Patents by Inventor Masatsugu Kouguchi

Masatsugu Kouguchi 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: 10607124
    Abstract: Provided are a label-printing control apparatus, a non-transitory computer-readable recording medium and a label-printing control method. A hardware processor of the label-printing control apparatus creates an adjusting image, from a reference mark for determining a die-cutting position on a continuous label stock and a cut mark representing a shape to cut a label image printed on the continuous label stock, both extracted from print data, while arranging specific images each created from the cut mark, to be spaced apart from the respective reference marks with different distances in the adjusting image. The hardware processor further creates, from the reference mark and a label image extracted from the print data, an end product image including the reference mark and the label image, and instructs the label printing device to print the adjusting image and the end product image on a continuous label stock.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 1, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 31, 2020
    Assignee: Konica Minolta, Inc.
    Inventor: Masatsugu Kouguchi
  • Publication number: 20190311233
    Abstract: Provided are a label-printing control apparatus, a non-transitory computer-readable recording medium and a label-printing control method. A hardware processor of the label-printing control apparatus creates an adjusting image, from a reference mark for determining a die-cutting position on a continuous label stock and a cut mark representing a shape to cut a label image printed on the continuous label stock, both extracted from print data, while arranging specific images each created from the cut mark, to be spaced apart from the respective reference marks with different distances in the adjusting image. The hardware processor further creates, from the reference mark and a label image extracted from the print data, an end product image including the reference mark and the label image, and instructs the label printing device to print the adjusting image and the end product image on a continuous label stock.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 1, 2019
    Publication date: October 10, 2019
    Applicant: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.
    Inventor: Masatsugu Kouguchi
  • Patent number: 10203920
    Abstract: An image forming system of an aspect of the present invention includes: a first image forming portion; a second image forming portion connected in series to the first image forming portion; and an assignment determining portion that determines an assignment of image formation of print data to the first image forming portion and the second image forming portion in accordance with contents of the print data. The first image forming portion forms a first image on the continuous sheet on the basis of the assignment determined by the assignment determining portion, and the second image forming portion forms a second image on a region which is different from a region where the first image is formed on the continuous sheet and which overlaps a non-printable region that is a region where the first image forming portion cannot print, on the basis of the assignment determined by the assignment determining portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 13, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 12, 2019
    Assignee: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.
    Inventor: Masatsugu Kouguchi
  • Patent number: 9940559
    Abstract: Provided are a label printing control device, a non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing a label printing control program and a label printing control method. The label printing control device includes a cut mark extraction section that obtains print data including at least label images and corresponding cut marks and extracts the cut marks from the print data, and an end product image creation section that creates an end product image by removing the cut marks from the print data. The label printing control device further includes an apex finding section that finds apexes of the cut marks, an adjusting image creation section that creates an adjusting image including the cut marks with graduations added adjacent to each apex, and a print instruction section that instructs a label printing device to print the end product image and the adjusting image successively on pre-die-cut label material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 10, 2018
    Assignee: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.
    Inventor: Masatsugu Kouguchi
  • Publication number: 20170357470
    Abstract: An image forming system of an aspect of the present invention includes: a first image forming portion; a second image forming portion connected in series to the first image forming portion; and an assignment determining portion that determines an assignment of image formation of print data to the first image forming portion and the second image forming portion in accordance with contents of the print data. The first image forming portion forms a first image on the continuous sheet on the basis of the assignment determined by the assignment determining portion, and the second image forming portion forms a second image on a region which is different from a region where the first image is formed on the continuous sheet and which overlaps a non-printable region that is a region where the first image forming portion cannot print, on the basis of the assignment determined by the assignment determining portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 13, 2017
    Publication date: December 14, 2017
    Applicant: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.
    Inventor: Masatsugu KOUGUCHI
  • Publication number: 20170011286
    Abstract: Provided are a label printing control device, a non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing a label printing control program and a label printing control method. The label printing control device includes a cut mark extraction section that obtains print data including at least label images and corresponding cut marks and extracts the cut marks from the print data, and an end product image creation section that creates an end product image by removing the cut marks from the print data. The label printing control device further includes an apex finding section that finds apexes of the cut marks, an adjusting image creation section that creates an adjusting image including the cut marks with graduations added adjacent to each apex, and a print instruction section that instructs a label printing device to print the end product image and the adjusting image successively on pre-die-cut label material.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 23, 2016
    Publication date: January 12, 2017
    Applicant: Konica Minolta, Inc.
    Inventor: Masatsugu KOUGUCHI
  • Patent number: 9189181
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus calculates a number of times of color conversion performed for an object included in an original document data as a first number of color conversions as the; generates tag bits including attribute information for each pixel of raster data and calculates a number of pixels that are included in the raster data and that have an object attribute indicated by the tag bits as a second number of color conversions; compares, when generating new raster data with color adjustment performed for the original document data, the first number of color conversions with the second number of color conversions; performs color conversion either for the original document data when the first number of color conversions is smaller than the second number, or for the generated new raster data when the second number of color conversions is smaller than the first number.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 17, 2015
    Assignee: KONICA MINOLTA. INC.
    Inventor: Masatsugu Kouguchi
  • Publication number: 20150138607
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus calculates a number of times of color conversion performed for an object included in an original document data as a first number of color conversions as the; generates tag bits including attribute information for each pixel of raster data and calculates a number of pixels that are included in the raster data and that have an object attribute indicated by the tag bits as a second number of color conversions; compares, when generating new raster data with color adjustment performed for the original document data, the first number of color conversions with the second number of color conversions; performs color conversion either for the original document data when the first number of color conversions is smaller than the second number, or for the generated new raster data when the second number of color conversions is smaller than the first number.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 19, 2014
    Publication date: May 21, 2015
    Applicant: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.
