Patents Assigned to PFU Limited
  • Patent number: 12129149
    Abstract: A medium conveying apparatus includes a cover that is supported by a main body so as to be arranged in an opening position or a closing position, an arm that protrudes into a conveying path formed between the cover and the main body and is retracted from the conveying path, a lock mechanism that fixes the cover to the main body with the cover arranged in the closing position, and a mechanism that retracts the arm from the conveying path when the lock mechanism shifts from a first state in which the lock mechanism releases the cover from the main body to a second state in which the lock mechanism fixes the cover to the main body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2024
    Assignee: PFU Limited
    Inventor: Shogo Yoshita
  • Patent number: 11407241
    Abstract: A medium conveying apparatus includes a driving force transmitting mechanism to transmit a driving force from a first motor to a brake roller and a pair of conveyance rollers located on the downstream side of the brake roller, and a processor to rotate the first motor forward to control so that a medium separated by the brake roller is conveyed by the pair of conveyance rollers, in a separation mode. The processor rotates the first motor backward to perform a feed operation by the brake roller and rotate the pair of conveyance rollers backward until a front edge of the medium passes through a position of the brake roller, and rotates the first motor forward to control so that the medium is conveyed by the pair of conveyance rollers after the front edge of the medium passes through the position of the brake roller, in a non-separation mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2022
    Assignee: PFU Limited
    Inventors: Ryoichi Yasukawa, Tomofumi Kumahashi
  • Patent number: 10628713
    Abstract: A mobile terminal includes a memory and a processor coupled to the memory, wherein the processor executes a process including acquiring a frame acquired by image capturing, detecting document position data of a document from the frame, determining a document type of the document, calculating image quality of document image data of the document on the basis of the document position data and the document type, determining whether the image quality is at a character recognizable level, and acquiring a frame acquired by the image recapturing when it is determined that the image quality is not at the character recognizable level.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 21, 2020
    Assignee: PFU Limited
    Inventors: Masayoshi Hayashi, Kiyoto Kosaka
  • Patent number: 10604365
    Abstract: An image reading device includes a first roller that is rotatably supported by a frame, a second roller that is supported by the frame in a rotatable and translatable manner and that presses a medium against the first roller, a joint unit that transmits rotation from a drive shaft to the second roller, a drive unit that rotates both the first roller and the drive shaft, and a read unit configured to read an image on a conveyed medium that is conveyed by the rotation of the both of the first roller and the second roller.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 3, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 31, 2020
    Assignee: PFU Limited
    Inventor: Ryo Hayashi
  • Patent number: 10477053
    Abstract: An image reading apparatus includes a platen, a copyholder configured to rotate around a rotary axis, and a reader configured to read a reading surface pressed against the copyholder, of a document placed on the platen. The reader is supported by the copyholder to be able to move in a direction not parallel to the rotary axis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 9, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2019
    Assignee: PFU Limited
    Inventors: Masaya Takamori, Yuki Kasahara
  • Publication number: 20190324900
    Abstract: The present invention provides an information processing system configured to prevent an unauthorized duplication, reading or the like of a recording medium. There is provided an information processing system having: a reading device configured to read data from a recording medium; and an information provision device configured to provide information used for reading data from the recording medium, wherein the reading device comprises: a memory; and a processor coupled to the memory configured to: store in the memory information provided from the information provision device; read data from the recording medium by using the information stored in the memory; and delete the information stored in the memory when a predetermined condition is satisfied.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 8, 2018
    Publication date: October 24, 2019
    Applicant: PFU Limited
    Inventor: Masahito SAKUI
  • Patent number: 10380416
    Abstract: A date identifying apparatus includes a segmenting unit that segments date area data, the date area data being data of an area to which a date is estimated to be provided, from image data generated by capturing a medium to which the date is provided, a binarizing unit that executes a binarizing process for binarizing the date area data to generate binarized data, an identification unit that executes an identifying process for executing a recognizing process using deep learning on the binarized data to identify a character string included in the date area data, a correction unit that executes a correcting process according to a kind of a font of the character string on an identified result of the identifying process, and a provision unit that provides, to the image data, date data based on a character string included in the corrected identified result.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2019
    Assignee: PFU Limited
    Inventor: Masayoshi Hayashi
  • Patent number: 10348918
