Patents by Inventor Masaru Shimura

Masaru Shimura 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: 11143987
    Abstract: An intermediate transfer belt includes a base layer that has ionic conductivity and is a thickest layer out of multiple layers making up the intermediate transfer belt with respect to the thickness direction of the intermediate transfer belt, and an inner layer having electronic conductivity and a lower electrical resistance than the base layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 2, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 12, 2021
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Tsuguhiro Yoshida, Masaru Shimura, Shinji Katagiri, Eiichi Hamana, Takahiro Ikeda, Takayuki Tanaka, Shuichi Tetsuno
  • Patent number: 10948844
    Abstract: A controller which causes a light emitting element to continuously perform minute emission for a plurality of dots in a level in which toner is not attached to a non-image section on an image bearing member is provided. The controller controls a first driving current for an image section and controls a second driving current used to perform the minute emission by the light emitting element in the non-image section several times in one job. In the image section, a driving current obtained by adding the first driving current to the second driving current is supplied so that the light emitting element emits light.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 16, 2021
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Kiyoto Toyoizumi, Masaru Shimura, Shinsuke Kobayashi, Hideo Nanataki, Shinji Katagiri, Yasunari Watanabe, Hideaki Hasegawa, Masahiro Tambo
  • Patent number: 10827230
    Abstract: To propose an information processing apparatus and information processing method and program capable of allowing users to share their viewpoints or lines of sight in a situation where a plurality of users share content for which the users can move their viewpoints or line-of-sight directions. Provided is an information processing apparatus including: an acquisition unit configured to acquire line-of-sight information indicating a first user's line of sight detected in response to presentation of a content; and a management unit configured to associate the acquired line-of-sight information with the content as control information for controlling the presentation of the content to a second user different from the first user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 9, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 3, 2020
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masaru Shimura, Kenta Kawamoto, Asako Kaneko
  • Patent number: 10627749
    Abstract: A voltage maintenance element is connected to a contact member that contacts a primary transfer surface area of an intermediate transfer belt to which toner images are transferred from a plurality of image carriers between stretch members, in such a way as to prevent the electric potential of the intermediate transfer belt from varying between respective image forming stations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 21, 2020
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Shinji Katagiri, Yuji Kawaguchi, Masaru Ohno, Tsuguhiro Yoshida, Takeo Kawanami, Taro Minobe, Masaru Shimura
  • Publication number: 20190302639
    Abstract: A controller which causes a light emitting element to continuously perform minute emission for a plurality of dots in a level in which toner is not attached to a non-image section on an image bearing member is provided. The controller controls a first driving current for an image section and controls a second driving current used to perform the minute emission by the light emitting element in the non-image section several times in one job. In the image section, a driving current obtained by adding the first driving current to the second driving current is supplied so that the light emitting element emits light.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 19, 2019
    Publication date: October 3, 2019
    Inventors: Kiyoto Toyoizumi, Masaru Shimura, Shinsuke Kobayashi, Hideo Nanataki, Shinji Katagiri, Yasunari Watanabe, Hideaki Hasegawa, Masahiro Tambo
  • Patent number: 10372058
    Abstract: A controller which causes a light emitting element to continuously perform minute emission for a plurality of dots in a level in which toner is not attached to a non-image section on an image bearing member is provided. The controller controls a first driving current for an image section and controls a second driving current used to perform the minute emission by the light emitting element in the non-image section several times in one job. In the image section, a driving current obtained by adding the first driving current to the second driving current is supplied so that the light emitting element emits light.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 4, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2019
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Kiyoto Toyoizumi, Masaru Shimura, Shinsuke Kobayashi, Hideo Nanataki, Shinji Katagiri, Yasunari Watanabe, Hideaki Hasegawa, Masahiro Tambo
  • Patent number: 10310595
