Patents Assigned to Konica
  • Workpiece surface defect detection device and detection method, workpiece surface inspection system, and program
    Patent number: 12236576
    Abstract: A workpiece surface defect detection device or the like that is capable of stably detecting a small surface defect with high accuracy is provided. A plurality of images indicating a portion to be measured of a workpiece serving as a target of detection of a surface defect is obtained in a state where a bright-and-dark pattern of an illumination device is moved relative to the workpiece, and a tentative defect candidate is extracted. When among a plurality of images from which the tentative defect candidate has been extracted, the number of images including the tentative defect candidate is greater than or equal to a threshold that has been set in advance, the tentative defect candidate is determined as a defect candidate. A plurality of images including the determined defect candidate is combined to generate a composite image, and a defect is detected on the basis of the generated composite image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 2, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2025
    Assignee: Konica Minolta, Inc.
    Inventors: Akira Yahashi, Yoshihito Souma, Taizo Wakimura, Ryuichi Yoshida, Shota Ueki
  • Image display apparatus and storage medium
    Patent number: 12236590
    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: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2025
    Assignee: Konica Minolta, Inc.
    Inventors: Naotoshi Sugegaya, Kenta Shimamura, Noritsugu Matsutani
  • Imaging support apparatus, radiation imaging system, and storage medium
    Patent number: 12236598
    Abstract: An imaging support apparatus that supports imaging by a radiation imaging apparatus which obtains a plurality of frame images by successively performing a plurality of radiation imaging operations to a subject. The imaging support apparatus includes a hardware processor that determines a number of the frame images to be obtained by the radiation imaging apparatus by analyzing one or more initial frame images, each of the initial frame images being an initial frame image obtained early in the radiation imaging operations by the radiation imaging apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 7, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2025
    Assignee: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.
    Inventor: Tatsuya Takagi
  • INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM, BEHAVIOR QUANTIFICATION PROGRAM, AND BEHAVIOR QUANTIFICATION METHOD
    Publication number: 20250061747
    Abstract: An information processing system includes a hardware processor that acquires joint points of an object from an image of the object, and quantifies a behavior of the object based on the joint points.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 4, 2022
    Publication date: February 20, 2025
    Applicant: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.
    Inventor: Masashi SONOYAMA
  • Image forming apparatus and image forming method
    Patent number: 12226999
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes an image former and a flattener. The image former forms an image on a recording medium. The flattener is disposed upstream of the image former in a conveying direction of the recording medium, and flattens the recording medium before the image former forms the image on the recording medium.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2025
    Assignee: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.
    Inventor: Kei Yuasa
  • Flexible optical finger tracking sensor system
    Patent number: 12229348
    Abstract: A system, for tracking fingers of a hand, includes: a sensor patch and a processor. The sensor patch includes: a flexible substrate layer; a light emitting layer attached to the flexible substrate layer; and a photodiode disposed between the light emitting layer a surface of the sensor patch that contacts the hand. The light emitting layer is configured to conform to a skin surface of a backside of the hand and to emit a first wavelength of light. The processor is configured to: control emission of the first wavelength of light by the light emitting layer; analyze backscattered light intensities from the skin surface of the backside of the hand that are detected by the photodiode; determine finger pose information based on the backscattered light intensities; and transmit the finger pose information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2025
    Assignee: Konica Minolta Business Solutions U.S.A., Inc.
    Inventor: Jun Amano
  • Image forming apparatus and image forming method for maintenance notification
    Patent number: 12229455
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes: an image former that forms a print image; a first hardware processor that detects a defect of an image formed on a print medium by the image former; a display capable of prompting a user to perform maintenance; a communication I/F part capable of notifying an administrator or a person in charge of maintenance of an instruction of maintenance via a communication line; a second hardware processor capable of giving an instruction to the display and the communication I/F part; and a third hardware processor capable of instructing the second hardware processor on a defect notification destination.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2025
    Assignee: Konica Minolta, Inc.
    Inventor: Hiroshi Uga
  • Method and system for custom authenticators
    Patent number: 12231570
    Abstract: A method, a non-transitory computer readable medium, and a multifunction peripheral that includes a method for accessing the multifunction peripheral. The method includes receiving, by a processor, a Fast Identity Online-based (FIDO-based) authentication from a client device via a wireless communication, the FIDO-based authentication configured to provide a user of the client device access to the multifunction peripheral; determining, by the processor, a validity of the FIDO-based authentication from the client device of the user; and granting, by the processor, the user access to the multifunction peripheral when the validity of the FIDO-based authentication from the client device of the user has been validated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2025
    Assignee: Konica Minolta Business Solutions U.S.A., Inc.
