Patents Assigned to Konica Minolta, Inc.
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Patent number: 11968346Abstract: A color correction apparatus has: an obtaining unit that obtains first color information of a first image formed by a first color formed on a recording medium and second color information of a second image formed by a second color superimposed on the first color formed on the recording medium; and a correction unit that finds a correction value for the second color by estimating color information of the second color based on the first color information and the second color information, the color information of the second color being varied due to an influence in correcting the first color information to a first target value of the first color.Type: GrantFiled: March 21, 2023Date of Patent: April 23, 2024Assignee: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.Inventors: Hiroshige Kidera, Daiki Yamanaka
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Patent number: 11967424Abstract: An information processing apparatus including: a classifier that is applied for medical treatment data; and a hardware processor that sets a property of the classifier, evaluates a sufficiency level of the property by using evaluation data for the classifier, and selects and sets one classifier as the classifier to be used in a facility by referring to an evaluation result.Type: GrantFiled: February 11, 2021Date of Patent: April 23, 2024Assignee: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.Inventor: Hiroaki Matsumoto
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Patent number: 11963811Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: December 15, 2022Date of Patent: April 23, 2024Assignee: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.Inventors: Shikou Kaneko, Sumiya Nagatsuka
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Patent number: 11963816Abstract: A radiation image capturing system includes a capturing room and a console. The capturing room includes a bucky apparatus, a radiation irradiating apparatus and a detecting unit. A plurality of portable radiation image capturing apparatuses can be loaded on the bucky apparatus. The radiation irradiating apparatus is able to simultaneously irradiate radiation to the plurality of portable radiation image capturing apparatuses. The console is associated with the capturing room and obtains capturing order information. The console allows the portable radiation image capturing apparatuses to advance to a capturing possible state when the console judges that capturing in the capturing order information is long length capturing. The console allows only one of the portable radiation image capturing apparatuses to advance to the capturing possible state when the console judges that the capturing is not the long length capturing.Type: GrantFiled: July 15, 2022Date of Patent: April 23, 2024Assignee: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.Inventors: Wataru Matsushita, Kenroku Ubukata, Hidetake Tezuka, Tomonori Gido, Fumikage Uchida, Hisashi Yonekawa, Hirotaka Hara
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Patent number: 11957500Abstract: A radiography device includes an interface unit and a controller. The interface unit connects to an external interface. The controller operates according to timing signals from the external interface connected to the interface unit so as to synchronize with timing of repetition of generation of radiation by a radiation device that generates radiation in serial radiography in which frame images are generated. Even after connection between the interface unit and the external interface is cut off, the controller repeats operation for generating a frame image while synchronizing with the radiation device without communicating with an outside.Type: GrantFiled: December 9, 2021Date of Patent: April 16, 2024Assignee: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.Inventor: Mao Eguchi
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Publication number: 20240118649Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes: an image carrier; a solid lubricant; a lubricant application member that scrapes off the solid lubricant and applies the scraped solid lubricant to a surface of the image carrier; a colorimeter that performs colorimetry of a colorimetric surface of the solid lubricant; and a hardware processor that sets a lubricant application condition such that a predetermined amount of lubricant is applied on the basis of a colorimetric result obtained by the colorimeter.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 3, 2023Publication date: April 11, 2024Applicant: Konica Minolta, Inc.Inventors: Hokuto HATANO, Shunichi TAKAYA, Kazuhiro SAITO
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Publication number: 20240118658Abstract: An image forming apparatus forming an image on a recording medium, includes: a developing device that forms a toner image on an image carrier, a transfer device that transfers the toner image formed by the developing device to a recording medium at a transfer position, and a charge eliminator that is arranged upstream of the transfer position in a conveyance direction of the recording medium and eliminates charges of the recording medium in a non-contact manner, wherein the charge eliminator is an ionizer and is arranged at a position which is away by a predetermined distance from a conductor for moving ionic particles generated at the time of charge elimination.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 6, 2023Publication date: April 11, 2024Applicant: Konica Minolta, Inc.Inventor: Takashi KAWANAGO