    Abstract: Provided is an image display device configured to display a free viewpoint image that tracks a movement of observer's head and trunk. The line-of-sight direction and trunk orientation of the user are individually oriented in a free viewpoint space displayed on a display device 500 based on posture information of the user's head and trunk, which are respectively obtained from a head motion tracking device 200 and a trunk motion tracking device 300. A behavior that is natural in real space can be represented by moving a line of sight to a front direction of the trunk on a space in a state where the line of sight does not match the front direction of the trunk. An unnatural UI that goes straight to the line-of-sight direction is prevented regardless of orientation of the trunk.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 21, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2019
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Hirokazu Tatsuta, Kenta Kawamoto, Yuichiro Koyama, Takayasu Kon, Yuichi Hasegawa, Masaru Shimura, Yuki Yamamoto, Eiichi Tanaka
  • Publication number: 20190137910
    Abstract: A voltage maintenance element is connected to a contact member that contacts a primary transfer surface area of an intermediate transfer belt to which toner images are transferred from a plurality of image carriers between stretch members, in such a way as to prevent the electric potential of the intermediate transfer belt from varying between respective stations.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 17, 2018
    Publication date: May 9, 2019
    Inventors: Shinji Katagiri, Yuji Kawaguchi, Masaru Ohno, Tsuguhiro Yoshida, Takeo Kawanami, Taro Minobe, Masaru Shimura
  • Publication number: 20190072880
    Abstract: An intermediate transfer belt includes a base layer that has ionic conductivity and is a thickest layer out of multiple layers making up the intermediate transfer belt with respect to the thickness direction of the intermediate transfer belt, and an inner layer having electronic conductivity and a lower electrical resistance than the base layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 2, 2018
    Publication date: March 7, 2019
    Inventors: Tsuguhiro Yoshida, Masaru Shimura, Shinji Katagiri, Eiichi Hamana, Takahiro Ikeda, Takayuki Tanaka, Shuichi Tetsuno
  • Patent number: 10180643
    Abstract: A voltage maintenance element is connected to a contact member that contacts a primary transfer surface area of an intermediate transfer belt to which toner images are transferred from a plurality of image carriers between stretch members, in such a way as to prevent the electric potential of the intermediate transfer belt from varying between respective image forming stations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 16, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 15, 2019
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Shinji Katagiri, Yuji Kawaguchi, Masaru Ohno, Tsuguhiro Yoshida, Takeo Kawanami, Taro Minobe, Masaru Shimura
  • Patent number: 10168645
    Abstract: An intermediate transfer belt includes a base layer that has ionic conductivity and is a thickest layer out of multiple layers making up the intermediate transfer belt with respect to the thickness direction of the intermediate transfer belt, and an inner layer having electronic conductivity and a lower electrical resistance than the base layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 28, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 1, 2019
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Tsuguhiro Yoshida, Masaru Shimura, Shinji Katagiri, Eiichi Hamana, Takahiro Ikeda, Takayuki Tanaka, Shuichi Tetsuno
  • Publication number: 20180039210
    Abstract: A voltage maintenance element is connected to a contact member that contacts a primary transfer surface area of an intermediate transfer belt to which toner images are transferred from a plurality of image carriers between stretch members, in such a way as to prevent the electric potential of the intermediate transfer belt from varying between respective stations.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 16, 2017
    Publication date: February 8, 2018
    Inventors: Shinji Katagiri, Yuji Kawaguchi, Masaru Ohno, Tsuguhiro Yoshida, Takeo Kawanami, Taro Minobe, Masaru Shimura
  • Publication number: 20180032001
    Abstract: An intermediate transfer belt includes a base layer that has ionic conductivity and is a thickest layer out of multiple layers making up the intermediate transfer belt with respect to the thickness direction of the intermediate transfer belt, and an inner layer having electronic conductivity and a lower electrical resistance than the base layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 28, 2017
    Publication date: February 1, 2018
    Inventors: Tsuguhiro Yoshida, Masaru Shimura, Shinji Katagiri, Eiichi Hamana, Takahiro Ikeda, Takayuki Tanaka, Shuichi Tetsuno
  • Publication number: 20170357175
    Abstract: A controller which causes a light emitting element to continuously perform minute emission for a plurality of dots in a level in which toner is not attached to a non-image section on an image bearing member is provided. The controller controls a first driving current for an image section and controls a second driving current used to perform the minute emission by the light emitting element in the non-image section several times in one job. In the image section, a driving current obtained by adding the first driving current to the second driving current is supplied so that the light emitting element emits light.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 4, 2017
    Publication date: December 14, 2017
    Inventors: Kiyoto Toyoizumi, Masaru Shimura, Shinsuke Kobayashi, Hideo Nanataki, Shinji Katagiri, Yasunari Watanabe, Hideaki Hasegawa, Masahiro Tambo
  • Patent number: 9817342
