Patents by Inventor Atsushi Shoji

Atsushi Shoji 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).

  • Patent number: 9823354
    Abstract: The invention provides an illuminance measuring system, which comprises an illuminance measuring instrument which comprises a first communication unit and is moved by a moving vehicle, a position measuring means which comprises a second communication unit and is capable of measuring a three-dimensional position of the illuminance measuring instrument and a data collector which comprises a third communication unit and a storage unit for storing positional information data of a predetermined measuring point, wherein the data collector moves the moving vehicle to the measuring point based on a position of the illuminance measuring instrument as measured by the position measuring means and the positional information data, an illuminance is measured by the illuminance measuring instrument and a position of the illuminance measuring instrument at the time of illuminance measurement is measured by the position measuring means, and wherein the data collector obtains an illuminance measurement result from the illumina
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2017
    Assignee: TOPCON Corporation
    Inventors: Hisashi Isozaki, Atsushi Shoji, Akira Ooide
  • Patent number: 9666417
    Abstract: A plasma processing apparatus which generates plasma in a processing vessel supplied with a gas by applying a high-frequency voltage between first and second electrodes and performs plasma processing on a substrate to be processed, the plasma processing apparatus includes a recording unit configured to record a value, which represents a characteristic of the plasma processing performed on the substrate to be performed, in a time series, a identifying unit configured to identify a tendency of a time-series change of values recorded by the recording unit, a determination unit configured to determine whether an alarm is required based on the identified tendency of the time-series change and an alarm unit configured to output the alarm when it is determined that the alarm is required.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 12, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2017
    Assignee: Sakai Display Products Corporation
    Inventors: Masahiko Orimoto, Atsushi Shoji
  • Publication number: 20170097260
    Abstract: A technique for identifying a measurement planned position for electromagnetic waves in a three-dimensional space in a simple and easy manner is provided. A position of a measuring unit 200 that is carried by an operator 100 is measured by a position measuring device that is configured to measure a position by laser light. A positional relationship between the measured position and the position of a measurement planned position 601 is displayed on a terminal 300 that is carried by the operator 100. This display guides the operator 100, and the operator 100 identifies the measurement planned position 601 and measure illuminance thereat.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 3, 2016
    Publication date: April 6, 2017
    Applicant: TOPCON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hiroki NAGASHIMA, Atsushi SHOJI, Akira OIDE
  • Publication number: 20170097262
    Abstract: A technique for effectively detecting abnormal values in electromagnetic wave measurement is provided. An electromagnetic wave measuring device includes a measurement data receiving unit 308, an abnormal value detecting unit 309, and a GUI controlling unit 306. The measurement data receiving unit 308 receives measurement data of electromagnetic waves that are measured at multiple positions. The abnormal value detecting unit 309 detects an abnormal value in the measurement data. The GUI controlling unit 306 displays a position at which the abnormal value is measured, on a display.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 3, 2016
    Publication date: April 6, 2017
    Applicant: TOPCON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hiroki NAGASHIMA, Atsushi SHOJI, Akira OIDE
  • Publication number: 20170097420
    Abstract: A technique for efficiently performing operations for identifying a current position in a method of measuring electromagnetic waves is provided. A measuring device includes a measurement planned position data receiving unit 302, a current position data receiving unit 303, and a GUI controlling unit 306. The measurement planned position data receiving unit 302 receives data of measurement planned positions at each of which electromagnetic waves are measured. The current position data receiving unit 303 receives data of a current position of an electromagnetic wave measuring device. The GUI controlling unit 306 controls displaying of a relationship between the current position of the electromagnetic wave measuring device and the measurement planned position on a display based on data of the measurement planned positions and data of the current position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 30, 2016
    Publication date: April 6, 2017
    Applicant: TOPCON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hiroki NAGASHIMA, Atsushi Shoji, Akira Oide
  • Publication number: 20170023351
    Abstract: The invention provides an illuminance measuring system, which comprises an illuminance measuring instrument which comprises a first communication unit and is moved by a moving vehicle, a position measuring means which comprises a second communication unit and is capable of measuring a three-dimensional position of the illuminance measuring instrument and a data collector which comprises a third communication unit and a storage unit for storing positional information data of a predetermined measuring point, wherein the data collector moves the moving vehicle to the measuring point based on a position of the illuminance measuring instrument as measured by the position measuring means and the positional information data, an illuminance is measured by the illuminance measuring instrument and a position of the illuminance measuring instrument at the time of illuminance measurement is measured by the position measuring means, and wherein the data collector obtains an illuminance measurement result from the illumina
