Patents Assigned to Konica
  • Patent number: 11461900
    Abstract: A dynamic image analysis system includes a modality and a hardware processor. The modality generates first and second dynamic images each composed of frame images indicating dynamics of a subject. The processor detects a first signal value of a pixel in a first region in each of the frame images of the first dynamic image. The hardware processor detects a second signal value of a pixel in a second region in which an identical site to that of the first region is imaged, the second region being in each of the frame images of the second dynamic image. The processor determines an image processing condition for making the first signal value close to the second signal value based on the first and second signal values detected. The hardware processor performs image processing on the first dynamic image under the determined image processing condition to generate a processed dynamic image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2022
    Assignee: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.
    Inventors: Sumiya Nagatsuka, Naoki Hayashi
  • Publication number: 20220309660
    Abstract: An image display apparatus includes: an input-output interface that obtains medical images of a same target region taken through serial radiography along a time axis; and a hardware processor that: executes a time-series replay display of the medical images obtained by the input-output interface, and displays a position reference at a fixed position on a screen, the position reference being superimposed on each of the medical images during the replay display.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 22, 2022
    Publication date: September 29, 2022
    Applicant: Konica Minolta, Inc.
    Inventors: Naotoshi Sugegaya, Kenta Shimamura, Noritsugu Matsutani
  • Publication number: 20220309658
    Abstract: An image display apparatus includes: a hardware processor that obtains frame images showing a dynamic state of a subject; and a display that displays accessory information indicating a movement decrease region with respect to the obtained frame images, the accessory information being superimposed on consecutive frame images of the frame images.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 15, 2022
    Publication date: September 29, 2022
    Applicant: Konica Minolta, Inc.
    Inventors: Naotoshi Sugegaya, Kenta Shimamura, Noritsugu Matsutani
  • Patent number: 11457118
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus connected to one or more user terminals including a first user terminal installed at a place of a social group, via a communication network, includes: a storage that stores social group attribute information that associates a unique ID uniquely identifying the first user terminal with attribute information pertaining to the social group where the first user terminal assigned the unique ID is installed; and a hardware processor, wherein the hardware processor obtains information pertaining to the first user terminal and including the unique ID, the information having been transmitted from the first user terminal, obtains the attribute information pertaining to the social group associated in the storage with the unique ID transmitted from the first user terminal, and identifies a social group attribute of the user of the first user terminal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 11, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 27, 2022
    Assignee: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.
    Inventor: Kenichiro Ohki
  • Patent number: 11455717
    Abstract: An inspection device includes an image reader that generates a scan image, an inspector that inspects an inspection target image formed on a storage medium, by comparing a scan image with a reference image, a storage that stores the reference image, and a hardware processor that stores into the storage the reference image generated as the scan image by reading with the image reader an image formed on a recording medium by the image former on a basis of a second print job for generating the reference image, determines whether the reference image stored in the storage satisfies a predetermined condition when a data amount of the reference image stored in the storage becomes equal to or larger than a predetermined amount, and deletes the reference image determined to satisfy the predetermined condition from the storage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 27, 2022
    Assignee: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.
    Inventor: Tatsuya Nakano
  • Patent number: 11457114
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes: a conveyor that transports a sheet; an image former that forms an image on front and back surfaces of the sheet being transported in a transportation path and forms marks on the front and back surfaces; a reader that comprises a first line sensor that is disposed on a front surface side and reads the front surface; and a second line sensor that is disposed on a back surface side and reads the back surface; and a controller that: calculates a positional deviation between the images formed on the front and back surfaces based on positions of the marks on the front surface read by the first line sensor and positions of the marks on the back surface read by the second line sensor, and controls the image former to adjust positions of the images formed on the front and back surfaces.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 27, 2022
    Assignee: Konica Minolta, Inc.
    Inventor: Yoshihiro Esumi
  • Publication number: 20220296212
    Abstract: An ultrasound diagnostic apparatus including an ultrasound probe which outputs transmission ultrasound corresponding to a drive signal, which receives reflected ultrasound from the subject and which outputs a received signal according to the reflected ultrasound; a drive signal outputter which outputs the drive signal to the ultrasound probe; a hardware processor which controls the drive signal outputter to output a first drive signal having a first drive waveform and a second drive signal having a second drive waveform that is different from the first drive waveform; a received signal generator which generates a first received signal based on the reflected ultrasound corresponding to the transmission ultrasound that is output based on the first drive signal and a second received signal based on the reflected ultrasound corresponding to the transmission ultrasound that is output based on the second drive signal; and an extractor which extracts by arithmetic of the first received signal and the second received
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 3, 2022
    Publication date: September 22, 2022
    Applicant: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.
