Patents by Inventor Manabu Furukawa

Manabu Furukawa 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: 20240082965
    Abstract: A piston ring installation jig is to be used when installing a piston ring having a ring gap in a ring groove formed in an outer peripheral surface of a piston. The piston ring installation jig includes a main body including a groove. The main body has in a semi-cylindrical shape surrounding the outer peripheral surface of the piston. The groove has a substantially semicircular arc shape, and is formed in an inner peripheral surface of the main body in a region corresponding to the ring groove of the piston. A portion of the piston ring in a circumferential direction is inserted into the groove. The groove has a shape of an arc of a circle which has a circle center biased more to an outer peripheral side of the main body than a circle center of an inner peripheral surface of the main body.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 23, 2023
    Publication date: March 14, 2024
    Applicant: SUBARU CORPORATION
    Inventors: Atsushi TANAKA, Manabu SATO, Toshihiko FURUKAWA, Nanaka HOSODA, Ryuta SHINOHARA, Tomoki KAJIKAWA
  • Publication number: 20240071086
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus (10) includes a time and space information acquisition unit (110) that acquires high-risk time and space information indicating a spatial region with an increased possibility of an accident occurring or of a crime being committed and a corresponding time slot, a possible surveillance target acquisition unit (120) that identifies a video to be analyzed from among a plurality of videos generated by capturing an image of each of a plurality of places, on the basis of the high-risk time and space information, and analyzes the identified video to acquire information of a possible surveillance target, and a target time and space identification unit (130) that identifies at least one of a spatial region where surveillance is to be conducted which is at least a portion of the spatial region or a time slot when surveillance is to be conducted, from among the spatial region and the time slot indicated by the high-risk time and space information, on the basis of the information of the
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 6, 2023
    Publication date: February 29, 2024
    Applicant: NEC Corporation
    Inventors: Junko NAKAGAWA, Ryoma OAMI, Kenichiro IDA, Mika SAITO, Shohzoh NAGAHAMA, Akinari FURUKAWA, Yasumasa OHTSUKA, Junichi FUKUDA, Fumi IKEDA, Manabu MORIYAMA, Fumie EINAGA, Tatsunori YAMAGAMI, Keisuke ` HIRAYAMA, Yoshitsugu KUMANO, Hiroki ADACHI
  • Publication number: 20240071087
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus (10) includes a time and space information acquisition unit (110) that acquires high-risk time and space information indicating a spatial region with an increased possibility of an accident occurring or of a crime being committed and a corresponding time slot, a possible surveillance target acquisition unit (120) that identifies a video to be analyzed from among a plurality of videos generated by capturing an image of each of a plurality of places, on the basis of the high-risk time and space information, and analyzes the identified video to acquire information of a possible surveillance target, and a target time and space identification unit (130) that identifies at least one of a spatial region where surveillance is to be conducted which is at least a portion of the spatial region or a time slot when surveillance is to be conducted, from among the spatial region and the time slot indicated by the high-risk time and space information, on the basis of the information of the
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 6, 2023
    Publication date: February 29, 2024
    Applicant: NEC Corporation
    Inventors: Junko NAKAGAWA, Ryoma Oami, Kenichiro IDA, Mika Saito, Shohzoh Nagahama, Akinari Furukawa, Yasumasa Ohtsuka, Junichi Fukuda, Fumi Ikeda, Manabu Moriyama, Fumie Einaga, Tatsunori Yamagami, Keisuke Hirayama, Yoshitsugu Kumano, Hiroki Adachi
  • Patent number: 10248286
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus comprises: a display which allows users to connect a first icon to a second icon on a first screen and is capable of displaying the first screen with a still image of the first icon in motion and a second screen matching an event; a completion detector which detects completion of the connecting operation; a processor which performs an operation predetermined for the first and second icon when the connecting operation is completed; an event detector which detects occurrence of an event during the connecting operation; and a controller which performs, if an event occurs before completion of the connecting operation, a control operation consisting of: storing composition information of the first screen with a still image of the first icon in motion; interrupting the first screen; and reproducing the first screen after disappearance of the second screen on the basis of the composition information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 15, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2019
    Assignee: Konica Minolta, Inc.