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 12, 2016
    Publication date: January 26, 2017
    Inventors: Hisashi Isozaki, Atsushi Shoji, Akira Ooide
  • Publication number: 20160211123
    Abstract: A plasma processing apparatus which generates plasma in a processing vessel supplied with a gas by applying a high-frequency voltage between first and second electrodes and performs plasma processing on a substrate to be processed, the plasma processing apparatus includes a recording unit configured to record a value, which represents a characteristic of the plasma processing performed on the substrate to be performed, in a time series, a identifying unit configured to identify a tendency of a time-series change of values recorded by the recording unit, a determination unit configured to determine whether an alarm is required based on the identified tendency of the time-series change and an alarm unit configured to output the alarm when it is determined that the alarm is required.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 12, 2014
    Publication date: July 21, 2016
    Inventors: Masahiko Orimoto, Atsushi Shoji
  • Publication number: 20160202058
    Abstract: A technique for more smoothly moving a reflective prism to a target position is provided. A surveying instrument 100 includes a leg part 101, a base 102 supported by the leg part 101, a movable part 112 held by the base 102 and being movable straight in any direction within a two-dimensional plane relative to the base 102, a reflective prism 113 mounted on the movable part 112, and a laser pointer 114 that is mounted to the movable part 112 and that emits a guiding light in a vertical direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 29, 2015
    Publication date: July 14, 2016
    Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOPCON
    Inventors: Terukazu NAGASHIMA, Shin-ichi HAYASE, Atsushi SHOJI
  • Publication number: 20160202628
    Abstract: A process of reducing a toner consumption amount is to be performed on a region within several tens of pixels from a rendering end. An excessive amount of toner is supplied from a toner supplying unit which faces a non-printing region of a photosensitive drum within several tens of pixels at most from an end portion of a printing region. Accordingly, if only contour pixels in the rendering end are processed by an existing processing system, the contour correction and the process of reducing a toner consumption amount may be simultaneously realized. A contour is calculated as a processing result of the existing processing system, and an existing process is performed on a contour portion. The process of reducing a toner consumption amount is performed on other portions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 11, 2016
    Publication date: July 14, 2016
    Inventor: Atsushi Shoji
  • Patent number: 9268252
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus applies a dither matrix to multi-valued image data. Then, the apparatus performs an exposure on a photoreceptor drum based on the image data obtained by using the applied dither matrix. In this process, the apparatus performs additional amount of exposure on the photoreceptor drum in a cycle equal to the cycle of the dither matrix, in addition to an amount of the exposure based on the obtained image data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 7, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 23, 2016
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Atsushi Shoji
  • Publication number: 20150293466
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus applies a dither matrix to multi-valued image data. Then, the apparatus performs an exposure on a photoreceptor drum based on the image data obtained by using the applied dither matrix. In this process, the apparatus performs additional amount of exposure on the photoreceptor drum in a cycle equal to the cycle of the dither matrix, in addition to an amount of the exposure based on the obtained image data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 7, 2015
    Publication date: October 15, 2015
    Inventor: Atsushi SHOJI
  • Patent number: 9063450
    Abstract: In a case where a determination is made that a density of a pixel of interest is greater than a threshold, or in a case where a pixel having a greater density than the threshold is present in a neighborhood of the pixel of interest at a predetermined distance from the pixel of interest, exposure with intensity corresponding to a density of the pixel of interest to which a predetermined density has not been added is performed on a photoreceptor drum at a position corresponding to the pixel of interest. Otherwise, exposure with intensity corresponding to a density of the pixel of interest to which the predetermined density has been added is performed on the photoreceptor drum at the position corresponding to the pixel of interest.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 23, 2015
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Atsushi Shoji
  • Publication number: 20150029519
    Abstract: In a case where a determination is made that a density of a pixel of interest is greater than a threshold, or in a case where a pixel having a greater density than the threshold is present in a neighborhood of the pixel of interest at a predetermined distance from the pixel of interest, exposure with intensity corresponding to a density of the pixel of interest to which a predetermined density has not been added is performed on a photoreceptor drum at a position corresponding to the pixel of interest. Otherwise, exposure with intensity corresponding to a density of the pixel of interest to which the predetermined density has been added is performed on the photoreceptor drum at the position corresponding to the pixel of interest.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 8, 2014
