Patents by Inventor Atsushi Ikeda

Atsushi Ikeda has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Publication number: 20240078371
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus has a first drawing function and a second drawing function different from the first drawing function, draws a screen using the first drawing function and the second drawing function, acquires a setting of a character decoration used to draw a predetermined font by the second drawing function, and uses the acquired setting of the character decoration when drawing a character of the predetermined font using the first drawing function.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 29, 2023
    Publication date: March 7, 2024
    Inventor: ATSUSHI IKEDA
  • Publication number: 20240077214
    Abstract: An indoor unit includes: a casing that has an air outlet and an air inlet, and inside which an air passage is formed; a cross flow fan disposed in the air passage and configured to blow out, through the air outlet, air sucked in from the air inlet; a stabilizer configured to stabilize vortex of air caused by circulation of air and generated inside the cross flow fan upon rotation thereof; and a guide wall having a surface defining an outlet side air passage being a part of the air passage, the part being in downstream of the cross flow fan, wherein the stabilizer has a first surface that defines a surface opposite to the guide wall in the outlet side air passage, and a part of the outlet side air passage is formed such that a distance in a vertical direction from the first surface to the guide wall gradually decreases toward the downstream.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 19, 2021
    Publication date: March 7, 2024
    Inventors: Atsushi KONO, Takuya TERAMOTO, Yuki UGAJIN, Koji YAMAGUCHI, Tetsuo YAMASHITA, Takashi IKEDA
  • Patent number: 11920841
    Abstract: An air-conditioning apparatus includes a main circuit in which a compressor, a flow switching device, an indoor heat exchanger, a pressure reducing device, and a plurality of parallel heat exchangers connected in parallel with each other are connected by pipes, a bypass pipe, a flow control device provided to the bypass pipe and configured to adjust a flow rate of refrigerant flowing through the bypass pipe, an evaporating pressure sensor configured to measure an evaporating pressure of the refrigerant, and a controller. The air-conditioning apparatus is configured to operate in a normal heating operation mode and a heating-defrosting operation mode. When an operation associated with the normal heating operation mode is switched to an operation associated with the heating-defrosting operation mode, the controller adjusts an opening degree of the flow control device using the evaporating pressure in the parallel heat exchanger and a driving frequency of the compressor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shohei Ishimura, Soshi Ikeda, Kazuya Watanabe, Hideto Nakao, Masakazu Kondo, Yasuhide Hayamaru, Yusuke Tashiro, Masakazu Sato, Atsushi Kawashima
  • Patent number: 11921439
    Abstract: A developing roll used in an electrophotographic image forming apparatus has a metal core member, an elastic layer made of a rubber disposed around the core member, and a surface layer disposed around the elastic layer. The texture aspect ratio of the surface Str of the surface layer is equal to or greater than 0.55.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 2, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: NOK CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kosuke Oura, Atsushi Ikeda, Kenji Sasaki
  • Publication number: 20240069641
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus according to an embodiment of the present technology includes: a threshold value control unit. The threshold value control unit controls, on the basis of three-dimensional position information of each of a first finger and a second finger acquired from a detection result of a sensor, a threshold value relating to determination of a gesture using at least one of the first finger and the second finger. As a result, it is possible to perform gesture determination with high accuracy.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 13, 2020
    Publication date: February 29, 2024
    Inventors: ATSUSHI IRIE, KENJI GOTOH, TETSUO IKEDA, YOHSUKE KAJI, EISUKE FUJINAWA, SEISHI TOMONAGA, TADAYOSHI MURAKAMI
  • Publication number: 20240038391
    Abstract: An endoscopic diagnosis support method whereby an examined area and an unexamined area can be clearly discriminated. After a preparatory step of an observation canvas is performed in advance, a frame marking step, a key point calculation step, a preceding and following frame displacement amount calculation step, a preceding and following frame marking step are executed to thereby perform observation recording. In an image diagnosis support step IDS, support is performed such that the existence of a lesion is diagnosed in an organ on the basis of a plurality of position data marked with respect to a plurality of frames in the observation canvas data and an endoscopic image in the plural frames.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 7, 2021
    Publication date: February 1, 2024
    Inventors: Hirokazu Nosato, Yuta Kochi, Hidenori Sakanashi, Masahiro Murakawa, Atsushi Ikeda
  • Publication number: 20240012867
    Abstract: A web browsing system includes a server that performs rendering of a web page, and a communication terminal that displays the web page based on a rendering result. The communication terminal transmits identification information and address information about the web page to the server, and receives a rendering image corresponding to the web page from the server. The server receives the address information and the identification information from the communication terminal, accesses the web page based on the address information, generates the rendering image by interpreting the web page, transmits the rendering image to the communication terminal, acquires user data based on the interpretation of the web page, and manages the user data based on the identification information in a distinguishable manner from other user data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 30, 2023
