Patents by Inventor Hiroshi Shirotori
Hiroshi Shirotori 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: 9914304Abstract: A recording apparatus includes a carriage including a recording head that performs recording on a medium, the carriage being movable in a first direction and a second direction opposite to the first direction, and a control portion that controls the recording head and the carriage. The carriage has a first disposal section in which a first cartridge that supplies a liquid to the recording head is disposed and a second disposal section in which a second cartridge that does not supply a liquid to the recording head is disposed. The first cartridge includes a first information holder that holds information about the first cartridge. The second cartridge includes a second information holder that holds information about the second cartridge. The control portion executes a control of performing recording by using only the liquid contained in the first cartridge on the basis of the information held by the second information holder.Type: GrantFiled: August 11, 2016Date of Patent: March 13, 2018Assignee: Seiko Epson CorporationInventors: Hiroshi Shirotori, Tadahiro Mizutani
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Publication number: 20170057237Abstract: A recording apparatus includes a carriage including a recording head that performs recording on a medium, the carriage being movable in a first direction and a second direction opposite to the first direction, and a control portion that controls the recording head and the carriage. The carriage has a first disposal section in which a first cartridge that supplies a liquid to the recording head is disposed and a second disposal section in which a second cartridge that does not supply a liquid to the recording head is disposed. The first cartridge includes a first information holder that holds information about the first cartridge. The second cartridge includes a second information holder that holds information about the second cartridge. The control portion executes a control of performing recording by using only the liquid contained in the first cartridge on the basis of the information held by the second information holder.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 11, 2016Publication date: March 2, 2017Inventors: Hiroshi SHIROTORI, Tadahiro MIZUTANI
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Patent number: 9479676Abstract: A printer includes a liquid ejection section and a drive control section. The liquid ejection section is configured to eject a plurality of types of liquids and form dots having different sizes. The drive control section is configured to control a dot size of the liquids to be ejected by the liquid ejection section based on image data. When an image including a three-dimensional image in which a plurality of linear images are arrayed is printed on a medium, the liquid ejection section is configured to eject the liquids, at least in an end section area in an array direction of the linear images in a print area of the image, under a setting in which an ejection ratio of relatively small dots is set lower than in an inner area that is positioned more inward than the end section area.Type: GrantFiled: August 1, 2014Date of Patent: October 25, 2016Assignee: Seiko Epson CorporationInventors: Tomoyuki Nakano, Hiroshi Shirotori, Yoshiyuki Ozawa, Kanako Ide, Katsumi Yamada
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Patent number: 9342766Abstract: An image generation method for generating an image, which is printed on a medium arranged so as to face a lens layer having a plurality of lenses and includes a three-dimensional image and a two-dimensional image, includes performing lossy compression for the two-dimensional image in a direction in which light focusing of the lenses occurs and magnifying the two-dimensional image in the direction in which the light focusing of the lenses occurs after the lossy compression for the two-dimensional image has been performed.Type: GrantFiled: August 1, 2014Date of Patent: May 17, 2016Assignee: Seiko Epson CorporationInventors: Tomoyuki Nakano, Hiroshi Shirotori, Hitoshi Toyoshima, Katsuhito Suzuki
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Patent number: 9342768Abstract: A virtual displaying method of a three-dimensional image for displaying at least one image of a plurality of images configuring a virtual three-dimensional image providing a three-dimensional visualization through a lens layer having a plurality of lenses includes applying a deterioration processing to the at least one image, and displaying, in a display section, an obtained image by the deterioration processing.Type: GrantFiled: August 1, 2014Date of Patent: May 17, 2016Assignee: Seiko Epson CorporationInventors: Tomoyuki Nakano, Katsuhito Suzuki, Hiroshi Shirotori
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Patent number: 9233561Abstract: A lens sheet is provided with a lens layer which is formed by arranging lenses, which extend in a y direction as a first direction, in a plurality of lines in an x direction as a second direction which is a direction which is orthogonal to the first direction, and an ink absorbing layer which configures a surface on the opposite side with regard to a surface which is configured by the lens layer, where the thickness of an edge which is an end surface on one side of the lens layer in the x direction is thinner than the thickness of an edge which is an end surface on the other side. The printer performs recording from the edge which is a reference side toward the edge on the opposite side.Type: GrantFiled: May 28, 2014Date of Patent: January 12, 2016Assignee: Seiko Epson CorporationInventors: Yasuhiko Yoshihisa, Katsumi Yamada, Hiroshi Shirotori, Katsuhito Suzuki, Tomio Sonehara
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Patent number: 9147136Abstract: To provide a display technique for presenting to a user a visual effect of an image obtained when printed onto a lenticular sheet in a state that more closely conforms to the actual circumstances, a print apparatus is provided with: an image creating means for creating a multi-viewpoint image formed by arranging side by side in sequential order image strips each created from a plurality of mutually different original images; a printing means for printing the multi-viewpoint image by forming side by side print dots made of a recording material on a lenticular sheet having a lenticular lens; and an image displaying means for displaying a simulation image simulating the multi-viewpoint image seen via the lenticular lens; the image displaying means displaying a simulation image visually reflective of cross-talk arising due to overlapping of the print dots at a boundary between the mutually adjacent image strips.Type: GrantFiled: March 28, 2013Date of Patent: September 29, 2015Assignee: Seiko Epson CorporationInventor: Hiroshi Shirotori