    Inventors: Manabu Furukawa, Hideyuki Matsuda, Nobuhiro Mishima, Kazusei Takahashi, Mitsuharu Nagai
  • Patent number: 10116812
    Abstract: There is provided an image forming apparatus capable of improving the operability at the time of transition from a currently-displayed image to another image as compared with the conventional technique. The image forming apparatus includes: a display unit; an operation accepting unit for accepting an operation indicating that display of an image currently displayed on the display unit is unnecessary; a generating unit for generating, based on the operation, a menu showing image candidates to which transition from the currently-displayed image can be made; a menu display unit for displaying the menu on the currently-displayed image; a selection accepting unit for accepting an operation for selecting a particular image from the candidates; and an image display unit for displaying the particular image on the display unit based on the operation for selecting.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 30, 2018
    Assignee: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.
    Inventors: Hozuma Nakajima, Kenzo Yamamoto, Manabu Furukawa, Masao Hosono
  • Patent number: 9767530
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus as an image displaying apparatus displays a preview image of the first page at a first resolution. The image forming apparatus enlarges and displays the preview image of the first page when receiving an operation to enlarge the preview image of the first page. The image forming apparatus stores a history of the resolution of the preview image being enlarged of the first page. The image forming apparatus determines a second resolution based on the history of the resolution, when receiving an operation to display a preview image of the second page. The image forming apparatus generates the preview image of the second page at the second resolution.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 2, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2017
    Assignee: Konica Minolta, Inc.
    Inventors: Kenzo Yamamoto, Manabu Furukawa, Akihiko Oda, Hiroki Tajima, Hiroki Ueda
  • Patent number: 9652062
    Abstract: A display control device includes: a display; a touch panel being capable of detecting a gesture; a judgment portion that judges whether or not a screen displayed on the display allows users to operate a display data object with a gesture; a memory; an image generator that determines an image size, that generates an image data object identical with the display data object in the determined image size, and that stores the generated image data object on the memory, upon the screen being judged as allowing users to operate the display data object with a gesture; and a display controller that updates the display data object with the image data object generated by the image generator and stored on the memory, in response to a gesture being performed on the screen, the screen being judged as allowing users to operate the display data object with a gesture.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2017
    Assignee: Konica Minolta, Inc.
    Inventors: Hiroki Ueda, Akihiko Oda, Manabu Furukawa, Hiroki Tajima, Kenzo Yamamoto
  • Patent number: 9628647
    Abstract: A screen generating apparatus includes a reference screen information acquiring portion to acquire reference screen information, the reference screen information including a plurality of components classified into one or more sets and layout information for disposing the components in a reference screen, a screen size acquiring portion to acquire a screen size of a display portion, a set area determining portion to determine, for each of the one or more sets, a converted area corresponding to the set in a display screen, on the basis of the acquired screen size and the layout information included in the reference screen information, and a component disposing portion to dispose the components included in the reference screen information, in the converted areas within the display screen corresponding respectively to the one or more sets, each component being disposed in the same size as that in the reference screen.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 4, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2017
    Assignee: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.
    Inventors: Kazuaki Tomono, Tadashi Suzue, Chohiko Fukuoh, Hiroaki Sugimoto, Manabu Furukawa
  • Patent number: 9558434
    Abstract: A remote operation system comprises an image forming apparatus and a remote operation apparatus. The image forming apparatus has an operation input part including a touch panel and a hardware key and a transmission part for transmitting synthesizable area information indicating a synthesizable area in a candidate screen (first screen) of the remote operation screen to the remote operation apparatus. The first screen is a screen including a touch panel area and a hardware key area, and the synthesizable area is defined in the synthesizable area information as an area not including a hardware key image. The remote operation apparatus generates a second screen by synthesizing an additional image to be added to the first screen into the synthesizable area of the first screen on the basis of the synthesizable area information and displays the second screen on the display part as the remote operation screen.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2017
    Assignee: KONICA MINOLTA BUSINESS TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
    Inventors: Junichi Hase, Manabu Furukawa, Nobuhiro Mishima, Masaya Hashimoto, Akihiro Torigoshi
  • Patent number: 9548160
    Abstract: A cast raw sheet for a capacitor film, prepared by heating and melting a polypropylene resin and extruding the resin from a T-die, wherein the polypropylene resin has: a weight average molecular weight, determined by gel permeation chromatography, of 100,000 or more and 500,000 or less; and a molecular weight distribution Mw/Mn of 7 or more, the resin contains 97% by mass or more of an isotactic component that is an extraction residue obtained by sequential extraction, and the cast raw sheet contains a ?-form in a proportion of 1% or more and less than 20%, the proportion being determined by X-ray diffraction intensity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 2006
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2017
    Assignee: OJI HOLDINGS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tadakazu Ishiwata, Manabu Furukawa, Fumio Jinno
  • Patent number: 9497343
    Abstract: An apparatus is provided with a display and a touch panel mounted on a display surface of the display. The apparatus includes a storage portion that stores, thereinto, data showing operation made on the touch panel in a normal mode; a determination portion that determines, in the normal mode, processing of displaying an operating screen on the display based on the operation made on the touch panel, and to determine, in the reproduction mode, the processing based on the data; and a control portion that performs, in the normal mode, the determined processing in a manner to end at a first timing, and, in a reproduction mode, if the determined processing corresponds to predetermined processing, the determined processing in a manner to end at a second timing which is later than the first timing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2016
    Assignee: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.
