Patents by Inventor Noriaki Nagao

Noriaki Nagao 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: 7672014
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes: a color conversion LUT selecting section selecting a fundamental color conversion LUT from among a set of fundamental color conversion LUTs, preliminarily prepared in compliance with different combinations of fundamental ink colors, based on information of ink colors to be used in multicolor-printing and information of fundamental ink colors defining each fundamental color conversion LUT; a color converting section converting pixel values, associated with a multicolor original image, from a display color space of the selected fundamental color conversion LUT to an ink color space of the selected fundamental color conversion LUT; and a correction processing section correcting pixel values stored in the selected fundamental color conversion LUT, in the ink color space, based on feature points information of the ink colors to be used in the multicolor-printing and feature points information of fundamental ink colors defining the selected fundamental color conversion LUT.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 10, 2005
    Date of Patent: March 2, 2010
    Assignee: Riso Kagaku Corporation
    Inventor: Noriaki Nagao
  • Patent number: 7667869
    Abstract: An image processing device (140), which converts multivalued pixel values of an RGB color space corresponding to original colors of a multicolor original image into multivalued pixel values of a CMY color space corresponding to color inks used for printing in order to overprint a multicolor original with a plurality of color inks, includes: a color space coordinate conversion unit (141) configured to convert the multivalued pixel values of the RGB color space into the multivalued pixel values of the CMY color space corresponding to the color inks used for printing with reference to a color conversion LUT (131) for storing relationship between the multivalued pixel values of the RGB color space and the multivalued pixel values of the CMY color space; and a correction unit (142) configured to correct the multivalued pixel values of the CMY color space converted with reference to the color conversion LUT in response to the color inks used for printing and an overprint sequence thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2005
    Date of Patent: February 23, 2010
    Assignee: Riso Kagaku Corporation
    Inventors: Noriaki Nagao, Kouichi Nobushima
  • Patent number: 7333228
    Abstract: One of printers linked with each other by way of a network is selected according to a printing condition for a given printing job. System information on whether the selected printer makes print in a plate printing system or in a non-plate printing system is obtained. The given printing job is output to the selected printer so that the selected printer makes copies by page when the selected printer makes print in a plate printing system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 19, 2003
    Date of Patent: February 19, 2008
    Assignee: Riso Kagaku Corporation
    Inventors: Hong Yang, Hideki Terasawa, Noriaki Nagao
  • Publication number: 20070188779
    Abstract: An image processing device (140), which converts multivalued pixel values of an RGB color space corresponding to original colors of a multicolor original image into multivalued pixel values of a CMY color space corresponding to color inks used for printing in order to overprint a multicolor original with a plurality of color inks, includes: a color space coordinate conversion unit (141) configured to convert the multivalued pixel values of the RGB color space into the multivalued pixel values of the CMY color space corresponding to the color inks used for printing with reference to a color conversion LUT (131) for storing relationship between the multivalued pixel values of the RGB color space and the multivalued pixel values of the CMY color space; and a correction unit (142) configured to correct the multivalued pixel values of the CMY color space converted with reference to the color conversion LUT in response to the color inks used for printing and an overprint sequence thereof.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 15, 2005
    Publication date: August 16, 2007
    Inventors: Noriaki Nagao, Kouichi Nobushima
  • Publication number: 20050254075
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes: a color conversion LUT selecting section selecting a fundamental color conversion LUT from among a set of fundamental color conversion LUTs, preliminarily prepared in compliance with different combinations of fundamental ink colors, based on information of ink colors to be used in multicolor-printing and information of fundamental ink colors defining each fundamental color conversion LUT; a color converting section converting pixel values, associated with a multicolor original image, from a display color space of the selected fundamental color conversion LUT to an ink color space of the selected fundamental color conversion LUT; and a correction processing section correcting pixel values stored in the selected fundamental color conversion LUT, in the ink color space, based on feature points information of the ink colors to be used in the multicolor-printing and feature points information of fundamental ink colors defining the selected fundamental color conversion LUT.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 10, 2005
    Publication date: November 17, 2005
    Inventor: Noriaki Nagao
  • Patent number: 6806631
    Abstract: This invention provides a mask frame for a color CRT made from a steel composition consisting essentially of, in mass %, C: 0.03-0.30%, Si: at most 0.30%, Mn: 0.05-1.5%, P: at most 0.05%, S: at most 0.02%, Mo: 0.02-0.50%, V: 0.02-0.20%, Al: at most 0.10%, N: 0.0040-0.0200%, Cu: at most 1.0%, Ni: at most 1.0%, Cr: at most 2.0%, W: at most 1.0%, B: at most 0.003%, Ti: at most 0.030%, and Nb: at most 0.030%, and a balance of iron and unavoidable impurities, with Al≦(7.0)N, and having a metal structure in which the ferrite grain size is at most 15 micrometers and the ferrite volume ratio is at most 90%.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 10, 2003