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Patent number: 11954383Abstract: An image processing device includes: a communicator that executes external communication via a communication path; a hardware processor that detects a threat in the image processing device, and cuts off the communication by the communicator upon detecting the threat; a transmitter that executes communication, after the hardware processor detects the threat, to transmit a notification that the threat has been detected to a defined destination via another communication path; and a receiver that executes communication to receive communication restoration trigger information via another communication path. Once the receiver receives the communication restoration trigger information, the hardware processor executes a communication control to restore the communication by the communicator.Type: GrantFiled: October 12, 2022Date of Patent: April 9, 2024Assignee: Konica Minolta, Inc.Inventors: Hiroshi Sugiura, Takeshi Hibino
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Patent number: 11954839Abstract: A leak source specification assistance device includes a processing unit that performs processing, based on a movement of a first pixel that is one of pixels constituting an image including a leaking fluid region (gas region), to determine a second pixel that is one of the pixels constituting the image and is a movement source pixel of the first pixel, and repeats the processing with the second pixel newly set as the first pixel to determine a final movement source pixel. The processing unit repeats the processing on each of a plurality of the pixels constituting the image to determine the final movement source pixel for each of the plurality of pixels.Type: GrantFiled: September 9, 2019Date of Patent: April 9, 2024Assignee: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.Inventor: Motohiro Asano
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Patent number: 11947347Abstract: A maintenance management method is capable of reducing a burden on work takeover, and is a maintenance management method related to maintenance management of a production facility related to gas or oil. In the maintenance management method, a computer acquires producer information regarding a producer that owns or manages the production facility, production facility information regarding the production facility, an inspection record in a case where inspection is performed on the production facility, and maintainer candidate information regarding a maintainer candidate that performs maintenance on the production facility. Further, the computer determines whether or not maintenance for the production facility is necessary on the basis of the inspection record, and performs control to communicate information regarding maintenance for the production facility to at least one of the producer and the maintainer candidate, when determining that maintenance is necessary.Type: GrantFiled: June 19, 2020Date of Patent: April 2, 2024Assignee: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.Inventors: Ryo Minegishi, Akihiro Suzuki, Seiichi Tsuzuki
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Patent number: 11949820Abstract: An information processing apparatus is communicably connected to one or more image forming apparatuses each including: an image forming device that forms an image on a recording medium; an image reading device that reads the image to obtain read image data; and an image forming controller that executes a first inspection and detects in the read image data an image defect corresponding to a predetermined inspection item at a first cycle, the information processing apparatus including: a processing controller that: acquires inspection source data based on the read image data obtained from at least one of the image forming apparatuses, and executes a second inspection to inspect the inspection source data.Type: GrantFiled: July 18, 2022Date of Patent: April 2, 2024Assignee: Konica Minolta, Inc.Inventor: Daisuke Genda
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Patent number: 11947298Abstract: A recording material conveying device includes: a first conveyor that constitutes a conveyance path of a recording material; a second conveyor that branches from the first conveyor and constitutes a conveyance path of the recording material different from the conveyance path of the first conveyor; and a detector that detects recording material characteristics of the recording material, the detector being arranged in the second conveyor on a downstream side in a conveyance direction of the recording material with respect to a branch portion where the first conveyor and the second conveyor branch.Type: GrantFiled: November 8, 2022Date of Patent: April 2, 2024Assignee: Konica Minolta, Inc.Inventors: Satoshi Ogata, Atsushi Yamaguchi, Kenji Yamamoto, Takashi Nara
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Patent number: 11949841Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes: an image former that forms a correction patch using toner; a measurer that measures a color, a density, or a deposited amount of toner of the correction patch; and a hardware processor that calculates a reference correction amount on the basis of a measurement value of the measurer so that the density of the correction patch reaches a target value, and corrects an image forming condition of the image former by a first correction amount smaller than the reference correction amount.Type: GrantFiled: February 28, 2023Date of Patent: April 2, 2024Assignee: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.Inventor: Daiki Yamanaka
