Patents by Inventor Ayako Kobayashi

Ayako Kobayashi 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: 20240118138
    Abstract: A color measuring system includes a processor configured to perform color measurement, configured to receive designation of a color sample book, configured to, in response to the color measurement being performed, compare colors of the color sample book and a color measured by the color measurement and automatically select a color close to the measured color out of the color sample book, and configured to notify, together with the measured color, the selected color to a user as an approximate color of the measured color.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 20, 2023
    Publication date: April 11, 2024
    Inventors: Ayako KOBAYASHI, Yuka KOBAYASHI
  • Patent number: 11940327
    Abstract: A color measuring system includes a receiving section configured to receive designation of a color group including a plurality of colors, a determining section configured to determine whether a color measured by the color measuring section and a comparison target color in the color group coincide, and a control section configured to, when it is determined that the measured color and the comparison target color coincide, automatically advance a color measuring process to a color measuring process for performing the color measurement for a next color in the color group.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 18, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Ayako Kobayashi, Yuka Kobayashi, Yasuo Koyauchi, Marina Mineno
  • Patent number: 11885686
    Abstract: A color measuring system includes a color measuring section configured to perform color measurement, a receiving section configured to receive designation of a color sample book, a selecting section configured to, in response to the color measurement being performed, compare colors of the color sample book and a color measured by the color measuring section and automatically select colors close to the measured color out of the color sample book, and a notifying section configured to notify the selected colors to a user as approximate colors of the measured color.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 18, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Ayako Kobayashi, Yuka Kobayashi
  • Patent number: 11762605
    Abstract: A display apparatus includes: a first acquisition portion acquiring progress of a plurality of processes for print product produced through the processes based on information transmitted from a printer; a second acquisition portion acquiring the progress in response to an operation of a user to proceed with the production; and a display portion displaying in a distinguishable manner on a display, an automatic transition process and a manual transition process included in the processes, the automatic transition process automatically transitioning to the subsequent process based on the information transmitted from the printer and a manual transition process manually transitioning to the subsequent process in response to the operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 18, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2023
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Tetsuyuki Minamihara, Kana Ogawa, Toshiaki Kimura, Yoshiki Katsuma, Yuto Fukuchi, Ayako Kobayashi, Satoru Ono, Yuichi Sugiyama
  • Patent number: 11625474
    Abstract: An electronic apparatus includes: a first acceptor that accepts a first login; a second acceptor that accepts a second login; and an execution section. When the first login is a success, the execution section causes the electronic apparatus to perform a predetermined function only once without a user's operation. When the second login is a success, the execution section causes the electronic apparatus to perform a function in accordance with a user's operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2023
    Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventor: Ayako Kobayashi
  • Publication number: 20230059926
    Abstract: A display screen generation apparatus includes: an acquisition portion acquiring for each of a plurality of print products produced through a plurality of processes, progress of the processes; and a display portion generating a display screen that displays for each of the plurality of print products, the process waiting to be executed, the process being executed, the process already executed, and the process not intended to be executed in a distinguishable manner from each other.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 17, 2022
    Publication date: February 23, 2023
    Inventors: Tsuzuki MINAMIHARA, Kana OGAWA, Toshiaki KIMURA, Yoshiki KATSUMA, Yuto FUKUCHI, Ayako KOBAYASHI, Satoru ONO, Yuichi SUGIYAMA
  • Publication number: 20220405025
    Abstract: A display apparatus includes: a first acquisition portion acquiring progress of a plurality of processes for print product produced through the processes based on information transmitted from a printer; a second acquisition portion acquiring the progress in response to an operation of a user to proceed with the production; and a display portion displaying in a distinguishable manner on a display, an automatic transition process and a manual transition process included in the processes, the automatic transition process automatically transitioning to the subsequent process based on the information transmitted from the printer and a manual transition process manually transitioning to the subsequent process in response to the operation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 18, 2022
    Publication date: December 22, 2022
    Inventors: Tetsuyuki MINAMIHARA, Kana OGAWA, Toshiaki KIMURA, Yoshiki KATSUMA, Yuto FUKUCHI, Ayako KOBAYASHI, Satoru ONO, Yuichi SUGIYAMA
  • Publication number: 20220268631
    Abstract: A color measuring system includes a color measuring section configured to perform color measurement, a receiving section configured to receive designation of a color sample book, a selecting section configured to, in response to the color measurement being performed, compare colors of the color sample book and a color measured by the color measuring section and automatically select colors close to the measured color out of the color sample book, and a notifying section configured to notify the selected colors to a user as approximate colors of the measured color.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 18, 2022
    Publication date: August 25, 2022
    Inventors: Ayako KOBAYASHI, Yuka KOBAYASHI
  • Publication number: 20220268630
    Abstract: A color measuring system includes a receiving section configured to receive designation of a color group including a plurality of colors, a determining section configured to determine whether a color measured by the color measuring section and a comparison target color in the color group coincide, and a control section configured to, when it is determined that the measured color and the comparison target color coincide, automatically advance a color measuring process to a color measuring process for performing the color measurement for a next color in the color group.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 18, 2022
    Publication date: August 25, 2022
    Inventors: Ayako KOBAYASHI, Yuka KOBAYASHI, Yasuo KOYAUCHI, Marina MINENO
  • Patent number: 11370226
    Abstract: A PC causes a printing apparatus to print a color chart sheet including a color chart and a first image, the first image indicating a color measurement start position and a color measurement start direction of a colorimeter in a forward path in a leading line of the color chart.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 28, 2022
