Patents by Inventor Katsuya Ogawa

Katsuya Ogawa 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: 20230032800
    Abstract: In an image processing apparatus according to the present disclosure, a printing system includes a movement detection unit that detects scanning, which is movement in a first direction, and an operation of making a line break, which is movement in a second direction crossing the first direction, of a printing apparatus main body that includes a printing unit that performs printing on a printing medium. The printing system further includes a notification unit that selectively makes first notification that prompts scanning along with printing by the printing unit, second notification that prompts scanning along with no printing by the printing unit, and third notification that prompts the operation of making a line break, in accordance with a detection result of the printing unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 27, 2022
    Publication date: February 2, 2023
    Inventor: Katsuya Ogawa
  • Patent number: 11078042
    Abstract: A printing apparatus conveys preceding and following sheets to form an overlapping portion where a trailing edge of the preceding sheet and a leading edge of the following sheet overlap each other at a printing position facing an ejection port surface of a printing unit, and prints the preceding and following sheets by ejecting ink from ejection ports based on a relative movement between the printing unit and the preceding and following sheets. The printing unit delays ink ejection timing for printing the overlapping portion of a sheet located closer to the ejection port surface at a position facing the ejection ports from ink ejection timing for printing a non-overlapping portion where the preceding sheet and the following sheet do not overlap each other in one of the preceding sheet and the following sheet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 23, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 3, 2021
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Katsuya Ogawa
  • Patent number: 11061289
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display device includes a first substrate, a second substrate, and a liquid crystal layer supported between the first substrate and the second substrate, wherein the first substrate includes a main spacer and a sub-spacer protruding toward the liquid crystal layer, a height of the main spacer is greater than a height of the sub-spacer, the second substrate includes, on a surface facing the liquid crystal layer, an alignment film, a main pedestal portion that comes into contact with the main spacer, and a sub-pedestal portion opposite the sub-spacer, an area of a top portion of the main pedestal portion is greater than an area of a top portion of the main spacer, and an area of a top portion of the sub-pedestal portion is less than an area of a top portion of the sub-spacer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 13, 2021
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Junichi Morinaga, Shingo Kamitani, Katsuya Ogawa
  • Patent number: 10989964
    Abstract: The present invention provides a liquid crystal display device that can retain a favorable VHR and a low residual DC voltage and minimize display unevenness such as stains and image sticking, in long-term use at high temperatures.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 10, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 27, 2021
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Masanobu Mizusaki, Hiroshi Tsuchiya, Katsuya Ogawa, Toshiaki Fujihara
  • Patent number: 10894432
    Abstract: A printing apparatus comprises a conveyance control unit which controls conveyance of printing sheets so that a trailing edge of a preceding sheet as a printing sheet precedingly fed from the stacking unit and a leading edge of a succeeding sheet as a printing sheet succeedingly fed from the stacking unit overlap each other; and a skew correction unit which performs skew correction of the succeeding sheet while the succeeding sheet overlaps the preceding sheet by the conveyance control unit. The skew correction unit makes the leading edge of the succeeding sheet abut against the conveyance roller during a time from an end of a last line feed operation by the conveyance roller for printing on the preceding sheet by the printing unit to start of a next conveyance operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 19, 2021
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Yasuyuki Asai, Syunichi Kunihiro, Naoki Aoyama, Katsuya Ogawa, Noriyuki Sugiyama, Yasufumi Tanaami, Ryo Yonemoto
  • Patent number: 10841435
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus causes a display to display, based on a plurality of page data included in data of a book and print setting information, a setting screen including sheet preview images indicating print results of sheets forming the book and an interface for accepting selection of the sheet, and identifies the sheet to be printed by accepting, from a user, selection of the sheet via the interface in the setting screen.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 17, 2020
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Katsuya Ogawa
  • Publication number: 20200341319
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display device includes a first substrate, a second substrate, and a liquid crystal layer supported between the first substrate and the second substrate, wherein the first substrate includes a main spacer and a sub-spacer protruding toward the liquid crystal layer, a height of the main spacer is greater than a height of the sub-spacer, the second substrate includes, on a surface facing the liquid crystal layer, an alignment film, a main pedestal portion that comes into contact with the main spacer, and a sub-pedestal portion opposite the sub-spacer, an area of a top portion of the main pedestal portion is greater than an area of a top portion of the main spacer, and an area of a top portion of the sub-pedestal portion is less than an area of a top portion of the sub-spacer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 21, 2020
