Patents by Inventor Minoru Sodeura

Minoru Sodeura 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: 7626735
    Abstract: The invention provides an image reading apparatus includes a feeder that feeds a sheet, a transfer path on which the sheet fed by the feeder is transferred, a first reading unit that captures a first image on a first face of the sheet from one side of the transfer path to obtain first image data, a second reading unit that captures a second image on a second face of the sheet from the other side of the transfer path to obtain second image data, and a correction unit that substantially equalizes image density of the first image data and that of the second image data in a case where the first image and the second image are captured at a single transfer of the sheet through the transfer path.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2004
    Date of Patent: December 1, 2009
    Assignee: Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Satoshi Mizuhashi, Yasuhisa Mizuta, Yoshitake Matsubara, Ayumi Onishi, Minoru Sodeura, Sadao Furuoya, Masato Saito
  • Patent number: 7619785
    Abstract: An image reading apparatus includes: a light source that irradiates a document; a sensor that receives reflection light reflected from the document; a reference member that is read by the sensor; and an abnormal site detection unit that detects, using first reading data acquired by reading the reference member according to a first reading condition set to the light source or the sensor and second reading data acquired by reading the reference member according to a second reading condition, which is different from the first reading condition, set to the light source or the sensor, abnormal sites in the first reading data or the second reading data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2004
    Date of Patent: November 17, 2009
    Assignee: Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Minoru Sodeura, Satoshi Mizuhashi, Yasuhisa Mizuta, Yoshitake Matsubara, Sadao Furuoya, Ayumi Onishi, Masato Saito, Hiroshi Hagiwara
  • Publication number: 20070165268
    Abstract: An image transmitting apparatus includes: an address acquiring component that acquires an first address of a document image on the basis of address information other than numbers added to the document image; an address input component that receives input of the second address with respect to the document image; a match determining component that determines whether or not the second address that the address input component has received and the first address that the address acquiring component has acquired match; and a transmitting component that transmits the document image in accordance with the determination result of the match determining component.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 28, 2006
    Publication date: July 19, 2007
    Applicant: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Minoru Sodeura, Hiroyoshi Uejo
  • Publication number: 20060171254
    Abstract: An image data processing device has an image identifying unit and a file generating unit. The image identifying unit identifies a common image that is common to each page and a non-common image that differs from page to page on the basis of inputted image data including a plurality of pages. The file generating unit generates separate files of the common image and the non-common image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 12, 2005
    Publication date: August 3, 2006
    Applicant: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Ayumi Onishi, Nobuo Inoue, Minoru Sodeura, Masataka Kamiya, Junji Kannari, Sadao Furuoya, Norio Hasegawa
  • Publication number: 20060160054
    Abstract: An automatic grading method has processes of reading, identifying and calculating. A process of reading a document is performed and the document has one or more answers. A process of identifying the answers from the document is also performed. A process of calculating a score of the document based on a score of each answer is performed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 12, 2005
    Publication date: July 20, 2006
    Applicant: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Ayumi Onishi, Nobuo Inoue, Minoru Sodeura, Masataka Kamiya, Junji Kannari, Sadao Furuoya, Norio Hasegawa
  • Publication number: 20050206968
    Abstract: An image reading apparatus includes: a light source that irradiates a document; a sensor that receives reflection light reflected from the document; a reference member that is read by the sensor; and an abnormal site detection unit that detects, using first reading data acquired by reading the reference member according to a first reading condition set to the light source or the sensor and second reading data acquired by reading the reference member according to a second reading condition, which is different from the first reading condition, set to the light source or the sensor, abnormal sites in the first reading data or the second reading data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 10, 2004
    Publication date: September 22, 2005
    Applicant: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Minoru Sodeura, Satoshi Mizuhashi, Yasuhisa Mizuta, Yoshitake Matsubara, Sadao Furuoya, Ayumi Onishi, Masato Saito, Hiroshi Hagiwara
  • Publication number: 20050157319
    Abstract: The invention provides an image reading apparatus includes a feeder that feeds a sheet, a transfer path on which the sheet fed by the feeder is transferred, a first reading unit that captures a first image on a first face of the sheet from one side of the transfer path to obtain first image data, a second reading unit that captures a second image on a second face of the sheet from the other side of the transfer path to obtain second image data, and a correction unit that substantially equalizes image density of the first image data and that of the second image data in a case where the first image and the second image are captured at a single transfer of the sheet through the transfer path.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 14, 2004
    Publication date: July 21, 2005
    Applicant: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Satoshi Mizuhashi, Yasuhisa Mizuta, Yoshitake Matsubara, Ayumi Onishi, Minoru Sodeura, Sadao Furuoya, Masato Saito
  • Publication number: 20050122544
    Abstract: An image reading apparatus including: a paper supply section; a transporting path for transporting a document supplied from the paper supply section; a first sensor which reads an image on a first surface of the document from one side of the transporting path; a second sensor which reads an image on a second surface of the document from the other side of the transporting path; and an image processing section which is constituted so as to correspond to a first reading mode in which two sides of the document are read using the first sensor plural times, and a second reading mode in which two sides of the document are read using the first sensor and the second sensor, and which makes a registration position and direction of an output image in both the first and second reading mode the same.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 8, 2004
    Publication date: June 9, 2005
    Applicant: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD
    Inventors: Satoshi Mizuhashi, Yasuhisa Mizuta, Yoshitake Matsubara, Ayumi Onishi, Minoru Sodeura, Sadao Furuoya, Masato Saito