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Ayako Kobayashi, Ayaka Tanaka, Haruki Asakura
  • Patent number: 11140275
    Abstract: A PC presents, to a user, a difference between an actual speed and an ideal speed, the actual speed being a moving speed of a colorimeter when the user moves the colorimeter with respect to a color chart, the ideal speed being a moving speed of the colorimeter ideal for color measurement on the color chart.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 5, 2021
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Ayako Kobayashi, Haruki Asakura, Shiori Naruse, Masayuki Inoue
  • Publication number: 20210133307
    Abstract: An electronic apparatus includes: a first acceptor that accepts a first login; a second acceptor that accepts a second login; and an execution section. When the first login is a success, the execution section causes the electronic apparatus to perform a predetermined function only once without a user's operation. When the second login is a success, the execution section causes the electronic apparatus to perform a function in accordance with a user's operation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 28, 2020
    Publication date: May 6, 2021
    Inventor: Ayako KOBAYASHI
  • Publication number: 20200070540
    Abstract: A PC presents, to a user, a difference between an actual speed and an ideal speed, the actual speed being a moving speed of a colorimeter when the user moves the colorimeter with respect to a color chart, the ideal speed being a moving speed of the colorimeter ideal for color measurement on the color chart.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 28, 2019
    Publication date: March 5, 2020
    Inventors: Ayako KOBAYASHI, Haruki ASAKURA, Shiori NARUSE, Masayuki INOUE
  • Publication number: 20200070539
    Abstract: A PC causes a printing apparatus to print a color chart sheet including a color chart and a first image, the first image indicating a color measurement start position and a color measurement start direction of a colorimeter in a forward path in a leading line of the color chart.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 28, 2019
    Publication date: March 5, 2020
    Inventors: Ayako KOBAYASHI, Ayaka TANAKA, Haruki ASAKURA
  • Publication number: 20160235068
    Abstract: A production method of controlled release particles 1 includes an oil phase component preparation step in which an oil phase component containing a hydrophobic slurry is prepared by dispersing, in a hydrophobic polymerizable vinyl monomer, an antibiotic compound that is hydrophobic and is substantially insoluble to the hydrophobic polymerizable vinyl monomer without the presence of a solvent; a water dispersion step in which a hydrophobic slurry is dispersed in water to prepare an aqueous dispersion; and a polymerization step in which the polymerizable vinyl monomer is subjected to suspension polymerization to produce a polymer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 29, 2014
    Publication date: August 18, 2016
    Applicant: OSAKA GAS CHEMICALS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Junji OSHIMA, Hideaki INOUE, Tomoko HOSHINO, Ayako KOBAYASHI
  • Publication number: 20160176206
    Abstract: A printer includes a transport roller which transports a paper sheet, a head which is able to discharge liquid droplets, and a controller which controls the transport roller and the head, in which a plurality of patches are printed using the head in the transport direction of the paper sheet within a range of one circumference length of the transport roller, and information which relates to discharge of the liquid droplets is corrected based on information which is obtained from the plurality of patches.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 9, 2015
    Publication date: June 23, 2016
    Inventor: Ayako KOBAYASHI
  • Patent number: 9302471
    Abstract: Provided is a liquid droplet discharging method including: based on a first correction quantity table correlating to discharging of the first nozzle row, a second correction quantity table correlating to discharging of the second nozzle row, a relative usage ratio of the first nozzle row to the second nozzle row (=a usage rate of the first nozzle row/a usage rate of the second nozzle row), and a third correction quantity table correlating to discharging of a predetermined value Hk which is the relative usage ratio, correcting a liquid droplet quantity, per a unit area in print media, discharged from the first nozzle row and/or the second nozzle row.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2016
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Ayako Kobayashi, Jun Hoshii, Takashi Doi
  • Publication number: 20160031208
    Abstract: Provided is a liquid droplet discharging method including: based on a first correction quantity table correlating to discharging of the first nozzle row, a second correction quantity table correlating to discharging of the second nozzle row, a relative usage ratio of the first nozzle row to the second nozzle row (=a usage rate of the first nozzle row/a usage rate of the second nozzle row), and a third correction quantity table correlating to discharging of a predetermined value Hk which is the relative usage ratio, correcting a liquid droplet quantity, per a unit area in print media, discharged from the first nozzle row and/or the second nozzle row.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 22, 2015
    Publication date: February 4, 2016
    Inventors: Ayako Kobayashi, Jun Hoshii, Takashi Doi
  • Patent number: 8494230
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes an area setting unit, an image deformation unit, and a face deformation unit. The area setting unit sets, in a target image that includes a face image, an area including the face image as a compression area. The image deformation unit compresses the compression area in a specific direction at a predetermined compression rate. The face deformation unit deforms the face image by expansion amount determined on the basis of the compression rate in such a manner that at least a part of the face image is expanded in the specific direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 2009
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2013
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventor: Ayako Kobayashi
  • Patent number: 8363276
    Abstract: A printer performs calibration in which a reference primary color ink is mixed with at least one additional primary color ink to approximate a predetermined target primary color. The printer includes an acquisition section, a predicting section, an optimizing section and a printing unit. The acquisition section acquires spectral reflectances of the reference primary color ink printed on a base, the additional primary color ink printed on the base, and the base. The predicting section calculates predicted spectral reflectance of a mixture of the primary color inks by dividing a product of the spectral reflectances of the primary color inks by the spectral reflectance of the base raised to the power obtained by subtracting 1 from a total number of the inks. The optimizing section optimizes an ink-amount set of the mixture so that the predicted spectral reflectance is approximated to spectral reflectance of the target primary color.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2011
    Date of Patent: January 29, 2013
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Jun Hoshii, Ayako Kobayashi