    Publication date: October 29, 2020
    Inventors: JUNICHI MORINAGA, SHINGO KAMITANI, KATSUYA OGAWA
  • Patent number: 10742828
    Abstract: An object is to keep continuity of data in a case where print data for which inclination correction processing has been performed is transferred sequentially. The present invention is a printing apparatus including: a print head in which a plurality of nozzle rows is arrayed, each of the nozzle rows having an inclination with respect to a direction intersecting with a conveyance direction of a printing medium; a creation unit configured to create a plurality of pieces of divided data by dividing image data corresponding to an entire printing-target image area in the conveyance direction; and an image processing unit configured to create print data corresponding to the divided data by performing image processing including inclination correction in accordance with an inclination of the nozzle row for the divided data, and the creation unit divides the image data so that areas necessary for the inclination correction overlap.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 11, 2020
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Katsuya Ogawa
  • Patent number: 10663814
    Abstract: A liquid crystal panel includes pixel electrodes and a common electrode. The common electrode is disposed to overlap the pixel electrodes. A wire is connected to the common electrode. The common electrode includes a first region and a second region. The first region includes first openings. The second region includes second openings. The second region is located farther away from a point of connection with the wire than the first region. The second openings are smaller in area than the first openings.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 26, 2020
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Szu-Chi Huang, Junichi Morinaga, Katsuya Ogawa
  • Patent number: 10620501
    Abstract: The present invention provides a technology which allows ensuring a high level of reliability and achieving a high aperture ratio. An active matrix substrate includes: a drain electrode extension section connected to a drain electrode of a switching element and made of an oxide semiconductor which has been made conductive; and a storage capacitor electrode overlapping with at least a portion of the drain electrode extension section, at least a portion of the storage capacitor electrode being light-transmissive.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 14, 2020
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Chia-Hui Hsu, Junichi Morinaga, Katsuya Ogawa
  • Publication number: 20200009886
    Abstract: A printing apparatus comprises a conveyance control unit which controls conveyance of printing sheets so that a trailing edge of a preceding sheet as a printing sheet precedingly fed from the stacking unit and a leading edge of a succeeding sheet as a printing sheet succeedingly fed from the stacking unit overlap each other; and a skew correction unit which performs skew correction of the succeeding sheet while the succeeding sheet overlaps the preceding sheet by the conveyance control unit. The skew correction unit makes the leading edge of the succeeding sheet abut against the conveyance roller during a time from an end of a last line feed operation by the conveyance roller for printing on the preceding sheet by the printing unit to start of a next conveyance operation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 17, 2019
    Publication date: January 9, 2020
    Inventors: Yasuyuki Asai, Syunichi Kunihiro, Naoki Aoyama, Katsuya Ogawa, Noriyuki Sugiyama, Yasufumi Tanaami, Ryo Yonemoto
  • Publication number: 20200007698
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus causes a display to display, based on a plurality of page data included in data of a book and print setting information, a setting screen including sheet preview images indicating print results of sheets forming the book and an interface for accepting selection of the sheet, and identifies the sheet to be printed by accepting, from a user, selection of the sheet via the interface in the setting screen.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 19, 2019
    Publication date: January 2, 2020
    Inventor: Katsuya Ogawa
  • Patent number: 10486445
    Abstract: A printing apparatus comprises a conveyance control unit which controls conveyance of printing sheets so that a trailing edge of a preceding sheet as a printing sheet precedingly fed from the stacking unit and a leading edge of a succeeding sheet as a printing sheet succeedingly fed from the stacking unit overlap each other; and a skew correction unit which performs skew correction of the succeeding sheet while the succeeding sheet overlaps the preceding sheet by the conveyance control unit. The skew correction unit makes the leading edge of the succeeding sheet abut against the conveyance roller during a time from an end of a last line feed operation by the conveyance roller for printing on the preceding sheet by the printing unit to start of a next conveyance operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 3, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2019
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Yasuyuki Asai, Syunichi Kunihiro, Naoki Aoyama, Katsuya Ogawa, Noriyuki Sugiyama, Yasufumi Tanaami, Ryo Yonemoto
  • Publication number: 20190330004
