Patents by Inventor Masahiro Ozawa

Masahiro Ozawa 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: 20130163050
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus has a direct print function by which application data is obtained from an external device so that image formation is performed. The image forming apparatus includes an obtaining unit, a classification unit, a discarding unit, a storage unit, an image processing unit and an image forming unit. The obtaining unit obtains the application data. The classification unit classifies the application data into use data used for the image formation and no-use data not used for the image formation on the basis of a predetermined setting related to the image formation. The discarding unit discards the no-use data. The storage unit stores the use data. The image processing unit generates print data on the basis of the stored use data. The image forming unit performs the image formation on the basis of the print data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 20, 2012
    Publication date: June 27, 2013
    Inventors: Masahiro OZAWA, Toyoshige Nounishi, Takahisa Matsunaga, Hiroshi Nogawa, Yasufumi Aoyama, Kunikazu Satou, Tetsuren Ri
  • Publication number: 20130159823
    Abstract: An electronic document display apparatus includes a display unit and an analysis-and-setting unit including a determination unit and a first correction unit. The display unit displays an electronic document in display layout set by the analysis-and-setting unit. If the determination unit determines that an image related to a display-range text of a display range to be displayed by the display unit is not included in the display range, the first correction unit adds an image display region where the image is displayed to the display range so as to correct the display layout in such a way that the image and at least a portion of an image text related to the image are included in the display range. The analysis-and-setting unit changes a display state of the image displayed in the image display region on the basis of a predetermined condition.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 14, 2012
    Publication date: June 20, 2013
    Inventors: Tetsuren RI, Toyoshige Nounishi, Masahiro Ozawa, Takahisa Matsunaga, Hiroshi Nogawa, Yasufumi Aoyama, Kunikazu Satou
  • Publication number: 20130106696
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, an information transmission method includes: acquiring imaged image information; displaying the imaged image information acquired, including thumbnail image information that indicates first data and a first display area that represents a communication device to which data can be transmitted; detecting a movement of a first object imaged based on the imaged image information acquired; first receiving selection of the thumbnail image information; first determining, by a first determining module, whether a first coordinate value that indicates the first object, the movement of which is detected, is included in the first display area; and transmitting the first data indicated by the thumbnail image information, the selection of which is received, to the communication device represented by the first display area if the first determining module determines that the first coordinate value is included in the first display area.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 27, 2012
    Publication date: May 2, 2013
    Inventor: Masahiro Ozawa
  • Patent number: 8411949
    Abstract: The image processing apparatus includes: a storage section including a region to be used when rasterization processing is performed with respect to intermediate language form data created by a band based on page description language form data; a plurality of operation sections; and a control section to perform the rasterization processing with respect to the intermediate language form data by using the operation sections. The control section generates a plurality of segmented regions by dividing the band constituting each pieces of the intermediate language form data into a plurality of pieces based on the number of the operation sections, and assigns a segmented region for executing the rasterization processing among the segmented regions to each of the operation sections.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2013
    Assignee: Konica Minolta Business Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Jun Kuroki, Fumihito Akiyama, Masahiro Ozawa, Takahisa Matsunaga, Hiroshi Nogawa, Yasufumi Aoyama, Kunikazu Satou, Yasutaka Shimohara
  • Patent number: 8408788
    Abstract: An X-ray image diagnostic apparatus has an X-ray irradiating unit, a receiving unit, a supporting unit, a registering unit, a calculating unit and a presenting unit. The X-ray irradiating unit irradiates an X-ray. The receiving unit receives the X-ray. The supporting unit supports the X-ray irradiating unit and the receiving unit to be opposed to each other, and the supporting unit is movable in a room. The registering unit registers in advance a target position after movement of the supporting unit. The calculating unit calculates a track of the supporting unit from a present position to the registered target position. The presenting unit presents the track until the supporting unit moves to reach the register target position. For example, the registering unit registers a target position coordinate and a target vertical axis rotation angle of the supporting unit as the target position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 2010
