Patents by Inventor Hiroko Mori

Hiroko Mori 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: 11791244
    Abstract: A semiconductor-module external terminal includes a bottom portion to be soldered and a terminal body vertically bent from the bottom portion, and the terminal body includes a first groove on a left end side and a second groove on a right end side of a bending portion which is bent immediately above the bottom portion, and the first groove and the second groove are asymmetrical with respect to a center line passing the terminal body in a vertical direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2023
    Assignee: SANSHA ELECTRIC MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Hiroko Mori
  • Publication number: 20220199495
    Abstract: A semiconductor-module external terminal includes a bottom portion to be soldered and a terminal body vertically bent from the bottom portion, and the terminal body includes a first groove on a left end side and a second groove on a right end side of a bending portion which is bent immediately above the bottom portion, and the first groove and the second groove are asymmetrical with respect to a center line passing the terminal body in a vertical direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 23, 2019
    Publication date: June 23, 2022
    Inventor: Hiroko MORI
  • Patent number: 10419628
    Abstract: The disclosure discloses printer including an attach/detach part and a control part. The control part executes a cable determination process. In the cable determination process, it is determined whether or not a first communication cable is attached to the attach/detach part. In accordance with a determination result, the control part selectively executes either an enabling process or a disabling process. In the enabling process, a communication bus to the first communication cable included in the control part is enabled. In the disabling instruction process, a disabling instruction is outputted to the cradle apparatus for disabling a communication bus to the first communication cable. In the disabling process, the communication bus to the first communication cable included in the control part is disabled. In the enabling instruction process, an enabling instruction is outputted to the cradle apparatus for enabling the communication bus to the first communication cable.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2019
    Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Hiroko Mori
  • Patent number: 10394306
    Abstract: A non-transitory computer-readable recording medium stores a cradle control program for executing steps on a CPU of a cradle apparatus. In an attachment determination step, it is determined whether or not a printer is attached to an attach/detach part. In an information acquisition step, connection identification information of the printer is acquired in the case that it is determined the printer is attached. In a connection establishing step, a communication connection with an operation terminal via the connection part is established after acquiring the connection identification information in the information acquisition step. In an information transmission step, the connection identification information acquired is transmitted to the operation terminal after establishing the communication connection in the connection establishing step.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2019
    Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Hiroko Mori
  • Publication number: 20190179400
    Abstract: The disclosure discloses A non-transitory computer-readable recording medium storing stores a cradle control program for executing steps on a CPU of a cradle apparatus. In an attachment determination step, it is determined whether or not a printer is attached to an attach/detach part. In an information acquisition step, connection identification information of the printer is acquired in the case that it is determined the printer is attached. In a connection establishing step, a communication connection with an operation terminal via the connection part is established after acquiring the connection identification information in the information acquisition step. In an information transmission step, the connection identification information acquired is transmitted to the operation terminal after establishing the communication connection in the connection establishing step.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 27, 2018
    Publication date: June 13, 2019
    Inventor: Hiroko Mori
  • Publication number: 20190182395
    Abstract: The disclosure discloses printer including an attach/detach part and a control part. The control part executes a cable determination process. In the cable determination process, it is determined whether or not a first communication cable is attached to the attach/detach part. In accordance with a determination result, the control part selectively executes either an enabling process or a disabling process. In the enabling process, a communication bus to the first communication cable included in the control part is enabled. In the disabling instruction process, a disabling instruction is outputted to the cradle apparatus for disabling a communication bus to the first communication cable. In the disabling process, the communication bus to the first communication cable included in the control part is disabled. In the enabling instruction process, an enabling instruction is outputted to the cradle apparatus for enabling the communication bus to the first communication cable.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 27, 2018
    Publication date: June 13, 2019
    Inventor: Hiroko Mori
  • Patent number: 10084942
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes: a controller configured to perform: acquiring original image data representing an original image and corrected image data representing a corrected image, the corrected image data being generated by executing specific correction processing on the original image data; calculating a first index value and a second index value, the first index value relating to a color distribution of the original image by using the original image data, and the second index value relating to a color distribution of the corrected image by using the corrected image data; and determining which processing, among a plurality of processing candidates that are executable by the image processing apparatus, corresponds to the specific correction processing, based on comparison of the calculated first index value and the calculated second index value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 25, 2018
    Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Hiroko Mori
  • Publication number: 20180109699
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes: a controller configured to perform: acquiring original image data representing an original image and corrected image data representing a corrected image, the corrected image data being generated by executing specific correction processing on the original image data; calculating a first index value and a second index value, the first index value relating to a color distribution of the original image by using the original image data, and the second index value relating to a color distribution of the corrected image by using the corrected image data; and determining which processing, among a plurality of processing candidates that are executable by the image processing apparatus, corresponds to the specific correction processing, based on comparison of the calculated first index value and the calculated second index value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 14, 2017
    Publication date: April 19, 2018
    Inventor: Hiroko MORI
  • Patent number: 9876942
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes: a controller configured to perform: acquiring original image data representing an original image and corrected image data representing a corrected image, the corrected image data being generated by executing specific correction processing on the original image data; calculating a first index value and a second index value, the first index value relating to a color distribution of the original image by using the original image data, and the second index value relating to a color distribution of the corrected image by using the corrected image data; and determining which processing, among a plurality of processing candidates that are executable by the image processing apparatus, corresponds to the specific correction processing, based on comparison of the calculated first index value and the calculated second index value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 7, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2018
    Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Hiroko Mori
  • Patent number: 9836974
    Abstract: An operation management center divides an operation area in which an on-demand bus operates into a plurality of predetermined sub-areas, and searches for candidate routes on which the on-demand bus travels for each divided sub-area. The center sets one of the retrieved routes as a basic route, and sets, as adjustment time for each divided sub-area, time required when the bus passes through a location separated from the basic route. Thus, by setting such adjustment time for each sub-area, and by using the adjustment time set for each sub-area, the center can determine an operation plan that takes into account an additional request while reducing an impact on the determined operation plan.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2017
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Masayuki Kawamoto, Hiroko Mori, Hironobu Kitaoka
  • Patent number: 9781308
    Abstract: A non-transitory computer-readable medium stores computer-readable instructions. The instructions, when executed by a processor of an image processing apparatus, perform processes. The processes include registering, in a storage, a candidate color for each of a plurality of divided areas included in image data indicating an image on a sheet. The processes further include identifying, from among a plurality of pixels included in the image data, a target pixel based on a color value of the target pixel. The processes further include replacing the color value of the identified target pixel with a target color when a condition based on the color value of the identified target pixel and a color value of the target color is satisfied.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2017
    Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Kazuhide Sawada, Hiroko Mori
  • Patent number: 9699339
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus, including a reading device and a controller to control the reading device to execute a reading operation, is provided. The controller in the reading operation executes a leading edge detecting process, wherein a leading edge of an original sheet is detected from image data acquired through the reading device; a trailing edge detecting process, wherein a trailing edge of the original sheet is detected from the image data acquired through the reading device; a determining process, wherein one of the leading edge and the trailing edge to be used to correct the image data acquired through the reading device is determined based on conditions of the detected leading edge and the trailing edge; and a correcting process, wherein the image data is corrected by use of the determined one of the leading edge and the trailing edge determined in the determining process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2017
    Assignee: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Hiroko Mori
  • Patent number: 9628649
    Abstract: A scanning apparatus is controlled to extract edges of an original document from an image scanned by a scanning device, execute an end obtaining process which causes the scanning apparatus to obtain a leading end of the original document and a trailing end of the original document based on the edges extracted in the extraction process, an inclination obtaining process to obtain a first inclination of the leading end and a second inclination of the trailing end, and a determination process to determine that a rotational skew has occurred when a difference between the first inclination and the second inclination is greater than a rotational skew threshold, the rotational skew being a change of inclination of the original document during conveyance of the original document.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2017
    Assignee: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Hiroko Mori
  • Publication number: 20160295076
