Patents by Inventor Nobukazu Takahashi

Nobukazu Takahashi 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).

  • Publication number: 20240136062
    Abstract: [Problems] Provision of a system for assisting diagnosis/treatment of stroke which can easily provide supportive information so that the type of stroke can be determined appropriately and corresponding treatment strategy can be implemented. [Solutions] When the device for assisting diagnosis/treatment of stroke 101 acquires information of CT images, DWI, ADCmap, and MRA images indicating state of stroke from the device for providing information about state of stroke 103, it uses the acquired information of images and the information about laboratory findings to determine the type of stroke in a unit of stroke type determiner trained to use the predetermined information of images and the predetermined information about laboratory findings to determine the type of stroke corresponding thereto.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 8, 2021
    Publication date: April 25, 2024
    Inventors: Nobutaka Hattori, Kazuo Yamashiro, Yuji Ueno, Nobukazu Miyamoto, Mika Asari, Kazuto Ono, Takashi Someda, Naoki Kitora, Yoshihiko Iwao, Keiichiro Takahashi
  • Patent number: 11803705
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a memory and processor. The memory stores a trouble category into which a trouble occurring in a product is classified and a design-element category into which a design element causing the trouble and included in the product is classified in mutual association and store a design-element category into which a design element included in a product is classified and a design-requirement category into which a design requirement of the design element is classified in association with each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2023
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
    Inventors: Makoto Fuchigami, Yasuaki Miyazawa, Mari Horie, Hiroshi Murano, Nobukazu Takahashi, Kimihiro Wakabayashi, Masaki Suda, Eiji Ooyama, Hiroaki Murai, Masahiro Ishino
  • Patent number: 11215971
    Abstract: A design support system includes memory, a receiving unit, and an associating unit. The memory stores information on design element classification that classifies a design element included in a product, and information on design requirement classification that classifies a design requirement required for the product. The receiving unit receives technical information regarding a design trouble. The associating unit refers to technical information regarding a design trouble, received by the receiving unit, and associates a classification item in the design requirement classification to which the design trouble belongs and a classification item in the design element classification to which a design element causing the design trouble belongs with each other, along with information on a phenomenon indicating a failure status of the design element included in the technical information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 4, 2022
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
    Inventors: Yasuaki Miyazawa, Makoto Fuchigami, Kimihiro Wakabayashi, Yoshikazu Okamoto, Hiroshi Murano, Nobukazu Takahashi, Masaki Suda, Mari Horie, Naoki Koike, Masao Okubo
  • Publication number: 20210319175
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a memory and processor. The memory stores a trouble category into which a trouble occurring in a product is classified and a design-element category into which a design element causing the trouble and included in the product is classified in mutual association and store a design-element category into which a design element included in a product is classified and a design-requirement category into which a design requirement of the design element is classified in association with each other.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 7, 2020
    Publication date: October 14, 2021
    Applicant: FUJIFILM BUSINESS INNOVATION CORP.
    Inventors: Makoto FUCHIGAMI, Yasuaki MIYAZAWA, Mari HORIE, Hiroshi MURANO, Nobukazu TAKAHASHI, Kimihiro WAKABAYASHI, Masaki SUDA, Eiji OOYAMA, Hiroaki MURAI, Masahiro ISHINO
  • Publication number: 20200241504
    Abstract: A design support system includes memory, a receiving unit, and an associating unit. The memory stores information on design element classification that classifies a design element included in a product, and information on design requirement classification that classifies a design requirement required for the product. The receiving unit receives technical information regarding a design trouble. The associating unit refers to technical information regarding a design trouble, received by the receiving unit, and associates a classification item in the design requirement classification to which the design trouble belongs and a classification item in the design element classification to which a design element causing the design trouble belongs with each other, along with information on a phenomenon indicating a failure status of the design element included in the technical information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 27, 2019
    Publication date: July 30, 2020
    Applicant: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yasuaki MIYAZAWA, Makoto FUCHIGAMI, Kimihiro WAKABAYASHI, Yoshikazu OKAMOTO, Hiroshi MURANO, Nobukazu TAKAHASHI, Masaki SUDA, Mari HORIE, Naoki KOIKE, Masao OKUBO
  • Patent number: 10437657
    Abstract: A design support system includes a storage unit, an accepting unit, a selecting unit, and an associating unit. The storage unit stores information regarding design element classifications into which design elements constituting a product are classified and design requirement classifications into which design requirements required for the product are classified. The accepting unit accepts technical information regarding a trouble due to design. The selecting unit refers to the technical information regarding the trouble, selects a classification item to which the trouble belongs from among the design requirement classifications, and selects a classification item to which a design element that has caused the trouble belongs from among the design element classifications.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2019
    Assignee: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kimihiro Wakabayashi, Yoshikazu Okamoto, Hiroshi Murano, Yasuaki Miyazawa, Mari Horie, Nobukazu Takahashi, Makoto Fuchigami, Masao Okubo
  • Publication number: 20180232271
    Abstract: A design support system includes a storage unit, an accepting unit, a selecting unit, and an associating unit. The storage unit stores information regarding design element classifications into which design elements constituting a product are classified and design requirement classifications into which design requirements required for the product are classified. The accepting unit accepts technical information regarding a trouble due to design. The selecting unit refers to the technical information regarding the trouble, selects a classification item to which the trouble belongs from among the design requirement classifications, and selects a classification item to which a design element that has caused the trouble belongs from among the design element classifications.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 26, 2017
