Patents by Inventor Satoru Tsuto

Satoru Tsuto 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: 20240138702
    Abstract: A processing device includes: a processor configured to acquire a distance from a reference position on a movement path of an endoscope to a distal end of the endoscope that is moved along the movement path, acquire an elapsed time from a start of an examination using the endoscope, acquire event information that is information on an event related to the examination in a case where the event has occurred, and perform control to store the distance, the elapsed time, and the event information in association with each other.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 5, 2023
    Publication date: May 2, 2024
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Mai SUZUKI, Satoru TSUTO
  • Publication number: 20240138928
    Abstract: A processing device includes: a processor configured to acquire a distance from a reference position on a movement path of an endoscope to a distal end of the endoscope that is moved along the movement path, and determine an insertion state of the endoscope into a subject based on a captured image captured by the endoscope and the distance.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 5, 2023
    Publication date: May 2, 2024
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Mai SUZUKI, Satoru TSUTO, Kimitake FUKUSHIMA
  • Publication number: 20240057853
    Abstract: An endoscope system includes a magnetic detection unit, an insertion part of an endoscope that is used by being relatively moved with respect to the magnetic detection unit, and a processor, in which the insertion part includes a tubular member that extends in a longitudinal direction and has a magnetic pattern formed along the longitudinal direction, the magnetic detection unit detects a magnetic flux density in the longitudinal direction and a magnetic flux density in a radial direction at a plurality of positions along the longitudinal direction of the tubular member, and the processor determines a movement state of the insertion part in the longitudinal direction based on the magnetic flux densities.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 13, 2023
    Publication date: February 22, 2024
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Satoru TSUTO, Kimitake FUKUSHIMA
  • Patent number: 11609728
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a changing unit. The changing unit changes a setting of wireless communication in a location in accordance with a user who has made a reservation for the location.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 21, 2023
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Funo, Satoru Tsuto, Nobuyuki Yamazoe
  • Patent number: 11274463
    Abstract: There is provided a floor structure for a booth that is installed on an installation surface and that includes a side wall and a door through which a user enters and exits the booth. The floor structure includes a floor surface of a space that is enclosed by the side wall and in which a desk and a chair are placed on the floor surface and a fastener that fastens the floor surface to the installation surface and that is provided so as to be accessible. The floor surface is divided, outside a range of motion of the chair, into portions including a removable portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 15, 2022
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
    Inventor: Satoru Tsuto
  • Patent number: 11182994
    Abstract: A system includes an operation receiving unit and an operation control apparatus. The operation receiving unit is operated by a user. The operation control apparatus controls a first device at a facility to enter into an operating state in response to a user operation being performed at the operation receiving unit during a first time period determined by reservation information. The operation control apparatus also controls a second device at the facility to enter into an operating state at a start time associated with the first time period, regardless of presence of a user operation at the operation receiving unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 23, 2021
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Funo, Satoru Tsuto, Naoyasu Terao
  • Patent number: 11144122
    Abstract: A haptic feedback device includes an elastic glove body, at least one haptic feedback element, a flexible member, and a wire. The haptic feedback element is installed on the glove body. The flexible member is flexible and less elastic than the glove body. The flexible member is disposed between a back side and a palm side of the glove body. The wire is connected to the haptic feedback element and extends along the flexible member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 12, 2021
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
    Inventor: Satoru Tsuto
  • Publication number: 20210241558
    Abstract: A system includes an operation receiving unit and an operation control apparatus. The operation receiving unit is operated by a user. The operation control apparatus controls a first device at a facility to enter an operating state in response to a user operation being performed at the operation receiving unit during a first time period determined by reservation information. The operation control apparatus also controls a second device at the facility to enter an operating state in response to arrival of a time determined by the first time period, regardless of presence of a user operation at the operation receiving unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 26, 2020
    Publication date: August 5, 2021
    Applicant: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hiroyuki FUNO, Satoru TSUTO, Naoyasu TERAO
  • Patent number: 11079844
    Abstract: An electronic device includes a contact portion that comes into contact with a ventral side of a finger and performs at least one of presenting stimulation to the finger or acquiring information from the finger. The electronic device is mounted on the finger such that a portion of the finger from a first joint to a fingertip on the ventral side of the finger is exposed except for a portion of the finger, which comes into contact with the contact portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 3, 2021
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
    Inventor: Satoru Tsuto
  • Publication number: 20210232222
    Abstract: A haptic feedback device includes an elastic glove body, at least one haptic feedback element, a flexible member, and a wire. The haptic feedback element is installed on the glove body. The flexible member is flexible and less elastic than the glove body. The flexible member is disposed between a back side and a palm side of the glove body. The wire is connected to the haptic feedback element and extends along the flexible member.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 30, 2020
    Publication date: July 29, 2021
    Applicant: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Satoru TSUTO
  • Publication number: 20210131678
