Patents Assigned to FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
  • Information processing apparatus and non-transitory computer readable medium
    Patent number: 11948538
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus generates a screen displayed on a display apparatus having a reading-out function of reading out display content sequentially, the information processing apparatus including a processor configured to generate an after-switching screen, the after-switching screen being a screen displayed by switching display on the display apparatus, the after-switching screen including specific information in a before-switching screen which is a screen before the switching, the after-switching screen being a screen in which the specific information is read out at an earlier time, the earlier time being earlier than a time at which the specific information is read out when the display content is read out sequentially in the displayed before-switching screen.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 5, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
    Inventor: Kazuma Nogami
  • Information processing apparatus, information processing system, and non-transitory computer readable medium for performing preprocessing and character recognition to acquire item and value of image
    Patent number: 11949828
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a processor configured to acquire, from a read image, a predetermined item, and a value corresponding to the item, the read image being obtained by reading a document and being subjected, prior to acquisition of the item and the value, to preprocessing and character recognition. Further, the processor is configured to, in response to not successfully acquiring at least one of the item and the value, change a setting on the preprocessing or a setting on the character recognition in accordance with the acquisition or non-acquisition state of the item and the value, and then perform the preprocessing or the character recognition. In response to not successfully acquiring at least one of the item and the value, the processor is further configured to identify where the item and the value are located.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
    Inventors: Hiroyoshi Uejo, Yuki Yamanaka
  • Transport device, fixing device, and image forming apparatus
    Patent number: 11945216
    Abstract: A transport device includes: a first rotating body including a shaft portion, a cylindrical portion on an outer periphery of the shaft portion, and a recessed portion in an outer surface of the cylindrical portion; a second rotating body capable of moving from the first rotating body while contacting an outer surface of the first rotating body and nipping a recording medium; a transport unit that includes a holding portion that holds the recording medium, and that transports the recording medium by moving the holding portion in a rotation direction of the first rotating body while the holding portion is disposed in the recessed portion; and a moving mechanism including a cam portion on a side of the cylindrical portion and a contact portion connected to the second rotating body and that comes into contact with the cam portion to separate the second rotating body from the first rotating body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
    Inventors: Takayuki Ukawa, Kei Tanaka, Hideki Kuge, Norio Ogawahara, Takayuki Yamashita
  • Light emitting device and image forming apparatus
    Patent number: 11947276
    Abstract: A light emitting device includes: a base that extends in one direction, and has an opening; plural light emitting units that are disposed to be displaced from each other in the one direction on the front surface side of the base, the light emitting units each including a support that extends in the one direction, and plural light sources that are disposed in the one direction on the support; and an air blowing unit that blows air toward the light emitting units through the opening.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
    Inventor: Yosuke Kasuya
  • Voice-based authentication after successful authentication based on non-voice input
    Patent number: 11947645
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a processor configured to obtain a registered first voice of a first user identified in first authentication achieved by an authentication method different from an authentication method employing a voice, obtain a second voice uttered by a second user during operation, perform second authentication for confirming that the second user is the first user identified in the first authentication by comparing a feature of the first voice and a feature of the second voice, and perform, if the second authentication is successfully completed, a process in accordance with an operation associated with the second voice.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 17, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
    Inventor: Minoru Akiyama
  • Image forming apparatus and non-transitory computer readable medium storing image forming program capable of performing reprint process for defective pages and outputting reprint pages together with pages of good print results
    Patent number: 11947852
    Abstract: The image forming apparatus includes a processor configured to perform a print process on print media of plural pages, based on print data for the plural pages, acquire reprinted pages by performing a reprint process on separate print media for defective pages for which a result of the print process is defective, with print settings determined according to an arrangement posture of excellent pages, for which a result of the print process is excellent, on a reuse tray, and output the excellent pages transported from the reuse tray and the reprinted pages together.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 3, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
    Inventor: Ryo Agehama
  • Roll member, charging member, charging device, process cartridge, and image forming apparatus