    Publication date: August 16, 2018
    Applicant: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kimihiro WAKABAYASHI, Yoshikazu OKAMOTO, Hiroshi MURANO, Yasuaki MIYAZAWA, Mari HORIE, Nobukazu TAKAHASHI, Makoto FUCHIGAMI, Masao OKUBO
  • Patent number: 9426314
    Abstract: Provided is an image processing apparatus including an acquisition unit that acquires first image information which is image information configured of plural pixels and which includes density information for each pixel, a first correction unit that corrects pixel density based on the first image information, a storage unit that stores image information obtained after the first correction unit performs the correction as second image information, a second correction unit that performs a reverse correction so as to cancel the correction by the first correction unit based on density of a pixel of the second image information, a display unit that displays an image on a display section based on third image information which is image information obtained after the second correction unit performs the reverse correction, and a transmission unit that transmits the second image information to an image forming apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2016
    Assignee: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shigeru Arai, Masaomi Sakamoto, Tomoshi Hara, Masahiko Kubo, Nobukazu Takahashi
  • Patent number: 9389566
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes an image forming unit that forms an image on a recording material; a cause ascertaining unit that ascertains a cause of a streaked image that is generated in the image that is formed on the recording material by the image forming unit; and an outputting unit that outputs information regarding the cause ascertained by the cause ascertaining unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 7, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2016
    Assignee: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Nobukazu Takahashi
  • Patent number: 9251445
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes an acquisition unit, a first detection unit, a first determination unit, a second detection unit, a second determination unit, a correction unit, and a transmitting unit. The acquisition unit acquires image information having multiple pixels. The first detection unit detects sub-scanning-direction boundary pixels in accordance with the image information. The first determination unit determines whether or not a development-related defect occurs in a preset number of pixels downstream of the sub-scanning-direction boundary pixels in the sub-scanning direction. The second detection unit detects an end pixel in the main scanning direction. The second determination unit determines whether or not each of sub-scanning-direction boundary pixels arranged in the main scanning direction is close to the end pixel in the main scanning direction. The correction unit corrects the image information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 5, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 2, 2016
    Assignee: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shigeru Arai, Tomoshi Hara, Masahiko Kubo, Nobukazu Takahashi, Shinichiro Fujimori, Takashi Ochi
  • Publication number: 20150264190
    Abstract: Provided is an image processing apparatus including an acquisition unit that acquires first image information which is image information configured of plural pixels and which includes density information for each pixel, a first correction unit that corrects pixel density based on the first image information, a storage unit that stores image information obtained after the first correction unit performs the correction as second image information, a second correction unit that performs a reverse correction so as to cancel the correction by the first correction unit based on density of a pixel of the second image information, a display unit that displays an image on a display section based on third image information which is image information obtained after the second correction unit performs the reverse correction, and a transmission unit that transmits the second image information to an image forming apparatus.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 2, 2015
    Publication date: September 17, 2015
    Applicant: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shigeru ARAI, Masaomi SAKAMOTO, Tomoshi HARA, Masahiko KUBO, Nobukazu TAKAHASHI
  • Publication number: 20150262045
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes an acquisition unit, a first detection unit, a first determination unit, a second detection unit, a second determination unit, a correction unit, and a transmitting unit. The acquisition unit acquires image information having multiple pixels. The first detection unit detects sub-scanning-direction boundary pixels in accordance with the image information. The first determination unit determines whether or not a development-related defect occurs in a preset number of pixels downstream of the sub-scanning-direction boundary pixels in the sub-scanning direction. The second detection unit detects an end pixel in the main scanning direction. The second determination unit determines whether or not each of sub-scanning-direction boundary pixels arranged in the main scanning direction is close to the end pixel in the main scanning direction. The correction unit corrects the image information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 5, 2015
    Publication date: September 17, 2015
    Applicant: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shigeru ARAI, Tomoshi HARA, Masahiko KUBO, Nobukazu TAKAHASHI, Shinichiro FUJIMORI, Takashi OCHI
  • Patent number: 9122185
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a measuring unit, an adjustment image forming unit, a density value calculating unit, and a transfer parameter determining unit. The measuring unit measures colors of an image formed on a recording medium. The adjustment image forming unit forms an adjustment image including a combination color which is produced by superimposing colorants of two or more component colors. The density value calculating unit calculates, in accordance with a measurement result obtained by measuring the combination color included in the adjustment image by the measuring unit, a density value of a component color of a colorant that is formed in an uppermost layer on the recording medium among the two or more component colors. The transfer parameter determining unit determines a value of a transfer parameter in accordance with the calculated density value, the transfer parameter defining an operation condition used for performing transfer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 9, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 1, 2015
