Patents by Inventor Noriaki Ozawa

Noriaki Ozawa 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: 8779028
    Abstract: An ink for an ink-jet recording apparatus contains at least water, a pigment dispersion, and a penetrating agent. The pigment dispersion contains a resin having a molecular weight of about 60,000 or more and about 150,000 or less. The ink for an ink-jet recording apparatus contains an alkanediol having 8 or 9 carbon atoms as the penetrating agent. The content of the alkanediol is about 0.2% by mass or more relative to the total mass of the ink.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 20, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 15, 2014
    Assignee: KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc.
    Inventors: Noriaki Ozawa, Noriaki Furukawa, Susumu Hiroshima, Yasuko Takaori
  • Patent number: 8764157
    Abstract: An inkjet recording device includes a recording head and a waste ink tray. The recording head is configured to eject droplets of ink. The waste ink tray is configured to receive the ink drained from the recording head. A surface of the waste ink tray, which receives the ink, is made of an antibacterial agent containing resin composition. A solubility of the antibacterial agent containing resin composition, which is measured by a predetermined measurement method, is 1.0 or higher and 3.0 or lower.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 1, 2014
    Assignee: KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc.
    Inventor: Noriaki Ozawa
  • Patent number: 8721063
    Abstract: The inkjet recording liquid according to the present disclosure contains water, pigment and pigment dispersion resin. The pigment dispersion resin is alkali soluble, and is dissolved in recording liquid. The mass ratio of pigment dispersion resin to pigment (resin content/pigment content) is 0.1 to 0.3. The mass ratio of pigment dispersion resin not adhering to pigment to pigment (unattached resin/pigment content) is 0.01 to 0.1. The acid value of the pigment dispersion resin is 150 to 250 mg KOH/g. The molecular weight of the pigment dispersion resin is preferably 10,000 or more.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 2011
    Date of Patent: May 13, 2014
    Assignee: Kyocera Mita Corporation
    Inventors: Noriaki Ozawa, Noriaki Furukawa, Susumu Hiroshima
  • Publication number: 20140105455
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes an image capturing section to capture an image of a hand; an extracting section to extract a hand area from the captured image; a reference line determining section to determine a reference pushdown line in the image on the hand area; a determining section to determine a pushdown move if the bottom part of the hand area comes below the reference pushdown line; a first position determining section to determine a depth position based on an aspect ratio of the hand area if the pushdown move is determined; a second position determining section to determine a lateral position based on a position of the bottom part of the hand area if the pushdown move is determined; and an input key determining section to determine an input key from the determined depth position and lateral position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 13, 2013
    Publication date: April 17, 2014
    Applicant: FUJITSU LIMITED
    Inventors: Taichi MURASE, Katsuhito FUJIMOTO, Nobuyuki HARA, Noriaki OZAWA
  • Publication number: 20140028753
    Abstract: An inkjet recording device includes a recording head and a waste ink tray. The recording head is configured to eject droplets of ink. The waste ink tray is configured to receive the ink drained from the recording head. A surface of the waste ink tray, which receives the ink, is made of an antibacterial agent containing resin composition. A solubility of the antibacterial agent containing resin composition, which is measured by a predetermined measurement method, is 1.0 or higher and 3.0 or lower.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 26, 2013
    Publication date: January 30, 2014
    Applicant: KYOCERA DOCUMENT SOLUTIONS INC.
    Inventor: Noriaki OZAWA
  • Patent number: 8608304
    Abstract: A process for forming an image by using an inkjet recording apparatus including printing by using two or more kinds of inks each containing a pigment dispersion containing a pigment and a resin, an organic solvent and water, wherein the printing is conducted by ejecting the inks each having a particle size-change constant within a prescribed range from recording heads in the increasing order of the particle size-change constants, wherein each particle size-change constant is obtained by a prescribed process from the average particle diameters of the pigment included in each ink at mass drying rates in the range of 10 to 40%.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 24, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2013
    Assignee: Kyocera Document Solutions Inc.
    Inventors: Yasuko Takaori, Noriaki Furukawa, Noriaki Ozawa
  • Publication number: 20130321522
    Abstract: An ink for ink-jet recording apparatuses containing water and a pigment dispersion is provided in which a penetrating agent containing an alkane diol having 8 or 9 carbon atoms and a surfactant consisting of a compound represented by the following general formula (I) are blended in predetermined amounts.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 24, 2013
    Publication date: December 5, 2013
    Applicant: Kyocera Document Solutions Inc.