    Patent number: 11947274
    Abstract: A roll member includes: a conductive elastic layer that contains a fatty acid metal salt; and a surface layer that is provided on the conductive elastic layer and contains a filler, in which the surface layer includes a first layer provided on the conductive elastic layer side and a second layer provided immediately above the first layer, and a content of the filler in the first layer is less than a content of the filler in the second layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
    Inventors: Yuki Tagawa, Takuya Yamamoto
  • Fixing device and image forming apparatus
    Patent number: 11947294
    Abstract: A fixing device includes: a first roller on which an elastic layer is formed; and a second roller that forms a clamping portion at which a recording medium is clamped between the first roller and the second roller, a groove extending in an axial direction being formed in an outer peripheral surface of the second roller, and the second roller not including an elastic layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
    Inventors: Mitsuhiro Matsumoto, Norio Ogawahara, Yoshiki Shimodaira, Masato Yamashita
  • CLEANING DEVICE, IMAGE HOLDING BODY UNIT, AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS
    Publication number: 20240103424
    Abstract: A cleaning device, for cleaning an image holding body that rotates while holding a toner image on an outer circumferential surface of the image holding body, includes: a scraping member that scrapes toner sticking to the outer circumferential surface of the image holding body in a rotating state by a distal end of the scraping member being in contact with, in the outer circumferential surface, in a region in which the image holding body moves upward from below; a trapping member in which toner scraped from the outer circumferential surface to fall is trapped; and at least one raising member that raises up toner trapped in the trapping member, toward the distal end of the scraping member.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 9, 2023
    Publication date: March 28, 2024
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
    Inventor: Yu TSUDA
  • PORTABLE TERMINAL APPARATUS, PRINTING SERVICE SYSTEM, NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM STORING PROGRAM, AND METHOD
    Publication number: 20240103774
    Abstract: A portable terminal apparatus includes a processor, and a wireless communicator, in which the processor is configured to acquire a printing required time required for printing a file, while a user carrying the portable terminal apparatus is moving to a printing apparatus to be used for printing the file, acquire a first movement required time as a movement time of the user required for arriving at the printing apparatus from a wireless communication apparatus that is wirelessly connected to the wireless communicator and that is installed separately from the printing apparatus, and in a case where the wireless communicator is wirelessly connected to the wireless communication apparatus, perform a control of instructing the printing apparatus to print the file at a point in time when the first movement required time becomes less than or equal to the printing required time.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 24, 2023
    Publication date: March 28, 2024
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
    Inventor: Sho NAGASE
  • CLEANING MEMBER, CLEANING DEVICE, REMOVABLE UNIT, AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS
    Publication number: 20240103423
    Abstract: A cleaning member includes: an elastic contact plate that includes a distal end surface with a corner portion to be brought into contact with a cleaning target surface, which is moved with toner attached thereto, of a cleaning target body; and a support plate bonded to the elastic contact plate from a back surface side of the elastic contact plate to support the elastic contact plate, the support plate being more rigid than the elastic contact plate. The distal end surface of the elastic contact plate projects from a distal end surface of the support plate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 3, 2023
    Publication date: March 28, 2024
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
    Inventors: Tatsuya TAKAHASHI, Naoya MITAMURA, Akira SHIMODAIRA
  • INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, IMAGE READING APPARATUS, IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM STORING PROGRAM, AND INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD
    Publication number: 20240106947
    Abstract: An information processing device includes a processor configured to: detect movement of a document placed on a document stand included in a device that reads the document by capturing an image of the document stand; and make a determination related to reading of the document based on the movement of the document on the document stand.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 15, 2023
    Publication date: March 28, 2024
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
    Inventor: Tetsuo SUZUKI
  • INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM STORING PROGRAM, AND INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD
    Publication number: 20240104324
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a processor, in which the processor is configured to: acquire information related to an electronic output of data; derive the number of sheets virtually output in a case in which the data is output by the sheets, using the acquired information related to the electronic output of the data; and perform control to display a reduction value of the sheets reduced by the electronic output of the data, using the derived number of sheets virtually output.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 26, 2023
    Publication date: March 28, 2024
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
    Inventors: Yoshimi Uezu, Takao Matsuoka, Tetsu Satani
  • INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM, AND METHOD
    Publication number: 20240106952
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a processor. A first power-off state, which accompanies a restart of a program, and a second power-off state, which does not accompany the restart of the program, are defined as states of a power supply of the information processing apparatus. The processor is configured to change, if an operation for turning off the information processing apparatus is performed, a state of the power supply to the first power-off state or the second power-off state in accordance with a use condition of the information processing apparatus before the operation for turning off the information processing apparatus is performed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 2, 2023
    Publication date: March 28, 2024
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
    Inventor: Hirotaka SASAKI
  • COLLECTING DEVICE AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS
    Publication number: 20240103425
    Abstract: A collecting device includes a collecting path for a developer, at least one transport member that is disposed in the collecting path and that transports the developer by rotating, a driving unit that drives, by receiving electric power, the transport member in such a manner that the transport member rotates, a detecting unit that detects a load applied to the driving unit due to transportation of the developer, and a control unit that controls the driving unit based on the load detected by the detecting unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 7, 2023
    Publication date: March 28, 2024
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
    Inventors: Shinya MAKIURA, Yuji Kikuchi, Yu Tsuda, Yusuke Kitagawa, Shun Ida, Takaki Saiki
  • INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM
    Publication number: 20240106954
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus has apparatus modes set therein, the apparatus modes including a first mode in which the information processing apparatus is supplied with electric power to be used by the information processing apparatus for executing a process and a second mode in which the electric power supplied to the information processing apparatus is reduced such that the process is not executed, and includes a processor configured to perform control when a restore process involving restoring an apparatus mode to the first mode from the second mode is performed, the control including simultaneously supplying the electric power to a device presumed to be used in the information processing apparatus after the restore process.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 16, 2023
    Publication date: March 28, 2024
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
    Inventor: Masayoshi MIKI
  • AIR INTAKE STRUCTURE AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS
    Publication number: 20240103433
    Abstract: An air intake structure includes a blower, a flow path that includes an inlet port that draws air and a flow path space connected to the inlet port to allow air drawn in through the inlet port to flow to the blower, and a recessed portion that protrudes to an outer side of the flow path space at a portion of the flow path adjacent to the inlet port, the recessed portion having a recessed space opening to the flow path space.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 16, 2023
    Publication date: March 28, 2024
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
    Inventors: Kazunari ISHII, Takahiro ABE, Yuka Nomura
  • INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM, AND METHOD
    Publication number: 20240106960
    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 change, if an operation for turning off the information processing apparatus is performed after an error occurs in the information processing apparatus, a state of the power supply to the first power-off state or the second power-off state in accordance with a type of error that has occurred in the information processing apparatus.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 6, 2023
    Publication date: March 28, 2024
    Applicant: FUJIFILM BUSINESS INNOVATION CORP.
    Inventor: Binhui LIU
  • FIXING DEVICE AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS
    Publication number: 20240103413
    Abstract: A fixing device includes an endless belt, a fixing member that presses the belt against a recording medium holding an unfixed image to fix the unfixed image onto the recording medium, a restorer that is pressed against a surface of the belt after the image is fixed to restore the surface of the belt to a state before a fixing operation, and a changer that changes a pressing load of the restorer in accordance with a difference in a state of the surface of the belt between before the fixing operation and after the fixing operation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 3, 2023
    Publication date: March 28, 2024
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
    Inventors: Takuma ISHIHARA, Takashi MATSUBARA, Takashi OHASHI, Hina SAITO
  • INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS AND METHOD, INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM
    Publication number: 20240106961
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a processor configured to: receive an instruction to execute sequential processing, the sequential processing being processing for sequentially executing multiple preset operations which are related to each other; present plural options for an operation included in the sequential processing, fees for the plural options being different from each other; and calculate a fee for an option selected from the plural options and present the calculated fee before executing the sequential processing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 3, 2023
    Publication date: March 28, 2024
    Applicant: FUJIFILM BUSINESS INNOVATION CORP.
    Inventors: Kensaku MASUDA, Keiichi HOTTA, Haruko KAWANO