Patents by Inventor Hiroshi Kikuchi

Hiroshi Kikuchi 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: 20140362409
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus which operates an operating system providing a first user interface environment appropriate for a touch panel and a conventional desktop user interface environment automatically executes processing by using information set as a default value, if an operation by a user on a pop-up dialog, which is displayed in the desktop user interface environment and is related to functions including a secure print function provided by a printer driver, is not performed for a predetermined period of time.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 17, 2013
    Publication date: December 11, 2014
    Inventor: Hiroshi Kikuchi
  • Patent number: 8847296
    Abstract: A solid-state imaging device is a solid-state imaging device in which a first substrate formed on a first semiconductor wafer and a second substrate formed on a second semiconductor wafer are bonded via connect that electrically connects the substrates, wherein the first substrate includes photoelectric conversion units, the second substrate includes an output circuit that acquires a signal generated by the photoelectric conversion unit via the connector and outputs the signal, and dummy connectors that support the first and second bonded substrates are further arranged in a substrate region in which the connectors are not arranged in a substrate region of at least one of the first substrate and the second substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 16, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 30, 2014
    Assignee: Olympus Corporation
    Inventors: Mitsuhiro Tsukimura, Naohiro Takazawa, Yoshiaki Takemoto, Hiroshi Kikuchi, Haruhisa Saito, Yoshitaka Tadaki, Yuichi Gomi
  • Patent number: 8817334
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus determines permission to duplicate a target image based on a two-dimensional code included in the target image. The information processing apparatus includes a CPU having a control unit that stores information concerning the target image, information based on the two-dimensional code including information indicating the permission of the duplication of the target image, and information indicating a user who has issued an instruction to duplicate the target image in a copy log in association with each other if the two-dimensional code is included in the target image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 24, 2009
    Date of Patent: August 26, 2014
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Hiroshi Kikuchi
  • Patent number: 8705105
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus outputs, when both bookbinding printing for outputting a book and a number of pages arranged on a surface of a sheet are set, a print product that a user can easily read by synchronizing an opening direction and an arrangement order.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 6, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 22, 2014
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Hiroshi Kikuchi
  • Publication number: 20140098388
    Abstract: A printer driver for generating print job data to be transferred to a printer in response to a drawing instruction determines, based on combining condition, whether the received drawing instruction can be combined with another drawing instruction. If the printer driver determines that the received drawing instruction can be combined, the printer driver stores the received drawing instruction as intermediate data. If the printer driver determines that the received drawing instruction cannot be combined, the printer driver combines intermediate data of already stored drawing instructions into a single item of print job data and outputs the print job data to the printer. The combining condition is that the received drawing instruction meets all of three conditions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 6, 2013
    Publication date: April 10, 2014
    Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Masanari TODA, Satoshi HIRAKAWA, Hiroshi KIKUCHI
  • Patent number: 8688012
    Abstract: In a disclosed developing device, a developing part includes a developer carrier for circulating a developer inside the developing part and for supplying the developer to an image carrier, a developer supply member for supplying the developer to the developer carrier, and a developer collection member for collecting the developer which is not used. A developer stirring part is arranged at a different position from a position of the developing part. A developer conveyance part carries the developer by an air conveyance in a developer conveyance path from the developer stirring part to the developing part. A developer detection part includes an opening which communicates between the developer supply member and the developer collection member, is arranged at a downstream side in a flow direction of the developer below and near the developer supply member, and detects whether the developer exists in a vicinity of the developer supply member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 2, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2014
    Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Junichi Matsumoto, Tomoya Ohmura, Yasuo Takuma, Hiroshi Kikuchi, Natsumi Matsue
  • Patent number: 8682187
    Abstract: A development device includes a development portion, to develop a latent image formed on a latent image carrier with developer, disposed close to the latent image carrier; a developer agitation container to agitate the developer, provided separately from the development portion; a transport system connecting the development portion and the developer agitation container, through which the developer is transported from the developer agitation container to the development portion by air; and a developer retainer to temporarily retain the developer, disposed downstream from the transport system, to which the developer remaining in the transport system escapes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2014
    Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Yasuo Takuma, Junichi Matsumoto, Tomoya Ohmura, Hiroshi Kikuchi, Natsumi Matsue
  • Patent number: 8666288