    Inventor: Pranay Bhandarkar
  • OpenID offloading proxy
    Patent number: 12225004
    Abstract: A method, a non-transitory computer readable medium, and a computer system for accessing protected resources. The method includes receiving, by a processor, a request from an OpenID-unaware application for access to a protected resource; authenticating, by the processor, the OpenID-unaware application; establishing, by the processor, an OpenID connection with an OpenID relying party upon authentication of the OpenID-unaware application; and receiving, by the processor, an access token issued by an OpenID identity provider for the OpenID-unaware application for access to the protected resource.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2025
    Assignee: Konica Minolta Business Solutions U.S.A., Inc.
    Inventor: Rahul Suraparaju
  • MOBILE RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGING SYSTEM
    Publication number: 20250040899
    Abstract: Provided is a mobile radiographic imaging system that includes: a radiation generating apparatus that emits radiation; and a control means capable of setting the radiation generating apparatus to a plurality of modes including a first mode, in which the radiation generating apparatus performs moving image imaging with an allowable radiation dose, and a second mode, in which the radiation generating apparatus performs the moving image imaging with an allowable radiation dose smaller than the allowable radiation dose in the first mode.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 26, 2024
    Publication date: February 6, 2025
    Applicant: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.
    Inventors: Kojiro ONO, Miyako SUGIHARA, Takanori KAKIGI, Takeshi MURAYAMA
  • IMAGE INSPECTION APPARATUS, IMAGE INSPECTION METHOD, NON-TRANSITORY RECORDING MEDIUM, AND IMAGE FORMING SYSTEM
    Publication number: 20250047791
    Abstract: An image inspection apparatus includes a hardware processor, and the hardware processor inspects an image formed on each of recording media of a plurality of copies based on acquired image data. The hardware processor generates, for each of the copies, a reference image to be used for inspection of an image formed on each of the recording media of the plurality of copies.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 25, 2024
    Publication date: February 6, 2025
    Applicant: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.
    Inventor: Yasumasa TSUKAMOTO
  • Remote-meeting system, remote-meeting method, and remote-meeting program
    Patent number: 12219292
    Abstract: A remote-meeting system that allows a plurality of participants to participate in a remote meeting, the remote-meeting system includes a hardware processor that: determines group information related to a plurality of groups, each of which including a plurality of two or more the participants; acquires a meeting state indicating a state of a meeting held by each of a plurality of the groups; generates change information obtained by changing the group information on the basis of the meeting state of each of a plurality of the groups; and notifies of a part changed from the group information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 19, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2025
    Assignee: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.
    Inventor: Kohei Yamazaki
  • Image forming apparatus
    Patent number: 12216421
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus including: an image former that forms an image on a recording material; includes a fixer that has a first fixing member having an elastic layer, a second fixing member that forms a fixing nip with the first fixing member, and an external heater that heats the first fixing member from outside, and fixes the image on the recording material by heating and pressing the conveyed recording material at the fixing nip; and a hardware processor that executes a thermal expansion mode, in which in the thermal expansion mode, the hardware processor causes the external heater to heat the first fixing member to a temperature higher than a temperature during normal printing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 4, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2025
    Assignee: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.
    Inventors: Taizou Oonishi, Yu Harashima, Masashi Saito, Kazunori Nishinoue, Tsutomu Sakamaki
  • Sheet type discrimination device, sheet type discrimination method, and sheet type discrimination program
    Patent number: 12216424
    Abstract: A sheet type discrimination device includes: a first light source unit that irradiates a sheet with light having a first wavelength and light having a second wavelength; a detection unit that detects light from the sheet and acquires a detection value based on the light; and a control unit that derives a determination result of a type of the sheet, wherein the first light source unit and the detection unit are located on a same side with respect to the sheet, the detection value includes: a first detection value; and a second detection value, and the control unit discriminates first-type recycled paper by first processing using the first detection value, and discriminates second-type recycled paper different from the first-type recycled paper by second processing using the second detection value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2025
    Assignee: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.
