Patents Assigned to FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
  • Publication number: 20240105184
    Abstract: A non-transitory computer readable medium is provided, the medium storing a program causing a process to be executed by a computer operating as a server of a web conferencing system, the process including: identifying a group of participants sharing a microphone to be used for voice input; and identifying, if information indicating a volume equal to or greater than a reference value from a terminal not connected to the microphone from among terminals of the participants belonging to the group is inputted while a voice from the group is being inputted, the participant whose terminal corresponds to the transmission origin of the information as a speaking person.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 26, 2023
    Publication date: March 28, 2024
    Applicant: FUJIFILM BUSINESS INNOVATION CORP.
    Inventor: Hidetomo NAKAYAMA
  • Publication number: 20240101377
    Abstract: A medium transport device includes: a first transport unit that is provided in a first transport path, and nips and transports a medium by a pair of rotating bodies; a second transport unit that is provided in a second transport path different from the first transport path, and nips and transports a medium by a pair of rotating bodies; a first rotation drive unit that rotationally drives the pair of rotating bodies of the first transport unit; a second rotation drive unit that rotationally drives the pair of rotating bodies of the second transport unit; and a pressure contact force adjustment unit that is provided in at least one of the first transport unit or the second transport unit, and adjusts a pressure contact force of the pair of rotating bodies.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 6, 2023
    Publication date: March 28, 2024
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
    Inventors: Ryuga OISHI, Hiroyuki TAMAI, Ryosuke YAMAJI
  • Publication number: 20240105214
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a processor configured to: acquire first data indicative of a temporal change of an intensity of sound emitted by an apparatus; generate second data by extracting, from the first data, a maximum value in each section of a time width corresponding to temporal resolution at which human voice is unrecognizable and discarding values other than the maximum value; and transmit the second data to an external apparatus.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 24, 2023
    Publication date: March 28, 2024
    Applicant: FUJIFILM BUSINESS INNOVATION CORP.
    Inventors: Tsutomu UDAKA, Minoru Akiyama
  • Publication number: 20240106962
    Abstract: An image reading device includes a reading unit that reads an image on a surface of a medium; and a calibrating unit that is disposed to face the reading unit with the medium disposed therebetween and that calibrates the reading unit. The calibrating unit is supported such that the calibrating unit is movable about a rotating shaft between a closing position at which the calibrating unit faces the reading unit and an opening position at which the calibrating unit is separated from the reading unit. The calibrating unit is positioned with respect to the reading unit when the calibrating unit is moved to the closing position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 23, 2023
    Publication date: March 28, 2024
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
    Inventors: Masakazu SHIRAI, Taketoshi TANAKA, Akio SHIMONAGA, Masaaki TAKENOUCHI, Takuma AYABE
  • Publication number: 20240106193
    Abstract: A light emitting component includes: a substrate; a plural light emitting elements that are provided on the substrate and respectively have light emission regions; and a plural thyristors that are turned on to cause the light emission regions of the respective light emitting elements to emit light, or that increase amounts of emitted light of the light emission regions, in which the light emitting elements absorb light emitted from a corresponding thyristor among the plural thyristors.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 18, 2023
    Publication date: March 28, 2024
    Applicants: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp., FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Saori NISHIZAKI, Takashi KONDO, Takafumi HIGUCHI, Junichiro HAYAKAWA, Daisuke IGUCHI, Tomoaki SAKITA, Kei TAKEYAMA
  • Publication number: 20240104835
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a processor configured to: acquire a position of principal illumination from a spherical image; acquire a direction of a principal normal of an object to be observed; acquire an observation condition of the object; and identify, on a basis of the position of principal illumination, the direction of the principal normal, and the observation condition, a positional relationship with which a light component reflected specularly by a plane corresponding to the principal normal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 30, 2023
    Publication date: March 28, 2024
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
    Inventors: Jungo HARIGAI, Miho UNO, Yoshitaka KUWADA
  • Publication number: 20240106938
    Abstract: An information processing system includes one or more processors configured to: acquire a history of combinations of process conditions for a first process of reading a document and a process result of a second process for an electronic document generated through the first process; calculate a degree of success in the second process for each of the process conditions on the basis of the acquired history of combinations; and present, to a user, information for assisting the first process, the information including at least the degree of success for each of the process conditions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 3, 2023
    Publication date: March 28, 2024
    Applicant: FUJIFILM BUSINESS INNOVATION CORP.