    Assignee: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Nobukazu Takahashi, Tomoshi Hara, Shuichi Sugimoto
  • Publication number: 20150110505
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes an image forming unit that forms an image on a recording material; a cause ascertaining unit that ascertains a cause of a streaked image that is generated in the image that is formed on the recording material by the image forming unit; and an outputting unit that outputs information regarding the cause ascertained by the cause ascertaining unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 7, 2014
    Publication date: April 23, 2015
    Applicant: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Nobukazu TAKAHASHI
  • Patent number: 8717630
    Abstract: If a non-edge part of an image is thinned at a constant thinning ratio regardless of an image size (a character size or a line image width), a reduction in image density in the non-edge part becomes more conspicuous with increasing image size, which can lead to a reduction in image quality. In view of the above, the thinning ratio at which to thin data in the non-edge part of the image is determined depending on the image size. The thinning ratio is set to be smaller for images with sizes greater than or equal to a predetermined value than for images with sizes smaller than the predetermined value such that a high-quality image with sufficiently high density in its non-edge part is obtained regardless of the image size.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2010
    Date of Patent: May 6, 2014
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Nobukazu Takahashi, Yasunori Fujimoto
  • Publication number: 20130250318
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a measuring unit, an adjustment image forming unit, a density value calculating unit, and a transfer parameter determining unit. The measuring unit measures colors of an image formed on a recording medium. The adjustment image forming unit forms an adjustment image including a combination color which is produced by superimposing colorants of two or more component colors. The density value calculating unit calculates, in accordance with a measurement result obtained by measuring the combination color included in the adjustment image by the measuring unit, a density value of a component color of a colorant that is formed in an uppermost layer on the recording medium among the two or more component colors. The transfer parameter determining unit determines a value of a transfer parameter in accordance with the calculated density value, the transfer parameter defining an operation condition used for performing transfer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 9, 2012
    Publication date: September 26, 2013
    Applicant: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Nobukazu TAKAHASHI, Tomoshi HARA, Shuichi SUGIMOTO
  • Patent number: 8351825
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus is provided and includes: an image forming unit that forms an image on an image carrier with a transparent material and a coloring material; a controller that controls an order of an image forming with the transparent material and an image forming with the coloring material to be different between in an image portion and in a non-image portion in an image forming region on the image carrier; and a transferring unit that transfers the image formed on the image carrier onto a recording medium.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 2009
    Date of Patent: January 8, 2013
    Assignee: Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hideki Kimura, Tomoshi Hara, Masahiko Kubo, Toshihiro Matsumoto, Nobukazu Takahashi
  • Patent number: 8285187
    Abstract: An image gloss control apparatus that includes a first control component and a second control component is provided. The first control component controls an image forming/fixing component, which forms an image on a recording medium using a colored image formation material and fixes the image, so that a first image is formed in a high gloss area having a high gloss level on the recording medium or an area including the high gloss area on the recording medium and is fixed. The second control component that controls the image forming/fixing component, so that a second image having a density lower than a density of the first image is formed in a low gloss area having a gloss level lower than the gloss level of the high gloss area on the recording medium where the first image is formed or the low gloss area on the first image and is fixed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2010
    Date of Patent: October 9, 2012
    Assignee: Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hideki Kimura, Masahiko Kubo, Tomoshi Hara, Shinsuke Sugi, Toshihiro Matsumoto, Kenji Mori, Nobukazu Takahashi
  • Publication number: 20110085208
    Abstract: If a non-edge part of an image is thinned at a constant thinning ratio regardless of an image size (a character size or a line image width), a reduction in image density in the non-edge part becomes more conspicuous with increasing image size, which can lead to a reduction in image quality. In view of the above, the thinning ratio at which to thin data in the non-edge part of the image is determined depending on the image size. The thinning ratio is set to be smaller for images with sizes greater than or equal to a predetermined value than for images with sizes smaller than the predetermined value such that a high-quality image with sufficiently high density in its non-edge part is obtained regardless of the image size.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 30, 2010
    Publication date: April 14, 2011
    Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Nobukazu Takahashi, Yasunori Fujimoto
  • Publication number: 20110064436
    Abstract: An image gloss control apparatus that includes a first control component and a second control component is provided. The first control component controls an image forming/fixing component, which forms an image on a recording medium using a colored image formation material and fixes the image, so that a first image is formed in a high gloss area having a high gloss level on the recording medium or an area including the high gloss area on the recording medium and is fixed. The second control component that controls the image forming/fixing component, so that a second image having a density lower than a density of the first image is formed in a low gloss area having a gloss level lower than the gloss level of the high gloss area on the recording medium where the first image is formed or the low gloss area on the first image and is fixed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 24, 2010
    Publication date: March 17, 2011
    Applicant: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hideki KIMURA, Masahiko Kubo, Tomoshi Hara, Shinsuke Sugi, Toshihiro Matsumoto, Kenji Mori, Nobukazu Takahashi