    Inventors: Kenichi Komaba, Masao Hosono, Manabu Furukawa, Kenzo Yamamoto
  • Publication number: 20160142566
    Abstract: There is provided an image forming apparatus capable of improving the operability at the time of transition from a currently-displayed image to another image as compared with the conventional technique. The image forming apparatus includes: a display unit; an operation accepting unit for accepting an operation indicating that display of an image currently displayed on the display unit is unnecessary; a generating unit for generating, based on the operation, a menu showing image candidates to which transition from the currently-displayed image can be made; a menu display unit for displaying the menu on the currently-displayed image; a selection accepting unit for accepting an operation for selecting a particular image from the candidates; and an image display unit for displaying the particular image on the display unit based on the operation for selecting.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 16, 2015
    Publication date: May 19, 2016
    Applicant: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.
    Inventors: Hozuma NAKAJIMA, Kenzo YAMAMOTO, Manabu FURUKAWA, Masao HOSONO
  • Patent number: 9323350
    Abstract: A display control device comprises: a display; a movement judgment portion that judges whether or not a second image moves a certain distance by user dragging the second image to an arbitrary position of a first image on the display, a controller that allows the display to show a larger area of the first image at least by reducing the first image in size, if the movement judgment portion judges that the second image moves a certain distance; and an image giving portion that gives the second image to a user desired position on the first image by user dropping the second image at the position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2016
    Assignee: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.
    Inventors: Akihiko Oda, Manabu Furukawa, Hiroki Tajima, Kenzo Yamamoto
  • Patent number: 9258440
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes: a setting information transmitting portion to transmit setting information including a setting screen stored in a screen storage area, screen identification information thereof, and a setting value stored in a setting value storage area to a remote operation device; a remote setting portion to, in response to remote operation information being received after transmission of the setting information, update the setting value stored in the setting value storage area with a setting value included in the remote operation information; and a remote setting screen update portion to generate a setting screen based on the setting value stored in the setting value storage area and update the setting screen stored in the setting screen storage area, after the setting value is updated. An operation is specified based on positional information included in the remote operation information in the updated setting screen.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 21, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 9, 2016
    Assignee: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.
    Inventors: Akihiko Oda, Manabu Furukawa, Hiroki Tajima, Kenzo Yamamoto, Hiroki Ueda
  • Patent number: 9223531
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes: a storage that stores one or more files; a connector that connects the image processing apparatus to a portable terminal apparatus, the portable terminal apparatus including a display portion that remotely displays a screen of the image processing apparatus along with one or more application icons representing one or more applications installed on the portable terminal apparatus, the screen having: one or more file buttons and one or more file processing buttons; a receiver that receives display information from the portable terminal; a display data generator that generates remote screen display data on the basis of the display information, by moving the file processing button to a position at which the file processing button would be further away from the application icon; and a transmitter that transmits the remote screen display data to the portable terminal apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 29, 2015
    Assignee: Konica Minolta, Inc.