    Publication date: January 29, 2015
    Inventor: Atsushi Shoji
  • Patent number: 8614825
    Abstract: A risk of a disadvantage was caused where the entire face of an image subjected to an interpolation or thinning processing causes an increased boundary length between a region including pixels (printing region) and a region not including pixels (paper background region) or causes a broken texture in the image. To prevent this, a transition area is provided in the image so that only the transition area can be subjected to an interpolation or thinning processing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 15, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2013
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Atsushi Shoji
  • Publication number: 20120274950
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus comprises a reception unit configured to receive data with a first resolution, a correction unit configured to correct a coordinate system of the data with the first resolution into a coordinate system with a second resolution higher than the first resolution, a rendering unit configured to perform rendering processing for the data with the second resolution which is corrected to the coordinate system with the second resolution by the correction unit, and a resolution conversion unit configured to convert the data with the second resolution rendered by the rendering unit into the data with the first resolution by performing weighting calculation processing for a pixel in the data with the second resolution and a neighbor pixel of the pixel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 9, 2012
    Publication date: November 1, 2012
    Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Atsushi Shoji
  • Patent number: 8289355
    Abstract: To correct distortion in an optical system of an optical scanning, electrophotographic image generating apparatus, a parallel line group 107? is printed by a printing apparatus to be calibrated on a sheet on which a correction pattern 101 has been printed. The user reads marker positions to find amounts of deviation of the adjustment pattern from the correction pattern and inputs the amounts of deviation in the printing apparatus. The printing apparatus interpolates values between the input amounts of deviation, establishes positions at which a line in the adjustment pattern deviate one pixel in a sub-scanning direction as scan line changing points and generate new conversion information by pairing the scan line changing points with respective directions of deviation. During image generation, the printing apparatus prints an image by correcting image data according to the conversion information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 2008
    Date of Patent: October 16, 2012
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Atsushi Shoji
  • Publication number: 20110286011
    Abstract: A risk of a disadvantage was caused where the entire face of an image subjected to an interpolation or thinning processing causes an increased boundary length between a region including pixels (printing region) and a region not including pixels (paper background region) or causes a broken texture in the image. To prevent this, a transition area is provided in the image so that only the transition area can be subjected to an interpolation or thinning processing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 15, 2011
    Publication date: November 24, 2011
    Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Atsushi Shoji
  • Patent number: 7952752
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus which performs multicolored printing by overlaying a plurality of printing materials using an electrophotographic process is provided. The apparatus includes a generation unit configured to generate bitmapped data of each of the plurality of printing materials, a detection unit configured to compare bitmapped data of a first printing material and of a second printing material of the plurality of printing materials to detect an overlapping area in which the first and second printing materials overlap, and a control unit configured to decrease the supply amount of the first or second printing material in the overlapping area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 2006
    Date of Patent: May 31, 2011
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Atsushi Shoji
  • Patent number: 7948350
    Abstract: A coil component has a first core with a winding core portion, a second core with a winding core portion, a first coil wound on the winding core portion of the first core, and a second coil wound on the winding core portion of the second core. A part of the first coil is wound on the winding core portion of the second core. The first core and the second core are arranged as magnetically separated from each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 24, 2009
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2011
    Assignee: TDK Corporation
    Inventors: Atsushi Shoji, Masatoshi Shindoh
  • Publication number: 20100327353
    Abstract: A gate electrode 14 of a thin film transistor 100 included in a semiconductor device of the present invention is constituted of a single conductive film. A semiconductor layer 10 includes a first lightly doped impurity region which is provided between the channel region 12 and the source region 15 and which has a lower impurity concentration than those of the source and drain regions 15, and a second lightly doped impurity region which is provided between the channel region 12 and the drain region 15 and which has a lower impurity concentration than those of the source and drain regions 15. The entirety of one of the first and second lightly doped impurity regions (region 16a) extends under the gate electrode, and the other of the first and second lightly doped impurity regions (region 16b) does not extend under the gate electrode.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 20, 2009
    Publication date: December 30, 2010
    Inventors: Atsushi Shoji, Isao Nakanishi, Kazushige Hotta