Patents Assigned to Konica-Minolta
  • Publication number: 20240192900
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a display section and a hardware processor that controls at least the display section, wherein the hardware processor causes the display section to display first information regarding a brand of the recording medium or a manufacturer of the recording medium, and second information regarding a usage amount or a usage rate of the recording medium associated with the first information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 27, 2023
    Publication date: June 13, 2024
    Applicant: Konica Minolta, Inc.
    Inventors: Takeshi TAMADA, Takahiro TSUJIMOTO, Masahiro KAMIYA
  • Patent number: 12008826
    Abstract: A text correction engine meets different and changing end user requirements, with the ability to change a desired output by providing sufficient amounts of data, and by finetuning the appropriate text correction engine at the point of origin of the data. It is possible to retain confidentiality of data by retraining the base deep learning model at the base deep learning model's point of origin, to improve the base deep learning model's performance, making the base deep learning model more accurate for different contexts. Separate training of an end user model, leaving the base deep learning model intact, streamlines end user model training, and highlights desirable changes in the base deep learning model for further training or retraining.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2024
    Assignee: KONICA MINOLTA BUSINESS SOLUTIONS U.S.A., INC.
    Inventor: Junchao Wei
  • Patent number: 12006292
    Abstract: Provided is a compound that is fluidized by light irradiation and reversibly non-fluidized, is not significantly colored, and improves fixability and exhibits excellent image stability and color reproducibility when used for a toner. Provided is a compound represented by the following general formula (1), which is fluidized by light irradiation and reversibly non-fluidized: wherein Z1 and Z2 are CH or N, and Z1?Z2; R1 is an aromatic hydrocarbon group having a substituent Ra selected from the group consisting of an alkyl group, an alkoxy group and a halogen atom at each of two ortho positions with respect to Z1; and R2 is a substituted or unsubstituted aromatic heterocyclic group.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 19, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2024
    Assignee: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.
    Inventors: Yukiko Nakai, Kouji Sugama, Kazuaki Nakamura, Toyoko Shibata
  • Patent number: 12010280
    Abstract: A machine learning device learns an action of a driving source in a transport device continuously transporting at least two transported objects along a transport path, and includes: a hardware processor that: acquires position information of the at least two transported objects on the transport path on the basis of a result of detection by a sensor provided in the transport path; calculates a reward on the basis of the position information acquired, according to a predetermined rule; learns an action by calculating an action value in reinforcement learning on the basis of the position information acquired and the reward calculated; and generates and outputs control information that causes the driving source to perform an action determined on the basis of a learning result.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2024
    Assignee: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.
    Inventors: Tomohiro Kiriyama, Koichi Saito, Shun Sugai, Kazuhiko Kowase, Naoshi Kashiwagura
  • Publication number: 20240187534
    Abstract: An image forming device includes: an image forming unit that forms an image on a transfer medium; and a controller that controls multiple image readers capable of performing image reading for the same surface of the transfer medium, and acquires reading results from the image readers. The controller is capable of performing failure/no-failure determination for the image on the transfer medium based on the reading results, of switching image reading by the multiple image readers between reading by a first number of image readers and reading by a second number of image readers, the second number being smaller than the first number, and of enabling, while the second number of image readers perform reading, at least one of the other image readers to execute a maintenance operation for the at least one of the other image readers.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 16, 2024
    Publication date: June 6, 2024
    Applicant: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.
    Inventor: Tomohiro Iwase
  • Publication number: 20240181708
    Abstract: A manufacturing method of a three-dimensional fabricated object using an additive manufacturing technology, the method including: detecting, in situ, data on a physical or chemical characteristic of a three-dimensional object under fabrication.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 28, 2022
    Publication date: June 6, 2024
    Applicant: Konica Minolta, Inc.
    Inventor: Takashi Washizu
  • Patent number: 12001160
    Abstract: An image forming system includes: a sheet feeder; an image former that forms an image on a paper sheet; a conveyor that conveys a paper sheet to a sheet ejection destination; a switcher that switches sheet ejection destinations; a reader that optically reads a paper sheet, and outputs a read image; an abnormal sheet detector that detects an abnormal paper sheet by analyzing the read image; a storage; a display; and a hardware processor that performs: ejection destination switch control to control the switcher to eject an abnormal paper sheet and a succeeding paper sheet to a second ejection destination different from a regular ejection destination; storage control, for each of the abnormal paper sheet and the succeeding paper sheet, to associate sheet information, the read image, and a stacking order with one another, and store them into the storage; and display control to cause the display to display them.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 7, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2024
    Assignee: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.
