Patents by Inventor Hiroaki Ogata
Hiroaki Ogata 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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Publication number: 20240153276Abstract: An information processing apparatus (10) includes: determination means (11) for determining a range for providing notification of information regarding a specific object on the basis of a moving direction of the specific object detected on the basis of an image, a position where the image has been captured, and an elapsed time since the image has been captured; and transmission means (12) for transmitting the information regarding the specific object to a device corresponding to the range determined by the determination means.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 30, 2021Publication date: May 9, 2024Applicant: NEC CorporationInventors: Kei YANAGISAWA, Tetsuro HASEGAWA, Kosei KOBAYASHI, Hiroaki AMINAKA, Kazuki OGATA
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Publication number: 20240147203Abstract: In one aspect, a reception means receives, from a roadside device, first information transmitted from a mobile body by using a first wireless communication. An identification means identifies, based on information of a terminal apparatus to be managed by an information management means, the terminal apparatus being located in the vicinity of the mobile body that has transmitted the first information. A transmission means transmits second information generated based on the first information, to the terminal apparatus identified by the identification means via a second wireless communication.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 31, 2021Publication date: May 2, 2024Applicant: NEC CorporationInventors: Kosei KOBAYASHI, Tetsuji KAWATSU, Kazuki OGATA, Yuji SATO, Tetsuya TAKAKI, Jun TAKASAWA, Hiroaki AMINAKA, Kei YANAGISAWA
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Patent number: 11964712Abstract: A steering control device is provided with at least one of a first torque correction computing part and a second torque correction computing part; wherein the first torque correction computing part is equipped with a weight computing part which computes an increment of weight based on a magnitude of the driver torque, and accumulates the increment of weight to generate a weight, a clip value computing part which computes an automatic driver torque clip value according to the weight, and a clip processing part which clip processes the automatic driver torque with the automatic driver torque clip value; and the second torque correction computing part is equipped with a gain computing part which computes an increment of gain according to the driver torque, and accumulates the increment of gain to generate a gain, and a gain processing part which outputs an automatic driver torque multiplied by the gain.Type: GrantFiled: February 27, 2020Date of Patent: April 23, 2024Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric CorporationInventors: Kenta Tominaga, Hiroyuki Kobayashi, Michihiro Ogata, Masaya Endo, Hiroaki Kitano
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Publication number: 20240129849Abstract: The present disclosure makes it possible to effectively reduce power consumption of a roadside wireless communication apparatus. A determination means (21) determines whether a moving body exists on a roadway leading to an intersection. A control means (22) controls a transmission output of a wireless signal being output from a wireless communication apparatus (30), based on a lighting state of a traffic light installed at the intersection and a determination result of the determination means (21).Type: ApplicationFiled: March 31, 2021Publication date: April 18, 2024Applicant: NEC CorporationInventors: Hiroaki AMINAKA, Kosel KOBAYASHI, Kei YANAGISAWA, Kazuki OGATA, Jun TAKASAWA
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Publication number: 20240127595Abstract: A notification device according to an example embodiment of the present disclosure includes at least one memory configured to store instructions; and at least one processor configured to execute the instructions to: detect occurrence of an accident from a video captured by one or a plurality of cameras, analyze the video to derive detailed information regarding an analysis target person involved with the accident, determine a coping method for the analysis target person on the basis of the detailed information; and notify the notification target of the determined coping method.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 29, 2021Publication date: April 18, 2024Applicant: NEC CorporationInventors: Kosei Kobayashi, Tetsuro Hasegawa, Hiroaki Aminaka, Kei Yanagisawa, Kazuki Ogata
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Publication number: 20240127350Abstract: An information processing apparatus (10) includes: an acquisition means (11) for acquiring information based on a sensor that measures information regarding a road; a generation means (12) for generating information indicating an accident situation according to an insurer based on the information acquired by the acquisition means; and a transmission means (13) for transmitting the information indicating the accident situation generated by the generation means to an apparatus of the insurer.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 10, 2021Publication date: April 18, 2024Applicant: NEC CorporationInventors: Tetsuro Hasegawa, Hiroaki Aminaka, Kazuki Ogata, Kei Yanagisawa, Kosei Kobayashi
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Patent number: 7583916Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes an image bearing member; a developing device including a carrying member for carrying a one component developer and for developing an electrostatic image formed on the image bearing member with the developer; a rotatable developer supplying device, contacted to the carrying member, for supplying the developer to the carrying member; a developer regulating device for regulating an amount of the developer carried on the carrying member; a developer stirring device for stirring the developer a developer supply device for supplying the developer to the developing device; and a controller for controlling supply of the developer to the developing device from the developer supply device. A lower end of the developer stirring device is disposed at a position which is vertically above an upper end of the developer supplying device and which is vertically above a contact portion between the carrying member and the developer regulating device.Type: GrantFiled: November 16, 2004Date of Patent: September 1, 2009Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Hiroaki Ogata, Syuhei Kawasaki, Seiji Yamaguchi, Shinji Uehara
