Patents by Inventor Ayumi Hori
Ayumi Hori 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).
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Patent number: 11306295Abstract: A new thermostable luciferase of the following mutant luciferase (a) or (b): (a) a mutant of a wild-type luciferase comprising the amino acid sequence of SEQ ID NO: 1, wherein phenylalanine at position 292 and/or phenylalanine at position 294 in the amino acid sequence of SEQ ID NO: 1 is substituted with another amino acid; or (b) a mutant of a luciferase having 93% or more homology with the amino acid sequence of SEQ ID NO: 1, wherein in the amino acid sequence of the mutant, the amino acid at a site corresponding to position 292 and/or position 294 in the amino acid sequence of SEQ ID NO: 1 is substituted with another amino acid.Type: GrantFiled: March 14, 2018Date of Patent: April 19, 2022Assignees: TOYO B-NET CO., LTD., TOYO INK SC HOLDINGS CO., LTD.Inventors: Ayumi Hori, Yutaka Yamagishi
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Publication number: 20200017840Abstract: A new thermostable luciferase of the following mutant luciferase (a) or (b): (a) a mutant of a wild-type luciferase comprising the amino acid sequence of SEQ ID NO: 1, wherein phenylalanine at position 292 and/or phenylalanine at position 294 in the amino acid sequence of SEQ ID NO: 1 is substituted with another amino acid; or (b) a mutant of a luciferase having 93% or more homology with the amino acid sequence of SEQ ID NO: 1, wherein in the amino acid sequence of the mutant, the amino acid at a site corresponding to position 292 and/or position 294 in the amino acid sequence of SEQ ID NO: 1 is substituted with another amino acid.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 14, 2018Publication date: January 16, 2020Applicants: TOYO B-NET CO., LTD., TOYO INK SC HOLDINGS CO., LTD.Inventors: Ayumi HORI, Yutaka YAMAGISHI
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Patent number: 9738953Abstract: The present invention provides a hot-forgeable Ni-based superalloy excellent in high temperature strength, including, in terms of % by mass: C: more than 0.001% and less than 0.100%, Cr: 11.0% or more and less than 19.0%, Co: 0.5% or more and less than 22.0%, Fe: 0.5% or more and less than 10.0%, Si: less than 0.1%, Mo: more than 2.0% and less than 5.0%, W: more than 1.0% and less than 5.0%, Mo+½W: 2.5% or more and less than 5.5%, S: 0.010% or less, Nb: 0.3% or more and less than 2.0%, Al: more than 3.00% and less than 6.50%, and Ti: 0.20% or more and less than 2.49%, with the balance being Ni and unavoidable impurities, in which (Ti/Al)×10 is 0.2 or more and less than 4.0 in terms of atomic ratio, and in which Al+Ti+Nb is 8.5% or more and less than 13.0% in terms of atomic %.Type: GrantFiled: January 29, 2014Date of Patent: August 22, 2017Assignee: DAIDO STEEL CO., LTD.Inventors: Mototsugu Osaki, Shigeki Ueta, Takuma Okajima, Ayumi Hori
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Publication number: 20150284823Abstract: The present invention provides a hot-forgeable Ni-based superalloy excellent in high temperature strength, including, in terms of % by mass: C: more than 0.001% and less than 0.100%, Cr: 11.0% or more and less than 19.0%, Co: 0.5% or more and less than 22.0%, Fe: 0.5% or more and less than 10.0%, Si: less than 0.1%, Mo: more than 2.0% and less than 5.0%, W: more than 1.0% and less than 5.0%, Mo+½W: 2.5% or more and less than 5.5%, S: 0.010% or less, Nb: 0.3% or more and less than 2.0%, Al: more than 3.00% and less than 6.50%, and Ti: 0.20% or more and less than 2.49%, with the balance being Ni and unavoidable impurities, in which (Ti/Al)×10 is 0.2 or more and less than 4.0 in terms of atomic ratio, and in which Al+Ti+Nb is 8.5% or more and less than 13.0% in terms of atomic %.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 29, 2014Publication date: October 8, 2015Applicant: DAIDO STEEL CO., LTD.Inventors: Mototsugu OSAKI, Shigeki UETA, Takuma OKAJIMA, Ayumi HORI
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Patent number: 8934140Abstract: A color gamut of image data is appropriately subjected to a smoothing processing to print an image of favorable color reproduction and gradation reproduction. Specifically, when an average lightness is equal to or lower than a blacking lightness, the object pixel is not subjected to the smoothing processing. This can conserve the signal value of the object pixel to prevent a pixel originally having a signal value higher than the blacking lightness from being converted by the gamut compression to a black point. In this manner, a pixel for which the object pixel has the average lightness equal to or lower than the blacking lightness is blacked and a pixel having a signal value higher than the blacking lightness is not compressed to the black point. The resultant image has no deteriorated gradation characteristic when being macroscopically observed.Type: GrantFiled: March 27, 2008Date of Patent: January 13, 2015Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Ayumi Hori, Fumihiro Goto, Yusuke Hashii, Tetsuya Suwa, Fumitaka Goto
