Patents by Inventor Koki Hamaya

Koki Hamaya 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: 10757281
    Abstract: An image reading apparatus includes a plurality of conveyance mechanisms for clamping and conveying a medium, an imaging device for generating an input image in which a medium is imaged, a storage device for storing relative positions of the plurality of conveyance mechanisms with respect to an imaging position of the imaging device, and a processor for dividing the input image into a plurality of regions according to a number of conveyance mechanisms clamping a medium when each pixel in the input image is photographed, based on the relative positions, and setting a reliability level to each divided region in such a way that the reliability level increases as the number of conveyance mechanisms related to each region divided increases, and executing image processing on the input image based on at least a region the reliability level of which is greater than or equal to a threshold value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 25, 2020
    Assignee: PFU LIMITED
    Inventors: Tomoaki Wada, Koki Hamaya