    Publication date: January 11, 2024
    Inventor: ATSUSHI IKEDA
  • Publication number: 20230409659
    Abstract: An information processing system in which an image generation system on a network is configured to transmit image data to a communication terminal. The image generation system stores a rendering result for a browser as an image in a case where a back process, a forward process, or a scroll process of the browser is performed, stores an index number corresponding to an image, and transmits the index number to the communication terminal. The communication terminal receives the index number, stores the received index number, stores the image corresponding to the index number, and displays the image corresponding to the index number.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 13, 2023
    Publication date: December 21, 2023
    Inventor: ATSUSHI IKEDA
  • Publication number: 20230409660
    Abstract: An image generation system capable of communicating with a communication apparatus, the image generation system includes one or more memories, and one or more processors in communication with the one more memories, wherein the one or more processors and the one more memories are configured to receive an operation instruction with respect to a web page from the communication apparatus, transmit, to the communication apparatus, predetermined information when the operation instruction is a press for file selection, receive a file transmitted from the communication apparatus based on the predetermined information, reflect information of the file in the web page and generate a rendering result, and transmit the rendering result to the communication apparatus.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 15, 2023
    Publication date: December 21, 2023
    Inventor: ATSUSHI IKEDA
  • Patent number: 11827773
    Abstract: Provided is a curable composition which forms a cured product that has excellent fireproof performance, while having excellent shape retainability even in cases where the expansion ratio of the cured product after firing is set to a high value. This curable composition includes a shape retention agent, while having fluidity when applied; and if a cured product that is obtained by curing this curable composition is fired in 600° C. air atmosphere for 30 minutes, the cured product after firing has shape retainability.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2023
    Assignee: CEMEDINE CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Naoko Ishihara, Atsushi Ikeda, Tomonori Saito, Hideharu Hashimukai
  • Publication number: 20230376295
    Abstract: There is provided a technique to avoid occurrence of useless download in an image generation system. In an information processing system enabling transmission of image data corresponding to a web page between an image generation system and a communication terminal, the image generation system inquires a free space of the communication terminal, inquires a size of a file to be downloaded, and in a case where the free space of the communication terminal is less than the size of the file, performs control not to download the file to be downloaded from an external web server.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 15, 2023
    Publication date: November 23, 2023
    Inventor: ATSUSHI IKEDA
  • Patent number: 11811994
    Abstract: An information processing system that manages an application executed by an image processing apparatus with an application identifier includes one or more controllers configured to provide combined information of a reproduction application that reproduces a description file for defining operation procedures and a first description file as a first combined application, provide combined information of the reproduction application and a second description file as a second combined application, manage a first description identifier corresponding to the first description file and a second description identifier corresponding to the second description file, and manage the first combined application and the second combined application in a distinguishable manner based on the first description identifier and the second description identifier.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2023
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Sora Kumagai, Takeshi Kogure, Atsushi Ikeda, Hiroaki Koike
  • Publication number: 20230314979
    Abstract: A conductive roller includes: a core member including an outer surface along and about an axial line thereof; and a surface layer arranged along the outer surface of the core member. The surface layer includes a conductive portion formed of a conductive resin composition, and a surface roughness imparting material in a form of particles dispersed in the conductive portion. An average particle size of the surface roughness imparting material is in a range of 6 micrometers or greater and 10 micrometers or less. The number of particles of the surface roughness imparting material per unit area of the surface layer is in a range of 1.0×104 particles per mm2 or greater and 2.0×106 particles per mm2 or less. An average thickness of the surface layer is in a range of 3.0 micrometers or greater and 15.0 micrometers or less.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 10, 2021
    Publication date: October 5, 2023
    Applicant: NOK CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shogo SUZUKI, Atsushi IKEDA, Satoshi FUKUOKA, Kenji SASAKI
  • Publication number: 20230288834
