Patents Assigned to Konica
  • Publication number: 20250116956
    Abstract: An image formation apparatus includes: an image former that prints an image on paper; a corrector that corrects a print position of the image on the paper; and a first sensor that is disposed on a conveyance path upstream of the image former, detects paper, and outputs detection data to the corrector, wherein the corrector obtains, on the basis of the detection data, an amount of change in a shape of first paper from a shape of second paper printed before the first paper is printed, and corrects a print position of a first image on the first paper on the basis of the change amount.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 17, 2024
    Publication date: April 10, 2025
    Applicant: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.
    Inventor: Shoichi NOMURA
  • Patent number: 12269266
    Abstract: A nozzle plate includes a substrate having thereon at least a base layer and a liquid-repellent layer. A substrate adhesion layer is provided between the substrate and the base layer. A surface portion of the substrate adhesion layer has a higher concentration (atm %) of Cr than a surface portion of the substrate. The base layer is a layer containing at least an inorganic oxide or an oxide containing carbon (C). The liquid-repellent layer is a layer formed by using a coupling agent containing fluorine (F).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2025
    Assignee: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.
    Inventors: Akihisa Yamada, Ayako Suzuki, Hiroaki Kozai, Masahisa Maeda, Nobuyuki Egami
  • Patent number: 12271463
    Abstract: A method, a non-transitory computer readable medium, and multifunction printer for accessing a resource hosted on one or more cloud servers from a cloud ready application on the multifunction printer are disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2025
    Assignee: Konica Minolta Business Solutions U.S.A., Inc.
    Inventor: Rahul Suraparaju
  • Patent number: 12271122
    Abstract: A toner container comprises: a container for containing toner; a stirring member provided inside the container and configured to stir the toner by rotating around an axis; an engaging member attached to one end of the stirring member and configured to engage with a peripheral edge portion of an opening formed in the container; and a drive transmission member attached to the engaging member and configured to rotate the stirring member around the axis. A method of manufacturing the toner container comprises the steps of: installing the stirring member inside of the container body and attaching the engaging member to one end of the stirring member to bring the engaging member into engagement with the peripheral edge portion of the opening; forming the container by welding the container body and the cover member to each other; and attaching the drive transmission member to the engagement member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 20, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2025
    Assignee: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.
    Inventors: Madoka Okabe, Junichi Tanimoto
  • Patent number: 12268486
    Abstract: Disclosed is a reflective photoplethysmogram sensor comprising: a planar light emitting element and a planar light receiving element. The light emitting element and the light receiving element do not face each other in an up/down direction. The minimum distance h (mm) between at least a pair of the light emitting element and the light receiving element satisfies the following expression (1) (t×03.7)2?h?(t×1.3)2??Expression (1) where the minimum distance between the light emitting element and the light receiving element is h (mm), and a thickness of skin (epidermis+dermis) of a human body is t (mm), and the thickness is within the range 0.1 to 4 mm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2025
    Assignee: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.
    Inventors: Shusaku Kon, Ryo Nakabayashi, Kosuke Ando
  • Publication number: 20250111723
    Abstract: A method, a non-transitory computer readable medium, and an identify and management device for area-based access control. The method includes receiving, by a first computer system, data associated with one or more users within one or more zones, the data associated with the one or more users within the one or more zones including facial recognition data; determining, by the first computer system, based on the received facial recognition data if the one or more users are permitted within the one or more zones; and generating, by the first computer system, a response as to a presence of the one or more users within the one or more zones.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 29, 2023
    Publication date: April 3, 2025
    Applicant: Konica Minolta Business Solutions U.S.A., Inc.
