Patents Assigned to Konica
  • Publication number: 20250208804
    Abstract: A printing system comprising a hardware processor, in which, when a print job has been executed, the hardware processor stores, in a storage 23, an adjusted color conversion table adjusted by a user used in the print job, and type information of an object shown in an image to be printed that has been identified by image analysis in association with each other, and, when executing a new print job, the hardware processor generates a screen for setting a color conversion table to be used in the new print job, and displays, in the screen, identification information of each of a plurality of the adjusted color conversion tables stored in the storage 23 together with the type information of the object in a selectable manner as a list of color conversion table use history.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 21, 2024
    Publication date: June 26, 2025
    Applicant: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.
    Inventor: Kouyo SUZUKI
  • Publication number: 20250206022
    Abstract: A nozzle plate made of a single-crystal silicon substrate includes a plurality of nozzle channels that penetrates the nozzle plate, the plurality of nozzle channels each including a nozzle and each capable of ejecting droplets from the nozzle. The single-crystal silicon substrate includes a first surface and a second surface opposite the first surface, the nozzle is formed on the second surface, and the first surface and the second surface are {110} planes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 17, 2022
    Publication date: June 26, 2025
    Applicant: Konica Minolta, Inc.
    Inventors: Yoshiyuki Ogawa, Hiroshi Kajita
  • Patent number: 12340607
    Abstract: Aspects of the present invention relate to a machine learning system that is trained to identify forms, performing a method that includes receiving a form as an input image; identifying a field in the input image; identifying boundaries of the field; identifying locations of characters in the field; creating a two-dimensional space containing special characters; replacing the special characters with the characters in the field; identifying one or more keywords in the field based on identification of words and/or location of words; and responsive to an indication that the identifying one or more keywords yielded an incorrect result, updating the machine learning system. In another aspect, the machine learning system is used to identify forms, and can identify whether a form requires registration and, if registration is required, performing the registration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 24, 2025
    Assignee: KONICA MINOLTA BUSINESS SOLUTIONS U.S.A., INC.
    Inventor: Junchao Wei
  • Patent number: 12339285
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is a method including: acquiring one or more pieces of information including information about expression status of a specific biomarker in a lesion collected from a human by using a laboratory animal transplanted with the lesion; and using the information to estimate therapeutic efficacy through analysis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 24, 2025
    Assignee: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.
    Inventors: Masaru Takahashi, Yasuyuki Motokui, Noboru Koyama
  • Publication number: 20250200216
    Abstract: A hardware processor included in a setting assistance device generates a work tenant including part of setting data defined by a preregistered client tenant, accepts update data obtained by adding, changing, or deleting data in the work tenant, and updates a client tenant with the update data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 11, 2024
    Publication date: June 19, 2025
    Applicant: Konica Minolta, Inc.
    Inventor: Megumi Watai
  • Publication number: 20250203018
    Abstract: A printing system includes: a printer that prints an arbitrary printed product on a printing medium; and a colorimeter that measures a color of the printed product, in which the printer includes a printing part, and a colorimetry controller that causes the printing part to print, based on information on the printed product, a measurement patch to be used for measurement of stabilization of a color material of the printed product and the printed product on the printing medium, and the colorimeter includes a colorimetry part, and a colorimetry controller that causes the colorimetry part to measure the color of the measurement patch and determines, based on an amount of change in the color of the measurement patch, whether the color material of the printed product has been stabilized.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 6, 2024
    Publication date: June 19, 2025
    Applicant: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.
    Inventor: Keishi Sakuma
  • Publication number: 20250203029
    Abstract: An image forming system includes a first hardware processor. The processor acquires unit identification information of a unit attached to a first image forming apparatus and unit state information indicating a state of the unit. The first hardware processor registers the acquired unit identification information and the acquired unit state information in a database. The first hardware processor outputs, to a second image forming apparatus, unit state information of a selected unit selected by a user from among units registered in the database.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 9, 2024
    Publication date: June 19, 2025
    Applicant: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.