    Inventor: Kazunari Shimono
  • Patent number: 11998380
    Abstract: A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing a program causes a computer to perform an analysis process based on a radiation moving image in which a dynamic state of a specific site of a subject is captured. The program includes the analysis process in which, an analysis is performed based on the radiation moving image wherein when a plane in which the specific site is movable is to be a movable plane, the radiation moving image is obtained by irradiating radiation on the specific site in a state in which the radiation is orthogonal to the movable plane.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2023
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2024
    Assignee: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.
    Inventors: Shikou Kaneko, Sumiya Nagatsuka
  • Patent number: 11993728
    Abstract: The present invention addresses the problem of providing: a composition for electronic devices in which when a film is formed therefrom, the amount of residual solvents including fluorine-containing solvents within the film is reduced, the effects of residual solvents on a device are minimized, and it is thus possible to achieve high element performance; an ink for electronic devices that is suitable for wet processes and that makes it possible to achieve high liquid stability and element performance as a result of containing the composition for electronic devices; and a method for producing an electronic device. This composition for electronic devices contains a component A and a component B and is characterized in that the component A is a fluorine-containing solvent and the component B is a compound having a structure represented by general formula (1).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2024
    Assignee: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.
    Inventors: Akihiro Kimura, Miyuki Okaniwa, Hiroto Ito
  • Patent number: 11993080
    Abstract: A drive circuit of a recording head having a recording element is provided. The drive circuit supplies a load element for recording operation of the recording element with an output signal of electric power according to operation of the load element. The drive circuit includes a voltage amplifier that amplifies a voltage of an analog drive waveform signal for operation of the recording element to generate a drive voltage signal. The voltage amplifier includes amplifiers. Among the amplifiers, at least one of subsequent-stage amplifiers which are a second and subsequent amplifiers from an upstream side includes a signal feedback unit that returns a signal to be output to an input side of the subsequent-stage amplifiers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2024
    Assignee: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.
    Inventors: Shinichi Kawaguchi, Hajime Nakamura
  • Patent number: 11994653
    Abstract: A transparent member according to the present invention is formed by providing at least a substrate or a layer on the substrate, and has a surface section in which the contact angle with respect to water continuously changes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 5, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2024
    Assignee: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.
    Inventors: Kento Hasegawa, Yasushi Mizumachi
  • Patent number: 11995360
    Abstract: A control method for an image processing apparatus having a remote control mode in which a control instruction is received from a terminal device, includes: causing the image processing apparatus to transition to the remote control mode; receiving, by the terminal device, an operation by RPA and giving a control instruction to the image processing apparatus, wherein the image processing apparatus cancels the remote control mode when a period during which there is no communication with the terminal device reaches a certain period of time, and in the receiving, the terminal device repeats communication with the image processing apparatus at a cycle shorter than the certain period of time after giving the control instruction to the image processing apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 5, 2023
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2024
    Assignee: Konica Minolta, Inc.
    Inventor: Takashi Sugaya
  • Patent number: 11994827
    Abstract: A photoresponsive polymer includes a structural unit represented by the following general formula (1), the photoresponsive polymer being fluidized by light irradiation, and reversibly non-fluidized: [Chemical formula 1] R1—Z1?Z2—R2??General formula (1) in the formula, Z1 and Z2 each represent CH or N, and Z1?Z2, R1 represents an aromatic hydrocarbon group having a substituent Ra selected from the group consisting of an alkyl group, an alkoxy group, and a halogen atom at each of two ortho positions with respect to Z1, R2 represents an aromatic heterocyclic group with or without a substituent, and at least one of the R1 and the R2 is bonded to a group containing a structure derived from a polymerizable group.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 8, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2024
    Assignee: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.
