Patents Assigned to PFU Limited
  • Medium conveying apparatus
    Patent number: 11008188
    Abstract: A medium conveying apparatus includes a conveyance guide that is supported by a frame so as to be able to be lifted and lowered, and guides a medium to a conveyance path by sliding along one surface of the medium, a conveyance roller that is rotatably supported by the frame, and conveys the medium by coming into contact with an other surface of the medium, the other surface being on the reverse side of the one surface, and a pinch roller that is supported by the frame so as to be able to be lifted and lowered, and presses the medium against the conveyance roller by coming into contact with the one surface of the medium, wherein the conveyance guide lifts or lowers the pinch roller relatively to the frame, by being lifted or lowered relatively to the frame.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 18, 2021
    Assignee: PFU LIMITED
    Inventor: Shuichi Morikawa
  • Fastening member detection device
    Patent number: 10994958
    Abstract: A fastening member detection device includes a contact structure that moves with respect to a medium while contacting the medium, a vibration detector that detects vibration that occur in the contact structure, and a controller that determines whether there is a fastening member that fastens the medium, based on the vibration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 4, 2021
    Assignee: PFU LIMITED
    Inventors: Yuki Matsuda, Masaya Takamori, Shigeharu Okano
  • Medium conveyance device
    Patent number: 10981739
    Abstract: A medium conveyance device includes a drive roller that conveys an original in first direction, a guide in which a first surface and a second surface are formed, a slider in which a first point and a second point are formed, a pinch roller that is rotatably supported by a pinch shaft that is fixed to the slider and that pushes the original against the drive roller, and a sensor that measures a thickness of the original based on an amount of move of the slider in a second direction that is different from the first direction, wherein the first point slides on the first surface and the second point slides on the second surface and accordingly the slider is supported on the guide movably in the second direction, and a distance between the first point and the second point is longer than a diameter of the pinch shaft.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 16, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 20, 2021
    Assignee: PFU LIMITED
    Inventor: Shuichi Morikawa
  • Information processing apparatus, information processing method, and non-transitory computer readable medium for correcting character recognition result
    Patent number: 10972627
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus comprising a memory; a non-volatile memory; and a processor coupled to the memory and the non-volatile memory, the processor configured to: store a rectification history for a result of character recognition processing in association with items and item values; compare, for the respective items, a newly input result of the character recognition processing with the item values stored in the non-volatile memory; select a set of the item values stored in the non-volatile memory based on a result of the comparison; and correct the newly input result of the character recognition processing by using the selected set of the item values.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 6, 2021
    Assignee: PFU LIMITED
    Inventors: Kentaro Kogawa, Katsuhito Shimazaki
  • Binding member removal apparatus
    Patent number: 10967493
    Abstract: A binding member removal apparatus includes a removal unit that removes a binding member that binds a bound medium from the bound medium, an image capturing unit that captures an image in which a portion of the bound medium appears, a driving unit that moves the removal unit, and a control unit that controls the driving unit such that the removal unit is disposed at a predetermined position with respect to the binding member, on the basis of the image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 22, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 6, 2021
    Assignee: PFU LIMITED
    Inventors: Yuki Matsuda, Shigeharu Okano, Haruka Shimura
  • Image processing apparatus for placing a character recognition target region at a position of a predetermined region in an image conforming to a predetermined format
    Patent number: 10970579
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes a storage device for storing a position of a predetermined region in an image conforming to a predetermined format, a processor for acquiring an input image including a character recognition target region, cutting out a region corresponding to the character recognition target region from the input image or an image generated from the input image to generate a corrected image in which the region is placed at the position of the predetermined region in the image conforming to the predetermined format, and detecting a character from the corrected image, and an output device for outputting information related to the detected character.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 6, 2021
    Assignee: PFU LIMITED
    Inventors: Keiji Ohara, Tomoaki Wada
  • Image reading apparatus
    Patent number: 10951785
