Patents by Inventor Ken Miyazaki
Ken Miyazaki 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).
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Publication number: 20190322476Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes: a sheet profile setter; a conveyer; an image former that forms an image on a sheet conveyed by the conveyer in accordance with an image forming condition; a sheet physical property measurer that makes measurement of a physical property value of the sheet; a conformity determiner that makes determination of conformity between the sheet fed from the sheet feed tray and a sheet indicated by the sheet profile set in the sheet feed tray; and a notifier that determines which has been performed more recently between insertion of the sheet into the sheet feed tray and setting of the sheet profile to the sheet feed tray before the measurement so as to send a notification of a result of the determination, by a first notification method in a former case and by a second notification method in a latter case.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 5, 2019Publication date: October 24, 2019Applicant: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.Inventor: Ken MIYAZAKI
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Patent number: 10235613Abstract: An image forming device having a paper profile function of managing characteristics of paper to be used, thereby enabling to set image quality/portability that are dependent on the paper, includes: a display that displays a paper-profile call screen; and a hardware processor that causes the display to differently display items of the paper-profile call screen between at the time of job setting in which a kind of paper is set and at the time of tray setting in which a tray is set.Type: GrantFiled: August 15, 2017Date of Patent: March 19, 2019Assignee: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.Inventor: Ken Miyazaki
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Publication number: 20190070871Abstract: An image forming apparatus is connected to a paper processing apparatus and includes an image forming unit, a nip part and a hardware processor. The image forming unit performs image forming on continuous paper being conveyed on a conveyance path. The nip part nips the paper on the conveyance path. The processor selectively performs first control and second control according to an output timing of a conveyance control signal if the signal is output from the paper processing apparatus or the image forming apparatus. In the first control, the processor notifies the paper processing apparatus of permission to start or stop conveying the paper after causing the nip part to perform a press-and-contact operation or a separation operation. In the second control, the processor notifies the paper processing apparatus of the permission without causing the nip part to perform either operation.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 29, 2018Publication date: March 7, 2019Applicant: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.Inventors: Masahiro MATSUO, Shingo SASAMI, Ken MIYAZAKI, Makoto UI, Motoki NAKAMICHI, Tomoo KUDO
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Publication number: 20180053076Abstract: An image forming device having a paper profile function of managing characteristics of paper to be used, thereby enabling to set image quality/portability that are dependent on the paper, includes: a display that displays a paper-profile call screen; and a hardware processor that causes the display to differently display items of the paper-profile call screen between at the time of job setting in which a kind of paper is set and at the time of tray setting in which a tray is set.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 15, 2017Publication date: February 22, 2018Applicant: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.Inventor: Ken MIYAZAKI
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Patent number: 9870117Abstract: Disclosed is a processing apparatus, which makes it possible to make a cursor automatically move by employing a pointing device. The processing apparatus includes a control section and a processing section that implements processing under the controlling operations conducted by the control section.Type: GrantFiled: September 15, 2014Date of Patent: January 16, 2018Assignee: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.Inventors: Shin Ohba, Takatsugu Kuno, Ken Miyazaki, Hiroshi Shimura, Shigeo Konuma
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Publication number: 20170277099Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes: an image forming unit configured to form an image on a continuous transfer medium on the basis of image data of a job; and a controller configured to manage the job and control the image forming unit, wherein the controller has a function of adjusting an image print position on the continuous transfer medium when a job medium width size specified in the job is different from a fed medium width size used in printing.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 23, 2017Publication date: September 28, 2017Applicant: Konica Minolta, Inc.Inventor: Ken Miyazaki
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Patent number: 9661176Abstract: Illustration image data drawn correspondingly to reading of an adjustment chart are memorized in a memory section, an adjustment chart is formed in a image mode in an image forming section, adjustment image data produced by reading the adjustment chart in an image reading section are analyzed, illustration image data corresponding to an analysis result of the adjustment image data are selected at the time of adjusting the image forming section based on the analysis result, and display data of the illustration image data are produced.Type: GrantFiled: July 31, 2015Date of Patent: May 23, 2017Assignee: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.Inventor: Ken Miyazaki
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Publication number: 20170094097Abstract: An image formation section that forms an image on a transfer medium, a memory section that records transfer medium information on the transfer medium, and a control section that controls an image formation apparatus are provided, and the control section has a memorandum function of recording at least setting information relating to the transfer medium in the form of a memorandum in the memory section. The content of the memorandum is memorized as part of the transfer medium information or in relation to the transfer medium information.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 29, 2016Publication date: March 30, 2017Applicant: Konica Minolta, Inc.Inventor: Ken Miyazaki
