Patents Assigned to Konica Minolta, Inc.
  • Publication number: 20230418531
    Abstract: At least one image of a print sample captured by a camera configured separately from an image forming device is acquired. At least one appearance feature of the print sample is specified from the at least one image. A value of an item corresponding to each of the at least one appearance feature of the print sample is acquired by referring to information associating the value of each of the at least one item constituting the print setting with each of the at least one appearance feature. The print setting is generated using the value of the item corresponding to the at least one appearance feature.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 15, 2023
    Publication date: December 28, 2023
    Applicant: Konica Minolta, Inc.
    Inventor: Atulkumar GAUTAM
  • Patent number: 11856168
    Abstract: A sheet conveyance apparatus includes: a speed detection roller that detects a conveyance speed of a sheet by coming into contact with the sheet being conveyed and being driven to rotate; and a hardware processor that performs temperature control to make an ambient temperature of the speed detection roller a predetermined temperature.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2023
    Assignee: Konica Minolta, Inc.
    Inventors: Harumitsu Fujimori, Shota Igo, Naoto Sugaya, Kenji Tamaki
  • Patent number: 11856163
    Abstract: An image reading apparatus includes: a reader that reads an image on a print medium, and is arranged at a reading position of a conveyance path for conveying the print medium that is continuous and has a long length; a shading unit including a reference color member to perform shading correction of correcting a read value of an image sensor in the reader; a mover that moves the shading unit between the reading position of the reader and a retreated position; and a retractor that retracts the print medium from the reading position of the reader, wherein the retractor arranges the print medium at the reading position of the reader at a time of reading by the reader, and retracts the print medium from the reading position of the reader at an end of reading by the reader, to secure a predetermined space between the reader and the print medium.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 4, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2023
    Assignee: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.
    Inventor: Kenji Kawatsu
  • Patent number: 11850860
    Abstract: A cleaning device includes a plurality of cleaning members that come into contact with an ejection surface of a droplet ejector that ejects droplets to clean the ejection surface, in which the plurality of cleaning members are in a wet state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2023
    Assignee: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.
    Inventors: Hajime Kawakami, Hiroaki Umemoto
  • Publication number: 20230404516
    Abstract: A mobile radiographic imaging apparatus includes: two independent power supply units; two control devices each being driven with power supplied from each of the two power supply units; a first hardware processor in one of the two control devices includes; and a second hardware processor in the other one of the two control device. The first hardware processor inquires of the second hardware processor about a state of the other control device when a predetermined condition is satisfied, and shuts down the one control device or cancels shutdown of the one control device according to a response from the other control device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 5, 2023
    Publication date: December 21, 2023
    Applicant: Konica Minolta, Inc.
    Inventors: Kosuke FUKAZU, Nobuyuki MIYAKE, Akira HIROSHIGE, Naoki HAYASHI
  • Publication number: 20230410297
    Abstract: A control device includes a hardware processor that obtains a plurality of radiographs satisfying a predetermined condition, and identifies a radiograph to be subjected to a predetermined process, from among the plurality of radiographs obtained.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 22, 2023
    Publication date: December 21, 2023
    Applicant: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.
    Inventors: Atsushi TANEDA, Akira HIROSHIGE, Naoki HAYASHI
  • Publication number: 20230412738
    Abstract: Disclosed is an image forming system that includes: a sheet conveyance section that conveys a continuous sheet along a sheet conveyance path; an image forming section that forms an image on the continuous sheet; and an image reading section that is disposed downstream of the image forming section in the sheet conveyance path, and reads the image formed on the continuous sheet to generate image data; and a hardware processor that determines, based on the read image data, whether or not there is an image defect, and determines, based on a result of the determination regarding the image defect, whether or not to perform reprinting of an image that is determined to have an image defect. The hardware processor continues operation of the image forming section until determining not to perform the reprinting.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 17, 2023
    Publication date: December 21, 2023
    Applicant: Konica Minolta, Inc.