    Abstract: A developing device in the embodiment includes: a developer carrier that carries a two-component developer, moves the surface, and supplies the toner to a latent image on a surface of a latent image carrier; a first conveying member that conveys the developer in a first conveying path; a second conveying member that conveys the developer in a second conveying path; and a developer passing unit that conveys upward the developer which has reached at a conveying-direction posterior end of the second conveying path and passes the developer to the first conveying path. The developer passing unit includes a plurality of pushing members that push up the developer. The developer can pass through from upper surfaces of the pushing members to lower surfaces of the pushing members.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2014
    Assignee: Ricoh Company, Limited
    Inventors: Junichi Matsumoto, Tomoya Ohmura, Yasuo Takuma, Hiroshi Kikuchi, Natsumi Matsue
  • Publication number: 20140044777
    Abstract: The present invention provides a novel liposome composition containing eribulin or its pharmacologically permissible salt, and its method of manufacture.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 23, 2013
    Publication date: February 13, 2014
    Applicant: Eisai R&D Management Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hiroshi KIKUCHI, Kenji HYODO, Hiroshi ISHIHARA
  • Patent number: 8639150
    Abstract: A development device includes a developing section to visualize a latent image formed on a latent image carrier with developer including toner and carrier. The development device has a developer supply opening and a developer collection opening, a circulation unit to transport the developer collected from the developer collection opening of the developing section to the developer supply opening of the developing section and including a developer container to store the developer collected from the developing section disposed upstream from the development section in a direction in which the developer is circulated, and a developer cooler to cool the developer contained in the developer container.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 20, 2011
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2014
    Assignee: Ricoh Company Limited
    Inventors: Tomoya Ohmura, Yasuo Takuma, Junichi Matsumoto, Hiroshi Kikuchi, Natsumi Katoh
  • Patent number: 8625125
    Abstract: A printer driver for generating print job data to be transferred to a printer in response to a drawing instruction determines, based on combining condition, whether the received drawing instruction can be combined with another drawing instruction. If the printer driver determines that the received drawing instruction can be combined, the printer driver stores the received drawing instruction as intermediate data. If the printer driver determines that the received drawing instruction cannot be combined, the printer driver combines intermediate data of already stored drawing instructions into a single item of print job data and outputs the print job data to the printer. The combining condition is that the received drawing instruction meets all of three conditions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2008
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2014
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Masanari Toda, Satoshi Hirakawa, Hiroshi Kikuchi
  • Patent number: 8615186
    Abstract: A development device includes a development portion to develop a latent image; an agitation container to contain developer; a circulation system through which the developer is circulated between the development portion and the agitation container; a developer replenishing device to supply fresh developer to the agitation container; an agitator, provided inside the agitation container, to agitate and mix the developer collected from the development portion and the fresh developer from the developer replenishing device; and a developer escape chamber to discharge surplus developer in the agitation container, projecting from and continuous with the agitation container, the developer escape chamber defining a communication pathway in a side of the agitation container between the agitation container and the developer escape chamber through which the developer is moved between the agitation container and the developer escape chamber and having a discharge opening whose lower end is positioned higher than the commun
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 21, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2013
    Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Hiroshi Kikuchi, Yasuo Takuma, Junichi Matsumoto, Tomoya Ohmura
  • Patent number: 8610916
    Abstract: Even when an image output is prohibited, an image forming device, an image forming method and a program are provided that can track an evidence of attempt to perform the image output. Output prohibition information and tracking information for tracking a user are acquired from an image of a scan document. The image output of the scan document is prohibited according to the acquired output prohibition information, and the acquired tracking information is stored as a log.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2010
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2013
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Hiroshi Kikuchi
  • Publication number: 20130301071
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a control unit configured to add a first live tile content including printer information about a first print queue and a second live tile content including printer information about a second print queue different from the first print queue to a tile list that is gathering for specifying a live tile content displayed by an operating system, wherein the first print queue and the second print queue are each associated with a same application. The operating system is configured to display the first live tile content in a tile display region according to the tile list and to display the second live tile content in the tile display region in place of the first live tile content after the first live tile content is displayed, and the application is launched when a user specifies the tile display region.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 10, 2013
    Publication date: November 14, 2013
    Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Hiroshi Kikuchi
  • Publication number: 20130287388