    Inventor: Masatsugu KOUGUCHI
  • Patent number: 8780410
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes a storage unit and a control unit. The control unit analyzes and rasterizes print data; generates raster data represented by a first color value in a first color space, color space information indicating the first color space, and specific color information indicating that the first color value is a specific color value; stores the raster data in association with the color space information and the specific color information; determines whether the specific color information exists; converts the first color value into a second color value in a second color space of an output device if the specific color information does not exist; replaces the specific color value with a predetermined color value in the second color space if the specific color information exists; and generates image data to be outputted by the output device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 15, 2014
    Assignee: Konica Minolta Business Technologies, Inc.
    Inventor: Masatsugu Kouguchi
  • Patent number: 8780408
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus processes image data including first data corresponding to an output color of an output device and a plurality of second data of respective spot colors. The image processing apparatus includes a conversion section and a storage section. The conversion section calculates a device color value for a spot color or a spot color combination among the spot colors, referring to a first table, to generate a second table. In the second table, spot color identification information on the spot color or the spot color combination is correlated with the device color value. The conversion section also generates third data based on the plurality of second data. In the third data, each pixel is represented by the spot color identification information. The storage section stores the first data, the second table and the third data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 22, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 15, 2014
    Assignee: Konica Minolta Business Technologies, Inc.
    Inventor: Masatsugu Kouguchi
  • Patent number: 8477373
    Abstract: Disclosed is an image processing system, comprising: an image processing apparatus to output image data based on an input of a print job; and an image forming apparatus to form an image based on the image data, wherein the image processing apparatus comprises a first control section to output color adjustment data so as to perform a gamma adjustment for the image data, and wherein the image forming apparatus comprises an adjustment section to perform the gamma adjustment for the image data based on the input color adjustment data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 2010
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2013
    Assignee: Konica Minolta Business Technologies, Inc.
    Inventor: Masatsugu Kouguchi
  • Publication number: 20130120774
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes a storage unit and a control unit. The control unit analyzes and rasterizes print data; generates raster data represented by a first color value in a first color space, color space information indicating the first color space, and specific color information indicating that the first color value is a specific color value; stores the raster data in association with the color space information and the specific color information; determines whether the specific color information exists; converts the first color value into a second color value in a second color space of an output device if the specific color information does not exist; replaces the specific color value with a predetermined color value in the second color space if the specific color information exists; and generates image data to be outputted by the output device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 6, 2012
    Publication date: May 16, 2013
    Inventor: Masatsugu KOUGUCHI
  • Publication number: 20120300232
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus processes image data including first data corresponding to an output color of an output device and a plurality of second data of respective spot colors. The image processing apparatus includes a conversion section and a storage section. The conversion section calculates a device color value for a spot color or a spot color combination among the spot colors, referring to a first table, to generate a second table. In the second table, spot color identification information on the spot color or the spot color combination is correlated with the device color value. The conversion section also generates third data based on the plurality of second data. In the third data, each pixel is represented by the spot color identification information. The storage section stores the first data, the second table and the third data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 22, 2012
    Publication date: November 29, 2012
    Applicant: KONICA MINOLTA BUSINESS TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
    Inventor: Masatsugu KOUGUCHI
  • Patent number: 8139252
    Abstract: There is described an image forming system, which makes it possible to speedily implement the reprinting operation, and to alleviate the burden of the printer controller. The system includes a printer controller to parse a print job described in a Page Description Language so as to generate image data; and an image forming apparatus, configured separately from the printer controller, to implement a printing operation based on the image data. The printer controller applies a first processing to the print job so as to generate multi-value image data and transmits the multi-value image data to the image forming apparatus. The image forming apparatus applies a second processing to the multi-value image data, received from the printer controller, so as to generate processed image data, serving as printable image data based on which a reproduced image can be directly printed, and implements the printing operation based on the processed image data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 17, 2008
    Date of Patent: March 20, 2012
    Assignee: Konica Minolta Business Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Takeo Morohashi, Michio Osada, Masatsugu Kouguchi
  • Publication number: 20100302568
    Abstract: Disclosed is an image processing system, comprising: an image processing apparatus to output image data based on an input of a print job; and an image forming apparatus to form an image based on the image data, wherein the image processing apparatus comprises a first control section to output color adjustment data so as to perform a gamma adjustment for the image data, and wherein the image forming apparatus comprises an adjustment section to perform the gamma adjustment for the image data based on the input color adjustment data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 1, 2010
    Publication date: December 2, 2010
    Applicant: Konica Minolta Business Technologies, Inc.
    Inventor: Masatsugu Kouguchi
  • Publication number: 20090046316
    Abstract: There is described an image forming system, which makes it possible to speedily implement the reprinting operation, and to alleviate the burden of the printer controller. The system includes a printer controller to parse a print job described in a Page Description Language so as to generate image data; and an image forming apparatus, configured separately from the printer controller, to implement a printing operation based on the image data. The printer controller applies a first processing to the print job so as to generate multi-value image data and transmits the multi-value image data to the image forming apparatus. The image forming apparatus applies a second processing to the multi-value image data, received from the printer controller, so as to generate processed image data, serving as printable image data based on which a reproduced image can be directly printed, and implements the printing operation based on the processed image data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 17, 2008
    Publication date: February 19, 2009
    Applicant: KONICA MINOLTA BUSINESS TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
    Inventors: Takeo Morohashi, Michio Osada, Masatsugu Kouguchi