Patents by Inventor Hiroshi Sugiura

Hiroshi Sugiura 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: 20240126076
    Abstract: A head-up display device includes: an indicator dimmed by duty ratio control and configured to emit display light; a mirror member rotatable about a rotation shaft and configured to reflect the display light from the indicator to project a display image; a control unit configured to control the dimming of the indicator and the rotation of the mirror member; and a temperature sensor configured to output a signal corresponding to an ambient temperature around the indicator. The control unit includes: a temperature prediction unit configured to predict a temperature of the indicator, and a failure avoidance unit configured to execute lowering an upper limit of the duty ratio or rotation control of the mirror member for reducing the amount of sunlight that enters the indicator through the mirror member when the predicted temperature of the indicator is greater than or equal to a threshold.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 28, 2023
    Publication date: April 18, 2024
    Inventors: Yusuke Sugiura, Akira Yamanaka, Yuta Miyake, Naohisa Murata, Hiroshi Sano
  • Patent number: 11954383
    Abstract: An image processing device includes: a communicator that executes external communication via a communication path; a hardware processor that detects a threat in the image processing device, and cuts off the communication by the communicator upon detecting the threat; a transmitter that executes communication, after the hardware processor detects the threat, to transmit a notification that the threat has been detected to a defined destination via another communication path; and a receiver that executes communication to receive communication restoration trigger information via another communication path. Once the receiver receives the communication restoration trigger information, the hardware processor executes a communication control to restore the communication by the communicator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 12, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: Konica Minolta, Inc.
    Inventors: Hiroshi Sugiura, Takeshi Hibino
  • Publication number: 20230117536
    Abstract: An image processing device includes: a communicator that executes external communication via a communication path; a hardware processor that detects a threat in the image processing device, and cuts off the communication by the communicator upon detecting the threat; a transmitter that executes communication, after the hardware processor detects the threat, to transmit a notification that the threat has been detected to a defined destination via another communication path; and a receiver that executes communication to receive communication restoration trigger information via another communication path. Once the receiver receives the communication restoration trigger information, the hardware processor executes a communication control to restore the communication by the communicator.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 12, 2022
    Publication date: April 20, 2023
    Applicant: Konica Minolta, Inc.
    Inventors: Hiroshi Sugiura, Takeshi Hibino
  • Patent number: 11396064
    Abstract: A welding structure includes, in a cross-section of the first member and the second member when they are seen from an axial direction of the insertion hole, a plurality of welding spots, an outer periphery of the welding spots are each formed with a curve-shaped portion and two side-face portions. When two intersections where the outer side-face portion on the outer periphery of the both-end welding spots and the outer periphery of the second member intersect are defined as a first intersection and a second intersection, a weld angle formed by a first linear line linking the first intersection with a sectional center of the second member and a second linear line linking the second intersection with the sectional center of the second member is set to a first predetermined angle or more.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 26, 2022
    Assignee: AISAN KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Hirofumi Hashiba, Makoto Fukui, Hiroshi Sugiura
  • Publication number: 20200379688
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes: an operation panel that sets a type of a sheet loaded into a paper feed cassette; a sensor that detects the type of the sheet; and a controller that controls execution of a print job. When a sheet type set by the operation panel does not match a sheet type detected by the sensor and when a predetermined condition is met, the controller continues the print job at a setting corresponding to the sheet type detected by the sensor. When the predetermined condition is not met, the controller suspends the print job as a process when the sheet type set by the operation panel does not match the sheet type detected by the sensor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 28, 2020
    Publication date: December 3, 2020
    Applicant: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.
    Inventors: Hiroshi SUGIURA, Taro YAMAMOTO
  • Publication number: 20200290158
    Abstract: A welding structure includes, in a cross-section of the first member and the second member when they are seen from an axial direction of the insertion hole, a plurality of welding spots, an outer periphery of the welding spots are each formed with a curve-shaped portion and two side-face portions. When two intersections where the outer side-face portion on the outer periphery of the both-end welding spots and the outer periphery of the second member intersect are defined as a first intersection and a second intersection, a weld angle formed by a first linear line linking the first intersection with a sectional center of the second member and a second linear line linking the second intersection with the sectional center of the second member is set to a first predetermined angle or more.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 27, 2018
    Publication date: September 17, 2020
    Applicant: AISAN KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Hirofumi HASHIBA, Makoto FUKUI, Hiroshi SUGIURA
  • Patent number: 10674217
    Abstract: A device for reproducing guidance on a task including a plurality of steps is provided. The device includes an input device with which a user selects from which position of the guidance is to be reproduced; and a player configured to, where a designated step corresponding to the position selected by the user from among the steps is a particular step, jump a playback progress to the position selected to play the guidance, the particular step being an initial step of steps having not yet been performed completely, and, where the designated step is not the particular step, jump the playback progress to a position of the particular step to play the guidance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 6, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 2, 2020
    Assignee: Konica Minolta, Inc.