    Inventor: Takashi MURAKAMI
  • Publication number: 20240103416
    Abstract: A fixing device includes an endless belt, multiple stretchers that stretch the belt, a heater that heats the belt including sections, section by section, sectioned in a direction crossing a rotation direction of the belt, and a switch that switches the sections heated by the heater from one to another in accordance with a position of an edge portion of the belt in the direction crossing the rotation direction of the belt.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 8, 2023
    Publication date: March 28, 2024
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
    Inventors: Takashi MATSUBARA, Takashi Ohashi, Takuma Ishihara, Hina Saito
  • Publication number: 20240106939
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus installed on an inside of a firewall includes a processor configured to transmit, to an information processing apparatus installed on an outside of the firewall, an image generated in accordance with an instruction of a user, process information indicating a content of a process on the image, and storage destination information indicating a storage destination of a process image obtained in a manner that the information processing apparatus executes the process according to the process information on the image, and perform control of causing the information processing apparatus to directly store the process image in a storage destination on the outside of the firewall in a case where the storage destination of the process image obtained from the storage destination information is the storage destination on the outside of the firewall.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 6, 2023
    Publication date: March 28, 2024
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
    Inventor: Yusuke SATO
  • Publication number: 20240103426
    Abstract: A cleaning device includes: a plate-like cleaning member that cleans a cleaning target surface, which is moved with toner attached thereto, of a cleaning target body by scraping the toner with a part of a distal end surface of the cleaning member contacting the cleaning target surface; a body that has a storage space that stores waste toner that has fallen after being scraped by the cleaning member; and a transport member disposed in the storage space of the body at a position below the distal end surface of the cleaning member to transport the waste toner stored in the storage space along a longitudinal direction of the cleaning member. The transport member includes a non-transport portion that exerts no transport force in a direction along the longitudinal direction of the cleaning member.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 11, 2023
    Publication date: March 28, 2024
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
    Inventors: Akira Shimodaira, Yukihiro Ichiki
  • Publication number: 20240106944
    Abstract: A reading device includes: a transparent flat plate with an upper surface on which an object to be read is placed; a reading unit reading information on the object while moving in contact with a transparent flat plate lower surface; a retainer retaining the reading unit by urging the reading unit to be pressed against the lower surface; a guide member supporting and guiding the retainer along a movement direction at a time of reading by the reading unit; and a positioning structural member in at least one end of the reading unit and the retainer in a direction crossing the movement direction to position the reading unit to be maintained being displaceable relative to the retainer in a direction to be closer to and in a direction to be away from the transparent flat plate and being non-displaceable upstream and downstream in the movement direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 9, 2023
    Publication date: March 28, 2024
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
    Inventor: Yosuke TAKAHASHI
  • Publication number: 20240103427
    Abstract: A cleaning device includes: a plate-like cleaning member that cleans a cleaning target surface, which is moved with toner attached thereto, of a cleaning target body by scraping the toner with a part of a distal end surface of the cleaning member contacting the cleaning target surface; a body that has a storage space that stores waste toner that has fallen after being scraped by the cleaning member; and a transport member disposed in the storage space of the body at a position below the distal end surface of the cleaning member to transport the waste toner stored in the storage space along a longitudinal direction of the cleaning member. The transport member includes a non-transport portion that exerts no transport force in a direction along the longitudinal direction of the cleaning member.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 17, 2023
    Publication date: March 28, 2024
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
    Inventors: Akira SHIMODAIRA, Yukihiro ICHIKI
  • Publication number: 20240106948
    Abstract: An information processing system includes one or more processors configured to: acquire attribute information indicating an attribute of a document containing one or more pages and split information indicating a result of splitting in units of documents after multiple documents are read consecutively; and estimate an error for each split document on a basis of a difference between a total number of pages in each document obtained from the attribute information and a number of read pages in each split document obtained from the split information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 1, 2023
    Publication date: March 28, 2024
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
    Inventor: Natsuki KATAYAMA
  • Publication number: 20240103432