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Patent number: 8514443Abstract: There is provided an image processing method of laying out and outputting an image of an original formed from a plurality of pages on one page, the method comprising: inputting image data of the original formed from the plurality of pages; dividing the image data input in the inputting into a plurality of blocks; discarding unnecessary information; appending necessary information to each block obtained by division in the dividing based on the predetermined rule; replacing the respective blocks obtained by division in the dividing with the block from which the unnecessary information is discarded in the discarding, and the block to which the necessary information is appended in the appending; and outputting the respective blocks which have undergone replacement in the replacing by laying out the respective blocks on one page.Type: GrantFiled: December 16, 2008Date of Patent: August 20, 2013Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Fumihiro Goto, Ayumi Hori, Manabu Yamazoe, Tohru Ikeda, Maya Ishii, Hidetsugu Kagawa
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Patent number: 8498016Abstract: Image data can be subjected to a smoothing processing to improve a color reproduction characteristic and an image free from a deteriorated gradation characteristic can be printed. Specifically, the smoothing processing improves the color reproduction characteristic. This smoothing processing may cause a color originally not having the lightness equal to or lower than blacking lightness to be converted to a color having lightness equal to or lower than the blacking lightness. To solve this, such a color is subjected to a gradation adjustment processing to convert the color to the color having the lightness higher than blacking lightness. A gamut mapping does not map such a color on a black point, thus preventing such a color from being broken by the blacking.Type: GrantFiled: March 28, 2008Date of Patent: July 30, 2013Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Fumihiro Goto, Tetsuya Suwa, Fumitaka Goto, Yusuke Hashii, Ayumi Hori
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Patent number: 8482804Abstract: A pixel in a photograph region image to be subjected to blacking is subjected to a brightness modulation processing so that the pixel is modulated to any of “a pixel having the brightness to be subject to blacking” and “a pixel having the brightness not to be subject to blacking”. Specifically, the modulation by noise addition converts some pixels for which original pixel values are to be subjected to blacking to a pixel having the brightness not subjected to blacking. Thereby, “a pixel having the brightness not to be subject to blacking” thus converted has no change in brightness in the blacking processing. Consequently, a pixel at which the blacking processing is not generated can be caused to exist in the photograph image. As a result, even when the blacking processing set for character/line region is similarly set for the photograph region, the effect of the blacking can be reduced.Type: GrantFiled: March 27, 2008Date of Patent: July 9, 2013Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Yusuke Hashii, Fumihiro Goto, Tetsuya Suwa, Fumitaka Goto, Ayumi Hori
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Publication number: 20120300266Abstract: A sheet music creation method of creating sheet music whose layout is changed based on image data of sheet music input from an input device includes the steps of dividing the image data of the sheet music input from the input device into grand staffs, designating the grand staffs divided in the dividing in the order of performance, and re-editing, by a processor, image data representing the grand staffs in accordance with the order designated in the designating.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 3, 2012Publication date: November 29, 2012Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Manabu Yamazoe, Fumihiro Goto, Ayumi Hori, Tohru Ikeda, Maya Ishii, Hidetsugu Kagawa
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Patent number: 8275203Abstract: A sheet music processing method of processing, by an image processing apparatus, image data of sheet music input by an input device, the method comprising setting, by a user using a designation unit of the image processing apparatus, a unit in which the image data of the sheet music is processed; dividing the image data of the sheet music into units corresponding to the unit; determining whether image data of a first one of the units is repeated in one or more others of the units; and processing the image data, when the image data of the first one of the units is determined to be repeated in the one or more others of the units, to append information using the image processing apparatus to the image data of the first one of the units and the image data of the one or more others of the units.Type: GrantFiled: December 19, 2008Date of Patent: September 25, 2012Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Ayumi Hori, Hidetsugu Kagawa, Fumihiro Goto, Manabu Yamazoe, Maya Ishii, Tohru Ikeda