    Inventor: Shin OHBA
  • Patent number: 12328421
    Abstract: A method, a non-transitory computer-readable medium, and a multifunction printer (MFP) that generate a signed digital document from a document generated by the multifunction printer. The method includes displaying a third-party screen for a third-party scan or fax workflow; switching to a multifunction printer vendor signing screen and obtaining signing settings for the generation of the signed digital document; calculating a document hash of the generated document using a cryptographic hashing algorithm; sending a digital signing request to a signing server, the digital signing request including the document hash of the generated document and an authenticated account identity of a user; receiving a digital signature and a public digital signing certificate for the user from the signing server; generating the signed digital document by embedding the digital signature and the public digital signing certificate of the user into the generated document; and switching to the third-party screen for the workflow.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2023
    Date of Patent: June 10, 2025
    Assignee: Konica Minolta Business Solutions U.S.A., Inc.
    Inventor: Shaun Pinney
  • Patent number: 12326672
    Abstract: A developing sleeve for an electrophotographic image forming apparatus includes an aluminum alloy containing more than 0.6% by mass of silicon and conveys a developer containing a toner and a carrier.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 2024
    Date of Patent: June 10, 2025
    Assignee: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.
    Inventors: Kazutoshi Kobayashi, Yukio Hosoya, Toshiyuki Fujita, Akihiko Itami
  • Patent number: 12324697
    Abstract: A radiation imaging system includes a first hardware processor. The first hardware processor executes control such that before main imaging is executed at a main dose, pre-imaging is executed at a pre-dose that is lower than the main dose. The first hardware processor derives an imaging condition for the main imaging based on a pre-image acquired in the pre-imaging, switches a control mode to one of a pre-image checking mode and a short-time imaging mode, and notifies which control mode between the pre-image checking mode and the short-time imaging mode is used to execute the control. The pre-image checking mode being a mode in which the pre-image is displayed after executing the pre-imaging. The short-time imaging mode being a mode in which the pre-image is not displayed after executing the pre-imaging before the main imaging.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 14, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 10, 2025
    Assignee: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.
    Inventors: Nobuyuki Miyake, Tatsuya Takagi, Kentaro Hara, Ichirou Hamamoto
  • Publication number: 20250181018
    Abstract: Disclosed is a non-transitory recording medium storing a computer-readable program, the program causing the computer to execute: acquiring a log from an image forming apparatus; determining whether a printing interruption time for each printing interruption exceeds a reference time based on the log acquired in the acquiring; creating display data in a display manner that allows recognition of a proportion of the printing interruption determined to exceed the reference time in the determining; and outputting the display data created in the creating.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 5, 2024
    Publication date: June 5, 2025
    Applicant: Konica Minolta, Inc.
    Inventor: Tetsuren Nogawa
  • Publication number: 20250178371
    Abstract: Disclosed is an inkjet recording device that forms an image by repeating a series of operations of relatively moving a first recording head and a second recording head and the recording medium in a second direction orthogonal to a first direction after ejecting the ink and/or a reaction liquid to the recording medium while relatively moving the first recording head and the second recording head and the recording medium in the first direction. The inkjet recording device includes a hardware processor that controls the ejection of the ink by the first recording head and the ejection of the reaction liquid by the second recording head such that a printing progress rate of the reaction liquid for each series of operations is higher than a printing progress rate of the ink in a printing area where at least the ejection of the ink is performed a plurality of times.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 17, 2022
    Publication date: June 5, 2025
    Applicant: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.
    Inventors: Shouhei KURAMOCHI, Naoto NIIZUMA, Hiroki HAMAGAMI
  • Patent number: 12321132
    Abstract: A resin composition includes: a resin having a first group capable of forming at least two hydrogen bonds; and a photoisomerization compound having a second group capable of forming at least two hydrogen bonds complementarily with the first group and having a moiety that is reversibly isomerized by light.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 3, 2025
    Assignee: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.
