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: 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
  • Publication number: 20120140259
    Abstract: Disclosed is a print data generation device comprising: a storage unit including: a region in which there are temporarily stored data in an intermediate language format between data in a page description language format and print data, and the print data to be generated based on the data in the intermediate language format; and a rasterization region for use at a time when rasterization processing in which the print data is to be generated based on the data in the intermediate language format is executed; and a control unit that includes a plurality of arithmetic operation parts, sets arithmetic operation parts which execute the rasterization processing based on a status of use of the arithmetic operation parts and a status of a free region of the storage unit, and executes the rasterization processing for each of the set arithmetic operation parts.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 1, 2011
    Publication date: June 7, 2012
    Inventors: Masahiro Ozawa, Fumihito Akiyama, Jun Kuroki, Takahisa Matsunaga, Hiroshi Nogawa, Yasufumi Aoyama, Kunikazu Satou, Yasutaka Shimohara
  • Publication number: 20120136815
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a display device includes an operation module, a display module, a recorder, a compiling module, and a display controller. The operation module receives an operation from a user. The display module displays content in accordance with the operation. The recorder measures the display time of the content that is being displayed and records the display time for each content. The compiling module compiles statistical information relating to a preference of the user based on the display time recorded for each content. The display controller displays, among contents that have been previously stored, content matching with the preference of the user indicated by the statistical information on the display module.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 3, 2011
    Publication date: May 31, 2012
    Inventor: Masahiro Ozawa
  • Patent number: 8189228
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus is equipped with at least a first analyzing section to analyze first print setting information included in the print data and described outside the main body of the document data, a second analyzing section to analyze second print setting information included in the main body of the document data, a memory section having a memory area to memorize print setting information, a print setting control section to update print setting information stored in advance as default data in the memory area for each setting item on the basis of the first print setting information and thereafter to allow print setting information of setting items in the predetermined memory area to be updated further on the basis of the second print setting information except the setting items in which the print setting information has been updated on the basis of the first print setting information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 2009
    Date of Patent: May 29, 2012
    Assignee: Konica Minolta Business Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Fumihito Akiyama, Yoshinori Tanaka, Masahiro Ozawa, Jun Kuroki, Hiroshi Nogawa, Yasufumi Aoyama
  • Patent number: 8175357
    Abstract: A storage unit stores data of a blood vessel image, a first mask image, and a second mask image of an object, an imaging unit which images a fluoroscopic image for the object. A subtraction unit subtracts the first mask image from the fluoroscopic image and generates data of a subtraction image. A calculating unit calculates anatomical displacement amount between the first mask image and the second mask image. A display unit displays the blood vessel image and the subtraction image so as to be superimposed each other by positioning the blood vessel image and the subtraction image to be fitted together on the basis of the calculated displacement amount.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2008
    Date of Patent: May 8, 2012
    Assignees: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba, Toshiba Medical Systems Corporation
    Inventor: Masahiro Ozawa
  • Publication number: 20120099158
    Abstract: A data processing device for incorporating one or more scanned data files generated by an image scanning device for storage into a file in a specified format (e.g. an Excel file) equipped with a plurality of display areas (e.g. spreadsheets), which is capable of receiving user's designation of one of the display areas to which each of the scanned data files is allocated to (S101), and modifying configuration data (e.g. part files) of the file so that each of the scanned data files is allocated to one of the display areas according to the user's designation (S112).
