Patents by Inventor Koichi Kudo
Koichi Kudo 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: 20240118703Abstract: A display apparatus (400) includes: a reception unit that receives a plurality of captured images (415a-415f); a display control unit that displays, on a display, the plurality of captured images for selection (420) by a user, as a candidate of a movement destination of a mobile apparatus; an operation input unit that receives selection of one or more captured images from among the plurality of captured images being displayed; an autonomous movement request generator that generates autonomous movement request information including information on the one or more selected captured images; and a transmission unit that transmits the autonomous movement request information that causes the mobile apparatus to autonomously move to one or more movement destinations each corresponding to an area indicated by corresponding one of the one or more selected captured images.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 18, 2022Publication date: April 11, 2024Inventors: Aiko OHTSUKA, Koichi KUDO, Junki AOKI, Hanako BANDO, Mototsugu MUROI, Kento HOSAKA
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Publication number: 20240022806Abstract: An information processing apparatus for controlling an image capturing process for a robot that moves in a predetermined site to capture an image of a target object. The information processing apparatus includes a memory that stores a plurality of reference images that are captured images of the target object installed in the site, the captured images being obtained at a specific image capturing position and showing different appearances of the target object, such that each of the plurality of reference images is associated with an image capturing condition of the target object. Further, there is an image capturing control unit that captures an image of the target object by using the robot moved to the specific image capturing position, and an image capturing condition setting unit that sets an image capturing condition of the target object, based on the captured image of the target object and the stored reference images.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 3, 2021Publication date: January 18, 2024Inventors: Koichi KUDO, Aiko OHTSUKA, Masuyoshi YACHIDA, Hanako BANDO
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Publication number: 20230316024Abstract: An information processing system including a circuitry configured to detect first identification information used to identify a job, generate second identification information associated with the first identification information, and create a slip on which the first identification information and the second identification information are displayed.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 6, 2023Publication date: October 5, 2023Applicant: Ricoh Company, Ltd.Inventors: Hajime KAWASAKI, Makoto AOKI, Takeshi OGAWA, Koichi KUDO
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Patent number: 11714981Abstract: An information processing system including a circuitry configured to detect first identification information used to identify a job, generate second identification information associated with the first identification information, and create a slip on which the first identification information and the second identification information are displayed.Type: GrantFiled: April 21, 2021Date of Patent: August 1, 2023Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.Inventors: Hajime Kawasaki, Makoto Aoki, Takeshi Ogawa, Koichi Kudo
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Publication number: 20230205198Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes circuitry to register first point information being information on a first point that is a specific position of a mobile apparatus moving according to a user operation. The circuitry registers second point information being information on a second point that is obtained based on the first point. The first point is learned by the mobile apparatus as being to be included in a route for autonomous movement of the mobile apparatus. The circuitry further generates the route based on the first point information and the second point information.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 20, 2022Publication date: June 29, 2023Inventors: Hanako BANDO, Aiko OHTSUKA, Koichi KUDO
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Publication number: 20230166728Abstract: A traveling body includes a range sensor and circuitry. The range sensor is disposed on a front face of the traveling body in a traveling direction in which the traveling body travels on a road surface and disposed obliquely downward at an inclination angle relative to the road surface. The circuitry determines presence of a continuous obstacle in a case where measurement results of a plurality of planes scanned by the range sensor include a plurality of feature values indicating unevenness relative to the road surface similar to each other. The circuitry generates an obstacle map of a front region of the traveling body not scanned by the range sensor, based on sequential feature information indicating that a predetermined number of feature values indicating the unevenness are sequentially present and controls the traveling body to travel on the road surface based on the obstacle map.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 15, 2022Publication date: June 1, 2023Inventors: Kento HOSAKA, Koichi KUDO, Taku KITAHARA
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Patent number: 11618250Abstract: A liquid ejection apparatus includes a plurality of liquid ejection head units that eject liquid onto a conveyed object at different positions along a conveying path; a first support member and a second support member that are respectively provided at an upstream side and a downstream side of a landing position of liquid ejected by a corresponding liquid ejection head unit; a first detection unit that is installed between the first support member and the second support member and is configured to detect a position of the conveyed object in a direction orthogonal to a conveying direction of the conveyed object; a second detection unit that is installed upstream of the first detection unit; and a movement control unit that moves each liquid ejection head unit based on a plurality of detection results output by the first detection unit and/or the second detection unit.Type: GrantFiled: October 13, 2020Date of Patent: April 4, 2023Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.Inventors: Tsuyoshi Nagasu, Tomoaki Hayashi, Masayuki Sunaoshi, Koichi Kudo, Masahiro Mizuno
