Patents by Inventor Koichi Nobushima

Koichi Nobushima 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: 8727529
    Abstract: A printing device includes a barcode area dividing unit that divides a barcode area of a printing sheet into plural division areas along a Y direction, and a barcode area ejection amount conversion and output unit that controls an ink jet printing unit to print black bars such that an X direction is a direction in which the black bars and white bars are alternately arranged and occupancy dimensions of ink of pixels are different in the division areas divided by the barcode area dividing unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 20, 2014
    Assignee: Riso Kagaku Corporation
    Inventors: Koichi Nobushima, Junichi Hakamada, Tsutomu Kurose, Takahiko Nakamura, Yoshiyuki Okada, Mitsuaki Ishitoya
  • Publication number: 20130076848
    Abstract: A printing device includes a barcode area dividing unit that divides a barcode area of a printing sheet into plural division areas along a Y direction, and a barcode area ejection amount conversion and output unit that controls an ink jet printing unit to print black bars such that an X direction is a direction in which the black bars and white bars are alternately arranged and occupancy dimensions of ink of pixels are different in the division areas divided by the barcode area dividing unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 29, 2012
    Publication date: March 28, 2013
    Applicant: RISO KAGAKU CORPORATION
    Inventors: Koichi Nobushima, Junichi Hakamada, Tsutomu Kurose, Takahiko Nakamura, Yoshiyuki Okada, Mitsuaki Ishitoya
  • Patent number: 7630540
    Abstract: An image processing device has a color-space data storage section storing a*b*-plane division data concerning a dividing method of an a*b*-plane in a L*a*b* color space; a LUT storage section storing LUTs, each of which combines color zones, those into which the a*b*-plane is divided, and a printing order of ink colors used for multicolor-printing with a relationship between multivalued pixel values in an original color-space and those in an ink color-space; a controller obtaining a*b*-values of the ink colors from a printer; a LUT selector discriminating which of the color zones the obtained a*b*-values belong to, and selecting a LUT corresponding to a combination of the discriminated color zones and the printing order of the ink colors from the LUTs; a color converter converting multivalued pixel values of a multicolor original image in the original color-space into multivalued pixel values in the ink color-space, based on the selected LUT.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 2005
    Date of Patent: December 8, 2009
    Assignee: Riso Kagaku Corporation
    Inventor: Koichi Nobushima
  • Publication number: 20060103863
    Abstract: An image processing device has a color-space data storage section storing a*b*-plane division data concerning a dividing method of an a*b*-plane in a L*a*b* color space; a LUT storage section storing LUTs, each of which combines color zones, those into which the a*b*-plane is divided, and a printing order of ink colors used for multicolor-printing with a relationship between multivalued pixel values in an original color-space and those in an ink color-space; a controller obtaining a*b*-values of the ink colors from a printer; a LUT selector discriminating which of the color zones the obtained a*b*-values belong to, and selecting a LUT corresponding to a combination of the discriminated color zones and the printing order of the ink colors from the LUTs; a color converter converting multivalued pixel values of a multicolor original image in the original color-space into multivalued pixel values in the ink color-space, based on the selected LUT.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 10, 2005
    Publication date: May 18, 2006
    Inventor: Koichi Nobushima