    Inventor: Noriaki Ozawa
  • Patent number: 8515175
    Abstract: A program causes a computer to function as a document recognition apparatus, having an extraction unit for extracting connected components of pixels from an input image, a generation unit for generating a reference element that is connected components of pixels extracted by the extraction unit and combined elements obtained by combining the reference element and connected components of pixels adjacent to the reference element as an element to be estimated, a calculation unit for calculating a degree of certainty that indicates how much the element to be estimated generated by the generation unit seems to be a character, and a determination unit for identifying elements that seem to be characters among the elements to be estimated based on the degree of certainty calculated by the calculation unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2009
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2013
    Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
    Inventors: Noriaki Ozawa, Hiroaki Takebe, Yutaka Katsuyama, Katsuhito Fujimoto
  • Patent number: 8503784
    Abstract: An image recognition apparatus recognizes the correspondence between character strings and logical elements composing a logical structure in an image in which the character strings are described as the logical elements to recognize each logical element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 13, 2008
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2013
    Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
    Inventors: Hiroshi Tanaka, Yusaku Fujii, Hiroaki Takebe, Yoshinobu Hotta, Akihiro Minagawa, Noriaki Ozawa, Katsuhito Fujimoto, Yoshio Fukasawa, Masaki Inami, Kiichiro Watanabe
  • Patent number: 8444261
    Abstract: An inkjet recording liquid contains water, an organic solvent, a pigment, and a pigment dispersing resin. An weight-average molecular weight of the pigment dispersing resin exceeds 30000 and is 150000 or less. A mass ratio of the pigment dispersing resin to the pigment in the recording liquid (resin content/pigment content) is 0.1 or more and 1.0 or less. An acid value of the pigment dispersing resin is 160 or more and 240 or less. The inkjet recording liquid is discharged from a recording head of the inkjet recording device. Even when nozzles of the recording head become clogged due to drying or thickening of the inkjet recording liquid, the nozzle clogging can be easily resolved with a purge operation and wiping operation of the recording head by a wipe unit. Thus, it is possible to reduce an overconsumption of the recording liquid due to the foregoing purge operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 2011
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2013
    Assignee: Kyocera Mita Corporation
    Inventors: Noriaki Furukawa, Susumu Hiroshima, Noriaki Ozawa
  • Patent number: 8418050
    Abstract: The form data extracting apparatus, even input form does not have a logical structure stored in the generic logical structure DB, by using logical elements in the existing logical structure and a registered form obtained on the basis of (a) the logical structure, (b) pieces of position information of the logical elements, and (c) a relation between the logical elements. A logical element and a logical structure are extracted from the input form, and the extracted logical structure can be defined as a new registered form or a new logical structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 7, 2008
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2013
    Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
    Inventors: Akihiro Minagawa, Hiroshi Tanaka, Noriaki Ozawa, Hiroaki Takebe, Yusaku Fujii, Yoshinobu Hotta, Katsuhito Fujimoto
  • Publication number: 20130027485
    Abstract: Water and a pigment, as well as a high penetrating agent, a penetrating agent and a moisturizing agent each having specific kind and amount are incorporated in an ink for an inkjet recording apparatus. The high penetrating agent is an alkyl-substituted 1,3-hexanediol or an alkyl-substituted 1,3-pentanediol each having 8 carbon atoms. The penetrating agent is a C1-C4 monoalkyl ether of a polyhydric alcohol, a C6-C8 monoalkyl ether of a polyhydric alcohol, or a polyhydric alcohol dibutyl ether. The moisturizing agent is glycerin and 1,3-propanediol.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 26, 2012
    Publication date: January 31, 2013
    Applicant: KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc.
    Inventor: Noriaki Ozawa
  • Publication number: 20130027464
    Abstract: A process for forming an image by using an inkjet recording apparatus including printing by using two or more kinds of inks each containing a pigment dispersion containing a pigment and a resin, an organic solvent and water, wherein the printing is conducted by ejecting the inks each having a particle size-change constant within a prescribed range from recording heads in the increasing order of the particle size-change constants, wherein each particle size-change constant is obtained by a prescribed process from the average particle diameters of the pigment included in each ink at mass drying rates in the range of 10 to 40%.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 24, 2012
    Publication date: January 31, 2013
    Applicant: KYOCERA DOCUMENT SOLUTIONS INC.