    Abstract: An image reading apparatus includes a first conveyance path, a second conveyance path, an insertion/discharge port, an image reader that reads an image on a medium conveyed along the first conveyance path, and a switch that is located at a first position or a second position, wherein the switch disconnects the first conveyance path from the second conveyance path and connects the insertion/discharge port and the first conveyance path when the switch is located at the first position, and disconnects the insertion/discharge port from the first conveyance path and connects the first conveyance path and the second conveyance path when the switch is located at the second position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 4, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 16, 2021
    Assignee: PFU LIMITED
    Inventor: Kengo Kawata
  • Medium conveyance device
    Patent number: 10913629
    Abstract: A medium conveyance device includes a first loading base that has a first loading surface formed thereon and is movably supported on a main body, a second loading base that has a second loading surface formed thereon and is movably supported on the first loading base so that the second loading surface is positioned next to with the first loading surface and so that the second loading surface overlaps with the first loading surface, a mechanism that converts motion of the first loading base into motion of the second loading base so that the second loading base is arranged in a position corresponding to a position in which the first loading base is arranged, and an elastic member that is elastically deformed when the second loading base is not arranged in a position corresponding to a position in which the first loading base is arranged.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 9, 2021
    Assignee: PFU LIMITED
    Inventor: Shogo Yoshita
  • Multi-feed detection apparatus for changing a threshold value for detecting multi-feed or stopping detection of multi-feed based on a shape of a medium
    Patent number: 10893160
    Abstract: A multi-feed detection apparatus includes a conveyance roller, an ultrasonic sensor for generating an ultrasonic signal, an imaging device to image the medium being conveyed by the conveyance roller and sequentially generate a line image, and a processor to detect a width of the medium in each line image for each line image, detect a vertex count of a medium included in the sequentially generated line image based on the width of the media in the each line image, detect a length of the medium in a direction perpendicular to the medium width, estimate a shape of a medium based on the vertex count and the length of the medium, and detecting media multi-feed by comparing the ultrasonic signal with a predetermined threshold value, and change the predetermined threshold value or stop detection of the medium multi-feed, based on the estimated shape of the medium.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 12, 2021
    Assignee: PFU LIMITED
    Inventor: Masaaki Sakai
  • Mobile terminal, image processing method, and computer-readable recording medium
    Patent number: 10885375
    Abstract: A mobile terminal includes a memory, and a processor coupled to the memory, wherein the processor is configured to execute first acquiring a frame obtained through photographing, second acquiring document image data of a document from the frame, first determining whether a form partial feature in a registered form and a document partial feature at a position corresponding to a position of the partial feature match, the document partial feature being in the document, and third acquiring a frame obtained through re-photographing when it is determined that the form partial feature and the document partial feature do not match.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 5, 2021
    Assignee: PFU LIMITED
    Inventors: Naoto Yamaguchi, Kiyoto Kosaka
  • Information processing device, information processing method, and non-transitory computer readable medium
    Patent number: 10884877
    Abstract: The present invention provides an information processing device comprising a memory; a non-volatile memory; and a processor coupled to the memory and the non-volatile memory, the processor configured to: store in the non-volatile memory a snapshot of the memory in a state where a part of an activation process is implemented; and implement the activation process by using the snapshot stored in the non-volatile memory. More specifically, store in the non-volatile memory a snapshot of the main memory in a state before feeding a program to the external memory in an activation process using the main memory and the external memory; and implement at least a process of feeding a program for an external memory to the external memory from the main memory.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 3, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 5, 2021
    Assignee: PFU LIMITED
    Inventors: Osamu Miyakawa, Hitoshi Matsuo, Souichi Yoshida, Tadayoshi Kagawa, Ryou Matsuura
  • Tray device with reduced collision sound
    Patent number: 10843890
