Patents by Inventor Mitsuo Ichimura

Mitsuo Ichimura 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).

  • Sheet processing apparatus and sheet processing method
    Patent number: 8317091
    Abstract: A sheet processing machine transmits information indicating a degree of contamination or damage for each sheet detected by a discrimination unit to a teller PC as a discrimination result. The teller PC saves the discrimination result received from the sheet processing machine in a data storage unit. A CPU of the teller PC decides reference levels that can attain good bill ratio designated by the user for respective items required to discriminate good/bad states of a sheet based on the previous discrimination results saved in the data storage unit. The CPU of the teller PC sets the reference levels that can attain the good bill ratio designated by the user in the discrimination unit of the sheet processing machine. The discrimination unit set with such reference levels discriminates good/bad states of sheets based on the reference levels set by the teller PC.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 2010
    Date of Patent: November 27, 2012
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Masahito Kochiwa, Teruhiko Uno, Mitsuo Ichimura
  • SHEET PROCESSING APPARATUS AND SHEET PROCESSING METHOD
    Publication number: 20110054670
    Abstract: A sheet processing machine transmits information indicating a degree of contamination or damage for each sheet detected by a discrimination unit to a teller PC as a discrimination result. The teller PC saves the discrimination result received from the sheet processing machine in a data storage unit. A CPU of the teller PC decides reference levels that can attain good bill ratio designated by the user for respective items required to discriminate good/bad states of a sheet based on the previous discrimination results saved in the data storage unit. The CPU of the teller PC sets the reference levels that can attain the good bill ratio designated by the user in the discrimination unit of the sheet processing machine. The discrimination unit set with such reference levels discriminates good/bad states of sheets based on the reference levels set by the teller PC.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 5, 2010
    Publication date: March 3, 2011
    Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA
    Inventors: Masahito Kochiwa, Teruhiko Uno, Mitsuo Ichimura