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Publication number: 20150035889Abstract: A printer includes a liquid ejection section and a drive control section. The liquid ejection section is configured to eject a plurality of types of liquids and form dots having different sizes. The drive control section is configured to control a dot size of the liquids to be ejected by the liquid ejection section based on image data. When an image including a three-dimensional image in which a plurality of linear images are arrayed is printed on a medium, the liquid ejection section is configured to eject the liquids, at least in an end section area in an array direction of the linear images in a print area of the image, under a setting in which an ejection ratio of relatively small dots is set lower than in an inner area that is positioned more inward than the end section area.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 1, 2014Publication date: February 5, 2015Inventors: Tomoyuki NAKANO, Hiroshi SHIROTORI, Yoshiyuki OZAWA, Kanako IDE, Katsumi YAMADA
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Publication number: 20150036153Abstract: An image generation method for generating an image, which is printed on a medium arranged so as to face a lens layer having a plurality of lenses and includes a three-dimensional image and a two-dimensional image, includes performing lossy compression for the two-dimensional image in a direction in which light focusing of the lenses occurs and magnifying the two-dimensional image in the direction in which the light focusing of the lenses occurs after the lossy compression for the two-dimensional image has been performed.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 1, 2014Publication date: February 5, 2015Inventors: Tomoyuki NAKANO, Hiroshi SHIROTORI, Hitoshi TOYOSHIMA, Katsuhito SUZUKI
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Publication number: 20150035887Abstract: A lens sheet is provided with a lens layer which is formed by arranging lenses, which extend in a y direction as a first direction, in a plurality of lines in an x direction as a second direction which is a direction which is orthogonal to the first direction, and an ink absorbing layer which configures a surface on the opposite side with regard to a surface which is configured by the lens layer, where the thickness of an edge which is an end surface on one side of the lens layer in the x direction is thinner than the thickness of an edge which is an end surface on the other side. The printer performs recording from the edge which is a reference side toward the edge on the opposite side.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 28, 2014Publication date: February 5, 2015Applicant: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATIONInventors: Yasuhiko YOSHIHISA, Katsumi YAMADA, Hiroshi SHIROTORI, Katsuhito SUZUKI, Tomio SONEHARA
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Publication number: 20150036220Abstract: A lens sheet is provided with a lens layer which is formed by arranging lenses, which extend in a y direction as a first direction, in a plurality of lines in an x direction as a second direction which is a direction which is orthogonal to the first direction, and an ink absorbing layer which configures a surface on the opposite side with regard to a surface which is configured by the lens layer, where the thickness of an edge which is an end surface on one side of the lens layer in the x direction is thinner than the thickness of an edge which is an end surface on the other side. In other words, a width of a lens which is formed at the edge is wider than a width of a lens which is formed at the edge.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 28, 2014Publication date: February 5, 2015Applicant: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATIONInventors: Tomonori YAMASHITA, Hiroshi SHIROTORI, Katsuhito SUZUKI, Tomio SONEHARA
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Publication number: 20150036193Abstract: A virtual displaying method of a three-dimensional image for displaying at least one image of a plurality of images configuring a virtual three-dimensional image providing a three-dimensional visualization through a lens layer having a plurality of lenses includes applying a deterioration processing to the at least one image, and displaying, in a display section, an obtained image by the deterioration processing.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 1, 2014Publication date: February 5, 2015Inventors: Tomoyuki NAKANO, Katsuhito SUZUKI, Hiroshi SHIROTORI
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Publication number: 20130258410Abstract: To provide a display technique for presenting to a user a visual effect of an image obtained when printed onto a lenticular sheet in a state that more closely conforms to the actual circumstances, a print apparatus is provided with: an image creating means for creating a multi-viewpoint image formed by arranging side by side in sequential order image strips each created from a plurality of mutually different original images; a printing means for printing the multi-viewpoint image by forming side by side print dots made of a recording material on a lenticular sheet having a lenticular lens; and an image displaying means for displaying a simulation image simulating the multi-viewpoint image seen via the lenticular lens; the image displaying means displaying a simulation image visually reflective of cross-talk arising due to overlapping of the print dots at a boundary between the mutually adjacent image strips.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 28, 2013Publication date: October 3, 2013Applicant: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATIONInventor: Hiroshi SHIROTORI
