Patents Assigned to FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
  • 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
  • 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: 20240103891
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a processor configured to: detect a specific noncontact state established by a user for an operation surface; and present, if the specific contact state is detected, an explanation of an operation method used for the operation surface or a function of an object displayed on the operation surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 8, 2023
    Publication date: March 28, 2024
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
    Inventors: Yuki Minamisako, Nobumi Kusano, Katsutoshi Sakaguchi
  • Publication number: 20240103404
    Abstract: A powder conveying device includes a first conveying component through which gas containing powder is to be conveyed; a second conveying component to which a downstream end of the first conveying component is connected and through which the gas received from the first conveying component is to be conveyed, the second conveying component extending in a second gas conveying direction that intersects a first gas conveying direction defined by the first conveying component; a third conveying component extending from the second conveying component and through which the gas received from the second conveying component is to be conveyed, the third conveying component extending in a third gas conveying direction that intersects the second gas conveying direction; a fourth conveying component to which a downstream end of the third conveying component is connected and through which the gas received from the third conveying component is to be conveyed, the fourth conveying component extending in a fourth gas conveying d
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 1, 2023
    Publication date: March 28, 2024
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
    Inventors: Yasuhisa GONDA, Shunsuke YAMASAKI, Yuta SHIMATATE, Koji YOSHITSUGU, Kazunari ISHII
  • Publication number: 20240103956
    Abstract: A control apparatus includes multiple processor cores connected to: a monitor that monitors whether a first processor core, the first processor core being any processor core among the multiple processor cores, is operating normally; and a memory having multiple storage areas pre-associated with each of the multiple processor cores. Each of the multiple processor cores periodically writes and updates information to the corresponding storage area in the memory, the information indicating that each of the processor cores is operating normally, and the first processor core determines whether the information in each of the storage areas in the memory has been updated by each of the multiple processor cores, and controls the monitor on the basis of a result of the determination.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 6, 2023
    Publication date: March 28, 2024
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
    Inventors: Asahito SHIOYASU, Masahiko OTSU, Kenta NOMURA, Tomoki TANIHATA, Toma TAGUCHI
  • Publication number: 20240103406
    Abstract: A recording medium transport and transfer belt includes at least a base material layer and a surface layer, in which a ratio (?s500/?v500) between surface resistivity ?s500 and volume resistivity ?v500 at an applied voltage of 500 V is 1.0 or more, and a difference (?s100??s500) between surface resistivity ?s100 at an applied voltage of 100 V and surface resistivity ?s500 at an applied voltage of 500 V is 0.3 or less.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 26, 2023
    Publication date: March 28, 2024
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
    Inventors: Makoto OCHIAI, Minoru ROKUTAN, Satoya SUGIURA, Shogo HAYASHI
  • Publication number: 20240104716
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes a processor configured to: specify, as a pre-processing area, a coordinate area in pre-printing scanned image data obtained by scanning a processing medium on which an image is printed or a pattern is applied in advance and on which print image data according to a print request is not printed, the coordinate area including an image corresponding to the image or the pattern; compare post-printing scanned image data obtained by scanning the processing medium on which the print image data is printed with the print image data, and determine that there is a difference between the post-printing scanned image data and the print image data in a case where a comparison result satisfies a determination condition; and set the determination condition for the pre-processing area such that it is difficult to determine that there is a difference between the post-printing scanned image data and the print image data compared to the determination condition for an area other than the pre-p
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 22, 2023
    Publication date: March 28, 2024
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
    Inventor: Kazuhiro OHKAWA
  • Publication number: 20240106194
    Abstract: A light-emitting array includes a light-emitting part having plural light-emitting block, a selection part that operates with a reference potential supplied from a reference part provided on an outside as a reference and selects the light-emitting block to be made to emit light, and a disconnection part that disconnects connection of the selection part and the reference part in a period during which a light emission current caused by low-side drive is flowing in the light-emitting block.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 18, 2023
    Publication date: March 28, 2024
    Applicants: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp., FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Daisuke IGUCHI, Kei Takeyama, Seiji Ono, Tomoaki Sakita, Takashi Kondo, Junichiro Hayakawa
  • 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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
  • Publication number: 20240102501
    Abstract: A screw fastening structure includes: a screw fastener having a threaded portion; and a fastening assist member having a flanged screw hole, a through-hole through which the threaded portion of the screw fastener passes, and a folded part folded back such that the screw hole and the through-hole face each other. A flange of the screw hole projects toward a side opposite to a side of the through-hole, and the threaded portion of the screw fastener is fastened to the screw hole after passing through the through-hole.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 13, 2023
    Publication date: March 28, 2024
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
    Inventor: Hiroyuki KONO
  • Publication number: 20240106195
    Abstract: A light-emitting component includes: a substrate; multiple light-emitting elements provided on the substrate, each having a light-emitting area; and multiple thyristors which are provided on each of the light-emitting elements, which include gate layers, and which cause light to be emitted, or increase an amount of light emitted, from the light-emitting areas of the light-emitting elements by being in an ON state. The substrate absorbs light emitted from the thyristors and emits light not absorbed by the gate layers.
    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