    Abstract: A voltage maintenance element is connected to a contact member that contacts a primary transfer surface area of an intermediate transfer belt to which toner images are transferred from a plurality of image carriers between stretch members, in such a way as to prevent the electric potential of the intermediate transfer belt from varying between respective image forming stations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 11, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2017
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Shinji Katagiri, Yuji Kawaguchi, Masaru Ohno, Tsuguhiro Yoshida, Takeo Kawanami, Taro Minobe, Masaru Shimura
  • Patent number: 9711339
    Abstract: A process for automatically creating a measurement method suitable for plasma ion source mass spectrometry, including: semi-quantitatively measuring all elements in the sample that affect the measurement; determining a plasma condition based on the total concentration of the semi-quantitatively measured elements; for each of the semi-quantitatively measured elements, estimating signal strengths of the element and an interference component in the sample to be measured and based on the resultant estimates, estimating the concentration of the element; and, based on the estimated signal strengths of the elements and the interference components and the estimated concentrations of the elements, creating at least one mass spectrometry method including at least one of: (1) a plasma condition; (2) an internal standard to be added to the sample; (3) a tuning condition for the collision/reaction cell; (4) a mass-to-charge ratio used in the mass spectrometer; and (5) an integration time used in the mass spectrometer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2017
    Assignee: Agilent Technologies Inc.
    Inventors: Masaru Shimura, Kazuo Yamanaka
  • Publication number: 20170150230
    Abstract: [Object] To propose an information processing apparatus, information processing method, and program capable of allowing users to share their viewpoints or lines of sight in a situation where a plurality of users share a content for which the users can move their viewpoints or line-of-sight directions. [Solution] Provided is an information processing apparatus including: an acquisition unit configured to acquire line-of-sight information indicating a first user's line of sight detected in response to presentation of a content; and a management unit configured to associate the acquired line-of-sight information with the content as control information for controlling the presentation of the content to a second user different from the first user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 9, 2015
    Publication date: May 25, 2017
    Inventors: MASARU SHIMURA, KENTA KAWAMOTO, ASAKO KANEKO
  • Publication number: 20170083084
    Abstract: Provided is an image display device configured to display a free viewpoint image that tracks a movement of observer's head and trunk. The line-of-sight direction and trunk orientation of the user are individually oriented in a free viewpoint space displayed on a display device 500 based on posture information of the user's head and trunk, which are respectively obtained from a head motion tracking device 200 and a trunk motion tracking device 300. A behavior that is natural in real space can be represented by moving a line of sight to a front direction of the trunk on a space in a state where the line of sight does not match the front direction of the trunk. An unnatural UI that goes straight to the line-of-sight direction is prevented regardless of orientation of the trunk.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 21, 2015
    Publication date: March 23, 2017
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Hirokazu Tatsuta, Kenta Kawamoto, Yuichiro Koyama, Takayasu Kon, Yuichi Hasegawa, Masaru Shimura, Yuki Yamamoto, Eiichi Tanaka
  • Publication number: 20160320727
    Abstract: A voltage maintenance element is connected to a contact member that contacts a primary transfer surface area of an intermediate transfer belt to which toner images are transferred from a plurality of image carriers between stretch members, in such a way as to prevent the electric potential of the intermediate transfer belt from varying between respective stations.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 11, 2016
    Publication date: November 3, 2016
    Inventors: Shinji Katagiri, Yuji Kawaguchi, Masaru Ohno, Tsuguhiro Yoshida, Takeo Kawanami, Taro Minobe, Masaru Shimura
  • Patent number: 9454108
    Abstract: In an image forming apparatus that performs primary transfer by allowing a current to flow to an intermediate transfer belt in the circumferential direction of the belt, the image forming apparatus has a control unit that can execute a second mode in which a second current amount which is larger than a first current amount is supplied from a current supply unit to an intermediate transfer belt and a toner image is primarily transferred only from a first photosensitive body to the intermediate transfer belt. The control unit can adjust surface potentials of the first photosensitive body and a second photosensitive body, and makes the absolute value of the surface potential of the second photosensitive body less than the absolute value of the surface potential of the first photosensitive body when the second mode is executed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 27, 2016
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Shinji Katagiri, Shuichi Tetsuno, Masaru Ohno, Masaru Shimura