Patents by Inventor Minoru Oshima
Minoru Oshima 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).
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Publication number: 20240147555Abstract: A communication system (100) includes: a plurality of stacked containers (2) having conductivity; and a plurality of electric field communication terminals (5) attached to the containers (2) in such a manner as to perform electric field coupling with any of the plurality of containers (2), in which the plurality of containers (2) includes a container (2) that contains a sensing terminal (4) that acquires sensing data, the plurality of electric field communication terminals (5) includes a first electric field communication terminal (5) attached to an inner side of the container (2) in which the sensing terminal (4) is contained, and a second electric field communication terminal (5) attached to an outer side of at least one container (2) of the plurality of containers (2), and the first electric field communication terminal (5) transmits the sensing data from the sensing terminal (4) to the second electric field communication terminal (5) via the plurality of containers (2).Type: ApplicationFiled: January 21, 2022Publication date: May 2, 2024Inventors: MOTOSUKE IRIE, KATSUKI HIRABAYASHI, YOSHINORI OOTA, KOICHI OSHIMA, MINORU ISHIDA
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Publication number: 20240040238Abstract: A mobile terminal includes a light source, a camera, a display, and a processor configured to, when a comparison region of a target is imaged, display on the display a guide image at an angle of rotation responsive to information related to a positional relationship of the camera and the light source, the guide image being used to image the comparison region, with a relative position and posture of the light source, the camera, and the comparison region satisfying a specific relationship.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 25, 2023Publication date: February 1, 2024Applicant: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.Inventors: Yukari MOTOSUGI, Momoko FUJIWARA, Ken SATO, Masaki KYOJIMA, Minoru OSHIMA
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Publication number: 20230394688Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a processor configured to simultaneously perform a first function of assisting a user to perform a first operation on an image capturing device such that a positional relationship between an object and the image capturing device that captures an image of the object is maintained in a specific positional relationship and a second function of assisting the user to perform a second operation on the image capturing device such that an angle between the object and the image capturing device is maintained at a specific angle.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 31, 2022Publication date: December 7, 2023Applicant: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.Inventors: Ken SATO, Masaki KYOJIMA, Yukari MOTOSUGI, Minoru OSHIMA
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Patent number: 11825190Abstract: A collation device includes a light source unit; a camera unit that receives light emitted from the light source unit and reflected in a collation area of an object to acquire a photographed image of the collation area; a display unit; and a processor configured to, by executing a program: display a guide of a bright spot portion of the light source unit on the photographed image on the display unit so that an angle formed by the light source unit, the camera unit, and the collation area of the object is a predetermined angle.Type: GrantFiled: January 28, 2022Date of Patent: November 21, 2023Assignee: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.Inventors: Yukari Motosugi, Ken Sato, Masaki Kyojima, Minoru Oshima
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Publication number: 20230118236Abstract: A collation device includes a light source unit; a camera unit that receives light emitted from the light source unit and reflected in a collation area of an object to acquire a photographed image of the collation area; and a processor configured to, by executing a program: detect a positional relationship between the light source unit and the camera unit by using the photographed image, and notify of a collation result between the photographed image and a registered image prepared in advance by using the positional relationship.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 28, 2022Publication date: April 20, 2023Applicant: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.Inventors: Yukari MOTOSUGI, Nobuhiro KITAGAWA, Kazuhiro HIRATA, Shigeru YAMAMOTO, Masahiro IGUSA, Minoru OSHIMA, Tetsuya KIMURA, Momoko FUJIWARA
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Publication number: 20230113156Abstract: A collation device includes a processor configured to, by executing a program: (a) acquire a photographed image including a collation area provided on an object and a reference position area that serves as a reference for a position of the collation area; (b) detect the reference position area from the photographed image; (c) set a peripheral image area in the photographed image based on the reference position area and predetermined relative coordinates; and (d) detect the collation area in the peripheral image area.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 28, 2022Publication date: April 13, 2023Applicant: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.Inventors: Yukari MOTOSUGI, Ken SATO, Minoru OSHIMA
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Publication number: 20230099580Abstract: A collation device includes a processor configured to, by executing a program: (a) acquire a photographed image including a collation area provided on a printing substrate having unevenness, (b) simultaneously execute smoothing processing and shading difference enhancement processing on the photographed image, and (c) detect the collation area based on an image obtained by simultaneously executing the smoothing processing and the shading difference enhancement processing.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 27, 2022Publication date: March 30, 2023Applicant: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.Inventors: Ken SATO, Yukari MOTOSUGI, Shigeru YAMAMOTO, Minoru OSHIMA