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Patent number: 8404407Abstract: According to certain embodiments, a mask blank for an electron beam writing is provided, capable of forming a resist pattern of a 3-dimensional topology through an one-time writing. The mask blank includes a substrate, a thin film formed on the substrate, and an electron beam resist film formed on the thin film. The electron beam resist film is made of a laminated film including at least a lower resist film and an upper resist film. The lower resist film and the upper resist film have different resist sensitivities with respect to an electron beam.Type: GrantFiled: December 20, 2010Date of Patent: March 26, 2013Assignee: Hoya CorporationInventors: Masahiro Hashimoto, Hiroshi Shirotori, Yuusuke Honma, Mitsuhiro Shirakura
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Publication number: 20110183240Abstract: According to certain embodiments, a mask blank for an electron beam writing is provided, capable of forming a resist pattern of a 3-dimensional topology through an one-time writing. The mask blank includes a substrate, a thin film formed on the substrate, and an electron beam resist film formed on the thin film. The electron beam resist film is made of a laminated film including at least a lower resist film and an upper resist film. The lower resist film and the upper resist film have different resist sensitivities with respect to an electron beam.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 20, 2010Publication date: July 28, 2011Applicant: HOYA CORPORATIONInventors: Masahiro Hashimoto, Hiroshi Shirotori, Yuusuke Honma, Mitsuhiro Shirakura
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Patent number: 7290847Abstract: A printer (1) comprises a motor driver (34) for driving a carriage motor (20) and a paper feed motor (22). The motor driver (34) has a thermal shutdown circuit (43). If internal temperature T of the motor driver exceeds threshold value Ta, the thermal shutdown circuit shuts down the power of the motor driver. The motor driver has an internal temperature detection circuit (45). If the internal temperature T exceeds threshold value Tb (<Ta) before thermal shutdown processing operates, the internal temperature detection circuit outputs a HW signal. A CPU (29) executes heat generation stop processing based on the HW signal and controls the motor driver to stop the carriage motor and the paper feed motor for a predetermined time.Type: GrantFiled: November 21, 2002Date of Patent: November 6, 2007Assignee: Seiko Epson CorporationInventors: Hiroshi Shirotori, Masahiko Moriyama
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Patent number: 6733195Abstract: In a head drive circuit for an impact dot printer which performs printing by driving a print wire, a DC power source supplies a power source voltage. A switching element is on/off controlled to apply the power source voltage to a head coil for a predetermined time period. A voltage regulator converts an input voltage having a value higher than the power source voltage into an output voltage having a value as substantially same as the power source voltage. A voltage introducer inputs an inductive voltage, generated in the head coil when the switching element is turned off, into the voltage regulator as the input voltage. A voltage returner feeds back the output voltage of the voltage regulator to the DC power source.Type: GrantFiled: September 18, 2001Date of Patent: May 11, 2004Assignee: Seiko Epson CorporationInventors: Hiroshi Shirotori, Hisashi Watamura
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Patent number: 6659663Abstract: For a print head in an impact dot printer, a drive transistor 33 is connected in series to a head coil 59 that drives a print wire, and a pulse 32 is used to turn the drive transistor 33 on and off. Thus, the drive current i is supplied to the head coil 59 to drive the print wire. The input end of a DC/DC converter 2 is connected to the juncture of the head coil 59 and the drive transistor 33, and the output end of the DC/DC converter 2 is connected to the juncture of a power source 34 and the head coil 59. The DC/DC converter 2 clamps, at a constant level, e.g., 90V, the inductive electromotive force of a high voltage that is generated by the head coil 59 when the drive transistor 33 is rendered off. Then, the DC/DC converter 2 transforms the clamped voltage to a voltage equivalent to the voltage level of the power source 34, e.g., 35V.Type: GrantFiled: October 23, 2000Date of Patent: December 9, 2003Assignee: Seiko Epson CorporationInventors: Hiroshi Shirotori, Hisashi Watamura
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Publication number: 20030142346Abstract: A printer (1) comprises a motor driver (34) for driving a carriage motor (20) and a paper feed motor (22). The motor driver (34) has a thermal shutdown circuit (43). If internal temperature T of the motor driver exceeds threshold value Ta, the thermal shutdown circuit shuts down the power of the motor driver. The motor driver has an internal temperature detection circuit (45). If the internal temperature T exceeds threshold value Tb (<Ta) before thermal shutdown processing operates, the internal temperature detection circuit outputs a HW signal. A CPU (29) executes heat generation stop processing based on the HW signal and controls the motor driver to stop the carriage motor and the paper feed motor for a predetermined time.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 21, 2002Publication date: July 31, 2003Applicant: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATIONInventors: Hiroshi Shirotori, Masahiko Moriyama
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Publication number: 20020057936Abstract: In a head drive circuit for an impact dot printer which performs printing by driving a print wire, a DC power source supplies a power source voltage. A switching element is on/off controlled to apply the power source voltage to a head coil for a predetermined time period. A voltage regulator converts an input voltage having a value higher than the power source voltage into an output voltage having a value as substantially same as the power source voltage. A voltage introducer inputs an inductive voltage, generated in the head coil when the switching element is turned off, into the voltage regulator as the input voltage. A voltage returner feeds back the output voltage of the voltage regulator to the DC power source.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 18, 2001Publication date: May 16, 2002Applicant: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATIONInventors: Hiroshi Shirotori, Hisashi Watamura