    Inventor: Shingo SASAMI
  • Publication number: 20230406654
    Abstract: A recording material conveyance apparatus includes a hardware processor and a measurement section. The hardware processor is capable of performing switching control of, in response to, among a plurality of recording material housing sections that house recording materials, a first recording material housing section becoming out of recording material while a recording material fed from the first recording material housing section is being conveyed, selecting a second recording material housing section to cause a recording material housed in the second recording material housing section to be conveyed. In the switching control, the hardware processor selects the second recording material housing section based on a measured physical property value of each of the recording materials of the recording material housing section The measurement section measures the physical property value of each of the recording materials of the recording material housing section.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 15, 2023
    Publication date: December 21, 2023
    Applicant: Konica Minolta, Inc.
    Inventors: Syunji SHIMOKAWA, Hiroyuki KONISHI
  • Publication number: 20230408960
    Abstract: A recording material conveyance device that can suppress a decrease in productivity when detecting characteristics of the recording material is provided. A recording material conveyance device includes: a first conveyor that constitutes a conveyance route for a recording material; a second conveyor and a third conveyor that branch off from the first conveyor and constitute the conveyance route for the recording material on a downstream side of a recording material conveyance direction of the first conveyor; a first detector that detects recording material characteristics of the recording material disposed in the first conveyor; a second detector that detects the recording material characteristics disposed in the second conveyor; and a controller that stops detection by the second detector and discharges the recording material that is being detected by the second detector when the first detector detects an abnormality in a detection result of the recording material characteristics.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 22, 2023
    Publication date: December 21, 2023
    Applicant: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.
    Inventors: Satoshi OGATA, Masashi SUGANO
  • Publication number: 20230412562
    Abstract: A filtering system restricts access to the Internet by User A and User B supervised by User A. The filtering system includes a first terminal to be used by User A, and a second terminal to be used by User B. Access to the Internet by the first terminal is restricted by a first filter. Access to the Internet by the second terminal is restricted by a second filter. The first terminal acquires restriction information indicating access restriction by the second filter, and displays information indicating whether or not the second user can access a predetermined website, based on the acquired restriction information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 9, 2023
    Publication date: December 21, 2023
    Applicant: Konica Minolta, Inc.
    Inventor: Hikaru MUTO
  • Patent number: 11844656
    Abstract: An ultrasound diagnostic apparatus includes: a hardware processor that search for a blood vessel position of a subject in a tomographic image and automatically setting a region corresponding to the blood vessel position detected in the tomographic image as a measurement region for generating a Doppler image. In a case where a measurement region has been already set or in a case where a specified position specified by a user exists when the hardware processor automatically sets the measurement region, the hardware processor executes processing of searching for the blood vessel position such that the measurement region is automatically set near the measurement region that has been already set or the specified position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 19, 2023
    Assignee: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.
    Inventors: Makiko Urabe, Yoshihiro Takeda, Akihiro Kawabata
  • Patent number: 11846754
    Abstract: An optical lens with an antireflective film includes: a lens substrate; and an antireflective film disposed on the lens substrate. The antireflective film is formed of layers each having a physical thickness of 140 nm or less. In order from an air side, the antireflective film has: a first layer formed as an MgF2 layer, a second layer, a fourth layer, a sixth layer, an eighth layer, and a tenth layer each having a refractive index of 2.0 or more and 2.3 or less, and a third layer, a fifth layer, a seventh layer, and a ninth layer each formed as an SiO2 layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 19, 2023
    Assignee: Konica Minolta, Inc.
    Inventors: Yoshihiro Nakano, Koji Takahara
  • Patent number: 11846764
    Abstract: A zoom lens includes, in order from an object side: a first lens group having positive power; a second lens group having negative power; a third lens group having positive power; a fourth lens group having positive power; a fifth lens group having negative power; and a sixth lens group having positive power. The fourth lens group includes at least one positive lens that satisfies a conditional formula of vdp?65. A conditional formula of 1.19?f3/ft?4.15 and a conditional formula of 0.51?f4/ft?1.50 are satisfied.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 8, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 19, 2023
    Assignee: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.
    Inventor: Hiroaki Tanaka
  • Patent number: 11849090
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes: an image former that forms, on an end surface of each layer of a layered printed matter or on a layered surface formed by layering cross sections of printed matter cut in the post-processing step, a layer image for expressing a predetermined image on each layer; and a hardware processor that corrects a printing position of the layer image on each layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 19, 2023
    Assignee: Konica Minolta, Inc.