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Color image forming apparatus, and program and method of controlling a color image forming apparatus
Patent number: 7542690Abstract: In a color image forming apparatus, a color mode is switched from a full color mode to a single color mode as follows. When the length of an image of a last page in the full color mode is less than the distance from a first-transferring position of a most downstream image forming station to a second-transferring position, if the time interval from arrival of the trailing end of an image of a page immediately previous to the last page at the second-transferring position to arrival of the leading end of the image of the last page at the second-transferring position is longer than the time needed to separate color image forming stations from the second image carrying medium, then the separating operation is started when the trail end of the image of the page immediately previous to the last page in the full color mode reaches the second-transferring position.Type: GrantFiled: August 25, 2008Date of Patent: June 2, 2009Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Hajime Sugaya, Hiroaki Ogata -
COLOR IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, AND PROGRAM AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING A COLOR IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS
Publication number: 20080317492Abstract: In a color image forming apparatus, a color mode is switched from a full color mode to a single color mode as follows. When the length of an image of a last page in the full color mode is less than the distance from a first-transferring position of a most downstream image forming station to a second-transferring position, if the time interval from arrival of the trailing end of an image of a page immediately previous to the last page at the second-transferring position to arrival of the leading end of the image of the last page at the second-transferring position is longer than the time needed to separate color image forming stations from the second image carrying medium, then the separating operation is started when the trail end of the image of the page immediately previous to the last page in the full color mode reaches the second-transferring position.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 25, 2008Publication date: December 25, 2008Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Hajime Sugaya, Hiroaki Ogata -
Patent number: 7349658Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a plurality of photosensitive drums, a plurality of developing devices, an intermediate transfer medium, primary transfer members, and a secondary transfer member for transferring toner images onto a transfer material. A full-color mode and a monocolor mode are selectively carried out. The image forming apparatus also includes a CPU for adjusting the length of a non-image forming region, and an intermediate-transfer-medium movement controller. The CPU brings about a switching state in which an image forming region lies between a primary transfer position on the most downstream one of the photosensitive drums and a secondary transfer position and in which non-image forming regions simultaneously lie at the primary transfer position and at the secondary transfer position. The intermediate-transfer-medium movement controller switches between the full-color mode and the monocolor mode during the switching state.Type: GrantFiled: December 6, 2005Date of Patent: March 25, 2008Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Hiroaki Ogata, Yuki Nishizawa, Eiichiro Teshima
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Patent number: 7218871Abstract: When it has been estimated that there is substantially no toner remaining in a toner supply unit based upon the amount of toner that has been supplied from the toner supply unit, a supply roller for supplying toner from the toner supply unit to a developing unit is rotated by a prescribed amount. After the supply roller has thus been rotated, a user is notified of the fact that no toner remains in the toner supply unit.Type: GrantFiled: May 24, 2005Date of Patent: May 15, 2007Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Hiroaki Ogata
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Patent number: 7068955Abstract: An image forming apparatus or a cartridge detachably attachable to the image forming apparatus is provided, wherein the apparatus comprises developer container for containing developer, developer amount detecting means for detecting an amount of the developer contained in the developer container, a memory for memorizing information concerning the amount of the developer detected by the detecting means and output means for outputting the information concerning the amount of the developer, and the output means outputs the information concerning the developer memorized in the memory until the detection result of the detecting means is confirmed.Type: GrantFiled: March 13, 2003Date of Patent: June 27, 2006Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Shinya Yamamoto, Hiroshi Sasame, Kazushige Sakurai, Takashi Hibi, Hiroaki Ogata, Tomomi Kakeshita
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Publication number: 20060127139Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a plurality of photosensitive drums, a plurality of developing devices, an intermediate transfer medium, primary transfer members, and a secondary transfer member for transferring toner images onto a transfer material. A full-color mode and a monocolor mode are selectively carried out. The image forming apparatus also includes a CPU for adjusting the length of a non-image forming region, and an intermediate-transfer-medium movement controller. The CPU brings about a switching state in which an image forming region lies between a primary transfer position on the most downstream one of the photosensitive drums and a secondary transfer position and in which non-image forming regions simultaneously lie at the primary transfer position and at the secondary transfer position. The intermediate-transfer-medium movement controller switches between the full-color mode and the monocolor mode during the switching state.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 6, 2005Publication date: June 15, 2006Applicant: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Hiroaki Ogata, Yuki Nishizawa, Eiichiro Teshima