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Publication number: 20240103787Abstract: An image forming apparatus enables utilizing an output of proof printing as an output of final printing, wherein the image forming apparatus includes an image former forming an image on a sheet, an image reader reading an image formed on the sheet, and a controller, wherein the controller acquires a determination result of whether or not a sheet, on which an image read by the image reader is formed before the final printing by the image former in order to create a reference image to be used for inspecting an output matter of a printing job, can be used for an output matter of the final printing and controls the number of sheets or copies on which the images are to be formed using the image former at the final printing.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 8, 2023Publication date: March 28, 2024Applicant: Konica Minolta, Inc.Inventor: Yoko SHIRAKI
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Publication number: 20240105305Abstract: A radiation dose management system including a hardware processor that: automatically acquires, from a storage, predetermined information related to an examination of nuclear medicine, and automatically associates the predetermined information with information on a diagnostic reference level corresponding to the examination.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 26, 2023Publication date: March 28, 2024Applicant: Konica Minolta, Inc.Inventor: Yuki Tomiyama
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Patent number: 11940750Abstract: Paper physical property detecting device includes a first detector that measures a sheet of paper (hereinafter, merely referred to as a paper) made to stop temporarily on a conveyance path and acquires a first value corresponding to a first physical property, a second detector that measures a paper while conveying the paper on the conveyance path and acquires a second value corresponding to a second physical property with regard to a physical property different from the first physical property; and a corrector that corrects the first value on a basis of the second value and creates post correction data.Type: GrantFiled: October 18, 2022Date of Patent: March 26, 2024Assignee: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.Inventors: Hiroyuki Yoshikawa, Hitoshi Asano, Yumiko Izumiya, Yasuhiro Koide
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Patent number: 11941305Abstract: An inspection apparatus includes: a hardware processor that: conducts an inspection on an image by comparing a scanned image with a correct image, the image being formed on paper in accordance with a print job, the scanned image being generated by reading the image, the correct image serving as a reference for the inspection of the image; and determines whether a page is a target for the inspection in accordance with a type of the paper on which the image will be formed according to print setting of the print job, wherein the hardware processor conducts the inspection on the image on a page that has been determined to be the target for the inspection by the hardware processor, and does not conduct the inspection on the image on a page that has been determined to not be the target for the inspection.Type: GrantFiled: May 3, 2022Date of Patent: March 26, 2024Assignee: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.Inventor: Shoichi Ayukawa
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Patent number: 11943395Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: December 20, 2022Date of Patent: March 26, 2024Assignee: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.Inventor: Tomohiro Iwase
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Patent number: 11937966Abstract: A radiation imaging control apparatus includes a hardware processor and an operator. The hardware processor obtains an examination order and one or a plurality of radiation irradiating parameters corresponding to each examination order. The examination order to be executed is selected using the operator. When the examination order is selected on the operator, the hardware processor determines a selecting condition according to a priority setting from a plurality of selecting conditions, and selects a radiation irradiating parameter for the examination order from one or a plurality of radiation irradiating parameters according to the determined selecting condition.Type: GrantFiled: June 15, 2021Date of Patent: March 26, 2024Assignee: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.Inventors: Kosuke Fukazu, Naoki Hayashi
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Publication number: 20240098193Abstract: A processing apparatus includes: a storage that stores a plurality of instructions; and a processor that executes the plurality of instructions. The plurality of instructions, when executed by the processor, cause the processor to perform: providing a setting screen for setting one or more items relating to the processing apparatus; and setting the one or more items in response to operation performed on the setting screen. The setting screen includes a first setting screen for receiving operation performed by a person, and a second setting screen for receiving operation automated by Robotic Process Automation.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 11, 2023Publication date: March 21, 2024Applicant: Konica Minolta, Inc.Inventor: Takeo KATSUDA