    Abstract: A booth includes a space surrounded by side walls, an air-conditioner indoor unit that conditions air inside the space, and an air-conditioner outdoor unit to be connected to the air-conditioner indoor unit. The side walls include a first wall on which the indoor unit is disposed, a second wall intersecting and adjoining the first wall, a third wall facing the second wall and on or along which a plurality of heat sources are disposed, and a fourth wall having a door from which a person enters or exits the space. The outdoor unit is disposed on an outer side of the second wall.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 1, 2020
    Publication date: May 6, 2021
    Applicant: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Satoru TSUTO, Shigenaga FUJIMURA
  • Publication number: 20200364011
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a changing unit. The changing unit changes a setting of wireless communication in a location in accordance with a user who has made a reservation for the location.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 27, 2019
    Publication date: November 19, 2020
    Applicant: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hiroyuki FUNO, Satoru TSUTO, Nobuyuki YAMAZOE
  • Publication number: 20200318374
    Abstract: There is provided a floor structure for a booth that is installed on an installation surface and that includes a side wall and a door through which a user enters and exits the booth. The floor structure includes a floor surface of a space that is enclosed by the side wall and in which a desk and a chair are placed on the floor surface and a fastener that fastens the floor surface to the installation surface and that is provided so as to be accessible. The floor surface is divided, outside a range of motion of the chair, into portions including a removable portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 18, 2019
    Publication date: October 8, 2020
    Applicant: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Satoru TSUTO
  • Publication number: 20190101982
    Abstract: An electronic device includes a contact portion that comes into contact with a ventral side of a finger and performs at least one of presenting stimulation to the finger or acquiring information from the finger. The electronic device is mounted on the finger such that a portion of the finger from a first joint to a fingertip on the ventral side of the finger is exposed except for a portion of the finger, which comes into contact with the contact portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 25, 2018
    Publication date: April 4, 2019
    Applicant: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Satoru TSUTO
  • Patent number: 9063452
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a charging roller including elastic and surface layers and a photoconductor drum. Initially, the surface layer has a surface roughness Rz of 3-6 ?m, and the layers have an impedance ratio of 0.81 or less in absolute value at a frequency of 800-3000 Hz. After a predetermined time, the surface roughness Rz is reduced by a decrement ?Rz of 0.1-4 ?m. The drum has a film thickness D initially ranging from 20-40 ?m and reduced by a decrement ?D of 5-25 ?m after the predetermined time. Herein, 0.005??Rz/?D?0.8 holds. The impedance ratio is represented as ZE/(ZE+ZS) wherein ZE and ZS represent the respective impedances of the elastic layer and the surface layer, and 100k A4-size recording media recorded with images with an area coverage of 7% are printed in the predetermined time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 23, 2015
    Assignee: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Takuro Hagiwara, Yoshiki Shimodaira, Yuko Kawase, Satoru Tsuto, Minoru Rokutan, Satoya Sugiura
  • Publication number: 20140219682
    Abstract: A charging roller includes a conductive core, a resistive elastic layer disposed on the conductive core, and a surface layer disposed on the resistive elastic layer. The impedances of the resistive elastic layer and the surface layer measured at an environmental temperature of about 10° C. and a humidity of about 15% RH in a range of alternating voltage frequencies of an image-forming apparatus used satisfy: |ZE/(ZE+ZS)|?0.81 where ZE is the impedance of the resistive elastic layer, and ZS is the impedance of the surface layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 17, 2013
    Publication date: August 7, 2014
    Applicant: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Satoru TSUTO, Takuro HAGIWARA, Minoru ROKUTAN, Masao OMORI
  • Publication number: 20140219680
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a charging roller including elastic and surface layers and a photoconductor drum. Initially, the surface layer has a surface roughness Rz of 3-6 ?m, and the layers have an impedance ratio of 0.81 or less in absolute value at a frequency of 800-3000 Hz. After a predetermined time, the surface roughness Rz is reduced by a decrement ?Rz of 0.1-4 ?m. The drum has a film thickness D initially ranging from 20-40 ?m and reduced by a decrement ?D of 5-25 ?m after the predetermined time. Herein, 0.005??Rz/?D?0.8 holds. The impedance ratio is represented as ZE/(ZE+ZS) wherein ZE and ZS represent the respective impedances of the elastic layer and the surface layer, and 100 k A4-size recording media recorded with images with an area coverage of 7% are printed in the predetermined time.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 30, 2013
    Publication date: August 7, 2014
    Applicant: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Takuro HAGIWARA, Yoshiki SHIMODAIRA, Yuko KAWASE, Satoru TSUTO, Minoru ROKUTAN, Satoya SUGIURA
  • Patent number: 6381000
    Abstract: An image information reading apparatus has a sheet feeder for feeding a stimulable phosphor sheet and a reading unit for scanning the stimulable phosphor sheet two-dimensionally. The reading unit has a storage zone for separating the stimulable phosphor sheet in its entirety from the sheet feeder and temporarily storing the stimulable phosphor sheet. The reading unit does not require a nip releasing mechanism for releasing the stimulable phosphor sheet from a nipping action of the sheet feeder when the stimulable phosphor sheet is scanned.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2000
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2002
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Satoru Tsuto
  • Patent number: 6316783
    Abstract: A radiation image read-out apparatus comprises a device for irradiating stimulating rays to a stimulable phosphor sheet, on which radiation image information has been stored, the stimulating rays causing the stimulable phosphor sheet to emit light in proportion to the amount of energy stored thereon during its exposure to radiation. The apparatus also comprises a light guiding system, which is provided with a light guide member and a mirror and which guides the emitted light, and a device for detecting the guided light and thereby reading out the radiation image information. A mirror body provided with the mirror is constituted for rotation. The mirror body has a light guide member dust removing brush, which rotates due to rotation of the mirror body, comes into contact with the light guide member, and removes dust clinging to the light guide member. A mirror dust removing brush comes into contact with the mirror due to rotation of the mirror body and removes dust clinging to the mirror.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 10, 2000
    Date of Patent: November 13, 2001
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Satoru Tsuto