Patents Assigned to Konica
  • Publication number: 20240053466
    Abstract: A vital data acquisition system includes a hardware processor that: sets an identified region, based on imaged information; acquires vital data based on a detection result from a sensor; and determines whether the identified region is correctly set based on the vital data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 9, 2023
    Publication date: February 15, 2024
    Applicant: Konica Minolta, Inc.
    Inventor: Atsuhiro Naka
  • Patent number: 11902672
    Abstract: A flicker measurement device includes a first processing unit that performs a first process of calculating respective flicker values of a plurality of measurement regions set on a measurement object based on a photometric quantity of the measurement object obtained from the measurement object under a measurement condition of a flicker for each of the plurality of measurement conditions stored in advance in a measurement condition storage unit, a second processing unit that performs a second process of generating linked data in which data composed of the respective flicker values of the plurality of measurement regions calculated by the first processing unit and the measurement conditions are linked for each of the plurality of measurement conditions, and a third processing unit that performs a third process of storing the linked data generated by the second processing unit in a linked data storage unit for each of the plurality of measurement conditions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 20, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: Konica Minolta, Inc.
    Inventor: Katsuki Imai
  • Patent number: 11899999
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes: a former that performs image formation on a sheet conveyed on a conveyance path; a first hardware processor that detects a type of the sheet on which the image is formed; a second hardware processor that receives specification of a type of a sheet from a user; and a third hardware processor that receives a user setting regarding the image formation, wherein the user setting includes a setting for allowing the former to continuously perform the image formation in a case where the sheet type detected by the first hardware processor is different from the sheet type specified by the user received by the second hardware processor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 25, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: Konica Minolta, Inc.
    Inventors: Akinori Kimata, Kenichi Hayashi, Shiro Umeda, Yukinobu Iguchi, Satoru Sasaki
  • Patent number: 11896430
    Abstract: A portable ultrasound image diagnostic apparatus includes a first housing, a second housing including a display panel, a connector, and an ultrasound probe. The connector connects the first housing and a lower edge portion of the second housing so that the second housing is rotatable to be overlapped on the first housing to fold the portable ultrasound image diagnostic apparatus. The connector is provided at a position between a center of the first housing and a front side of the first housing. The second housing is rotatable towards a rear side of the first housing with a horizontal axis of the connector as a supporting axis to open the portable ultrasound image diagnostic apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 5, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.
    Inventors: Hisayoshi Nagase, Takahiko Shiraishi, Tatsushi Chihara
  • Patent number: 11902474
    Abstract: An image reading apparatus includes: a reader that reads an image formed on a print medium; and a backing part that is disposed at a position facing the reader and is capable of switching a color of a portion to be a background of the print medium upon reading by the reader to a plurality of colors according to a type of the print medium and/or a color read from the print medium.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.
    Inventor: Kenji Kawatsu
  • Patent number: 11896418
    Abstract: A non-transitory recording medium storing a computer readable program that causes a computer of a moving image management apparatus, which manages a radiographic moving image, to perform: obtaining that is obtaining a first radiographic moving image and a second radiographic moving image, the first radiographic moving image showing a movement of a subject while breathing is repeated a first number of times per unit time, and the second radiographic moving image showing a movement of the subject while breathing is repeated a second number of times that is different from the first number of times per the unit time; and associating that is associating respective numbers of breaths during imagings with the first radiographic moving image and the second radiographic moving image that are obtained in the obtaining.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 7, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.
    Inventors: Akinori Tsunomori, Taketoh Muraoka
  • Publication number: 20240048400
    Abstract: A control apparatus includes a hardware processor that obtains information on volume of a sound in a conference room detected by a sound detection device that detects the sound in the conference room during a conference in the conference room, derives an index value that represents risk of information leakage due to sound leakage, based at least on the obtained information on the volume of the sound in the conference room, and causes an output device or an information terminal device installed in the conference room to issue an alert, if the index value is equal to or more than a predetermined threshold.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 29, 2023
    Publication date: February 8, 2024
    Applicant: Konica Minolta, Inc.