    Inventors: Daisuke Kobayashi, Shohei Dokiya, Makoto Ooki, Takafumi Yuasa, Takaki Uemura, Masahiko Takahashi
  • PRINTING SYSTEM, COLORIMETRY CONTROL METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM
    Publication number: 20250035488
    Abstract: A printing system includes a printing section, a colorimetry unit capable of colorimetry on an entire surface of a print product printed by the printing section, and a hardware processor that performs color adjustment on the printing section based on a colorimetry result by the colorimetry unit. The hardware processor, in response to a predetermined area in first image data to be printed satisfying a colorimetry area condition of the colorimetry unit, causes the colorimetry unit to perform colorimetry in a first mode, and in response to the predetermined area not satisfying the colorimetry area condition, causes the colorimetry unit to perform colorimetry in a second mode.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 18, 2024
    Publication date: January 30, 2025
    Applicant: Konica Minolta, Inc.
    Inventor: Hiroyuki OOYAMA
  • INFERENCE APPARATUS, ULTRASOUND DIAGNOSTIC APPARATUS, TRAINING APPARATUS, INFERENCE METHOD, DISPLAY METHOD, AND PROGRAM
    Publication number: 20250032094
    Abstract: Provided is an inference apparatus according to the present disclosure including: a hardware processor that: acquires ultrasound image data on an ultrasound image generated based on a reflected wave of ultrasound transmitted to a subject; and inputs the ultrasound image data, as data to be inferred, to a trained model and performs inference on a nerve root in the ultrasound image based on output data outputted from the trained model.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 17, 2024
    Publication date: January 30, 2025
    Applicant: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.
    Inventor: Mutsuhiro AKAHANE
  • MOBILE TERMINAL, WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, AND COMMUNICATION CONTROL PROGRAM
    Publication number: 20250036130
    Abstract: A mobile terminal that moves while communicating with an external device includes a connection section that connects to a plurality of wireless networks simultaneously, a receiver that receives data from the plurality of wireless networks connected by the connection section, and a processor that processes only data received first when the same data is received from the plurality of wireless networks.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 26, 2022
    Publication date: January 30, 2025
    Applicant: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.
    Inventor: Noriaki ASAMOTO
  • IMAGE INSPECTION APPARATUS, IMAGE INSPECTION METHOD, AND RECORDING MEDIUM
    Publication number: 20250036329
    Abstract: An image inspection apparatus includes an image former, a first hardware processor, and a second hardware processor. The image former forms an image on a recording medium based on acquired image data. The first hardware processor generates, based on the acquired image data, a reference image to be used for inspection of the image formed on the recording medium. The second hardware processor inspects the image formed on the recording medium based on the reference image. The image inspection apparatus performs the generation of the reference image and the formation of the image on the recording medium in parallel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 7, 2024
    Publication date: January 30, 2025
    Applicant: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.
    Inventor: Yasumasa TSUKAMOTO
  • IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, METHOD, AND PROGRAM
    Publication number: 20250036336
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus enables utilizing an output of proof printing as an output of final printing, wherein the image forming apparatus includes an image former forming an image on a sheet, an image reader reading an image formed on the sheet, and a controller, wherein the controller acquires a determination result of whether or not a sheet, on which an image read by the image reader is formed before the final printing by the image former in order to create a reference image to be used for inspecting an output matter of a printing job, can be used for an output matter of the final printing and controls the number of sheets or copies on which the images are to be formed using the image former at the final printing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 9, 2024
    Publication date: January 30, 2025
    Applicant: Konica Minolta, Inc.
    Inventor: Yoko SHIRAKI
  • IMAGE INSPECTION APPARATUS, IMAGE INSPECTION METHOD, AND RECORDING MEDIUM
    Publication number: 20250037268
    Abstract: An image inspection apparatus includes a first hardware processor, a second hardware processor, and a third hardware processor. The first hardware processor controls, based on the acquired image data, generation of a reference image to be used for inspection of an image formed on a recording medium. The second hardware processor controls, based on the acquired image data, formation of the image on the recording medium. The third hardware processor controls, based on the reference image, execution of inspection of the image formed on the recording medium. At least one of the first hardware processor, the second hardware processor, and the third hardware processor operates independently of the other hardware processors.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 7, 2024
    Publication date: January 30, 2025
    Applicant: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.
    Inventor: Yasumasa TSUKAMOTO