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2013
    Assignees: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba, Toshiba Medical Systems Corporation
    Inventors: Masahiro Ozawa, Hajime Yoshida, Nobuo Kobayashi
  • Patent number: 8393798
    Abstract: A bearing device for a wheel has minimized circumferential play and allows a hub ring and an outer joint member of a constant velocity universal joint to be connected with excellent workability. Axially extending projections are formed on either one of the outer diameter surface of a shaft of the outer joint member and the inner diameter surface of a hole of the hub ring, and the projections are axially press fitted into the other. Recesses fitted in an intimate contact manner onto the projections are formed in the other. Thus, a recess/projection fitting structure is formed. In the structure, the entire fitting/contact portions of the projections and the recesses are in intimate contact with each other. Further, a shaft come-out prevention structure is provided between the shaft of the outer joint member and the inner diameter surface of the hub ring.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 2008
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2013
    Assignee: NTN Corporation
    Inventors: Tohru Nakagawa, Yuichi Asano, Kiyoshige Yamauchi, Masahiro Ozawa
  • Patent number: 8382378
    Abstract: A wheel bearing device suppresses backlash in the circumferential direction and has excellent workability in connecting a hub wheel and an outer joint component of a constant velocity universal joint. The wheel bearing device has a stem shaft of an outer joint component of a constant velocity universal joint fitted into a hole section of a hub wheel that is integrated with the hub wheel by a projection and recess mating structure. In the projection and recess mating structure, an overall recess mating area of a projection is in close contact with a corresponding recess.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 2007
    Date of Patent: February 26, 2013
    Assignee: NTN Corporation
    Inventors: Yoshikazu Fukumura, Hisaaki Kura, Shin Tomogami, Hiroshi Kawamura, Kiyoshige Yamauchi, Masahiro Ozawa, Tohru Nakagawa, Yuichi Asano
  • Patent number: 8360655
    Abstract: A bearing device for a wheel is capable of suppressing a backlash in a circumferential direction, is excellent in coupling operability of a hub wheel and an outer joint member of a constant velocity universal joint, and is excellent for maintenance by allowing separation of the hub wheel and the outer joint member of the constant velocity universal joint. In the bearing device for a wheel, a hub wheel, and a shaft section of the outer joint member of a constant velocity universal joint are separably coupled with each other through a recess-projection fitting structure, the shaft section being inserted in a fitting manner into a hole portion of the hub wheel. Projecting portions extending in an axial direction are provided on one of an outer surface of the shaft section of the outer joint member and an inner surface of the hole portion of the hub wheel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 8, 2008
    Date of Patent: January 29, 2013
    Assignee: NTN Corporation
    Inventors: Masahiro Ozawa, Tohru Nakagawa, Yuichi Asano
  • Patent number: 8356943
    Abstract: A bearing device for a wheel is capable of suppressing a backlash in a circumferential direction, is excellent in coupling operability of a hub wheel and an outer joint member of a constant velocity universal joint, and is excellent for maintenance by allowing separation of the hub wheel and the outer joint member of the constant velocity universal joint. In the bearing device for a wheel, a hub wheel, a double-row roller bearing, and a constant velocity universal joint are unitized together, and the hub wheel and a shaft section of an outer joint member of the constant velocity universal joint are separably coupled with each other through intermediation of a recess-projection fitting structure, the shaft section being inserted in a fitting manner into a hole portion of the hub wheel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 25, 2008
    Date of Patent: January 22, 2013
    Assignee: NTN Corporation
    Inventors: Masahiro Ozawa, Mitsuru Umekida, Yuichi Asano
  • Patent number: 8345313
    Abstract: There is described an image forming apparatus, which make it possible to appropriately print each of a valid print object and an invalid print object. The apparatus includes: a printing section to conduct a printing operation based on the print data, so as to create the print product; and a control section to determine whether the digital signature is valid or invalid so as to control the printing operation, based on the determined result. When the plurality of print objects includes both a valid print object for which the digital signature is determined as valid and an invalid print object for which the digital signature is determined as invalid, the control section controls the printing operation, so as to enable the valid print object to be printed, based on the print data, while disable the invalid print object to be printed, based on the print data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 15, 2007