    Inventor: Rahul SURAPARAJU
  • Publication number: 20250111043
    Abstract: A method, a non-transitory computer readable medium, and a computer system that includes a method for detection of abnormal authentication and registration attempts. The method includes receiving, by a computer system, data associated with an authentication or registration on a secured device by a user; scoring, by the computer system, the received data associated with the authentication or registration on the secured device by the user using a machine learning algorithm; and issuing, by the computer system, an alert when the score of the received data associated with the authentication or registration on the secured device by the user exceeds a predetermined score.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 29, 2023
    Publication date: April 3, 2025
    Applicant: Konica Minolta Business Solutions U.S.A., Inc.
    Inventor: Pranay Bhandarkar
  • Publication number: 20250111487
    Abstract: A method of processing a video stream from a non-rectilinear (NR) camera includes: obtaining an activity score map that corresponds to a view of the NR camera; obtaining, from the NR camera, an NR image that includes the view of the NR camera; detecting motion in the NR image; generating an updated activity score map by incrementing the activity score map based on the detected motion in the NR image; performing clustering on the updated activity score map to identify a region of interest (ROI) in the NR image; generating dewarping information of the ROI based on a constraint of the NR camera (the dewarping information includes parameters to convert the ROI into a rectilinear output); and outputting the dewarping information of the ROI.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 29, 2023
    Publication date: April 3, 2025
    Applicant: Konica Minolta Business Solutions U.S.A., Inc.
    Inventor: Jie Kulbida
  • Patent number: 12265356
    Abstract: A photoresponsive polymer that is fluidized by light irradiation and reversibly non-fluidized and contains a structural unit represented by a general formula (1) shown below: wherein each substituent is defined as described in the specification.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 18, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2025
    Assignee: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.
    Inventors: Haruo Horiguchi, Kouji Sugama, Kazuaki Nakamura, Yukiko Nakai, Toyoko Shibata
  • Patent number: 12263028
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2024
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2025
    Assignee: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.
    Inventor: Mao Eguchi
  • Publication number: 20250104233
    Abstract: Provided is a dynamic image processing apparatus that includes: at least one hardware processor; and an outputter that outputs information on a setting value of a respiratory assistance apparatus, and the at least one hardware processor extracts the information by processing at least one dynamic image imaged by irradiating lungs of a subject, who is put on the respiratory assistance apparatus, with radiation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 23, 2024
    Publication date: March 27, 2025
    Applicant: Konica Minolta, Inc.
    Inventor: Takuya Yamamura
  • Publication number: 20250104297
    Abstract: A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium stores a program causing a computer to perform: first reception of receiving first text data; first transmission of transmitting the first text data to an image generation AI apparatus; first image obtainment of obtaining, from the image generation AI apparatus, first image data for the first text data, the first image data being generated by the image generation AI apparatus; and external apparatus transmission of transmitting the first text data and the first image data associated with one another to an external apparatus.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 10, 2024
    Publication date: March 27, 2025
    Applicant: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.
    Inventors: Mikihiro YAMAKAWA, Taro TAKECHI, Sachiko HIRANO, Mieko MITA, Ken MIYAZAKI, Miku KANNO
  • Patent number: 12257838
    Abstract: A holder assembly that holds a head module including an inkjet head on a mounting table, the holder assembly including a pressure member and an operation member. The pressure member presses a portion of the head module adjacent to the mounting table. The operation member transitions the pressure member from a first state to a second state when work of mounting the head module on the mounting table is performed. In the first state, the pressing by the pressure member is deactivated, and in the second state, the pressing by the pressure member is activated. The operation member exists outside an enveloping surface of the head module during the work of mounting the head module on the mounting table.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2025
    Assignee: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.
    Inventor: Kenichi Yamamoto
  • Patent number: 12261944
    Abstract: An authentication system includes: an information processing apparatus including a first processor; and an authentication server connected to the information processing apparatus through a network and including a second processor. The first processor acquires user registration information stored in a first memory based on an instruction operation of the user, generates an authentication request including data encrypted based on an encryption key included in the acquired user registration information and identification information included in the acquired user registration information, and transmits the authentication request to the authentication server.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 19, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2025
    Assignee: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.