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Patent number: 9304468Abstract: A memory section 1013, an image forming section 150, a control section 101, and a density detecting section 220 to detect a density of an image are disposed. when performing density adjustment by forming a density patch on a sheet with the image forming section, receiving the density detection result of the density patch, and adjusting the image forming section based on the density detection result such that a highest density with the toner coincides with a target density, a target density-compliant sheet profile which is a sheet profile including sheet setting for a sheet used at the time of determining the target density and the target density are memorized in the memory section; and the image forming section is adjusted based on the target density-compliant sheet profile and the target density such that the highest density coincides with the target density.Type: GrantFiled: November 21, 2014Date of Patent: April 5, 2016Assignee: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.Inventor: Ken Miyazaki
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Publication number: 20160044184Abstract: Illustration image data drawn correspondingly to reading of an adjustment chart are memorized in a memory section, an adjustment chart is formed in a image mode in an image forming section, adjustment image data produced by reading the adjustment chart in an image reading section are analyzed, illustration image data corresponding to an analysis result of the adjustment image data are selected at the time of adjusting the image forming section based on the analysis result, and display data of the illustration image data are produced.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 31, 2015Publication date: February 11, 2016Applicant: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.Inventor: Ken MIYAZAKI
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Publication number: 20150153697Abstract: A memory section 1013, an image forming section 150, a control section 101, and a density detecting section 220 to detect a density of an image are disposed. when performing density adjustment by forming a density patch on a sheet with the image forming section, receiving the density detection result of the density patch, and adjusting the image forming section based on the density detection result such that a highest density with the toner coincides with a target density, a target density-compliant sheet profile which is a sheet profile including sheet setting for a sheet used at the time of determining the target density and the target density are memorized in the memory section; and the image forming section is adjusted based on the target density-compliant sheet profile and the target density such that the highest density coincides with the target density.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 21, 2014Publication date: June 4, 2015Inventor: Ken MIYAZAKI
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Patent number: 8995848Abstract: Disclosed is an image forming apparatus including: an image forming unit to form an image on paper fed from the selected feed tray; a density sensor to measure a density of the image formed on the paper; and a control unit to control execution of an output paper density adjustment in accordance with a result obtained by forming a test image on the paper by using the image forming unit and by measuring the density of the test image formed on the paper by using the density sensor, wherein the control unit executes the output paper density adjustment by changing the feed tray for feeding the paper, from the feed tray designated in a print job to the substitute feed tray at a predetermined timing while the print job is executed, regardless of the paper setting information related to the substitute feed tray.Type: GrantFiled: February 12, 2013Date of Patent: March 31, 2015Assignee: Konica Minolta Business Technologies, Inc.Inventor: Ken Miyazaki
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Publication number: 20150082254Abstract: Disclosed is a processing apparatus, which makes it possible to make a cursor automatically move by employing a pointing device. The processing apparatus includes a control section and a processing section that implements processing under the controlling operations conducted by the control section.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 15, 2014Publication date: March 19, 2015Inventors: Shin OHBA, Takatsugu Kuno, Ken Miyazaki, Hiroshi Shimura, Shigeo Konuma
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Publication number: 20140376017Abstract: To enable display of many menus on a menu screen of a display unit without impairing operability and facilitate retrieval of desired setting menu, a display device allowing operation by two or more different input units including a first input unit and a second input unit includes a display unit for performing at least menu display, and a control unit for controlling the input units, and for controlling display and/or operation output of the display unit according to operation of the input units, wherein the control unit is capable of displaying, on the display unit, a first input unit operation screen that accommodates operation by the first input unit and that includes display of a setting item, and a second input unit operation screen that accommodates operation by the second input unit and that includes display of a larger number of setting items than the first input unit operation screen.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 9, 2014Publication date: December 25, 2014Inventor: Ken Miyazaki