    Abstract: A non-transitory computer-readable medium stores computer-readable instructions. The instructions, when executed by a processor of an image processing apparatus, perform processes. The processes include registering, in a storage, a candidate color for each of a plurality of divided areas included in image data indicating an image on a sheet. The processes further include identifying, from among a plurality of pixels included in the image data, a target pixel based on a color value of the target pixel. The processes further include replacing the color value of the identified target pixel with a target color when a condition based on the color value of the identified target pixel and a color value of the target color is satisfied.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 22, 2016
    Publication date: October 6, 2016
    Inventors: Kazuhide Sawada, Hiroko Mori
  • Publication number: 20160286089
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes: a controller configured to perform: acquiring original image data representing an original image and corrected image data representing a corrected image, the corrected image data being generated by executing specific correction processing on the original image data; calculating a first index value and a second index value, the first index value relating to a color distribution of the original image by using the original image data, and the second index value relating to a color distribution of the corrected image by using the corrected image data; and determining which processing, among a plurality of processing candidates that are executable by the image processing apparatus, corresponds to the specific correction processing, based on comparison of the calculated first index value and the calculated second index value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 7, 2016
    Publication date: September 29, 2016
    Inventor: Hiroko MORI
  • Publication number: 20160119494
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus, including a reading device and a controller to control the reading device to execute a reading operation, is provided. The controller in the reading operation executes a leading edge detecting process, wherein a leading edge of an original sheet is detected from image data acquired through the reading device; a trailing edge detecting process, wherein a trailing edge of the original sheet is detected from the image data acquired through the reading device; a determining process, wherein one of the leading edge and the trailing edge to be used to correct the image data acquired through the reading device is determined based on conditions of the detected leading edge and the trailing edge; and a correcting process, wherein the image data is corrected by use of the determined one of the leading edge and the trailing edge determined in the determining process.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 21, 2015
    Publication date: April 28, 2016
    Applicant: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Hiroko MORI
  • Patent number: 9319546
    Abstract: A reading apparatus including a reading device, a sheet tray, a conveyer, a receiving device, and a control device configured to execute, when the receiving device receives a read instruction, a conveying process of causing the conveyer to start conveyance of a sheet, execute a reading process of causing the reading device to read an image of the sheet passing a reading position of the reading device, execute a stop determining process of determining whether a stop condition of the conveyer is satisfied, and execute, in response to determining that the stop condition is satisfied, a stopping process of causing a leading edge of a next sheet to be stopped in a specific position which is any position between the sheet tray and the reading position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 4, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2016
    Assignee: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Hiroko Mori
  • Publication number: 20160037008
    Abstract: A scanning apparatus is controlled to extract edges of an original document from an image scanned by a scanning device, execute an end obtaining process which causes the scanning apparatus to obtain a leading end of the original document and a trailing end of the original document based on the edges extracted in the extraction process, an inclination obtaining process to obtain a first inclination of the leading end and a second inclination of the trailing end, and a determination process to determine that a rotational skew has occurred when a difference between the first inclination and the second inclination is greater than a rotational skew threshold, the rotational skew being a change of inclination of the original document during conveyance of the original document.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 30, 2015
    Publication date: February 4, 2016
    Applicant: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Hiroko MORI
  • Patent number: 9241085
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes: an obtaining unit configured to obtain a multi-value image as an obtained image; and a control device configured to: convert the obtained image into a first binary image; determine whether the first binary image is a blank paper image, on the basis of the first binary image; and output a binary image, the binary image outputting including: outputting the first binary image in a case where it is determined that the first binary image is not the blank paper image; and not outputting the first binary image in a case where it is determined that the first binary image is the blank paper image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 19, 2016
    Assignee: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Hiroko Mori
  • Publication number: 20150228192
    Abstract: An operation management center divides an operation area in which an on-demand bus operates into a plurality of predetermined sub-areas, and searches for candidate routes on which the on-demand bus travels for each divided sub-area. The center sets one of the retrieved routes as a basic route, and sets, as adjustment time for each divided sub-area, time required when the bus passes through a location separated from the basic route. Thus, by setting such adjustment time for each sub-area, and by using the adjustment time set for each sub-area, the center can determine an operation plan that takes into account an additional request while reducing an impact on the determined operation plan.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 20, 2012
    Publication date: August 13, 2015
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Masayuki KAWAMOTO, Hiroko MORI, Hironobu KITAOKA