    Abstract: An image reading apparatus includes a shooter where a first mounting surface that is inclined with respect to a horizontal plane is formed thereon, a stacker, a supporting unit that movably supports the stacker in such a manner that the stacker is arranged in a first region or a second region, a conveyance unit that conveys a document from the shooter to the stacker when the stacker is arranged in the first region, and a reading unit that reads an image from the document when the document is conveyed by the conveyance unit, wherein a surface area of a region of the first mounting surface that is covered by the stacker when the stacker is arranged in the first region is greater as compared with that when the stacker is arranged in the second region, and the stacker is formed to be capable of being lengthened or shortened.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2019
    Assignee: PFU Limited
    Inventors: Masanobu Hongo, Masaaki Yamashita
  • Patent number: 10189662
    Abstract: A medium supplying apparatus includes a control unit. The control unit executes: a first control in which, in a case where a double feed detecting sensor detects a double feed of media, rotation drive of a separator roller is stopped, and a retard roller is caused to convey the media to an upstream side in a conveying direction; and a second control in which, after the execution of the first control, the rotation drive of the separator roller is restarted, and, in a case where the double feed detecting sensor detects a double feed of the media, a conveying load applied is set to be higher than that at the time of detecting the double feed before the execution of the first control, the rotation drive of the separator roller is stopped, and the retard roller is caused to convey the media to the upstream side in the conveying direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 7, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 29, 2019
    Assignee: PFU Limited
    Inventor: Shigeharu Okano
  • Patent number: 9769353
    Abstract: An image reading apparatus includes a light source and a movable light reflecting surface provided to be capable to move to a first position to reflect light from the light source. The image reading apparatus includes a cam to move the light reflecting surface and having a first portion, a driving module for providing a driving force, and a transmission member for rotating the cam with the driving force provided by the driving module, the transmission member having a second portion, wherein the transmission member moves the light reflecting surface to a predetermined position by rotating the cam, and by bringing the second portion into contact with the first portion to hold the light reflecting surface at the predetermined position when there is no driving force.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2017
    Assignee: PFU Limited
    Inventor: Shogo Yoshita
  • Patent number: 9745160
    Abstract: Provided is a paper transporting device and the like capable of suppressing errors in determining jam occurrences. A paper transporting device has: a transport mechanism; an audio signal output unit that outputs an audio signal according to the sound generated during paper transport; an audio jam determination unit that determines, on the basis of the audio signal, whether a jam has occurred; and a control unit that stops paper transport when the audio jam determination unit determines that a jam has occurred. The control unit controls, in the case of card stock or paperboard being transported by the transport mechanism, so that the audio jam determination unit determines whether a jam has occurred at predetermined times using a determination method that is different than the method at other times or so that the audio jam determination unit does not determine whether a jam has occurred.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 26, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2017
    Assignee: PFU Limited
    Inventors: Masanobu Hongo, Takayuki Umi, Shuichi Morikawa
  • Patent number: 9712717
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes a presumed background region extractor for extracting a presumed background region presumed to include an image of a background from an input image, a threshold value determination module for determining a threshold value based on pixels in the presumed background region, an edge pixel extractor for using the threshold value to extract edge pixels from the input image, and a document region detector for detecting a document region from the edge pixels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 20, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2017
    Assignee: PFU Limited
    Inventors: Ryo Hayashi, Kiyoto Kosaka, Masayoshi Hayashi
  • Patent number: D892830
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 11, 2020
    Assignee: PFU Limited
    Inventors: Tomonari Saito, Mitsuhiro Katsuizumi, Shinichiro Kamimaru, Yuu Okuno
  • Patent number: D896813
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 15, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 22, 2020
    Assignee: PFU Limited
    Inventors: Yuka Saeki, Satoshi Kubota, Shuji Hashimoto
  • Patent number: D898030
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 15, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2020
    Assignee: PFU Limited
    Inventors: Yuka Saeki, Satoshi Kubota, Shuji Hashimoto
  • Patent number: D902209
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 15, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 17, 2020
    Assignee: PFU Limited
    Inventors: Yuka Saeki, Satoshi Kubota, Shuji Hashimoto
  • Patent number: D1045871
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2024
    Assignee: PFU Limited
    Inventors: Yuka Awazu, Satoshi Kuroda, Norifumi Tonami, Yujiro Hoshino
  • Patent number: D1056916
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 15, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2025
    Assignee: PFU Limited
    Inventors: Motoshi Shibuya, Satoshi Kuroda, Ryuichi Nagai, Kengo Matsuda, Kengo Kadoya
  • Patent number: D1069797
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 30, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2025
    Assignee: PFU Limited
    Inventors: Koichi Nakamura, Satoshi Kuroda, Hiroshi Shiraiwa, Shinya Orita
  • Patent number: D1083923
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 13, 2023
    Date of Patent: July 15, 2025
    Assignee: PFU Limited
    Inventors: Satoshi Kuroda, Satoshi Kubota, Chris Harsacky, Miguel Duarte