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Patent number: 8736904Abstract: An image forming system includes: a plurality of image forming apparatus each having a storage section; a density conversion data registering section obtaining density conversion data composed of a combination of a voltage value and a density value as colorimetry results of a color sensor and an external colorimeter, respectively, and storing the data into the storage section of the apparatus which forms a density correcting chart to be used for the colorimetry; a paper setting section storing a tray paper profile or a paper profile into a paper setting storage section, with the profiles correlated with at least one piece of the data obtained by the density conversion data registering section; and a correction controlling section making the plurality of image forming apparatus perform printer ? correction based on the data correlated with the paper profile or the tray paper profile at a time of the image formation.Type: GrantFiled: November 8, 2011Date of Patent: May 27, 2014Assignee: Konica Minolta Business Technologies, Inc.Inventor: Ken Miyazaki
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Patent number: 8705130Abstract: An image formation device includes a printing portion containing a detachable fixer, a fixer identification portion which identifies a type of fixer mounted on the image formation device, a sensor which reads an image printed on a paper by the printing portion, a gamma correction data generating portion which generates gamma correction data by reading a gamma correction chart printed on a paper by the printing portion and stores the generated gamma correction data in a memory medium such that the gamma correction data is associated with a type of the fixer and a type of the paper that are used for printing the gamma correction chart, and printer gamma correction portion which performs printer gamma correction on an image data to be printed based on the gamma correction data stored in the memory medium corresponding to the paper type and the fixer type used for printing.Type: GrantFiled: October 17, 2012Date of Patent: April 22, 2014Assignee: Konica Minolta Business Technologies, Inc.Inventor: Ken Miyazaki
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Publication number: 20130216244Abstract: Disclosed is an image forming apparatus including: an image forming unit to form an image on paper fed from the selected feed tray; a density sensor to measure a density of the image formed on the paper; and a control unit to control execution of an output paper density adjustment in accordance with a result obtained by forming a test image on the paper by using the image forming unit and by measuring the density of the test image formed on the paper by using the density sensor, wherein the control unit executes the output paper density adjustment by changing the feed tray for feeding the paper, from the feed tray designated in a print job to the substitute feed tray at a predetermined timing while the print job is executed, regardless of the paper setting information related to the substitute feed tray.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 12, 2013Publication date: August 22, 2013Applicant: KONICA MINOLTA BUSINESS TECHNOLOGIES, INC.Inventor: Ken MIYAZAKI
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Publication number: 20130100467Abstract: An image formation device includes a printing portion containing a detachable fixer, a fixer identification portion which identifies a type of fixer mounted on the image formation device, a sensor which reads an image printed on a paper by the printing portion, a gamma correction data generating portion which generates gamma correction data by reading a gamma correction chart printed on a paper by the printing portion and stores the generated gamma correction data in a memory medium such that the gamma correction data is associated with a type of the fixer and a type of the paper that are used for printing the gamma correction chart, and printer gamma correction portion which performs printer gamma correction on an image data to be printed based on the gamma correction data stored in the memory medium corresponding to the paper type and the fixer type used for printing.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 17, 2012Publication date: April 25, 2013Inventor: Ken MIYAZAKI
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Publication number: 20120162669Abstract: An image forming apparatus including: a density-correction-data generation unit generating density correction data by causing the sensor to read a density correction chart formed on the sheet by an image forming unit; a storage unit storing the generated density correction data in connection with a sheet type; a density correction unit reading the density correction data corresponding to the sheet type used for printing from the storage unit, and making density correction of image data to be printed based on the density correction data; an image stabilization control unit performing image stabilization control for adjusting process conditions of the image forming unit; and a regeneration control unit controlling the density-correction-data generation unit to regenerate the density correction data stored in the storage unit if the image stabilization control is performed.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 22, 2011Publication date: June 28, 2012Applicant: Konica Minolta Business Technologies, Inc.Inventor: Ken MIYAZAKI
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Publication number: 20120120420Abstract: An image forming system includes: a plurality of image forming apparatus each having a storage section; a density conversion data registering section obtaining density conversion data composed of a combination of a voltage value and a density value as colorimetry results of a color sensor and an external colorimeter, respectively, and storing the data into the storage section of the apparatus which forms a density correcting chart to be used for the colorimetry; a paper setting section storing a tray paper profile or a paper profile into a paper setting storage section, with the profiles correlated with at least one piece of the data obtained by the density conversion data registering section; and a correction controlling section making the plurality of image forming apparatus perform printer ? correction based on the data correlated with the paper profile or the tray paper profile at a time of the image formation.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 8, 2011Publication date: May 17, 2012Applicant: KONICA MINOLTA BUSINESS TECHNOLOGIES, iNC.Inventor: Ken MIYAZAKI