    Inventors: Kouji Sugama, Yukiko Nakai, Kazuaki Nakamura, Toyoko Shibata
  • Patent number: 11990856
    Abstract: A rotation detector includes a motor, a current detector and a hardware processor. The motor includes coils of two or more phases and a rotor. The current detector detects currents flowing in coils of at least two phases among the coils of two or more phases. The hardware processor estimates an initial position of the rotor based on current values of the currents detected by the current detector to start the motor, controls an energization pattern on the phases to rotate and start the motor based on the estimated initial position, and determines whether the rotor stops or is rotating before completing the estimation of the initial position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2024
    Assignee: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.
    Inventors: Yuta Tachibana, Hiroyuki Yoshikawa, Kazumichi Yoshida, Satoshi Miyajima, Kouei Cho
  • Patent number: 11991812
    Abstract: A radiation imaging system includes a radiation source and a notifying unit. The radiation source is for still image shooting and moving image shooting performed by the radiation imaging system to obtain image data of a subject. The notifying unit notifies whether a type of imaging to be performed is the still image shooting or the moving image shooting in a mode in which the type is instinctively recognizable by at least one of sense of sight, sense of hearing, and sense of touch.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 19, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2024
    Assignee: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.
    Inventors: Yuuichi Nishijima, Tetsu Hosoki, Nobuyuki Miyake
  • Publication number: 20240160140
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a conveyor that conveys continuous paper, a speed detector that contacts the continuous paper conveyed by the conveyor to detect a conveyance speed of the continuous paper, and a hardware processor that controls the conveyor based on a detection result detected by the speed detector so that the conveyance speed of the continuous paper reaches a target value, wherein the hardware processor adjusts the target value based on at least one of information about the continuous paper and information about a job.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 9, 2023
    Publication date: May 16, 2024
    Applicant: Konica Minolta, Inc.
    Inventor: Nobuhiko OKANO
  • Publication number: 20240161453
    Abstract: A detection method includes: preparing sample image data of a sample in which a target substance is labeled with a labeling substance; acquiring first background image data in which an image feature amount of a single bright spot in the sample image data is reduced by a first filter; acquiring second background image data in which an image feature amount of a dense bright spot in the sample image data is reduced by a second filter; synthesizing the first background image data and the second background image data on a basis of brightness information of the sample image data and acquiring synthesized background image data; and obtaining difference image data that is a difference between the sample image data and the synthesized background image data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 10, 2023
    Publication date: May 16, 2024
    Applicant: kONICA MINOLTA, INC.
    Inventors: Tsukasa MATSUO, Hiroshi NEGISHI, Keisuke YAMAGUCHI, Yuki MIYAKE, Toshihiko IWASAKI
  • Publication number: 20240161231
    Abstract: A non-transitory computer-readable recording medium stores instructions causing a computer to execute: acquiring first information indicating a first lesion candidate area in a medical image, and causing a display to display the medical image attached with first display information that is based on the first information. When causing the display to display the medical image attached with the first display information, in a case that the first lesion candidate area or the first display information is not displayed within an image display area of the display, the computer causes the display to display presence information on the first lesion candidate area or the first display information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 2, 2023
    Publication date: May 16, 2024
    Applicant: Konica Minolta, Inc.
    Inventors: Hidekazu Takahashi, Hisashi Wada, Ken Satou, Seiji Nomura, Ryuta Ogawa
  • Patent number: 11985289
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus performs the following. An imaging range imaged by each of the plurality of imaging sensors includes an overlapping portion between the imaging sensors adjacent in a width direction orthogonal to a conveying direction along the conveying path. A hardware processor performs a calibration operation of a first sensor based on a color measuring result of a predetermined inspection image measured within a standard imaging range of the first sensor among the plurality of imaging sensors, and a standard imaging result within the standard imaging range imaging an inspection image with a same pattern as the inspection image. The hardware processor compares imaging results by the plurality of imaging sensors in the overlapping portions and performs the calibration operation of another sensor different from the first sensor using the standard imaging result as a standard.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2024
    Assignee: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.
    Inventor: Hiroshi Isokawa
  • Patent number: 11980500
    Abstract: Provided is an ultrasound diagnostic apparatus including a touch panel monitor and a palm rest that supports a hand when a touch operation is performed on the touch panel monitor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 2023
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2024
    Assignee: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.
    Inventors: Takahiko Shiraishi, Tatsushi Chihara