    Inventors: Kazuaki Nakamura, Yukiko Nakai, Haruo Horiguchi, Toyoko Shibata, Kouji Sugama
  • Patent number: 12322516
    Abstract: A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing instructions causing a computer of a case search apparatus to: execute a case search using a dynamic image, and output at least one of a similar case image similar to the dynamic image and a case candidate related to the dynamic image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 9, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 3, 2025
    Assignee: Konica Minolta, Inc.
    Inventors: Ken Satou, Sumiya Nagatsuka, Ikki Nakamura
  • Publication number: 20250170815
    Abstract: A laminating system includes: an image former that forms an image on a sheet; a laminator that is provided on a downstream side of the image former and performs a lamination process of laminating the sheet with a film; and a hardware processor that performs, before execution of a job, a test lamination process of causing the laminator to laminate a sheet with no image formed or a sheet with a test image formed by the image former, the test image being different from an image of the job.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 21, 2024
    Publication date: May 29, 2025
    Applicant: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.
    Inventor: Yusuke TERAI
  • Publication number: 20250172529
    Abstract: The odor detection system of the present invention includes an odor sensor which reacts to the odor of an object, a speed calculation section which calculates the movement speed of the object as viewed from the odor sensor, and a determination part which determines the state of the object on the basis of the outputted value of the odor sensor and the movement speed of the object. Specifically, the odor determination system includes a plurality of odor determination models that have learned, for each of the plurality of values of movement speed, the output value of the odor sensor as an explanatory variable and the state of the object as an objective variable, and the determination section selects one of the odor determination models based on the movement speed calculated by the speed calculation section, and determines the state of the object using the selected odor determination model.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 15, 2024
    Publication date: May 29, 2025
    Applicant: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.
    Inventor: Masato SHINOMURA
  • Publication number: 20250175559
    Abstract: An image inspection system includes: an image former; and a hardware processor that acquires a read image obtained by reading an image formed on the recording medium, wherein the hardware processor: inspects the read image, receives an interruption job, and interrupts inspection and image formation of the job being executed when the interruption job is received during execution of the job.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 19, 2024
    Publication date: May 29, 2025
    Applicant: Konica Minolta, Inc.
    Inventor: Shin Igawa
  • Patent number: 12315163
    Abstract: A dynamic image analysis apparatus includes a hardware processor; and an outputter. The hardware processor obtains a dynamic image of a chest portion obtained by dynamic imaging by radiation. The hardware processor performs a first generating process in which information regarding pleural adhesion is generated based on a motion amount in a region including at least a region adjacent to a rib cage in a lung region in the dynamic image. The outputter outputs the generated information regarding the pleural adhesion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 27, 2025
    Assignee: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.
    Inventors: Noritsugu Matsutani, Tatsuya Takagi, Kenta Shimamura
  • Patent number: 12310780
    Abstract: A radiographic imaging system includes an irradiating apparatus, a first clock, a radiographic imaging apparatus, a second clock and a hardware processor. The irradiating apparatus generates radiation. The first clock keeps time and works with the irradiating apparatus. The radiographic imaging apparatus generates image data based on received radiation. The second clock keeps time and works with the radiographic imaging apparatus. The hardware processor (i) obtains a clock value of the first clock at a predetermined time point and a clock value of the second clock at the predetermined time point respectively as first clock information and second clock information, (ii) makes a determination as to whether a specific condition is met based on the obtained first clock information and the obtained second clock information, and (iii) in response to the specific condition being met, performs a specific output.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 27, 2025
    Assignee: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.
    Inventors: Masahiro Kuwata, Nobuyuki Miyake, Koji Kashima, Kohei Isogai, Kentaro Hara, Hidetake Tezuka
  • Patent number: 12314618
    Abstract: An image inspection device that inspects a read image of a recording medium on which an image is formed based on a job, the image inspection device includes a hardware processor. The hardware processor executes a continuity inspection of an identifier in an inspection region in the read image. The hardware processor executes the continuity inspection across a plurality of jobs to be inspected.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2023
    Date of Patent: May 27, 2025
    Assignee: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.
    Inventor: Yasumasa Tsukamoto