    Inventor: Tetsuya TANIGUCHI
  • Publication number: 20220296190
    Abstract: Provided is a radiographic image display device that includes a display on which a first focus highlight to focus on one imaging condition among multiple imaging conditions and a second focus highlight to focus on a button for displaying a taken image are displayed; and a hardware processor. After completion of an imaging session in the one imaging condition, the hardware processor transitions the first focus highlight to an imaging condition for a next imaging session and transitions the second focus highlight to the button for displaying an image taken in the one imaging condition. The hardware processor controls a transition destination of at least one of the first focus highlight and the second focus highlight according to a type of the next imaging session performed after the imaging session in the one imaging condition.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 10, 2022
    Publication date: September 22, 2022
    Applicant: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.
    Inventor: Kosuke FUKAZU
  • Patent number: 11449292
    Abstract: An image processing device reduces influence from delay due to one or more post processors and efficiently utilizes resources of an image former, to improve productivity. The image processing device includes: a job taker configured to take a print job; and a print data producer configured to output print data to an image former, configured to form an image on a sheet, and control a cutter configured to cut, inline, the sheet having the image formed and the image former. When the job taker takes a first print job to use the cutter and then takes a second print job not to use the cutter, the print data producer executes the first print job concurrently with the second print job.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 5, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2022
    Assignee: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.
    Inventor: Nobuhiro Nojima
  • Patent number: 11449991
    Abstract: An image processing method includes image inputting, auxiliary information inputting, image processing, feature quantity extracting, and discriminating. The image inputting is inputting a cell image. The auxiliary information inputting is inputting auxiliary information on a color of the cell image. The image processing is generating multiple processed images by performing a different image-processing process on the cell image based on the auxiliary information. The feature quantity extracting is extracting a feature quantity of a discrimination target from each of the multiple processed images. The discriminating is discriminating the discrimination target in the cell image based on the feature quantity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 15, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2022
    Assignee: Konica Minolta, Inc.
    Inventor: Takehiko Sashida
  • Patent number: 11447650
    Abstract: Provides is an inkjet recording liquid set including at least an inkjet ink and a pretreatment liquid, wherein the inkjet ink contains at least a pigment, an organic solvent, water and a silicone surfactant; the pretreatment liquid contains at least water-insoluble resin particles and a pigment coagulant; and the silicone surfactant has a structure represented by the following Formula (1), in Formula (1), R represents a hydrogen atom or a hydrocarbon group having 1 to 4 carbon atoms; X is an alkylene group having 2 to 6 carbon atoms and may have a branched structure; EO represents an ethylene oxide group, PO represents a propylene oxide group, and an order of EO and PO is random; m and n represent a number of repeating unit structures, m is an integer of 2 to 50, and n is an integer of 0 to 20.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2022
    Assignee: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.
    Inventors: Takayuki Toeda, Haruka Moriyama
  • Patent number: 11451685
    Abstract: A color conversion table corrector corrects a color conversion table used in an image data generation device, and the color conversion table corrector includes a hardware processor that: obtains data related to a print image; obtains first target data based on a first captured image obtained by capturing an image of a first color matching target corresponding to the print image; decides a specific area, in the first captured image, which is not used to correct the color conversion table; and corrects the color conversion table according to the data related to the print image and the first target data based on the first captured image excluding the specific area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 1, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2022
    Assignee: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.
    Inventor: Takeshi Yamaguchi
  • Publication number: 20220289453
    Abstract: A transport box includes: an outer box formed in a rectangular parallelepiped shape and capable of packing a packed object; and a buffer body disposed between the outer box and the packed object, wherein the buffer body includes medium enclosing buffer members having a resin sheet welded in a bag shape and a medium sealed in the resin sheet, each medium enclosing buffer member of the medium enclosing buffer members includes buffer parts each having a bag shape and enclosing a medium, and a communication flow path that allows the buffer parts adjacent to each other to communicate with each other, the buffer parts are disposed in a straight line, the communication flow path is formed between the buffer parts adjacent to each other and is bendable, and each of the medium enclosing buffer members is disposed in the outer box.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 8, 2022
    Publication date: September 15, 2022
    Applicant: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.
    Inventors: Takeshi HASHIMOTO, Narutaka YOSHIDA, Koji YAMAMOTO, Hiromi MIZUGUCHI
  • Publication number: 20220291069
    Abstract: A gas monitoring device, a gas monitoring method, and a gas monitoring program detect presence or absence of a predetermined gas on the basis of an image obtained by imaging a monitoring target, receive an input of predetermined additional information including alarm activation presence/absence information representing whether or not to activate an alarm, and determine whether or not to suppress alarm activation of presence of gas detected in the detection on the basis of the additional information received.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 12, 2019
    Publication date: September 15, 2022
    Applicant: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.