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Publication number: 20230088949Abstract: A liquid ejection apparatus is provided that includes a plurality of liquid ejection head units that are configured to eject liquid onto a conveyed object being conveyed; a detection unit that is provided with respect to each liquid ejection head unit of the plurality of liquid ejection head units and is configured to output a detection result indicating at least one of a position, a moving speed, and an amount of movement of the conveyed object with respect to a conveying direction of the conveyed object; and a control unit configured to control each liquid ejection head unit among the plurality of liquid ejection head units to eject liquid at a timing based on a plurality of the detection results of a plurality of the detection units.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 22, 2022Publication date: March 23, 2023Applicant: Ricoh Company, Ltd.Inventors: Mitsunobu GOHDA, Tsuyoshi NAGASU, Koichi KUDO, Tomoaki HAYASHI, Masayuki SUNAOSHI, Masahiro MIZUNO
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Patent number: 11535031Abstract: A liquid ejection apparatus is provided that includes a plurality of liquid ejection head units that are configured to eject liquid onto a conveyed object being conveyed; a detection unit that is provided with respect to each liquid ejection head unit of the plurality of liquid ejection head units and is configured to output a detection result indicating at least one of a position, a moving speed, and an amount of movement of the conveyed object with respect to a conveying direction of the conveyed object; and a control unit configured to control each liquid ejection head unit among the plurality of liquid ejection head units to eject liquid at a timing based on a plurality of the detection results of a plurality of the detection units.Type: GrantFiled: September 25, 2020Date of Patent: December 27, 2022Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.Inventors: Mitsunobu Gohda, Tsuyoshi Nagasu, Koichi Kudo, Tomoaki Hayashi, Masayuki Sunaoshi, Masahiro Mizuno
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Publication number: 20220100571Abstract: A scheduling system includes first circuitry and second circuitry. The first circuitry stores, in a memory, information on a plurality of tasks to be executed by at least one mobile device. The information on the plurality of tasks includes information on an estimated amount of battery consumption of the at least one mobile device in executing each of the plurality of tasks. The second circuitry receives designation of the plurality of tasks to be executed by the at least one mobile device. The second circuitry further causes a display to display a screen having a schedule in which the plurality of tasks is arranged for the at least one mobile device based on the information on the estimated amount of battery consumption.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 29, 2021Publication date: March 31, 2022Inventors: Aiko OHTSUKA, Koichi KUDO, Masuyoshi YACHIDA, Hanako BANDO
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Publication number: 20210240957Abstract: An information processing system including a circuitry configured to detect first identification information used to identify a job, generate second identification information associated with the first identification information, and create a slip on which the first identification information and the second identification information are displayed.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 21, 2021Publication date: August 5, 2021Applicant: Ricoh Company, Ltd.Inventors: Hajime KAWASAKI, Makoto AOKI, Takeshi OGAWA, Koichi KUDO
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Patent number: 11066263Abstract: A sheet conveying device, which is incorporated in an image forming apparatus, includes a first detector to detect an angle deviation of a recording medium to a sheet conveying direction, a second detector to detect a lateral shift of the recording medium to a width direction, a third detector to detect at least one of the angle deviation and the lateral shift after correction of the angle deviation detected by the first detector and the lateral shift detected by the second detector, and a rotary body to perform a primary movement by (1) rotating in the sheet conveying direction and returning to a reference position and by (2) moving in the width direction and returning to the reference position, and a secondary movement by performing at least one of (1) and (2) after the primary movement.Type: GrantFiled: June 25, 2019Date of Patent: July 20, 2021Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.Inventors: Jun Yamane, Hiromichi Matsuda, Katsuaki Miyawaki, Koichi Kudo, Tetsuo Watanabe, Toshihiro Okamoto, Hideyuki Takayama, Atsuyuki Oyamada
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Patent number: 11034517Abstract: A method includes acquiring starting position information of moving bodies; acquiring destination position information of movement destinations; acquiring path information indicating paths on which the moving bodies can move; calculating, for each moving body, a minimum movement amount required for the moving body to move on a path from the starting position to each movement destination, based on the starting position information, the destination position information, and the path information; allocating a movement destination not allocated to any moving body to a moving body that has a minimum movement amount being the smallest of the minimum movement amounts and that has no allocation of any movement destination; further allocating, when there is a movement destination not allocated to the moving body on a movement route, the not-allocated movement destination to the allocated moving body; and determining movement routes of the moving bodies based on the allocation.Type: GrantFiled: September 5, 2017Date of Patent: June 15, 2021Assignees: RICOH COMPANY, LTD., NATIONAL UNIVERSITY COPORATION TOTTORI UNIVERSITYInventors: Toshihiro Okamoto, Koichi Kudo, Ichiro Maeda, Takayoshi Yokota, Tsubasa Tamura
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Patent number: 11023699Abstract: An information processing system including a circuitry configured to detect first identification information used to identify a job, generate second identification information associated with the first identification information, and create a slip on which the first identification information and the second identification information are displayed.Type: GrantFiled: July 23, 2019Date of Patent: June 1, 2021Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.Inventors: Hajime Kawasaki, Makoto Aoki, Takeshi Ogawa, Koichi Kudo