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Patent number: 8218206Abstract: The gamut of a printer has poor saturation reproducibility in a low-lightness region, often has a shape from which the gamut is cut away, and sometimes locally forms a part having extremely low color reproducibility. Hence, upon converting colors on a first gamut onto those on a second gamut, a third gamut is generated by transforming the second gamut for the purpose of the conversion, and the colors on the first gamut are mapped onto the third gamut. The colors on the first gamut are converted into those on the second gamut based on the mapping result.Type: GrantFiled: July 24, 2006Date of Patent: July 10, 2012Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Ayumi Hori, Manabu Yamazoe
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Patent number: 7965426Abstract: An image processing method is used to converting a color within a first color reproduction range that is a device-independent color space into a color within a second color reproduction range that is a color reproduction range of an output device. The image processing method includes defining, within the first color reproduction range, a third color reproduction range of a color that is estimated to be input; defining, within the second color reproduction range, a fourth color reproduction range that is smaller than the second color reproduction range; and, in performing the color conversion, compressing a color within the third color reproduction range into a color within the fourth color reproduction range and compressing a color within the first color reproduction range and outside the third color reproduction range into a color within the second color reproduction range and outside the fourth color reproduction range.Type: GrantFiled: August 4, 2006Date of Patent: June 21, 2011Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Ayumi Hori, Masao Kato, Tetsuya Suwa, Manabu Yamazoe
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Patent number: 7842871Abstract: Image data of sheet music formed from a plurality of pages is input, and the input image data is divided into bars. The complexity of performance of each divided bar is determined for each page. An easy-to-play portion is detected as a page feed position for each page in accordance with the determination result. The layout of the sheet music is changed based on the detected page feed position, and the layout-changed sheet music is output.Type: GrantFiled: December 15, 2008Date of Patent: November 30, 2010Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Maya Ishii, Fumihiro Goto, Ayumi Hori, Manabu Yamazoe, Tohru Ikeda, Hidetsugu Kagawa
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Publication number: 20090158915Abstract: Image data of sheet music formed from a plurality of pages is input, and the input image data is divided into bars. The complexity of performance of each divided bar is determined for each page. An easy-to-play portion is detected as a page feed position for each page in accordance with the determination result. The layout of the sheet music is changed based on the detected page feed position, and the layout-changed sheet music is output.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 15, 2008Publication date: June 25, 2009Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Maya Ishii, Fumihiro Goto, Ayumi Hori, Manabu Yamazoe, Tohru Ikeda, Hidetsugu Kagawa
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Publication number: 20090161917Abstract: A sheet music processing method of processing, by an image processing apparatus, image data of sheet music input by an input device, the method comprising setting, by a user using a designation unit of the image processing apparatus, a unit in which the image data of the sheet music is processed; dividing the image data of the sheet music into units corresponding to the unit; determining whether image data of a first one of the units is repeated in one or more others of the units; and processing the image data, when the image data of the first one of the units is determined to be repeated in the one or more others of the units, to append information using the image processing apparatus to the image data of the first one of the units and the image data of the one or more others of the units.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 19, 2008Publication date: June 25, 2009Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Ayumi Hori, Hidetsugu Kagawa, Fumihiro Goto, Manabu Yamazoe, Maya Ishii, Tohru Ikeda
