Patents Assigned to Konica
  • 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: 12254073
    Abstract: A method, a system, and a non-transitory computer readable program code are disclosed for offline authentication of users for access to web applications. The method includes requesting, by a processor, access for a user to one or more relying party applications; receiving, by the processor, a redirection request from the one or more relying party applications to retrieve an authentication token for the user from an identity service provider; determining, by the processor, that the identity service provider is not available to provide the authentication token for the user; retrieving, by the processor, the authentication token for the user from a trusted source; forwarding, by the processor, the authentication token for the user retrieved from the trusted source to the one or more relying parties; and receiving, on the processor, authentication from the one or more relying parties for the user to access the one or relying party applications.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 18, 2025
    Assignee: Konica Minolta Business Solutions U.S.A., Inc.
    Inventors: Subramanyam Badri, Randy Cruz Soriano
  • Patent number: 12253816
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes: a fixing roller that fixes an unfixed image to a medium; a drive motor of the fixing roller, and a hardware processor that acquires information regarding a state of the image forming apparatus or information regarding a state of the medium, and controls a number of rotations of the drive motor between a preset upper limit value and a preset lower limit value, wherein the hardware processor changes the upper limit value and the lower limit value while maintaining a difference between the upper limit value and the lower limit value on a basis of the acquired information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 4, 2024
    Date of Patent: March 18, 2025
    Assignee: Konica Minolta, Inc.
    Inventors: Hirotaka Kanou, Hiroyuki Maeda
  • Publication number: 20250082295
    Abstract: A medical information processing apparatus includes a hardware processor. The hardware processor, acquires at least one of performance information of dose information irradiated in one examination and a number of still images imaged in one examination, calculates a number of times of imaging based on at least one of the acquired performance information and the acquired number of still images, and outputs the calculated number of times of imaging.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 6, 2024
    Publication date: March 13, 2025
    Applicant: Konica Minolta, Inc.
    Inventors: Kazuhiro Ono, Yuki Tomiyama, Masaki Sunagawa
  • Patent number: 12248263
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a pressure roller, a driver that drives rotation of the pressure roller, an endless fixing belt, a pressing member that is provided inside the fixing belt and opposite to the pressure roller and forms a nip portion in which the fixing belt and the pressure roller come into contact with each other, a pressing force adjustment mechanism that adjusts a pressing force for pressing one of the pressure roller and the pressing member toward another one of the pressure roller and the pressing member, and a drive controller that controls the pressing force adjustment mechanism and the driver to rotate the pressure roller with the pressing force being smaller than a normal value defined for a normal state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 1, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 11, 2025
    Assignee: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.
    Inventor: Takashi Harashima
  • Patent number: 12248717
    Abstract: A management device for managing machine troubles includes a controller that: generates display information in which production timeline information of one or a plurality of jobs and information on errors of the one or a plurality of jobs are associated with each other; and outputs the display information. The production timeline information includes one or a plurality of pieces of production timeline information of the one or a plurality of jobs. The information on errors includes one or a plurality of pieces of error-related information each associated with a corresponding one of the one or a plurality of pieces of production timeline information. In the display information, the one or a plurality of pieces of production timeline information are arranged along one of a vertical axis and a horizontal axis and the one or a plurality of pieces of error-related information are arranged along the other axis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 11, 2025
    Assignee: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.
    Inventor: Shinya Saito
  • Patent number: 12246537
    Abstract: There is provided a nozzle plate of an inkjet head, the nozzle plate including: a first surface that is bonded to an upper layer substrate by an adhesive; and a second surface in which an opening of a nozzle that ejects an ink is provided. A step is formed at an edge of the first surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 11, 2025
    Assignee: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.
    Inventors: Akihisa Shimomura, Tadashi Hirano, Tomohiro Nishiura
  • Patent number: 12248540
    Abstract: An information processing device includes: a hardware processor that executes a license check of software, wherein the hardware processor detects a request for remote access to the software, extracts a description about remote access from a license agreement of the software to which a request for remote access is requesting access, and determines, based on the extracted description about the remote access, whether the remote access is a license violation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 11, 2025
    Assignee: Konica Minolta, Inc.
    Inventor: Megumi Miura
  • Patent number: 12246523
    Abstract: A processing method includes, collectively performing laminate processing with a long laminate film on a plurality of continuously conveyed flat cut sheets; cutting the long laminate film after the laminate processing for each flat cut sheet and obtaining a laminated flat cut sheet; and performing post-processing on the laminated flat cut sheet. An end portion of the laminated flat cut sheet as a reference of the post-processing is the end portion on a side where the laminate film does not protrude from the end portion of each laminated flat cut sheet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 11, 2025
    Assignee: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.
    Inventor: Hiromu Nagato
  • Patent number: 12248265
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus, including: an image former that forms an image on continuous form paper; and a hardware processor that calculates a paper cost for a print job of the continuous form paper, on the basis of a distance of the continuous form paper conveyed from a start to an end of the print job.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 12, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 11, 2025
    Assignee: Konica Minolta, Inc.
    Inventor: Tetsu Kawasaki
  • Publication number: 20250077130
    Abstract: To enable even a printing operator who lacks knowledge about colors to easily manage colors to be used by a printing apparatus. A color management apparatus includes a hardware processor, the hardware processor includes a first mode executor and a second mode executor, the first mode executor executes a first mode to perform color management setting including setting of a plurality of items regarding a color management function of a printing apparatus through a plurality of steps, and perform the color management function, and the second mode executor executes a second mode to simplify at least one step among the plurality of steps to perform the color management setting, and perform the color management function.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 29, 2024
    Publication date: March 6, 2025
    Applicant: Konica Minolta, Inc.