    Date of Patent: January 1, 2013
    Assignee: Konica Minolta Business Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Yoshinori Tanaka, Yoko Fujiwara, Masahiro Ozawa, Jun Kuroki, Hiroshi Nogawa, Fumihito Akiyama, Yasufumi Aoyama
  • Patent number: 8323117
    Abstract: A wheel bearing device, a method of assembling a wheel bearing device, an assembly configured by the wheel bearing device and a drive shaft, and a method of assembling the assembly, in which the wheel bearing device eliminates a nut tightening operation, is capable of reducing costs, and has a projection and recess mating structure that can firmly connect an outer joint member and a hub. Axial direction load is applied to a stepped surface is provided on an outer diameter surface of an outer joint member. A projection that extends in the axial direction and is provided on one of a stem shaft of the outer joint member and an inner diameter surface of a hole section of a hub is press-fitted into a partner member along the axial direction, As a result, a recess that is in close contact with the projection over an overall mating contact area is formed in the partner member, thereby configuring a projection and recess mating structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 14, 2008
    Date of Patent: December 4, 2012
    Assignee: NTN Corporation
    Inventors: Tohru Nakagawa, Yuichi Asano, Masahiro Ozawa
  • Patent number: 8310713
    Abstract: The printer successively stores the objects contained in the PDF file as they are transmitted from the PC, and conducts the printing process for said specific page when it judges that all the objects necessary for displaying said page are stored. Also, when a memory overflow occurs, it successively prints out content objects contained in the constituent data of the PDF file stored in the RAM, while assigning identification names, and deletes the data for the content objects already printed out from the RAM so that additional constituent data of the PDF file can be received successively. It finally generates and prints out the table of contents based on the identification names of the content object and the information of the page object and the page list object. Thus, it is possible to form images directly receiving a document file such as a PDF file on a printer with a limited usable memory capacity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2003
    Date of Patent: November 13, 2012
    Assignee: Konica Minolta Business Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Tadayuki Sugimoto, Masahiro Ozawa, Takenori Idehara
  • Publication number: 20120268767
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a selection section. When the information processing apparatus makes an image forming apparatus perform image formation on a presentation file including first information on a first output image and second information on a second target output image associated with the first output image based on the first information and the second information, the selection section selects a target output image on which the image formation is performed from among the second output image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 20, 2012
    Publication date: October 25, 2012
    Inventors: Tetsuren RI, Toyoshige Nounishi, Fumihito Akiyama, Masahiro Ozawa, Takahisa Matsunaga, Hiroshi Nogawa, Yasufumi Aoyama, Kunikazu Satou, Shunsuke Araki
  • Patent number: 8294914
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is an image forming apparatus, including: a language analysis unit for analyzing print data and generating data having an intermediate format between the print data and bitmap data generated based on the print data; an image processing unit for rasterizing the generated data having the intermediate format for each band by using the predetermined number of lines and generating the bitmap data; a memory for holding the data for which rasterizing processing is being performed by the image processing unit; a printing unit for performing printing based on the generated bitmap data; and a number-of-line switching unit for switching the number of lines of the band in the rasterizing processing of the image processing unit according to whether the print data is data that can include transparency processing data or not.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 23, 2012
    Assignee: Konica Minolta Business Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Yoshinori Tanaka, Masahiro Ozawa, Hiroshi Nogawa
  • Publication number: 20120236343
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is an image forming apparatus, including: a language analysis unit for analyzing print data and generating data having an intermediate format between the print data and bitmap data generated based on the print data; an image processing unit for rasterizing the generated data having the intermediate format for each band by using the predetermined number of lines and generating the bitmap data; a memory for holding the data for which rasterizing processing is being performed by the image processing unit; a printing unit for performing printing based on the generated bitmap data; and a number-of-line switching unit for switching the number of lines of the band in the rasterizing processing of the image processing unit according to whether the print data is data that can include transparency processing data or not.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 14, 2011
