge data that represents a shape of an edge of the unevenness, based on the first shape data. A second generation unit generate first recording amount data that represents a recording amount of a first recording material that is used to form at least a part of the edge in the edge data on the recording medium, or first dot arrangement data that represents dot arrangement of the first recording material on the recording medium, based on the edge data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 10, 2020
    Publication date: September 24, 2020
    Inventor: Hideki Kubo
  • Publication number: 20200254779
    Abstract: The present invention is directed to obtaining an object having an anisotropic reflection characteristic without using a lenticular lens. A print product including a print medium on which a repetitive structure of projected portions and recessed portions is formed out of image forming materials including a color material includes a first layer formed on surfaces of the projected portions out of a first color material among the image forming materials, and a second layer formed on the recessed portions out of a second color material different from the first color material, wherein the projected portions have a height to occlude part of the second layer when observed at an angle different from an angle formed by a normal to a surface of the print medium.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 26, 2020
    Publication date: August 13, 2020
    Inventor: Hideki Kubo
  • Publication number: 20200156679
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, an information processing apparatus includes processing circuitry. The processing circuitry reads out diagram information indicating a schedule of at least one vehicle tripping along a trip path, wherein the diagram information includes a plurality of events and the events include stop places and departure times from and/or arrival times at the stop places, and calculates a delay probability distribution for a first event of the plurality of events included in the diagram information. The processing circuitry calculates the delay probability distribution for the first event based on: event-to-event delay time information between the first event and a second event preceding the first event; and a required time interval between the first event and the second event.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 11, 2019
    Publication date: May 21, 2020
    Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA
    Inventors: Tomoshi OTSUKI, Hideo SAKAMOTO, Hideyuki AISU, Takufumi YOSHIDA, Hideki KUBO
  • Publication number: 20200039548
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a train operation planning support system displays a timetable of a train in which a first required time and a first buffer time are placed for running time of the train and a second required time and a second buffer time are placed for dwell time of the train. The first required time is time required for a train running between a departure station and an arrival station. The first buffer time is buffer time obtained by subtracting the first required time from running time of the train set as a target value. The second required time is time required for the train stopping at the arrival station. The second buffer time is buffer time obtained by subtracting the second required time from dwell time of the train which is set as a target value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 12, 2019
    Publication date: February 6, 2020
    Applicants: Toshiba Digital Solutions Corporation, Toshiba Digital & Consulting Corporation
    Inventor: Hideki KUBO
  • Patent number: 10538113
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus which generates data for forming a shaped object configured of at least a first layer and a second layer as layers of recording materials on a recording medium, the image processing apparatus includes an acquisition unit configured to acquire data relating to a shape of the first layer and data for expressing a reflection characteristic of the second layer, an estimation unit configured to estimate a reflection characteristic at each predetermined area of the shaped object based on the reflection characteristic data and the shape data, and a generation unit configured to generate at least any one of recording amount data for expressing a recording amount of the recording material and dot arrangement data corresponding to dot arrangement of the recording material on the recording medium in order to form on the recording medium the shaped object having the reflection characteristic estimated by the estimation unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2020
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Hideki Kubo
  • Publication number: 20190364252
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes an acquisition unit configured to acquire image data representing an image generated by projecting a first image on a part of a second image using at least one projection apparatus and a control unit configured to control a presentation unit to present, to a user, an area in the second image where the first image is to be projected by the at least one projection apparatus based on the image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 14, 2019
    Publication date: November 28, 2019
    Inventors: Hideki Kubo, Hisashi Ishikawa
  • Publication number: 20190362202
    Abstract: To make it possible to appropriately reproduce a desired color in a case where it is desired to change hue of a specific area on a reproduced image obtained by projecting a projection image onto printed matter in an overlapping manner. In an image processing apparatus, a print image for outputting printed matter by a printer onto which a moving image in which color of an object changes in a time series is projected in an overlapping manner is generated. The image processing apparatus acquires an image at least including the object whose color changes. Then, the image processing apparatus generates the print image by performing saturation reduction processing for an area of the object whose color changes in the acquired image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 21, 2019
    Publication date: November 28, 2019
    Inventors: Kyohei Kikuta, Hideki Kubo, Hisashi Ishikawa
  • Patent number: 10481476
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus is provided for generating data used to form on a recording medium an uneven layer on which a plurality of unit areas each having a projection are arranged, including: a first obtaining unit that obtains first brightness information regarding a brightness of a predetermined area of an object observed in a first viewing direction and a brightness of the predetermined area of the object observed in a second viewing direction having an elevation angle different from that of the first viewing direction; and a first generation unit that generates first recording amount data that indicates a recording amount of recording material used to form the uneven layer on the recording medium, the uneven layer being formed such that at least one of a width of each of the unit areas and a height of the projection changes, on a basis of the first brightness information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 20, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2019
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Hideki Kubo