    Inventors: Kouhei Kanagawa, Kouichirou Matsushita
  • Patent number: 12242207
    Abstract: The image forming apparatus is an image forming apparatus for forming an image on a recording material using an electrophotographic process, and includes a transfer section that transfers a toner image on an image bearing member onto a transfer-receiving member; and a hardware processor (transfer voltage controller) that controls a transfer voltage to be applied to the transfer section by correcting a reference transfer voltage with a correction amount that is based on an environmental change, wherein, the correction amount depends on at least the transfer voltage, and the hardware processor determines the correction amount for determining the transfer voltage for a current transfer by referring to the transfer voltage for an immediately preceding transfer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2025
    Assignee: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.
    Inventor: Hiromu Aso
  • Patent number: 12242238
    Abstract: A data processing device processes measurement data measured by a sensor that measures three-dimensional coordinates of a measurement object from a first position and a second position which are different. The data processing device includes a controller. The controller acquires measurement data of three or more planes of the measurement object from the sensor, the planes having different normal vectors. The controller finds, from the acquired measurement data, a transformation expression that integrates a coordinate system of the sensor at the second position into a coordinate system of the sensor at the first position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2025
    Assignee: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.
    Inventor: Taro Takechi
  • Patent number: 12240986
    Abstract: A thermally curable ink-jet ink includes a compound having a thermally curable functional group and a gelling agent. The thermally curable ink-jet ink undergoes a sol-gel phase transition depending on temperature.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 2, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2025
    Assignee: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.
    Inventor: Ai Katsuda
  • Patent number: 12243217
    Abstract: A data input device includes: a controller that: acquires position data indicating position coordinates of a facility, estimates, based on the position data, one or more facility candidates, and causes a display to display an input screen showing the estimated one or more facility candidates as options for selection by a user, and creates inspection data relating to gas inspection of the one or more facility candidates selected by the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2025
    Assignee: Konica Minolta, Inc.
    Inventor: Hiroyuki Miyamoto
  • Patent number: 12242026
    Abstract: Provided is an optical element having particularly excellent salt water resistance and capable of exhibiting a photocatalytic effect. An optical element 100 is obtained by forming a multi-layer coating MC having two or more layers on a glass substrate GL that is an optically-transparent base plate. The multi-layer coating MC has at least one low-refractive-index layer L and at least one high-refractive-index layer H, and a topmost layer 10 farthest from the glass substrate GL is the low-refractive-index layer L. The high-refractive-index layer H adjacent to the topmost layer 10 is a functional layer 20 containing, as a main component, a metal oxide having a photocatalytic function. The topmost layer 10 has a plurality of pores 30 that partially expose a surface of the functional layer 20.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2025
    Assignee: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.
    Inventors: Jinichi Kasuya, Kazunari Tada
  • Patent number: 12244770
    Abstract: A conferencing system that is connected to multiple information processing devices over a network and provides each of the multiple information processing devices with a conference screen, comprises: a first participant information obtaining unit that obtains first participant information corresponding to a first participant who participates in a video conference by using each of the multiple information processing devices; a second participant information obtaining unit that obtains second participant information related to a second participant who indirectly participates in the video conference together with the first participant; and a display controller that: displays the first participant information obtained by the first participant information obtaining unit in a predetermined display area on the conference screen; and displays the second participant information obtained by the second participant information obtaining unit in the predetermined display area on the conference screen.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2025
    Assignee: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.
    Inventor: Apeksha Tadge
  • Patent number: 12243403
    Abstract: A safety monitoring device (10) includes the area setting unit (12) capable of setting a plurality of alarm activation target areas with respect to a sensing target area of a safety sensor, an alarm activation type setting unit (13) capable of setting the type of an arbitrary alarm activation function with respect to each of the alarm activation target areas, and a moving body recognition analysis unit (16) that recognizes the motion of a moving body on the basis of sensor data measured by the safety sensor. The safety monitoring device includes a sensor data acquisition unit (lidar data acquisition unit (15)) that acquires three-dimensional data as sensor data from the safety sensor. The moving body recognition analysis unit extracts a moving body from the sensing target area on the basis of the three-dimensional data and senses traveling of the moving body to each of the alarm activation target areas.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2025
    Assignee: Konica Minolta, Inc.
    Inventors: Masanori Yoshizawa, Hideki Morita
  • Publication number: 20250068111
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a detection element and a hardware processor. The detection element includes a receiving section that receives a specific signal and an output section that outputs a predetermined output value based on the specific signal received by the receiving section. The hardware processor determines in accordance with a status of an output from the output section, a state of deterioration that leads to a state in which the detection element needs to be replaced.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 29, 2024
    Publication date: February 27, 2025
    Applicant: Konica Minolta, Inc.
    Inventors: Katsuhide Sakai, Takeshi Nomura
  • Publication number: 20250069267
    Abstract: A color verification system capable of performing color verification corresponding to a required color quality level is provided. The color verification system for performing color verification of a specific image formed by an image forming apparatus includes an information processing apparatus, in which the information processing apparatus determines an allowable value to be used for color verification of a specific color forming the specific image, based on an attribute of the specific image formed with the specific color and a use of a printed product on which the specific image is formed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 21, 2024
    Publication date: February 27, 2025
    Applicant: Konica Minolta, Inc.
    Inventor: Kouichirou MATSUSHITA