Patents by Inventor Hiromasa Shibano

Hiromasa Shibano 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: 11200008
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a CPU. After a print image is printed on a sheet, the CPU determines whether a print result is dissatisfactory. When it is determined that the print result is dissatisfactory, the image forming apparatus provides support to resolve the quality mismatch indicating the difference between the actual print quality and the print quality desired by the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 25, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 14, 2021
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Hiromasa Shibano, Sohichi Yoshimura
  • Publication number: 20210224003
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a CPU. After a print image is printed on a sheet, the CPU determines whether a print result is dissatisfactory. When it is determined that the print result is dissatisfactory, the image forming apparatus provides support to resolve the quality mismatch indicating the difference between the actual print quality and the print quality desired by the user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 25, 2020
    Publication date: July 22, 2021
    Inventors: HIROMASA SHIBANO, SOHICHI YOSHIMURA
  • Patent number: 8749844
    Abstract: A user is able to appropriately select character data such as a watermark, and importance of the document is able to be effectively recognized by an addressee using a language which is different from that of a user who sends the document. A setting accepting portion accepts setting of a first language describing a first character indicated by the first character data, and setting of a second character which is a translation of the first character to a second language; a data generating portion generates a composite image data in which the image data is combined with the first character data indicating a first character which is a translation of the second character to the first language; and an apparatus control portion controls the image forming apparatus to cause the image forming apparatus to execute image forming processing of the composite image data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 11, 2012
    Date of Patent: June 10, 2014
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Hiromasa Shibano
  • Publication number: 20130016372
    Abstract: A user is able to appropriately select character data such as a watermark, and importance of the document is able to be effectively recognized by an addressee using a language which is different from that of a user who sends the document. A setting accepting portion accepts setting of a first language describing a first character indicated by the first character data, and setting of a second character which is a translation of the first character to a second language; a data generating portion generates a composite image data in which the image data is combined with the first character data indicating a first character which is a translation of the second character to the first language; and an apparatus control portion controls the image forming apparatus to cause the image forming apparatus to execute image forming processing of the composite image data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 11, 2012
    Publication date: January 17, 2013
    Applicant: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Hiromasa Shibano
  • Patent number: 8107835
    Abstract: An abnormality detecting method and an image processing method for an image processor is provided. The image processor can easily detect an abnormal rotation of a photosensitive drum without having a special detecting means but using an existing sensor, and keeps image data until a normal toner image is transferred and fine printing is carried out. The image processor forms a toner image corresponding to image data on a plurality of photosensitive drums, and detects the position of the toner image at a given part on a transfer object, to which given part the toner image formed on the photosensitive drum is transferred, to detect a rotation failure of the photosensitive drum. When a rotation failure is detected, the image processor keeps input image data without deleting even after the end of image formation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 7, 2007
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2012
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Kazuhiro Mizude, Tsutomu Yoshimoto, Hiromasa Shibano
  • Publication number: 20090290177
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus, that is controlled to perform image output based on electrophotography, includes: an image processor for outputting input image information in the form of image data for forming images; and, an image forming portion for forming images on a sheet of paper based on the image data output from the image processor. The image processor has a function which, in accordance with folding information for folding the paper with images formed thereon, sets the images to be formed on the page of the folded paper whose folded sections oppose each other when the paper has been folded.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 11, 2009
    Publication date: November 26, 2009
    Applicant: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Hiromasa Shibano, Michiaki Nishimura, Kenji Tanaka
  • Publication number: 20090102118
    Abstract: A sheet transporting apparatus including: sheet sensors arranged in a sheet transporting path; an enclosure door; a door sensor that detects the open/close state of the enclosure door; a control unit that determines the opened state or closed state of the enclosure door on the basis of the result of the detection by the door sensor, and makes a determination whether or not a sheet stays at the respective portions of the sheet sensors and whether or not the staying sheet is removed; and a display unit that displays a portion where the sheet stays, wherein the control unit controls such that it repeatedly makes a determination regarding the stay and the removal of the sheet when the sheet stays in the sheet transporting path and the enclosure door is opened, and updates the display on the basis of the result of the determination.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 15, 2008
    Publication date: April 23, 2009
    Inventor: Hiromasa SHIBANO
  • Publication number: 20080038005
    Abstract: An abnormality detecting method and an image processing method for an image processor is provided. The image processor can easily detect an abnormal rotation of a photosensitive drum without having a special detecting means but using an existing sensor, and keeps image data until a normal toner image is transferred and fine printing is carried out. The image processor forms a toner image corresponding to image data on a plurality of photosensitive drums, and detects the position of the toner image at a given part on a transfer object, to which given part the toner image formed on the photosensitive drum is transferred, to detect a rotation failure of the photosensitive drum. When a rotation failure is detected, the image processor keeps input image data without deleting even after the end of image formation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 7, 2007
    Publication date: February 14, 2008
    Inventors: Kazuhiro Mizude, Tsutomu Yoshimoto, Hiromasa Shibano