Patents by Inventor Masao Kato

Masao Kato 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: 20240153680
    Abstract: Provided is a rare-earth anisotropic magnet powder capable of achieving high magnetic properties while reducing the usage of Nd and Pr. The present invention provides a rare-earth anisotropic magnet powder comprising magnetic particles that contain rare-earth elements, boron, and a transition metal element. The rare-earth elements include a first rare-earth element that comprises Ce and/or La and a second rare-earth element that comprises Nd and/or Pr. The rare-earth elements have a first ratio (R1/Rt) of 5% to 57%. The first ratio (R1/Rt) is a ratio of an amount (R1) of the first rare-earth element to a total amount (Rt) of the rare-earth elements in terms of the number of atoms. The first rare-earth element has a La ratio (La/R1) of 0% to 35%. The La ratio (La/R1) is a ratio of an amount of La to the amount (R1) of the first rare-earth element in terms of the number of atoms. The magnetic particles have a Ga content of 0.35 at % or less with respect to 100 at % as a whole.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 3, 2022
    Publication date: May 9, 2024
    Applicants: AICHI STEEL CORPORATION, TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Ryo SHIMBO, Masao YAMAZAKI, Noritsugu SAKUMA, Akihito KINOSHITA, Akira KATO, Tetsuya SHOJI
  • Patent number: 11967013
    Abstract: An image processing method of holding a plurality of texture data for applying a metal representation on an image. The method includes acquiring predetermined information concerning at least one of an observation distance as a distance between a print product on which a target region is printed and an observer observing the print product, a sheet on which the target region is printed, or an environment in which the print product is observed, selecting texture data from the plurality of texture data based on the acquired predetermined information, and applying, to the target region, the texture data selected in the selecting.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yoshitaka Minami, Hiroyasu Kunieda, Hideki Kubo, Takeru Sasaki, Kazuya Ogasawara, Masao Kato
  • Publication number: 20230408861
    Abstract: An optical member including a polarizing plate having an absorption axis and a transmission axis which are orthogonal to each other, a reflective polarizing plate having a reflection axis and a transmission axis which are orthogonal to each other, and an optical anisotropic diffusion layer which is provided between the polarizing plate and the reflective polarizing plate and whose linear transmittance varies according to an incident light angle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 1, 2023
    Publication date: December 21, 2023
    Applicants: TOPPAN INC., Tomoegawa Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Ayumu SATO, Kunpei KOBAYASHI, Norihiro ARAI, Kazuhiko OOSAWA, Hiroto KATAGIRI, Masahide SUGIYAMA, Masao KATO
  • Publication number: 20230034963
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes a setting unit configured to set a target region, a first acquisition unit configured to acquire a plurality of texture data for applying a metal representation on an image, a second acquisition unit configured to acquire an output condition when outputting the target region, a selection unit configured to select texture data based on the output condition, and an application unit configured to apply, to the target region, the texture data selected by the selection unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 29, 2022
    Publication date: February 2, 2023
    Inventors: Kazuya Ogasawara, Hiroyasu Kunieda, Hideki Kubo, Takeru Sasaki, Yoshitaka Minami, Masao Kato
  • Publication number: 20230032061
    Abstract: An image processing method of holding a plurality of texture data for applying a metal representation on an image, includes acquiring predetermined information concerning at least one of: an observation distance as a distance between a print product on which a target region is printed and an observer observing the print product; a sheet on which the target region is printed; or an environment in which the print product is observed; selecting texture data from the plurality of texture data based on the acquired predetermined information; and applying, to the target region, the texture data selected in the selecting.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 28, 2022
    Publication date: February 2, 2023
    Inventors: Yoshitaka Minami, Hiroyasu Kunieda, Hideki Kubo, Takeru Sasaki, Kazuya Ogasawara, Masao Kato
  • Publication number: 20230034332
    Abstract: The texture data acquired by the first acquisition unit is processed so as to accord with a size of the region set by the setting unit, and the illumination data acquired by the second acquisition unit is processed so as to accord with the size of the region set by the setting unit. The decoration data is generated from the texture data processed by the first processing unit and the illumination data processed by the second processing unit, and the decoration data is applied to the region set by the setting unit are comprised.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 14, 2022
    Publication date: February 2, 2023
    Inventors: Takeru SASAKI, Hiroyasu Kunieda, Hideki Kubo, Yoshitaka Minami, Kazuya Ogasawara, Masao Kato
  • Publication number: 20220396078
    Abstract: Dot data for a boundary zone between metallic ink and color ink is changed to increase a time difference between a scan for applying the metallic ink and a scan for applying the color ink. With this change, a fusion time of the metallic ink is ensured, and the occurrence of an image defect is suppressed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 6, 2022
    Publication date: December 15, 2022
    Inventors: Kouta Murasawa, Kazuya Ogasawara, Fumitaka Goto, Yoshinori Mizoguchi, Masao Kato, Akitoshi Yamada
  • Patent number: 11412107