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Publication number: 20230098952Abstract: A collation device includes a light source unit; a camera unit that receives light emitted from the light source unit and reflected in a collation area of an object to acquire a photographed image of the collation area; a display unit; and a processor configured to, by executing a program: display a guide of a bright spot portion of the light source unit on the photographed image on the display unit so that an angle formed by the light source unit, the camera unit, and the collation area of the object is a predetermined angle.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 28, 2022Publication date: March 30, 2023Applicant: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.Inventors: Yukari MOTOSUGI, Ken SATO, Masaki KYOJIMA, Minoru OSHIMA
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Publication number: 20230088810Abstract: A collation device includes a memory that stores, as a registration image group, a random pattern depending on a microscopic pattern on a side surface of a target having an elliptic cylindrical shape including a columnar shape, and a processor, in which the registration image group is composed of plural registration images respectively acquired at plural positions at a predetermined interval over a whole circumference of the side surface, and the processor executes a program to collate a collation image obtained by imaging the side surface at an angle of view including at least one registration image among the plurality of registration images and the registration image group and to output a collation result.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 27, 2022Publication date: March 23, 2023Applicant: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.Inventors: Minoru OSHIMA, Nobuhiro KITAGAWA
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Patent number: 9098007Abstract: A charging member includes a conductive elastic layer, and a conductive surface layer that is disposed on the conductive elastic layer, is in contact with an image holding member, and contains a resin, porous resin particles, and silicone oil, wherein a content of the porous resin particles is from 3 parts by weight to 25 parts by weight based on 100 parts by weight of the resin, and a content of the silicone oil is from 0.1 part by weight to 10 parts by weight based on 100 parts by weight of the resin.Type: GrantFiled: April 22, 2014Date of Patent: August 4, 2015Assignee: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.Inventors: Minoru Rokutan, Hidemi Nukada, Satoya Sugiura, Akihiro Nonaka, Takuro Hagiwara, Minoru Oshima
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Publication number: 20150125183Abstract: A charging member includes a conductive elastic layer, and a conductive surface layer that is disposed on the conductive elastic layer, is in contact with an image holding member, and contains a resin, porous resin particles, and silicone oil, wherein a content of the porous resin particles is from 3 parts by weight to 25 parts by weight based on 100 parts by weight of the resin, and a content of the silicone oil is from 0.1 part by weight to 10 parts by weight based on 100 parts by weight of the resin.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 22, 2014Publication date: May 7, 2015Applicant: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.Inventors: Minoru ROKUTAN, Hidemi NUKADA, Satoya SUGIURA, Akihiro NONAKA, Takuro HAGIWARA, Minoru OSHIMA
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Patent number: 8320814Abstract: A length measurement apparatus including: a measurement portion that measures a sheet length based on a rotational amount of a length measurement roll for a first detection period in which first and third sensors detect the sheet, and a sheet length based on a rotational amount of the length measurement roll for a second detection period in which the second sensor and any one of the first and third sensors detect the sheet, the any one of the first and third sensors being disposed at a position opposite to the second sensor via the length measurement roll; and a whole length calculation portion that selects the sheet length nearer to integral multiples of the circumference length of the length measurement roll from the sheet lengths measured for the first and second detection periods, and calculates the whole length of the sheet by using the selected sheet length.Type: GrantFiled: May 6, 2010Date of Patent: November 27, 2012Assignee: Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd.Inventors: Kazuyuki Tsukamoto, Takao Furuya, Minoru Oshima, Yoshinari Iwaki
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Publication number: 20080012216Abstract: A sheet supply apparatus has a sheet storing part that stores sheets, a sheet transport part that feeds the sheets from the sheet storing part and transports the sheets, a sheet separating part that separates the sheets fed from the sheet storing part, a sheet thickness measuring part that measures a thickness of the sheets separated by the sheet separating part, a sheet separating strength varying part that causes the sheet separating part to apply one or more of a plurality of sheet separating strengths to separate the sheets, and a control part that controls the sheet separating strength varying part to cause the sheet separating part to apply, from among the plurality of sheet separating strengths, one or more sheet separating strengths, other than a weakest sheet separating strength, during a time period which begins upon a start of feed of the sheets.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 8, 2006Publication date: January 17, 2008Inventors: Kazuyuki Tsukamoto, Shin Takeuchi, Minoru Oshima
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Patent number: 4959104Abstract: A self-hardenable material comprising a calcium phosphate having an atomic ratio of Ca/P of 1.4 to 1.6, a difficultly water-soluble inorganic fluoride, an organic or inorganic acid and water is provided. For example, when the hardenable material is frilled in the form of slurry or paste in a necessary part in vivo or in the dental cavity, it hardens within a short time to form a stable apatite type product.Type: GrantFiled: December 20, 1988Date of Patent: September 25, 1990Assignees: Mitsui Toatsu Chemicals, Inc., Lion CorporationInventors: Shinji Iino, Minoru Oshima, Shinya Kitoh, Toshiaki Kobayashi