    Inventors: Kenzo Yamamoto, Manabu Furukawa, Akihiko Oda, Hiroki Tajima
  • Patent number: 9197768
    Abstract: A cooperation system includes an image forming apparatus and a mobile information device. The image forming apparatus includes a storage portion which stores source data, and an image forming portion which forms an image of the source data on a sheet of paper. The mobile information device includes an image pickup portion, an image pickup control portion which acquires a picked-up image that the image pickup portion outputs by picking up an image of the image formed on the sheet by the image forming apparatus, a source data acquiring portion which acquires the source data corresponding to the picked-up image from the image forming apparatus, a process target determining portion which determines, on the basis of the picked-up image, a process target part to be processed within the acquired source data, and a process executing portion which executes processing on the determined process target part within the source data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 24, 2015
    Assignee: KONICA MINOLTA BUSINESS TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
    Inventors: Nobuhiro Mishima, Manabu Furukawa, Hideyuki Matsuda, Kazusei Takahashi, Mitsuharu Nagai
  • Publication number: 20150172481
    Abstract: An apparatus is provided with a display and a touch panel mounted on a display surface of the display. The apparatus includes a storage portion that stores, thereinto, data showing operation made on the touch panel in a normal mode; a determination portion that determines, in the normal mode, processing of displaying an operating screen on the display based on the operation made on the touch panel, and to determine, in the reproduction mode, the processing based on the data; and a control portion that performs, in the normal mode, the determined processing in a manner to end at a first timing, and, in a reproduction mode, if the determined processing corresponds to predetermined processing, the determined processing in a manner to end at a second timing which is later than the first timing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 12, 2014
    Publication date: June 18, 2015
    Applicant: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.
    Inventors: Kenichi KOMABA, Masao HOSONO, Manabu FURUKAWA, Kenzo YAMAMOTO
  • Patent number: 9007636
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes an internal control portion to execute a process predetermined for an internal command, an application executing portion to execute an application program, and an application control portion to convert an application command output from the application executing portion into an internal command and output the internal command to the internal control portion. The application control portion includes a controlled-object determination portion to determine whether the hardware resource to be controlled by a first internal command obtained by converting a first application command input from a first custom portion and the hardware resource to be controlled by a second internal command obtained by converting a second application command input from a second custom portion are of the same type, and an arbitration portion to control timings for outputting the first and second internal commands on the basis of the determination result by the controlled-object determination portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 10, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 14, 2015
    Assignee: Konica Minolta, Inc.
    Inventors: Kazuaki Tomono, Kenji Matsuhara, Kenichi Takahashi, Kazumi Sawayanagi, Yosuke Taniguchi, Manabu Furukawa
  • Publication number: 20150082213
    Abstract: A display control device includes: a display; a touch panel being capable of detecting a gesture; a judgment portion that judges whether or not a screen displayed on the display allows users to operate a display data object with a gesture; a memory; an image generator that determines an image size, that generates an image data object identical with the display data object in the determined image size, and that stores the generated image data object on the memory, upon the screen being judged as allowing users to operate the display data object with a gesture; and a display controller that updates the display data object with the image data object generated by the image generator and stored on the memory, in response to a gesture being performed on the screen, the screen being judged as allowing users to operate the display data object with a gesture,
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 15, 2014
    Publication date: March 19, 2015
    Inventors: Hiroki Ueda, Akihiko Oda, Manabu Furukawa, Hiroki Tajima, Kenzo Yamamoto
  • Publication number: 20150070398
    Abstract: A screen generating apparatus includes a reference screen information acquiring portion to acquire reference screen information, the reference screen information including a plurality of components classified into one or more sets and layout information for disposing the components in a reference screen, a screen size acquiring portion to acquire a screen size of a display portion, a set area determining portion to determine, for each of the one or more sets, a converted area corresponding to the set in a display screen, on the basis of the acquired screen size and the layout information included in the reference screen information, and a component disposing portion to dispose the components included in the reference screen information, in the converted areas within the display screen corresponding respectively to the one or more sets, each component being disposed in the same size as that in the reference screen.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 4, 2014
    Publication date: March 12, 2015
    Applicant: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.
    Inventors: Kazuaki TOMONO, Tadashi Suzue, Chohiko Fukuoh, Hiroaki Sugimoto, Manabu Furukawa