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus performs predetermined image processing for read data obtained by reading an image on a document by first and second reading sensors arranged so as to have an overlapping area. The predetermined image processing includes color correction processing of converting color signals detected by light receiving elements of the reading sensors into color signals with respect to each of pixels forming read data. Color correction processing for first read data obtained from light receiving elements of the first reading sensor not included in the overlapping area and color correction processing for second read data obtained from light receiving elements of the second reading sensor not included in the overlapping area are performed in accordance with different correction characteristics. By doing this, an image in which image unevenness caused by individual differences of the short reading sensors is reduced can be output.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2022
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Okinori Tsuchiya, Kouta Murasawa, Kazuya Ogasawara, Tatsuhiro Yamagata, Yugo Mochizuki, Toshiki Miyazaki, Masao Kato
  • Patent number: 11209587
    Abstract: According to the present invention, a light guiding laminate including a light guide plate with good visibility and an anisotropic optical film, and a planar light source device including the light guiding laminate and a light source are provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 28, 2021
    Assignee: Tomoegawa Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Masahide Sugiyama, Masao Kato, Tsubasa Sakano, Shogo Suga
  • Publication number: 20210218865
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus performs predetermined image processing for read data obtained by reading an image on a document by first and second reading sensors arranged so as to have an overlapping area. The predetermined image processing includes color correction processing of converting color signals detected by light receiving elements of the reading sensors into color signals with respect to each of pixels forming read data. Color correction processing for first read data obtained from light receiving elements of the first reading sensor not included in the overlapping area and color correction processing for second read data obtained from light receiving elements of the second reading sensor not included in the overlapping area are performed in accordance with different correction characteristics. By doing this, an image in which image unevenness caused by individual differences of the short reading sensors is reduced can be output.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 8, 2020
    Publication date: July 15, 2021
    Inventors: Okinori TSUCHIYA, Kouta MURASAWA, Kazuya OGASAWARA, Tatsuhiro YAMAGATA, Yugo MOCHIZUKI, Toshiki MIYAZAKI, Masao KATO
  • Patent number: 11057528
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus performs processing for putting a width of a line in an output in a case where printing is performed by a first printing apparatus based on print data including a line close to a width of a line in an output in a case where printing is performed by a second printing apparatus based on the print data. A first acquisition unit is configured to acquire first information relating to an output in a case where printed matter including a plurality of line width detection images is printed by the second printing apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 6, 2021
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Kouta Murasawa, Okinori Tsuchiya, Yugo Mochizuki, Tatsuhiro Yamagata, Toshiki Miyazaki, Masao Kato
  • Patent number: 11037265
    Abstract: Images are divided into image groups based on time information indicating a time corresponding to each of the images. If the number of the image groups obtained in the dividing is smaller than a predetermined number, the number of the image groups is matched with the predetermined number by increasing the number of the image groups. If the number of the image groups obtained in the dividing is larger than the predetermined number, the number of the image groups is matched with the predetermined number by decreasing the number of the image groups. At least one image included in each of the image groups obtained in the matching is laid out in a template.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 15, 2021
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Masaaki Obayashi, Hiroyasu Kunieda, Masao Kato, Maya Kurokawa, Yoshinori Mizoguchi, Fumitaka Goto
  • Patent number: 11017277
    Abstract: An object is to reduce a difference between a target line width and a width of a line that is printed by a printing apparatus by correcting the line width in accordance with color information indicating a color of the line in a case where an image is printed by the printing apparatus based on image data including the line based on print data. The present disclosure is an image processing apparatus having an acquisition unit configured to acquire a drawing command in which a color and a line width of a line are specified, a determination unit configured to determine a correction amount for correcting the line width specified in the drawing command based on the color of the line specified in the drawing command, and a correction unit configured to correct the line width specified in the drawing command in accordance with the correction amount.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 25, 2021
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Tatsuhiro Yamagata, Okinori Tsuchiya, Yugo Mochizuki, Kouta Murasawa, Kazuya Ogasawara, Toshiki Miyazaki, Masao Kato
  • Patent number: 11017276
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus processes image information printed by a printing apparatus. The information processing apparatus includes a data obtaining unit to obtain print data for printing a line-width detection image including first multiple patches. Each of the first multiple patches includes multiple lines at substantially equal intervals in a first direction, each line having a first width in the first direction and extending in a second direction intersecting the first. The first multiple patches include first and second patches. A first substantially equal interval between a first plurality of lines in the first patch differs from a second substantially equal interval between a second plurality of lines in the second. An information obtaining unit obtains information on a print result of the printed line-width detection image. A correction unit corrects widths of lines in the first direction included in an image to be printed based on the obtained information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 25, 2021