    Abstract: A tray device includes a first tray including a first surface and an abutting portion, and a second tray including a second surface and an abutted portion. The second tray is configured to move with respect to the first tray. The abutting portion includes two abutting surfaces located obliquely with respect to an extending direction of the first surface. The abutted portion includes two abutted surfaces located obliquely with respect to an extending direction of the second surface. A difference between an angle formed by each of the two abutting surfaces and the extending direction of the first surface and an angle formed by each of the two abutted surfaces and the extending direction of the second surface is set larger than a maximum angular difference between the extending direction of the first surface and a movement direction in which the second tray moves with respect to the first tray.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 24, 2020
    Assignee: PFU LIMITED
    Inventors: Eiki Yamada, Masaya Takamori
  • Mobile terminal, image processing method, and computer-readable recording medium
    Patent number: 10832070
    Abstract: A mobile terminal includes a memory, and a processor coupled to the memory, wherein the processor executes a process comprising acquiring a frame with taking a photograph, acquiring document image data of a document from the frame, detecting shine on the document image data, determining whether the shine is equal to or smaller than a shine baseline, and acquiring a frame with retaking a photograph when the shine is neither equal to nor smaller than the shine baseline.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 10, 2020
    Assignee: PFU LIMITED
    Inventors: Hiroki Tanizaki, Mitsuru Nishikawa
  • Image processing apparatus for determining a threshold for extracting an edge pixel based on a region corresponding to a surface facing an imaging device
    Patent number: 10827099
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes a processor for acquiring an input image, calculating a fluctuation range of a gradation value of a pixel within a region corresponding to a document backing in the input image, determining a threshold, based on the fluctuation range, extracting an edge pixel corresponding to a boundary between a document and the document backing from the input image using the threshold, detecting a document region from the edge pixel, and an output device for outputting an image obtained by cutting a region corresponding to the document region from the input image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 8, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 3, 2020
    Assignee: PFU LIMITED
    Inventors: Jun Miyashita, Kunihiko Ohmi
  • Image processing device, image processing method, and computer program product
    Patent number: 10810743
    Abstract: An image processing device includes a memory configured to store layout data of a layout of a format, and a processor coupled to the memory, wherein the processor is configured to execute first acquiring a captured image that includes a format region, detecting edges that are included in the captured image, second acquiring edge straight lines based on the edges, calculating a correction amount of the format region with reference to the layout based on the edges, selecting, as a selected straight line, an edge straight line that is outermost among the edge straight lines that form a rectangle, third acquiring a reference straight line that forms an outline of the format region based on the correction amount and the selected straight line, and specifying a format coordinate of the format region based on the reference straight line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 20, 2020
    Assignee: PFU LIMITED
    Inventors: Masayoshi Hayashi, Kiyoto Kosaka
  • INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, METHOD AND MEDIUM
    Publication number: 20200302588
    Abstract: To improve the efficiency of work for checking an image obtained by imaging by a user, an information processing device acquires a plurality of images obtained by imaging a plurality of subjects, determines, for each of the plurality of images, a certainty factor with which the image has a predetermined attribute, determines, for each of the plurality of images, whether the certainty factor is less than a predetermined reference, and notifies a user of an image of which the certainty factor is determined to be less than the predetermined reference.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 18, 2019
    Publication date: September 24, 2020
    Applicant: PFU LIMITED
    Inventors: Tomoaki Wada, Hiroaki Kawanobe
  • Image processing apparatus for detecting a noise line based on noise pixels in the shadow region
    Patent number: 10771636
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes a processor for acquiring an input image of a document and a periphery of the document, extracting first edge pixels from the input image, detecting a document region based on the first edge pixels, detecting a shadow region from within a predetermined range outside of the document region, extracting noise pixels in the shadow region, detecting the noise pixels, a number of which connected with one another is equal to or more than a predetermined number, as a noise line, and correcting the document region of the input image based on a detection result of the noise line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 6, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 8, 2020
    Assignee: PFU LIMITED
    Inventors: Takeshi Yokogawa, Kunihiko Ohmi, Kodai Yamane
  • Scanner
    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
  • Scanner
    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
  • Scanner
    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