    Inventor: Keiki Katsumata
  • Patent number: 11846544
    Abstract: A spectrophotometer having a light-receiving optical system that images light to be measured from a position for measurement and generates imaged light to be measured; a slit formation including a slit that causes the imaged light to be measured to pass and that generates light to be measured, which travels along a measurement optical path; a grating that diffracts the light to be measured, which travels along the measurement optical path, and generates diffracted light; a sensor that receives the diffracted light and outputs a signal representing a spectral spectrum; and an observation light source that is disposed on an optical path of zeroth light among the diffracted light and that emits observation light toward the grating at a time of observing the position for measurement.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 19, 2023
    Assignee: Konica Minolta, Inc.
    Inventors: Takashi Kawasaki, Hidehiko Fujii, Katsutoshi Tsurutani
  • Patent number: 11845277
    Abstract: Provided is an inkjet head containing a nozzle plate having at least a substrate, wherein the nozzle plate has a liquid-repellent layer on an outermost surface of the substrate on an ink ejection surface side; a liquid-repellent layer base film is provided between the substrate and the liquid-repellent layer; and the liquid-repellent layer base film contains at least silicon (Si) and carbon (C), and having a maximum peak P of a binding energy of a Si2p orbital of a surface portion measured by X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy is in the range represented by the following Formula (1), Formula (1): 99.6 (eV)?P?101.9 (eV).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 19, 2023
    Assignee: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.
    Inventors: Yohei Sato, Akihisa Shimomura, Hiroaki Kozai
  • Publication number: 20230397868
    Abstract: A control method of a conference system, comprises acquiring information on behavior of a participant in a conference; and evaluating, during the conference, psychological safety of the participant based on the acquired information. A conference system comprises: an acquisition unit that acquires information on behavior of a participant in a conference; and an evaluation unit that evaluates psychological safety of the participant based on the information acquired by the acquisition unit during the conference. A non-transitory recording medium stores a computer readable program to be executed by a hardware processor in a computer. The computer readable program causes the hardware processor to acquire information on behavior of a participant in a conference and evaluate psychological safety of the participant based on the acquired information during the conference.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 9, 2023
    Publication date: December 14, 2023
    Applicant: Konica Minolta, Inc.
    Inventor: Kohei YAMAZAKI
  • Publication number: 20230402155
    Abstract: An image display system includes a first hardware processor that: obtains an analysis result acquired by a computer process for first medical image data having a first slice thickness; obtains second medical image data reconstructed, from the first medical image data, to have a second slice thickness different from the first slice thickness; and converts the analysis result of the first medical image data into what is displayable on a second medical image based on the second medical image data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 21, 2023
    Publication date: December 14, 2023
    Applicant: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.
    Inventors: Tomoaki TAKEMURA, Hisashi WADA
  • Publication number: 20230401708
    Abstract: A non-transitory computer-readable recording medium storing instructions causing a computer to execute: acquiring information on whether each of one or more first lesion detection regions is false positive, the one or more first lesion detection regions being input by a user with respect to a first analysis result and obtained by computer processing on a first medical image of a patient; acquiring a second analysis result including one or more second lesion detection regions that are obtained by computer processing on a second medical image of the patient; and displaying a false correspondence region in a different manner from a manner of displaying a non-false correspondence region. The false correspondence region corresponds to a first lesion detection region indicated as being false positive, and the non-false correspondence region corresponds to a first lesion detection region indicated as being not false positive, in the acquired information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 13, 2023
    Publication date: December 14, 2023
    Applicant: Konica Minolta, Inc.
    Inventors: Hidekazu Takahashi, Hisashi Wada, Kei Okabayashi
  • Patent number: 11841664
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus is provided, including a conveying member configured to convey a long paper along a paper path; an image forming unit which forms an image on the long paper being conveyed by the conveying member along the paper path; an image reading unit which reads a surface of the long paper, the surface having the image formed by the image forming unit; and a color sample member which is arrangeable at a position facing the image reading unit, such that the long paper is conveyed by the conveying member to avoid passing through between the image reading unit and the color sample member. Also included is a switch between a first arrangement in which the image reading unit reads the long paper and a second arrangement in which the image reading unit faces the long paper via the color sample member and reads the color sample member, the switch being made by moving the image reading unit or by moving the color sample member and the conveying member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 9, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2023
    Assignee: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.
    Inventor: Shougo Fukai