Patents by Inventor Masao Nakamuro

Masao Nakamuro 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).

  • Patent number: 7953572
    Abstract: A measurement system for obtaining a predetermined estimated value, including a measuring section for acquiring measurement data with respect to a measurement object, a display section for displaying indication concerning a measurement, a display controller, a measurement controller, a storing section for storing the measurement data, a computing section for obtaining the estimated value based on the measurement data, and a checking section for checking whether a required number of measurement data has been acquired. The display controller causes the display section to display first information relating to measurement elements required for acquiring the measurement data, and second information, for allowing an operator to recognize whether the measurement has been completed. The measurement controller causes the selection information to function as a site for accepting a command indicating start of the measurement of the measurement element relating to the individual selection information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2007
    Date of Patent: May 31, 2011
    Assignee: Konica Minolta Sensing, Inc.
    Inventors: Toru Kobayashi, Masao Nakamuro
  • Patent number: 7675621
    Abstract: A two-dimensional colorimeter includes: an image sensing section, having an image sensor constituted of a number of pixels arranged in a two-dimensional manner, for sensing an object image to be measured to acquire a two-dimensional image; a discriminator for discriminating whether a targeted color with respect to the two-dimensional image acquired by the image sensing section is to be corrected in terms of a pixel or pixels; and a calculator for performing a calculation to apply predetermined correction information corresponding to the color to be corrected to the two-dimensional image in terms of a pixel or pixels, based on a discrimination result by the discriminator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 19, 2007
    Date of Patent: March 9, 2010
    Assignee: Konica Minolta Sensing, Inc.
    Inventors: Keizou Ochi, Masao Nakamuro
  • Patent number: 7549586
    Abstract: An optical measurement system which manages whether an optical property of a sample falls within a predetermined management range. The optical measurement system has a measuring device for measuring the optical property value of the inspected sample, a reader for reading an attribute identification information of an identification tag attached to the sample, and a storage section for storing optical property management information concerning a plurality of kinds of samples each in a manner corresponding to attribute identification information of each sample. A controller in the optical measurement system reads out from the storage section the optical property management information corresponding to the attribute identification information of the sample read by said reader, and compares the optical property management information with the optical property value of the sample, and then determines whether the optical property value falls within an allowable range in the optical property management information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 2005
    Date of Patent: June 23, 2009
    Assignee: Konica Minolta Sensing, Inc.
    Inventors: Koji Watanabe, Toru Kobayashi, Masao Nakamuro, Naoki Sagisaka
  • Patent number: 7385701
    Abstract: A standard plane sample which supplies an optical characteristic measuring device with reference data. The standard plane sample including a sample portion that is measured by the optical characteristic measuring device to supply measurement data, and a recording medium that stores identification data for identifying a kind of the sample portion as well as reference data corresponding to the optical characteristic of the sample portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 23, 2005
    Date of Patent: June 10, 2008
    Assignee: Konica Minolta Sensing, Inc.
    Inventors: Koji Watanabe, Norio Ishikawa, Masao Nakamuro
  • Publication number: 20080082287
    Abstract: A measurement system obtains a predetermined estimated value, using multiple measurement data. The measurement system includes a measuring section for acquiring measurement data with respect to a measurement object, a display section for displaying indication concerning a measurement, a display controller, a measurement controller, a storing section for storing the measurement data, a computing section for obtaining the estimated value based on the measurement data, and a checking section for checking whether a required number of measurement data has been acquired. The display controller causes the display section to display first information relating to measurement elements required for acquiring the measurement data, including individual selection information of the measurement elements; and second information, to be displayed in association with the selection information, for allowing an operator to recognize whether the measurement has been completed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 27, 2007
    Publication date: April 3, 2008
    Inventors: Toru Kobayashi, Masao Nakamuro
  • Publication number: 20070171421
    Abstract: A two-dimensional colorimeter includes: an image sensing section, having an image sensor constituted of a number of pixels arranged in a two-dimensional manner, for sensing an object image to be measured to acquire a two-dimensional image; a discriminator for discriminating whether a targeted color with respect to the two-dimensional image acquired by the image sensing section is to be corrected in terms of a pixel or pixels; and a calculator for performing a calculation to apply predetermined correction information corresponding to the color to be corrected to the two-dimensional image in terms of a pixel or pixels, based on a discrimination result by the discriminator.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 19, 2007
    Publication date: July 26, 2007
    Inventors: Keizou Ochi, Masao Nakamuro
  • Publication number: 20060109458
    Abstract: A standard plane sample which supplies an optical characteristic measuring device with reference data. The standard plane sample including a sample portion that is measured by the optical characteristic measuring device to supply measurement data, and a recording medium that stores identification data for identifying a kind of the sample portion as well as reference data corresponding to the optical characteristic of the sample portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 23, 2005
    Publication date: May 25, 2006
    Inventors: Koji Watanabe, Norio Ishikawa, Masao Nakamuro
  • Publication number: 20060000885
    Abstract: An optical measurement system which manages whether an optical property of a sample falls within a predetermined management range. The optical measurement system has a measuring device for measuring the optical property value of the inspected sample, a reader for reading an attribute identification information of an identification tag attached to the sample, and a storage section for storing optical property management information concerning a plurality of kinds of samples each in a manner corresponding to attribute identification information of each sample. A controller in the optical measurement system reads out from the storage section the optical property management information corresponding to the attribute identification information of the sample read by said reader, and compares the optical property management information with the optical property value of the sample, and then determines whether the optical property value falls within an allowable range in the optical property management information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 24, 2005
    Publication date: January 5, 2006
    Inventors: Koji Watanabe, Toru Kobayashi, Masao Nakamuro, Naoki Sagisaka
  • Publication number: 20030216972
    Abstract: This color designating server 11 displays a screen for designating color on a user terminal capable of connecting to a network. This server 11 includes a database 102 that contains information on dyes and pigments required for determining matchable colors, a conditions specification processing section 104 that transmits a conditions specification screen to the user terminal which prompts specification of condition information required for determining the matchable colors, a color information extraction section 115 that extracts matchable color data within the range of the conditions specified with the condition information from database 102 based on the condition information specified with the conditions specification screen, and a color information transmission section 105 that transmits a color plate that indicates the extracted color data to the user terminal in the form of image data superposed on a prescribed background color.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 16, 2003
    Publication date: November 20, 2003
    Applicant: DAINIPPON INK AND CHEMICALS, INC.
    Inventors: Hiroki Gotou, Yoshiro Tomita, Hideki Uchimi, Masaki Okauchi, Masaaki Nakagawa, Mitsuo Hatanaka, Masami Shishikura, Masao Nakamuro, Yoshio Yuasa
  • Publication number: 20020118210
    Abstract: On the occasion of transmitting an image information from an image information generating unit to an image information output unit, an image file is composed of an image data (RGB data) used to display an image on a display of the image information generating unit, a color value data (XYZ data in accordance with the CIE) obtained by actually measuring at least one color of the image displayed on the display, a data on a position in the image where color measurement was performed, and a data (including image data format) of an information on the entire image file. In the image information output unit, the color value of the image displayed based on the image data is measured by means of a colormeter, and the displayed color can be adjusted to a color intended by an image creator by correcting the image data while comparing the obtained measurement value and the received color value data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 22, 2002
    Publication date: August 29, 2002
    Inventors: Yoshio Yuasa, Teruo Morimoto, Masao Nakamuro, Kazuhiko Naruse, Toru Kobayashi