Patents Assigned to Ricoh Company, Ltd.
  • Publication number: 20250148620
    Abstract: A display terminal includes circuitry that: displays a predetermined-area moving image; receives designation of a first object visible in a first predetermined-area moving image being a predetermined-area moving image in a first display area and representing a first predetermined area of the wide-view moving image; receives designation of a second object visible in a second predetermined-area moving image being a predetermined-area moving image in a second display area and representing a second predetermined area of the wide-view moving image; displays the first predetermined-area moving image such that movement of the first object is tracked to make the first object continuously visible in the first predetermined-area moving image within the first display area; and displays the second predetermined-area moving image such that movement of the second object is tracked to make the second object continuously visible in the second predetermined-area moving image within the second display area.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 8, 2025
    Publication date: May 8, 2025
    Applicant: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Junpei MIKAMI, Daisuke SAITOH, Hiroshi HINOHARA, Takeshi HOMMA
  • Publication number: 20250148022
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes circuitry to receive, from a terminal, first electronic data and a request for processing the first electronic data; assign, to the first electronic data, first identification information used to control the first electronic data; transmit a request for performing predetermined processing on the first electronic data via a network to an external service system that performs the predetermined processing; and acquire, via the network from the external service system, second identification information used by the external service system to control the first electronic data. The circuitry stores, in a memory, the second identification information in association with the first identification information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 10, 2025
    Publication date: May 8, 2025
    Applicant: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventor: Yohsuke UTOH
  • Publication number: 20250147444
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a plurality of image bearers, a plurality of frame members, a plurality of contact members, an intermediate transferor, a plurality of primary transfer members, a plurality of holding members, an intermediate transferor frame, a plurality of pressure members, and a plurality of pressing members. The plurality of holding members hold the plurality of primary transfer members. The intermediate transferor frame holds the intermediate transferor and the plurality of holding members. The plurality of pressure members press the plurality of holding members. The plurality of pressing members press the plurality of image bearers. The plurality of image bearers is positioned with the plurality of frame members pressed toward the intermediate transferor frame by the plurality of pressing members. The plurality of primary transfer members are positioned with the plurality of holding members contacted against the intermediate transferor frame by the plurality of pressure members.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 3, 2024
    Publication date: May 8, 2025
    Applicant: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventor: Yoshiki HOZUMI
  • Publication number: 20250150565
    Abstract: A display terminal includes: circuitry that receives an instruction to play back a wide-view image having a wide angle of view, the wide-view image being a moving image and having been recorded for distribution to a communication terminal; and in response to the instruction to play back the wide-view image, controls a display to display a predetermined-area image representing a predetermined area of the wide-view image, based on point-of-view information for specifying the predetermined area of the wide-view image being having been distributed and displayed at the communication terminal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 9, 2025
    Publication date: May 8, 2025
    Applicant: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Kyoya SAWADA, Hidekuni ANNAKA, Daisuke SAITOH, Takeshi HOMMA
  • Publication number: 20250148724
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes: a memory that stores a model generated using text data as training data, the text data being data based on at least one of voice information and character information; and circuitry that generates, based on a question and the model, text information indicating an answer to the question, and generates a screen based on attribute information of one or more data providers who have provided the at least one of voice information and character information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 10, 2024
    Publication date: May 8, 2025
    Applicant: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventor: Naoki MOTOHASHI
  • Publication number: 20250144952
    Abstract: Provided is a recording body including a support body and a concealing layer containing a fusible substance and a binder, in which the fusible substance is a wax having a branched structure containing an aromatic ring.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 26, 2023
    Publication date: May 8, 2025
    Applicant: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventor: Takaki Hayashi
  • Patent number: 12291032
    Abstract: Printheads that jet print fluids. In an embodiment, a flow-through printhead comprises a plurality of jetting channels arranged in a first row and a second row generally in parallel along a length of the printhead, where each of the jetting channels includes a diaphragm, a pressure chamber, and a nozzle configured to jet a print fluid. The flow-through printhead further comprises a first manifold fluidly coupled to the jetting channels in the first row, and a second manifold fluidly coupled to the jetting channels in the first row. The first manifold and the second manifold are disposed on opposite sides of the first row with the second manifold disposed in an intermediate region between the first row and the second row.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 16, 2023
    Date of Patent: May 6, 2025
    Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventor: Nasser Budraa
  • Patent number: 12294680
    Abstract: An image reading apparatus includes a scanner to read a document, a memory to store an address and a job condition of the document read by the scanner, and circuitry to identify a user, send the document read by the scanner to the address under the job condition, determine whether a type of the document read by the scanner is a confidential document, search a number of times the confidential document has been sent to the address in the memory when the type of the document is determined as the confidential document, and display, on a screen, a message whether to send the document read by the scanner to the address under the job condition when the number of the times is less than a predetermined times.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2024
    Date of Patent: May 6, 2025
    Assignee: RICOH COMPANY, LTD.
