Patents by Inventor Miho Higuchi

Miho Higuchi 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: 10986275
    Abstract: An image display apparatus includes a light source emitting light; an optical scanner scanning a predetermined scanning zone with light from the light source to render a display image; a light intensity detector detecting a light intensity of light from the light source; a memory storing relationships between control currents provided to the light source and light intensities; and one or more processors controlling, on the basis of the control current and light intensity relationships stored in the memory, a control current to display the display image with light from the light source. When the optical scanner scans an area outside the display image, the one or more processors detect by the light intensity detector a light intensity of light for the scanning, and update on the basis of the light intensity the relationships stored in the memory.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 1, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 20, 2021
    Assignee: RICOH COMPANY, LTD.
    Inventors: Miho Higuchi, Takuro Yasuda
  • Patent number: 10948716
    Abstract: An image display device includes a display unit configured to display a display image and to use a color information target value as a color information value of a display color, the display color being a color of the displayed image; and a first image correction unit configured, in a case where the color information value of the display color of the display image obtained by capturing the display image displayed by the display unit is different from the color information target value, to correct the color information value of the display color of the displayed image displayed by the display unit, so that the color information value of the display color of the display image obtained by capturing the display image displayed by the display unit becomes the color information target value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 3, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 16, 2021
    Assignee: RICOH COMPANY, LTD.
    Inventors: Miho Higuchi, Takuro Yasuda, Daisuke Ichii
  • Patent number: 10700491
    Abstract: A semiconductor laser is for generating colored light. The semiconductor laser oscillates in a longitudinal multimode. A width of a wavelength band with an intensity equal to or more than ?20 dB relative to a peak intensity in a spectrum distribution of output light is equal to or less than 15 nm. A light source device may include The semiconductor laser; a wavelength estimating device configured to estimate a wavelength ? of light from the semiconductor laser; and an emission-light intensity setting unit configured to set an emission light intensity of the semiconductor laser in accordance with an estimation result by the wavelength estimating device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 19, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 30, 2020
    Assignee: RICOH COMPANY, LTD.
    Inventors: Kohji Sakai, Miho Higuchi
  • Patent number: 10534112
    Abstract: A microlens array includes N lenses ranging from a 1st lens to an Nth lens and a lens arrangement area. N is a positive integer. The lens arrangement area has the N lenses arranged in array. The lens arrangement area receives light emitted from a light source. An ith (i being 1st to Nth) lens satisfies a conditional expression below: ?20°???20° where ? denotes an angle formed by a main-axis orientation of double refraction and a reference orientation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2020
    Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Kohji Sakai, Miho Higuchi, Jun Watanabe
  • Publication number: 20190121002
    Abstract: A microlens array includes N lenses ranging from a 1st lens to an Nth lens and a lens arrangement area. N is a positive integer. The lens arrangement area has the N lenses arranged in array. The lens arrangement area receives light emitted from a light source. An ith (i being 1st to Nth) lens satisfies a conditional expression below: ?20°???20° where ? denotes an angle formed by a main-axis orientation of double refraction and a reference orientation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 21, 2018
    Publication date: April 25, 2019
    Inventors: Kohji SAKAI, Miho HIGUCHI, Jun WATANABE
  • Publication number: 20190097396
    Abstract: A semiconductor laser is for generating colored light. The semiconductor laser oscillates in a longitudinal multimode. A width of a wavelength band with an intensity equal to or more than ?20 dB relative to a peak intensity in a spectrum distribution of output light is equal to or less than 15 nm. A light source device may include The semiconductor laser; a wavelength estimating device configured to estimate a wavelength ? of light from the semiconductor laser; and an emission-light intensity setting unit configured to set an emission light intensity of the semiconductor laser in accordance with an estimation result by the wavelength estimating device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 19, 2017
    Publication date: March 28, 2019
    Inventors: Kohji SAKAI, Miho HIGUCHI
  • Patent number: 10203431
    Abstract: A microlens array includes N lenses ranging from a 1st lens to an Nth lens and a lens arrangement area. N is a positive integer. The lens arrangement area has the N lenses arranged in array. The lens arrangement area receives light emitted from a light source. An ith (i being 1st to Nth) lens satisfies a conditional expression below: ?20°???20° where ? denotes an angle formed by a main-axis orientation of double refraction and a reference orientation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 12, 2019
    Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Kohji Sakai, Miho Higuchi, Jun Watanabe
  • Publication number: 20180373027
    Abstract: An image display device includes a display unit configured to display a display image and to use a color information target value as a color information value of a display color, the display color being a color of the displayed image; and a first image correction unit configured, in a case where the color information value of the display color of the display image obtained by capturing the display image displayed by the display unit is different from the color information target value, to correct the color information value of the display color of the displayed image displayed by the display unit, so that the color information value of the display color of the display image obtained by capturing the display image displayed by the display unit becomes the color information target value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 3, 2018
    Publication date: December 27, 2018
    Inventors: Miho HIGUCHI, Takuro YASUDA, Daisuke ICHII
  • Publication number: 20180352164
    Abstract: An image display apparatus includes a light source emitting light; an optical scanner scanning a predetermined scanning zone with light from the light source to render a display image; a light intensity detector detecting a light intensity of light from the light source; a memory storing relationships between control currents provided to the light source and light intensities; and one or more processors controlling, on the basis of the control current and light intensity relationships stored in the memory, a control current to display the display image with light from the light source. When the optical scanner scans an area outside the display image, the one or more processors detect by the light intensity detector a light intensity of light for the scanning, and update on the basis of the light intensity the relationships stored in the memory.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 1, 2018
    Publication date: December 6, 2018
    Inventors: Miho HIGUCHI, Takuro YASUDA
  • Publication number: 20180088255
    Abstract: A microlens array includes N lenses ranging from a 1st lens to an Nth lens and a lens arrangement area. N is a positive integer. The lens arrangement area has the N lenses arranged in array. The lens arrangement area receives light emitted from a light source. An ith (i being 1st to Nth) lens satisfies a conditional expression below: ?20°???20° where ? denotes an angle formed by a main-axis orientation of double refraction and a reference orientation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 28, 2017
    Publication date: March 29, 2018
    Inventors: Kohji Sakai, Miho Higuchi, Jun Watanabe