    Inventors: Kenichi Komaba, Atsushi Tomita, Hiroshi Sugiura, Hiroaki Sugimoto, Tatsunori Okada, Akito Ota, Yu Sonoda
  • Patent number: 10606531
    Abstract: An image processing device capable of executing a plurality of jobs that differ in kind, the image processing device includes: a controller that controls execution of an input job; and a detection part that, on the basis of a voice detected by a voice detector, detects that any of a plurality of predetermined target voices has been emitted, wherein in a case where it is detected that the target voice has been emitted during a target setting period corresponding to a job that is being executed, among setting periods that are defined beforehand according to kinds of jobs respectively, the controller stops the execution of the job.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 22, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 31, 2020
    Assignee: Konica Minolta, Inc.
    Inventors: Tomoko Maruyama, Kazuhiro Tomiyasu, Atsushi Tomita, Kenichi Sawada, Hiroshi Sugiura
  • Publication number: 20200059565
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes means for storing data, means for dividing data into a plurality of pieces of element data, and means for performing virus check onto each of the plurality of pieces of element data in a designated order.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 14, 2019
    Publication date: February 20, 2020
    Applicant: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.
    Inventors: Masayuki ITO, Kazuhiro TOMIYASU, Takatsugu KUNO, Hiroshi SUGIURA, Shin OHBA, Akito OTA
  • Patent number: 10514643
    Abstract: A system for reproducing guidance on a task including a plurality of steps is provided. The system includes a hardware processor; and an output device configured to output an image or audio; wherein the hardware processor determines a completed step of the steps based on a change in state of a target on which the task is to be performed, the completed step being a step which has been completed, and the hardware processor causes the output device to reproduce an unfinished part in a first form where a predetermined condition is not satisfied, and causes the output device to reproduce the unfinished part in a second form different from the first form where the predetermined condition is satisfied, the unfinished part being a part corresponding to an unfinished step which is not determined to have been completed among the steps.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2019
    Assignee: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.
    Inventors: Tatsunori Okada, Kenichi Komaba, Akito Ota, Hiroshi Sugiura, Hiroaki Sugimoto, Atsushi Tomita
  • Patent number: 10505210
    Abstract: A fuel cell system uses, as an inlet sealing valve, an eccentric valve having a rubber seat provided with a seal part having such a shape as to increase the surface pressure of a portion in contact with a seal surface of a valve element when pressure in an air supply passage rises. Each of an outlet integration valve and a bypass valve is constituted of an eccentric valve basically identical in structure to the inlet sealing valve. When supply of air to a fuel cell stack is to be stopped during deceleration of a vehicle, a controller closes the inlet sealing valve and opens the bypass valve and, after the inlet sealing valve is fully closed, closes the bypass valve.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2019
    Assignee: AISAN KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Mamoru Yoshioka, Naruto Ito, Makoto Fukui, Hiroshi Sugiura, Toshiyuki Fujimura, Kasumi Mishima
  • Publication number: 20190141206
    Abstract: An image processing system includes: an image processing device that comprises a first display and a first hardware processor; and an information processing device that communicates with the image processing device, and comprises: a second display on which a second screen same as a first screen being displayed on the first display is displayed; and a second hardware processor, wherein one of the first and second hardware processors determines whether a screen display standard of the first display is left or right standard and whether a screen display standard of the second display is left or right standard, and inverts the second screen that is same as the first screen being displayed on the first display and is displayed on the second display right and left, when the screen display standards of the first and second displays are determined to be different from each other.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 8, 2018
    Publication date: May 9, 2019
    Applicant: Konica Minolta, Inc.
    Inventors: Atsushi Tomita, Kazuhiro Tomiyasu, Tomoko Maruyama, Kenichi Sawada, Hiroshi Sugiura
  • Publication number: 20190129665
    Abstract: An image processing device capable of executing a plurality of jobs that differ in kind, the image processing device includes: a controller that controls execution of an input job; and a detection part that, on the basis of a voice detected by a voice detector, detects that any of a plurality of predetermined target voices has been emitted, wherein in a case where it is detected that the target voice has been emitted during a target setting period corresponding to a job that is being executed, among setting periods that are defined beforehand according to kinds of jobs respectively, the controller stops the execution of the job.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 22, 2018
    Publication date: May 2, 2019
    Applicant: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.
    Inventors: Tomoko Maruyama, Kazuhiro Tomiyasu, Atsushi Tomita, Kenichi Sawada, Hiroshi Sugiura
  • Patent number: 10275035
    Abstract: A device for determining a gesture includes a display portion for selectively displaying one of screens; a storage portion for storing, for each of the screens, a rule used for distinguishing between gestures; a detection portion for detecting a motion made by a user; and a determination portion for identifying, from among the gestures, a gesture represented by the motion detected by the detection portion based on the rule for a current screen, the current screen being one of the screens and being displayed at a time when the motion has been detected.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2019
    Assignee: Konica Minolta, Inc.