    Abstract: A printing apparatus conveys preceding and following sheets to form an overlapping portion where a trailing edge of the preceding sheet and a leading edge of the following sheet overlap each other at a printing position facing an ejection port surface of a printing unit, and prints the preceding and following sheets by ejecting ink from ejection ports based on a relative movement between the printing unit and the preceding and following sheets. The printing unit delays ink ejection timing for printing the overlapping portion of a sheet located closer to the ejection port surface at a position facing the ejection ports from ink ejection timing for printing a non-overlapping portion where the preceding sheet and the following sheet do not overlap each other in one of the preceding sheet and the following sheet.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 23, 2019
    Publication date: October 31, 2019
    Inventor: Katsuya Ogawa
  • Publication number: 20190306358
    Abstract: An object is to keep continuity of data in a case where print data for which inclination correction processing has been performed is transferred sequentially. The present invention is a printing apparatus including: a print head in which a plurality of nozzle rows is arrayed, each of the nozzle rows having an inclination with respect to a direction intersecting with a conveyance direction of a printing medium; a creation unit configured to create a plurality of pieces of divided data by dividing image data corresponding to an entire printing-target image area in the conveyance direction; and an image processing unit configured to create print data corresponding to the divided data by performing image processing including inclination correction in accordance with an inclination of the nozzle row for the divided data, and the creation unit divides the image data so that areas necessary for the inclination correction overlap.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 27, 2019
    Publication date: October 3, 2019
    Inventor: Katsuya Ogawa
  • Publication number: 20190196275
    Abstract: A liquid crystal panel includes pixel electrodes and a common electrode. The common electrode is disposed to overlap the pixel electrodes. A wire is connected to the common electrode. The common electrode includes a first region and a second region. The first region includes first openings. The second region includes second openings. The second region is located farther away from a point of connection with the wire than the first region. The second openings are smaller in area than the first openings.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 20, 2018
    Publication date: June 27, 2019
    Inventors: SZU-CHI HUANG, JUNICHI MORINAGA, KATSUYA OGAWA
  • Publication number: 20190196286
    Abstract: The present invention provides a technology which allows ensuring a high level of reliability and achieving a high aperture ratio. An active matrix substrate includes: a drain electrode extension section connected to a drain electrode of a switching element and made of an oxide semiconductor which has been made conductive; and a storage capacitor electrode overlapping with at least a portion of the drain electrode extension section, at least a portion of the storage capacitor electrode being light-transmissive.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 13, 2018
    Publication date: June 27, 2019
    Inventors: Chia-Hui HSU, Junichi MORINAGA, Katsuya OGAWA
  • Publication number: 20190094585
    Abstract: A liquid crystal cell includes a first substrate with a plate surface including a display area, a second substrate opposed to the first substrate, a sealant bonding the first substrate and the second substrate together with a cell gap, a liquid crystal layer, a base layer, and a protrusion. The sealant includes a surrounding wail and passage walls. The surrounding wall defines the filling space overlapping the display area and an entrance to the filling space. The passage walls define a passage to the entrance to the filling space to pass a liquid crystal material. The liquid crystal layer is disposed in the filling space. The base layer is disposed on a section of a plate surface of one of the first substrate and the second substrate in the passage. The protrusion protrudes from the base layer toward another one of the first substrate and the second substrate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 20, 2018
    Publication date: March 28, 2019
    Inventors: Katsuya OGAWA, Tomonari IKEDA
  • Publication number: 20190033665
    Abstract: The present invention provides a liquid crystal display device that can retain a favorable VHR and a low residual DC voltage and minimize display unevenness such as stains and image sticking, in long-term use at high temperatures.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 10, 2017
    Publication date: January 31, 2019
    Inventors: MASANOBU MIZUSAKI, HIROSHI TSUCHIYA, KATSUYA OGAWA, TOSHIAKI FUJIHARA
  • Patent number: 10179853
    Abstract: [Problem] To provide a material for fused-deposition-type three-dimensional modeling whereby a warp-free modeled object is obtained without devising a modeling shape and without installing a special apparatus as a 3D printer device, and whereby a modeled article having flexibility as well as excellent surface polishing properties is obtained. [Solution] A material for fused-deposition-type three-dimensional modeling, obtained by blending 10-900 parts by weight of a styrene-based resin (B1) obtained by copolymerization of an aromatic vinyl-monomer (b1) and a cyanated vinyl-monomer (b2), and/or 5-400 parts by weight of a thermoplastic resin (B2) having a glass transition temperature of 20° C. or lower and/or 5-30 parts by weight of a plasticizer (B3), with respect to 100 parts by weight of a polylactic resin (A).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 15, 2019
    Assignee: TORAY INDUSTRIES, INC.
    Inventors: Yoshiyasu Naito, Taeko Nito, Masanori Kobayashi, Takayuki Hase, Katsuya Ogawa