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Publication number: 20090161176Abstract: A sheet music creation method of creating sheet music whose layout is changed based on image data of sheet music input from an input device includes the steps of dividing the image data of the sheet music input from the input device into grand staffs, designating the grand staffs divided in the dividing in the order of performance, and re-editing, by a processor, image data representing the grand staffs in accordance with the order designated in the designating.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 19, 2008Publication date: June 25, 2009Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Manabu Yamazoe, Fumihiro Goto, Ayumi Hori, Tohru Ikeda, Maya Ishii, Hidetsugu Kagawa
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Publication number: 20090161164Abstract: There is provided an image processing method of laying out and outputting an image of an original formed from a plurality of pages on one page, the method comprising: inputting image data of the original formed from the plurality of pages; dividing the image data input in the inputting into a plurality of blocks; discarding unnecessary information; appending necessary information to each block obtained by division in the dividing based on the predetermined rule; replacing the respective blocks obtained by division in the dividing with the block from which the unnecessary information is discarded in the discarding, and the block to which the necessary information is appended in the appending; and outputting the respective blocks which have undergone replacement in the replacing by laying out the respective blocks on one page.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 16, 2008Publication date: June 25, 2009Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Fumihiro Goto, Ayumi Hori, Manabu Yamazoe, Tohru Ikeda, Maya Ishii, Hidetsugu Kagawa
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Publication number: 20080239355Abstract: Image data can be subjected to a smoothing processing to improve a color reproduction characteristic and an image free from a deteriorated gradation characteristic can be printed. Specifically, the smoothing processing improves the color reproduction characteristic. This smoothing processing may cause a color originally not having the lightness equal to or lower than blacking lightness to be converted to a color having lightness equal to or lower than the blacking lightness. To solve this, such a color is subjected to a gradation adjustment processing to convert the color to the color having the lightness higher than blacking lightness. A gamut mapping does not map such a color on a black point, thus preventing such a color from being broken by the blacking.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 28, 2008Publication date: October 2, 2008Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Fumihiro Goto, Tetsuya Suwa, Fumitaka Goto, Yusuke Hashii, Ayumi Hori
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Publication number: 20080239410Abstract: A pixel in a photograph region image to be subjected to blacking is subjected to a brightness modulation processing so that the pixel is modulated to any of “a pixel having the brightness to be subject to blacking” and “a pixel having the brightness not to be subject to blacking”. Specifically, the modulation by noise addition converts some pixels for which original pixel values are to be subjected to blacking to a pixel having the brightness not subjected to blacking. Thereby, “a pixel having the brightness not to be subject to blacking” thus converted has no change in brightness in the blacking processing. Consequently, a pixel at which the blacking processing is not generated can be caused to exist in the photograph image. As a result, even when the blacking processing set for character/line region is similarly set for the photograph region, the effect of the blacking can be reduced.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 27, 2008Publication date: October 2, 2008Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: YUSUKE HASHII, FUMIHIRO GOTO, TETSUYA SUWA, FUMITAKA GOTO, AYUMI HORI
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Publication number: 20080239353Abstract: A color gamut of image data is appropriately subjected to a smoothing processing to print an image of favorable color reproduction and gradation reproduction. Specifically, when an average lightness is equal to or lower than a blacking lightness, the object pixel is not subjected to the smoothing processing. This can conserve the signal value of the object pixel to prevent a pixel originally having a signal value higher than the blacking lightness from being converted by the gamut compression to a black point. In this manner, a pixel for which the object pixel has the average lightness equal to or lower than the blacking lightness is blacked and a pixel having a signal value higher than the blacking lightness is not compressed to the black point. The resultant image has no deteriorated gradation characteristic when being macroscopically observed.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 27, 2008Publication date: October 2, 2008Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Ayumi Hori, Fumihiro Goto, Yusuke Hashii, Tetsuya Suwa, Fumitaka Goto