    Inventors: Hiroshi Sugiura, Hiroshi Iwamoto, Kenichi Sawada, Takeshi Hibino, Tomoko Maruyama
  • Patent number: 10146523
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus is provided. Firmware customized for a user who uses the image processing apparatus has been installed in advance in the image processing apparatus. The image processing apparatus has a hardware processor configured to monitor a condition of use of the image processing apparatus and determine whether or not the monitored condition of use is a condition of use adapted to the customized firmware, and to perform processing for updating to the latest standard firmware when it is determined that the monitored condition of use departs from the condition of use adapted to the customized firmware.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 4, 2018
    Assignee: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.
    Inventors: Yuji Kawamura, Yoichi Kurumasa, Mie Kawabata, Kentaro Nagatani, Jun Kunioka, Hiroshi Sugiura
  • Patent number: 10063722
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a controller configured to switch a display mode of a menu screen for setting between a first display mode and a second display mode. On a menu screen of the first display mode, the controller (i) determines as display object function buttons a part of function buttons of a plurality of function buttons used to call up each of detailed settings screens each related to each of a plurality of functions provided in the image forming apparatus, (ii) displays the display object function buttons to be arranged in a row in a predetermined direction, and (iii) changes and displays the display object function buttons according to a scroll operation performed by a user. On a menu screen of the second display mode, the controller displays at least a part of function buttons of the plurality of function buttons to be arranged in a grid-like manner.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 4, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 28, 2018
    Assignee: Konica Minolta, Inc.
    Inventors: Hiroshi Sugiura, Yuji Kawamura, Yoichi Kurumasa, Jun Kunioka, Mie Kawabata
  • Patent number: 10025581
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes: a program receiver that receives a new program externally, the new program for updating of an existing program; a set values receiver that receives new set values externally, the new set values including version information, the version information identifying the version of program linked to the new set values; a version judgment portion that judges whether or not the version information included in the new set values matches a current program currently installed or the new program to be installed, the new program being received by the program receiver; and an update portion that updates all the set values if the version information matches the current or new program, or only some of the set values if the version information does not match the current or new program.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 17, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 17, 2018
    Assignee: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.
    Inventors: Hiroshi Sugiura, Hiroki Ueda, Junichi Isamikawa, Akihiko Oda, Mitsuharu Nagai
  • Patent number: 9986107
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus capable of being remotely operated by a mobile terminal includes: a specification unit configured to specify an image to be displayed on the mobile terminal as an operation image for the image forming apparatus; an acquisition unit configured to acquire information on the number of display units of the mobile terminal; a decision unit configured to, when a plurality of images is specified as the operation images and the number of the display units of the mobile terminal is recognized as two or more, make a first decision that at least two of the plurality of images are to be displayed on at least two of the two or more display units of the mobile terminal; and a transmission unit configured to transmit a display instruction based on the first decision to the mobile terminal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 23, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 29, 2018
    Assignee: Konica Minolta, Inc.
    Inventors: Yoichi Kurumasa, Yuji Kawamura, Mie Kawabata, Kentaro Nagatani, Jun Kunioka, Hiroshi Sugiura
  • Publication number: 20180136597
    Abstract: A system for reproducing guidance on a task including a plurality of steps is provided. The system includes a hardware processor; and an output device configured to output an image or audio; wherein the hardware processor determines a completed step of the steps based on a change in state of a target on which the task is to be performed, the completed step being a step which has been completed, and the hardware processor causes the output device to reproduce an unfinished part in a first form where a predetermined condition is not satisfied, and causes the output device to reproduce the unfinished part in a second form different from the first form where the predetermined condition is satisfied, the unfinished part being a part corresponding to an unfinished step which is not determined to have been completed among the steps.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 13, 2017
    Publication date: May 17, 2018
    Inventors: Tatsunori OKADA, Kenichi KOMABA, Akito OTA, Hiroshi SUGIURA, Hiroaki SUGIMOTO, Atsushi TOMITA
  • Publication number: 20180103297
    Abstract: A device for reproducing guidance on a task including a plurality of steps is provided. The device includes an input device with which a user selects from which position of the guidance is to be reproduced; and a player configured to, where a designated step corresponding to the position selected by the user from among the steps is a particular step, jump a playback progress to the position selected to play the guidance, the particular step being an initial step of steps having not yet been performed completely, and, where the designated step is not the particular step, jump the playback progress to a position of the particular step to play the guidance.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 6, 2017
    Publication date: April 12, 2018
    Inventors: Kenichi KOMABA, Atsushi TOMITA, Hiroshi SUGIURA, Hiroaki SUGIMOTO, Tatsunori OKADA, Akito OTA, Yu SONODA