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Yugo Mochizuki, Okinori Tsuchiya, Tatsuhiro Yamagata, Kouta Murasawa, Kazuya Ogasawara, Toshiki Miyazaki, Masao Kato
  • Patent number: 10944890
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a first acquisition unit to acquire a first color reproduction characteristic indicating first color reproduction color values that indicate a color obtained by reproducing color values by a first printing apparatus, a second acquisition unit to acquire a second color reproduction characteristic indicating second reproduction color values that indicate a color obtained by reproducing color values by a second printing apparatus, a first generation unit to generate color matching information when color matching is performed between the first and second printing apparatuses based on the first and the second color reproduction characteristics, a third acquisition unit to acquire a first line width characteristic of the first printing apparatus, a fourth acquisition unit to acquire a second line width characteristic of the second printing apparatus, and a second generation unit to generate line width correction for correcting an input line width for the second printing
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 9, 2021
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Okinori Tsuchiya, Kouta Murasawa, Tatsuhiro Yamagata, Yugo Mochizuki, Toshiki Miyazaki, Masao Kato
  • Patent number: 10872279
    Abstract: A width in a first direction of a line in image data corresponding to an image to be printed by a printing apparatus is corrected, based on information on a print result of line-width detection images printed based on line-width detection image data in a raster format that is generated by performing rasterization processing on line-width detection image data in a vector format. In the line-width detection image data in the vector format, a distance between centers of the widths in the first direction of two lines adjacent in the first direction in each line-width detection image is an integral multiple of a rasterization resolution in the rasterization processing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 22, 2020
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Okinori Tsuchiya, Tatsuhiro Yamagata, Yugo Mochizuki, Kouta Murasawa, Kazuya Ogasawara, Toshiki Miyazaki, Masao Kato
  • Publication number: 20200363582
    Abstract: A sealing member for a light guide plate which has sufficient adhesive strength with a light guide member, suppresses embedding of the light guide member into concave-shaped portions, and provides high smoothness to a lid face of the concave-shaped portions, a light guide plate using the sealing member for a light guide plate, and a lighting device or a display device using the light guide plate are provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 30, 2018
    Publication date: November 19, 2020
    Inventors: Shogo SUGA, Masao KATO, Tsubasa SAKANO, Masahide SUGIYAMA
  • Patent number: 10686952
    Abstract: Provided are an image processing apparatus, image processing method, and display apparatus capable of processing a printed image including a color metallic area to be printed by applying color ink containing coloring material and metallic ink containing metal particles on top of each other, into an image displayable on the display apparatus. The image processing apparatus includes: a generation unit that generates preview image data for displaying a preview image on a display apparatus, based on image data for printing a color metallic image including the color metallic area; and a control unit that controls the display apparatus such that the preview image is displayed based on the preview image data generated by the generation unit. A color that expresses the color metallic area in the preview image data is different from a color forming the color metallic area in the image data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 16, 2020
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Kouta Murasawa, Yugo Mochizuki, Masao Kato
  • Publication number: 20200106927
    Abstract: An object of the present disclosure is to highly accurately match both colors and line widths between different printing apparatuses. One embodiment of the present invention is an information processing apparatus including: a first acquisition unit configured to acquire a color developing characteristic in image printing by a first printing apparatus; a second acquisition unit configured to acquire a color developing characteristic in image printing by a second printing apparatus; a table generation unit configured to generate a color matching table used in a case where color matching is performed between the first printing apparatus and the second printing apparatus based on the acquired color developing characteristic of the first printing apparatus and the acquired color developing characteristic of the second printing apparatus; a third acquisition unit configured to acquire a line width characteristic of the first printing apparatus.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 24, 2019
    Publication date: April 2, 2020
    Inventors: Okinori Tsuchiya, Kouta Murasawa, Tatsuhiro Yamagata, Yugo Mochizuki, Toshiki Miyazaki, Masao Kato
  • Publication number: 20200104659
    Abstract: An object is to reduce a difference between a target line width and a width of a line that is printed by a printing apparatus by correcting the line width in accordance with color information indicating a color of the line in a case where an image is printed by the printing apparatus based on image data including the line based on print data. The present disclosure is an image processing apparatus having an acquisition unit configured to acquire a drawing command in which a color and a line width of a line are specified, a determination unit configured to determine a correction amount for correcting the line width specified in the drawing command based on the color of the line specified in the drawing command, and a correction unit configured to correct the line width specified in the drawing command in accordance with the correction amount.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 19, 2019
    Publication date: April 2, 2020
    Inventors: Tatsuhiro Yamagata, Okinori Tsuchiya, Yugo Mochizuki, Kouta Murasawa, Kazuya Ogasawara, Toshiki Miyazaki, Masao Kato