    Inventor: Tomohiro IWASE
  • Publication number: 20240045175
    Abstract: An imaging optical system includes, in order from an object side, first, second, third, fourth, fifth and sixth lenses. The first lens has negative power and an object side surface having a convex shape. The second lens has positive power and a meniscus shape being convex toward the object side. The third lens has positive power. The fourth lens has negative power. The fifth lens is a biconvex lens that has positive power. The sixth lens has positive or negative power, has an image side surface, and has an extreme value other than an intersection point with an optical axis on the image side surface of the sixth lens. The imaging optical system satisfies a conditional expression (1); 1.5<f2/f<3.5. The f2 represents a focal length of the second lens, and the f represents a focal length of the imaging optical system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 18, 2023
    Publication date: February 8, 2024
    Applicants: Konica Minolta, Inc., KONICA MINOLTA OPTO (DALIAN) CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Akihiro Kondo, Zhiyu Huang
  • Patent number: 11895428
    Abstract: A control apparatus connected to a plurality of radiographic imaging apparatuses, includes a receiver that receives state information indicating whether a state is a first state in which the radiographic imaging apparatus is not connected to or synchronized with a specific synchronization source or a second state in which the radiographic imaging apparatus is connected to and synchronized with the specific synchronization source, from each of the plurality of radiographic imaging apparatuses, a hardware processor that makes a first determination that at least one of the plurality of radiographic imaging apparatuses is in the first state or a second determination that all of the plurality of radiographic imaging apparatuses are in the second state, based on the state information received from each of the plurality of radiographic imaging apparatuses, and an outputter that outputs whether a determination result by the hardware processor is the first determination or the second determination.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 20, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.
    Inventor: Masahiro Kuwata
  • Patent number: 11892350
    Abstract: A device for measuring two-dimensional flicker of the present application includes a plurality of two-dimensional sensors having a partial readout function of reading out only a pixel value of some of photoelectric conversion elements included in set partial readout regions, among a plurality of photoelectric conversion elements. In the device for measuring two-dimensional flicker, a plurality of measurement regions are set two-dimensionally on a measurement target object. Each pixel in the plurality of measurement regions is individually acquired, by setting each of the plurality of partial readout regions of the plurality of two-dimensional sensors in each of a plurality of partial imaging regions obtained by dividing an entire imaging region including entirely the measurement target object. A flicker value of the plurality of measurement regions is individually obtained based on each pixel value in the plurality of measurement regions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.
    Inventor: Satoshi Masuda
  • Patent number: 11890871
    Abstract: A method of driving an inkjet head having a nozzle and a pressure generator, a plurality of droplets of the ink discharged in response to a series of the drive signals being caused to hit a recording medium to form a single pixel. The method includes, applying, to the pressure generator, the series of the drive signals including a first one of the drive signals that has a first voltage amplitude and a second one of the drive signals that has a second voltage amplitude larger than the first voltage amplitude. A last drive signal in the series of the drive signals is the second one of the drive signals. The first voltage amplitude and the second voltage amplitude are determined such that a ratio of (first voltage amplitude)/(second voltage amplitude) has a value corresponding to a specific gravity of the ink to be discharged.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.
    Inventors: Xinze Li, Yasuhiko Suetomi
  • Publication number: 20240036503
    Abstract: [Problem] To provide a stiffness measuring device capable of highly accurately measuring the stiffness of a recording material such as a sheet, and an image forming system equipped with the stiffness measuring device. [Solution] A stiffness measuring device includes a holding portion that holds a recording material so that a recording surface of the recording material is substantially parallel to a vertical direction, a pressing portion, and a stiffness acquiring section. The pressing portion presses a measurement point located on a lower side in the vertical direction than the portion of the recording material held by the holding portion. The stiffness acquiring section measure a reaction force obtained when the measurement point is pressed by the pressing portion and acquires the measured reaction force as the stiffness of the recording material.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 11, 2023
    Publication date: February 1, 2024
    Applicant: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.