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Publication number: 20210023837Abstract: A liquid ejection apparatus includes a plurality of liquid ejection head units that eject liquid onto a conveyed object at different positions along a conveying path; a first support member and a second support member that are respectively provided at an upstream side and a downstream side of a landing position of liquid ejected by a corresponding liquid ejection head unit; a first detection unit that is installed between the first support member and the second support member and is configured to detect a position of the conveyed object in a direction orthogonal to a conveying direction of the conveyed object; a second detection unit that is installed upstream of the first detection unit; and a movement control unit that moves each liquid ejection head unit based on a plurality of detection results output by the first detection unit and/or the second detection unit.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 13, 2020Publication date: January 28, 2021Applicant: Ricoh Company, Ltd.Inventors: Tsuyoshi NAGASU, Tomoaki HAYASHI, Masayuki SUNAOSHI, Koichi KUDO, Masahiro MIZUNO
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Publication number: 20210008879Abstract: A liquid ejection apparatus is provided that includes a plurality of liquid ejection head units that are configured to eject liquid onto a conveyed object being conveyed; a detection unit that is provided with respect to each liquid ejection head unit of the plurality of liquid ejection head units and is configured to output a detection result indicating at least one of a position, a moving speed, and an amount of movement of the conveyed object with respect to a conveying direction of the conveyed object; and a control unit configured to control each liquid ejection head unit among the plurality of liquid ejection head units to eject liquid at a timing based on a plurality of the detection results of a plurality of the detection units.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 25, 2020Publication date: January 14, 2021Applicant: Ricoh Company, Ltd.Inventors: Mitsunobu GOHDA, Tsuyoshi NAGASU, Koichi KUDO, Tomoaki HAYASHI, Masayuki SUNAOSHI, Masahiro MIZUNO
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Patent number: 10836154Abstract: A liquid ejection apparatus includes a plurality of liquid ejection head units that eject liquid onto a conveyed object at different positions along a conveying path; a first support member and a second support member that are respectively provided at an upstream side and a downstream side of a landing position of liquid ejected by a corresponding liquid ejection head unit; a first detection unit that is installed between the first support member and the second support member and is configured to detect a position of the conveyed object in a direction orthogonal to a conveying direction of the conveyed object; a second detection unit that is installed upstream of the first detection unit; and a movement control unit that moves each liquid ejection head unit based on a plurality of detection results output by the first detection unit and/or the second detection unit.Type: GrantFiled: January 9, 2019Date of Patent: November 17, 2020Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.Inventors: Tsuyoshi Nagasu, Tomoaki Hayashi, Masayuki Sunaoshi, Koichi Kudo, Masahiro Mizuno
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Patent number: 10814622Abstract: A liquid ejection apparatus is provided that includes a plurality of liquid ejection head units that are configured to eject liquid onto a conveyed object being conveyed; a detection unit that is provided with respect to each liquid ejection head unit of the plurality of liquid ejection head units and is configured to output a detection result indicating at least one of a position, a moving speed, and an amount of movement of the conveyed object with respect to a conveying direction of the conveyed object; and a control unit configured to control the each liquid ejection head unit of the plurality of liquid ejection head units to eject liquid at a timing based on a plurality of the detection results of a plurality of the detection units.Type: GrantFiled: March 10, 2017Date of Patent: October 27, 2020Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.Inventors: Mitsunobu Gohda, Tsuyoshi Nagasu, Koichi Kudo, Tomoaki Hayashi, Masayuki Sunaoshi, Masahiro Mizuno
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Patent number: 10744756Abstract: A conveyance device includes a conveyor to convey a conveyed object, a head unit to perform an operation on the conveyed object being conveyed at a first conveyance speed, a sensor to acquire data of the conveyed object, a gauge to output a measured travel amount of the conveyed object, and a processor. The processor includes a calculator to calculate a detection result including at least one of a position, a speed of travel, and a calculated travel amount of the conveyed object based on the data acquired by the sensor; and an adjusting unit to adjust a timing of acquisition of the data acquired while the conveyed object is conveyed at the first conveyance speed, based on the detection result and the measured travel amount of the conveyed object being conveyed at a second conveyance speed lower than the first conveyance speed.Type: GrantFiled: March 20, 2018Date of Patent: August 18, 2020Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.Inventors: Mitsunobu Gohda, Tomoaki Hayashi, Masahiro Mizuno, Tsuyoshi Nagasu, Koichi Kudo, Masayuki Sunaoshi
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Patent number: 10682870Abstract: A conveyed object detector includes first and second image obtaining units disposed at first and second positions different in a conveyance direction, to image a conveyed object to obtain first and second image data; respectively; a recognition unit to recognize an object adhering to the first and second image obtaining units based on imaging at the first and second positions to generate first and second stain data, respectively; a removal unit to remove the first and second stain data from the first and second image data, respectively; and a calculator to generate at least one of a position, a movement amount, and a moving speed of the conveyed object based on first and second corrected image data. Each of the first and second image obtaining units include a light source, an area sensor, and an optical element disposed between the area sensor and the conveyed object.Type: GrantFiled: June 8, 2017Date of Patent: June 16, 2020Assignee: RICOH COMPANY, LTD.Inventors: Katsuhiro Tobita, Koichi Kudo