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Patent number: 7058320Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a developer container for containing a developer; a developer amount detector for detecting the amount of the developer contained in the developer container; a memory; and a calculator for calculating a display level of the remaining amount of the developer. At least the developer container and the memory are in a unit which is detachably mountable to a main assembly of the image forming apparatus. The memory stores information relating to a lifetime of the unit, and a device calculates the display level in accordance with the amount detected by the developer amount detector and the information relating to the lifetime of the cartridge.Type: GrantFiled: May 5, 2003Date of Patent: June 6, 2006Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Shinya Yamamoto, Hiroaki Ogata
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Publication number: 20050265738Abstract: When it has been estimated that there is substantially no toner remaining in a toner supply unit based upon the amount of toner that has been supplied from the toner supply unit, a supply roller for supplying toner from the toner supply unit to a developing unit is rotated by a prescribed amount. After the supply roller has thus been rotated, a user is notified of the fact that no toner remains in the toner supply unit.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 24, 2005Publication date: December 1, 2005Applicant: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Hiroaki Ogata
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Patent number: 6925267Abstract: An image forming apparatus or a cartridge detachably attachable to the image forming apparatus is provided, wherein the apparatus comprises a developer container for containing developer, a developer amount detector for detecting an amount of the developer contained in the developer container, a memory for memorizing information concerning the amount of the developer detected by the detector and an output unit for outputting the information concerning the amount of the developer. The output unit outputs the information concerning the developer memorized in the memory until the detection result of the detector is confirmed.Type: GrantFiled: October 7, 2002Date of Patent: August 2, 2005Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Shinya Yamamoto, Hiroshi Sasame, Kazushige Sakurai, Takashi Hibi, Hiroaki Ogata, Tomomi Kakeshita
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Patent number: 6912366Abstract: An image forming apparatus or a cartridge detachably attachable to the image forming apparatus is provided, wherein the apparatus comprises developer container for containing developer, developer amount detecting means for detecting an amount of the developer contained in the developer container, a memory for memorizing information concerning the amount of the developer detected by the detecting means and output means for outputting the information concerning the amount of the developer, and the output means outputs the information concerning the developer memorized in the memory until the detection result of the detecting means is confirmed.Type: GrantFiled: August 29, 2000Date of Patent: June 28, 2005Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Shinya Yamamoto, Hiroshi Sasame, Kazushige Sakurai, Takashi Hibi, Hiroaki Ogata, Tomomi Kakeshita
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Publication number: 20050117920Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes an image bearing member; a developing device including a carrying member for carrying a developer and for developing an electrostatic image formed on the image bearing member with a developer, a developer supplying means, contacted to the carrying member, for supplying the developer to the carrying member, and developer regulating means for regulating an amount of the developer carried on the carrying member; supply means for supplying the developer to the developing device; control means for controling supply of the developer to the developing device from the supply means, wherein the developing device further includes developer stirring means for stirring the developer supplied from the supply means and for supplying the developer to the supplying means, wherein the stirring means has a lower end disposed at a position which is vertically above an upper end of the supplying means and which is vertically above a contact portion between the carrying member and the developerType: ApplicationFiled: November 16, 2004Publication date: June 2, 2005Applicant: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Hiroaki Ogata, Syuhei Kawasaki, Seiji Yamaguchi, Shinji Uehara
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Patent number: 6785482Abstract: An image forming apparatus, includes an image bearing device for bearing an image to be formed on a transferring material; a charger; an exposing device; a developing device; a transferring device, which transfers a developed image formed on the image bearing device to a transferring material; a current detector, which detects a transferring current flowing through the transferring device; and a controller. A voltage set in the developing device for an image forming area of the image bearing device is different from a voltage set in the developing device for the non-image-forming area of the image bearing device. The controller controls the voltage set in the developing portion, wherein a voltage for the non-image-forming area is controlled based on an output of the current detector.Type: GrantFiled: February 20, 2003Date of Patent: August 31, 2004Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Hiroaki Ogata, Miyuki Oki
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Patent number: 6714745Abstract: The present invention provides an image forming apparatus that has a plurality of image forming stations for forming an image on a recording material, each of the plurality of image forming stations having a memory, and writing device for writing data into the memories, wherein when the image is formed on the recording material without at least one of the image forming stations being used, the writing device writes use data into the memory of the station used and the memory of the station not used.Type: GrantFiled: October 9, 2002Date of Patent: March 30, 2004Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Hiroshi Sasame, Hiroaki Ogata, Shinya Yamamoto, Tomomi Kakeshita