    Date of Patent: October 19, 2004
    Assignees: Sumitomo Metal Industries, Ltd., Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Tatsuo Yoshii, Noriaki Nagao, Shinji Tsuge, Hideharu Ohmae
  • Publication number: 20040095052
    Abstract: This invention provides a steel sheet for a mask frame which maintains a tension-type color CRT shadow mask under tension.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 10, 2003
    Publication date: May 20, 2004
    Applicants: SUMITOMO METAL INDUSTRIES, LTD., MATSUSHITA ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES, CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Tatsuo Yoshii, Noriaki Nagao, Shinji Tsuge, Hideharu Ohmae
  • Patent number: 6699334
    Abstract: This invention provides a steel sheet for a mask frame which maintains a tension-type color CRT shadow mask under tension. The steel sheet has a steel composition consisting essentially of, in mass %, C: 0.03-0.30%, Si: at most 0.30%, Mn: 0.05-1.5%, P: at most 0.05%, S: at most 0.02%, Mo: 0.02-0.50%, V: 0.02-0.20%, Al: at most 0.10%, N: 0.0040-0.0200%, optionally one or two or more of Cu: at most 1.0%, Ni: at most 1.0%, Cr: at most 2.0%, W: at most 1.0%, B: at most 0.003%, Ti: at most 0.030%, and Nb: at most 0.030%, and a balance of iron and unavoidable impurities, with Al≦(7.0)N, and having a metal structure in which the ferrite grain size is at most 15 micrometers and the ferrite volume ratio is at most 90%. The steel sheet is manufactured by hot rolling of a slab having the above-described steel composition under the conditions of a finishing temperature of 820-950° C. and a coiling temperature of 400-700° C.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 2001
    Date of Patent: March 2, 2004
    Assignees: Sumitomo Metal Industries, Ltd., Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Tatsuo Yoshii, Noriaki Nagao, Shinji Tsuge, Hideharu Ohmae
  • Publication number: 20030214672
    Abstract: One of printers linked with each other by way of a network is selected according to a printing condition for a given printing job. System information on whether the selected printer makes print in a plate printing system or in a non-plate printing system is obtained. The given printing job is output to the selected printer so that the selected printer makes copies by page when the selected printer makes print in a plate printing system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 19, 2003
    Publication date: November 20, 2003
    Applicant: RISO KAGAKU CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hong Yang, Hideki Terasawa, Noriaki Nagao
  • Patent number: 6595126
    Abstract: A user PC 120 for controlling a stencil printing machine 1, having a plurality of exchangeable printing drums, wherein respective printing drums are mounted with respective perforated stencil sheets which are formed by a stencil-making processing section 104 on the basis of image data, and a print sheet is held in press contact with the plural printing drums to perform a stencil printing process with first and second stencil-printing processing sections 105, 106 is disclosed as having a registering function to register printing ink colors to be used for printing with the respective printing drums by enabling reading-in of a printer driver and to store useable ink color information, a function to produce display data to display contents of the ink-color designating information produced by the designating section for the respective printing drums.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2001
    Date of Patent: July 22, 2003
    Assignee: Riso Kagaku Corporation
    Inventors: Noriaki Nagao, Mitsuaki Ishitoya, Jianmin Xiong, Michael Mehigan, Nami Higashio
  • Publication number: 20020079028
    Abstract: This invention provides a steel sheet for a mask frame which maintains a tension-type color CRT shadow mask under tension.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 1, 2001
    Publication date: June 27, 2002
    Inventors: Tatsuo Yoshii, Noriaki Nagao, Shinji Tsuge, Hideharu Ohmae
  • Publication number: 20020029702
    Abstract: A user PC 120 for controlling a stencil printing machine 1, having a plurality of exchangeable printing drums, wherein respective printing drums are mounted with respective perforated stencil sheets which are formed by a stencil-making processing section 104 on the basis of image data, and a print sheet is held in press contact with the plural printing drums to perform a stencil printing process with first and second stencil-printing processing sections 105, 106 is disclosed as having a registering function to register printing ink colors to be used for printing with the respective printing drums by enabling reading-in of a printer driver and to store useable ink color information, a function to produce display data to display contents of the ink-color designating information produced by the designating section for the respective printing drums.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 30, 2001
    Publication date: March 14, 2002
    Inventors: Noriaki Nagao, Mitsuaki Ishitoya, Jianmin Xiong, Michael Mehigan, Nami Higashio
  • Patent number: 4214245
    Abstract: A Loran receiving apparatus is repeatedly switched by the actuation of a display mode changeover means between the state of displaying a plurality of measured time differences on a display in a sequential order and the state of continuously displaying only one of the measured time differences. A Loran signal detector detects a phase code of an incoming Loran signal. The detected phase code is stored in N memory parts, each corresponding to the Loran signal repetition period. Coincidence of the outputs from the memory parts is detected as the presence of a correct Loran signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 1978
    Date of Patent: July 22, 1980
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Koden Seisakusho
    Inventors: Teruhisa Fujino, Fujio Osawa, Noriaki Nagao, Shigeo Hanji