    Inventor: Akira Yokoyama
  • Patent number: 12292552
    Abstract: A projection lens system (G1, G2) includes a front group (G1) disposed on a projection-plane (SC) side, a rear group (G2) disposed on a display-surface (SF) side of an image display element inclined with reference to the projection plane (SC), and an aperture stop (S) disposed on the display-surface (SF) side with reference to the front group (G1). The rear-group optical axis is tilted on the shared plane at a tilt angle ? with reference to the display-surface normal. In projection lens system (G1, G2), when the amount of shift ? is zero, the tilt angle ? satisfies a conditional expression 0<?/?s<1, where ?s denotes a tilt angle when Scheimpflug principle is satisfied with reference to the display surface (SF) and the projection plane (SC).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 6, 2025
    Assignee: RICOH COMPANY, LTD.
    Inventors: Takashi Kamitakahara, Ken Shirasaki, Mutsumi Tanifuji, Hayato Yoshida
  • Patent number: 12293242
    Abstract: A printing system is disclosed. The printing system includes at least one physical memory device to store calibration logic and one or more processors coupled with the at least one physical memory device to execute the calibration logic to receive a first printer transfer function, receive a first print substrate transfer function associated with a first print substrate and generate a composite transfer function based on a function composition operation of the first print substrate transfer function and the first printer transfer function.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2023
    Date of Patent: May 6, 2025
    Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Mikel Stanich, Scott R. Johnson, Walter F. Kailey, William Manchester, Pallavi Premkumar
  • Patent number: 12291031
    Abstract: A liquid discharge head includes a nozzle forming member having a nozzle configured to discharge liquid; an opening and closing member configured to open and close the nozzle; a piezoelectric body configured to expand and contract in an axial direction in response to a drive voltage so as to actuate the opening and closing member such that the nozzle is opened and closed; a first housing member having a cylindrical shape and configured to house the piezoelectric body; and a ground member configured to contact an inner side of the first housing member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 2023
    Date of Patent: May 6, 2025
    Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Shusei Murai, Tatsumi Suzuki, Keiko Maruyama, Satoshi Kudoh, Hiroyasu Umehara
  • Patent number: 12291042
    Abstract: A droplet discharge device for discharging a droplet into recess parts of a storage vessel includes a storage vessel, a discharge head configured to insert a discharge surface into a recess part and discharge droplets while moving in two horizontal directions, a mounting table, a vertical position adjusting part configured to change a relative vertical position between the head and table, a vertical position adjustment control part configured to control the adjusting part, a horizontal position detecting part configured to detect a horizontal position of the storage vessel, and a target position detecting part configured to detect, before starting discharge, a distance from a vertical reference height to a discharge target surface, wherein the control part controls, based on the detected distance, the vertical position of the head or table during the discharge such that a discharge height of the discharge surface relative to the discharge target surface stays constant.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 3, 2023
    Date of Patent: May 6, 2025
    Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Takeshi Akai, Yu Yamaya, Takahiko Matsumoto, Yusuke Nonoyama, Daisuke Arai
  • Publication number: 20250134774
    Abstract: A medication support apparatus includes a container to store medicine packs, a pickup device including a suction device to pick up specific one of the medicine packs from the container, and a suction-device guide to change a posture of the suction device, a conveyor to move the pickup device, and processing circuitry configured to control an operation to pick up the medicine pack by the pickup device. When the suction device fails to pick up the medicine pack at a first pickup position indicating a certain amount of rise of the suction device relative to the medicine packs in the container, the processing circuitry controls the suction device to pick up the medicine pack at a second pickup position indicating another amount of rise of the suction device greater than the certain amount of rise of the suction device at the first pickup position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 11, 2024
    Publication date: May 1, 2025
    Applicant: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Manabu Yamanaka, Terumitsu Azuma, Yoshihide Sugiyama, Hiroshi Fujie, Hirotaka Hayashi, Takato Mochizuki, Youhei Niitsuma, Yu Yamaya, Sachika Tashiro
  • Publication number: 20250140008
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes a scanner to read a document and generate first image data of the document and circuitry. The circuitry detects a digit separator line, which is a vertical ruled line that divides a numerical value by one digit or three digits, in the first image data separately from another ruled line, and removes the digit separator line from the first image data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 30, 2024
    Publication date: May 1, 2025
    Applicant: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventor: Noriko Miyagi
  • Publication number: 20250138466
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a body; a sheet conveyor to convey a sheet in an interior of the body; a removable component detachably attachable to the interior of the body from one side face of the body. The sheet conveyor includes a sheet conveyance roller having: a first face to guide the sheet in the interior of the body; and a second face to guide the removable component during an attachment or a detachment of the removable component to or from the body.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 20, 2024
    Publication date: May 1, 2025
    Applicant: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Hideto HIGAKI, Susumu NARITA
  • Patent number: 12288255
    Abstract: An intermediary server for intermediating ownership of energy between a supplier and a user, includes circuitry that transmits a first request to another intermediary server capable of requesting a change of ownership of energy to a decentralized ledge system that manages energy information on energy, the first request requesting to change ownership of energy produced by a same production method as a particular production method, from another intermediary agent managing the other intermediary server to an intermediary agent managing the intermediary server.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 29, 2025
    Assignee: RICOH COMPANY, LTD.