    Inventor: Masaki Nakata
  • Patent number: 12257852
    Abstract: An ink supply device includes: a main tank that stores ink; a sub-tank that stores the ink supplied from the main tank and supplies the ink stored to a plurality of inkjet heads connected; and a heater that heats the ink before the ink flows into the sub-tank, wherein the heater includes a plurality of ink outlet ports that can supply the ink with different temperatures to the sub-tank midway in a flow path of the ink to be heated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 2, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2025
    Assignee: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.
    Inventor: Shigetaka Kurosu
  • Patent number: 12260617
    Abstract: An object position region detection unit of an object detection device detects a position region of an object included in an input image on the basis of a first class definition in which a plurality of classes is defined in advance. A class identification unit identifies a class out of a plurality of classes to which the object belongs on the basis of the first class definition. An object detection result output unit outputs class information of the object as a detection result of the object on the basis of a second class definition in which a plurality of classes is defined in advance, the second class definition associated with the first class definition. The number of classes defined in the second class definition is smaller than the number of classes defined in the first class definition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 15, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2025
    Assignee: Konica Minolta, Inc.
    Inventor: Bumpei Toji
  • Patent number: 12257099
    Abstract: A mobile radiographic imaging apparatus that performs dynamic imaging by using radiation, includes a detector, a wireless communication interface, and a hardware processor. The detector detects a first wireless access point and a second wireless access point. The wireless communication interface connects to the first wireless access point as a connection point and outputs a dynamic image including a plurality of frames acquired in the dynamic imaging to the first wireless access point. The hardware processor controls a change of the connection point from the first wireless access point to the second wireless access point. The hardware processor further performs control to inhibit the change of the connection point in a period when the frame images are still being output to the first wireless access point.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2025
    Assignee: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.
    Inventors: Yuuichi Nishijima, Atsushi Taneda, Naoki Hayashi
  • Patent number: 12259522
    Abstract: A dielectric multilayer film is composed of a plurality of layers on a substrate. The plurality of layers includes at least one low refractive index layer and at least one high refractive index layer. The uppermost layer farthest from the substrate is the low refractive index layer. The high refractive index layer disposed on a substrate side of the uppermost layer is a functional layer containing a metal oxide with a photocatalytic function. The uppermost layer is a hydrophilic layer containing a metal oxide with a hydrophilic function and has pores that partially expose a surface of the functional layer. The average width of the pores is equal to or greater than 5 nm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2025
    Assignee: KONICA MINOLTA, INC
    Inventors: Kazunari Tada, Jinichi Kasuya, Yasushi Mizumachi
  • Patent number: 12254223
    Abstract: A method, a non-transitory computer readable medium, and a multifunction peripheral or multifunction printer that includes a method of operating a multifunction printer. The method includes receiving, by the multifunction printer, a selection of a function of the multifunction printer; displaying, on a display panel of the multifunction printer, a code for the selection of the function of the multifunction printer; receiving, by the multifunction printer, a request for operating assistance for the function of the multifunction printer based on the displayed code from the client device; and sending, by the multifunction printer, the operating assistance to the client device of the user on the function of the multifunction printer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 18, 2025
    Assignee: Konica Minolta Business Solutions U.S.A., Inc.
    Inventors: Randy Cruz Soriano, Subramanyam Badri
  • Patent number: 12251933
    Abstract: An inkjet head includes a first and a second channel substrates. At least one of the first and the second channel substrates is formed of silicon. A bonding interface of the first and the second channel substrates is bonded via an adhesive layer. A protective film containing a compound having a Si—C bond is formed on: an ink channel surface formed of silicon among the first and the second channel substrates; and a surface of the channel substrate side formed of silicon in the adhesive layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 18, 2025
    Assignee: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.
    Inventors: Yohei Sato, Akihisa Shimomura, Yoshinori Yoshida, Hiroaki Kozai