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 24, 2011
    Publication date: April 26, 2012
    Applicant: KONICA MINOLTA BUSINESS TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
    Inventors: Takahisa MATSUNAGA, Fumihito AKIYAMA, Masahiro OZAWA, Hiroshi NOGAWA, Yasufumi AOYAMA, Kunikazu SATOU, Yasutaka SHIMOHARA, Tetsuren RI, Toyoshige NOUNISHI
  • Publication number: 20120086964
    Abstract: Disclosed is an image processing apparatus, comprising: a control section including a plurality of operation units; and a nonvolatile storage section to store a program to execute analysis processing and rendering processing by a control of the control section, the analysis processing analyzing page description language format data to generate intermediate language format data by the band, and the rendering processing generating rendering data based on the generated intermediate language format data, wherein the control section assigns the operation units the analysis and rendering processing to be executed, based on the stored program, wherein at least one of the operation units is capable of executing the analysis and rendering processing, and wherein when the operation unit is executing one of the analysis and rendering processing, and when an event which suspends the processing being executed occurs, the operation unit executes the other processing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 10, 2011
    Publication date: April 12, 2012
    Applicant: Konica Minolta Business Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Fumihito AKIYAMA, Masahiro Ozawa, Jun Kuroki, Hiroshi Nogawa, Yasufumi Aoyama, Kunikazu Satou, Yasutaka Shimohara, Takahisa Matsunaga, Tetsuren Ri
  • Publication number: 20120026521
    Abstract: Disclosed is an image processing apparatus includes a plurality of control sections each of which performs analysis processing of analyzing data of page description language form to generate intermediate language data and rendering processing of generating rendering data based on the intermediate language data generated by the analysis processing, the plurality of control sections capable of performing the analysis processing and the rendering processing parallely with each other; and a storage section which stores the intermediate language data and the rendering data, and at least any one of the plurality of control sections obtains information with regard to a vacant capacity of the storage section, and at least any one of the control sections discontinues the analysis processing being performed by at least any one control section and performs the rendering processing based on the information with regard to the vacant capacity of the storage section and a predetermined set value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 7, 2011
    Publication date: February 2, 2012
    Inventors: Hiroshi NOGAWA, Fumihito Akiyama, Masahiro Ozawa, Jun Kuroki, Takahisa Matsunaga, Yasufumi Aoyama, Kunikazu Satou, Yasutaka Shimohara
  • Publication number: 20120013938
    Abstract: Disclosed is an image processing device to generate printing data based on intermediate language data, comprising: a memory to store the intermediate language data and the printing data; a hardware accelerator to perform rendering processing to generate the printing data from the intermediate language data read from the memory; and a control section to input a memory address of the intermediate language data stored in the memory to the hardware accelerator, wherein at least one of the hardware accelerator and the control section obtains a plurality of rendering regions corresponding to ranges to which the rendering processing is performed based on the intermediate language data, and produces a comprehensive rendering region comprehending the rendering regions based on a correlation between the plurality of rendering regions, and wherein the hardware accelerator generates the printing data corresponding to the comprehensive rendering region to transfer the generated printing data to the memory.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 14, 2010
    Publication date: January 19, 2012
    Inventors: Hiroshi Nogawa, Fumihito Akiyama, Masahiro Ozawa, Jun Kuroki, Takahisa Matsunaga, Yasufumi Aoyama, Kunikazu Satou
  • Publication number: 20120007961
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a 3D image output apparatus includes: an oblique display judging module configured to judge whether a thumbnail relating to an image content that can be displayed in 3D is displayed obliquely; and an image signal output module configured to: output an image signal relating to a thumbnail so that the thumbnail is displayed in 2D when the oblique display judging module judges that the thumbnail is displayed obliquely; and output an image signal relating to the thumbnail so that the thumbnail is displayed in 3D when the oblique display judging module judges that the thumbnail is not displayed obliquely.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 5, 2011
    Publication date: January 12, 2012
    Inventor: Masahiro Ozawa
  • Publication number: 20110304871
    Abstract: Disclosed is an image formation apparatus, comprising: a reception section to receive PDL data; an image processing section including a plurality of operation sections, each of which executing a task performing processing by a page or a task performing processing by a band to generate printing data based on the PDL data; a control section to analyze the PDL data to obtain the number of printing pages, the control section dynamically setting the number of the operation sections assigned to each of the task performing the processing by the page and the task performing the processing by the band in accordance with the obtained number of the printing pages; and a printing section to form an image on a printing medium based on the generated printing data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 27, 2010
    Publication date: December 15, 2011
    Applicant: Konica Minolta Business Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Takahisa MATSUNAGA, Fumihito Akiyama, Masahiro Ozawa, Jun Kuroki, Hiroshi Nogawa, Yasufumi Aoyama, Kunikazu Satou, Yasutaka Shimohara
  • Patent number: 8057314
    Abstract: A joint assembly has a pair of constant velocity universal joints and a connecting drive shaft. A cover unit protects the constant velocity universal joints and prevents hanging down of the joints under their own weight. The unit cover is arranged to cover the outer circumferential surfaces of the pair of constant velocity universal joints and boots. The unit cover is formed from elastomer material by injection molding. The cover unit inner circumferential surface has a configuration corresponding to the outline configurations of the pair of constant velocity universal joints and the boots.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 19, 2010
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2011
    Assignee: NTN Corporation
    Inventors: Mitsuru Umekida, Shigeaki Fukushima, Kiyoshige Yamauchi, Masahiro Ozawa, Hiroshi Kawamura