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes plural image forming units including plural image forming sections and an intermediate transfer body to which a toner image formed on the plural image forming sections is primarily transferred, and a processor, in which wherein the processor is configured to, in a case where, during image formation using any of the image forming units among the image forming units, in a case where a consumable of any of the image forming sections of the image forming unit is insufficient, an image forming section of an identical color to the image forming section of which the consumable is insufficient is present in another image forming unit, and a storage medium for storing management information for managing a consumable unit is not provided in the consumable unit attached to the image forming section of which the consumable is insufficient, ask a user whether or not to exchange the consumable unit attached to the image forming section of which the consumable is insufficient and a consum
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 24, 2023
    Publication date: March 28, 2024
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
    Inventors: Kazunobu Uchiyama, Takumi Nishikata, Eiichi Waida, Hideo Kimura, Yusuke Chika, Yuzo Fujita
  • Publication number: 20240106949
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a processor configured to: obtain information about a form of placement of a document placed on a document stage of an apparatus that performs reading of the document by capturing an image of the document stage on which the document is placed; and change a process that is performed in association with reading of the document, in accordance with the form of placement of the document on the document stage.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 9, 2023
    Publication date: March 28, 2024
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
    Inventor: Takuma Munehiro
  • Publication number: 20240100857
    Abstract: A heat generating member includes: a hollow cylindrical part that is rotatable about a rotation axis and extends in an axial direction; a first heat generating component provided on an inner surface of the cylindrical part and configured to generate heat when energized; a first connecting component provided on an inner side relative to the cylindrical part and electrically connected to the first heat generating component, the first connecting component being rotatable together with the cylindrical part; a second connecting component provided on a further inner side relative to the cylindrical part than the first connecting component and electrically connected to a power source, the second connecting component being rotatable relative to the cylindrical part; a rotary supporting component that electrically connects the first connecting component and the second connecting component to each other and supports the first connecting component while allowing the first connecting component to rotate relative to the s
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 9, 2023
    Publication date: March 28, 2024
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
    Inventors: Shingo AKIYAMA, Shogo KAMIYA, Kotaro ARAKI
  • Publication number: 20240106953
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a processor. A first power-off state, which accompanies a reset of hardware and a restart of a program, and a second power-off state, which does not accompany the reset of the hardware and the restart of the program, are defined as states of a power supply of the information processing apparatus. The processor is configured to record, if an operation for turning off the information processing apparatus is performed and the power supply enters the second power-off state, a change in a state of the power supply to the second power-off state, and change the state of the power supply to the second power-off state if a change in the state of the power supply to the second power-off state is recorded after supply of power to the information processing apparatus is stopped and power is again supplied to the information processing apparatus.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 15, 2023
    Publication date: March 28, 2024
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
    Inventor: Takuya TOGASHI
  • Publication number: 20240100865
    Abstract: A medium mending device includes a heating component configured to heat a medium having an image recorded, and a pressing component positioned against the heating component and configured to press the medium that is to be nipped between the pressing component and the heating component, the pressing component pressing the medium with such a pressure as to squash any flaws in the medium.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 23, 2023
    Publication date: March 28, 2024
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
    Inventor: Makio UEHARA
  • Publication number: 20240101372
    Abstract: A medium transport device includes a first transporter configured to transport a medium by nipping the medium along with rotation, a second transporter configured to transport the medium and disposed on an upstream side of the first transporter in a transport direction of the medium, a first adjuster configured to adjust a position of the medium in a width direction by moving the first transporter and the second transporter in the width direction of the medium with the medium nipped by the first transporter and the second transporter, and a second adjuster configured to adjust a contact pressure of the first transporter for the medium and a contact pressure of the second transporter for the medium based on resistance caused when the medium is moved in the width direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 24, 2023
    Publication date: March 28, 2024
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
    Inventors: Hirotake EGUCHI, Yasunobu GOTO, Yoshinori KOIKE, Yuki KAWAZOE, Shuhei KOBORI, Kiyoshi WATANABE
  • Publication number: 20240100728
    Abstract: A recording medium processing apparatus includes: a pressing unit that presses one surface of a transported recording medium against a to-be-pressed section; and a cutting unit that cuts the recording medium pressed against the to-be-pressed section.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 23, 2023
    Publication date: March 28, 2024
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
    Inventors: Hiroaki MOGI, Shiro Ohashi, Eiichiro Tokuhiro, Toshio Fujisawa