    Abstract: The camera accessory is attachable to a camera. The camera accessory includes an accessory mount to be detachably coupled with a camera mount). The accessory mount is provided with accessory bayonet claws and brought, by relative rotation with the camera mount, from a first state in which each of the accessory bayonet claws is inserted between camera bayonet claws provided in the camera mount into a second state in which the accessory bayonet claws engage with the camera bayonet claws to complete coupling of the accessory and camera mounts. The camera accessory is further provided with accessory contact surfaces arranged in a relative rotation direction of the mounts in the accessory mount. The accessory contact surfaces includes a first accessory contact surface used for indicating type of the camera accessory and is provided adjacent to the accessory bayonet claw.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 4, 2013
    Publication date: October 31, 2013
    Inventors: Tetsuya Nishio, Yoshihiko Konno, Tatsuyuki Tokunaga, Takashi Hasegawa, Azusa Sugawara, Hiroshi Kikuchi
  • Patent number: 8558999
    Abstract: To provide a defect inspection apparatus and method adapted to easily assign threshold levels to scattered-light detectors and to appropriately acquire data detected by each scattered-light detector. The apparatus includes a stage device on which to rest a sample; a laser light irradiation device that irradiates the sample on the stage device with inspection light; scattered-light detectors, each of which detects a beam of light, scattered from the sample, and outputs an image signal; a threshold level setter formed so that an associated threshold level for judging whether defects are present is set only for an image signal selected from individual image signals of the scattered-light detectors or from image signals obtained by arithmetic processing based on the image signals, and a threshold level setting circuit that acquires the individual image signals, only if the image signal exceeds the threshold level set in the threshold level setter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2008
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2013
    Assignee: Hitachi High-Technologies Corporation
    Inventors: Koji Kawaki, Atsushi Takane, Hiroshi Kikuchi, Nobuhiro Obara, Yuji Inoue
  • Publication number: 20130266303
    Abstract: The camera accessory is attachable to a camera by relatively rotating from a first state to a second state. Camera side contact pins include a first camera side contact pin making contact with an accessory side contact holding portion in the first state and second camera side contact pins not making contact with the accessory side contact holding portion in the first state. Accessory side contact surfaces include a first accessory side contact surface making contact with the first camera side contact pin in the second state and second accessory side contact surfaces not making contact with the first camera side contact pin in the second state. A pitch between the first and second accessory side contact surfaces adjacent thereto is larger than a pitch between the second accessory side contact surfaces adjacent to each other.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 4, 2013
    Publication date: October 10, 2013
    Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Tetsuya Nishio, Azusa Sugawara, Hiroshi Kikuchi, Yoshihiko Konno, Tatsuyuki Tokunaga, Takashi Hasegawa
  • Publication number: 20130265657
    Abstract: A first lens unit performing communication with an image pickup apparatus with a first voltage and a second lens unit performing communication with the image pickup apparatus with a second voltage are selectively attached to the image pickup apparatus. The image pickup apparatus includes a controller configured to operate with a third voltage different from at least one of the first and second voltages to output a signal for the communication with the first and second lens units, and a determiner configured to determine the type of the lens unit attached to the image pickup apparatus. The controller is configured to produce, as a voltage of the signal for the communication, from the third voltage, one of the first and second voltages corresponding to a determination result of the determiner.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 4, 2013
    Publication date: October 10, 2013
    Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Takashi Hasegawa, Tatsuyuki Tokunaga, Tetsuya Nishio, Azusa Sugawara, Hiroshi Kikuchi, Yoshihiko Konno
  • Publication number: 20130266304
    Abstract: The camera side mount is brought, by relative rotation with the accessory side mount, from a first state where each accessory side bayonet claw is inserted between the camera side bayonet claws into a second state where the camera side and accessory side bayonet claws engage with each other. The leaf spring biasing the camera side contact pins in the protruding direction is disposed between the camera side mount and the camera body. When the camera being in the normal position is viewed from the direction facing the camera side mount, the leaf spring extends from both sides of the mount center line, which extends from the center of the camera side mount in the direction of gravity, toward the camera side contact pins. The camera side contact pins are arranged at positions other than a position on the mount center line.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 4, 2013
    Publication date: October 10, 2013
    Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Tetsuya Nishio, Yoshihiko Konno, Tatsuyuki Tokunaga, Takashi Hasegawa, Hiroshi Kikuchi, Azusa Sugawara
  • Publication number: 20130256879
    Abstract: A wiring substrate may include: a base having a predetermined thickness; a plurality of electrode portions formed to protrude on one surface in a thickness direction of the base; a wiring provided in the base and electrically connected to the electrode portions; and a resin layer formed on the base to fill between the plurality of electrode portions. An upper surface of the resin layer may be formed in a concave shape lower than a maximum height of the electrode portion, and an upper surface of the electrode portion and the upper surface of the resin layer form a continuous curved surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 15, 2013
    Publication date: October 3, 2013
    Applicant: OLYMPUS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Chihiro Migita, Hiroshi Kikuchi, Yoshiaki Takemoto, Yoshitaka Tadaki