  • Publication number: 20110273733
    Abstract: The method of storing profile set storage method according to the present invention comprising (a) selecting as reconstruction data that enables to reconstruct a profile set, either size prioritized data, which is smaller than said profile set, or reconstruction speed prioritized data, which enables to be reconstructed within a shorter time period than is required for reconstructing the size prioritized data, and which is smaller than the profile set but is larger than the size prioritized data; (b) for generating the selected reconstruction data based on the profile set; and (c) storing the reconstruction data generated in the step (b) in a storage device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 27, 2011
    Publication date: November 10, 2011
    Applicant: Konica Minolta Business Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Tomotaka Moriyama, Masahiro Ozawa
  • Patent number: 8054478
    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: January 30, 2007
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2011
    Assignee: Konica Minolta Business Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Yoshinori Tanaka, Masahiro Ozawa, Hiroshi Nogawa
  • Patent number: 8045227
    Abstract: Disclosed is a print controlling device including a control unit to control printing according to an instruction which relates to the printing, wherein the control unit analyzes a page description language which relates to the printing, determines whether the printing is practically monochrome printing or color printing, and changes a first command of the page description language to a second command for monochrome printing when it is determined that the printing is monochrome printing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 10, 2006
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2011
    Assignee: Konica Minolta Business Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Yoshinori Tanaka, Yoko Fujiwara, Fumihito Akiyama, Masahiro Ozawa, Jun Kuroki, Hiroshi Nogawa
  • Patent number: 8046497
    Abstract: Disclosed is an image forming apparatus including a communication section connected to a data processing apparatus through a communication line, 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 a data-decompressed XPS file from the XPS file which includes the data size information 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 file data of the data-decompressed XPS file from the plurality of storage sections on the basis of the data size information, to perform data decompression of the XPS file, and to allow the selected storage section to store the file data of the data-decompressed XPS file.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 5, 2008
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2011
    Assignee: Konica Minolta Business Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Hiroshi Nogawa, Fumihito Akiyama, Masahiro Ozawa, Jun Kuroki, Yasufumi Aoyama
  • Publication number: 20110235105
    Abstract: Disclosed is an image forming apparatus which generates print data based on control data for page print inputted from an external device and which forms an image based on the print data. The image forming apparatus includes a control unit having a plurality of arithmetic processing units, and an image forming unit for forming an image based on the print data which is outputted by the control unit. The control unit generates the print data by carrying out a rasterizing process of one page in band unit constituted by a predetermined number of lines based on the control data for page print and sequentially outputs the generated print data at output timings defined in a constant output interval, wherein the rasterizing process is controlled based on whether or not generation of print data is to be completed within the output interval for all of bands in the one page.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 25, 2011
    Publication date: September 29, 2011
    Applicant: KONICA MINOLTA BUSINESS TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
    Inventors: Masahiro OZAWA, Fumihito Akiyama, Jun Kuroki, Takahisa Matsunaga, Hiroshi Nogawa, Yasufumi Aoyama, Kunikazu Satou, Yasutaka Shimohara
  • Publication number: 20110235911
    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: Application
    Filed: January 28, 2011
    Publication date: September 29, 2011
    Applicant: KONICA MINOLTA BUSINESS TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
    Inventors: Jun Kuroki, Fumihito Akiyama, Masahiro Ozawa, Takahisa Matsunaga, Hiroshi Nogawa, Yasufumi Aoyama, Kunikazu Satou, Yasutaka Shimohara
  • Publication number: 20110235080
    Abstract: Disclosed is an image processing apparatus including: a control section including a plurality of computing sections, each of the plurality of computing sections to perform language analyzing processing to perform language analysis on PDL data to generate a display list of an object, drawing processing to rasterize an object of the display list, and combining processing to combine data of the rasterized object, to generate printable data based on the PDL data, wherein each of the plurality of computing sections is set to any one of two or more resolutions for rasterizing; the rasterizing in the drawing processing is performed parallel in each of the computing sections at the resolutions set in each computing section; and the combining processing enlarges the data of the rasterized object of a low resolution to the highest resolution and combines the data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 26, 2011
    Publication date: September 29, 2011
    Applicant: Konica Minolta Business Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Kunikazu SATOU, Fumihito Akiyama, Masahiro Ozawa, Jun Kuroki, Takahisa Matsunaga, Hiroshi Nogawa, Yasufumi Aoyama, Yasutaka Shimohara
  • Patent number: 8011589
    Abstract: A wireless IC device includes a radiation plate, a wireless IC chip, and a substrate provided with a feed circuit that includes a resonant circuit and/or the matching circuit including an inductance element and that is electromagnetically coupled to the radiation plate. The substrate is made of a resin material. A recess is provided in a first main surface of the substrate. The substrate is provided with a wiring electrode arranged along a bottom surface and an inner circumferential surface of the recess and the first main surface of the substrate and electrically connected to the feed circuit, and a wedge member made of a different material from the resin material and extending between the bottom surface of the recess and a second main surface of the substrate spaced apart from the wiring electrode. The wireless IC chip is mounted in the recess and coupled to the wiring electrode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2010
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2011
    Assignee: Murata Manufacturing Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Noboru Kato, Yutaka Sasaki, Masahiro Ozawa