    Inventor: Motohiro ASANO
  • Patent number: 11440315
    Abstract: There is provided an ink jet recording apparatus including an ink jet head and a drive circuit. The ink jet head forms an image on a recording medium in response to a drive signal applied to multiple piezoelectric elements. The drive signal causes multiple pressure chambers corresponding to the multiple piezoelectric elements to expand or to contract in volume and causes ink in the multiple pressure chambers to be discharged from multiple nozzles. The drive circuit generates a drive signal for discharging multiple liquid droplets to one pixel for combining the multiple liquid droplets together and applies the drive signal to each of the multiple piezoelectric elements of the ink jet head. The drive signal includes multiple discharge pulses which make velocities of tips of respective liquid columns substantially same after a predetermined time from starting of ink discharge from the nozzles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 9, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2022
    Assignee: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.
    Inventors: Kenji Mawatari, Masanori Shimazoe, Ryohei Kobayashi
  • Publication number: 20220283532
    Abstract: An image forming device includes: a sheet feeder that feeds a sheet; a controller that: discriminates a sheet type of the sheet, and receives a user input to specify a sheet type; and an image forming device that has two setting modes including an automatic discrimination mode in which an image is formed based on the discriminated sheet type and a user specified mode in which an image is formed based on the sheet type specified by the user input. The controller automatically switches one of the two setting modes to the other based on a defined condition.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 2, 2022
    Publication date: September 8, 2022
    Applicant: Konica Minolta, Inc.
    Inventors: Masahiro Kamiya, Toshikazu Higashi, Yasuhiro Ishihara, Shigetaka Kato, Katsuhide Sakai
  • Patent number: 11432788
    Abstract: A control system includes a radiation emission apparatus and a radiographic imaging apparatus that generates image data by receiving radiation A first apparatus of the radiation emission apparatus and the radiographic imaging apparatus includes a first timer that performs time measurement to periodically generate first time measurement information. A second apparatus of the radiation emission apparatus and the radiographic imaging apparatus includes a second timer that performs time measurement to periodically generate second time measurement information. The first apparatus includes an interface that transmits the first time measurement information to the second timer. At least one apparatus includes a hardware processor which adjusts the operation of the first or second timer based on adjustment conditions in a state where the second timer does not acquire the first time measurement information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2022
    Assignee: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.
    Inventors: Kohei Isogai, Hidetake Tezuka, Nobuyuki Miyake, Kentaro Hara, Masahiro Kuwata, Koji Kashima
  • Patent number: 11437584
    Abstract: An organic electroluminescence element including an anode, a plurality of organic functional layers including a light-emitting layer, and a cathode in that order wherein the organic functional layer containing a compound having a structure represented by the following general formula (1) is arranged between the light-emitting layer and the cathode, wherein X, X1 to X12, R1, and L1 are as defined in the specification.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2022
    Assignee: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.
    Inventors: Shinya Otsu, Motoaki Sugino, Takamune Hattori
  • Patent number: 11434376
    Abstract: The present invention provides: an aminocoumarin compound having a structure represented by the following formula (1); and an aminocoumarin compound-containing resin particle containing the aminocoumarin compound and a resin particle containing the aminocoumarin compound. In formula (1), Rs each independently represent a hydrogen atom or a methyl group, Q represents a sulfur atom, an oxygen atom, or N—R1, and R1 represents a hydrogen atom or a methyl group. The aminocoumarin compound of the present invention is a fluorescent dye that has a longer excitation wavelength than a conventionally known sulfonated coumarin-based compound and is effectively excited at a wavelength of 475 nm or more, particularly at a wavelength around 500 nm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 13, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2022
    Assignee: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.
    Inventors: Kensaku Takanashi, Shin Nakayama, Kenji Nishikawa, Takeshi Isoda
  • Patent number: 11435348
    Abstract: It is an object of the present invention to provide a tissue staining method that makes it possible to observe both information on the morphology of a tissue and information on a biological substance such as an antigen molecule to be detected on a single section and in a single view field. The present invention provides a tissue staining method, including carrying out (A) a HE (hematoxylin-eosin) staining, and (B) a histochemical staining, serially on a single tissue section, wherein the histochemical staining is defined as a histochemical technique for detecting a biological substance to be detected in a tissue in a visible manner by use of a binding reaction between the biological substance to be detected and a probe biological substance capable of binding specifically to the biological substance to be detected.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2022
    Assignee: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.
    Inventors: Hideki Gouda, Hisatake Okada, Yasushi Nakano, Kohsuke Gonda, Noriaki Ohuchi, Mika Watanabe