    Inventors: Yasuko Takaori, Noriaki Furukawa, Noriaki Ozawa
  • Patent number: 8249351
    Abstract: A method for assisting in the creation of a logical structure model, which stores, from an image in which character strings associated respectively with a plurality of logical elements constituting a logical structure are described, the logical elements, character strings associated with the logical elements, and the logical structure, wherein character strings in an input image and the logical structure among the character strings in the input image are extracted, a logical element is selected among the plurality of logical elements according to the degrees of similarity between the extracted character strings and the character string associated respectively with the plurality of logical elements stored in the logical structure model, a character string associated with the selected logical element and a character string in the input image associated with the logical element based on the logical structure among the extracted character strings in the input image are extracted.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 2008
    Date of Patent: August 21, 2012
    Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
    Inventors: Noriaki Ozawa, Yoshinobu Hotta, Hiroaki Takebe, Yusaku Fujii, Akihiro Minagawa, Hiroshi Tanaka, Katsuhito Fujimoto
  • Publication number: 20120196966
    Abstract: An ink for an ink-jet recording apparatus contains at least water, a pigment dispersion, and a penetrating agent. The pigment dispersion contains a resin having a molecular weight of about 60,000 or more and about 150,000 or less. The ink for an ink-jet recording apparatus contains an alkanediol having 8 or 9 carbon atoms as the penetrating agent. The content of the alkanediol is about 0.2% by mass or more relative to the total mass of the ink.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 20, 2012
    Publication date: August 2, 2012
    Applicant: KYOCERA MITA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Noriaki Ozawa, Noriaki Furukawa, Susumu Hiroshima, Yasuko Takaori
  • Patent number: 8234254
    Abstract: An image recognition method is conducted by recognizing logical elements based on a logical structure model set to correspond to the logical structure of an image of individual character strings, collecting information processed with the logical structure model of images of a logical structure, acquiring a recognition result when recognizing an image of a logical structure by processing information collected with a post-update logical structure model, and outputting warning information about the post-update logical structure model to an output unit when a result of the comparison is a non-match.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 2008
    Date of Patent: July 31, 2012
    Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
    Inventors: Yusaku Fujii, Katsuhito Fujimoto, Hiroaki Takebe, Hiroshi Tanaka, Yoshinobu Hotta, Akihiro Minagawa, Noriaki Ozawa
  • Publication number: 20120038704
    Abstract: The inkjet recording liquid according to the present disclosure contains water, pigment and pigment dispersion resin. The pigment dispersion resin is alkali soluble, and is dissolved in recording liquid. The mass ratio of pigment dispersion resin to pigment (resin content/pigment content) is 0.1 to 0.3. The mass ratio of pigment dispersion resin not adhering to pigment to pigment (unattached resin/pigment content) is 0.01 to 0.1. The acid value of the pigment dispersion resin is 150 to 250 mg KOH/g. The molecular weight of the pigment dispersion resin is preferably 10,000 or more.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 29, 2011
    Publication date: February 16, 2012
    Applicant: KYOCERA MITA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Noriaki Ozawa, Noriaki Furukawa, Susumu Hiroshima
  • Publication number: 20120019595
    Abstract: An inkjet recording liquid contains water, an organic solvent, a pigment, and a pigment dispersing resin. An weight-average molecular weight of the pigment dispersing resin exceeds 30000 and is 150000 or less. A mass ratio of the pigment dispersing resin to the pigment in the recording liquid (resin content/pigment content) is 0.1 or more and 1.0 or less. An acid value of the pigment dispersing resin is 160 or more and 240 or less. The inkjet recording liquid is discharged from a recording head of the inkjet recording device. Even when nozzles of the recording head become clogged due to drying or thickening of the inkjet recording liquid, the nozzle clogging can be easily resolved with a purge operation and wiping operation of the recording head by a wipe unit. Thus, it is possible to reduce an overconsumption of the recording liquid due to the foregoing purge operation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 14, 2011
    Publication date: January 26, 2012
    Applicant: KYOCERA MITA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Noriaki Furukawa, Susumu Hiroshima, Noriaki Ozawa
  • Patent number: 8015203
    Abstract: A document recognizing apparatus includes a display control unit which displays a document data including a character string related to a character string selected by a user, and an area that includes at least a character string of the document data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 2008
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2011
    Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
    Inventors: Hiroaki Takebe, Noriaki Ozawa, Akihiro Minagawa, Yusaku Fujii, Yoshinobu Hotta, Hiroshi Tanaka, Katsuhito Fujimoto, Junichi Hirai, Seiji Takahashi
  • Patent number: 7961558
    Abstract: A timepiece having a movement, a substantially cylindrical case that houses the movement, a bezel that holds the outside edge part of a crystal and is fastened to the case, and a back cover that is fastened to the opposite side of the case as the side to which the bezel is disposed. The case has a plurality of movement fastening units for fastening the movement by means of screws, a plurality of bezel fastening units for fastening the bezel by means of screws, and a plurality of back cover fastening units for fastening the back cover by means of screws. The screws disposed to the movement fastening units, the bezel fastening units, and the back cover fastening units are substantially aligned with the axial direction of the case.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 5, 2008
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2011
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Noriaki Ozawa, Osamu Takahashi, Masatoshi Moteki