    Publication date: September 20, 2012
    Applicant: Konica Minolta Business Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Yoshinori Tanaka, Masahiro Ozawa, Hiroshi Nogawa
  • Patent number: 8270010
    Abstract: Disclosed is an image forming apparatus including a communication section connected to a data processing apparatus through a communication line to perform image formation on the basis of data transmitted from the data processing apparatus through the communication section, the apparatus including: a plurality of storage sections each of which has a different free storage capacity and a different access speed; and a control section to obtain data size information of an XPS file from the XPS file including the data size information thereof in a head of a file data frame, the XPS file being received from the data processing apparatus through the communication section, to select a storage section to store the XPS file from the plurality of storage sections on the basis of the data size information, and to allow the selected storage section to store the XPS file.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 5, 2008
    Date of Patent: September 18, 2012
    Assignee: Konica Minolta Business Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Hiroshi Nogawa, Fumihito Akiyama, Masahiro Ozawa, Jun Kuroki, Yasufumi Aoyama
  • Patent number: 8253962
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus that executes an image forming process based on print data including an execution command of transparency processes to be executed, comprises: a first storage unit to be used when the transparency process is executed; and a control unit for controlling the first number of transparency processes to be executed when a storage capacity of the first storage unit is insufficient to execute the transparency processes to be executed, and causing a display unit to display a preview image to which the second number of executable transparency processes different from the first number has been executed to determine an image being an object for print output based on an instruction by an operator relating to which transparency process is executed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 2009
    Date of Patent: August 28, 2012
    Assignee: Konica Minolta Business Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Kunikazu Sato, Fumihito Akiyama, Yoshinori Tanaka, Masahiro Ozawa, Jun Kuroki, Hiroshi Nogawa, Yasufumi Aoyama
  • Patent number: 8248649
    Abstract: Disclosed is an information processing apparatus comprising: a storage section to store data; and a control section to detect whether a data access to the storage section exists or not, to detect whether unnecessary data stored in the storage section exists or not, and to overwrite/delete the unnecessary data in a case where the data access does not exist and the unnecessary data exists.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 2009
    Date of Patent: August 21, 2012
    Assignee: Konica Minolta Business Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Fumihito Akiyama, Yoshinori Tanaka, Masahiro Ozawa, Jun Kuroki, Hiroshi Nogawa, Yasufumi Aoyama, Kunikazu Sato
  • Publication number: 20120181068
    Abstract: A circuit substrate capable of reducing and preventing deviations of circuit characteristics includes a relatively hard region and a relatively soft region. A main body of the circuit substrate includes a stack of a plurality of flexible sheets made of a flexible material and includes rigid regions and a flexible region, the flexible region being more easily deformable than the rigid regions. Wiring conductors are disposed in the main body and define circuitry. Reinforcing insulative films are disposed so as to cover the portions where the wiring conductors are not disposed in the rigid regions on the flexible sheets when seen in plan view from the z-axis direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 27, 2012
    Publication date: July 19, 2012
    Applicant: MURATA MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Noboru KATO, Masahiro OZAWA
  • Publication number: 20120148139
    Abstract: A medical image diagnosis device according to an embodiment includes: a mask image generation unit that generates a plurality of mask images that are different in terms of time; a first image generation unit that calculates differences between a plurality of the mask images, and extracts an image of a preceding device that is placed and kept in a blood vessel; a second image generation unit that generates a real-time fluoroscopic image depicting a situation where an insertion device is being inserted into a blood vessel, calculates a difference between the real-time fluoroscopic image and the mask image, and generates an image of the insertion device; an image synthesis unit that synthesizes images generated by the first image generation unit and the second image generation unit; and a display unit that displays an image generated by the image synthesis unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 13, 2011
    Publication date: June 14, 2012
    Applicants: Toshiba Medical Systems Corporation, Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Masahiro Ozawa, Toshiya Waku, Masanori Matsumoto