    Inventors: Yasuo KOYANAGI, Kazumichi YOSHIDA, Yoshihito SASAMOTO, Kazutoshi YOSHIMURA
  • Publication number: 20240040045
    Abstract: An image inspection device includes a processor coupled to a sensor. The processor reads, using the sensor, an image formed on a recording material by an image forming device and creates a read image; causes an analysis to detect an abnormality in the read image and creates an analysis result; and creates a normal image file including the read image in which the abnormality has not been detected based on the analysis result.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 11, 2023
    Publication date: February 1, 2024
    Applicant: Konica Minolta, Inc.
    Inventor: Makoto Oki
  • Patent number: 11889036
    Abstract: Provided is an image forming system in which an image forming apparatus is connected to a post-processing apparatus having a function of trimming. The image forming system includes: a repeat setting part that determines either: a setting of a scan size of a scan image per one printed reproduction of the scan image, the one printed reproduction being to be laid out by imposition of the scan image; or a setting of the imposition of the scan image according to the scan size of the scan image; a trimming setting part that determines either: a setting of a card size of cards to be obtained by trimming a recording medium; or a setting of a trimming area for the cards; and a coordination part that coordinates the repeat setting part and the trimming setting part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.
    Inventor: Akio Ueda
  • Patent number: 11886145
    Abstract: Provided is an electrostatic charge image developing toner including toner matrix particles containing at least a binder resin, wherein a photosensitizer having a singlet oxygen generating ability is contained inside the toner matrix particles or in an external additive attached to the toner matrix particles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.
    Inventor: Akihiko Itami
  • Patent number: 11885680
    Abstract: A spectral device is provided with: a filter having a property of transmitting light of multiple wavelength ranges from a measurement object; a driving means to slide the filter; and a detector to detect an intensity of the light from the measurement object, the light having passed through the filter, the detector to further measure the intensity of the light multiple times sequentially while the driving means slides the filter and thereby obtain multiple pieces of measured data to be used for a calculation of spectral information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.
    Inventors: Toru Nakatani, Toshio Kawano, Hitoshi Nagasawa, Koji Nagai
  • Publication number: 20240029871
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a hardware processor that: acquires care receiver information about a care receiver scheduled to enter a care facility, and room information about each of a plurality of rooms in the care facility; and determines a residential room to be allocated to the care receiver from among the plurality of rooms, based on the care receiver information and the room information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 19, 2023
    Publication date: January 25, 2024
    Applicant: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.
    Inventor: Tatsuya NAKANO
  • Publication number: 20240028855
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus connected to a first post-processing machine that executes first post-processing on at least one of a plurality of sheets includes: an image forming device that forms an image on each of the sheet; and a controller that instructs, in response to an output of a target sheet that satisfies a specific condition from the image forming section, the first post-processing machine to execute the first post-processing on the target sheet and a stacked sheet among the sheets.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 20, 2023
    Publication date: January 25, 2024
    Applicant: Konica Minolta, Inc.
    Inventor: Takashi Yamashita
  • Publication number: 20240029578
    Abstract: An information processing method to be executed by a computer comprises: accessing a questionnaire answer consisting of one or more options selected from a plurality of options prepared in advance as answers to each of a plurality of questions, and information recorded as a selection manner in which the one or more options are selected; and calculating a degree of importance of each of the selected one or more options, based on the information recorded as the selection manner.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 21, 2023
    Publication date: January 25, 2024
    Applicant: Konica Minolta, Inc.
    Inventor: Junichi FURUKAWA
  • Publication number: 20240028274
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus of a roll-to-roll type includes a hardware processor that functions as a controller. The controller has a real-time adjustment function of printing an adjustment image on a roll sheet, acquiring a reading result of reading the adjustment image from an image reading section, and adjusting an image forming condition in an image forming section in real time based on the reading result during execution of a printing job, and an error-time operation determination function of determining whether to stop or continue the printing job, when an adjustment error in the real-time adjustment function is detected, the determining being based on an occurrence situation of the adjustment error.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 21, 2023
    Publication date: January 25, 2024
    Applicant: Konica Minolta, Inc.
    Inventor: Eiichi NARIMATU