    Abstract: A conductive roller includes: a core member including an outer surface along and about an axial line thereof; and a surface layer arranged along the outer surface of the core member. The surface layer includes a conductive portion, and a surface roughness imparting material in a form of particles dispersed in the conductive portion. An average particle size of the surface roughness imparting material is in a range of 6 micrometers or greater and less than 10 micrometers. The number of particles of the surface roughness imparting material per unit area of the surface layer is in a range of 3.5×105 particles per mm2 or greater and 7.5×105 particles per mm2 or less. An average thickness of the surface layer is in a range of 0.2 micrometers or greater and 5.5 micrometers or less.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 10, 2021
    Publication date: September 14, 2023
    Applicant: NOK CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shogo SUZUKI, Atsushi IKEDA, Satoshi FUKUOKA, Kenji SASAKI
  • Patent number: 11720390
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus that is able to execute an extended application, and a method of controlling the information processing apparatus are provided. The information processing apparatus holds, in a launched state, a virtual machine (VM) for executing the extended application, determines, in a case that the extended application is launched, whether or not the extended application can reuse the VM. In a case that it is determined that the extended application can reuse the VM, the information processing apparatus determines whether or not a VM that can be reused by the extended application is held, and in a case that it is determined that the VM which can be reused by the extended application is held, execute the extended application using the held VM.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 8, 2023
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Takeshi Kogure, Atsushi Ikeda, Hiroaki Koike
  • Publication number: 20230244154
    Abstract: A developing roll used in an electrophotographic image forming apparatus has a metal core member, an elastic layer made of a rubber disposed around the core member, and a surface layer disposed around the elastic layer. The texture aspect ratio of the surface Str of the surface layer is equal to or greater than 0.55.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 2, 2021
    Publication date: August 3, 2023
    Applicant: NOK CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kosuke OURA, Atsushi IKEDA, Kenji SASAKI
  • Patent number: 11704076
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus capable of recording an error that occurs before inputting a job in a job execution history. The image forming apparatus includes a network communication unit, a print unit that prints image data included in an input print job, a job-history recording unit that records a print result by the print unit as a job history, and an application manager that executes an application based on occurrence of a start factor. The application includes an obtainment unit that obtains image data via a network using the network communication unit, a job input unit that inputs a print job of the obtained image data into the image forming apparatus, and an error-recording-job input unit that inputs an error recording job into the image forming apparatus when an error occurs in execution of the application and the job input unit does not input the print job.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2023
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Takeshi Kogure, Atsushi Ikeda, Hiroaki Koike
  • Publication number: 20230221661
    Abstract: A developing roll has a metal core, an elastic layer, and a surface layer, A value X is 65.6 N/mm3 or more and a value Y is 229 ?m or more. The value X is P1/(D2×A) P2/(D2× A). P1 is the load to displace the roll by 100 ?m when a metal probe is pressed against the roll. D1 is the displacement of the roll caused by the probe under the load P1. A is the area of the probe. P2 is the load to displace a material roll by 100 ?m when the probe is pressed against the material roll with the core and the elastic layer and without the surface layer. D2 is the displacement of the material roll caused by the probe under the load P2. The value Y is the displacement of the developing roll when the probe pierces the surface layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 16, 2021
    Publication date: July 13, 2023
    Applicant: NOK CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kosuke OURA, Atsushi IKEDA, Satoshi FUKUOKA, Kenji SASAKI
  • Patent number: 11689671
    Abstract: A display device that allows a user to easily move an icon across tabs and freely change the order of the icon in the tab of a movement destination is provided. The display device comprising a display unit, a touch panel that is arranged so as to superimposed on the display unit, and a control unit configured to display a screen including a plurality of tabs capable of accommodating a plurality of predetermined numbers of icons on the display unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2023
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Akihiro Moriya, Atsushi Ikeda, Hiroaki Koike, Takeshi Kogure
  • Patent number: 11687302
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus is provided on which an application including a first module and a second module is installed. The first module is configured to determine whether to activate the second module based at least on a time set by a user, and activate the second module based on the first module determining to activate the second module. The second module is configured to cause the image forming apparatus to perform printing. In addition, the image forming apparatus includes an activation unit configured to activate the first module without activating the second module, periodically at each elapse of a predetermined time interval. In a case where it is determined that the second module is to be activated before a time when the first module is to be activated next, the first module is configured to set a timing to activate the second module.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 19, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2023
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Atsushi Ikeda, Takeshi Kogure, Hiroaki Koike