    Inventor: Ryusuke Mayuzumi
  • Patent number: 12286101
    Abstract: A traveling body includes a range sensor and circuitry. The range sensor is disposed on a front face of the traveling body in a traveling direction in which the traveling body travels on a road surface and disposed obliquely downward at an inclination angle relative to the road surface. The circuitry determines presence of a continuous obstacle in a case where measurement results of a plurality of planes scanned by the range sensor include a plurality of feature values indicating unevenness relative to the road surface similar to each other. The circuitry generates an obstacle map of a front region of the traveling body not scanned by the range sensor, based on sequential feature information indicating that a predetermined number of feature values indicating the unevenness are sequentially present; and controls the traveling body to travel on the road surface based on the obstacle map.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 29, 2025
    Assignee: RICOH COMPANY, LTD.
    Inventors: Kento Hosaka, Koichi Kudo, Taku Kitahara
  • Patent number: 12286317
    Abstract: A sheet feeder includes a stacker, a sheet feeding member, an aligner, a switcher, a size specifying unit, and circuitry. The sheet feeding member contacts and feeds a sheet stack on the stacker. The aligner is movable to align a position in a sheet width direction of the sheet stack on the stacker. The switcher switches the aligner from a separation state to a contact state without waiting for a feeding start instruction after the sheet stack is stacked on the stacker. The circuitry delays a switching completion time when the size in the sheet width direction of the sheet stack specified by the size specifying unit is smaller than a given size, to be later than the switching completion time when the size in the sheet width direction of the sheet stack is equal to or greater than the given size.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 8, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 29, 2025
    Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventor: Wataru Nozaki
  • Patent number: 12286491
    Abstract: An image forming device includes a first discharging device configured to discharge a first active energy curing composition (1) containing a first (meth)acrylic amide compound (A) having a (meth)acrylic group and a first polymerization initiator (C) to a medium, a first exposing device configured to expose the first active energy curing composition (1) applied to the medium to first active energy, and a second discharging device configured to discharge an ink (2) containing a coloring material, a water-soluble organic solvent, and water to the first active energy curing composition (1) exposed to the first active energy.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 11, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 29, 2025
    Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventor: Masahide Kobayashi
  • Patent number: 12286326
    Abstract: A sheet processing apparatus including a sheet feeder, a sheet processing device, a sheet ejection device, a purge unit, a multifeed sensor, and circuitry. The sheet feeder feeds a sheet toward a sheet conveyance passage. The sheet processing device performs a predetermined operation on the sheet. The sheet ejection device stacks the sheet when the predetermined operation has been performed. The purge unit stacks the sheet when the predetermined operation has not been performed. The multifeed sensor detects whether sheets are multifed and a number of multifed sheets. The circuitry counts a number of sheets, determines that the sheets stacked in the purge unit is full when a number of counted sheets reaches a predetermined number of sheets, and conveys the multifed sheets toward the purge unit and adds the number of counted sheets according to the number of multifed sheets, in response to detection of the multifed sheets.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 29, 2025
    Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Ryohsuke Akaishi, Akira Kunieda, Yohsuke Haraguchi, Hirofumi Horita, Satoshi Kuno, Koju Kawakami, Yasunobu Kidoura